The MSM is not used to white people standing up for themselves. Until Trump, that right was reserved for minorities.
If you attack Donald Trump, you are making yourself a target for Trump supporters, just like those who attack Bernie Sanders are marking themselves a target for Bernie supporters.
This one-sided article says very little about the nasty slurs hurled against Donald Trump and his supporters.
Conservative essayist Bethany S. Mandel, who has been awash in a deluge of social media abuse since she began denouncing Donald Trump, finally purchased a handgun over the weekend.
“It’s a .22 magnum revolver,” says Mandel, the mother of two young children, who applied for a firearms permit at her local suburban police department after absorbing a fusillade of vile, anti-Semitic tweets and Facebook messages in recent months.
“I’m picking it up,” Mandel says about her firearm, “after the shop’s background check comes back.”
Having practiced at a New Jersey firing range, she prefers a revolver to a pistol because “my aim is far better,” she says.
“My husband [New York Post Op-Ed page editor Seth Mandel] isn’t happy about it,” she says about her new acquisition.
The 29-year-old Mandel, who writes for The Federalist, a conservative/libertarian website that often inveighs against Trump, is a pugnacious online presence who frequently crosses swords with self-avowed acolytes of the Republican presidential frontrunner.
She has especially tangled with Breitbart News, the rabble-rousing, Trump-friendly website—named for its late founder, culture warrior Andrew Breitbart—that regularly savages the GOP establishment, the media elite, the Washington consultant class, and the Fox News Channel, which it likes to portray as the willing enabler of all these sinister forces.
“When I went to my local police department and applied for the gun permit, they said, ‘Maybe you should stop writing things that make people angry,’” Mandel recounts. “And I said, ‘OK, I’ll give that some consideration.’
‘You have kids. Why would you do that?’
‘Because I want to leave them a world that is worth living in.’”
Yet one can hardly fault Mandel’s feelings of vulnerability. Typical online insults (screenshots of which she provided to The Daily Beast) included “you deserve the oven,” complete with the image of a Domino’s Pizza oven—this from an apparent Trump fan who goes by the Twitter handle @dinguscout.
After Mandel observed: “Another night blocking all the anti-Semites who are helping Trump make American[sic] great again,” a second apparent Trump supporter, @unusr1, tweeted at her: “Missed one, you slimy Jewess.”
It is entirely predictable that, among other news outlets—including The Drudge Report, The New York Times and The Washington Post—the Twitter feeds of Mandel’s Trump-fan assailants often include links to stories on Breitbart News, and even to audio clips from Breitbart News Daily, the SiriusXM satellite radio program hosted by Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Breitbart News editor in chief Alex Marlow.
Nicknamed “Trumpbart” by detractors, the outlet claims 17 million readers, and is widely seen as a credulous purveyor of Trump’s angry populist, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim message, and as an enthusiastic booster of the reality show billionaire’s candidacy.
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While Donald Trump did not plan on having a Jewish daughter, he is glad he did so, the business tycoon said Tuesday night upon accepting the Liberty Award at The Algemeiner’s ‘Jewish 100′ Gala in New York City.
“I want to thank my Jewish daughter. I have a Jewish daughter,” he said at the event, which drew a star-studded crowd of 500 to the Capitale on Bowery. “This wasn’t in the plan but I’m very glad it happened.”
Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism in 2009 before marrying real estate developer Jared Kushner, whom Donald described on stage as a “spectacular guy.” In presenting the award to her father, Ivanka described him as someone who has firm convictions and “a man who uses his platform and uses his voice to effectuate change.”
“He is fundamentally somebody who believes that it’s his civic duty to speak his mind and often say what’s not popular and what others are afraid to,” she added. “He has used his voice often and loudly in support of Israel and in support of developments within Israel, in support of security for Israel and in support of the idea of Israeli democracy.”
On stage, Trump concluded his acceptance speech by asserting his strong support for the Jewish state. He told the audience, “We love Israel. We will fight for Israel 100 percent, 1,000 percent. It will be there forever.”
