* Trump’s appeal is truly populist: ordinary working class people love him: be they white, black or “miscellaneous”.
That’s the reason elites are scared of him : a dissident elite forging a new high/ low- middle alliance could very well usher in a new regime.
Make no mistake: Trump if nominated would easily win the White House, hands down.
Hence the not so secret meeting of the GOP cuckservatives with Tim Cook, Musk, etc. How do we stop this guy?
For the moment, they’re using BLMs and SJWs as attack dogs, that is, Blacks and antifas, along with the MSM whores trying hard to demonize him all over the media.
Let’s see how Trump reacts now. Playing dirty must come naturally to a man with his background. He’s got them all figured out. It won’t be pretty.
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SOUTH central Melbourne became more like South Central Los Angeles on Saturday as rioters swept through the CBD terrifying locals and tourists alike.
Havoc descended on Federation Square with metal chairs from the city’s famous Brunetti’s cafe used as weapons on nearby Swanston St, as gang members fought with both the police and among themselves.
But these weren’t members of Melbourne’s notorious crime families, as depicted in Underbelly, or even bikie gangs asserting their dominance. But rather young people, some no more than 12 years of age, from hitherto little known gangs living out their dreams of a “Fast and the Furious” lifestyle.
Police say the primary gang had been under surveillance for months, accused of breaking into homes, stealing cars and even the tragic death of a mum-of two late last year.
While a Salvation Army officer with knowledge of the gangs told news.com.au the culprits “don’t care” about the concerns their actions cause, and that a fear of being a labelled racist meant little effort was being done to tackle the gangs whose members predominantly hail from eastern Africa but also the Middle East and the South Pacific.
* It was a conflict between the Apex and the Islander 23, a gang made up of Sudaese and Pacific Islanders, respectively. I think the Herald Sun was the only newspaper who mentioned the nationalities.
* I saw Amanda Vanstone – Australia’s former Immigration Minister – boast on TV that she was the one behind the Sudanese resettlement. Surprised that she is a childless white lady?
* There are very few Africans in Melbourne (or the rest of Australia), but they certainly punch above their weight (if you’ll pardon the expression) when it comes to violent crime.
The last census in Australia (2011) didn’t have any separate numbers for Africans (by birthplace or ancestry) because the numbers were too small – only a fraction of one per cent. The numbers have certainly increased in the last five years but I would guess they are still well under one per cent.
The riot in Melbourne was a pitched battle between gangs of Sudanese and Pacific Islanders (mainly Maoris and Samoans), and we have larger numbers of the latter group, but only 15,000 Maoris were identified in the census (out of 4m Melburnians).
As it happens, the people worst affected by the riot (and by street crime by Africans and Islanders in general) are typically East Asians and South Asians (students studying here, or recent immigrants). They are considered (correctly, as a rule) by criminals to be soft targets.
A few years back there was a series of nasty robberies and a few killings targeting South Asians in Melbourne, and Indian media reported them as being committed by racist “Australians”. It turned out that the majority of those crimes were committed by Islanders and Africans (race realists, for sure, but not Australian to any but the terminally PC). The race of criminals was (and is) usually omitted in any reports by MSM or police; social media help fill the gap (much as in Europe).
* The “Out of Africa” movement seems to be in full swing. Why any nation feels the need to bend to these demands to open its gates is beyond me. I think it’s becoming quite scientifically known that we – i.e., humans – are not all the ‘same’ under the skin – close maybe, but not the same. Sex seems to be the determining factor to the ‘we’re all the same crowd’ – if you can fu*k it, it’s same as you.
* From what I could gather this was a clash between Africans (Sudanese) and Pacific Islanders. In Darwin it’s Aborigines and Africans fighting. Such populations overwhelmingly lack human capital and with traditionally male blue collar jobs disappearing their prospects don’t look very good. Most of the Africans are humanitarian refugees and the Islanders come with the oceanian geography, often via New Zealand. Australia is in the process of deporting foreign born criminals after a recently passed law so perhaps a few people will be made examples of.
A lot of the Sudanese, as you would expect of humanitarian refugees, come from conflict zones and I’m sure many of them are genuinely traumatised, but dumping them in a completely alien culture and expecting them to thrive is a little optimistic. Interestingly the left wing Victorian Premier (equivalent to a state governor in America) has said he’s not buying into the ‘poor me’ excuses that community leaders, social workers etc. always seem to come up with.
* i live in rural new south wales. the number of africans that have popped up in australia in less than the last 10 years really begs belief.before around 2006 and 2007 (right before the labour party got into power again) you literally saw no africans at all. a tiny number of high skill tranplants from places like ghana maybe but that’s it. after that there has been a really rapid incraese in sudanese, somali and tazaninan migrants, presumably all refugees. they stick out like a sore thumb here for sure.
