{"id":106841,"date":"2016-09-15T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106841"},"modified":"2016-09-16T04:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:35:59","slug":"trump-and-the-alt-right-pepe-and-the-stormtroopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106841","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Alt-Right: Pepe and the stormtroopers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: “Do you ever get the feeling the Establishment is suffering a collective nervous breakdown as its projections about \u201crantings\u201d and \u201chateful\u201d become every more obvious?”<\/p>\n

Comments at Steve Sailer:<\/p>\n

* This article or editorial or whatever you want to call it is absolutely priceless, not only for the haughty and condescending rhetoric but for the absolute obliviousness that lies behind it. They simply have no clue to the extent to which they have been taken in.<\/p>\n

* I\u2019ve subscribed to The Economist for many years. I found it to be the last bastion of sanity among Establishment media, long after the NYT, Wash. Post, CNN, etc. jumped the shark.<\/p>\n

But, its coverage of Trump and Brexit is completely loopy. This is very disappointing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a firm believer in the benefits of free trade, globalization and liberal immigration policies. But, that doesn\u2019t mean I believe in the insane, absolutist, literally no borders policy now supported by the Global Establishment, including The Economist. If you truly believe in the benefits of an open world, you have to acknowledge there are reasonable limits. Otherwise you risk killing the golden goose.<\/p>\n

Free movement of goods and people between western European nations, with similar economies and a cultural background that goes back millennia, isn\u2019t a bad idea (although the serious problems the EU is now experiencing shows even that even this has its problems). To propose unlimited immigration from Middle Eastern and African nations is insanity, and will kill the liberal global order. What else was Brexit about? Does anyone really think the Brits were worried about Polish plumbers?<\/p>\n

* I\u2019m at a loss as to how these writers and publications think they\u2019re going to benefit by acting as Digital Cannon Fodder on behalf of Hillary Inc.<\/p>\n

At even, or perhaps especially, prestige media there are so many who have volunteered for this duty the payoff must be all of a glass of wine at Happy Hour (only) at this point.<\/p>\n

* When Jerry Falwell said that Tinky Winky on the toddlers\u2019 show Teletubbies was there to soften people\u2019s perception of homosexuals with Tinky\u2019s eternally happy disposition and niceness (the triangle antenna and purse were the tells so people would know he\u2019s gay), the public laughed and laughed, then laughed some more, egged on by the media. A grown man with a huge in-person congregation and millions watching on t.v., who leads an influential section of the electorate, takes a silly cartoon character soooo seriously, how beneath his station. What a clown he makes himself, giving the ridiculous so much power by calling his, and the nation\u2019s, attention to it.<\/p>\n

A candidate for President calls out a meme figure, a badly drawn frog named Pepe of all things, as the symbol of all bad. The candidate can get no more mileage out of attacking the rival candidate, either personally or based on policy, so let\u2019s go after a cartoon that 10,000 haven seen and up until now maybe 300 thought was an alt-right shill, 250 of that 300 being in the candidate\u2019s organization.<\/p>\n

If this candidate is so bothered by a meme frog, how on earth will this person take real, live, people who have malice beforehand when dealing on behalf the U.S.?<\/p>\n

The question the rival should ask at any debate, to immolate any and all credibility of this candidate\u2019s qualification for top office as thoroughly as a can of Aqua Net and a BBQ lighter can napalm a hornet\u2019s nest is, \u201cIf Madam Secretary treats a temporary internet meme as a credible threat to the nation, what does this say about her ability to discern the true threats and serious concerns we all face? And we make fun of fellow candidate Vermin Supreme for the boot on his head? At least he knows he\u2019s parody. She\u2019s not even dialed in to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultimate answer to this progressive tyrant is a belly laugh. Laugh, laugh, then laugh some more. People laugh at Trump and he laughs right along, the schtick that is he. Laugh at her and she melts. Soooo serious. About Pepe the frog. Then laugh twice as hard at anyone defending this, and go after their precious social capital, progressive\u2019s kryptonite. You\u2019re defending Hillary? What will people think of you, what you have to say, why should they care what you say, you\u2019re defending a mad woman who\u2019s looking over her shoulder to scapegoat a cartoon frog. What kind of knuckle dragger are you? And you people sunk Dean over a spontaneous yell? Aw, you mad and serious, like the strange kid everyone shunned in school? Is that what you aim to be like? It\u2019s how we\u2019re looking at you now.<\/p>\n

* Harambe jokes are frowned upon at UMass Amherst:<\/p>\n

\nGoing further, the email\u2019s two authors said that the \u201cdicks out for Harambe\u201d catchphrase could be serious business: \u201cPhrases\/hashtags which encourage the exposition of body parts runs the risk of being reported as a Title IX incident. These are sexual assault incidences that not only get reported to Community Standards, but also to the Dean of Students. Needless to say, it is a very serious incident\u2014especially for a first year student!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to admit that when some alt-righters explained to me that the plan was to make the Great and Good look ridiculous because the people at the pinnacles of power would be unable to resist lecturing us about the dangers of a cartoon frog and gorilla memorial movement, I scoffed. Yet here we are, with the media conducting HUAC hearings on the subject of bad amphibian drawings.<\/p>\n

Come see the absurdity inherent in the oppression.<\/p>\n

* Bravo, meme warriors. I used to look down upon you. But you\u2019ve trolled the world. You got the Democratic presidential nominee talking about a cartoon frog.<\/p>\n

* I usually watch very little television, but I\u2019ve been watching MSNBC and CNN a bit lately to witness the Establishment\u2019s nervous breakdown. It\u2019s been pretty interesting. I still can\u2019t believe that this morning the people at MSNBC were actually suggesting that Hillary\u2019s health is better than Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n

* The Economist is owned in part by the Rothschilds so some poor sap in London got a call to make Hillary\u2019s paranoid delusions semi-believable. When I read these articles, I wonder how they appear to your average truck driver or waitress in this country. I have to imagine it is just as disorienting for your average bond trader and hedge fund manager that reads The Economist. Is this the real life?<\/p>\n

* Alt-Righters have secret code words and signals to identify fellow tribesmen. Generally meaningless to normies.<\/p>\n

* Is it my imagination, or is Clinton losing a fight with a cartoon frog? #Trump<\/a> #Clinton<\/a> <\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/TVHbodxesU<\/a><\/p>\n

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 14, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n