Is This The Archetypal Alpha Male Body Language?

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau:

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A reader offers this photo of the Lion Trump as evidence of perfect alpha male body language.

Everything from the posture, to the stride, to the body language, to the insouciant look on his face screams alpha and oozes charisma. These fledgling beta male gamer types could learn volumes from this photo alone. Jeb too. But he’s a lost cause.

Jeb is useful as a lesson in what not to do. He’ll never let us down on that job.

As for Trump’s victory stride… yes, I’d have to agree that is about the most alpha male pose a man could strike. The open torso and Christ-like welcoming hands ready to embrace believers are the foundation that support the entire alpha edifice. Open body language is alpha because it makes one vulnerable to attack, which implies that the man intentionally opening his body is confident no one will dare attack him, or if he is attacked he will fend it off easily.

Women (and men) perceive this gregarious posture as the look of an alpha male, because it triggers ancient stirrings in the primal cores of our brains. We are a divinely inspired species, but the animal instinct is always there, lurking, to remind us of our earthly shackles.

FYI, open facial expressions evoke the opposite perception in people. Wide eyes, raised eyebrows and open mouth communicate beta maleness. Combining a closed facial expression with an open body language is the recipe for influencing people’s perceptions of you as the arch-alpha.

Take a look at this photo of Marco Roboto hugging – or trying to hug – his wife Jeanette.

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How many of the diseases of modernism can we see in just this one photo? He has fag-face and at the same time he has the face of a scheming jew. And who dresses like that?

The woman is completely repulsed by him but she also appears to be an anorexic and a bulimic, the facial thinness in conjunction with the nasal-labial lines being indications of the poor condition of her intestinal flora, which bring on those conditions and other “mental” issues. She won’t hug him but clutches the phone, which she may not be able to put down as the skin of her palm has possibly grown around it.

Note the star of david pattern near the hem of her dress.

The hair indicates depression. She is confused. What color should her hair be and how should it be styled? She can’t decide and won’t listen to advice. So she just lets it grow out, like sidewalk grass outside a derelict building.

Two very unhappy, confused modern people.

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The Effete Elite are aghast that Trump used (by proxy) the word “pussy” to insult TheCruzRuse. Meanwhile, Trump just won over every Reagan Democrat.

This is something the hermetically sealed, culturally isolated, demographically gated bubble boys of the beltways don’t get about Trump. These effete fags who don’t even lift clutch their pearls when Trump channels the spirit of his blood and soil White Warriors and speaks in the MASCULINE language of the Tribe Realtalk. Anything remotely masculine frightens shitlibs, you see, because masculinity, unlike femininity, is more closely associated with truth-telling. And masculine men remind your typical shitlib of his years spent in middle school with his underwear waistband hiked up to his nipples.

I love it. Trump is smart, charismatic, and in touch with the vast army of non-insider Whites who are FED UP with anti-White virtue signaling and the gayfagfruitcup feminization of White leftoids who, for now, control the media vertical and horizontal. The more pussy bombs the Don drops, the higher his polls go, and the squeakier Kevin Williamson’s cucksnark gets.

Would you rather have a vulgar President or a mincing, prissy, passive-aggressive, White-hating, mulatto fuccboi president? Rhetorical.

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What Happens In An Alexander Technique Lesson?

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

From the ABC:

‘Generally we start by just having a look at your general pattern of use, basically how you use yourself in everyday activities,’ says Robert Schubert, an Alexander Technique instructor.

‘If you’re hurting yourself in some even minimal way in those activities, [if] you do that for years you could end up in trouble.’

One common problem that occurs with sitting, Schubert notes, is tightening of the neck and back muscles.

‘You actually don’t need to do that to sit down, that’s just a habit you’ve developed.’

Alexander called these problems ‘misuses of ourselves’.

‘A lot of this back tightening goes on for years and years and years and then people get a sore back and they don’t know why.’

In an example Alexander lesson, Schubert asks me to think about letting my neck release as I sit down—it’s a simple instruction and it’s not hard to do, but how readily does it become habitual?

‘That depends on how much you practise,’ says Schubert.

