A long time ago, in the era we now know as B.T. (Before Trump), it was possible to envision a Republican primary campaign that would be a real contest of ideas, a clash of genuine policy visions–and therefore different from the empty I’m-not-Obama, no I’m-not-Obama contest of 2012. My favored scenario would have pitted Marco Rubio against Rand Paul: The former representing a reform-minded conservatism in domestic policy and a hawkish internationalism abroad; the latter representing a more libertarian domestic agenda and a noninterventionist posture overseas.
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Yet the possibility of a real clash of ideas hasn’t gone the way of Paul’s campaign. Instead, if the race came down to the three men currently leading in the national polls, Republican primary voters would be facing their most ideologically consequential choice since 1980. Unlike many G.O.P. campaigns, in which terms like “establishment” and “populist” are mostly about affect and rhetoric, this time the Republican front-runners offer three very different visions for the future of the party.
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And then there is Donald Trump. On foreign policy, he can sound like Paul when he condemns both parties for the Iraq war and blames United States intervention for many of the world’s ills, and like Cruz when he promises to put an end to the Islamic State from the skies. On immigration and trade, he’s offering a fortress-America vision that echoes the 1920s and 1930s more than the Reagan-era G.O.P.
But on other domestic issues, he can sound center-left (he’s no religious conservative, he loves eminent domain, he’s made favorable noises about single payer) or even liberal–particularly on entitlements, where he’s argued that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be protected from any kind of restructuring and reform.
This combination of views isn’t incoherent; it just puts Trump closer to Europe’s nationalist right than it does to most of the post-1960s American conservative tradition. Like France’s National Front or euroskeptic parties elsewhere on the Continent, he’s a candidate of government programs for the old and native-born, high walls against outsiders and a romanticized idea of national greatness. And it turns out that this Old World combination, at this particular moment, has a great deal of New World appeal.
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So a vote for Rubio is a vote for adaptation and ambition–for a conservatism that seeks to reassure the anxious middle on domestic policy and shore up the Pax Americana overseas. A vote for Cruz is a vote for rigor and retrenchment–for a more intensely ideological conservatism at home and a narrower definition of the national interest abroad. A vote for Trump is a vote for rupture–for a conservatism defined more by identity politics than ideology, more by nationalism than libertarianism, more by caudillism than the Constitution.
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Comment: “The elites are terrified of white Americans reclaiming their birthright because those are exactly the institutions that they have taken over. Cultural institutions such as Universities, Public art or monuments celebrating wars (including the Civil War, Statue of Liberty, etc.) are all part of white heritage. The elites cannot erase the past so they are trying to co-opt it is fast as they can. Yale is not afraid of a bunch of loutish blacks demanding justice, they are afraid of the whites doing it.”
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New York Post: Kuwait hates Jews so much that its national airline has ditched a popular and lucrative New York-to-London flight rather than allow Israelis on its planes, authorities said Thursday.
Kuwait Airways killed the flight to spite American officials, who threatened to pull the airline’s permit to fly to the United States if they continued discriminating against Israeli passengers.
The airline says they cannot allow Israelis on the planes because the Middle Eastern kingdom prohibits it citizens from doing business with citizens of the Jewish state.
“On December 15th, Kuwait Airways informed the United States Department of Transportation that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow,” said a department spokesperson.
The airline has at least twice refused to let customers with Israeli passports buy tickets on flights from New York to London because of the Islamic state’s ban on trade with Israel.
It did not say when its last flight on that route would be.
Politicians who had pushed for the feds to nix the airline’s permit say they are glad the company decided to end the flight.
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Amid all the furor over Islamic terrorism in the United States, a few themes are ignored: the role of friends and family of terrorists, and how well the U.S had treated many of those who went on to kill Americans.
Take, for example, the family members of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, who recently murdered 14 people and wounded 21 in San Bernardino before being killed by police. The New York Times recently contacted Malik’s sister in Pakistan, Fehda Malik, who insisted that her sister was not an extremist, “She knew what was right and wrong,” Fehda Malik said.
The Times then noted of Fehda herself: “In 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, she posted a remark on Facebook beside a photo of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center that could be interpreted as anti-American.”
Farook’s father gave an interview to the Italian newspaper La Stampa shortly after his son’s murderous rampage. He matter-of-factly remarked, “My son said that he shared [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel.”
