#CruzSexScandal: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Heavy.com:

The National Enquirer’s March 25 issue features a bombshell accusation against 2016 Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz: he’s been having an affair with five different women. While the Enquirer didn’t name any names and ran only pixelated photos, the Twittersphere has been rife with speculation and Internet detective work under the hashtag #CruzSexScandal. Internet detectives claim to have identified three of the five women whose pixelated likenesses appear in the Enquirer story, two of whom worked on other candidates’ campaigns in 2016 and one of whom worked for his own.

The “story” has dominated Twitter, with #CruzSexScandal trending worldwide and allegations of hush money and questions about what the other candidates knew flying, especially in light of Cruz’s recent high-profile spat with Donald Trump over the use of Melania Trump’s photo in campaign ads. But there are plenty of reasons to be more than a little skeptical of the Enquirer’s report.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Twitter Users Identified Three Women from the Enquirer’s Photos

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The Enquirer’s photos paired with those of Katrina Pierson, Sarah Isgur Flores and Amanda Carpenter. (Twitter)

While the Enquirer ran poorly pixelated photos of the women it claimed were having affairs, it didn’t take long for Twitter to figure out their identities. Internet radio host Bob Zicari posted the following to his Twitter account shortly after the story broke:

From left to right, the women identified in the photos are Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson, former Carly Fiorina staffer Sarah Isgur Flores, and former Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter. Carpenter is married, while Flores and Pierson are not.

It’s important to note that the women identified in the photos are so far only confirmed to have their photos used in an Enquirer story.

2. Cruz Is Accused of Paying “Hush Money” to Fiorina Over His Alleged Affair with a Staffer

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Sarah Isgur Flores with a fellow Fiorina aide in 2016. (Twitter)

Sarah Isgur Flores served as Carly Fiorina’s deputy campaign manager during her 2016 run for President. During the early stages of that campaign in July 2015, a Ted Cruz-affiliated Super PAC, Keep the Promise I, donated $500,000 to rival Carly Fiorina’s official campaign fund. The Washington Post noted that the donation was “unusual” at the time. Since the Enquirer’s accusations, however, Twitter users have alleged that the donation was “hush money” to keep silent about the affair:

It bears repeating that no one has proof of anything, and Fiorina has herself endorsed and campaigned with Cruz since ending her campaign. Moreover, a photo from Flores’s Twitter shows Fiorina and the Cruz family being quite friendly:

Did Ted Cruz Pay ‘Hush Money’ to Carly Fiorina Over #CruzSexScandal?

A Ted Cruz-affiliated Super PAC gave $500,000 to Carly Fiorina’s campaign, a staffer with whom, Sarah Isgur Flores, is accused of having an affair with Cruz. Was it hush money?

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Sarah Isgur Flores: All the Photos You Need to See

Sarah Isgur Flores is a Republican strategist who used to work for the Carly Fiorina campaign. Flores is getting attention today because of the so-called “Ted Cruz sex scandal.”

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3. Katrina Pierson Works for Trump as a Spokesperson

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Ted Cruz and Katrina Pierson during her 2014 Congressional campaign. (Getty)

Katrina Pierson, a spokesperson for Donald Trump, is one of the women accused by the Enquirer of an affair with Cruz. Her current employer and the timing of the announcement have led to skepticism about the story, including this bit from left-leaning blog Crooks and Liars:

The pictures they weakly disguise are pretty easy to match up with people. The image above suggests that Katrina Pierson is one of his so-called mistresses, as well as others.

It feels to me like Trump dropped a whole lot of garbage over at the Enquirer to discredit Ted Cruz, and that sense is backed up even more by the fact that one of the lovely ladies is supposedly Donald Trump’s spokeswoman.

Pierson herself dismissed the idea of a scandal before she was named, in a manner that suggests no love lost between the two:

Cruz and Pierson do have a prior professional relationship through Texas politics. In 2014, Katrina Pierson challenged incumbent Republican Representative Pete Sessions’s seat, and was ultimately unsuccessful in garnering the nomination. During that run, however, the Cruz family had high praise for her. Rafael Cruz, a Texan preacher and the father of 2016 candidate Ted, endorsed her run, calling her a “strict constitutionalist.” The younger Cruz had called her “a fearless, principled conservative.”

Katrina Pierson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Katrina Pierson, spokesperson for Republican 2016 frontrunner has been accused of carrying on an affair with Republican rival Ted Cruz. Here’s what you need to know.

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4. Trump Threatened to “Spill the Beans” Shortly Before the Story Broke

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A PAC supporting Ted Cruz ran Facebook ads featuring this nude photo from Donald Trump’s wife Melania. (Twitter)

Make America Awesome, a PAC supporting Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz, ran the ad seen above on Facebook ads in Utah ahead of the state’s caucus. Trump called Cruz out on Twitter, including a cryptic threat:

Cruz responded indignantly, calling Trump a “coward:”

Trump later backed away with a meme featuring both wives:

It’s unclear what Trump meant by his comments, fueling speculation in light of the Enquirer’s accusations, and the woman on his payroll involved with them.

Melania Trump Naked Photo Ad Angers Donald

Donald Trump objected via Twitter to a Ted Cruz-affiliated PAC running Facebook ads featuring a nude photo of his wife Melania Trump in Utah. Read more about the ad and their exchange here.

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5. Breitbart Supposedly Had Similar Evidence, but Did Not Publish

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Breitbart writer Allum Bokhari reportedly had evidence on the scandal but did not publish. (Twitter)

Multiple Twitter users claimed that Breitbart reporter Allum Bokhari had evidence of the affairs but hesitated to publish it. Bokhari fueled such speculation with a tweet the night the story broke:

Multiple Twitter users reported a Breitbart outage in the time following the break, leading to speculation that information-hungry users crashed the site:

The outage appeared to be brief, however:

It’s worth noting that Breitbart has steadfastly (and controversially) supported Trump in this election cycle. Two employees resigned when the site refused to back them up over an alleged assault of reporter Michelle Fields by Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed reported that several anonymous Breitbart staffers claimed Trump was directly funding the site:

According to four sources with knowledge of the situation, editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at least last year that the company’s top management was allowing Trump to turn Breitbart into his own fan website—using it to hype his political prospects and attack his enemies. One current editor called the water-carrying ