From Haaretz March 24, 2016: Violence is mounting, but it is not nearly serious enough to push the economy over the edge. Europe should sit tight: Islamic State is past its peak…
The warnings of Europe going down in flames amid a Muslim onslaught are the kind of hysteria that follows any traumatic event. Ignore them. Like Israel, Europe can live with some terror and pay little or no economic cost, just like it lives with stock market downturns and coalition crises.
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The military can be good at governing otherwise ungovernable situations. Democracy cannot keep the French safe. Democracy is not working. France has had military coups before.
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* Probably not the most effective ad today at the Nice airport.
* Do not tell me to stand united. Don’t preach ‘they’re trying to divide us’. We are divided. We are sitting ducks. Multiculturalism failed.
* When Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they imagined carriages, not modern vehicles of war. #TruckControlNow
* I think we should join our liberal friends and #PrayForTheNarrative
* I’m getting terrorism news fatigue. But the more this keeps going, the more the establishment leaders (Hollande, Merkel, Obongo, Hillary, and I suppose Trudeau and Turnbull) are made to look like idiots. There are only so many arm-linked walks and candelit vigils the public can take before they want some effective action.
This is a great time for the events of the day to be imprinted in the mind of Theresa May, while she is at liberty to chart a fresh course. She should take heed and not be seen as yet another do-nothing member of the Axis of Open Borders.
* The BLMers are going to have terrorism envy. I expect them to escalate their ‘demonstrations’ tomorrow because they’ll be frantic to knock the French attacks off the front pages.
* That’s what happens when you live in a country where it’s easier to buy a truck than a book or a computer.
* I guess the “Imagine” piano guy is going to head over to Nice after his gig in Dallas.
If I were the entrepreneurial type, I’d print up some “World Tour” T-shirts:
Paris
San Bernardino
Brussels
Istanbul
Dallas
Nice
Coming soon to YOUR TOWN!
* No matter what outrage, atrocity, massacre, murder, kidnapping, rape, torture etc etc etc third world immigrants to the west perpetrate, the ‘power-people’ ie those who actually control the destiny of western societies – the political class, The Economist, the WSJ, the mass media, the NGOs, Amnesty International, the EU, the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, Goldman Sachs, the CBI, the TUC, the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the BBC, the NYT, the LA Times, Time magazine, Newsweek, the activist judiciary, the ‘christian’ churches, etc etc etc etc will all unite in one voice to * demand yet more third world immigration*.
* Sometimes members of our Muslim community go astray. That just means they need to be hugged extra hard.
* “A plane crash is a “tragedy”.”
No, MacBeth is a tragedy. Oedipus the King is a tragedy. An accident is an accident, a disaster, a calamity. And what happened in Nice was a crime, an atrocity.
* Left Wingers on MSNBC are saying the high unemployment rate among Muslims causes them to become terrorists.
Than why aren’t Native Americans and Gypsies for example becoming terrorists? After all their unemployment rate is also quite high. Jihadists don’t want jobs, they want a sequel to the Armenian genocide, except replace Armenians with Europeans and their diaspora descendents.
* First, death to these terrorists and their enablers. May the souls of the victims rest in peace.
Now, some OT items that may get buried due to the latest atrocity:
Forget new gun laws. Here’s what could really keep people from shooting each other.
Gun violence is most acute among young black men. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency says the homicide rate per 100,000 of white males between 15 and 19 years old is 1.8. For Hispanic males, it’s 14.6.
For African American males, it’s a staggering 50.6 per 100,000.
Let me repeat that: for white males 15-19, 1.8/100,000. For Hispanics, 14.6/100,000. For blacks, 50.6/100,000. 1.8 vs. 14.6 vs. 50.6. Hmmm, what (or who) could be the problem?
He said it was consensual. She was blacked out. U-Va. had to decide: Was it assault?