* What’s funny is that you would think these nations would do some fact checking in South Africa, the southern US or Rhodesia how that co-existence with blacks worked out in the past. But it’s as if they don’t want to know. Maybe they know the score deep down, but think they can actually be successful, and don’t want to rain on the parade.
* I’m from that part of the world too, and have had to work with people from the sudanese community in Melbourne. What struck me was their often brazen contempt for the law- for example, if a white person were to try and commit a crime, they usually have the decency to at least try and be inconspicuous about it. Not so with the sudanese, they’ll do it completely out in the open and punch whichever cop comes to arrest them. As long as the crime isn’t too serious (like stealing alcohol) they know they are going to either get away with it or get a slap on the wrist from a magistrate, as opposed to getting their arm lopped off with a machete.
People here aren’t stupid though, when you hear people badmouth suburbs like Sunshine for being violent, it’s a roundabout way of referring to the sudanese.
Another thing that should be mentioned are the rivalries between “youths” from the Aboriginal and Sudanese communities, who seem to be jockeying with each other to be head of the Australian underclass.
* Is there one country in the world – including their own – where the Somalis have proved useful?
* There’s a more important interest for maintaining strict silence about the ethnic identities of the offenders. If the conventions of political correctness are not observed, things go to hell very easily in a multicultural society.
One of the best illustrations of this was in Sydney in 2004. Gangs of Lebanese Muslims were known to attack lifeguards. After one attack in 2004, at least one popular radio DJ broadcast frank views about attacks by Lebanese Muslims gangs. In reaction, crowds of white Australians gathered in the beach in a demonstration of support for the life guards and for standing their ground. By the time the crowd swelled to thousands, it turned out of control. Police no longer were able to keep order and white mobs even attacked random brown skinned people. That was the Cronulla riot, unleashed by lack of political correctness among those people who have the power to broadcast opinions.
Here in this melee although no white women were harmed, the principle stands that if strict political correctness is not maintained it may incite the white majority to do violence against minorities.
* The articles call them “Sudanese gangs”. However the “Sudanese” that Australia has been taking are actually the poor oppressed “Darfurians” of what used to be the southern part of Sudan.
Darfur, remember, is the poor oppressed southern province of Sudan that the West recently spun off to form its own country. The peaceful oppressed Darfurians are now slaughtering each other wholesale in a big civil war.
These foreign “refugees” always look so meek and pathetic in photos of refugee camps and crowded boats. When they are unleashed on a defenceless Western country they revert to type.
* Defenders of the ‘white Australia policy’ – which, surprisingly lasted right up to year 1973, casually and colloquillaly used to say that ‘Australia has enough blacks of its own, we don’t need any more blacks’ when questioned on the subject.
Which begs the question of the indigenous Aborigene population being a pretty criminally inclined, dysfunctional and sociopathic one, eventually and inevitably clashing with blacks imported direct from Africa.
A dilemma which only the most rabid race-obsessed 19th century anthropology author could ever have contemplated.
Who will prevail? – the so-called ‘rascals’ of Port Moresby – yes, yes, yes, I know its in PNG and not Oz, seem to me to be more of a match to anything Lagos, south side Chicago or Detroit can throw at them.
Even their HIV positive rates are superlative.
* Whoa. We can’t have this in Australia. You guys are my escape plan – or, at least, my escape plan for my children.
The way that I look at it, we’re living through a version of the movie “On the Beach,” except that it’s not a wave of nuclear radiation that destroys the West, but a wave of African and Muslim immigration.
Melbourne was their last refuge from the deadly radiation. Well, Australia is my kids’ Melbourne. (So, yes, Melbourne, in a sense, is both figuratively and literally, my kids’ Melbourne. Kind of like America’s “Vietnam,” i.e. a military quagmire, is the actual Vietnam.)
Of course, in the movie, the inhabitants had no way to stop the nuclear cloud from reaching Australia. But you do. You can both save the future white world and make your current world much more pleasant by keeping out Africans and Muslims.
* The coming Demographic disaster caused by the current population boom in Sub Saharan Africa is going to be the defining event shaping World History in the second half of the 21st century.
Africa has problems feeding and keeping peace of its citizens now. So, how bad will it be when the population quadruples?
What will happen is civil wars, warlords, Islamification, and mass migrations. The Africans will probably migrate to the nearest places, north Africa, the middle East, and South America. The entire middle east will migrate into Europe. The entire South America will migrate into North America.
A population boom in Korea in 100AD destroyed the Roman Empire. The resulting subsequent constant population migrations collapsed the border and collapsed Roman society from within when the wrong immigrants were let inside the border. The resulting chaos was called the Dark Ages, and most of Europe was burned to the ground. This has happened before and could happen again.