If true, the elder Farook, who was welcomed into the United States as an immigrant from Pakistan, knew before the killings that his son was an advocate of the Islamic State. He apparently kept quiet about it.
For that matter, what are we to make of Farook’s mother, who lived in the same rented townhouse with the two killers? She claimed that she knew nothing of her family’s bomb-making and stockpiling of weapons inside the small home. Farook, it should be noted, enjoyed a comfortable job with the state of California.
The parents of the Boston Marathon bombers are Dagestan natives and former Chechnya residents who applied for asylum to the United States after spending time here on a tourist visa. They claimed the family was in danger back in Chechnya.
The Tsarnaev family was welcomed in Boston and at times enjoyed liberal public assistance — at least until the two sons, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, one a recipient of a college scholarship, murdered three and wounded more than 260 during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
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Is it best to deform our society with increased surveillance and government regulation or reduce diversity and the number of people who live here who are likely to hate us so much that they will hurt us?
As we all know, the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving. We all have Muslim friends or co-workers who are admirable people. And a handful of terrorist plots have been rolled up by the FBI based on tips from Muslims.
But what the FBI finds disturbing is that Muslim leaders by and large are reluctant to cooperate with the FBI to let the bureau know of radicals within their midst. The FBI is not about to publicize this. But for my book “The Secrets of the FBI,” Arthur M. “Art” Cummings II, who was the FBI’s executive assistant director in charge of counterterrorism and national security investigations, opened up about the problem.
The FBI has outreach programs to try to develop sources in the Muslim community and solicit tips, but Mr. Cummings found little receptivity. He found that while Muslims have brought some cases to the FBI, Muslim leaders in particular are often in denial about the fact that the terrorists who threaten the United States are Muslims.
“I had this discussion with the director of a very prominent Muslim organization here in D.C.,” Mr. Cummings told me. “And he said, ‘Why are you guys always looking at the Muslim community?’ “
Mr. Cummings began laughing.
“OK, you know what I’ll do?” Mr. Cummings said. “I’ll start an Irish squad, or how about a Japanese squad? You want me to waste my time and your taxpayer’s dollars going to look at the Irish? They’re not killing Americans. Right now, I’m going to put my money and my people in a place where the threat is.”
Then Mr. Cummings told him to take a look at the cells the FBI had rolled up in the United States
“I can name the homegrown cells, all of whom are Muslim, all of whom were seeking to murder Americans,” Mr. Cummings said. “It’s not the Irish, it’s not the French, it’s not the Catholics, it’s not the Protestants, it’s the Muslims.”
In response to such points, Muslim groups have told him he is rough around the edges.
“I’m not rough around the edges,” Mr. Cummings has told them. “You’re just not used to straight talk.”
Mr. Cummings found they respond by getting angry at him.
While Muslims will occasionally condemn al Qaeda, “rarely do we have them coming to us and saying, ‘There are three guys in the community that we’re very concerned about,’” Mr. Cummings said. “They want to fix it inside the community. They’re a closed group, a very, very closed group. It’s part of their culture that they want to settle the problem within their own communities. They’ve actually said that to us, which I then go crazy over.”
On one hand, “They don’t want anyone to know they have extremists in their community,” Mr. Cummings observed. “Well, beautiful. Except do you read the newspapers? Everyone already knows it. That horse has left the barn. So there’s a lot of talk about engagement, but realistically, we’ve got a long, long way to go.”
At one meeting, a Muslim group suggested having a photo taken of their members with then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to show their community isn’t a bunch of terrorists and that they are partners in the war on terror.
Mr. Cummings responded, “Let me make a suggestion: When you bring to my attention real extremists who are here to plan and do something, who are here supporting terrorism, and I work that based on your information, then I promise you, I will have the director stand up on the stage with you.”
To Mr. Cummings‘ amazement, the answer was: “That could never happen. We would lose our constituency. We could never admit to bringing someone to the FBI.”
“Well, we’ve just defined the problem, haven’t we?” Mr. Cummings told them.
After September 11, according to Mr. Cummings, imams in as many as 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the U.S. preached jihad and hatred of America. In a 2011 Pew Research Center poll, 7 percent of American Muslims said suicide bombings against civilian targets are sometimes justified to defend Islam. But in more recent years, “Preaching jihad and hatred of the U.S. overtly has become more unusual and happens more in private,” Mr. Cummings said. Instead, “Radicalization on the Internet has risen to fill the void.”
