January 5, 2016 British lawmakers will soon debate whether to ban Donald Trump from the U.K. Luke Ford No sacred cows.

British lawmakers will soon debate whether to ban Donald Trump from the U.K.

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

I can’t wait for Donald Trump to be elected president so he can tell these pompous twits to get lost and to pay for their own defense. They’ve been sucking on the American tit for too long. Grow up mates! Time for America to leave NATO.

Washington Post:

In an unusually disdainful statement, London’s Metropolitan Police said, “Mr. Trump could not be more wrong.”

London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the right-wing Conservative Party who is tipped by some to be the next British leader, also responded: “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron described Trump’s comments as “divisive, stupid and wrong.”

But the petition to ban Trump from entering Britain could go beyond words. The British Home Office really does reserve the right to refuse entry to foreigners coming to the country to speak under the unacceptable behaviors or extremism exclusion policy.

Anti-Muslim American speakers such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been blocked from entering the country by these rules before, as have extremist Islamic preachers and others whose presence the home secretary has decided would “not be conducive to the public good.”

Some prominent politicians, including Jack Dromey, home affairs spokesman of the opposition Labour Party, and Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, have backed the proposed Trump ban.

To an American reader, banning someone from entering the country because of words they’ve uttered may seem extreme, but Britain and much of Europe have a very different attitude toward free speech. There has been some debate in the country as to whether to ban the Islamic State’s signature flag, for example. In theory, at least, anti-Muslim sentiment is dealt with just as seriously.

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Aboriginal Violence, Aboriginal Censorship

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

When I was growing up at Avondale College, if an abo gave you a hard time, you took him and his family on a lengthy walkabout and explained to him that the white man now ruled the land. If that didn’t work, we made him listen to five hours of my dad’s lectures on righteousness by faith. That always sorted them out.

A report from down under:

It took four long years, but during the second half of 2012 we started seeing the good results of our awareness-raising campaign. In 2009 Goomblar Wylo decided to tell the truth about Australian Aborigines, for the DreamRaiser Trilogy. His honesty and courage served as an example and inspiration to other brave Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, who have stepped forward to repeat, confirm and expand on the truth as told by him, about the extent of damage done by Aboriginal hatred and violence, and political correctness gone mad. Recommended articles:

Donald Richardson and Vesna Tenodi: Aboriginal Harassment of International Artists – Open letter to Australian and Polish authorities

Elizabeth Farrelly: Protecting a cultural right to abuse

Donald Richardson and Vesna Tenodi: Aboriginal Violence against Australian Artists

Stephanie Jarrett: Brutal traditions of Aboriginal culture have no place in society today

Kerryn Pholi: Silencing Dissent Inside the Aboriginal Industry

Keith Windshuttle: Sacred Traditions Invented Yesterday

Kerryn Pholi – a former “Professional Aborigine” talks about reverse racism

Alison Anderson: My people must grow up

Bess Price: Cry from the heart

Following the Aboriginal attacks on the Prime Minister on Australia Day 2012, we have received a great number of enquiries about Aboriginal violence in general and their bad behaviour in the Blue Mountains in particular.

We cannot respond to each individual enquiry, but here is a link to a very informative website:

Australian Database of Indigenous Violence

For a wide range of current affairs and indigenous issues, discussed in the context of current political correctness which is paralysing Australian society, visit:

Quadrant Online – the leading general intellectual journal of ideas

Our case and harassment of ModroGorje artists belong to an entirely new level of violence, which has been going on for quite some time, but has stayed under the radar and was allowed to continue unreported.

We have achieved a great outcome for all Australian artists. After years and decades of being lied to, the Australian public has become aware that there is no copyright of any ancient imagery – or even more recent art, 70 years after the artist’s death. There is no copyright on styles and designs, there is no ownership of ideas, and nobody needs Aboriginal permission to create art and sell their own work.

The public has now been made aware that many forms of violence against non-Aboriginal artists and ‘disobedient’ writers and free-thinkers are legally and morally unfounded.