Apparently, the MSM is still trying to gin up a “controversy” at UVA, but let’s look at the facts of the case:
She unwrapped the condom and placed it on him, he said…
According to the U-Va. report, an older resident of the house became aware that Lind and the freshman athlete were inside the bathroom and angrily climbed out onto a second story roof to slam on the window and get their attention. He yelled at them to break it up.
“Would you just give us a minute?” Lind said, the older resident told investigators…
Here, let’s make out and then let me invite you upstairs and put a condom on you… Rape! Rape! Rape! Hey, who’s banging on the window? In a minute – we’ll get out of your hair once my assailant is done raping me, all right?
The result of the university investigation:
Ultimately, the investigators concluded that the freshman athlete had no way to know that Lind had blacked out. Because he had just met her, and because she was capable of carrying on a conversation, walking upstairs and performing “fine motor tasks, such as unwrapping a condom,” he was unaware of her “possible incapacitation.”
In short, how was he supposed to know how drunk she was? The investigators determined that there was insufficient evidence to determine that the freshman was responsible for sexually assaulting Lind. [Boldfaces mine.]
And the actual criminal-legal angle:
Charlottesville Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Libby Killeen declined to comment on the possibility of charges against the freshman athlete. Charlottesville police Capt. Gary Pleasants said last week that the investigation into the matter has been “suspended,” effectively meaning that it is no longer active.
Hmmm, where did I hear of another “suspended” sexual assault investigation in Charlottesville?
Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings
But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.
Got that? Surprise! A black Harvard economist ran the numbers and there is no racial bias in police shootings. “No racial bias.” Now, let’s look at the actual finding regarding officer-involved shootings buried deeply in the article:
In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use of lethal force. [Boldfaces mine.]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but that strikes me as racial bias… against white suspects. So, if I got this line of reasoning correctly, if the result indicated that blacks were more likely to be shot, then there IS racial bias, but if it turned out – as is indicated by the actual data – that whites are more likely to be shot, then there is “no racial bias.”
* The surveillance state is politically correct.
Consider:
It employs large numbers of affirmative-action bureaucrats (TSA).
It creates large government contracts for the connected (G4S).
It scratches the militaristic itch.
It is in theory, impossible for machines to discriminate
The solutions to the terrorism/black crime problem are quite obvious, racial profiling, civilian gun ownership and paternalistic shaming of black culture/banning Muslim immigration.
But those solutions would “allow our enemies to defeat us by causing us to abandon our (((liberal))) values.”
* I disagree with Ann Coulter and others’ view that Trump picking Pence is a mistake.
Trump simply cannot run without the support of the GOP establishment, which is basically divided three ways: Koch-plex wants Pence, The Jews want Newt, the SoCons want Cruz.
Looking at these three groups, the Koch-plex is the most important of the three groups by a large margin. It is also the least supportive of him right now.
The RCP poll average right now is Hillary 44.0 Trump 40.9. There are a ton of undecideds still, and some of them are conservatives.
Putting a Koch-loyalist as VP is a good move. It gets their network’s support, which is unrivaled in the GOP, and larger than the RNC and all 50 state parties combined.
Mitt Romney is a pretty smart guy, and he put a Koch-loyalist on his ticket.
Pence’s open boarders record is almost as bad as Ryan’s. But is the view of both of the Koch Brothers too, and they do not like dissent on this issue. I don’t like it, but Trump needs them to win.
* I’m an American and a member of the Front National. Just go to their website and provide them with the pertinent information. I think that they accept credit cards. You’ll get a nice membership card with Marine Le Pen (although I wanted one with Marion Marechal Le Pen) on it. So I’m now a “card-carrying” FN member. It makes me feel slightly better–at least I’m doing something.
* “The National Council on Crime and Delinquency says the homicide rate per 100,000 of white males between 15 and 19 years old is 1.8. For Hispanic males, it’s 14.6.”