“If you look at the websites of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, you see a passive, almost obligatory approach to condemning terrorism,” Mr. Cummings said. “The most prominent crisis for the Arab and Muslim communities is this perception that they’re terrorists, when only a small fraction of them are. Why wouldn’t you have a very loud, active program that says murder of anyone is immoral, illegal and not consistent with Islam, and anyone who supports terrorism or harbors a terrorist is a problem?”
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* Though Trump-as-Hitler meme is tarded, I think Trump has something in common with Fuhrer.
He is a gambler. Many said Hitler had no chance, that he was finished after this or that scandal or setback or etc. But Hitler defied all odds and rose higher and higher. He got so sure of himself that he eventually gambled big on Russia and lost.
Trump who has worked in gambling has a gambling personality. He’s good at bluffing, huffing and puffing, and etc. He can bluster but he can also be slippery and subtle, quality missing in a lunkhead demagogue like McCarthy or Wallace.
And Trump has defied many odds. Many said ‘this’ will finish him, but he’s still in the game and leading among GOP. He’s good at reading the public mood of a certain segment of the US public. He’s like both the crazy guy and the cynical operatives in NETWORK. He plays both the mad prophet and the smooth operator.
So far, he’s done well.
And it’s possible that his Muslim remark was a wager. If in the next months, nothing happens and there is no more terror, he will come across as a fear-monger.
But if there are more terror attacks in Europe and esp in America, it will have been a great bet.
And all those who’d lambasted him will have eggs on their face.
It’s like in JAWS. The town’s establishment is angry about the sheriff scaring everyone away with all this talk of a shark. But a bigger shark happened to be out there, and town elites lost big when it killed more people.
Libs and even cucks have been blasting Trump and feeling awful righteous and good about themselves. And because Trump’s remark was ‘extreme’, he has much to lose if nothing happens in the coming months.
But if major terror attacks do happen, it will have been a super bet.
But betting like that is close to degenerate, and eventually you lose. Hitler lost bunch of bets before he bet too big and lost all.
It’s best not to make reckless bets in politics.
* Right, and some countries today like China that aren’t Muslim but have sizable Muslim communities have state sanctioned versions of Islam that ensure that Muslims are loyal and subservient to the state.
In May 1953, the government set up the China Islamic Association, which was described as aiming to “help the spread of the Qur’an in China and oppose religious extremism”. The association is to be run by 16 Islamic religious leaders who are charged with making “a correct and authoritative interpretation” of Islamic creed and canon.
As you note, because of the First Amendment, the government can’t really do things like this formally, although it apparently does do things like surveil mosques, and in the past the WASP establishment relied on social and cultural pressures and mechanisms to curtail Catholicism’s religious and cultural power in the US. But contemporary elites find overtly pressuring Islam in this fashion to be distasteful and politically incorrect, and basically hope that pop culture and liberal academic and media culture will do the trick for them.
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Comment: Juniper Networks, a maker of very large routers that transfer much corporate and internet data, announced today that they discovered “unauthorized code” in their routers that would allow someone to decrypt data sent over VPNs and also gain access to their devices. This code has apparently been there since 2012.
They have not said anything about how it could have gotten there. Over on Twitter some are daring to speculate that it was “the Chinese,” some say the NSA. I would guess it’s the Chinese, but not by somebody hacking into Juniper’s systems. No. Bet your bottom dollar that hundreds of Chinese work at Juniper, and one of them did this because he was, of course, loyal to China, or blackmailed, or bribed. But I would bet a million bucks that if they ever find who did it, it will be a Chinese national (maybe an Indian or Russian) working for Juniper because diversity and H-1B (the international corporate spy program).
I’m curious how “big” this story will play with the media. In reality, it’s beyond huge. It’s absolutely disastrous.
For those interested, here is the statement from Juniper.
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It’s not impossible that this piece is a pitch-perfect parody that slipped past the editors. Unlikely, but not impossible …”
…For example, “Calculate the total force experienced by rapper 50 Cents as he got shot by 9 bullets each with a mass of …”?
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* A black physicist can argue that Black Holes Matter.