Time is past due to cast aside the neocon rivalry with Russia. We’ll need their help to deal with the future. We’ll also need an armed Western Europe with capable politicians. (We’ll probably also need to cooperate with the Arab/Persian world). Otherwise, everything could fall.
* Ever notice how it is only white western nations that take in African “refugees”? Ever catch that? Note how Japan didn’t let them in. Or South Korea. Or Taiwan. Or a hundred other places that would have been a least a bit safer and more stable then Sudan, Somalia etc. Only the white western nations of the world, even though Australia for instance is thousands of miles away from Africa.
* Australia is a continent, but its mostly desert so you hit a hard limit on how many people can live there without completely trashing the ecology earlier than elsewhere.
This means that there is a stronger argument for closing the country’s borders with Australia than with just about any other place in the world. The place has to be reserved for the descendants of the English speaking immigrants who went or were shipped there in the twentieth century, plus whatever is left of the Aboriginal population. A larger population would wreck it, and given that its surrounded by water and in an isolated corner of the globe, keeping additional people out is less difficult than elsewhere.
However, for the same reason, Australia can’t be an “escape plan” for anyone in the rest of the world, including white people. Sorry. In an overpopulated world, there really is no place to escape to.
* You’re saying that Freedom of Speech can’t exist in a multiracial society.
Let’s get this straight. Multi-racial societies lead to:
1. Loneliness and much less social interaction (see Bowling Alone)
2. Violence
3. Repressive governments and a lack of civil liberties
I can see why they’re so popular.
Future historians are going to look back on this age in wonder. I doubt that they’ll ever really understand why the West committed suicide. I mean, if I wasn’t living through it, I wouldn’t believe it.
* Is it relatively more acceptable in Aussie public life to be a fat woman? When I first saw British newscasts or morning shows growing up I was struck by the fact of normal plain-looking, often overweight women getting hired to work in front of the camera, even as show hostesses, and not just on the public channels either, but in recent years they seem to be going in the Fox News/Access Hollywood direction (to be fair, not so different from the standards of every local news team in every state) which is an outgrowth of the obnoxious L.A. media demimonde.
* Most liberals don’t want to know, because it’s crimethink. A leftist operates under a number of quasi-religious axioms, something like those I’ve identified below:
-All peoples are equal.
-Diversity is the highest good.
-If there is a group difference, it is due to white racism, or the white male power structure.
-White people are obligated to pay money in the form of tax until everyone is equal.
-If you can find one intelligent, altruistic or non-criminally-inclined member of a race or ethnicity, it is proof that group differences in races/ethnicities are due to something other than genetics.
-Anyone who questions or researches the above is a thoroughly bad person.
-White racists should be punished.
Because this axiom structure is laid down through many, many Hollywood movies, kids’ TV programming and books, the education system (textbooks, curricula and the views of teachers), proclamations by government officials etc. there is no real unified set of laws to it all except that white men are bad and anything that will lead to the production of more of them, especially a unified group of them, is bad.
A lot of non-US countries including Australia like to consider that the problems that they perceive the US has stems from something intrinsic to the US itself, a kind of tragic dirt. These other countries consider that they have solved problems that have eluded the USA, and they kid themselves about the reasons behind it. Fundamentally the problem is ethnic mix, but this is put down to various other things.
Warren Buffett’s famous maxim might be riffed on here: “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”
So I would say this:
“When a government with a reputation for competence imports an ethnic group with a reputation for high crime and low economic performance, it is the reputation of the ethnic group that remains intact.”
* That’s the case here in Europe, for sure. The liberal government and media elites generally look on Americans with disdain, especially Southern whites. It almost seems as if their support for immigration stems from their eagerness to show how much better they can handle the problems that will arise when different races are put together.
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* It’s clear that leftists like this kid want Trump to be president. They’re not really trying to prevent him from being president – they’re protesting and opposing him as if he were already president. Even when leftism is dominant, like it is now, it’s not comfortable with actually being in charge. It’s only really comfortable in opposing oppressive authority figures and being in a permanent revolutionary mode. Trump is sort of a pop culture caricature of such an oppressive authority figure, and he’s even sort of indulging them and playing the part in a campy way, which excites these people even more. They want Trump, they need Trump as president since it confirms their worldview and gives meaning to their lives as revolutionaries fighting unjust, oppressive authorities. It’s just not the same with Obama or leftists in charge, which ultimately only leads to cognitive dissonance and disillusionment.
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Look! Not all Jews are pushy and dishonest in business. It is only a tiny number that give the rest of us a bad name. Oy vey!
In most of these conflicts described in the story below, Jews tend to win, though there are occasional setbacks such as the Holocaust.
