The Nice Girl

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Luke Ford

It was the fall of 1987. I was taking my second Political Science class at Sierra Community College with my favorite teacher — Larry Wight.
There was a good girl in the class who liked me. She was blonde. She was cute. But she wasn’t slutty. She was just a good girl. A genuine girl. And she sat up front.
I sat in the back as was my habit. I was sarcastic and provocative. I asked questions in class that I thought demonstrated my great learning.
“I never understand what you are talking about,” said a friend in the class.
Anyway, this good girl was sitting up front before class. She had her head resting on her books. And I came up behind her and I deliberately startled her.
She started crying and through her tears, she reached for me. I held her. We started talking. She said she was transferring to U.C. Davis. She wanted me to come too.
I let her go. I wonder what happened to her? I don’t even remember her name. I just remember startling her. I remember my deliberate cruelty. And I remember her tears and her reaching for me for comfort.

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How Many Weaponized Jews Can Trump Count On?

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* It’s too bad that the Trumpian Right’s stable of weaponized Jews is so limited. You have Miller, Gottfried, Mercer and just a few more. Think of them like BattleMechs towering over the ideological battleground. So Trump is good on infantry and armor and low on the colossi that dominate the battlefields of the Successor State in the 20th and 21st centuries. I’ve been reading Battletech novels on the plane recently.

* I remember following a link to a video of this speech. Listening to it literally gave me goosebumps. Miller is an inspired orator.

His speeches aren’t the usual agglomerations of vaporous, empty, and frequently purloined strings of words that Americans are accustomed to hearing praised as brilliant oratory. Instead Miller is inspired by what he feels in his heart and then uses his intellect and rhetorical sensibility to craft words that will inspire millions. He is a gift to the entire nation; someone who may elevate America’s public discourse to levels it has not reached in decades or generations.

* It seems clear enough that Miller has been a Sailer fan for several years and look at the good he has managed to do by not talking about that. I’m sure he can play close to the vest on many of our dissident people and policies.

* What the alt-* movement lacks is a large corpus of well reasoned, eloquent writings and speeches to express its point of view — or, really, views.

Our admirable host Steve — may the powers of the universe bless him with the long and finally prosperous life he deserves — has done remarkable work to stake out basic features of the vision. Ann Coulter, Derb, Mickey Kaus and a few others have come at it from different angles.

But the movement needs a large body of thinkers and writers to bring it into full flower and lasting effect. It needs speechwriters, political scientists, social scientists more generally, and a large crew of pundits to figure out and articulate its philosophy and set of policies.

The beauty of the Trump Presidency is its immediate and inherent vesting of high importance on the ideas that animate it. Many smart, ambitious individuals will see an opportunity to make a mark by pursuing roles in this venture. Driven by their own rationality, and the heady sense of rebellion against the staid and stifling status quo of political correctness, they can count themselves as among the visionaries spearheading a revolution in our culture and politics.

Trump picked up the $1000 bill lying in the street. We need others to pick up the $1000 bills that lie on the streets in their neighborhoods — whether they be in speechwriting, social science, philosophy, or punditry.

* [Marc] Levin was totally whiny and has complained about Trump since he won the party’s nomination, telling us that Trump was a terrible candidate, had no political experience, wasn’t an insider lawyer, and therefore could not win. Hey Levin you dumbass, Trump’s outsider status beholden to no special interests is a major reason why he won the nomination and presidency. Levin is a stubborn bugger, though, he’ll learn nothing and never admit he was wrong on anything. He does not listen to callers who might disagree with him. I think the guy is a bully and a loud-mouthed jerk. “There I said it” as Levin likes to say.

He was all bent out of shape b/c Trump is not in Levin’s narrow strange mind, a “Constitutional Conservative.” Levin loves Cruz and if Cruz had run, Hillary would have won. I wish Levin would go away, he is an establishment “free trade” globalist insider lawyer. He loves to tell us about the Constitution; but how was Donald Trump anti-constitution in any way? Levin is very stubborn and rigid. After Trump won the nomination, Levin could not bring himself to really support Trump — his tack was 100% anti-HIllary (there is a difference). To the extent he ever mentions immigration, he’ll say he’s against illegal, maybe. Levin needs 5000 Somalis dropped into his neighborhood. I am done listening to this stubborn narrow-minded globalist free trade ideologue.

* Haha–a much deflated Jonah Goldberg and Rich Lowry on Fox News. Goldberg still has “grave reservations” about Donald Trump and is going to wait to see “which Donald Trump emerges.” Lowry still has “heavy misgivings about his character and temperament.” Like anyone gives a shit about their opinions. These guys really need to be deprived of media oxygen. They have nothing of value to contribute and I think they’re aware of it.

* I hope they reach out to Pat Buchanan. Trade/immigration restriction/America First/anti-PC is Pat Buchanan and has been for 25+ years. No one has ever been as thoroughly vindicated as Buchanan was on Tuesday.