* I like the idea of young physics students of color “interrogating” the likes of Feynman and Fermi, neither of whom was known to suffer fools gladly. I would be willing to bet that they couldn’t sit through one of Feynman’s world famous “undergrad” lectures, delivered more than 50 years ago, and understand any of the concepts in the lecture.
* Logic, math, and physics are all closely related. Ms. Isler’s poor grasp of logic raises the suspicion that she is not well-suited to the study of physics. There are almost no logical connections between her statements, just a free-flowing stream of hurt feelings and resentment.
* Recently watched a PBS doc about the LHC/CERN and the search for the Higgs boson. The title was Particles, IIRC.
The film featured a couple of women: an American post doc and an Italian heading one of the big experiments (who has since been promoted to head of LHC) Also featured an American Jew, an Iranian American, and a Cypriot ex pat. Plenty of other misc Europeans as to be expected. But not a single black person in the film.
The biggest experiments in the history of physics are somehow taking place without the benefit of many persons of color.
* Their questions left many black scientists, myself included, reeling from the psychological blow.
Reeling from the psychological blow. First there was Nancy Hopkins getting the vapors when she choose to listen to Larry Summers speak about evolution and now this.
I have physics degrees from two historically black universities and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from an Ivy League institution.
No one trusts that you earned your degrees or accomplishments because in an environment defined by the presence of Affirmative Action, no one believes that you weren’t admitted or coddled simply because you’re black and your professors and colleagues were instructed to increase diversity at all costs, regardless of merit.
Obviously, black students march into classrooms all over this country and blow physical concepts out of the water with their individual intellects.
I know, right. Terence Howard was on such a path with his math revolution, but then heard the siren call of acting:
The future actor was studying chemical engineering at Pratt — but dropped out when he realized that he fundamentally disagreed with his professors about the basics of math. The argument focused on the simple equation of one times one.
“How can it equal one?” Howard asked Rolling Stone, and the universe. “If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what’s the square root of two? Should be one, but we’re told it’s two, and that cannot be.”
* The notion that 1 times 1 equals 1 is clearly a concept rooted in cishet whiteness that denies the lived experiences of people of color and non-binary individuals, especially those who have experienced intersectionality. Also, considering that 1 is the loneliest number, that equation is clearly a tool designed to increase societal alienation.
* To answer Justice Roberts, without black students in physics classes there would be nobody to remind everyone that the terms ‘black hole” and “black body” are unbelievably racist.
* I’m reminded of what Don Barry, astronomer at Cornell, said about Neil deGrasse Tyson when asked, “Has Tyson done any real science? He seems to be a media celebrity, but when I look in the Smithsonian/NASA ADS, I can find no record of scholarly work in science, except for popular books and social commentary. Is he in fact a practicing astrophysicist?”
Barry replied:
“Not since graduate school (he did not successfully progress towards a degree at UT/Austin, and convinced Columbia to give him a second try). Aside from the obligatory papers describing his dissertation, he’s got a paper on how to take dome flats, a bizarre paper speculating about an asteroid hitting Uranus, and courtesy mentions *very* late in the author lists of a few big projects in which it is unclear what, if anything, of substance he contributed. No first author papers of any real significance whatsoever. Nor is there any evidence that he has been awarded any telescope time on significant instruments as PI since grad school, despite the incredibly inflated claims in his published CVs. He cozied up to Bush and pushed Bush’s version of man to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond, and now gets appointed to just about every high level political advisory board. To an actual astronomer, this is almost beyond inconceivable. It’s just bizarre. To answer Delong’s question, no: he is not a practicing astrophysicist.”
* I would pay a decent amount of money to hear what the black perspective on astrophysics is.
* A while ago I learned that the point on a body’s orbit around a black hole where the body comes closest to the hole is called perimelasma. It’s a beautiful word. I think of it every time I approach the point of my daily commute that’s closest to an unsafe neighborhood.
* Dr. Isler’s essay perfectly expresses the infuriating and frustrating racism inherent in the need for “minorities,” and African Americans in particular it seems, to justify their worthiness in any area they are typically underrepresented, and this is implicitly done by having to justify how their presence benefits the vast majority of European Americans present. How demeaning to African Americans — and to everyone, in fact.