I know a lot of Jewish real estate agents and none of the ones I know behave this horrible way (though they are far more aggressive than the WASPs I grew up among), and yet none of the bad behavior described surprises me and none of the reaction against it surprises me. Different groups have different interests and they’re competing for scarce resources such as land.
The more traditional the Jew, the less likely he is to deeply concerned with the law of the land, except to the extent he needs to be to stay safe. Orthodox Jews have their own way of life. They just happen to live in America or Canada or Australia.
I love the real estate agent who says opposition to the Orthodox pouring in is motivated by fear of the unknown. I’d say the opposition is motivated by fear of the known. In Australia, for example, there’s little anti-Semitism except for in Sydney and Melbourne, where people are more likely to meet real live Jews.
Orthodox Jews and orthodox Muslims and blacks and latinos are not inherently good guys or bad guys. It depends on their behavior and it depends on the old dynamic of who, whom? Who is doing what to whom? Whose ox is gored? If you want to keep a sleepy polite low-intensity neighborhood, you are not going to want Orthodox Jews moving in. As with all insular groups, the stronger the Jews’ Jewish identity, the less likely he is to be concerned with those outside the group.
A lot of Orthodox Jews don’t take the same care with their landscaping and their yelling and their general behavior that good citizen WASPs usually take. Orthodox Jews have other concerns, such as keeping God’s commandments. Orthodox Jews are not the bad guys here, they are the bad guys for those residents of Toms River who want to maintain a different type of community than the one many Orthodox Jews want to create. What we have here is not a failure to communicate but a genuine conflict of interest.
Modern Orthodox Jews tend to make good neighbors and to keep up their yards. More traditional Jews are less likely to be concerned with such niceties.
If Orthodox Jews dominate a neighborhood, they are not going to want to pay taxes to support public schools. Their concern is with developing Jewish schools, just as whites dealing with a lot of blacks and latinos become increasingly opposed to funding social welfare programs that will largely be used by non-whites.
The more generations Jews live in the West, the more they assimilate to Western norms. Most Jews in the United States, however, are from Eastern Europe, where they live in an atmosphere of mutual loathing with the goyim for centuries. Jews from Western Europe, by contrast, found much to admire and imitate in gentile life.
I think it is clear that the Orthodox are going to run this neighborhood in question. Whether the town, like Postville before it, is better for that remains to be seen.
Many of the problems the Orthodox are having in this new town could be diminished by consideration for the other party’s point of view.
I suspect that most non-Orthodox Jews will have more sympathy for the town than for the Orthodox in this fight.
Every home is big on glass in a Toms River, New Jersey, neighborhood called North Dover. Windows let in the sun, or show off chandeliers in multistory entrance halls.
These days, though, most homeowners draw the blinds, retreating from brushes with a fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community that’s trying to turn a swath of suburban luxury 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Atlantic beaches into an insular enclave. The rub, a township inquiry found, is “highly annoying, suspicious and creepy” tactics used by some real-estate agents.
They show up on doorsteps to tell owners that if they don’t sell, they’ll be the only non-Orthodox around. Strangers, sometimes several to a car, shoot photos and videos. When they started pulling over to ask children which house was theirs, parents put an end to street-hockey games.
“It’s like an invasion,” said Thomas Kelaher, Toms River’s three-term mayor, who’s fielded complaints from the North Dover section since mid-2015. “It’s the old throwback to the 1960s, when blockbusting happened in Philadelphia and Chicago with the African-American community — ‘I want to buy your house. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.’ It scares the hell out of people.”
Scholarly Community
The upset has its roots in adjacent Lakewood, home to yeshivas including Beth Medrash Govoha, among the world’s biggest centers for Talmudic study. Scholars typically marry young and start large families that maintain strict gender roles and limit interaction with secular society.
Rabbi Avi Schnall, state director of Agudath Israel of America, which represents Orthodox Jews on political, social and religious issues, said a few sales agents “are overly aggressive and making a bad name for the others.” He declined to say whether anti-Semitism is at work, but said the “extent of the anger” in Lakewood’s neighboring towns is deep, fueling opposition to a learning center, a boarding school, dormitories and other proposals.
…The friction reflects increasing insularity among the most religious Jews worldwide. In Israel, the Haredi inhabit a largely separate social world, according to a Pew Research Center survey this month. They share few connections even with their fellow Jews and there is scant intermarriage; 89 percent of the Haredim surveyed said all or most of their close friends belonged to their own community.
Though just 10 percent of America’s 5.3 million Jewish adults identify themselves as Orthodox, they have much larger families than others of their religion, and “their share of the Jewish population will grow,” according to a 2015 Pew survey. Their conservatism could “shift the profile of American Jews in several areas, including religious beliefs and practices, social and political views and demographic characteristics.”
