The Great White Penis Hunt

* James Kunstler: Going Full Porn

KMG: “Jennifer Rubin goes full Sarah Jeong, hates “old white guys”.”

* BREAKING: Creepy Porn Lawyer Avenatti Reveals 3rd Kavanaugh Accuser Making ‘Gang Rape’ Allegation

Kavanaugh Attorney: Lawyers for Christine Ford Have Not Turned Over Results of Lie Detector Test or Therapist’s Notes

* The Cult of Neoconservatism

* DC restaurant: Cruz, wife returned to finish meal after protests

* ‘Robot sex brothel’ slated to open is not wanted, Houston’s mayor says

* Love in the time of AI: meet the people falling for scripted robots

* Fareed Zakaria: I wanted to understand Europe’s populism. So I talked to Bono.

* NYT: ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: Snookered

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Socialist Racism: Ethnic Cleansing and Racial Exclusion in the USSR and Israel

Otto Pohl writes:

During the 1970s, both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks in Soviet Central
Asia compared their plight to that of the Palestinians. The Stalin regime deported
both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from their homelands to dispersed
settlements in Central Asia. The similarities between the Soviet policies of expelling
and permanently excluding the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from
their homelands and similar Israeli policies towards the Palestinians are not entirely
coincidental. The Zionists based their mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 and
subsequent prohibition on allowing them to return to their homes in part on the
Soviet model. The similarities between the two instances of ethnic cleansing are due
in large part to this conscious emulation of Stalin’s methods by the Zionists.

Historical comparisons of ethnic cleansing are still quite rare and have only
touched on a handful of cases. Presently, scholars define ethnic cleansing as the
forced removal of ethnically defined populations from specific territories.1 More
importantly the cases compared have been limited. In the case of Stalin’s repressions,
the comparison most usually made is to Nazi crimes. These comparisons
have taken on a highly ideological color. While a few scholars such as Stephane
Courtois have sought to put Stalin’s crimes on an equal moral plane with those of
Hitler, many have resisted the comparison.2 A whole slew of arguments have been
crafted by academics as to why the Stalin regime’s deliberate killing of between 13
and 15 million people is morally less significant in comparison to Hitler’s killing of
between five and six million Jews. The details of these arguments—which all boil
down to systems of relativistic morality based not upon actions, but motivations
and the identity of the victims—are less important than the motives of those making
them.
The proponents of this position fall into two broad categories. Some of those
espousing these arguments are driven by a desire to rehabilitate the USSR and the
failed dream of socialism.3 To this end, they seek to transform the victims of state
murder by the Soviet government into something else, such as the unintentional
results of policies necessary to consolidate and defend the gains of the Great October
Revolution.4 The political power of these few remaining supporters of the Soviet
system is considerably less than the other group that minimizes Stalin’s crimes.
This other group is driven by support of a viewpoint that seeks to make the
Shoah absolutely unique in order to establish the position of Jews as the ultimate
victims in world history. This position is generally linked to support of the Zionist
project in Palestine and the continuing dispossession and repression of its native
Arab population. Zionism is defined here to mean an ideology aimed at creating a
secure Jewish majority state in the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine.
A number of Western academics seeking to minimize Stalin’s crimes fall into
this category.5
Many of them are not Jewish, but espouse a position of “Holocaust
uniqueness” regarding ethnically motivated state killings that depicts Jews as “worthy
victims” and Eastern Europeans and Muslims as “unworthy victims.”6 Negative
stereotypes of these two groups are still sometimes promoted in Western
academia in ways that are considered completely unacceptable regarding Blacks,
Hispanics, and Jews.
This concerted effort to oppose any comparison between the atrocities of the
USSR and Nazi Germany is perhaps the single greatest factor in the paucity of any
comparative studies of Soviet ethnic cleansing. The similarities between Nazi policies
of extermination and Stalin’s ethnic cleansing are obvious enough to make
comparison of the two a natural starting point in contextualizing the two events.
They both occurred during World War II, they both involved the wholesale roundup
and forced deportation to deadly conditions of whole populations based upon
ancestry, and both deflected large amounts of military material and personnel away
from the war effort. Prevented from making this first obvious comparison, however,
historians never moved on to make other more interesting comparisons between
Stalin’s deportations and other cases of ethnic cleansing. The hostile
intellectual climate to such comparative work greatly retarded scholarship. As a
result, such work is about a decade behind where it should be…