Other honorees at the event included philanthropists Joseph and Deborah Aronow, late entertainer Joan Rivers and speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein.
Watch Donald Trump’s speech in the video below:
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VICE: Chaim Schlaff was born and raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in London. He now lives in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and describes himself as a “proud legal immigrant.” He is also an enthusiastic Donald Trump supporter.
Schlaff says he “loves” the way Trump speaks and so do most of his friends: “He talks about everything we think.”
Schlaff is not the only member of the Hasidic community in the greater New York City area that feels this way about Trump. According to many Hasidic voters and political commentators, Trump has sparked an undeniable interest in parts of this culturally isolated world.
“Among my circle of friends, at least 90 percent [support] Trump,” said Yanky Lichtman, a Trump supporter who lives in Lakewood, New Jersey, one of the biggest Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York area.
David Gross, a Hasid who lives in Brooklyn, said he was never interested in politics before this election, but “when Trump decided to run I got excited.”
“He is honest, an everyday person,” Gross said. “A lot of people I know agree with him, but they just don’t want to say it.” Gross added that he’d probably just sit out the general election if Trump was not the Republican nominee because “it won’t be as interesting.”
Jacob Kornbluh, a New York-based Orthodox political reporter for the news site Jewish Insider, says that there is “no question support for Trump is widespread” within the Hasidic community. The majority of Hasidic voters he’s spoken to have said they plan on supporting Trump, although Kornbluh says that he has also found support for Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz within the community. But for the average Hasidic voter, says Kornbluh, “Trump is their guy.”
The Hasidim are the most conservative wing of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and are culturally, ideologically, and politically distinct from mainstream American Jews. While Jewish voters overall are consistently one of the most liberal groups in the country, nearly two-thirds of ultra-Orthodox Jews say they are politically conservative, while 57 percent of Orthodox Jews identify with or lean towards the Republican party, according to a Pew survey of Jewish Americans.
There have not been any polls of Hasidic voters ahead of the primary election, so much of the evidence of support for Trump within these communities so far has been anecdotal. But the fact that Trump has also done well among evangelical Christians in the primary states that have voted so far (in South Carolina, he won 34 percent of the white evangelical Christian vote) is a fairly telling indicator of how Hasidim will vote as well.
Since 2000, ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York have voted in national elections in extremely similar patterns to how evangelical Christians voted, according to Sam Abrams, a political scientist at Stanford University who studies the politics of American Jewish voters. The only other religious group of Americans that are as consistently conservative (politically and ideologically) as Orthodox Jews are white, evangelical Christians, according to Pew.
If it were any other election, it might be surprising that a candidate like Trump is popular in communities as conservative as Hasidic Jews and evangelical Christians. The twice-divorced reality television star has bragged about the size of his penis on national television, voiced support for gay marriage (although he has since walked that back) and extolled the virtues of Planned Parenthood. None of this exactly matches up with the socially conservative views held very deeply by both groups.
Related: Donald Trump Just Referenced His Penis Size in a Nationally Televised Debate
But one of the fundamental aspects of Trump’s campaign — which has confounded political pundits to no end — has been his ability to find support across seemingly contradictory pockets of the American electorate. Since the start of this election, commentators have been obsessed with assigning each candidate to specific groups of voters based on their demographics, backgrounds and ideologies; Ted Cruz’s base was supposed to be evangelical Christians concentrated in the south, while Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were the “establishment” guys that would appeal to moderates in northeastern suburbs. But Trump smashed through this framework by proving he was able to pick up supporters across all kinds of voters.
Trump’s popularity in the Hasidic community highlights this phenomenon. When asked about their support for Trump, many Hasidim use the same lines and talking points one hears from Trump supporters at his rallies around the country.
“I like the way how he says it,” said Lichtman. “He tells you straight what he thinks and that’s a big plus.”
Lichtman added that he, along with many of his friends who are also supporting Trump, are “fed up with the establishment on both sides. [We] gave them a chance and nothing worked.” Like Brooklyn’s Gross, Lichtman says that if Trump is not the nominee he probably won’t vote in the general election at all.