Musicians and performing artists, Schubert says, make for good Alexander practitioners—they’re used to being aware of their body.

For the rest of us, it can be more challenging, says Schubert. ‘It can feel a little laborious for some people. That’s quite normal, while your body recalibrates along the lines of an improved movement.’

Schubert says that the difficulty with Alexander Technique is not the technique itself, it’s remembering to employ it.

Who is the Alexander Technique for?

Instructors reckon almost everyone can benefit from the Alexander Technique, not just sportspeople and performing artists.

Lucia Walker, a senior instructor, says her clients include a knitting group and a convent. ‘The sisters want help with how they look after themselves, both serving dinner and kneeling to pray and bowing.’

Another instructor, Kazimirs Krasovskis, has worked with belly dancers—which he says was lots of fun—but also people in the course of their everyday jobs. ‘There was a lady who was a funeral director, she was having problems carrying coffins down the stairs.’

Krasovskis himself uses the technique for his own gym sessions, and sees many people exercising in potentially harmful ways.

‘I was amazed at how much people misuse their bodies through straining to lift weights that are possibly too heavy for them.’

If he’s doing shoulder exercises by lifting dumb-bells, Krasovskis has learnt what his bad habits are. ‘I know that I can arch my back unnecessarily, so through knowing that that’s my habit I can do that exercise more efficiently.’

Rosslyn McLeod summarises the basis of the Alexander Technique as ‘use affects function’.

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Algerian Sex Attacker Shouted “Inshallah”–If Allah Wills It–as He Raped a 25-Year-Old German Student

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Corey Charlton, Daily Mail, February 10, 2016:

An Algerian man who almost killed his 25-year-old student victim shouted out ‘if Allah wills it’ in Arabic as he raped her in a darkened alley, a court has heard.

The man, identified only by his first name Rheda, is accused of following the student as she walked home from a nightclub at 5am in Hannover, Germany.

Afterwards, with his victim badly beaten, he is alleged to have climbed off her and asked her if she enjoyed it.

The shocking details were revealed at the trial of the 37-year-old asylum seeker from Algeria who has denied rape. Prosecutors say DNA evidence links him to the crime.

The young woman, identified only by her first name Lara, said it was the worst moment of her life when she was attacked.

She said: ‘He asked me in broken German if I had [the] time. Before I could reply he then grabbed me by the arm and pulled me down an alleyway.

‘He told me “I need sex”. I opened my mouth to scream but he put his hand over my mouth. I had a pepper spray, and I tried to spray it at him but he grabbed it off me, and used it on me instead.

‘Then he threw me onto the ground, and tried to pull off my trousers but he couldn’t do it. Then he started screaming at me to get undressed.’

She told the court she had tried to win time by begging him to leave her alone and hoped that someone would come past.

Nobody did, and when she tried to scream again he started beating her in the face and he sprayed the pepper spray on her face again.

He had banged her head on the ground repeatedly until she was almost unconscious, and she thought she was going to die.

She said: ‘He put his hand over my mouth and closed my nose, and I thought I was going to suffocate. I then indicated to him that I had given in, and would do what he wanted if he let me breathe.’

He then raped her and she said that throughout he was talking to himself, shouting ‘Inshallah’–which is Arabic for ‘if Allah wills it’.

She said: ‘Afterwards he asked me if it was good, and if I had enjoyed it.’

Her voice then broke as she added: ‘I never would have thought something like that could happen to me. I just couldn’t comprehend it. I thought I was going to die.’

She identified her alleged attacker in court. He denies rape.

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NYT: Coaching Stars to Avoid a ‘Racist Against Whites’ Moment

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times:

Concerns peaked after Charlotte Rampling, the British best actress nominee from “45 Years,” told a French radio station last month that talk of a boycott was “racist against whites.” Her publicity team, aghast, quickly went to work, and Ms. Rampling said that her words had been misinterpreted (even though that is what she had said, verbatim) and that “in an ideal world every performance will be given equal opportunities.” But for fellow nominees, she served as the most cautionary of examples: Don’t be like Charlotte. Or Julie Delpy, or Michael Caine, two other non-American actors who found themselves in hot water after weighing in. Ms. Delpy said Hollywood was easier on black people, and Mr. Caine said black actors ought to be patient. Ms. Delpy apologized for her comments; Mr. Caine did not.