There is a growing number of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians striving to change the current reality of bad attitudes, violent behaviour and self-destructive Aboriginal conduct.

As a result, a database is now being compiled, with details of specific cases of violence against intellectuals, artists, writers, journalists, and small business owners in Australia, to be available soon.

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Race Takes Center Stage In American Politics

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Eduardo Porter writes for the New York Times:

Race, of course, has shaped political choices for a long time. The Republican takeover of the South is understood by scholars as a reaction to whites’ sense of betrayal after the Democratic push for desegregation under President Lyndon Johnson.

Racial animosity has long helped foster a unique mistrust of government among white Americans. Nonwhite voters mostly like what the government does. But many white Americans, researchers have found, would rather not have a robust government if it largely seems to serve people who do not look like them.

Americans owe their unusually minimalist state in large measure to racial mistrust. As the economists Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser put it in an important paper, European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the United States mainly because of American racial heterogeneity. “Racial animosity in the U.S. makes redistribution to the poor, who are disproportionately black, unappealing to many voters,” they wrote.

The eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson described two decades ago how race and economics collided. In the United States, he wrote, white taxpayers have opposed welfare because they see themselves “as being forced, through taxes, to pay for stuff for blacks that many of them could not afford for their own families.”

Scholars have found evidence for these attitudes all over the place.

For instance, Julian Betts of the University of California, San Diego and Robert Fairlie of the University of California,Santa Cruz found that for every four immigrants entering public high schools, one native student switched to a private school.

Daniel Hungerman from the University of Notre Dame found that all-white congregations became less charitable as the share of black residents in the community rose.

Perhaps because they have relied more on government programs and protections, members of minority groups have decidedly different beliefs about supporting social solidarity. Another study published by the Pew center in November found that 62 percent of white Americans would like the government to be smaller and provide fewer services. Only 32 percent of blacks and 26 percent of Hispanics agreed.

Notably, minorities in the United States have never held much power. They are unlikely to feel that political influence to direct and constrain what government does is slipping away.

The rich democracies of the West are living through strange times. In Europe, voters are increasingly drawn to xenophobic politics, driven, according to the former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer, by fear “based on the instinctive realization that the ‘white man’s world’ — a lived reality assumed by its beneficiaries as a matter of course — is in terminal decline.”

Right-wing parties, Mr. Fischer added, are replacing the notion of a nation built on a shared commitment to a common constitutional and legal order with an ethnic definition of nationhood, derived from common descent and religion. White Europeans, in other words, are circling the wagons.

A few years ago it looked as if the United States — long more tolerant of immigration, with a more fluid sense of national identity that readily allowed for hyphenation — could avoid this turn.

But judging by this year’s political debate, held against the background of improving but still insufficient prosperity, Americans are moving in the same direction. Racial identity and its attendant hostilities appear to be jumping from their longstanding place in the background of American politics to the very center of the stage.

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What is with these midwestern women?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Breitbart: TEL AVIV – A Michigan woman posted a video on YouTube defending Palestinian stabbing attacks against Jews and compared Jews to animals.

In the Arabic-language video (watch it here) translated by MEMRI and titled “Is stabbing Jews haram [forbidden]?”, pro-Palestinian activist Lina Allan blasts Muslims who say that stabbing is “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law, and tells such Muslims to “go back to watching Turkish soap operas.”

“I support any decision made by the Palestinian people in order to regain its rights and its land,” said Lina Allan in reference to the act of stabbing Jews.

Throughout the video, Allan does not use the word “Israelis” in her description of the stabbing attacks, choosing instead to use the word “Jews.”

“Some people have commented on the Palestinians’ stabbing of Jews by saying that it is haram, that it is prohibited,” Allan said in the video.

“Who are you to say what is halal [permissible] and what is haram,” she asked critics of stabbing attacks. “Sadly, there are many people in the Arab world who think that just because their mother and father are Muslim, they themselves automatically became muftis, and are allowed to say what is halal and what is haram — according to their whims and personal desires, of course.”