Others cited Trump’s business experience as a big reason for their support. There’s a “feeling he’ll be able to create jobs, create wealth, bring jobs into this country,” Gross said…
Those who closely track the politics and culture of the Hasidic community speculate that one reason that Trump has gained popularity among some of its members is very specific to the way Hasidic life is organized. For generations, the ultra-Orthodox religion and communities have been structured around a strong central leader, a rebbe or rabbi, who controls nearly all aspects of their life.
“How we operate on a daily life is to follow a certain rabbi and be inspired by him and do whatever he orders without questioning him,” says Kornbluh.
Trump represents a similar type of leader, who promises plenty of great solutions if the country just follows his example. Explanations of how, exactly, he’ll achieve those solutions come later. (See: “Make America Great Again”). These similarities between Trump and the rebbe style of leadership could be “why a lot of Orthodox Jews are inspired by him without questioning what he says or what his views on certain issues are,” said Kornbluh.
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National Review’s Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump’s appeals to the white working class are “immoral” because that demographic’s way of life deserves to die out.
In a featured article for the prestigious conservative journal entitled “The FatherFuhrer,” Williamson seeks to rebut criticism that he and other conservatives don’t articulate any policies that would appeal to Trump’s blue collar supporters.
Williamson, a long-time critic of The Donald, essentially agrees that he doesn’t support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to the working-class — particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration — because it would be wrong to do so.
“It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces,” the NR roving correspondent writes. “[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves.”
He then goes on to make the conclusion that it’s great these communities are dying out because they have a warped morality and are a dead weight on the economy.
“The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible,” the conservative writer says. “The white American under-class is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul. If you want to live, get out of Garbutt [a blue-collar town in New York.]”
* So is the Journo-Slut accusing Lewandowsky of “touching” her, actually touching the Trump himself in this picture?
If some Journo-Bro were aggressively obstructing or crowding Hillary, would her guards and handlers not be excused for gently moving her aside?
This media scrum looks like a basketball game. Neither are really “contact” sports, but you can’t really expect to play without brushing up against some of the other players.
Somebody needs to escort this sensitive lady to a safe space where she won’t be jostled by the real world.
* Typical liberal (insane) Democrats…blaming outside forces for their own failures and behavior. Got shot by a police officer? Well, it MUST be because the police officer was just being racist, because it could not possibly have anything to do with Dindu Gimmedat attacking the officer and/or reaching for his weapon. Dindu Gimmedats and communists protesting and committing violent acts at Trump’s Chicago rally? Well, it’s MUST be because Trump is evil and divisive, and not because they are disgusting, violent terrorists, right? And Hillary and Bernie made NO apologies for the behavior of their followers, instead pointing the finger of blame at Trump. Wake up White people! Wake up conservative blacks! Wake up Asians! The future is VERY bleak if Trump does not win and deport the illegals.
And that is one of the MAIN reasons that the Left (and GOP) hive is buzzing so loudly…they absolutely need illegal and legal immigration of Third World losers to maintain power, and know that Trump’s plan will set them back two decades at least.
* Note that “witchy c*nt” shoved her way to the front of the line and pushed “f*ck me stare” into a distant second place. This is consistent with my position that the descent into R-Selection will MASCULINIZE the women, because they literally have to FIGHT their way, tooth & nail, into the harems of the Peak Alphas.
* Conversely, with the 20/80 rule [20% of men get 80% of the p00ntang], R-Selection simultaneously FEMINIZES the Betas & the Gammas, because they get no womynzes.
* During the San Bernardino terrorist attack, I watched Van Susteren talking to reporters and witnesses on the ground in the area. She was extremely good at tampering down their excitement/hype and asking pointed questions, even questions about their sources for their information (“Wait, did the police chief say that, or are you extrapolating?”; “Did you talk to the person and they said that verbatim, or did you hear that from another reporter?” “Sir, did you actually see the suspects, or did you think you saw them?” type questions).