“Personal publicists everywhere are preparing their clients for the appropriate thing to say,” said Dennis Rice, a marketing consultant and academy member who ran awards campaigns while working at Miramax and Disney. “I’d be surprised if the vast majority wouldn’t take the high road and say the politically correct thing.”

Steve Sailer writes:

It’s not that black celebrities are being advised to not say things that are “racist against whites,” it’s that white celebrities are being coached to not say that statements by blacks that are racist against whites are “racist against whites.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* The most interesting character/best role in most recent films is that of the villain. Hollywood hasn’t cast black actors as villains for the past 30+ years because racism…. or something. This “soft bigotry of avoiding stereotypes” has deprived countless black actors an opportunity to shine.

Irony is funny.

* Most of this flagellation of whites is being conducted by a certain segment of the white population itself which have assumed the role of being justice warriors and are out to police everyone else. By themselves blacks have little power and could be ignored. They could be told simply that everything is on a merit basis and that they’d have to perform in order to place rather than being lazy and just expecting to get things through the quota lottery. The SJW types have actually harmed black progress by having everything on some racial patronage-quota system. Instead of working harder blacks have gotten the idea that things are simply given out and they need to just line up for them, discouraging motivation. Groups create their own images and stereotypes by their actions. What we have here is one group-primarily whites- trying to artificially create a public image for another group-blacks- by portraying them in movies, television shows, commercials as being genius doctors, visionary scientists, hero cops, and so on, all in contradiction to everyday observed reality. Has any other group been the beneficiary of such a massive PR campaign?

* Speaking of raaaaacism, The Martian got to Redbox this week so I rented it and watched it last night. Good story, realistic special effects, Matt Damon was good, but a bit long at 2:20.

But what kind of spoiled it for me was the relentless PC casting: the Mission director was black, the head of the Probe team looked like a Hawaiian, and had a guy who looked like a Pakistani. Then there was a Hindu, and the commander of the mission was Jessica Chastain, a red head who looks like she is about 23 and weighs 95 pounds. Did I mention that there was another female on the mission, and a guy named Gonzalez? FFS, they had everybody but a Caitlyn Jenner and a babe in a burkha! No white guys with crew cuts and pocket protectors, no sireee.

* The only organization that is attempting to make things better for blacks is Dr. Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam. Every other organization has a vested and profitable interest in keeping the majority of the black population as dependent as possible.

* Women need room in their imaginations to respond to their own fears, anxieties and desires. They need room to imagine themselves with black men (even though they rarely marry them) and they need to imagine themselves as open-armed mothers of the world (brown immigrants welcome! especially with children, even if white women are determined to be career women who have someone else take care of their children).

When mean white men give them factual information, it’s difficult for them to use their fantasies as they need to. And that makes them upset. And betas give in.

And don’t forget that the struggles of women against patriarchy and the struggles of blacks against slavery are intertwined in America. Anti white means against patriarchy (men in control) and against slavery, which women imagine applies to themselves as well.

* I keep hoping that so-called minorities will get their wish, where the top-line often appears to be, “we want our own stuff, and YT can stay the hell out of it.”

Imagine a USA in one of these conditions:
1. 100% PoC
2. 100% YT

In which one are nuke plants melting down? Rivers choked with refuse and waste? Streets crumbling, water mains breaking, bridges falling down, and people starving in the street? In which one is every street corner a shooting gallery (until the ammo runs out, wherein reversion to spears takes place?)

Give every self-identifying group their own land. Put up high walls because they make for good neighbors.

Shoot every sumbitch who tries to circumvent said walls uninvited, and eject anyone who attempts to invite any of the other’s individuals to overstay but a brief (invited) visit.

I don’t much appreciate the rhetoric of hate. If you hate me, then stop using the political system to take my stuff. Create your own. If you can. If you can’t, then tough tiddlywinks.

I don’t need you. If you need me, then you’d better get used to being polite to me, or one day soon I’ll tell you to leave me alone and reinforce my preference physically if forced.