Lakewood, once a rural destination for Rockefellers and other industry titans, is now a land of synagogues, religious schools, kosher groceries and residential neighborhoods in the grip of minivan gridlock. It’s also a place testing the limits of zoning enforcement for 95,000 people, at least half Orthodox, by Schnall’s estimate…
The opposition, he said, has nothing to do with dislike of Jews, but with a fear that Toms River will become like Lakewood’s more tattered sections, with cars parked on lawns, overgrown landscaping, trash piled at curbs and residents crowding single-family homes.
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I’m afraid we were too easy on Kevin Williamson. It’s not just his punditry that’s of low character. Kevin insists in baring his id to the world and it’s not pretty.
He’s so inordinately proud of himself for having risen above his hardscrabble beginnings (or at least environment, since he doesn’t reveal much about his personal circumstances beyond where he grew up) that he dismisses as losers everyone who hasn’t managed to become an NR pundit. “Losers,” hmmm—where have we heard that before? Must be a coincidence.
There is a higher purpose to Williamson’s splenetic garbage, however. Can their now be any doubt that the Republican establishment and its intellectual court jesters despise the people they ostensibly exist to represent and serve? Williamson’s message to the white working class is, literally, you “deserve to die.” That’s a vote-getter for sure!
Lest Williamson accuse us of quoting him out of context, we acknowledge that he qualifies his death wishes with a reference to “communities.” But what’s the difference? A people is at least party defined by where and how they live. Williamson’s glib order to get in a U-Haul and leave behind all they’ve ever known—and presumably still love—takes let-them-eat-cake to a new level. When the Davoisie—with Williamson’s eager assistance—is finally done hollowing out every middle class community in America, to where does Williamson suggest the American people U-Haul?
Aside from Williamson’s sneering contempt—which rises mellifluously from every word and appears to be the only device in his rhetorical bag of tricks—several things are notable about the piece. First, wasn’t it only a month ago that NR’s editor—presumably the same one who approved this disgraceful screed—wrote that the Republican Party needs to reach out to the working class and embrace at least a moderate level of populism? At the time, we found that too little, too late and reminiscent of a deathbed conversion. That initial reaction has now been completely vindicated. As we suspected, it was all a put-on—an ass-covering lie.
Second, Williamson—and by extension NR—unwittingly reveal their core liberalism, which is moreover liberalism of a certain kind: what fired-former-NR-writer John Derbyshire calls “white gentry liberalism.” The policy prescriptions of white gentry libs and their doppelgangers on the “right” may differ. But that hardly matters since to both, policy is secondary to virtue signaling, which appears to be the real point of Williamson’s piece. He seems ashamed of his origins and wants to rub in the faces of those who didn’t—like him—manage to rise above them that he’s their superior. Adding “führer” to the title, which at this point ought to embarrassingly disqualify any piece not actually about an actual Nazi, is dog-whistling to the left that Williamson and NR’s editors have more in common with Central Park West than with the white trash Republican base.
Speaking of Derbyshire, remember the essay that got him fired (published, we note, not in NR but by another magazine)? Whatever one thinks of it, Derb did not say that blacks’ problems were 100% their fault nor that they “deserve to die.” Yet when Williamson says that about whites, not only is he not fired, he gets prime real estate in NR itself plus a plug on the cover.
And speaking of policy, remember Williamson’s piece about Detroit? In that one, he attributed the Motor City’s every pathology to its refusal to embrace Williamson’s own doctrinaire libertarianism. Lack of virtue or even bad habits among the people—could those possibly play a role? Nah. But in this latest, Williamson insists that the problems of the white working class have absolutely nothing to do with policy and are wholly the result of their own failures. Gee, I wonder what the difference could be that causes a lib like Williamson to diagnose causation so differently for what—at least outwardly—seem like similar symptoms? (But only “seem”: compare the crime rate for Beattyville, KY—the poorest town in Appalachia—with Detroit’s).
Williamson recently spent some time in Silicon Valley, where he naturally (finally!) felt at home among so many other übermenchen of his own caliber. Palo Alto sure is a long way from Lubbock! But true to form, he doesn’t understand Northern California at all. The “capitalists” he tongue-bathes are statist, rent-seeking oligarchs who view the likes of him with even greater contempt than he views his old high school classmates and their families.
Williamson did unwittingly make a case for deserved—swift, unmerciful—death. But not for his intended target. It is rather Williamson’s brand of “conservatism,” NR and—if it continues on its current path—the Republican Party that deserve to die. Certainly, they’re well on the way to “conservative” Valhalla (where every night is November 4th, 1980, every keynoter Jack Kemp, and every meal rib-eye and Freedom Fries). If this wretched revelation of the hatred for the American people at the heart of Conservatism, Inc. doesn’t finish them off, we have to wonder what will?
