The Inside Story of How the GOP Sabotaged Trump’s Voter Registration Drive

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Mike Cernovich writes:

Donald Trump’s get out the vote efforts have been sabotaged at every level by the GOP, sources report exclusively to this reporter. Some of the sabotage is obvious and clear, and others is more subtle. Their motivations for sabotage vary from personal and professional jealousy to financial.

The bait-and-switch.

When a Donald Trump volunteer goes to the local GOP office to get out the vote, she’ll be sent out to knock on doors for down ballot candidates in neighborhoods Trump has already won.

Would be volunteers have reported to me that when the showed up at the GOP office, the local office would tell them to campaign for other GOP candidates. When the volunteers told the local office that they wanted to campaign for Trump, they were told to leave.

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Pew: In 2016, Latinos View Republicans More Favorably Than in 2012

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: “Do you ever get the impression that the media don’t really understand Hispanics?”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* One of the important things about the WikiLeaks revelations is to see the media in such obvious collusion with the Clinton campaign.

You’ve got to wonder how much this might be rattling Hillary’s media supporters exactly when further collusion is so important.

Do they really want to be caught out in their collaboration? How can they be sure that their email now isn’t being hacked?

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* Calling a large slice of the populace “irredeemable” is really dangerous stuff. It implies they are unworthy of respect or consideration; essentially outlaws who are undeserving of even basic rights.

This is right up there with her repeatedly tweeting (often before the body is cold) about how “cops need to stop killing black men” every time a black male is shot by the cops, regardless of circumstances. The implicit message is “the white man has no laws a negro need respect.”

So she is really promoting insurrection on two fronts. It’s horrifically irresponsible but unsurprising. What’s sad is that almost no one is pointing this fact out despite its lack of any ambiguity to me. A vote for Hillary is virtually guaranteed civil war and war with Russia.

* I did not fail to take note of this moment in the debate as it was transpiring. The immediate thought that crossed my mind was, “Hey Hill, you got a problem with Trump, you got a problem with me!”

Hillary will never, ever, ever win back one single soul from the basket of deplorables. We love Trump and identify with him. Sorry, but that toothpaste is out of the tube.

* The wifi services at UC Berkeley, a public university, have already begun blocking websites hosting alt-right viewpoints, including unz.com and Breitbart.com.

* Both Hillary and the entire media elite are doing a very poor job hiding their seething hatred for the white working class. Should Hillary win the election, I don’t think any of them will even see a need to try to hide it. Why have any sympathy with irredeemable racists? How can any good in this world come from treating them well, when they are enemies of all that’s right? Their economic distress and alienation isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. And if they are irrelevant to elections, why pretend anymore to think otherwise?

Under Clinton, the US is going to be run like an HR department whose only concern will be that those who aren’t white heterosexual males get control of the choice and powerful positions, and to see to it that those white heterosexual males are compelled to take the diversity training necessary to make them celebrate being passed over.

* I live in California, a single party state, which is America’s future. I am inclined to suspect the country will be soon be effectively a single party state after the death of the GOPe, and the demographic changes that will finish making Republicans a permanent minority. Most the US will come to resemble Mexico politically, where the PRI ruled the country with no viable opposition for over four decades. The political process will operate in the form of struggles amongst interest groups inside the Democratic Party to divvy up the dwindling loot for their own constituents.
As the economy continues its slow death spiral we will probably see a future second party that will be eventually challenging the Democrats in the form of an explicitly socialist, populist party dedicated to battling the global interests that rule the Democrats today.
However I suspect the rise of a second party able to challenge the monopoly party may not take forty years as it did in Mexico. Although today it doesn’t look like it would be easy to peel the coalition of the fringes away from the Democrats, the economy may go down the tubes more quickly than the globalists think, and the massive immigration from the Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Islamic countries are de-stabilizing influences occurring at an unprecedented rate. Things could get whacko more quickly than I used to think they would. Once the debt gets big enough, and the system won’t be able to generate enough wealth to pay everyone off, the house of cards comes down.

* There seems to be a significant contingent of the AR that is going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the realization that having a popular blog or being a pithy commenter isn’t going to keep the boot off their neck.

Look at some of the fools here saying “Kobach 2020: Better Luck This Time!”

There isn’t a 2020. This is it.

* If Hill-Hill wins we are all going to be publicly outed and we will have to live like Scott Adams. The guy basically threw away millions and his future to support Trump.

* So, we now know the Trump tape was leaked by Dan Senor and his wife, NBC’s Campbell Brown.

What’s amazing about this whole thing is Ryan was in on it. And purposely said he would start campaigning with Trump days before this tape was leaked so he could then publicly say he will “no longer” campaign with Trump after Trump’s outrageous comments 11 years ago. The depth of perfidy is astounding. The GOP has no life beyond Trump.