* I just saw Gone Girl on Netflix with my girlfriend and another couple. Tyler Perry played a lawyer, and my buddy’s wife said he was so great, and I had to ask why she thought he was so great. She said it was simply because she could understand what he was saying, unlike most black actors.

We degenerate the parameters for minorities. Black actors are proof Heinlein’s expression: it’s not how well the bear dances, but that it dances at all.

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Report: Anti-White Agenda Revealed at GitHub’s Diversity Team

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Breitbart: Online source code repository and team collaboration service GitHub has been under fire after an anti-white agenda was revealed within the company’s “Social Impact Team.”

According to Tech Insider’s reveal on GitHub’s current situation, CEO Chris Wanstrath is radically changing the company. The former flat structure that eliminated substantial hierarchy has been replaced with supervisors and middle managers, and the ability for employees to work remotely has been cut back in favour of mandatory office working environments. These changes have prompted many long-term employees to leave, with some reportedly being ousted if they cannot meet the new requirements.

GitHub’s Social Impact Team, which is “in charge of figuring out how to use the product to tackle social issues” has also faced heavy criticism. Headed by diversity consultant Nicole Sanchez, the team’s previous achievements include working with the White House to fit “low-income homes” with free Wi-Fi around the country, but the team is now focused on diversifying the company’s workforce.

“It is very hard to even interview people who are ‘white,’” claimed an anonymous GitHub employee speaking to Tech Insider. It’s a claim that seems shocking but should come as no surprise considering Sanchez’s previous outspoken statements on diversity.

In February 2015, Sanchez wrote an article for USA Today entitled “More white women does not equal tech diversity,” and during a diversity training talk Sanchez even stated that technology was “not work for white folks to lead” and that “some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women.”

Danilo Campos, the technical director at GitHub’s Social Impact Team, is also no stranger to controversial comments about race.

“Don’t think we’ll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon. So let’s limit their scope of damage,” wrote Campos in one tweet.

Diversifying the workplace is not uncommon in today’s technology landscape, with leading giants such as Twitter, Dropbox, and Yahoo engaging in a variety of diversity programmes, but GitHub seems to have taken the mantle for most racially controversial. Many users on social media, including regular users of GitHub, have expressed outrage.

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Jewish man arrested ‘after posting swastikas on doors’

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Telegraph: A family business dispute drove David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, who is Jewish, to make threatening phone calls to his mother, 80, and two other women, ages 87 and 78, a police source said.
Both the 87-year-old woman and a 78-year-old woman had anti-Semitic threats made to them over a month-long period and racist threats were left on a voicemail message, police said. Swastikas were also drawn on their apartment doors.
“He threatened to kill the other individual on the phone as well as her relatives,” said a police spokesman. “He said basically that all Jews should die and go to hell.”
Haddad, who was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime, also was accused of taping notes with anti-Semitic symbols including swastikas on five apartment doors and in the hallway of a building in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, US.
Swastikas were spray-painted on garage doors, some with the words “Die Jews”, which police believe was part of Haddad’s anti-Semitic spree.

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The Ultimate Minority Right

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* A very, very good article Steve. Of course, what you said about the US applies to all our countries now. What really adds insult to injury is that these globalists assume we’ll all be good little boys as they smash everything of ours and mock us while doing it. Straight, White men will be expected to give their oaths to a President Hillary Clinton as she mocks them from the White House? I’m expected to cheer because Justin Trudeau finally has a cabinet expressly chosen to exclude people like me? The indigenous peoples of Europe are supposed to cheer as they’re replaced and their women and children are raped on the street and in public swimming pools? Only people like Anne Applebaum or Bill Gates could demand will put up with all this. It only makes sense to them. To hell with all that.

* I find it odd that the professional left doesn’t realize that the Sanders/Trump appeal is a direct reaction to their (very successful) efforts to tribalize every element of the electorate other than whites.

Obviously there are some white elites who take a perverse pleasure in being subsumed by this coalition of the aggrieved, but that runs contrary to the instinct of self-preservation…I guess the only way to replenish their numbers is mau-mauing impressionable college students, hence the behavior we’re seeing at various campuses these last months.