Very professional and kept the speculating to a minimum. Shows why Fox keeps her around, despite not being a young hot babe reporter or some big-name legend. She impressed me as the only responsible female reporter/newsperson I can remember seeing.
* Having worked in newsrooms, I did see this kind of female reporterette. Unfortunately, they exist in male form too. And these pseudo-aggressive White Knights are often worse.
Sports departments breed them like rabbits. You can see this at ESPN online and the (thankfully) now defunct Grantland. It’s not enough that they cover their boring games. Every once in a while they feel the need to produce these chest-thumping anti-sexism columns where they “dress down” or “name and shame” other men for some slight, perceived CRIME AGAINST (OMG!!) WOMEN!!
* The news reporters can BS all they want, but they can’t erase those Soviet flags in the background, the Bernie Sanders signs, or protesters screaming profanities at Trump supporters.
Opposition hasn’t won anything. They’ve showed themselves for what they are, and most Americans are sick of this anyway. Plus, the police presence at Trump rallies is likely going to be tightened down. Not every city in the country requires its police force to fill out a three page questionnaire every time they speak to a member of the public, and not every city has that kind of black/illegal population. Opposition will have to go completely over the rails to pull this stunt again.
Plus, as an added bonus, the GOP’s got exactly two choices now; support Trump or the anti-American, anti-West psychopaths. Ought to be interesting which option they pick.
* What slays me is how the left keeps spinning this bullshit.
Step One: Black protesters show up and act obnoxious at Trump rally.
Step Two: Irritated Trump supporters yell at them and push them out.
Step Three: Black POS and their liberal white enablers in the press screech about hate and racism at Trump rallies.
It’s laughable to me, but I wonder how much of the electorate falls for it. I haven’t seen a Trump supporter react to one of these POS in a way that wasn’t completely justified.
* What I can’t understand is how they justify their “Trump is a violent divisive figure” BS. He has never advocated violence, even if he has expressed frustration with how soft the police have to be, and he has never played on racial or social divisions, except when it comes to the Establishment.
The press thinks we believe anything they tell us, good little robots who accept every word coming out of their mouths as truth. It’s pathetic. Everyone in this country knows exactly what happened out there last night. The more divorced from reality the spin becomes, the more obvious it is.
* I wish Trump had a Praetorian guard. Just wade into them hacking and stabbing, the goddamn filth.
* Trump is 100% at fault for saying naughty things and creating an atmosphere of violence.
* A bomber catches the most flak when it is close to the target. The B-52 Trump is coming in hot and heavy, and is close to the target. I look forward to him yelling and smiling from the cockpit as he releases a massive load all over the Left.
* Great smackdown of Rotten Romney by Judge (Jeanine) Pirro from a few nights ago. She really tells it like it is. Surprised it was aired, even on the controlled opposition, Fox News.
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Some thoughts upon discovering that the latest SJW drama stars histrionic Breitbart (!) employee and Fox News neocon narcissist Michelle Fields… the words of Macbeth come immediately to mind: “it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Or—just made this up—”scratch a female neocon and, presto, therein the soul of the Social Justice Warrior emerges, Tweeting her bruise hysterically.”
So, the latest tale of narcissism, Cultural Marxism and female hysteria (but I repeat myself) comes in the form of—little surprise here—an individual within my personal demographic of females under age 30. One Michelle Fields (whose history as a serial fraudster was unearthed by Charles C. Johnson at Gotnews) claims to have been physically assaulted by Trump’s manager Corey Lewandowski while pursuing her vocation as neocon reporter questioning future president Trump on ‘affirmative action’ (LOL). She apparently lost her balance while attempting to pursue him and was physically rebuffed by an individual that may or may not have been Lewandowski. She then proceeded—in full SJW narcissistic, histrionic glory—to photograph the minuscule bruising on her arm that may or may not have been caused by the other individual and posted it on Twitter.
(Keep in mind that this person has also claimed to have been assaulted by the cops while participating in an Occupy Wall Street mob riot and thus felt the need to commiserate with the leftist rabble).