One case of ethnic cleansing that is connected with the Stalinist deportations and
the Ottoman and Nazi cases as well, but remains absent from both Naimark and
Weitz, is the Nakbah. Al Nakbah, Arabic for “The Catastrophe,” refers to the mass
expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948. The connections
between this case of ethnic cleansing and the Nazi and Ottoman regimes are obvious.
Palestine had been under Ottoman rule for centuries before becoming a British
Mandate. The Shoah created hundreds of thousands of displaced European Jews
who subsequently migrated to Palestine. Early in its existence, a full one-third of
Israel’s population consisted of Holocaust survivors. The Nazi extermination of
Jews also provided Israel and its supporters with its most effective propaganda
weapon to justify the expulsion of the Palestinians. Less obvious, but arguably more
important, are its connections with Soviet ethnic cleansing. Aside from the previously
noted fact that many of the same people attempting to minimize Stalin’s crimes
also seek to minimize or deny Israeli ethnic cleansing and racism, the two events
share a number of historical connections. They also share significant similarities
and parallels. These connections and similarities, however, have been almost completely
ignored by scholars. This lack of attention is unfortunate since the connections
still continue to exist and play a very real part in the continued suffering of the
Chechens, Palestinians, and other victims…

Ben-Gurion greatly admired the Soviet Union under Stalin as a model for building
a strong state and sought to emulate this success in Israel. Most Labor Zionists
shared his enthusiasm for the Soviet experiment. Both the Soviet and Israeli states
also espoused a socialist rhetoric dedicated to equality while practicing forms of
racial discrimination similar to apartheid in South Africa. After 1949, Soviet-Israeli
relations deteriorated steadily, particularly over the issue of the Israeli government
encouraging the emigration of educated and skilled Jews from the USSR.19 Moscow
found this policy unacceptable on practical and ideological grounds. First,
they desperately needed these workers to rebuild the Soviet Union in the wake of
World War II. Second, it implied that the USSR was not a fully socialist state that
had solved all nationality problems within its borders, including the existence of
anti-Semitism. Such an insult could be tolerated only so long.
This deterioration of relations continued throughout the next several decades. In
1955, Czechoslovakia signed an arms deal with Israel’s chief enemy, Nasser’s Egypt.
In 1956, the USSR along with the United States opposed the joint British, French,
and Israeli assault on Egypt to seize the Suez Canal. During the 1967 and 1973
wars, the USSR supported the Arab states against Israel diplomatically and militarily.
Finally after 1974, the USSR began to provide official support to the PLO.
Despite these events, the Soviet government continued to support the existence of
Israel as a Jewish state within its 1949–1967 borders.20 These later events have,
however, prevented historians from realizing the full ramifications of the close Soviet-Israeli
relations on Israeli policies during the creation of the state…

In contrast, despite the wishes of the Zionists, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
remained incomplete. About 150,000 Palestinian Arabs out of a population of
900,000 remained in the territory that became Israel.67 Unlike the Soviets, the Zionists
operated under a number of constraints that made their job more difficult. First,
the Arabs were not an insignificant minority of Palestine’s population. Rather they
formed a two-thirds majority of Palestine’s population in 1947. They were 42%
even in the territory apportioned to be a Jewish state.68 Second, although hopelessly
outgunned, they did have some military organization and some support in this matter
from other Arab states. They could thus put up some resistance to the expulsions.
Finally, like in the case of the Ottoman deportation of the Armenians, the
high international profile of certain cities protected the Palestinian residents from
expulsion. This is most evident regarding the Christians of Nazareth and can be
compared to the protection by international attention afforded to Armenians in
Istanbul, Izmir, and Jerusalem during World War One.69 After the fighting ceased,
international scrutiny served to protect most of the Palestinian population remaining
under Israeli rule from further expulsions. The Zionists thus had to be content
with an 80% success rate in their ethnic cleansing versus the near 100% success of
their Soviet models.
Both the Soviets and Israelis engaged in a number of massacres in the course of
ethnic cleansing during the 1940s. The purpose of these massacres, however, differed.
In the Soviet case, the NKVD physically liquidated communities that proved
too burdensome to deport. That is, the massacres served to remove the last remaining
targeted communities that had not been loaded onto trains and deported from
their homelands. The most famous case was the village of Khaibakh in the ChechenIngush
ASSR. Poor weather conditions prevented the NKVD from being able to
deport the Chechens from the village of Khaibakh. Instead of loading these villagers
onto trains, the NKVD herded over 700 Chechen men, women, and children
into barns and sheds and set the structures on fire.70 The vast majority of these
unfortunates perished in the flames. Khaibakh remains a rallying cry of Chechen
nationalists to this day.
In contrast, the Zionists massacred Palestinians in 1948 to cause their flight in
fear from areas that became Israel in 1949. Rather than serve to complete the process
of ethnic cleansing, these atrocities served to start it from certain areas. The
most famous of such massacres occurred at Deir Yasin on 9 April 1948.71 Irgun and
LEHI forces rounded up over 200 Arab men, women, and children from this village
and killed them in order to terrorize other Palestinians into leaving land coveted by
the Zionists. This policy had great success. Many of the Palestinians that fled their
homes in 1948 did so specifically because they feared Zionist forces would repeat
the events of Deir Yasin in their villages. Like Khaibakh for the Chechens, Deir
Yasin is a symbol of national tragedy for the Palestinians. They commemorate the
massacre every April 9.
The internal nature of the Soviet deportations versus the external nature of the
Israeli expulsions is another key difference between the two cases.