“If they like smoking, they pronounce cigarettes halal; and if they hate cigarettes, they pronounce them haram,” she said.

She compares those who believe stabbings are prohibited under Islam to defenders of “animal rights – not human rights, but at best, animal rights.”

“Let me tell you, even animals would not object to this if they could talk,” she continues.

“Nobody can feel the suffering of the Palestinian people but the Palestinians living in Palestine,” Allan admonishes fellow Muslims. “I wish that you would stop interfering. Spare us your views, and go back to watching Turkish soap operas. It would be better if you didn’t talk about something you don’t understand.”

According to MEMRI, Allan represented the State Department’s US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) at the Jameed Festival in Jordan, a food and culture event honoring rural women.

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What Are The Causes Of Insecurity?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Dr. Gerald Stein writes:

Insecurity is in the nature of being human. It is a commonplace, even if most people make a serious effort to disguise it. Too many things to know, too many to learn, too many rejections — most everyone has had significant experience of the things that undermine confidence. But, what makes for more than the usual amount of insecurity? What contributes to some people becoming “insecure?” Here are a few of its causes:

Temperament: Little human personalities can be different from the moment of birth. Just as not all children have the same color eyes or hair, neither do they have the same temperament. Pre-school kids have distinctive and lasting characteristics on such dimensions as being reactive vs. calm, tending to approach or avoid new situations, and being introverted or extroverted. While not guaranteeing fractured confidence as an adult, inborn qualities can make a contribution to it.
Overly Critical Parenting: Security can be undermined by parents who are too critical, neglectful, or frankly abusive. Sometimes neglect is unavoidable, as it tends to be in families where there are lots of children or the parents are working long hours outside of the home to put food on the table. But sometimes the insecurity develops because of something more subtle. If you are born to extroverted parents and you are introverted (while your siblings are more like your folks), you may feel like an odd-duck, not quite fitting in. If your dad was hoping for an athlete and you are an artist, the same sense of parental disappointment might be hard to miss.
Bullying: Kids can be targeted by the classmates for all sorts of reasons including the way they look, where they live, how they dress; and racial, religious, or ethnic differences. Gender matters too, especially if you are the sole female in a physics class with a wise-guy classmate who makes fun of you and a teacher who hasn’t the capability to stop it, as I witnessed back in high school.
Body Image: In a society filled with spectacularly beautiful advertising images, it is difficult to be plain; and worse yet, unattractive in any way. Too tall, too skinny, too fat — God help you. Too much acne, bad hair, a lack of finely-tuned motor coordination, same problem. Some of us continue to see ourselves in terms of that early self and struggle with the sense of insecurity produced back then.
Learning Problems: This can take the form of a learning disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or even being average in a school filled with high achievers.
Multiple Changes of Residence: Being the new kid is not usually fun, especially for introverted young people who struggle with fitting in and finding friends. Insecurity can follow.
Parental Overprotection: When parents prevent their children from doing things that are simply a part of growing up, they can communicate to the child that he isn’t up to the task. Moreover, they rob the young one of the chance to grow from experience, learn what he needs to know in the social sphere, and become more confident. He may also be at risk of being seen as “different” by his peers, because he is the kid who “isn’t allowed” to do things most other parents freely permit.

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NYT: Coordinated Attacks on Women in Cologne Were Unprecedented, Germany Says

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times:

BERLIN — German authorities said on Tuesday that coordinated attacks in which young women were sexually harassed and robbed by hundreds of young men on New Year’s Eve in the western city of Cologne were unprecedented in scale and nature.

The assault, which went largely unreported for days, set off a national outcry after the Cologne police described the attackers as young men “who appeared to have a North African or Arabic” background, based on testimony from victims and witnesses. More than 90 people have filed legal complaints, the police said on Tuesday.