Michelle getting pushed down by police during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Trump campaign serial liars pic.twitter.com/oNptBzNkC9
She posts the picture of her bruise—then out springs brittle neocon boyfriend (Jamie Weinstein from the Daily Caller) to rev the engines of valiant outrage, Conservatism Inc. gleefully joins in, and thus unwarranted Internet neocon venom is unleashed at poor Mr. Lewandowski. And it seems she’s now pressed charges! Is Corey Lewandowski in need of a Movement to Free Him (kind of like Mumia, except actually innocent)? Shall we make photo T-shirts too, like the ones that always get made immediately in the ‘black community’ after another individual commits suicide by cop? Free Corey!
Unforgivably, the formerly somewhat-okay Ben Shapiro has led this hysterical SJW mob, which proves beyond all reasonable doubt that those ‘conservatives’ within my age group being paid money to proffer shallow and cliched opinions need to be removed from social media until they read and digest the entire works of the Old Right.
This combination of neocon vapidity and SJW malicious garbage is totally unbearable. It is NEVER GOING TO END!!! And now even Breitbart? How I wish Murray Rothbard, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran were alive to skewer these people. Can you imagine the Rothbard-Rockwell Report in the age of Twitter? One can only dream…
Trump supporters are not authoritarians, but populists and then the article (by social scientists) explains the difference. Cruz’s supporters are authoritarians. Sanders supporters are more populists, but they are not patriotic. The authors conclude they are cosmopolitan socialists.
It is a revealing article because the media has whipped up such hostility to Trump. The L.A. Times declared him unfit to be president. Robert Reich and many others label him a fascist or a nazi. The Republican establishment has many times claimed that Trump’s views are antithetical to the views of Americans. It seems that all of Trump’s opponents want nothing more than for there to be violence at Trump rallies so that they can blame it on Trump. Even though a large group of yesterday’s protesters were shouting Bernie, both inside and outside the hall, Sanders has not stood up for Trump’s right to speak and Trump’s supporters to hear him, and that has not been condemned even though the same media and candidates would try to hold Trump responsible for the acts of his supporters.
It is incredibly disturbing to me that the actions of the anti Trump demonstrators have not been universally criticized by the media, by the other candidates (both Republican and Democrats) and by other politicians.
But in our research, we find no evidence that Trump supporters are any more “authoritarian” (at least by common measures) than those who like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) or even Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Authoritarianism and populism are easy to conflate, but they actually refer to very distinct tendencies.
Authoritarianism, as understood by political psychologists, refers to a set of personality traits that seek order, clarity and stability. Authoritarians have little tolerance for deviance. They’re highly obedient to strong leaders. They scapegoat outsiders and demand conformity to traditional norms.
Populism, on the other hand, is a type of political rhetoric that casts a virtuous “people” against nefarious elites and strident outsiders. Scholars measure populism in a variety of ways, but we focus on three central elements:
Belief that a few elites have absconded with the rightful sovereignty of the people;
Deep mistrust of any group that claims expertise;
Strong nationalist identity
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Of course, Safe Spaces has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with the territorial imperative. Young people naturally feel the urge to fight turf wars, to stake out territory and drive out enemies. Normally in America we have laws to regulate the competition for property so territorial urges don’t turn into mob rule. But over the last year minority college students have increasingly asserted that they must be above the law because racism. It’s the only way they can be safe.
What we’re seeing at UIC is the balkanized future of America in which The Diverse can only come together over fear and loathing of whites. Hating whites is the KKKrazy Glue of the coalition of the fringes.
When black, Muslim and Latino student activists at the University of Illinois at Chicago heard last week that Donald Trump was planning a rally on campus, they did what any good organizers do in 2016: They went online.
Within days, thousands of people had liked a Facebook page called “Stop Trump – Chicago.” Tens of thousands added their names to a MoveOn.org petition calling on the school to cancel the rally.