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Rod Rosenstein & The FBI Coup Attempt

00:00 FBI coup on Trump?
25:00 Brexit
37:00 Stephen Miller & immigration
47:00 I started the fire
51:00 KMG’s happy memory about Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Blondie visiting Vancouver in the summer of 1977
1:04:00 BOOK CLUB: Window on a Burning Man by Tim Newman
1:46:00 Maggie Parker’s NYT essay in praise of her exes shortly before her nuptials

* The Hill: Rosenstein wanted to wear wire on Trump, NYT says

* Jim Kunstler on Democratic tactics

* Timeline: Democrats’ Changing Demands for Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony

* Marc Randazza Is Fighting To Keep Nazis And Trolls On Twitter In The New Speech Wars. Here’s Why.

* NYT: For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack — hacked emails, social media fraud, suspected spies — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.

* Stephen Miller wins again: Haley, other foes excluded from immigration meeting

* Book Club: Window on a Burning Man

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Brett Kavanaugh Accusations

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* If Kavanaugh had been arrested, tried, and convicted of this made up incident, the court records would have been sealed and expunged because he would have been a juvenile. The expungement would give you a legal right to deny it ever happened.

Government background investigations do not go in to criminal activity before age 18 for this reason.

They never should have given this crazy lady the time of day.

* Steve Sailer: It’s pretty hard to be in any kind of illegal business above dealing marijuana to your friends without being connected one way or another to violence.

A friend of mine in high school was the son of a top bookie, who was occasionally off to the Men’s Correctional Colony for awhile. His dad was a high IQ guy. But how do you collect on debts in illegal businesses if the government won’t send the sheriff around on your behalf?

* Lib websites are playing up the white man angle but none are considering that lowering the burden of proof for sexual assault will put more African American men of color behind bars.

* From the perspective of living with (and sometimes arguing with) Mrs. ic1000 (a wonderful mom and stepmom, if I haven’t mentioned that) — seems that the Democrats’ Kavanaugh strategy is effective at mobilizing their base, and also at bringing straying liberal-but-practical Nice White Ladies back into the fold.

Most commenters here are concerned about the logic and plausibility of the competing narratives, the weight of evidence, precedent, consistency (e.g. Keith Ellison), and the like.

The news isn’t a priority for Mrs. ic1000, she gets it from the TV, Facebook, and talking with friends. She relates stories to her own lived experience. As a pretty woman of a certain age, that includes a number of decades-old episodes of groping and harassment at work, and the advice from (female) supervisors to “let it go”.

On the one hand, Kavanaugh the hard-drinking, entitled ‘bro’. On the other, an accomplished woman with no reason to lie or exaggerate. So where there’s smoke , there’s likely fire.

Sen. Feinstein’s camp threw a Hail Mary pass, and why not? The upsides are plain. The story might be truthful or truthy enough to sink the nomination. Or, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” somebody else might step forward with some other, more credible tale. At a minimum, a prominent conservative’s reputation has been impugned. If he should turn liberal on the Court, there’s plenty of opportunity for rehabilitation.

The Republican Brain Trust’s idea to blame some other, drunkier bro just reminds this demographic of “It Wasn’t Me”. Maybe not such a brainstorm after all.

* “Rolling Stone’s lawyer says he’d be happy to stipulate Phi Psi. But Eramo attorney Libby Locke suddenly stands and demands that the jurors trust their own ears.

“It goes to credibility,” says Locke.

Judge Glen Conrad agrees.”