* One has to consider that Ryan/Romney Republicans are content to be the Washington Generals for the Democrat “Globetrotters.” It would explain of lot of these R’s behavior.

* The [media] are making a fatal mistake this election by suppressing news unfavorable to their candidate — which includes all the WikiLeaks’ revelations.

The public is, in fact, going to hear about this news one way or another. Who will be presenting that genuine news? Only alternative news sources. Where will the public turn, then, to get the details? To those sources.

The traditional media will likely suffer a significant decline in readership and influence, and alternative media a significant boost.

As it should be.

* Brazile leaked primary debate questions to Hillary. Wonder if this happened in the presidential debates.

* The Hillary hate meme is already resonating, with the irredeemable deplorables statement doing a great deal to pull her down.

This additional statement from Podesta reinforces and expands upon the deplorables statement, showing how deep her hatred of everyday Americans goes.

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The Trump Tape

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Scott Adams blogs:

1. If this were anyone else, the election would be over. But keep in mind that Trump doesn’t need to outrun the bear. He only needs to outrun his camping buddy. There is still plenty of time for him to dismantle Clinton. If you think things are interesting now, just wait. There is lots more entertainment coming.

2. This was not a Trump leak. No one would invite this sort of problem into a marriage.

3. I assume that publication of this recording was okayed by the Clinton campaign. And if not, the public will assume so anyway. That opens the door for Trump to attack in a proportionate way. No more mister-nice-guy. Gloves are off. Nothing is out of bounds. It is fair to assume that Bill and Hillary are about to experience the worst weeks of their lives.

4. If nothing new happens between now and election day, Clinton wins. The odds of nothing new happening in that timeframe is exactly zero.

5. I assume that 75% of male heads of state, including our own past presidents, are total dogs in their private lives. Like it or not, Trump is normal in that world.

6. As fictional mob boss Tony Soprano once said in an argument with his wife, “You knew what you were getting when you married me!” Likewise, Trump’s third wife, Melania, knew what she was getting. It would be naive to assume Trump violated their understanding.

7. Another rich, famous, tall, handsome married guy once told me that he can literally make-out and get handsy with any woman he wants, whether she is married or not, and she will be happy about it. I doubted his ridiculous claims until I witnessed it three separate times. So don’t assume the women were unwilling…

13. My prediction of a 98% chance of Trump winning stays the same. Clinton just took the fight to Trump’s home field. None of this was a case of clever strategy or persuasion on Trump’s part. But if the new battleground is spousal fidelity, you have to like Trump’s chances.

14. Trump wasn’t running for Pope. He never claimed moral authority. His proposition has been that he’s an asshole (essentially), but we need an asshole to fight ISIS, ignore lobbyists, and beat up Congress. Does it change anything to have confirmation that he is exactly what you thought he was?

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The Second Debate

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Scott Adams blogs:

Some quick reactions…

1. When the Access Hollywood tape came up, Trump dismissed it as locker room banter that he regrets. You expected that part. The persuasion move was that he quickly contrasted that “small” issue with images of ISIS beheadings, and cage-drownings. It was a high ground maneuver, a powerful visual anchor (like the Rosie O’Donnell move from his first primary debate), and a contrast play. In this framing, Trump cares about saving your life while Clinton cares about your choice of words. I realize the issue is Trump’s alleged deeds, not his words. But in terms of debate persuasion, Trump nailed it hard.

2. Clinton’s body language was defensive. Trump is physically larger and prowled the stage. He won the optics. It only got worse when a fly landed on Clinton’s face mid-answer. Both candidates looked perfect in terms of wardrobe and hair, given what they have to work with.

3. Trump threw in enough random details about Syria to persuade viewers that he knows more than they thought he knew. And he did a great job selling the idea that he knows more than the generals (as ridiculous as that sounds), at least in terms of not announcing where we plan to attack. I agree with the moderator who said there might be good reasons for announcing attacks – such as giving time for civilians to leave – but it wasn’t quite a counter-argument. Trump succeeded in looking informed on Syria, and at the same time reinforced the “can’t keep a secret” theme for Clinton.

4. Trump’s pre-debate show with Bill’s alleged victims dismantled Clinton’s pro-woman high ground before the debate even started. I didn’t see the pre-debate show, but I assume it was impactful. It had to be. Clinton looked shaken from the start.

5. The best quotable moments from the debate are pro-Trump. His comment about putting Clinton in jail has that marvelous visual persuasion quality about it, and it was the laugh of the night, which means it will be repeated endlessly. He also looked like he meant it.

