Richard Spencer Assaulted 3x At Inauguration

Posted in Richard Spencer | Comments Off on Richard Spencer Assaulted 3x At Inauguration

President Trump

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* I thought that Trump’s inaugural speech was terrific.

It was philosophically precise, coherent, and deep, and presented a clear and compelling vision.

Once again, I’m struck by how much sense Trump’s views in aggregate make — with a few exceptions — given how anti-intellectual he seems to incline. What it suggests is that the first impulses of common sense in matters of moral and political value — which Trump embodies — are the most reliable. Abstraction seems to be the enemy of the Good.

* What I liked about it was that it boiled class warfare rhetoric down to the Washington class versus everyone else, which is how it should be. That, and repeating the phrase “America first!” Which triggers goodthinkers.

Like most all political speeches it was vague and largely beside the point. A series of sounds to make us feel good. But if he’s serious about being Action Man, and us judging him by what he does instead of what he says, oh, happy day.

* Trump articulated a clear vision (America First) and discussed concrete things he plans to accomplish.

I thought it was beautiful in its directness and simplicity.

The people on TV said it was terrible because it wasn’t “soaring.” Something tells me they never worked in a factory and probably don’t know anyone who does.

* 1. Christianity given priority in the public square.

2. Melania Trump is really, really good-looking.

3. Very pugilistic, populist tone in his inaugural speech. He is bearding the lion in his den. No wonder the US Deep State (such as it is) hates him so much.

4. This is not just the second, but the third Act in Donald Trump’s American life. Pretty astounding.

* It’s the first inaugural address I’ve ever heard that has ever touched me in any way, and it touched me deeply. I honestly never before felt like politicians gave a damn about working American families, and it sounded to me very much like he did. I also didn’t anticipate that having someone in power who will look out for people like me and mine would actually make me feel any different, but it does. It’s a potent mixture of gratitude and hope.

He set a very high bar for himself.

Posted in America | Comments Off on President Trump

Don’t Let Women Set Public Policy

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Sane men do not allow women into positions of major authority or influence in society.

From Nancy Pelosi to Madonna to Michelle Obama to Ruth Bader Ginsberg to this authoress Livingstone we can detect a pattern of estrogen fueled insanity.

The first female billionaire made her money on a body shaping girdle design that fools men into thinking that older women are much younger/healthier than they actually are… ’nuff said.

* Drudge pic top center of Ryan, Melania and Trump and the big view of DC in the background is funny. Trump is staring at his new hotel which is clearly visible (hotel tower is second highest structure in DC).

We only see the back of Trump’s head in the pic but we know what he’s thinking. The two phallic symbols on the skyline are worrisome for Trump. His hotel tower does not measure up… what is to be done?

* Well, you have to remember that entire departments of the major universities have been retrofitted to teach the primary skill of being offended. The first major wave of students are coming out and writing for major periodicals.

We’ve never seen a cohort so broadly and skillfully adept at finding offense that to laymen like you or I would find boringly innocuous. We’re talking the greatest minds of our generation spending a decade or more in training at being offended. It’s no wonder the state of the art in the field is so advanced.

* How many feminists are into feminism these days because it’s like a magical, invisible choke collar that works on about 50% of the men in the West and makes them sit and roll over on command?

Those men who kowtow to feminists think that by doing so they will make the women less angry and more agreeable. Instead, it just makes the women more angry and demanding to them—because the women have realized that acting like a feminist just got them power over the kowtowers, and they want to push it to the limit.

You never see feminists getting away with this routine on non-feminist men. They make a go at it, but after they’re laughed/shouted down they either run away or magically start acting much more pleasantly and coquettishly.

If men collectively stopped kowtowing (impossible, I know), then women suddenly find much more pleasant methods of getting things out of them. Those PUAs and old tests aren’t wrong when they both agree that the way to have a happy wife/lover is to give her no quarter and have a firm hand.

P.S. this is much like how blacks have learned that merely yelling “racism” gets them a bunch of free gifts and sympathy. If we all collectively stopped jumping when they screamed “discrimination!”….

* Think of the three bumps in the middle, far side of the Potomac River. Roslyn, Arlington, Virginia. Due West is Tyson’s Corner in Fairfax, Virginia. Between the two, Trump will one day have a tower on the far side of the river and he’ll see THAT from where he’s pictured. The Old Post Office will not change. But Trump will own the tallest of the tall in the DC region before it’s over. No one in the region will deny him and besides, he already owns an enormous golfing spread in Loudon County, Virginia, probably to be his Washington home course. No Andrews AFB for Trump. In any case, Trump is a man who, unlike Obama, will not find himself closed out by the bigs in this country. He will play Augusta National, Congressional, Pebble, he will be welcome wherever he goes. And his tower in Virginia will be the tallest in the land.

Off topic even further, it’ll be good to have a pair in the White House for once, instead of a Madcap W or lately, this cardboard cutout masquerading as a clean and articulate rent-a-black. Obama is going to find himself a very lonely guy in DC, an annoying rock in the collective shoe of DC. He’s picturing himself as a broker or kingmaker of some sort, certainly an earner in the speechmaking bizz, but I think not. He has no influence to sell, his intellect small, his hallucination over, this, a disservice done by the liberal party and press to puff him up only to use him and leave him behind for the next big thing. And then Obama will know it was all an illusion, it was handed to him, he isn’t nearly as large as presented or pictured.