* Levin is a vapid neocon, but he’s at least got a populist streak, as evidenced by his willing to pound the drum on immigration more than the likes of Hewitt and Medved.

It’s frustrating to have such a confirmed lightweight wield so much power in conservative media though. He’s got Steyn and Malkin working for him now, when it really should be the other way around.

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Liberal Tears

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

When my Republican candidates for president lost, it never occurred to me to dump my bad feelings on strangers, or to ask them to keep quiet, or to bring up this pain in 12-step meetings.

Now liberals in public space think they can shush you into keeping election talk private because they’re mourning. They’re entitled spoiled brats.

Because you’re sad about the election results, you expect me to only speak politics behind closed doors or you’re triggered? Sad! Dopey losers.

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Westfield boss Peter Lowy denies Panama Papers involvement

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Australian Financial Review May 12, 2016: Westfield Corporation’s Lowy family have publicly denied any involvement in the so-called Panama Papers that revealed the identities of some of Australia’s best-known companies and rich-listers who have used offshore companies and trusts for their operations.

The Australian Tax Office is investigating more than 800 high net worth Australian clients of the controversial Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, which has become the focus of the unprecedented leak of tax haven records.

“Somebody has borrowed our brand,” Westfield chief executive Peter Lowy said at the company’s annual general meeting in Sydney on Thursday.

“We were surprised to be named yesterday and since we saw that we have gone onto the website and had a look at all the companies there and none of them are ours,” Mr Lowy said.

“We have checked back through all our records and any of the companies that are listed on that website that have Westfield names, from our records, we don’t believe are ours.”

Document leaks

The Lowy family have been named in previous tax haven document leaks.

In 2002, a former bank employee Heinrich Kieber sold the bank account details of 3500 clients of his former employer, LG Treuhand, to the German secret service. That leak triggered a worldwide pursuit of offshore tax evaders and tax bills of up to $1 billion around the world on Liechtenstein investors.

The banking records included some of the wealthiest and most powerful business people in the world, including 20 Australian investors holding $110 million.

Mr Kieber’s records triggered ongoing tax audits of Frank Lowy and his family.

At the Westfield AGM on Thursday Mr Lowy was asked whether a recent decision not to list Westfield Corporation in the United States was because of tax benefits.

Mr Lowy said it was not.

JULY 25, 2016:

…barely five weeks since we found Westfield’s billionaire patriarch Frank Lowy’s 2006 Global Express on the block for an eminently fair $US19.8 million ($26.5 million), we’ve discovered that the indefatigable Lowy family’s empire has splurged on two late model Gulfstream 550 jets – a model whose market value these days is circa $US50 million. #upgrade #bullmarket

The 550 can fly non-stop between Shanghai and Los Angeles. One of the two aircraft will be based in Los Angeles, for the business use of Westfield Corporation co-chief executive Peter Lowy (whose Beverly Hills pile Hillary Clinton could find with her eyes closed!), while the other is hangared in Sydney to carry chairman Frank and Westfield’s other co-CEO Steven Lowy from meeting to meeting. Both are owned by a Westfield-related entity. A third G550, used principally by Frank’s eldest son David, himself an aviator, is owned by the family’s private family office LFG. Which means the Lowys have now drawn equal with the disparate Pratt clan, each running three jets apiece. What self-respecting industrialist tribe would scrimp to a measly two private planes?!

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The Goyim Win!

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Shmuel Rosner writes for the Jewish Journal:

The Jews of America, generally speaking, lost this election, or so they currently think. Most of them voted for the losing candidate, a vast majority of them view the winning candidate negatively. A poll conducted by Jim Gerstein on behalf of J Street – this is already an Election Day tradition – lets us see some of the nuances related to the Jewish vote. It is an interesting poll, and here is some of what you can find in it other than the headline (70% of Jews voted for Clinton).
1.
Is 70% for her high or low? On the one hand, it is as high as Obama got in 2012. On the other hand, it is lower than 2008 Obama (74%), 2004 Kerry (74%), 2000 Gore (79%), 1996 Clinton (78%), 1992 Clinton (80%). It is higher than 1988 Dukakis (64%).
But is that a satisfactory result from a Democratic viewpoint? I’d say no – it isn’t. Not when Donald Trump was on the ticket. Trump did not stir the expected scare among Jewish voters. The share of the Democratic vote among Jews continues the slow yet steady decline from the early Nineties to today: 80%, 78%, 79%, 74%, 74%, 70%, 70%.
2.
Not all Jews vote the same way. 25% of them voted for Trump. Who are these 25%? Many of them are Orthodox, whose vote was 56% for Clinton, 39% for Trump. But the Orthodox are a relatively small group – just 10% or so of the Jewish population. So there must have been others who also voted for Trump, and here they are: 21% of Reform, 25% of Conservative, 26% of “just Jewish”. So much for the progressive tendencies of all progressive Jews. One in four voted for Trump – whom the other three find to be horrible.

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