* I suppose the elites pushing this sort of thing have supreme confidence in their as yet undemonstrated ability to ride the tiger. Perhaps they know something I don’t, but other recent examples of a despised ruling minority becoming a de facto political minority haven’t worked out too well – even for those who made a show of handing power over to the new political majority. History also teaches as a general rule that those new to power rarely exercise it with magnanimity.

* “Obviously there are some white elites who take a perverse pleasure in being subsumed by this coalition of the aggrieved, but that runs contrary to the instinct of self-preservation”

There is some gumbic truth to what you’re saying, but I think it’s wrong to make too much of ‘coalition of the aggrieved, fringes, or unhinges, etc.’

It is a sham coalition, it is only symbolically anti-white for most groups, and it is mostly dominated by Jews and white Libs.

Outwardly, it seems like this dark coalition is ganging up on whites. Rhetorically, it would seem that way. You see Arab, Hispanic, Asian, and Jewish ‘progressives’ chanting slogans at BLM rallies.

But in truth, these people don’t want to live in Detroit or move to some Negro city. They want to be with whites. Even if their PC side has been made to worship MLK and sympathize with blacks, they know the reality or come to know it when they live long live.

Hispanics may bitch about gringo but much prefer gringo over Negro. White-Hispanic mixing is very common. Same with yellows. Yellow girls may hold up some poster in support of BLM but they much prefer to live in white/Jewish parts of NY than in Detroit or Ferguson. And they might wanna marry white. And Jews have been gentrifying key cities are hectic rate. As for homos and trannies.. that’s when the whole thing turns into parody. I often see BLM and homo stuff combined at college towns, but homos are agents of globalist elites hellbent on gentrifying cities, i.e. drive blacks out.

So, the so-called coalition is loud but bogus.

Now, I’m not saying immigration is good for all whites. But white/Jewish elites are not being drowned or subsumed in some rising tide of color. If anything, most non-black minorities are useful against blacks. So, even though the elites are using non-black minorities against blacks, blacks are duped into thinking that they are forming some grand people of color coalition against the KKK.

Right, because all those Hindus and Chinese at Silicon Valley are siding with blacks against Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg.

And in the long run, nature wins out in the sexual realm. Too many Hispanic and Asian women marry white men even as they symbolically bitch about ‘white privilege’ because they’ve been brainwashed to do so at their fancy colleges.

Of course, not all whites win out. Working class whites do lose. But even many of them would prefer non-black minorities to black ones.

PS: maybe they can devise a form of genetic injection. According to Sailer’s review of THE DESCENDANTS, the big landowners of Hawaii are mostly white but have some trace Hawaiian blood. So, they count as Hawaiians and have blood claim on the land.

Maybe there is way to inject 1% of black/brown/yellow/Jewish/Arab DNA into all whites. That way, they will still be mostly white but have the ‘one drop’ to be counted as People of Color.

And they can claim to be victims of ‘white privilege’.

* If “too white” is a fair complaint, then “too Jewish” is as well.
If “too Jewish” is unfair and derogatory, then so is “too white.”

* Sanders seems to be getting traction due to his pretense to education debt forgiveness/free college, which would disproportionately benefit whites. Of course, benefits to NAMs is a central plank of the Democrats’ platform without which they can’t win, so it’s a given and need not be spoken of too loudly (although this may change post Sharpton Soul Food Summit). The underemployed college graduates/debt laden students consider it an act of noblesse oblige to steal bread from the mouths of doctors/small businessmen they’ve been led to believe are actually secretly hedge fund managers and distribute it to the brown hordes.

Conversely, the Trump phenomenon seems to be the case of one man appealing to the one constituency neither major party wants enough to be seen with even if it guarantees an electoral victory – viz., bad whites. Think about that – the Democrats would rather pander to literal criminals and their supporters (restoring voting rights, criminal justice “reform,” end mandatory minimums, #BLM, etc.) and illegal aliens than have bad whites as a part of their coalition, while Republicans would rather jettison pillars of the conservative movement for a maximum 40% of the Hispanic vote than have bad whites as part of their coalition. Law abiding, tax-paying, community-involved and patriotic people which are so derided in popular media that neither major party will sully itself to make an appeal to them.

