* It’s interesting to think of this election as a fight between diaspora Jews and Israeli Jews.
Diaspora Jews benefit from multikult, globalism and open societies. They don’t mind allying with Muslims in Western countries to promote liberalism.
Israeli Jews benefit from homogenous nation states in Europe and America, with Islamophobic populations, because that usually translates into support for Israel.
Wonder if the underlying explanation for most world events is that Soros and Karl Popper are on the diaspora side, while Netanyahu et al are on the Zionist side.
* It’s not really a fight “between” them. Rather, they are fighting on different fronts.
* Whatever “hacking” may or may not have happened during the election campaign to help Trump may have actually been done by the Mossad using Russian aliases.
* Trump has been compared to Mussolini, Putin and Hitler.. but I think the relevant comparison is to Peter the Great, a figure of titanic energy. Like Peter, he can arrange for his wife and then daughter to succeed him. This would be wrong if Bill Clinton did it, but when the God Emperor does it, it is exemplary.
As befits a construction ultra-magnate, why stop at measly skyscrapers? The Donald should and will build entire cities ennobled with his name. So we will have St. Donaldsburg in Western Russia, Donaldabad in Pakistan; Volgograd will be renamed Donaldgrad, Washington will be renamed TrumpCity; why stick to the narrow world which he doth bestride like a colossus? The Trump Luna will be the go-to (and only) resort of choice in the Solar System.
And that wall.. that big, beautiful WALL… Will make Shih-Huang-Ti look like Hadrian in comparison. You will be able to see it from the moon, preferably with those 25-cent telescopes in the Trump Luna.
An age of Immeasurable Peace and Prosperity is upon us!
* I know ‘I and my brother against my cousin’ and so on, but the countervailing force is the long history of conflicts most countries have with their neighbors. The Brits hate the French, the French hate the Brits and the Germans, the Poles hate the Germans and the Russians, the Chinese and the Japanese hate each other, and so on. India is friends with Israel despite the lack of any kind of a civilizational commonality because they both hate Islam.
* *Back when the Shah was still in charge the Iranians and the Israelis had good relations.*
Yes because the Shah was much like a Polish king: surrounded by Jewish secret police, Jewish political advisors, Jewish merchant class.
Most of these Jews magically emigrated to California after the Shah was deposed (with the loot).
* Perhaps Trump is seen as dangerous to American Jews in part because he threatens to combine foreign policy support for Israel with nationalist resistance to globalism, immigration and pc, which is basically saying resistance to American Jewry.
Considering a Trump Administration represents an immediate and dramatic improvement in ties with Israel and a hawkish stance toward its avowed enemy Iran, the uniform Jewish opposition to Trump either means Jews really, really hate us or really, really love globalism, immigration and pc. But then, I’m not sure that isn’t just two ways of saying the same thing.
* Reminds me of Apartheid-era South Africa. Diaspora Jews in SA were greatly over-represented amongst those who wanted to create a multikult/open society there while the Jews of Israel stood by SA through thick and thin even when most other countries had abandoned them.
* Bibi threw Trump under the bus during the campaign. Israeli Jewry does nothing to counter their BFFs (despite its humorous connotations, that is not a throwaway word; it describes the relationship literally) in diaspora Jewry, who are the #1 adversary of European ethnopatriots. You need a slide rule, or something? If someone comes by your house and sets it on fire every day, and his best friend watches him do it every time, his best friend is certainly no friend of yours.
Okay, let me extend my analogy: the guy who burns your house every day does it because you are an aspiring ethnopatriot, and he hates your sort of ethnopatriot. But his best friend is the most prominent ethnopatriot in the neighborhood; he’s just the right sort of ethnopatriot.
It’s like if you were trying to start a union, and the world’s biggest union-buster was kicking your ass every day for trying to start a union, but there’s his best friend, head of the world’s biggest union, right beside him. Yeah, best friend guy is making it pretty clear you’re chopped liver.