The police in Hamburg also said that 10 women had reported being sexually assaulted and robbed in a similar fashion on the same night, and they urged witnesses to come forward.

Germany took in more than one million migrants last year, and with the country struggling to deal with the political, social and wider consequences of the influx, the delayed public response has led to concerns that the authorities were playing down the seriousness of the assault to prevent it from becoming a point of contention in the broader debate.

The assault took place late on Thursday on the vast public square in front of the city’s main train station, a central transit point for anyone coming or going from a fireworks display over the Rhine and the bars and nightclubs in the heart of the city, in the shadow of its landmark cathedral.

Heiko Maas, Germany’s justice minister, warned on Tuesday against linking the assaults to the influx of refugees, saying that the ethnicity of the perpetrators was irrelevant.

“The rule of the law does not look at where someone comes from but what they did,” Mr. Maas told reporters in Berlin. “We will investigate what circles the perpetrators may have come from.”

The Cologne police say they believe several hundred men, ages 15 to 35, were involved in the violence that began in the early hours of the New Year, after the square was cleared because men had been throwing firecrackers into the crowd.

Wolfgang Albers, Cologne’s chief of police, said the assaults had taken place in the chaos that followed, as the square was emptied. The men appeared to have broken into smaller groups, the police said, with each one encircling a woman; while some would grope the victim, others would steal her wallet or cellphone.

One victim reported that she had been raped, the police said.

Henriette Reker, Cologne’s mayor, called a crisis meeting on Tuesday to address the issue. Ms. Reker, who was stabbed during a campaign event in October by an attacker who opposed her welcoming attitude toward migrants, called the assault “absolutely intolerable” and pledged her support for the authorities’ investigation.

The city holds a large festival every year before Easter, when thousands of costumed revelers throng the streets to celebrate with parades and parties, and Ms. Reker echoed the concerns of many about safety during the Carnival season.

In an effort to prevent further violence, Ms. Reker said that city officials would begin working on measures to help young women protect themselves and to explain the city’s attitudes and norms to its many newcomers.

“We will explain our Carnival much better to people who come from other cultures,” she said, “so there won’t be any confusion about what constitutes celebratory behavior in Cologne, which has nothing to do with a sexual frankness.”

Cologne, with roughly one million inhabitants, is among Germany’s most ethnically diverse cities, and it took in more than 10,000 refugees last year, many of them young men from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The city authorities said they would increase security after the assaults, as they continued to search for suspects.

The euphoria that accompanied the first wave of arrivals in Germany this summer has since given way to growing unease about the difficulty of integrating hundreds of thousands of people of a different religion and who were raised in a different culture.

Far-right and anti-immigrant groups in Germany, and others who oppose the influx, swiftly seized on the episode, saying it demonstrated the dangers associated with accepting huge numbers of migrants.

Lutz Bachmann, head of the anti-immigrant Pegida movement, accused German leaders on Twitter of complicity in the assault. In a post that named Ms. Merkel; her deputy, Sigmar Gabriel; and other politicians, Mr. Bachmann said, “You are all responsible for the abuse in Cologne!”

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Jonah Goldberg: It’s time to put the term ‘neocon’ out to pasture

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

You know a term is a dirty word when its proponents want it put out to pasture.

Jonah Goldberg is a neo-con. By no means, is he conservative. Neo-cons were behind the disastrous Afghan and Iraq invasions of 2002 and 2003 respectively.

During the 1980s, “liberal” became a dirty word, so Americans left of center embraced the term “progressive” instead.

During the 1970s and 1980s, neo-cons took over the conservative movement, moving it left. Neo-cons now dominate the Republican party.

As Burt Blumert put it: “Neocons, as ex-Trotskyites, are bad enough, but those who follow the pro-pagan Leo Strauss are deadly. He advocated the Big Lie. Forgive me for all the gory details, but these people – with their other leaders like Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and the help of the CIA – perverted the American right into loving the welfare-warfare state.”