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The View From Cyprus

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I am in Turkish Cyprus at the moment.

It is poorer than the Greek part of the island, but it has many, many more non-European immigrants, especially Black Africans and Pakistanis. Does any one know why?

The economy in the South depends on flogging coastal real estate to foreigners. Some of the developers write their advertisements in four languages, which, due to my nomadic lifestyle, I can read.

English – The best that Cyprus has to offer.
Russian – Wonderful opportunities.
Chinese – Specialistists in obtaining permanent residency and a European passport.
Arabic – We will get lifetime European residency for you.

There are some Chinese, Pakistanis and Afghans in the South, but not that many. The Afghans are easily recognisable by their propensity for spitting everywhere. The Eastern Europeans in the Immigration office in the South looked as if they has been terrorised in spite of the fact that, as EU nationals, they have a perfect right to be here. The non-Europeans seemed to receive a good deal more courtesy.

Despite Cyprus’ recent history, it is surprising how many people in the South are PC. Until 1974, the Greeks and Turks in Cyprus lived together. It didn’t work out well as the population of the South soared by 30% when, after a war, the Turks in the North kicked out all the Greeks.

The North s also a great deal less Islamic than I had expected. Few of the women wear headscarves. My wife and I have also been watching a Turkish fashion show that makes Jermeny Kyle or Jerry Springer look OK. It’s called Iste Benim Stilim. Google it and scream.

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The Return Of The Dreaded Stomach Flu

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

I came down with a killer flu Sunday night (which stunned me as I thought I had just gotten over one a week before). I was vomiting Monday and Tuesday, couldn’t even keep down water, so I was getting dehydrated (this happens with every stomach flu I get, I can’t drink much of anything for the first 30-48 hours without vomiting, causing dehydration). I can finally sit up and drink as much as I want, including a protein smoothie. Haven’t eaten this week. I expect my appetite will return in the next 24 hours.

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New Hampshire Primary Open Thread

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* “I think we should amend the Constitution to limit election campaigns to 6 weeks like they do in Canada.”

That’s fine for silly little countries pretending to govern themselves like Canada or France or Britain. America has to govern the world and take care of the political and military stability not only of our own time but for generations to come.

It’s one thing to make a game out of being a semi-autonomous territory with its own quirky rules and leaders. Countries with responsibilities — grown up countries — have to carefully vet and stress test potential presidents.

If Canada puts a Harper into office, it’s a joke at Davos and an annoyance for a few million nobodies whose livelihood or environment are spoiled and they’ll have to move or adjust. We’ll make a humorous episode of South Park and laugh. But if America elects another Dubya, the whole world in endangered. North Korea or Iran might light off WWIII. Millions more will certainly die. World wide economic crisis will scramble the hopes and dreams of billions permanently. Chinese dictators and European bureaucrats — the junior varsity — will have to try to take responsibility for world diplomacy.

It would be ugly. Be glad America takes elections seriously and doesn’t treat them like a timed hockey game. For America, this isn’t just a fun diversion where everybody goes home after satisfied because it doesn’t really matter who won the game.

* For years I’ve been hearing how the GOP has become such right-wing extremists, compared to the good old days. (When, of course, they were also called right-wing extremists.) The GOP was supposedly the party of Old White Guys clinging to outdated ideas.

And now, who is leading the Democratic race? A geriatric socialist (and not even a member of the Democratic party), who spent time in a Stalinist kibbutz, honeymooned in the USSR, and cozied up with Castro’s Cuba and the Sandinistas. And, as far as I know, never repudiated any of that. He thinks we have “too many” kinds of deodorant, and links that to child poverty. It’s the economic thinking of pot-smoking freshmen circa 1970.

If the US is far enough gone to elect that guy, we truly are doomed. But I don’t think we are. I think the Democrats are more screwed by a Sanders candidacy than the GOP is by a Trump candidacy.

* NPR was talking about how Bernie’s big weakness is that his supporters are almost all white.