They all had one thing in common, said Casandra Robledo, a second-year student who helped organize the protest: “We felt so strongly that Donald Trump and his bigotry and racism wasn’t welcome here.”
Comments:
* I saw bits and pieces from three of Trump’s speeches today, and from the one in St Louis yesterday. In each speech he was interrupted several times. The protests were staged to burn one protester every five minutes or so. So instead of one big protest, you got all these little protests.
Yet Trump surprisingly stayed focused and calm. Even when he was giving some anecdote and was interrupted for 5 minutes, he seemed to be able to recover and continue. That’s impressive for a 69 year old without notes.
The bottom line is that I am impressed with his ability to maintain his self control and not lose his temper or just storm out. He waited out the disturbances, tried to remain upbeat and soldiered on. Looking at all the traveling he has done in the past 24 hours, I am amazed.
* “This is where BLM and the Romneyites converge.
I think there needs to be a better explanation than merely the coalition of the fringes, because when the most establishmenty guys of all provide some of the cues for the protesters maybe we ought to entertain the notion that there isn’t any core to speak of anymore.”
Both are part of the established order. Both see each other as enemies and they both know how to fight each other and both have deep territory from which they draw their strength.
It’s much better to fight an enemy you know by following comfortable routines than getting engaged in a battle to the death with an unknown enemy who fights in ways you can’t counter.
Trump is an existential threat to the Romneyites because he would dislodge them from power and he’s s threat to the BLM types because he doesn’t respond in predictable ways. BLM knows that they can shake-down the Romneyites but Trump is more likely to tell them to FO and go ballistic on them and smash them to dust.
* ““As an undocumented UIC graduate student, I feel unsafe knowing that Trump along with his followers will be at my university,” organizer Jorge Mena wrote in an open letter to the school’s administration.”
He feels so unsafe that he publicly talks about how he’s undocumented to a major U.S. newspaper and in an open letter to the school’s administration.
* After watching the videos of Ragin’ Rupert Pupkinado attempting to attack Trump I give the security team a C+ grade.
Doesn’t look like his security detail would do well with two or three rushing the stage at once. Or even a diversionary action coordinated with a stage rush. The security guys looked OK but not great.
We need to realize that the videos are being studied intently by the scum who is organizing this stuff.
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* Steve, it’s prudent for the media if a Trump assassination is what they want to have happen. If they get their wish… I am having to self censor pretty strongly here.
* I’d add that some of the most unhinged people seem to be at the Glen Beck end of the spectrum. Beck, Erik Erikson, Matt Walsh and several others are tweeting furiously against Trump, sometimes in literally apocalyptic terms. I hadn’t heard of most of these Blaze.com people until a few days ago but they have tens of thousands of followers. I get the impression these people have no sense that Trump and his supporters are well within the normal bounds of democratic, constitutional politics and instead they’re certain the American Republic is in immediate danger.
* Steve, you have NO IDEA of how deep Tommy-rabbit’s cuckhole goes.
1) Hilarious black male cuckold fetish. Yes, seriously. It sounds too good to be true, but this time it ain’t.
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2) Has tweets out planning this for weeks. The video walks you through it.
3) Has co-conspirators.
4) So much weird video on this guy. Flag-stomping activism, drooling gaze at black male bodies, recurring music video theme of bare-chested black men shooting white police in some kind of Marxist revolution, etc etc.
It’s like this man was designed by 4chan.
* In a poetically just world, someone like Mr DiMassimego would be flayed.
That would take care of his most immediate white privilege problem. And he would no longer have skin in the game.
* In the 24 hours leading up to the rally, DiMassimo tweeted about hating white people, becoming a martyr, and physically attacking Trump at the rally.
And he was released on $3,000 bail after a few hours?? Should be in jail!
* I’ve just been reading the list of assassination attempts on US presidents. I’d say Trump is relatively safe. The most likely people to try it would be Muslim terrorists because of his promise to cut off Muslim immigration. It’s unlikely any would-be assassin will come from the SJW ranks. In the past, it was mostly right-wingers or psychotics/fanatics without any clear ideology who tried it.