Of course, civil rights advocates have been forced by conservative entrenchment to plead the (very real) benefits of racial diversity in the academy rather than being able to assume that the benefits of openness and diversity and the equality of all are, well, self-evident.
My prayer for our nation, the answer to which is by no means assured, is that some day the overt racism in Justices Scalia and Roberts’ questioning — and likely ruling — will be as glaringly racist to the vast majority of those of future generations as Supreme Court decisions such as Dred Scott are now.
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Tuesday night’s GOP debate on CNN was another ratings juggernaut with an audience of 18 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National ratings. …
CNN also live-streamed the production to CNN.com, its mobile apps and connected TVs. CNN had 3.1 million live streams, peaking at 9:45 p.m. with 815,000 concurrent streams.
Tuesday’s ratings continue to make the GOP debates the most valuable franchise on American television this side of “Sunday Night Football” on NBC.
For the entire century, the national media have been assuring you that Invade the World, Invite the World is the only possible grand strategy so there’s no point in having on television people who don’t wholly agree.
But now we discover that they’ve been leaving money on the table all these years.
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* Can you imagine if President God-Emperor Trump had a weekly program like Hugo Chavez did, where randomized phone calls got through to him and could ask him whatever they wanted? That would easily be the funniest show on the planet.
It could spoof the “You’re Fired!” music theme, and have a Trump signature tagline like “You’re Terminated!”, or “You’re Done, Shut Up” for when he smacks the phone on the receiver. Seeing him say that at the disconnected phone right after interrupting some autistic citizen mid-sentence would never, ever get old.
* Trump excoriated Charles Krauthammer on O’Reilly Tuesday night. Really went off on him. Made Bill squirm like the globalist weasel he is. This is the kind of talk we need. Call out the quislings.
Trump is picking up steam in his appearances. I think he smells not just victory but a rout.
Last week Trump hammered Cheney again also. Saying that taking FP advice from Cheney is absolutely nuts.
* What does Sailer and crowd think of privately owned + managed cities? I’ve been to Google HQ, which operates in many ways like a privately managed city and it’s quite awesome.
The private city model seems to address many of the complaints this crowd has about open borders. Surprisingly, many of the open borders crowd are supporters of the idea of privately managed cities.
* They’re still leaving money on the table by diluting the Trump experience inside way too many other candidates. It was almost as bad as the Olympics, where you sit through a half hour of ads and insipid “human interest stories” before you get to see Usain Bolt run for ten seconds.
* Conventional wisdom kept cackling over and over again about how strong this Republican field was before Trump. In reality, but for Trump, it’s a rather lame field. I also keep hearing about how Trump is too wild and irresponsible on foreign policy, in comparison to the responsible level headed rocks of stability in the rest of the field. In reality, the average person that doesn’t know that much otherwise but is paying attention to this Republican race looks at them all on foreign and military policy, and they walk away concluding that Trump is the stable sane level headed one, and that most of the rest of them are paranoid wacko bird chicken little sky is falling fanatics.
* Of course there’s a market for conservative media and debate. And yes, the media has been leaving money on the table, because they’re motivated by ideology more than profits. Look at the success of talk radio, and how Fox destroys its cable news competition.
Videos of the knockout game would have a lot more appeal to people than the fine points of transgender activism.
Conservatives should wholeheartedly embrace “diversity,” and demand that all the TV networks and major newspaper have adequate representation of right wing view points.
* In a world where the donor class had not twisted politics completely out of shape, Trump’s platform would be boringly unremarkable. Muslim immigration should be stopped until we’re able to filter out the terrorists? Well, obviously! You’d be nuts to suggest otherwise.
Comments: “Jeb is so beta that you want to feel bad for him, but then you realize he wants your grandchildren to be brown, your cousins to die in the Middle East, your sweat to pay global profiteers, and your wife to be in charge of you.
He deserves every bit of shame and embarrassment he feels and its still not enough. Trump is not just alpha, he is doing God’s work by destroying cucks like Jeb.”
* Mussolini was highly regarded in his time. He was actually a rather erudite fellow; he spoke five languages and wrote books–perhaps not books you’d want to read, but books. Hitler, by contrast, was an autodidact and it often showed, but he had the highly competent German military on his side. Mussolini’s major failing was geostrategic–he actively went to war on the side of the Germans, unlike Franco, who had the good sense to stay neutral. Who knows how an Italy that stayed out of WWII would have fared?
