Comments: Former NASA head administrator Dan Golden:”NASA is too Male…Pale and Old”….
Does Dan Golden believe that Israel’s Space Program is to Jewish….Male…Pale…and Old?
* The gods on Mt. Olympus gave [Hillary] the most brilliant political mind of her generation as a husband. The Fates thwarted their plan by rendering her deaf to his words.
The Ancient Greeks would have relished it.
* So Bill got it all right. The funniest thing about this election’s aftermath is realizing that if he had run again, he would have won, again. Goes to show that being married to an extraordinarily skilled and intuitive politician does not make you one.
* Only so much greatness can be thrust upon one so shrewishly untamed.
* Two points: the first is that the Clinton campaign’s Ada software failed miserably (because polling was so bad in this election), so it’s hilarious to see the most data driven campaign ever get called out by a hillbilly political savant. A few newspapers had to hastily edit their pre-written pieces about Ada in order to explain why it didn’t work. The second is that it’s surprising the Clinton’s have a condo near the River Market instead of a mansion in the Heights. Then again, Ted Danson has a condo around there (his wife is from Little Rock), so maybe there’s a secret celebrity enclave in Little Rock for folks who want to get away from New York and LA.
* I knew as soon as Beck started quoting Richard Spencer that when he got to Sailer the quote would be the New Orleans/Let The Good Times Roll thing. Probably the most ill considered thing Steve has ever said (even though it’s true). Spencer at least is a honest to goodness racist, but I’d be willing to bet somebody spent a lot of time coming up with the worst things he’s ever said as well.
* Come on, the connection is quite logical. Breitbart specifically named Steve Sailer as an intellectual center of the alt right, and that is widely acknowledged far beyond Breitbart. And Bannon specifically claimed Breitbart as the official news outlet of the alt right. Sailer and Bannon may not have direct communication but they both have clear prominent ties to the alt right movement. Sailer has never refuted the alt right or the neo reaction. AFAIK, “alt right” and “neo reaction” are labels for the same general political movement.
* Glenn Beck is following the same career trajectory as Morton Downey Jr. Within a week or two he’ll stagger out of an airport men’s room with backwards swastikas magic-markered on his face, shrieking that he was jumped by alt-righters.
* There’s a very intelligent parts of the alt-right and there’s various mean, smug, obnoxious parts.
The people Twitter banned were definitely on the mean, smug, obnoxious part of the alt right. I used to follow John Rivers and Ricky Vaughn, I’ve read them a ton, Sailer has linked John Rivers, they occasionally have great tweets, but they had a lot of mean spirited, nasty stuff too. I unfollowed them. Richard Spencer also has too little intelligent insight and too much meanness and obnoxious smugness. I’m alt right and I can’t fault Twitter for banning those guys.
A younger alt-right twitter guy I would recommend as a better choice is nunzioni.
And as serious adult writers, I’d pick Sailer (of course) and Ilana Mercer.
Steve Sailer is definitely a intellectual highlight of the alt right. That one Sailer quote Beck and NRO criticized does seem unnecessary and mean, I’d like to hear Sailer’s explanation, but it is still a rare exception to Sailer’s witty and intelligent writing.
* When we consider that according to crime statistics, black offenders commit more than 50% of the country’s murders, even though blacks make up only 13% of the population, isn’t that substantial corroboration of Steve’s point that blacks “tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups” and that they “need stricter moral guidance from society.
* I can’t for the life of me think why what Steve said about letting the good times roll be a good message for the Black underclass is either wrong or motivated by racial hatred. That statement is self-evidently true, and the message of Black preacher after Black preacher. That message is front and center for example, for the Nation of Islam. That Black underclass people need order and structure in their lives, and the NOI is just the one to provide it.
As for Twitter, banning anyone not a Liberal Democrat makes them feel good, but it is likely to burn their company down to the ground. Disney and Microsoft and Salesforce all passed on buying them, as did Fox and a number of other potential suitors. Twitter is not making money now, and with their user base halved and Gab.ai poised to make them the next Myspace, things are not looking good for Jack Dorsey and company.