What does it mean to be conservative? To be against equality. Conservatives are against equality and against nation building. Neo-cons are for equality and for imposing democracy and western values at the point of a gun.

Most Jews are not neo-conservatives. Neo-cons account for a tiny proportion of Jews but they are immensely influential due to their money, brains, energy and cohesion. It is much easier to get a job as a public intellectual if you are a neo-con than if you are a conservative like Paul Gottfriend.

Gottfriend is particularly biting about Jonah Goldberg and other Fox News neo-cons.

Jonah Goldberg writes:

In interviews and on the stump, Sen. Ted Cruz likes to attack President Obama, Hillary Clinton and “some of the more aggressive Washington neocons” for their support of regime change in the Middle East.
Every time we topple a dictator, Cruz argues, we end up helping terrorists or extremists.
He has a point. But what interests me is his use of the word neocon. What does he really mean?
Some see dark intentions. “He knows that the term in the usual far-left and far-right parlance means warmonger, if not warmongering Jewish advisers, so it is not something he should’ve done,” former Bush advisor Elliott Abrams told National Review. Another former Bush advisor calls the term “a dog whistle.”
I think that’s all a bit overblown. Cruz is just trying to criticize his opponent Marco Rubio, who supported regime change in Libya.
But Abrams is right – and Cruz surely knows – that “neocon” has become code for suspiciously Hebraic super-hawk. That’s absurd and absurdly reductive. So maybe it’s time we retired the term, which is now a catchall for “things I don’t like.”
At first, neocons weren’t particularly associated with foreign policy. They were intellectuals disillusioned by the folly of the Great Society. As Irving Kristol famously put it, a “neoconservative is a liberal who was mugged by reality.” The Public Interest, the first neoconservative publication, co-edited by Kristol, was a wonkish domestic policy journal.
Kristol later argued that neoconservatism was not an ideology but a “persuasion.” William F. Buckley, the avatar of supposedly authentic traditional conservatism, agreed. The neocons, he explained, brought the new language of sociology to an intellectual tradition that had been grounded more in Aristotelian thinking.
The neocon belief in democracy promotion grew out of disgust with Richard Nixon’s détente and Jimmy Carter’s fecklessness, but hardly amounted to knee-jerk interventionism. When Jeane Kirkpatrick articulated a theory of neoconservative foreign policy in Commentary magazine in 1979, she cautioned that it was unwise to demand rapid libertalization in autocratic countries, and that gradual change was a more realistic goal than immediate transformation.

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Cumberland County HIV positive black man ordered to trial on new charges of raping child, airing it on the internet

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

REPORT: It took only a few minutes Monday for a district judge to order William C. Byers Augusta to stand trial in Cumberland County Court on new charges linked to the rape of a 6-year-old boy that was aired over the internet.

The child rape and conspiracy counts were the third set of offenses police filed against the North Middleton Township man, who is accused of acting with an HIV-positive Harrisburg man, 61-year-old Ira Task, in orchestrating and broadcasting the assaults.

Public Defender John Shugars, who represents the 19-year-old Byers Augusta, stipulated with Assistant District Attorney Nathan Boob that an affidavit of probable cause listing the accusations against Byers Augusta correctly outlines the testimony the alleged victim would present if called to the witness stand.

That stipulation spared the child from appearing before Fegley, Shugars noted. He said both sides agreed to allow Fegley to determine whether to send the new charges on to county court based only on the information in the affidavit, although he stressed that this client wasn’t admitting guilt.

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Does America need people named Artyom Gasparyan? Asking for a friend.

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

High IQ people are less likely to commit crimes because they have a clearer picture of the future and more capacity for abstract thought (necessary for empathy). But when they do go on a rampage, they are more dangerous than dummies.

Los Angeles Times: For days, dozens of Los Angeles police detectives worked around the clock to track down a man suspected in a monthlong series of carjackings, robberies and shootings.