Surely the most intelligent thing said so far about the Trump phenomenon was Anne Coulter’s pithy admonition that those who don’t like Trump should steal his issue, by which she meant immigration. We’d amend that to “issues,” because in our view there are three core components to Trumpism: secure borders, economic nationalism and America-first foreign policy.
No matter, though: the question still stands. Why hasn’t anyone stolen Trump’s issues? That applies both to other candidates and to “conservative” intellectuals.
There have been feints in Trump’s direction, of course. But as as we’ve noted, all them haven been not merely half-hearted but transparently insincere.
In 1968, the leadership of the Democratic Party all fervently believed in the Vietnam War, but the base was—to say the least—divided. Here was a huge opportunity for some ambitious pol to seize the leadership of the anti-war faction and reap their votes. Except that no one with anything to lose wanted to get on the wrong side of LBJ. Until Eugene McCarthy, who had nothing (politically) to lose, launched his famous suicide mission. He succeeded in taking out LBJ, if not in securing the nomination for himself.
The incumbent president this year is not a Republican (though, given how often the Republican leadership does Obama’s bidding, confusion on that score is understandable). Still, the GOP establishment may be analogized to LBJ and Trump to McCarthy. Like McCarthy, Trump has nothing (politically) to lose by taking on the bosses, whom he is well on his way to dislodging.
But this begs the question: where is the GOP’s RFK? That is, where is the more palatable—to the party and to the general electorate—seasoned pol with high ambition and a big reputation who could sweep in and collect the prize after the kamikaze pilot has done the unpalatable dirty work?
McCarthy’s stunning near-upset over Johnson in New Hampshire occurred on March 12th—that is, 48 years ago almost to the day. RFK entered the race on March 16th—as it were, three days from now.
Yes, yes—the primary system was different then. Not every state held one, the process began later and was more complex, requiring an earlier start, etc. Still, one wonders why no RFK came along months ago to transform the GOP race?
Part of the answer, surely, is that all the wise and good were certain that Trump would collapse of his own weight and that one of the half-dozen or so acceptable establishment candidates already in the race would cruise to victory. They held to this hope for much longer than the facts warranted, as one after the other, the establishment candidates flamed or dropped out until it was too late to substitute anyone else. We are thus left with the amusing spectacle of the establishment trying desperately to talk itself into holding its nose and rallying behind Ted Cruz.
But the bigger part of the answer points back to Coulter’s question. The real reason no senior Republican has swooped in to bump Trump aside and seize the nomination is because in order to do so, he’d have to steal Trump’s issues and no senior Republican wants to do that. Because no senior Republican actually believes in—much less wants to fight for—secure borders, economic nationalism and America-first foreign policy.
Contrast that with RFK, who had to repudiate—if only implicitly, but no less unmistakably*—his own brother’s foreign policy in order to take up the anti-war mantle. By coincidence, we had another presidential brother in the 2016 cycle. Can anyone imagine him deviating one millimeter from the establishment script his brother helped codify?
That neither he nor anyone else would so much as consider doing so is #1 on the growing list of reasons why the Republican Party as currently constituted is finished, and deserves to be.
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* Trumpism transcends both the two parties and the two “accepted ” ideologies. It is rooted in “blood and soil, kith and kin.” It is nativism, populism, and a welling up of a desperate sense that all might be lost – that the American experience was all for nothing. It is now or never, and if the latter, then devolution will proceed apace, and most likely not without violence.
So Trumpism might best be termed AFFIRMATIONISM. We affirm ourselves, family, friends and associates, religion, culture, civilization, ethnicity, country, and even species. But this does not mean that we wish harm to others. For to value one’s family does mean that one wishes harm to the family next door, just that we value our own higher. But any people that does not AFFIRM, is deleted from the world cultural and group genome pool.
* Let me suggest some properties [of fascism]: nation, people (volk), military readiness, manly virtues, honor, mixture of aristocratic and democratic principles, racialism, and anti-liberalism. And lasts but not least the precipitating political factors for their appearance, for example, communism and jewish influence in communism.
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* His mother is a functionary in Kasim Reed’s administration in Atlanta. I’d have to guess that denunciations of white supremacy were commonplace in Tommy’s childhood home if for no other reason than practice makes perfect. I’m sure Ms. Dimassimo — a Caucasian — has only survived in Atlanta government by making frequent vocal demonstrations of her righteous ethnic self-loathing.
In this family’s case it MIGHT be heartfelt, but it probably started out as just business. That’s the thing about mantras though. They can really worm their way into the brains of the young.
* DiMassimo’s mother is charge of the “Renew Atlanta” bond fund that was approved last year. It’s a $250M infrastructure package that is getting the reputation of being a political kickback fund. The fund currently has people riled up because of a bait and switch involving public lighting on a popular trail (the Beltline). Also, one council members, who is almost certainly going to be running in the next mayoral election, got $20M to rebuild a natatorium in his district when most voters would prefer the city fill in potholes.