* After spending time in the Dark Enlightenment, enjoying the company of Truth Speakers, the transition over to watching the spectacle of the little GOP turds trying to position themselves as some sort of a teacher’s pet, by auditioning for the part of “Best Regurgitator of Narrative Anti-Reality”, is simply jarring. Frankly it’s surrealistic to listen to a “debate” concerning Libya and Syria and not hear the name “Sidney Blumenthal” or “Huma Abedin”.
* Alpha/Nationalist World Leaders: Putin, Modi, and Shinzo Abe
Will Trump join them?
* Abe is more of a nationalist than many western leaders. His money printing is arguably just Keynesian incompetence.
Let’s put it this way: he is against mass immigration into his country and he aggressively goes after disputed islands. He builds up the military and insists on nuclear power contra the hippies. He is firm against China and doesn’t grovel because MUH Unit 287 (or whatever it was).
By western standards, he is a hardass. Proof that the Oriental has his advantages over the white man in certain areas.
* Trump’s foreign policy is what you get when you think about it for yourself and don’t get your policy written by neocon donors. Which is why you’ve never heard it before.
* I’ve watched the Trump stump speech now in five or six iterations. It’s a joy to behold. Trump is a worldly man– when he travels, he isn’t forking over other people’s money or trawling for cheap poon. Unlike the congressmen Fred Reed has talked about who were confusing Taiwan with Thailand when they were on the plane to one or the other, he has real responsibilities. He plays with his own money, which is more than we can say for the Senate Foreign Relations committee.
So I love listening to Trump’s bumptious faux-naïve word-painting when he talks about the airports In Qatar or the “biggest ships you’ve ever seen” rolling off Toyotas in LA harbor. It’s not like Trump doesn’t know how many stories high his buildings are. He probably knows the displacement, the cubic capacity, of those freighters too.
But he has an ingenious way of knowing just how much seed to plant in his listeners’ ears. Talking about the Ford plant in Mexico– “not ‘millions’, BEILLYIONS!” Or the uparmored Humvees in Yemen. Again and again, he plays with orders of magnitude, relaying to the audience the vast scale of things. It’s not like he’d be fooled even at a glance– he knows Ford can’t build that plant for “millions”– but it works powerfully to instruct his audience, to give them representative, memorable word-number pictures of America’s decline and the stupidity of the ruling “elites”.
As heartiste and the chateau denizens have repeatedly pointed out in detail, it’s just a magnificent deployment of rhetoric.
* I have seen YouTube videos from Trump rallies. He talks to the people without looking at any screens, just talks to them. He has a genius IQ and an excellent memory, needed to be a corporate leader at his level. More than that, he clearly has a strong interest in the things he talks about, instead of just using talking points churned out by PR agents, like Hildebeast, Obongo and the rest.
* Laura Bush has those hypersexual cray cray sloe-eyes that scream “I am going to suck your balls up through your dick”…
* I saw today how he [Ted Cruz] has promised his donors to bring in more legal immigrants (legal according to whose laws?), even while writing about immigration restrictions on his website.
His voting record is a recent thing, as if to establish himself as the man of the people just a few years before this election – because he saw he could ride the Tea Party grassroots. Which, now, Trump is about to take. So he has now attacked Trump, basically calling him insane.
His wife Heidi has worked for the Bush administration as director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council, answering to Condi Rize. She now works for Goldman Sachs as region head of the south-western region in the investment management division.
And “Ted” isn’t really Ted, he is Rafael Cruz. He just decided to call himself Ted to sound White, and the media play along. Just like “Bobby” Jindal, who is actually Piyush Jindal.
If Trump for whatever reason had decided to pretend he had another first name, does anyone think the media would play along and never mention it? Or would they attack him for it? You know the answer. The reason they never call out Rafael Cruz on his deception is a clear sign that he is part of the establishment.
* What’s rather amazing is that as a true populist, Trump can now attack Hillary from several directions and she won’t know what hit her.
He attacks from the right on immigration.
He attacks from the left on foreign policy (she voted for Iraq War and destroyed Libya)
He attacks from the center on veterans care and police.
She can’t entrench anywhere ideologically. She goes from looking like a white genocider, to a warmonger, to an out of touch elitist.