The crimes stretched across Los Angeles County, from a shooting in Burbank that left two people wounded to a dramatic police chase after a carjacking in Carson on New Year’s Day. At least one man had been killed, a 37-year-old fatally shot in Panorama City.

Investigators believed the suspect, Artyom Gasparyan, was using stolen license plates to throw them off his trail. The Los Angeles Police Department put its elite Robbery-Homicide detectives on the case and deployed hundreds of other officers to find the suspect.

Authorities say the case finally broke Monday afternoon when undercover officers tracked Gasparyan to a car repair shop in the San Fernando Valley. At some point, police said, the 32-year-old noticed the officers, jumped in his silver Volkswagen and sped off.

Gasparyan was ultimately shot and critically wounded by police on the 5 Freeway in Sun Valley, where he crashed into another car while driving the wrong way near the Glenoaks Boulevard exit…

After Gasparyan was loaded into an ambulance, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck made an impromptu stop at the scene. Gasparyan, the chief said, was a “very, very dangerous individual.”

Police went public with their search for Gasparyan on Saturday, describing him as an armed and dangerous man wanted in a series of crimes that began in northeast Los Angeles on Dec. 6.

Soon after the LAPD’s announcement, Burbank police said Gasparyan was suspected in a Dec. 9 shooting in the 1700 block of North Catalina street, where a man was shot and wounded outside his home. A gardener working down the street was also shot in the foot as the suspect fled, the man’s co-worker told the Burbank Leader.

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Boston Globe: Taking stock of the presidential race

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer quotes this op/ed:

Donald Trump: There have been plenty of hand-wringing stories seeking to explain Trump’s rise. Is it wall-to-wall press coverage? Social media? The key to understanding the contest for the Republican nomination is immigration. Once you have the key, you can unlock all the mysteries of the race. The Republican Party started out encouraging candidates to support comprehensive immigration reform, a massive error in political judgment. Trump went in the opposite direction, and has been rewarded with a commanding lead. Now Trump is threatening to resurrect Bill Clinton’s checkered history with women as a way to answer Hillary Clinton’s gender attacks. There’s a reason why Apollo Creed’s trainer didn’t want to fight a southpaw like Rocky. Unorthodox opponents are unpredictable and hard to beat.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio: In the battle for second place, the mainstream money is betting that Rubio will emerge as Trump’s main challenger. But remember, immigration is the key to understanding the Republican race. Rubio’s greatest vulnerability isn’t missed votes or his messy personal finances. The reason Cruz is pulling away from Rubio is that voters have sorted out who was on which side during the ill-fated battle over the Gang of 8 immigration bill, which critics derided as amnesty. Despite Rubio’s attempt to muddy the waters, he voted for the bill and Cruz voted against it. And as the poet said, that has made all the difference.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* In all seriousness, for me this is where Occam and Hanlon cross razors.

Occam says globalist-pandering politicians would run rough-shod over such obvious and overwhelming public opinion at great risk to their personal careers only if there was some hidden cabal with both carrot (money) and stick (incriminating evidence of sexual deviancy) to prod these politicians to do their globalist bidding.

Hanlon says, politicians are idiots that are just parroting the stuff all the “cool kids” in their social circle say to each other as an in-group status display.

I suppose they don’t have to be mutually exclusive, but sheesh, it takes a total outsider and semi self-made billionaire to run on and win the presidency with an anti-immigration message?? No one else thought of that before Trump? I reckon Occam would say any traditional politician that may have been clean enough to pull off what Trump has is never able to make it out of the minor leagues in the first place.

* It only means they never foresaw a Trump, an anti-immigration outsider, coming along to muck things up. They thought they’d be able to sell amnesty to a shrinking Republican base, and Rubio was right in line with the future they envisioned.

* Money.

Problem is, when you can’t finance your own campaign out of your own pocket you have to rely on Wall Street money men and billionaires who want amnesty and open borders. I might add embrace the Neo-con view of the world as well. Trump and Paul are about the only ones who don’t want to start WWIII with Russia. The rest want it.