* Trump needs to use the kind of Blackwater mercs who protected Paul Bremer outside The Green Zone. I wasn’t impressed how a solitary fat unathletic guy could make it within feet of Trump before being wrestled to the ground. Secret Service might be good as far as executive bodyguards go, but the anti-Trump rhetoric and threats are way beyond a lone political assassin. Drugs cartels and oligarchs want him dead. Show hosts like Bill Maher are openly wishing for it. Even establishment conservatives are wishing for it.
* A couple of months before Fortuyn was killed, he got a “pie” containing animal feces thrown in his face by protesters who were shouting “don’t give racism a voice”.
It is very likely that this event encouraged Fortuyn’s killer (who BTW is presently a free man again, having completed two thirds of his ridiculously light sentence, and having subsequently somehow convinced a judge to remove the conditions pertaining to his early release – yet another travesty of justice) to put his plans into action.
* Perpetual students are the sort of dodo birds who’d do something like this. They can’t mature properly. This moron doesn’t realize he’s made a serious career change once he’s tussled with the Secret Service. Once you fight with them, you’ve just committed a felony and a Federal crime. I hope he likes prison.
* I think Trump needs more secret service men or they should profile and kick out potential troublemakers beforehand.
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“This is what a culture and a society looks like when everybody says whatever the heck they want, when everyone just goes around saying ‘I’m just going to speak my mind,’” Rubio said at a morning press conference in Largo, Fla. “Well, there are other people that are angry, too. And if they speak out and say whatever they want, it all breaks down. It’s called chaos. It’s called anarchy. And that’s what we’re careening towards.”
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* The thing about being a homogeneous society is that everybody will instinctively understand where the line is. The more people around me differ from me the less I can safely say because the window of what will probably offend nobody will be tiny.
* Republican voters, not Donald Trump, got attacked in Chicago.
Why would Republican voters vote for somebody who excuses violence against Republican voters?
* How long before the submissive right joins the left in chanting “free speech does not include hate speech”?
That and a few graduates from colleges accustomed to routinely “no platforming” uncomfortable opinions, and Bob’s your uncle – the First Amendment reinterpreted to class “hate speech” with “fighting talk”.
Five years? Ten?
* The Homosexual British Greek Jew Milo Yiannopoulos is a bigger defender of the 1st Amendment than the Christian Cuban Republican Little Marco.
* What I find utterly dispiriting is how deeply so many on the right have internalized the Left’s values. As Conservatives, what are they conserving? Conservatism seems to be a grab-bag of policies which bind these people together and they’ve just slapped a tag, conservatism, on the grab bag.
Free Speech, no, can’t have that if it disrupts the road to capital gains tax reductions. Reducing capital gains tax, now that screams conservatism, but free speech, why is that conservative? What thread ties Rubio back to ancient traditions in America? You’d think conserving Free Speech would be a no-brainer, but this isn’t immediately obvious to him, instead he’s driven by something else.
For all the talk about Trump having no core of convictions, when I see guys like Rubio who robotically spout Republican policy positions, I wonder about the root of his convictions. Trump is easier to understand, love of America past. Rubio seems to have gone hook, line and sinker, into love of America future, full of glorious multiculturalism and glorious government managing us all and glorious military launching revolutions for democracy all over the world. What’s conservative about that?
* Rubio’s statement was presaged in the last debate when he said he understands that people might like Trump because he says what they would like to say but can’t. I wondered why no one explored why people can’t say certain things and whether Rubio thinks they should be able to.
* How many times have we heard movement conservatives say something like this, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?” So much for that bluster from those who claim to worship the Constitution. For now it appears Rubio, Kasich, Cruz and the rest of the GOP establishment are not only not going to defend us to the death, but are going to assign the blame to us instead. For anyone still supporting Rubio, Kasich or Cruz this should be eye opening.
