{"id":72880,"date":"2015-08-22T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72880"},"modified":"2015-08-24T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:51:17","slug":"donald-trump-believes-in-the-power-of-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72880","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Believes In The Power Of Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Mobile, Alabama Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He said something to the effect: &#8220;Do you believe in genes? I believe in the gene thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I assume Donald Trump is a race realist. <\/p>\n<p>From 2011: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/SHOWBIZ\/02\/11\/donald.trump.marriage.apprentice\/\">London, England (CNN)<\/a> &#8212; Real estate tycoon and multi-billionaire Donald Trump says that he was born with the right set of genes that enabled him to have fame and fortune.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene, Trump told CNN&#8217;s Becky Anderson<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m a gene believer&#8230; hey when you connect two race horses you get usually end up with a fast horse,&#8221; he said during the Connect the World interview.<br \/>\n&#8220;I had a good gene pool from the stand point of that so I was pretty much driven.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HBD stands for Human BioDiversity. I think it was a movement named and started by Steve Sailer.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/is-trump-the-hbd-candidate\">John Derbyshire writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I] went to a great school &#8230; excellent student &#8230; smart guy &#8230; My uncle was a professor at MIT.  He was a smart guy, y&#8217;know?\u2014good smart guy.  Right? Good family!  Do we believe in the gene thing?  I mean &#8230; I do.  Right?  Y&#8217;know?  I do.  Like they used to say, Secretariat doesn&#8217;t produce slow horses &#8230; [At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgYeeOCe688\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgYeeOCe688', '13m00s ']);\" >13m00s <\/a>in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgYeeOCe688\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgYeeOCe688', 'this clip']);\" >this clip<\/a> of The Donald addressing a campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, August 21st 2015.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief!  A Presidential candidate who is <em>not<\/em> a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/pinkers-progress\"> blank-slatist?<\/a>  Strange times, strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Mobile, Alabama Friday evening. He said something to the effect: &#8220;Do you believe in genes? I believe in the gene thing.&#8221; I assume Donald Trump is a race realist. From 2011: London, England &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752,29700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-genetics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72945,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880\/revisions\/72945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}