* I quasi-predicted here in June 2015 an anti-immigration candidate getting into the primary and winning even before Trump entered:

The depressing thing is that every single one of the 15 quasi-serious presidential candidates, if they were in the House, would be on the left-most quarter of the GOP caucus, with Bush and Rubio the left most 2%.

Walker and Cruz are supposedly the best, but both supported amnesty is speeches to business groups. As Kaus recently uncovered, Cruz then had his spokesman outright lie about it. And every single one of the 15 is clearly to the left of Mitt Romney.

The field right now is so fractured there is a wide open opportunity for an anti-immigration candidate, who, far from being hard right on the issue, could run right to the middle of the House GOP stance, and collect the 20% of the vote needed to win the various “winner takes all” primaries.

Then in July 2015, this comment is looking pretty good, predicting after the first two polls came out putting him in front, that his lead would grow and that he’d dominate the debates:

Wow, Trump is the real deal on immigration, not a fake like Cruz and Walker:

I guess I was cynical enough to think he was a fake too, but there is no mistaking his all-in sincerity reading his twitter feed. The attacks on McCain are just plain delightful, and land with a hard thud, not snarky girl-slaps typical of twitter jokes.

He’s also #1 in the last two national GOP primary polls, 3 points ahead of Jeb in both of them.

He’s got a great and unique sense of self-parody: he likes his own basic persona, but has fun turning it up a few notches to an absurd exaggeration.

The press can call this humor “buffoonish” which seems to be their favorite word to describe him lately, but based on their college records Jeb, Rubio, and Walker seem to be near the bottom of the IQ range for presidential candidates in a long time, and are the real dullards inarticulately grasping at the establishment script. I’m really looking forward to the debates now, which I predict will be Trump-fests and push him 5 more points above Jeb.

* Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

* It’s interesting that Google News (https://news.google.com/news) is now “un-personing” Trump. Not long ago, he was in the top News Stories. Now his name doesn’t show up at all. But Flint is right up there with Bernie Sanders. (Are people really googling Flint that much?)

Also, if you just google “Donald Trump” Google presents a rather idiotic main image, as if he’s saying “F— you.” Bernie, naturally, looks rather nice.

Of course, without Steve, I probably would never have noticed these things on my own.

* America doesn’t want a pretty foam boy for President. Who knew?

* Hillary’s lead with blacks will only last until they realize Sanders is offering more FREE STUFF.

* BREAKING NEWS: With surprisingly strong second place finishes, this week’s real winners are Hillary Clinton, John Kasich, and Cam Newton.

* I’m listening to Sanders rant on in his victory speech right now, and everything he claims the GOP doesn’t believe in, Trump doesn’t believe in either. He would be unable to really attack on anything. Wall Street, Iraq War, Mortgage Meltdown ( Despite what Bernie thinks, although Wall Street benefited from it to some degree, it didn’t cause it ) and Bernie wants to declare war on the police and the greenhouse effect, err, global warming, err, climate change ( funny how an unassailable scientific theory that is a “fact” according to Sanders somehow changes it’s name every decade, poor old relativity and quantum mechanics, they haven’t change their names in 80-90 years! ). He also claims that GOP races reduce voter turnout, I’m pretty sure like him Trump has increased voter turnout since his 2nd place finish in Iowa got him more votes than any GOP winner ever got till 2016, but what do I know, I’m septuagenarian Jewish guy who moved from diverse NYC to staid, pale, boring 99 percent white bread Vermont 45 years ago.

* In the 2012 NH primary Ron Paul won 23% and Jon Hunstman, Jr., won 17%. Cue laugh track. Need I say more?

No, but I will.

The best result from tonight is that Rubio looks weak. He was the strong 3rd place finisher in Iowa, and he showed he couldn’t pull it off, or even come close to pulling it off, in NH.

Gov. Kasich appears to be getting almost exactly the same share of the vote that Gov. Huntsman, Jr., got in 2012. Do you know what Jon Huntsman, Jr., did after he finished 3rd in NH in 2012? He dropped out of the race.

Bush comes out of this the only establishment candidate besides Rubio with the organization and money to carry on. Rubio looks weak. The two can keep damaging each other while fighting for the establishment mantle through several more states.