* Of course, way way back in 1968, a highly significant year for the French for reasons which we can now see are totally irrelevant to the grand course and sweep of history, a pointless wrong course if there ever was one, Enoch Powell made his famous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.
This, of course, prophesied the future dystopia of England, though France was ‘busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre’ too.
I’d hate to personally witness the carnage caused by a 10 ton truck ploughing into a parade of human flesh, but I’d imagine ‘rivers of blood’ would be an apt description.
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I don’t think there’s any anti-Muslim sentiment in the West today that would not be popular. Non-Muslims want Islam out of their countries and the sooner the better.
Politico: Newt Gingrich, one of the final candidates vying to become Donald Trump’s running mate, called for testing of “every person who is of a Muslim background” to determine whether they “believe in sharia” in response to Thursday’s attack in Nice, France.
Hours after Donald Trump declared that the attack in Nice constituted “war” against France and the United States, the former House speaker cast the struggle more broadly, saying: “Western civilization is in a war.”
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Gingrich then suggested that those who failed a test and were found to be adherents of “sharia law” should be deported from the country. The highly charged proposal echoes Trump’s controversial idea to institute a religious test for immigrants entering the country “until we figure out what is going on.”
Speaking to Fox News, Gingrich insinuated that such a test would weed out Islamic State sympathizers.
“We need to be fairly relentless about defining who our enemies are,” he said. “Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups, that should be a felony, and they should go to jail. Any organization which hosts such a website should be engaged in a felony. It should be closed down immediately.”
Gingrich also took sharp aim at President Barack Obama, arguing that his reluctance to be more aggressive in fighting terrorism was partially to blame for the Nice attack.
“This is the fault of Western elites who lack the guts to do what is right, to do what is necessary, and to tell us the truth, and that starts with Barack Obama,” Gingrich said.
The vice presidential hopeful also scoffed at the notion that the United States isn’t able to eradicate a group of “medieval barbarians” such as ISIS.
“I am sick and tired of being told that the wealthiest, most powerful civilization in history, all of Western civilization, is helpless in the face of a group of medieval barbarians who, for example, recently burned 20 young women to death — burned them to death because they wouldn’t have sex with them,” he said.
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* The French have it precisely right: Strict gun control + tons o’ Islamic refugees = zero terrorism!
* I loathe Trump’s putative pick for VP. He’s just another standard Republican conservative who sees the New Testament as a practical guide to government and who supported every free trade/open borders agreement that ever came across his desk. If Trump is elected, we will be one medical crisis away from another George Walker Bush presidency.
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* For starters, if you want to put faces on these sawbucks, you need to consider the actual gazillionaires putting their money into actual organizations and individuals. They and their moneyfunnels are so numerous, esoteric, secretive, complicated, and protean, they constitute a shadow policy making and agenda setting front.
Even the smaller organizations like BLM can have extraordinary impact on the sunlighted policy making and agenda setting, because they are relying on a larger matrix of organizations. (As we see with the MSM, which will ever report anything against The Narrative of their owners.)
Note that one sentence: “The analysis does not include money donated to nonprofits that aren’t required to reveal their contributors.”
How about Drummond Pike and his Tides Foundation, which he created to launder named money and assign it to a panoply of hastily cobbled together nonprofits…that can be fronts for private interests?
These “donor advised funds” both right and left are used by the UniParty–i.e., the billionaires–to make sure society never strays too far from their globalista plans for it. It is no wonder they are flatulating bricks as the peon voters have chosen to ignore them and their MSM. They didn’t expect this push-back. All they can do is call names and get hysterical. Hey, it’s worked till now!
So I cannot speak to anon’s specific scenario, but I do know that not nearly enough sunshine is brought to bear on these organizations and their funding individuals.
I would think at this point in Internet history that every major news outlet would have a “philanthropy watch” or “nonprofit watch” expert or department. Just to let the little people know where the money is, who’s giving it, where it’s coming from, and how it informing the story they are reading.