Clinton’s Abe Lincoln defense for two-faced politicking failed as hard as anything can fail. Mrs. Clinton, I knew Abe Lincoln, and you’re no Abe Lincoln. You know that was in your head. Or it will be.

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The New Star Of Germany’s Far Right

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

From The New Yorker:

On one side there are moderate members, for whom the AfD is basically a protest vote; on the other is what he called a “dark core” of true believers—people like Björn Höcke, a former history teacher who has said that the “reproductive strategies” of Africans are diluting the ethnic-German population. Petry had been a link between the two wings, Funke said, but now she was vulnerable, because the dark core had succeeded in moving the AfD even further to the right. “The Party is in the hands of radicals now,” he said.

That’s shocking to notice that different races have different reproductive strategies. Wow, just wow. That sounds like Phil Rushton’s R/K hypothesis.

He was disgusted that so many of his countrymen were immune to the tug of patriotism, and called Merkel “the Germany abolisher”—a newly popular term derived from a right-wing tract titled “Germany Abolishes Itself,” by Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board of the German Bundesbank. The book, which appeared in 2010 and sold more than a million and a half copies, argues that everything from high immigrant crime rates to low test scores among Muslims could be partly traced to genetic factors.

Of course we know now that genes don’t account for anything. They have no predictive value, that’s why smart people are so careless in selecting who they make babies with.

The success of Sarrazin’s book revealed an important shift in public opinion. For decades, Germany was proud of not being proud—of confronting its past openly and of accepting the principle of collective guilt. It developed a political identity based on allegiance to the laws and norms of the state, rather than on any cultural or ethnic sense of Germanness. As a result, patriotic displays that would be uncontroversial in other countries, such as flying the national flag or saying that you love your country, were taboo in Germany. But, as the memory of the Third Reich recedes and the last generation of perpetrators and victims dies out, the nation has begun to see itself differently. The AfD is attracting voters, like Kucharicky, who want Germany to become a normal country again, with an unashamed sense of nationalism.

A political identity based on allegiances to the laws and norms of the state is a weak political identity compared to the ties of blood and soil.

On the other hand, as I discovered, there is no truly typical AfD supporter, because the Party attracts voters who have a wide range of concerns and grievances. At town-hall meetings, conferences, white-sausage breakfasts, dinners, and late-night carouses, I encountered many types. I met a doctor from Kiel who had come back to Saxony to reclaim ancestral land confiscated by the Communists; I met a middle manager for Mercedes who had had to seek medical attention for his heart when he learned of Merkel’s bailout of Greece; I met a Vietnamese-German man who joined the AfD because it was the only party that talked about the global influence of the C.I.A.; I met a trainee pilot for United Airlines who admired Trump and had decided that the AfD was the closest German equivalent; I met a quiet architect who thought that most of the Party was unhinged but still joined, because it was right about the economy. I met very few women. (The membership is eighty-five per cent male.)

Women are conformist. They are rarely trailblazers. They do what they think their peers will admire.

The discussion escalated when Petry accused Mazyek of wanting to impose Sharia law on Germany, a popular but unfounded claim.

Every group wants to impose its norms to the extent that it can.

Afterward, in her office, we talked about the AfD’s connections to other populist movements. She has established close ties with Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, and has also met with Geert Wilders, the star of the Dutch far right. She told me that a colleague had recently met with Marine Le Pen, of France’s Front National, and that over the summer she had spoken to various American Republicans, including the Iowa congressman Steve King, who has compared immigrants to dogs and suggested building an electric fence on the U.S. border with Mexico. When I asked her what she thought of Donald Trump, she said, “My impression is that Trump may become the American President, because the alternative to him, Hillary Clinton, is just so unconvincing. She is almost like a copy of someone like Merkel—someone who just keeps on with the same policies that led to the trouble in the first place.” She admired the American willingness to take risks: “It might not be better under Trump, but at least with him there is the chance to change.”

She thought that German politics was more weighed down by liberal pieties. “It’s so moral to allow these attacks to happen,” she said sarcastically. “It’s so moral to promise to people around the world that they can come to Germany and find paradise.” She found this outlook anti-democratic, disdainful of the views of ordinary Germans. “I myself am not morally good,” she said. “I’m just a human being. I try to stick to the rules. And I think there is a majority of Germans who agree with me. So, reducing the entire Enlightenment and all of the successes of European history down to this need to be morally good: I find that extremely dangerous. There’s this saying of Nietzsche”—she took out her phone and pulled up the quote almost instantly. “Here it is, in ‘Zarathustra’: ‘The good have always been the beginning of the end.’ ”

Israel does not worry about being so good that it puts its existence in danger. That would be insane. I once heard a rabbi say, “If Israel were 25% better, it would be dead.”

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