Indeed Zuckerberg may feel he has to placate his Whitey-hating wife (who doubtless hates him most of all, she’s a woman and Chinese, thus full of hate hate hate for White beta males like Zuck). And his board. And his pals in Silicon Valley. But all that will do is produce an exodus from Facebook of those advertisers most want to reach beyond young White women — White people with money. There are not enough ultra-rich people to support an ad network which is all Facebook really is. There is Google Hangouts, and a host of other social media places, besides Fakebook.
Fakebook is likely to be just another liberal social platform, along with lots of non-English speakers from poor Third World countries who are of limited if any interest to advertisers with real money to spend. Fakebook may have 1.7 billion “active” users; but about 989 million are exclusively mobile (read: living in a Third World hell-hole with no computer).
Of course, Donald Trump is a man who does not get even with those who cross him, he is notorious for turning the other cheek and just groveling before his enemies, so the actions of Bezos and the Amazon/Washington Post, AT&T/Direct TV, Comcast, NYT, Fakebook, Twitter etc. have no anti-trust, Sherman Act ramifications. None whatsoever.
* Steve Sailer: “That statement is self-evidently true, and the message of Black preacher after Black preacher.”
I would imagine Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton more or less agree with what I said.
* Spencer might well be smug, and I can’t say that I’m his biggest fan, but he didn’t actually do anything on Twitter to warrant the ban except hold verboten political views. Yet Twitter’s let “Rape Melania” trend and accounts that have tweeted death threats at Trump are still up. They’re not just banning people for being nasty, they’re banning them for being heretics.
* Can we get a categorical statement from Steve Sailer on whether he opposes white genocide or not? And whether he is opposed to the formation of a white ethnostate? To just put it on the record formally for documentation purposes? A simple yes or no will do.
* Congratulations Mr Sailer — so far you’ve survived Twitter’s purge of alt-right accounts — although it’s not clear to me that an ‘alt-rightist’ is worse than a ‘white supremacist’ — anyway, just for fun I looked at Twitter’s ‘About’ page — Our mission: To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers — I emailed them to suggest they change the wording to almost everyone.
* Beck’s histrionic hand-wringing over what was, in fact, a perfectly accurate and reasonably expressed comment by Steve, seems to me not only obsequious and desperate, but also rather ill-played even from his own point of view. It’s obviously an attempt at virtue-signalling, but to whom is he sending the signal? To the very group people whose ideals were just roundly thrashed in last week’s election. Hillary Clinton and her fawning presbyters in the MSM had the entire presidential campaign with which to make “racism” do as much damage to Donald Trump as they possibly could, and the result was a whole lot of nothing. So now comes Glenn Beck belatedly to the scene, to pick up the Left’s shivered spears and brandish them around at nobody, pretending to be a veteran of a battle he was never in, all so that he can ingratiate himself with the losing side’s host. What kind of sense does that make?
It is evident from this that Glenn Beck is an evasive, ascetical carper. He has a psychological need to remove himself from real currents of action that might prove definitive, to stake out deliberately contrarian positions, and to set himself up as pastor over his little flock of losers who have been left out of the big decisions. Thus his muslin “concern” and his instinctive ministering to the defeated. The man born for priestcraft will always find some “church” over which he can hold his intellectual sway, his presence as indicative as a carrion bird’s as to where the bodies lay. I hesitate to say it, but it was precisely Glenn Beck’s presence in the Tea Party that proved to me that the process was doomed to fruitlessness, for they were nothing but the dispirited remains of the old Movement Conservatism which had received a fatal blow with the first election of Obama—a field white for the harvest of laborers like Beck.
It is best, indeed, to simply stay away from this man, to not try to make sense out of what he is doing, unless you can see beneath the surface of things. His expressed ideology at any given moment counts for very little. His real purpose is ever and always to be an alternative to reality. His kingdom is not of this world. He is the lord of the loons.