If they collapse like a house of cards on a clear-cut 1st amendment issue like this, how sanguine are you that they will protect your interests when it comes to immigration, trade and a host of other issues? In this case they don’t even have to approve of Trump or his supporters because the 1st amendment is pretty clear. Yet they still found a way to back down. Just wait until they go to bat for you on an issue that is more nuanced and even less clear-cut.
* A political party that favors the American people over the will of the wealthy elites, special interest groups, and citizens of other countries, doesn’t need to hold secret meetings at Sea island to try to silence the will of the people in support of wealthy elites. Core American voters are not the ‘useful idiots’ that make up the masses of the Democrat Party. They can put 2+2 together, and they remember. If they do come up with a way to remove Trump, the GOP is basically eviscerating itself with its base.
* From today’s LA Times: “Trump has yet to back down from any of the incendiary, race-based comments he has made during this campaign; only the night before he had insisted in a Republican debate that he was correct in asserting Muslims “hate” Americans.”
Paul Ciotti: “This is not as wild a statement as it first seems. It was addressed in Samuel P. Huntington’s 1996 book, “The Clash of Civilizations” and in historian Bernard Lewis’s 1990 article for the Atlantic entitled: “Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified.”
* The recent events at the Trump rallies, although probably an overreaction to a bit of heckling are a reminder that Democracy is a pretty fragile thing, and the US, although the most heavily policed nation in the world other than ISIS territory, is not immune to breakdowns of public order at elections in a country where millions have guns.
Perhaps we should have curated elections on TV only, with commercial breaks for candidate advertising, and only allow those candidates approved by the Supreme Court to participate. It would also reduce divisiveness if we only allow one party, since there is not much to choose between the two we have anyway and it is impossible to found a new party because only the existing parties are allowed to make the rules for elections, a single party nation makes more sense.
The new party could be called the Partido Unido.
* As a Traditional Catholic, an Aristotelian-Thomist, a monarchist, and a perennialist, I know pretty well what I am trying to conserve. I admit, however, that my side has had a rough few centuries.
As you mentioned, the “conservatism” of Marxo Rubio is really just a label without meaning or significance. What he actually stands for is the complete liberation of crony-capital to loot and ransack the world. This differs from transnational socialism only in inessentials.
Back in the heady days of the mid 2000′s when the Iraq War as in full swing and George Bush and the Neocons were much hated, it became fashionable among dissenters to criticize Leo Strauss, whose philosophy was believed to animate their whole nation-building mission. The salient point of Strauss’ program was that the End of History would see the coming of a universal liberal democracy in which everybody could find expression for their grievances and would hence be “satisfied.”
“Conservatives” like Little Marco only care about America insofar as they see it as a seed crystal of the universal liberal democracy, thus their desire to conflate the historic American nation with other crystalization points like the EU, the UN, and global capitalism. They don’t care how many traditions, nations, and peoples have to be destroyed for the advancement of their vision. They truly are apocalyptic, millenarian, chiliastic, and eschatological. If a proper taxonomy of heresy were still in usage, they would be known as a Gnostic cult on par with the Albigensians.
There is a vast fog of confusion which beclouds the vision of Establishment Cuckservatism. What many fail to realize, however, is that the source of this confusion predates, and finds expression in, the US Constitution itself; therefore adverting to “constitutionalism” a la Ted Cruz is not going to help anything. The Constitution is a Gnostic document.
The wonderful thing about Donald Trump is that he is pioneering a new era of extra-constitutional rule, but that he is doing so within the established political traditions of the country. This is “conservatism” in a much deeper and more ancient sense than any GOP ideologue can appreciate. It is the conservatism of Julius Caesar, who in his own way harkened back to the heroes of the Mycenaean Age.
* Perennialism (as distinguished from Perennial philosophy, which is actually a syncretist heresy) is really just a way of saying that you’re a natural-law realist. Perennialism is the metaphysical substrate of all traditionalist thought. It condenses cultural continuity, patriarchy, race-realism, and a whole raft of other concepts into single handy term.
* Of course Rubio is against freedom of speech.
You don’t have it in Latin America so you don’t need it in Latinizing America.
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