Ms. DiMassimo is almost certainly getting some extra benefits and playing ball with Kasim’s friends. Atlanta’s contracting, since the Jackson administration in the 70s, has focussed on maximizing the number of contracts awarded to female and minority owned businesses. As a result, firms that win contracts are almost always very well connected friends of the black political machine and rarely are the most economical choice. The use of identity contracting also provides great cover to obfuscate the bidding process and makes graft that much easier. Graft isn’t as bad as it was in the 90s, but that’s in part because the city uses more legal methods now that have the same effect.
* In two or three presidential election cycles, live public rallies will be a thing of the past–candidates will remain in secure television studios and their images and speeches will be projected. It’ll be too dangerous to do public appearances in all but the most carefully controlled settings. Something is being lost.
* This will only encourage more nutjobs. Now you can rush Trump then get a slap on the wrist and a national news platform from which to promote yourself and your views as a consolation prize if you aren’t able to reach Trump.
And if you can reach Trump? Who knows what would have happened. He could have tackled Trump right off the stage.
* The left is pretty open about their hatred of free speech. If they’re not talking about “no platforming” “hate speech”, they are advocating “hate speech” laws exclusively targeting whites (Not making this up at all. I don’t know how to link a PDF but google “matsuda hate speech” and it’s the second result. She was the first female of Asian descent to become a tenured law professor in the US. Based on her beliefs, one hopes she was the last.)
LINK: A self-described “activist scholar,” Mari Matsuda was a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. There she specialized in “feminist theory” and “critical race theory.” Professor Matsuda is an architect of the legal rationale behind campus speech codes, which attempted to outlaw “fighting words” in American universities in the late 1980s and early 1990s before they were declared unconstitutional.
Along with leftwing law professors Kimberly Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, and Charles Lawrence, Professor Matsuda contributed to the volume Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment, a 1993 text that would become the legal cornerstone of the movement to restrict campus speech. Among other claims, the book argued that “areas of law ostensibly designed to advance the cause of racial equality [like the First Amendment] . . . often benefit powerful white men.” Judging the First Amendment to be too lenient with respect to “hate speech” — a category that evidently included all statements offensive to groups other than white males — Professor Matsuda argued that such speech was “qualitatively different” from other varieties of offensive speech.
Arbitrary censorship of hate speech, according to Matsuda, was therefore preferable to the potentially devastating effects it might have on its ostensibly defenseless targets. Racist speech, Matsuda wrote, “is best treated as a sui generis category, presenting an idea so historically untenable, so dangerous, and so tied to perpetuation of violence and degradation of the very classes of human beings who are least equipped to respond that it is properly treated as outside the realm of protected discourse.” Not all hate speech was actionable, however: “Expressions of hatred, revulsion, and anger directed against members of historically dominant groups by subordinated-group members are not criminalized by the definition of racist hate messages used here.” Hence, hate speech leveled by black Americans against whites may be “troubling,” Matsuda explained, but, in view of the latter’s “historically dominant” role, permissible.
As noted earlier, many of the speech code laws advocated by Matsuda were eventually struck down as unconstitutional. But they remain preserved at schools like Matsuda’s own Georgetown, where a broad ban is in effect on any “offensive act which is intentional or persistent” and “which is directed at specific individuals or groups of individuals, in such a way as to make an individual or group feel intimidated or unwelcome because of their actual or perceived color, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, race, religion, and/or sexual orientation.”
Matsuda teaches three courses at Georgetown — all of them distinguished by their unmistakable preference for activist recruitment over legal learning.
This tendency is perhaps most pronounced in a course called “Organizing for Social Change: Anti-Subordination Theory and Practice,” co-taught by Matsuda and fellow law professor Marilyn Sneiderman. “This class is designed for the lawyer as change agent,” explains a description of the course. Having imbibed “readings from critical race theory, feminist legal theory, anti-colonial theory, peace studies, and other social justice traditions,” each student “is expected to complete a social change organizing project as part of the course requirements.” There are no alternatives to activism, for as the course description cautions: “Students who take this class should have in mind a social justice project that includes some form of public outreach, education, or institution building.”
One such project was participation in a 2003 rally of leftwing student demonstrators who convened in front of the Supreme Court Building to condemn a lawsuit brought by several white students against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies. In the eyes of the demonstrators, the white plaintiffs were bent on resurrecting segregation: “Jim Crow, hell no!” they shouted. “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to segregate!” Regarding the raucous scene with approval from her perch on a nearby barricade was Mari Matsuda. Outfitted in a black cap and gown, she told a Washington Post reporter that affirmative action was essential to her job: “I can’t do my job as a university professor in a monocultural classroom.”