The sad fact is, all pols who lack the $$$ are constrained as to what they can say and support.

Trump can say the things he doesn’t because he isn’t owned by the Chambers of Commerce, Club for Growth or some pro-globalist billionaire as the rest of the GOP candidates are.

This money issue is also why the GOP has turned against the American people and by extension Trump. They don’t represent the people but a select elite that is willing to sacrifice the U.S. in the name of profit and power.

However this breaking of the social-political contract by the political establishment is also very dangerous. Outside of Pat Caddell I know of no one who wants to bring this up. Caddell has admitted the establishment is playing with dynamite by blowing off the public.

Once people realize they have no say so either politically or legally. Well as they say “all bets are off”. Won’t take much to set it off.

* It probably had something to do with his sponsors like that South Florida used car dealer and potential sponsors like Adelson. Rubio is genial but not very bright and doesn’t seem to want to work too hard to make a living. On top of that he has a lot of debt. So he was probably more eager to do what the sponsors wanted.

* Destruction of the [white, Christian, cis-male-or-whatever-nonsense] country is, as we all know, a feature, not a bug. And the fate of the Republican party is, of course, a non-issue. I think the elites simply 1) underestimated the goy rubes’ intelligence, and 2) overestimated their own.

* If Rubio was an Arizona politician, maybe he would have sensed which way the wind is blowing better. But Miami is a disaster for would-be Presidents like Jeb. Miami is the best possible version of a Hispanicized America (and it’s still pretty awful).

* You say that but both AZ Senators voted for Gang of Eight. McCain is looking at being primaried and Flake’s future is dim.

* So this guy has come around to the Kaus/Coulter/Sailer theory about the success of Trump. What are the other current theories?

Alt Theory 1: Trump succeeds because of the Left’s PC jihad

Alt Theory 2: Scott Adams’s view that Trump is a “master persuader”.

Maybe all three theories apply. The way Tom Tancredo’s candidacy fizzled years ago suggests that maybe it’s not entirely about immigration.

* Tancredo didn’t succeed because he confirmed that immigration is a low-status issue for losers. Trump succeeds because he makes it a totally classy issue for winners.

Rubio isn’t just a political athlete who adopts views that people whisper in his ear. He’s a true believer. His campaign tagline is “New American Century.” He really does believe the invade the world/invite the world ideology. He supports more surveillance, more wars, more immigration. Rubio is smart enough to know where the base is, that’s why he ran against amnesty in the senate primary. But he’s a true believer in new american century/cannon fodder/american dream/proposition nation version of America. That’s who he is. It’s no accident that the “greatest generation” are some of his biggest fans.

* Rubio’s wife’s hot.
I (and Donald Trump) do think a disproportionate number of Latinas are hot, particularly the South American ones. Trump was on with Howard Stern a couple years ago and Stern brought up some celebrity female known for her looks (forget whom) . Trump was saying how this particular female celebrity was at most a 7. He then said if you look at beauty pageants in Venezuela and Colombia, all the women are 10′s.

* I seem to recall that Pat Buchanan was making a lot of enemies using that message long before Trump came along. In fact, I strongly suspect that Pat Buchanan is a behind-the-scenes adviser to Trump on immigration and foreign policy. Of course, Buchanan lacked both the large fortune and the stature of Donald Trump. As I noted before re Trump and Rand Paul in the foreign policy area, Paul may have the better message, but Trump is clearly the better messenger when it comes to a non-interventionist foreign policy. Sort of like Nixon goes to China, where nobody could question Nixon’s anti-Communist credentials. If Trump stays true to his often repeated and consistent foreign policy positions when and if he becomes President, who could possibly question his manliness and toughness? That, imo, is why he is a much better messenger than Rand Paul.

MORE COMMENTS:

* “So Rubio’s foreign policy and national security strategy is to invade Middle Eastern countries, create power vacuums for terrorist organizations, allow their people to come to America unvetted, give them legal status and citizenship, then impose a massive surveillance state to monitor the problem,” Alice Stewart, a national spokeswoman for Cruz, said in a statement to the Guardian.