* A key tenet of multiculturalism is that no culture is better than another, despite the rather glaring evidence that this is patently absurd. So any verbiage about encouraging groups with less successful cultural practices to adopt those of more successful ones must be denounced…unless it’s progressives insisting that the only thing minority children need to succeed is to be able to live and go to school with more white children. That’s about magic dirt, not the way white people live their lives.

* Being a weed grower in Mendocino County it pays to be a bit aware of the racial component. Many folks with fabulous tans are the vast majority of home invasions up here. Too lazy to grow it themselves. Very labor intensive in the outdoors. so yeah, weed growers in wine country probably aren’t real aggressive in cultivating a relationship with the brothers.

* Websites like The New Republic don’t allow comments on their articles because they’re too civilized to soil their forums with commentary from the unwashed, uneducated lower classes. That, and they know that dimwit ditzes like Joe Livingstone are incapable of writing defensible screeds.

* More of the White Civil War. Its choose a side, all the time. No place or group will be exempt. None.

Look at Jews — the price of being accepted into Leftist groups is anti-Israel, anti-Trump. Trump is quite likely to move the embassy to Jerusalem today. Just to make a point. And if he does so, the journey of Leftist Jews into overt anti-Israeli sentiment will be complete. Which btw shows how bankrupt anti-Semitism really is — the most important thing to Leftist Jews is being part of Leftism and the career advancement nepotism it offers, Israel, their relatives, their heritage mean nothing. Just as those WASPy leftists like Hillary or Elizabeth Warren behave.

Posted in America | Comments Off on Don’t Let Women Set Public Policy

Should Incompetent Pundits/Teachers Get Fired, Good Ones Rewarded?

Posted in America | Comments Off on Should Incompetent Pundits/Teachers Get Fired, Good Ones Rewarded?

The Meaning Of A Landsman

Harvey Rachlin writes:

It was my first job out of college and I wasn’t exactly thrilled when my boss told me: “You’re going to Nashville.”

I was working for a small New Jersey-based music publisher. It was my job to get artists to record and labels to release songs owned by the company so that the songs could earn money for both the company and the writers of the songs.

After having given me a week to listen to and familiarize myself with the bulk of the company’s catalog of songs, the boss handed me a list of New York City buildings that were filled with offices occupied by music companies. He told me to knock on every door of every company that could record and release songs from our company’s catalog and then try to meet with those companies’ producers and executives to pitch our songs.

“Start on the top floor,” he said, “and work your way down to the first floor.”

And so I did, from top to bottom, building to building. Getting appointments with producers and music executives was challenging, to say the least, so you had to be super-aggressive and use your full powers of persuasion to get in. As an aspiring songwriter, I felt that learning the art of pitching songs could be beneficial – but it required me to be pushy to the point that it made me feel uncomfortable.

So when my boss asked me to go to Nashville, I welcomed his order with about as much enthusiasm as I would a pickle and mustard sandwich. If cold solicitation in New York City had been no picnic, what would it be like in a southern city?

First, I had heard that Nashville was extremely cliquey. If you weren’t in country music’s inner circles the doors were basically closed to you. Second, I wondered how I would fare there since my accent and looks pretty much marked me as a New York Jew.

With a bit of trepidation I traveled to the capital of country music and found it just as I’d imagined. It seemed very insular and I felt like an outsider.

As I did in New York, I knocked on doors on the city’s Music Row – which was essentially based on streets lined with houses where record labels and other companies had their offices.

I got absolutely nowhere. I couldn’t even get past the reception areas, which seemed to be guarded by the most unpersuadable people I’d ever met. Time and again I was told the producers weren’t taking appointments and wouldn’t even listen to dropped-off demos.

As a 22-year-old neophyte in the music business I really didn’t know all that much about it, so I sometimes knocked on doors of companies involved in other aspects of the business but not looking for songs.

One day my ignorance led me to one such door, and after I introduced myself the owner seemed to look at me with a glimmer of recognition.

“Are you a landsman?” he asked.

Having never heard the word before, I thought for a second. Landsman? What’s that? Like a Baptist, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, or a Methodist?

“No,” I said. “I’m not.”

“Well, you certainly look and sound Jewish,” he replied, sounding almost disappointed.

My face lit up. “Oh, but I am!”

And then, after pausing for a moment, I asked, “What’s a landsman?”

“A landsman’s a fellow Jew,” he told me.

With a common bond now established, we struck up a friendship and I told him of my difficulty getting appointments in Nashville.

“Let me make a phone call for you,” he said.

He called the head of a major music licensing organization in town and made an appointment for me to see him. When I went to his office I was greeted by a man with long blond hair. Wearing cowboy boots. And sporting a very gentile-sounding name. He obviously wasn’t Jewish.

I told him about the songs in my company’s catalog and he was as nice as could be, working the phone and lining up appointments for me with some of country music’s top record producers. These were not second- or third-tier apparatchiks, mind you, but men with hits at the very top of the country music charts – powerful men who would never have given me the time of day had it not been for the fellow with the long blond hair and the cowboy boots.

But there was only one reason I’d been able to meet that fellow in the first place: the kindness of the Jewish man who made it all possible because he recognized me as a fellow Jew.

From that time on, I have never forgotten the meaning of the word landsman.

Posted in Jews | Comments Off on The Meaning Of A Landsman