I would think at this point that any news story that talked about, say, BLM, would have a little sidebar on who they are, who funds them, and such, and links to this information online. Of course most news content these days is press releases from these organizations or their funders. And many journalists and editors work in an revolving-door relationship to these funders and organizations.
Speaking from an investigative journalism perspective, it takes a lot of work to dig into this stuff. But even researching Form 990s for these organizations can be extraordinarily revealing. One can quickly see that there are relatively few purse-holders disbursing their Wall Street gains via a protean assembly of nonprofits…with a relatively restricted set of political stances.
So in conclusion, whether Trump wins or Hillary does, at present, the carefully hidden and secretive globalista billionaire kraken will continue to tentaculate behind the scenes and through every issue we read about.
* Their time preference is too high for that kind of strategizing. Occam’s razor would suggest that they’re simply chimping out as much as theyre allowed to get away with.
* So do you guys think they’ll postpone tomorrow’s Day of Rage, in the light of Nice?
If they do, that’ll prove they have at least a little bit of sense.
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WSJ: JERUSALEM—Israel’s peace camp and its international backers have long used one crude but powerful argument: Arabs make more babies than Jews and unless a separate Palestinian state is created, a demographic time bomb will turn Jews into a dwindling minority akin to white South Africans.
That prospect certainly seemed real when the Oslo peace process began in the 1990s. Fertility among Israeli Jews stood at an average of 2.6 children per woman, compared with 4.7 among Muslims in Israel and East Jerusalem and 6.0 among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Yasser Arafat at the time famously declared that the womb of the Palestinian woman was his people’s most potent weapon.
Yet over the past decade, a demographic revolution with long-lasting political consequences has occurred. Jewish birthrates in Israel have spiked while Arab birthrates in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle East have declined. This unlikely baby boom has made many Israeli Jews a lot less afraid of being outnumbered—one of the underappreciated reasons why the country’s voters have consistently rewarded politicians opposed to Palestinian statehood and to relinquishing land.
“When you are motivated by fear, you seek to preserve demography by giving away geography,” explained Yoram Ettinger, a former Israeli ambassador and right-wing activist who has been active in publicizing the impact of Israel’s rising birthrate. “But if you examine Israel’s demographics realistically, there is no need to think in such terms.”
The Jewish fertility rate in Israel was 3.11 per woman in 2014, the last full year for which data is available, while among the Arab citizens of Israel and East Jerusalem residents it was only a notch higher at 3.17, according to Israel’s statistics bureau. Palestinian fertility rates have fallen to 3.7 in the West Bank from 5.6 in 1997, and to 4.5 from 6.9 children in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian statistics bureau.
“There will be no demographic time bomb,” Israel’s defense minister and right-wing politician Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview before his recent appointment. “Birthrates in the Arab and Jewish sectors will continue converging, while we also hope that a considerable part of Jews from Western Europe, and also from North America, will come here.” Jewish immigration last year, from countries such as France and Ukraine, was at the highest level since 2003.
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* A mostly white city full of white people gathered together celebrating Bastille Day. The Bataclan was also full of rock music fans – ie white people. Last week we heard reports of ISIS telling followers to attack whites in the US. I’m stating the obvious but it’s not just about religious fanaticism.
* Below are some comments that Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld made the other day regarding Paris, in an interview with CNN.
Karl Lagerfeld said the city that his company has called home since 1909 is now an unsafe “nightmare.”
He has lived and worked in Paris since the mid 1950s — said the city resembles nothing like the “old French movies” it used to look like.
“This is not the most glamorous moment in Paris,” Lagerfeld told CNN Style’s Derek Blasberg ahead of an upcoming show. “Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliché anymore.”
“I must say, in my whole life I never saw Paris that gloomy,” he added.
The designer said the streets of Paris have become significantly more unsafe in the years since he first got his start in the 1950s under the tutelage of French fashion legend Pierre Balmain.