All of the counter-arguments to this consist of stuff like “yeah but the best friend has a hairy chest, just like you do!”
* Desert peoples often have long noses for humidifying air on the way in. People from the humid tropics tend to have flat nose because they don’t need to do that.
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* David Cole on taki, and Greg Johnson on counter currents have hashed this out ad infinitum from either side of Richard ideologically. Both argue he is playing his cards badly.
RS had the chance to combine his youth with the wisdom of his ideological forebears. Standing on the shoulders of 90s Paleocons may seem too tentative for your taste, but one of the biggest reasons that 90s paleoconservatism faded away is that it was de-platformed in an age before social media, and not because its policies were considered lame. It might have helped if they’d had a celebrity leader but the LibMedia was so dominant then, it would have been career suicide for anyone (though Ross Perot should have at least helped & didn’t). If RS had asked Brimelow, Taylor or Devlin to review his speech (including the theatrical flourishes), would they have concurred? Not likely. They could have helped him avoid the media trap. But he was probably too vain to take feedback.
RS sees himself as the badass mischief maker of the Alt Right, a white version of Baron Samedi. Whether that works out for him in the long run is another matter, but it seems clear he will be going it alone for the most part
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Most Jews in the West vote for left-wing parties, but most Orthodox Jews in the West vote for conservative parties. Orthodox Judaism is the opposite of radical.
* This interview is interesting in the glimpses it offers into the ‘radical’ mind and ‘Jewish’ mindset.
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell which is which, and it was a mystery even to those who held them. Their Jewishness had been decisive in the radical path they took, but the path was a way out of Jewishness and toward a new humanity without labels and borders. A kind of paradox where being something leads to something that negates that very being.
* My theory is Jewish hatred for American oil tycoons has to do with the fact that it’s one of the few industries in The U.S where Gentile billionaires & millionaires outnumber Jewish billionaires & millionaires. It’s a jealousy factor. Jews get jealous when they see Goys dominate an industry and outperform them. The oil industry is the Goy’s version of Wall Street.
* It is not so much what Rex Tillerson has said or done, but that he will be in a Trump cabinet. If he were in a Bush cabinet, the Forward wouldn’t care, cause they know they could sway Tillerson thru Bush. They can’t sway Trump like Presidents of the past 30 years, so they are extra nervous.
Trump is apt to be amenable to win-win scenarios with a strand of Likud thinking. But, he won’t be guilt-tripped by Jewish leftists into manipulating refugee policy to make the US a dumping ground, or setting foreign aid budgets at reckless levels.
* Trump’s policies are in opposition to the Jewish establishment across the board.
That is not to say he is anti-semitic. He is simply free to follow his natural impulses as a guy who loves his country. Which is, of course, anathema, to the powers that be.
Trump is not puppeteered by Jewish money and therefore he is pursuing a straight ahead patriotic goy platform. Oy vey!
* “I made a startling discovery: his [David Horowitz] eyes were those of literally a madman.”
I believe it.. but it takes a ‘madman’ to understand what is really up with the radicals and hipsters of his generation.
I think a lot of normal people don’t really get power. People usually project their own personalities and mentalities onto others. So, normal people don’t really get the real darkness of the obsessed. Nice dorks like Rich Lowry just don’t get it. Lowry is gooey enough to think that if he treats Al Sharpton nice, the good decent Negro will come out of that dude.
Horowitz gets it. He has a bit of madness in him, and he can imagine the same darkness in others, especially those in power. It’s like Mamet movies, always a bit paranoid of the darkest motives of the other fella or gal. Sometimes, the darkness could be of skill & power, like in HOUSE OF GAMES. Sometimes, the darkness could be radical stupidity, like the girl in OLEANNA. The nice liberal professor just doesn’t get it cuz he projects his rationality onto that moron creature driven by resentment and anger.
Politics has several kinds of people. The drivers who are always a bit mad, obsessive, and extreme in personality, even if well-hidden. And then, there are the opportunists who just want a piece of the pie. Romney is a classic opportunist, and most politicos are like him.