The worst thing (within reason) that could have happened was Trump and Cruz clawing each other for the anti-RINO vote while Rubio continued consolidating RINO support. After tonight there’s a good chance that won’t happen, at least not until after Super Tuesday.

So the GOP has two establishment candidates left (Rubio and Bush) and two anti-establishment candidates left (Trump and Cruz), with the anti-establishment candidates in the much stronger position for the long-run, and the establishment candidates polling nationwide maybe 30-35%. If you’re fed up with the Bush/McConnell/Ryan Era GOP, that’s a pretty damn good place to be.

* Reporters have two functions: 1) to report the facts, and 2) to give us a morally sound and reassuring perspective. For example, if there is a disaster, they 1) report the number of deaths, and 2) emote about the victims and pray for recovery. So regarding the terrifying disaster that is Trump, they 1) mention the bare facts, 2) look everywhere they can for silver linings. It’s not their job to alter the very fabric of morality. Only external events and time can do that.

* Trump sounded relaxed and gracious. Sanders sounded like a crazy Bolshevik. He thinks Obama was not progressive enough! Obama’s progressivism turned the house and senate over to the Republicans. So where does Bernie see the political support for his even more extreme program?

Also, while I think I like Sanders as a person more than Hillary, that’s a low bar. I find it disgusting that he panders to the black criminal element, acting like the Dindu Nuffins truly didn’t do nothin’. No one is going to win a national election siding with black criminals against the police.

Here’s another thing that makes me dislike Sanders: he revealed in his interview with Ezra Klein that he knows that immigration harms the American working class. But apparently he heard that that kind of talk doesn’t sit well with today’s Democrats, so now he’s all about amnesty. Anyone who expresses concern about unemployment, growing poverty rates, and income inequality without connecting it to immigration is lying to his audience.

I listened to Hillary’s concession screech. Is she capable of speaking in a modulated tone that doesn’t sound enraged? Poor Bill in his heyday, returning home to this harridan after an hour spent with the dulcet-voiced Gennifer Flowers.

* Trump’s speech, as usual, wasn’t canned and it was blessedly short. Sanders droned on and on with what I can only assume is mostly his standard stump speech. He still doesn’t seem to believe he will win. Still playing patty cake with HRC while she tries to rip his lungs out.

I still find it funny that both Bern man and Mrs. Clinton are urging for change. What was wrong with the seven years of hope and change we had under Pres. Obama?

* I agree that his mention of his older brother, whom he credits for his avoiding alcohol and drugs (a value he has apparently instilled in his children), was touching and apparently heartfelt and genuine. I take it he and his brother had a real affection toward each other. But I had to laugh when he started off by crediting his lovely wife Melania by saying she encouraged him to run for President and adding that Melania said “of course, I hope you realize that, if you run, you’re going to win and be President.” Melania was standing right next to him, and the expression on her face said clearly “I don’t remember saying that. In fact, I didn’t say that at all. You’re making that up.” It was a harmless lie, but it was obvious to me that Trump was making it up on the spot. I broke out laughing. He is such a charming scoundrel that you are forced to like him. He reminds me of Edwin Edwards in that way.

* Not just Alabama but the Gulf Coast. Trump has held three large rallies within an hour of where I live. Mobile, Pensacola, Biloxi. It is interesting and surprising that he has targeted this area because it usually gets ignored in Presidential elections. Maybe he knew people would show up and the crowds would look good on tv? People here do like a party and a spectacle. The Gulf Coast is also less evangelical than the rest of the South, so maybe he figured he would have stronger support here. In any case, footage of the 30,000 person crowd at the Mobile rally back in August surely gave him some momentum.

* You will notice, that nearly every single spouse is visibly, visibly on the campaign trail front and center (in both parties). Visibly present front and center. Kasich’s wife, for example, participated in a special fluffy background report on her as first lady of Ohio and being a fitness fanatic.

Nearly every candidates’ spouse is present, save for Columba. Where. Is. Columba? We see Barbara and W., but no Columba. Why is this?

Nearly. Every. Single. Candidate. Spouse. Is. Present on the trail.

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