“It was another world. There was no feeling of danger, and not even a boy of 16 years old could walk in the street,” Lagerfeld told CNN. “Things are changing, but I have a feeling I lived in a world that no longer exists.”
Still, he says, “Paris has to make an effort to become Paris again.”
* More people died in this Islamic terrorist attack in Nice, France than in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Islam is more deadly than a lot of natural disasters.
* On the contrary, Muslims need room space (Lebensraum) to find even newer dhimmis to live off of. Islam is about invading other countries, by stealth or force, then grow in numbers by outnumbering and converting the locals, and exploiting the unbelievers. It’s a Ponzi scheme: once everybody is Muslim and dumb as a brick through inbreeding and reading the Koran, there’s nobody left to exploit and they need a new country to invade, convert and tax.
* On Hillary’s twitter account she was tweeting about Trump and the Mexican judge. I guess she was speaking to a latino group today, so her twitter feed is filled with pro-Mexican messages.
Anyway I was with a neighbor who was getting tired about the Mexican judge affair and thought it was over. He then made a nice observation. He noted that the Mexican judge could certainly be biased because one of our Supreme Court justices just showed how biased she was this week when she said she would move to another nation if Trump gets elected.
I thought it was a nice comparison and hopefully the Trump team will use it if the media try to suggest again that judges aren’t biased. If our great SC justice Ginsburg is biased, any judge can be biased.
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The rage of young blacks against the police has taken on dimensions not just of a protest but a rebellion. Fully two thirds (65 per cent) of US blacks support the Black Lives Matter movement, even as it has come to question the very legitimacy of the forces of order. In the days after the Dallas shooting, one of the group’s leaders, Alicia Garza, told the New Yorker, ‘Black Lives Matter is about justice for black people who are being murdered at the hands of the state.’
This view of American society is consistent with what the veteran civil rights leader the Revd Jesse Jackson said about Mike Brown’s killing (‘a state execution’) and with a passage by the polemicist Ta-Nehisi Coates which, last summer, became so popular among Facebook sharers and banner makers that it served as the unofficial Black Lives slogan: ‘In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body — it is heritage.’ Just why so much of this destruction should be carried out under the aegis of the country’s first black President, and in black-run cities, is something of a mystery. Dallas has a black police chief. Baton Rouge has a black mayor. Baltimore has a black mayor, a black public prosecutor and a black police chief, and three of the six officers tried in the Freddie Gray case were black.
Coates’s view is that white people have always practiced genocide against black people. If fighting genocide is your cause, almost no tactic is off-limits. The leaders of Black Lives Matter crossed a Rubicon this week when they decided to proceed with protests even after the killings of policemen in Dallas.
“There is a reason why political activists usually halt campaigning when violence is done in the name of anything that resembles their cause. Both sides in the Brexit referendum obeyed this imperative in the wake of the killing of Jo Cox. In US cities, such caution has been thrown to the wind. ‘You can’t stop the revolution,’ marchers chanted in Chicago over the weekend. ‘It’s not a setback at all,’ a BLM activist told the New York Times, referring to the Dallas massacre. ‘That’s showing the people of this country that black people are getting to a boiling point.’ For all the talk of racism, there has been a reckless inattention to the possibility that non-black citizens might have a boiling point too.
A week before the Republican convention in Cleveland, street politics is destabilising electoral politics. The events of early July have shifted the presidential campaign seismically. There may be a choice this November between public order and the agenda of Black Lives Matter.
Historically, American voters have preferred the former. An April article in Salon magazine predicted that Black Lives Matter would be the ‘Secret Turnout Ally’ of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. But this only means that Clinton will have a bigger challenge getting on the majority’s side. Her party’s route to the White House requires turning out black voters in high numbers and taking 90 per cent of their votes. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has been campaigning for months as if the coming election will be a referendum on whether the country backs the cops or not. He has lined up important police endorsements and laid the predicate for a traditional law-and-order campaign of the sort Richard Nixon won with in 1968. For a variety of reasons, a majority of Americans would be reluctant to see Trump as their president just now. But under the pressure of violence and disorder, such reasons can become harder and harder to recall.”