* Beck’s career trajectory should serve as a timely wake-up call to Megyn Kelly. After the Million Mall Thing, Glenn Beck was on top of the world.
Megyn has just doubled down on the progressive future of FOX, for which network she was all set to become The Face.
It didn’t work out. She’s rattled. She wishes she could edit most chapters of her book, but it was timed to release straight after Hillary’s victory.
They are both victims of pop psychology and poor judgement, but I repeat myself. They ought to have realised their limitations and settled for something realistic.
* Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life in Business and Life by Donald Trump & Bill Zanker. (HarperCollins, 2007). Chapter 6, Revenge:
Donald J Trump:
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So do not hesitate to go after people. This is important not only for the person you are going after but for other people to know not to mess around with you.
When other people see that you don’t take crap and see you are really going after somebody for wronging you, they will respect you. Always have a good reason to go after someone. Do not do it without a good reason. When you are wronged, go after those people because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it.
Getting even is not always a personal thing. It’s just a part of doing business.
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I love getting even when I get screwed by someone—yes, it is true, people still try to take me for a ride, and sometimes they succeed, rarely, but when they do I go after them. You know what? People do not want to play around with me as much as they do with others. They know if they do, they are really in for a big fight. Always get even. When you are in business you need to get even with people who screw you. You need to screw them back fifteen times harder. You do it not only to get the person who messed with you but also to show the others who are watching what will happen to them if they mess with you. If someone attacks you, do not hesitate. Go for the jugular. Attack them back in spades!
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I always get even. In the 1980s I recruited a woman from her job in government where she was making peanuts. She had nothing when she met me. I thought she was smart and that under my mentoring she could be very good. She was a nobody in her government job and going nowhere. I decided to make her into somebody. I gave her a great job at The Trump Organization, and over time she became powerful in real estate. She bought a beautiful home.
When I was going through tough times in the early 1990s, I needed her help. I asked her to make a phone call to an extremely close friend of hers who held a powerful position at a big bank and who would have done what she asked. She said, “Donald, I can’t do that.” I had taken her out of a dead-end government job. I encouraged her. I mentored her. I made her, and then she told me she couldn’t do it. I got rid of her and then she started a business on her own.
Later I found out her business failed. I was really happy when I found that out. She had turned on me after I had done so much to help her. I had asked for one favor in return, and she turned me down flat. She ended up losing her home. Her husband, who was only in it for the money, walked out on her, and I was glad. Over the years many people have called asking for a recommendation for her. I only give her bad recommendations. I just can’t stomach the disloyalty.
I put the people who are loyal to me on a high pedestal and take care of them very well. I go out of my way for the people who were loyal to me in bad times. This woman was very disloyal, and now I go out of my way to make her life miserable. She calls asking to get together for lunch or for dinner. I never return her calls.
* Beck has always seemed like a desperate man seeking redemption. Still, it’s amusing to see him triple down on cuckservatism as his media organization crumbles, plan for political obstruction fails and his credibility craters.
The reason for the near media blackout on Steve Sailer in the afterglow of the Trump victory just dawned on me. His reasonable, well-researched views presented in a sober manner will resonate with far too many rubberneckers, unlike the more inflammatory presentation from the likes of the Radix Journal. Richard Spencer’s demeanor can also be off-putting the uninitiated. That’s why they choose Spencer as the Face of the Alt Right.
* Between 1980-2008 blacks (13% of the US population) committed:
64% of homicides
70% of robberies
50% of rapes
45% of aggravated assaults.
NATIONWIDE.
[Source: Darrell Steffensmeier, Ben Feldmeyer, Casey T. Harris, Jeffery T. Ulmer, “Reassessing Trends in Black Violent Crime, 1980-2008: Sorting out the ‘Hispanic Effect’ in Uniform Crime Reports Arrests”, Criminology, 2011]