Most people would rather follow and get a piece of the pie that forge ahead. Trump is a driver, and his kind of madness may have stirred something in Horowitz.
It’s like John Wayne as the obsessive driver of events in RED RIVER and THE SEARCHERS.
He’s a bit mad — trying to kill his ‘son’ figure in RIVER and ‘daughter’ figure in SEARCHERS —, but he never relents and always forges ahead.
* Seems like Ken Cohen, the longtime Exxon VP of government & public affairs who retired last year, might be worth calling if you’re writing a story like this for The Forward.
* Steve Sailer: There have been Jews who were very successful in the oil biz, like Armand Hammer who did well in Libya. Shell was founded by a Jewish Brit. The Rothschilds funded the Russian oil biz way back around the beginning of the 20th Century.
The top writer on oil industry history is Daniel Yergin from Beverly Hills (I think he’s doing something with Trump’s transition team). His book “The Prize” is very good.
But in general it’s just not that Jewish of a business.
* [“There’s some real causes of concern,” said Ron Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, and an influential voice on Jewish communal policy.]
Tillerson must have been raised by George Lincoln Rockwell. Or blood brother to Louis Farrakhan…
[A lifelong Exxon Mobil executive, Tillerson has no public service background, and no public track record on Israel-related issues.]
So becoming Sec of State is like becoming Pope, but for Jews. It’s not acceptable just to never have had a problem with Catholics. You have to have devoted your life to the cause.
* I know from the book that Americans from every walk of life had a hand in this surge of energy production. What role have you seen people from a Jewish background playing in the early stages of this fracking revolution?
I was struck and surprised by the impact of various Jews on energy in general, on the evolution of the industry. George Mitchell, the father or grandfather of modern-day drilling and fracking, got his early boost by courting local Jewish investors in the Houston and Galveston area. I interviewed Mr. Mitchell before his recent death and he regaled me with stories of how — and this is something only a 90-something-year-old entrepreneur from Texas can maybe get away with — stories of how the Jews were both good backers and investors and supporters but also gave him a really hard time when he couldn’t find any oil and gas, but he had fond memories of going back and forth with his various Jewish backers, and frankly they kept him going when things were tough, when he was getting his start and even afterwards.
* James Baker was sui generis. I imagine, like Kevin Macdonald and, I think, Steve Sailer, he had negative experiences with Jews during his early adulthood. His anti-Israel obsession had nothing to do with his broader politics. The broader theme is that the elite wants to use *anti-semitism!* as a way of protecting itself. The problem is that Trump has too man Jewish connections and supporters. The idea seems to be to throw around anything that might make Jews’ Anne-Frank-Movie-Flashbacks kick in so that these connections/supporters fall away. It’s of a piece with the various other increasingly pathetic and desperate response the Left/elite is making to this election.
* Could Trump be thinking about pacifying our relationship with Russia before he starts to really put the squeeze on China? Is he capable of thinking that strategically?
* Openly admiring National Socialism makes a lot more sense than openly admiring communism. National Socialism failed, once. Communism has failed over and over and over.
* It is of course possible that Horowitz kicked Auster off his magazine because he (Auster) was difficult to work with. Auster was widely considered to be a difficult man. Although it is probably true that Horowitz did not want to acknowledge race-realism. Perhaps Horowitz believes it, but he still might not want to talk about it.
I liked both Horowitz and Auster. They both had valuable things to say, and said them well. Horowitz’ books – especially Radical Son – were quite influential in the formation of my thinking. And I liked how he turned the rhetorical tactics of the left against them. Learning from the left is something that the right must do to win.
* There were no Jews in Bush’s first cabinet. On the other hand, it contained three Arabs.
* Horowitz takes the Breitbartian implicitly-pro-white-but-not-anti-Zionist middle ground. It’s actually not that crazy. Really, you can go after George Soros and support Binyamin Netanyahu. The Israelis aren’t obsessed with increasing illegal immigration, that’s liberal diaspora Jews.