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The Week: During the Bush years, a diverse group of right-leaning writers and thinkers began sounding an alarm about what mass immigration meant for the rest of the country. Many of them emerged from California, exactly where migration’s transformational effects were first known. They remembered the 1960s and ’70s version of the state, when it seemed like an egalitarian and middle-class utopia, each family in a pleasant bungalow and a school system that was the envy of the world. This paradise was upended by mass immigration and galloping inequalities. And its inheritors were hungry for someone, anyone, to put into words what they were feeling.
Along came Victor David Hanson and his 2003 book Mexifornia: A State of Becoming, which posited that Mexicans fled the dysfunctional statism of Mexico but ended up recreating it in California. Another California writer, Steve Sailer, wrote blog items and articles that seemed to exercise a kind of subliminal influence across much of the right in that decade. One could detect his influence even in the places where his controversial writing on race was decidedly unwelcome. Another Californian writer, Mickey Kaus, became one of the few centrist to liberal-leaning opponents of lax immigration.
Popular political titles like these found a large, hungry audience — and upended national politics. They drove conservative activists to shut down the congressional switchboards when President Bush tried to pass comprehensive immigration reform in his second term. They drove the founding of the militia group the Minutemen. And they drove the somewhat radical congressional candidacy of Randy Graf in Arizona.
The truth was, the great wave of migration America experienced from the early ’90s to the middle of last decade was a history-shaping event with long-term consequences. But because it was hardly debated by official Washington, the passions it generated tended to find sensationalistic or conspiratorial outlets.
And immigration went hand in hand with anxiety about American jobs and sovereignty. There was a minor nationalist panic during the Bush presidency, with conspiracies floating around that North American governments would create a common currency, the Amero, in imitation of the European Union. Pictures of the currency still float around the internet today. They came with the theory that America would stave off bankruptcy by uniting itself with Canada’s natural resources and Mexico’s underpaid labor. With that done, an enormous new transportation network would spread across the map like a squid, the NAFTA superhighway system. The rumors were fueled by quixotic lobbying dreams. But the opposition was real and fierce, and it eventually took down the very real Trans-Texas Corridor project with it.
In other words, there were signs of an emerging Trumpism on the right for years. These political tremors were ignored during the Bush years as the GOP immolated itself on foreign policy. And so no one wanted to believe an earthquake like this was coming.
* Pence. A true machine politician who opposes Trump on Iraq, immigration and trade. IOW he doesn’t give a rats ass about America. Absolutely untrustworthy.
If he is picked, it means the GOP leaned on Trump big time.
* Pence is most known to outsiders as the guy who signed some “religious freedom” law then backed down and caved quickly when Tim Cook and some other SJW CEOs condemned it for being anti-homosexual. I saw him on some TV show being grilled about it and it is fair to say he had no idea how to argue for his own side.
* “Pence is Trump’s way of picking Kasich without actually having to pick Kasich.”
This is a good way of putting it.
Judging from quickly reading his Wikipedia page, Pence is less competent than Kasich, but will have more appeal to movement conservative types. Also, and this is just going by Wikipedia, he seems aligned with Trump at least on immigration.
The thing is that though it would have been good for Trump to get someone who sided with him on all three of invade the world, invite the world, in hoc to the world, that is impossible with any politician, in either party, who has the stature and experience to be a plausible Veep selection.
In particular, just about all the prominent Republicans, the only real exceptions being the Paulites, are on board with invade the world, since it was the signature policy of the last Republican administration. Pence is a neo-con, but Trump will just have to live with that. As a Republican, getting someone aligned with him on immigration is completely doable. Its much harder on trade, and I suspect Pence is a globalist on trade, but its hard to tell from the Wiki bio.