This is going to be so fun to watch. She might stroke out on national TV during a debate.
* During this time of year I like to count my blessings.
And due to the Trump candidacy I have many.
I have Trump to thank for not having to hear “War on Women” ever again.
I have Trump to thank for making the border a campaign issue
I have Trump to thank for knowing a Republican can fight back
I have Trump to thank for sticking to a position
I have Trump to thank for showing Fox News is nothing but MSM lite
I have Trump to thank for displaying a Republican with a hot wife
I have Trump to thank for irritating Obama
I have Trump to thank for moving Muslim immigration to national debate
I don’t know what will happen in 2016 but the man has my vote.
* First the came for the wetbacks and I didn’t do anything, cos I didn’t care. Then they came for the blacks and I dindu nuffing.
Then they came for the ragheads and that’s the way Ilahilaha I like it. Then they came for the juice. And America was great again.
* I guess this is a fight about the future and soul of America. Are we a normal nation with borders, a people, and a culture? Or, are we just a spot on the map where people of all nations come to fight for a piece of the action?
The first vision, a normal nation, is what most American citizens want. The suggestion that I should compete against 7 billion people to find a job and buy a house in my country is not acceptable to me. Why this makes me a bad person I’ll never know.
In case it isn’t obvious to you, we are witnessing the rapid decline of the American experiment in democracy. Trump’s lost will only accelerate the decline by emboldening those who want to “fundamentally transform this country” and demoralizing those who want to preserve this country. Think about California, a great Democrat success story. That is America’s likely future. Universal suffrage and high voter turnout does nothing to mitigate voter ignorance and greed. Does anybody think this system will last for 50 more years?
The concept of the old America is like a woman who has failed you. Move on. You don’t really need her.
* Watch the battles on youTube every evening. It’s a cold worldwide civil war, no other way to describe it. Both sides are posturing and getting their courage up.
If Trump is eliminated, it will go hot.
This is the last attempt to work with the system, I do not see it working although I applaud Trump. He is doing a great service for humanity.
We all know this is a necessary phase and what struggles lie ahead.
If Putin is who he appears to be there may yet be hope.
* The Donald’s post-debate interview with Chris Cuomo reminded me of great athletes like Michael Jordan in post-game interviews after he just poured in 40 points while his team defeated a rival and is moving onto the next round.
He answered questions with succinct responses as he looked off into the crowd, as if examining the faces of the people who just cheered and booed him, unaffected by both. We knew he had just been through a battle, but here he was standing strong and high, and his steady voice and wide body language assure us he’s satisfied with his (and his team’s performance), but he knows there’s work to be done.
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump (L) shakes hand with Senator Ted Cruz (C) as he arrives onstage with Cruz and former Governor Jeb Bush (R) before the start of the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada December 15, 2015. REUTERS/David Becker
A lesson in body language.
(From left to right) Alpha, beta, beta.
Alpha: smirk, direct eye contact, not extending his hand too far to please his opponent
Beta: extending his hand so far that he’s leaning his weight onto one foot just to allow the Alpha to touch his hand
Beta: I can’t even seriously analyze this guy. He’s trying so hard to look tough with body language, but his kinked neck and dummy smile betray him. I almost feel bad for iJeb!
* It’s easy to tell their rank based on the hotness of their wives.
Trump, of course, is the only super alpha. Cruz, Rubio, and Paul are lesser alphas who still have beta tendencies to follow the crowd. But they’re more dominant than the other no-names. It’s no surprise that Cruz and Rubio are second and third now that Carson is in full-blown implosion mode. And I suspect Paul would be doing much better if Trump wasn’t running, and if he hadn’t built up a reputation as a sellout to his father’s principles.
* That’s Ronald Reagan right there.
“Here’s my strategy for the Cold War: We win. They lose.”
— Ronald Reagan
“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”
— Barack Obama
* I thought Trump would be dead by now.
Now I’m starting to wonder, is the Deep State agreeable to a President Trump? Perhaps the shitlib’s never ending assault of “real” America has gone too far. Today the nation might actually be too bitterly divided -too all-around fucked -for the Deep State’s comfort. They sense a threat. After all, they don’t want things to totally fall apart.
Maybe the people pulling the levers of power are getting nervous, and they want a President Trump to unfuck things..just a little?
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