* Oil industry execs have to make deals with Muslims because they have lots of oil. That means being nice to Israel is bad for them.
* The muslims who have a lot of the oil don’t seem very hostile to Israel nowadays. There seems to be some sort of secret understanding between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and some of the Gulf States, that goes beyond a mere temporary alliance of convenience.
* Israel and all the Gulf States are allies now, united by their common fear of Iran. But the Saudis and all the others still need to pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, and that typically means pushing Israel to make various dangerous strategic concessions.
* Orthodox Jews are plenty Zionist, except for a few isolated sects. What they’re not is particularly anti-white, since they lack any liberal guilt.
People on the alt-right use ‘Zionist’ to mean ‘supporting the global, universalist elite’ because lots of liberal Jews do, but it really just means ‘supporting the state of Israel’.
* 99% of orthodox Jews are not only pro-Israel, they’re the most pro-Israel Jews you’ll ever meet.
* With the exception of Satmar and a few aligned sects even “anti-Zionist” Haredim are what most people would consider to be pro-Israel. If you ask the typical Hassid what he thinks should be done about rockets from Gaza his response will range from “burn it to the ground”, to “burn it to the ground”. Their anti-Zionism consists of being against army-service and hatred of abstract symbols like the Magen David (once common as a decoration in religious books, now totally absent) and dead people kike Ben Gurion. One of the largest Haredi population centres, Beitar Illit, is a settlement, they’re not keen to see its population evacuated.
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Comment: It’s been my opinion that the alt-right basically started gaining traction as a thing as the progressive Social Justice Warriors began seeking to expand their influence into new areas, such as science fiction (see: the circumstances leading up to Sad/Rabid Puppies), video games (see: Gamergate), open-source software development (see: this post by Our Host), and even heavy-metal music (see: this description of “Metalgate”). Clearly, they’d like to see their brand of political correctness spread everywhere.
“Always leave your opponent a line of retreat–unless you want a fight to the death.” The SJWs don’t want to leave any lines of retreat. Consequently, it seems inevitable that a group of people, drawing from some of the same groups reacting to the above developments, would decide to band together and proclaim, “If it’s war they want, then war they shall have!”
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Dennis Prager writes: 1. It is completely normal for heterosexual men to see women they are sexually attracted to as sex objects.
2. That such sexual objectification is normal and has nothing to do with misogyny is proved, among other things, by the fact that homosexual men see men to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects. If heterosexual men are misogynists, homosexual men are man haters.
3. One reason for this is the almost-unique power of a visual to sexually arouse men. Men are aroused just by glancing at a woman’s arm, ankle, calf, thigh or stomach, even without ever seeing her face. Those legs, calves, arms, etc. are sexual objects. That’s why there are innumerable websites featuring them.
4. Every normal heterosexual man who sees a woman as a sexual object can also completely respect her mind, her character and everything else nonsexual about her. Men do this all the time.
5. Most heterosexual women also see sexy women as sex objects, and they are hardly misogynists. Ask your wife or girlfriend which would turn her on more: watching a male strip show in front of a female audience, or a female strip show in front of a male audience.
6. Lucky is a couple if the man can sexually objectify his partner. The longer a husband can at least occasionally regard his wife as a sex object, the better their marriage. It is not always easy to see the woman you see every day, the mother of your children, as a sex object.
7. The whole purpose of lingerie and other sexual attire is to render the woman a sex object in her partner’s eyes. Are all the women who wear lingerie, bikinis, cheerleading outfits or whatever else turns their partner on — and hopefully them as well — haters of women?
8. If your husband denies these assertions, he is lying to you because he is afraid that you will react angrily or that he will hurt your feelings. He may also be lying to himself — after all, he, too, went to college and reads liberal opinion pieces on misogyny; and he wants to be an “enlightened” male.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