* Trump backed Ginsburg down. I’m delighted. Her remarks about him were unprofessional and unethical. (And yes, I’d think that whether or not I agreed with her.)
I’m so sick of her and her ilk mouthing off without being called to account for anything they say, regardless of how outrageous, ill-advised or just plain untruthful it is.
* In some ways, it’s pretty amazing that people like Ginsburg would risk their reputations by speaking out against Trump. It’s not just that Ginsburg in particular was far out of line because she was doing so as a sitting SC Justice. It’s that in general doing so makes it almost a certainty that Trump will fight back by finding the most damaging thing anyone can say about his attacker, and then letting it rip.
Of course Trump said all the correct things about how wrong it was for someone in her position to say the things she said. But the real zinger was this: “Her mind is shot — resign.”
I’m sure there are many rumors as to whether Ginsburg has been losing her sharpness due to age or her medical conditions, but mostly they have been spoken in whispers in back rooms.
But how more public, contemptuous, and damaging can it be than to have Donald Trump write that “her mind is shot”?
One is also reminded of how Elizabeth Warren has been ridiculed over and again by Trump as “Pocahontas”.
I wonder how many prominent people out there who would very much like to signal their virtue by attacking Trump, but don’t want to endure a put-down that will probably stick for the rest of their lives?
* A thought about BLM and Hillary. I doubt the BLM leaders care if their agitation and riots make her lose. In fact, they benefit if she does. If Hillary wins, it’ll only be business as usual for blacks. But if they agitate against her, she’ll crush them. Lady Macbeth won’t tolerate anyone plotting against her or undermining her once she has her hands on the reins of power. She’s too paranoid and has too many scores to settle. Besides, she knows she may be too old to run again, and if she doesn’t, she won’t need their support.
But if Trump wins, outraged and weeping liberals will be dumping their cash ala Soros into every black cause in existence and doing everything they can to undermine Trump. BLM leaders will be grabbing the high-paying jobs in all these organizations, and a Trump win is a financial windfall for them. Besides, if you’re an agitator, you suffer a severe psychological letdown if there is nothing to agitate against. BLM needs Trump badly.
* If Trump wins does iSteve go mainstream? Wow, The Week was respectful to Sailer and even linked to his blog. No mention of the dreaded VDARE, though. Matt Drudge tweeted a link to an iSteve blog post a few days ago, too.
The “respectable” (snort snort) press may finally have to acknowledge the existence of our Steve. Brexit, a Trump win, Sailer in the national conversation, Paul Ryan being primaried out of office… please don’t wake me up yet – this is a great dream.
* Pence is a disappointing choice but Trump did not have many good options. Other names mentioned would have been far worse. At least he chose a white male cuckservative and not some PC flavour of the month to pander to the Left
Gingrich – too much baggage in his own personal and political history; the Left would have no ends of angles of attack against him, plus he really twisted the knife in Trump’s back on the La Raza judge
Christie – horrible: Obama’s bearhug buddy, gun grabbing islamo cuddling NorthEast liberal Republican
Ernst- unknown Lady Republicans have been political disappointments
Sessions – true conservative, best possible choice; Dems would scream raciss from here to eternity
Cruz – too much bad blood, too many ill-considered harsh words from Cruz; if he had behaved better he would have been a perfect choice
Rubio -might as well pick Grahamnesty
Kasich – obnoxious abrasive know it all personality, criticized Trump too harshly in past for Trump not to look ridiculous in choosing him. An alternate universe, less cantankerous Trump-friendly Kasich that could swing the state to Republicans would have been a good choice
unknown military men – unserious option, the candidate himself is already a non-politician, these days military bigwigs have to be more PC than Anderson Cooper if they seek advancement.
other unknown or marginal Lady Republicans, Latinos, amd African Americans : see above times 100
