{"id":90104,"date":"2016-03-15T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T03:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90104"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T03:16:56","slug":"election-open-thread-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90104","title":{"rendered":"Election Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/primaries-open-thread\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* If he quadruples the Border Patrol (Democrats like increasing the number of Federal employees) and adds the \u00e9lan of a Teddy Roosevelt like contingent of mounted Border Patrol agents in the areas where a physical fence is deemed \u201cinfeasible\u201d due to topography he will come across as a tough-minded strategic thinker with cool cavalry and mounted infantry tactical knowledge (The white guys who\u2019ll put him over the top in the election are quite knowledgable about these sorts of thing.)<\/p>\n<p>* I am predicting something is going to happen to his 757 if he continues to appear to be the nominee. I don\u2019t think it is too hard to mess with some component so that it comes off in flight. I doubt they would want to do an Abe Lincoln on him which would be recorded by thousands of smartphones and turn him into a martyr. The plane crash due to mechanical failure is a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>* The recent beheading of a young Russian girl by a Muslim nanny, who then paraded through Moscow with the head, was mostly ignored by the main Russian news sources \u2013 the same ones who went nuts with a fake story of a Russian kid being crucified by Ukrainian Christian \u201cNazis\u201d. They love reporting Western problems with multiculturalism but according to nationalists they cover up crimes against ethnic Russians in their own country to protect their own multiculturalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * If he quadruples the Border Patrol (Democrats like increasing the number of Federal employees) and adds the \u00e9lan of a Teddy Roosevelt like contingent of mounted Border Patrol agents in the areas where a physical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90104\">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":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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