See this is the difference between a real trial and the kangaroo court of public opinion as filtered thru the leftist media. In a real trial you have opposing counsel viewing the witness with appropriate skepticism (whether she is a man or a woman – none of this bullshit where people are entitled to a presumption that they are telling the truth based on chromosomes) and an unbiased judge as a reality check. Without this check, people get carried away on a wave of wishful thinking that supports their pre-existing biases. Jackie’s account on the tape is filled with inconsistencies – she can’t even get the name of the frat right. But they go right over Erdely’s head because she WANTS to believe and there is no one telling her to be skeptical (the old journalistic maxim that if your mother tells you that she loves you, you should check it first before you print it is forgotten in the Woke Era). Some stories are too good to check.

In a courtroom, people lie more often than not. I once had an old lawyer tell me that in a courtroom, every time a witness tells the complete unvarnished truth, the brass eagle on top of the flagpole comes to life and flies around the courtroom, but that in all his years of practice he had never seen it. Therefore, judges instruct the jury that they not only may but MUST assess the credibility of each witness and that they are free to discount the witness’s testimony if they find her to be not credible.

Meanwhile, in leftist media land, the great tradition of show trials continues. In a show trial, an accusation is the same thing as a conviction – if you weren’t guilty then you wouldn’t be accused in the first place.

This shows real short term thinking by the Dems, like their announcement of the Biden Rule and their decision to do away with the filibuster for judicial nominations. The politics of personal destruction are a double edged sword. RBG, an old school liberal, says that the “old way” was better for everyone.

The next time the tables are turned, the teenage sex life of Democrat nominees will be up for grabs (no pun intended) as well. And if Kav makes it onto the Court, I would wager that he is going to be more of a Thomas than a Souter. If he ever thought that he could gain “strange new respect” from the Washington establishment by shifting his views to the left a little, he must now know that is a hopeless cause for himself for the rest of his (I hope) many decades on the Court. In fact he will burn with hatred for the leftists who tried to destroy his life just to score some political points. Maybe as far as Schumer is concerned, this is nothing personal, just business, like a Mafia hit, but Kav is sure to take this personally.

* If Diablo Valley College professor Eric Clanton was willing to slam a bicycle lock into the heads of Trump supporters, potentially causing fatal injuries, then I don’t see why a Palo Alto College professor Christine Ford wouldn’t embellish hazy high school booze party groping to knock off a conservative Supreme Court nominee. It obvious that the Northern California Resistance will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to win a political argument. Their stupid academic titles should not be given a fig of weight in evaluating their statements. They can pretty much be dismissed out of hand as Machiavellian liars.

* Most cops are remarkably blase about whom they send to prison for a crime – the important thing is the clearance rate. Some other guy actually confessed to the murder that they pinned on Dixon but since they already had Dixon down they told the other guy to get lost.

I think one of the reasons that they are so blase (aside from not really giving a damn about anything other than collecting their pensions ASAP) is that they know that most of the folks that they deal with are amply guilty of other crimes for which they have not been convicted – either they have gotten clean away or there is insufficient proof to convict. For every crime they are tried for, they have probably committed 10 other crimes that they have gotten away with (maybe less serious ones than murder). There are some rare cases where a choir boy is wrongly accused but usually those who are convicted are immersed in the criminal milieu and have done all sorts of things before.

* Can we look forward to a Playboy feature on The Girls of Kavanaugh?

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NYT: Rosenstein Suggested He Secretly Record Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment

My read is that Rod Rosenstein couldn’t handle a high stress environment and a chaotic president. Not everybody can deal with stress and anxiety and chaos with aplomb. Rosenstein could not.

I’ve kept many jobs that other people were not able to handle because of the chaos and screaming. I spent some of my early years in foster care and so I learned to negotiate difficult people. Those who went before me would often end up curled in a ball sobbing when the boss screamed at them. I usually kept my cool or yelled back and thus gained the boss’s respect.

An alternative explanation is that the Deep State wants to destroy President Trump.

It’s disturbing that Jeff Sessions said he would resign if Rosenstein were fired. Sessions has bad judgment.

New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit.

Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring of 2017 when Mr. Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director plunged the White House into turmoil. Over the ensuing days, the president divulged classified intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office, and revelations emerged that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to pledge loyalty and end an investigation into a senior aide.

Mr. Rosenstein was just two weeks into his job. He had begun overseeing the Russia investigation and played a key role in the president’s dismissal of Mr. Comey by writing a memo critical of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But Mr. Rosenstein was caught off guard when Mr. Trump cited the memo in the firing, and he began telling people that he feared he had been used.

Mr. Rosenstein made the remarks about secretly recording Mr. Trump and about the 25th Amendment in meetings and conversations with other Justice Department and F.B.I. officials. Several people described the episodes, insisting on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The people were briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by F.B.I. officials, including Andrew G. McCabe, then the acting bureau director, that documented Mr. Rosenstein’s actions and comments.

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