A similarly activist methodology operates in “Peacemaking,” another Georgetown course taught by Matsuda. In her description of this survey course, Matsuda explains that it “evolved from conversations with students who are interested in taking peacemaking seriously” in the aftermath of 9-11. This course aspires to train a new generation of lawyer-activists in the fundamentals of opposing American military intervention, and to “stimulate critical thought … about the role of lawyers in peacemaking.”
Matsuda’s views on war and peace are illumined in a 2003 letter to the Boston Review. With respect to anti-American terrorism, the professor insisted that “Our job is to ask how we [the United States] participated in its creation, and how we feed it still by choosing militarism and global inequality over peace and global justice.” Any discussion of the war on terror, Matsuda declared, must be above all a discussion of American “militarism.” She wrote: “Militarism—choosing arms and battlegrounds and dead bodies before we ask how a coming war will position us yet again as the target of someone else’s unchecked fury—is the big story of how we came to this place of danger in which, we are told, the Bill of Rights is a luxury.”
Even Matsuda’s one course with a discernible connection to law—an “Asian Americans and Legal Ideology Seminar”— places “particular emphasis” on “political theory.” Presented as an exploration of the “Asian American experience,” the course dwells on the “relationship between law and social change, and the limits of liberal legal ideology.” Students enrolled in the seminar also examine how Asian Americans have fared within the American legal system—a subject on which Matsuda has been outspoken. In an address to the Asian Law Caucus in 1990, Matsuda described 20th-century America as a “land where racism found a home,” and where anti-Asian hatred is fueled by the “real villains—the corporations and politicians who put profits before human needs.” It is owing to America’s widespread anti-Asian prejudices, Matsuda concluded, that “we [Asians] are underrepresented in the real power positions.”
* One thing you can say about this Trump-related publicity machine is that primary voters are more likely to say ‘Ted who? Mario who?” when they look at their ballots. Both of the latter would have to spend massively just to make a dent in Trump’s airtime. Have there been headlines about Obama lately? Has everyone forgotten about him in all the Trump-mania? Even Hillary is going to have big problems spending enough to win airtime away from Trump. Trump gets the publicity of a Kardashian. Even the people vaguely associated with him are getting the spotlight these days.
* They aren’t charging him with much at all, and let him out immediately. One thing government DA types do not like is being the center of criticism and controversy since they often have higher political aspirations. How about a campaign to bombard the social media accounts for the DA responsible, along with bombarding his email address and office phone numbers with protests?
It would also serve as a warning to future DAs not to let these people off so easily, since there is going to be a large increase in them as pointed out above.
* That was probably the motivation for putting him on CNN. Now every Leftwing lunatic and fanatic is going to take a whack at Trump so they can get on TV to bloviate.
* Thomas DiMassimo, 22, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic.
Hmmm. These must be local charges under Ohio law. People have noted that assaulting the Secret Service is a federal felony, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the DOJ to move on that. OTOH, if “inducing panic” is a crime then Donald Trump should be on Death Row. He’s induced more panic in SJWs than anyone I’ve ever seen.
JPOST: A Colombian actress caused an uproar garnering accusations of anti-Semitism after insinuating on social media that her country’s nomination for best foreign film in the 2016 Academy Awards failed to win the Oscar because of the Jews of Hollywood.
According to local media, Paola Turbay enraged the Colombian Jewish community after tweeting an apparent reaction to Hungarian Holocaust-era film “Son of Saul” winning the Best Foreign Language Film over the five other nominees in the category, including the South American nation’s “Embrace of the Serpent.”
“That was f—ed up…Excuse me. Jewish,” the former Miss Colombia tweeted on February 29 in play on the similar-sounding Spanish words for the expletive slang term and the religious one.
Turbay later deleted the post and published a new message intending to clarify her previous statement.
“I’m sorry for the misunderstanding of my tweet. To the Jewish community, here is an explanation:” read the heading to a longer post in which she said that she had supposed the Holocaust concept was closer to the hearts of the Jewish members of the Academy than the Amazonian drama.
“As you know, a large part of the industry and especially those who vote for the Oscar awards, are Jewish. For this reason I supposed that a theme like Son of Saul would influence them more than that of Embrace of the Serpent. The two movies are both brilliant and deserving of the award, but there is something closer to [heart] for them in #SonOfSaul,” she wrote.
“LOOK: If it had been Colombian Jews the situation would be different. The connection to the Amazon and the Holocaust,” she wrote, adding “At the time of the vote emotion has a lot of weight.”
The well-known Colombian beauty ended her message, explaining that after speaking to some friends in the Jewish community she felt the need to explain that she had intended her tweet to be “a play on words, but not an offensive pun.”
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