“I’m trying to figure out if it is more incoherent than dangerous or vice versa.”

* “Our team” is supposed to spend our time following Trump, but the real bellwether is Ted Cruz. He’s a very smart guy and a very calculating guy. Most of the GOP candidates are dumb actors owned by billionaires. Cruz is smart and he’s thinking he will be the ABT (Anybody But Trump) option for the party men as long as he remains just inside where Trump is operating.

If Cruz is playing the old paleo card that suggests he thinks it is safe to do so while not upsetting the party men too much. It’s as if the tide went out in 1992 and is just starting to come back in all these years later. No one remembers what was once called normal and they are furiously baling as the tide relentlessly comes in.

* Cruz has been against both invade and invite since before Trump showed up. Temperamentally he’s the exact opposite of Trump: a brainy nerd who bores and annoys people when he talks.

* There is some overlap in the sanity Venn diagram between Trump, Cruz, and Paul, though it’s tough to figure out what Cruz actually believes. In any case, more of this from his campaign is welcome.

* You posted recently about how dumb Rubio is compared to Schumer. Cruz is a lot smarter than Rubio. Rubio seems like a friendly, good natured guy, but not very bright.

* Prior to Trump, I looked Cruz, didn’t like what I saw which was another Obama – a junior senator with no real track record but with the ego of the Hindenburg. Much like Rubio and Paul.

Three stooges who have more in common with each other than they care to note.

His vote for TPP and support of increasing H1-B’s 5x shows he’s no Paleo-con or even pro American. He’s a tool for Goldman Sachs.

Right now all Cruz is doing copying Trump’s positions after he takes all the heat for them. It makes him look like a jackal with no real base of his own outside of the evangelicals and dominionists that his father has courted for him

And he’s dead wrong if he thinks most Trump supporters would ever support a evangelical nut job like him. He’s a fool if he thinks Jeb and the RNC will give him the nomination. Won’t happen. That’s been promised to Jeb, not McConnell’s foot stool.

* Paul is very WYSIWYG, a sincere libertarian and anti-neocon. Trump is a wild card – is his campaign politics or entertainment, how many of his promises would he try to keep, does he even know that himself at this point? Cruz is somewhere in between.

* Cruz comes across to me as a cynical weasel. I heard an interview with him recently, and he did the whole congenial colleague schtick about Rubio. What he said was something like: “I like Marco. He’s my friend. But he is lying about my record.”. How many normal people could say of a man who was lying about us to gain advantage, that: I like him. He is my friend.

A normal, sane person would be offended and would dislike someone who told lies about him. A lot of these guys are just sociopaths. They have no real respect for the truth.

* Cruz is dangerously smart. He is a doner’s pet but knows what we want to hear.

People in high places read our esteemed host.

* Invade/Invite is coldly rational thinking if you’re a post national globalist. Attack any cohesive group identity relentlessly. Strong group identity provides protection and protection is for the innermost Inner Party only.

Everybody outside of the Inner Party gets unprotection. Not protection. This treatment ranges from status marker labeling {slurs, insults, mockery} to mass murder.

And remember the goalposts are always moving in this vicious status game.

Someday if you only have Earth citizenship {and no other planet citizenship} then you will be considered backward, provincial, a hayseed i.e. a very dangerous person politically speaking.

* The degenerate witch Merkel gave her holiday speech (in a shiny dress!) with this background prop setup: EU flag deliberately positioned to mostly eclipse the German flag.

These people are the most vile traitors.

* The Trump can’t/won’t win crowd is desperate.

Trump will stomp Hillary. He already shut them both up this weekend on the war-on-women issue BY SIMPLY FIGHTING BACK.

Bill is a huge liability unless you’re running against weak cucks like Bush/Romney.

The secret to recent democrat success has been to run against spineless dickless balless cuckservatives. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.

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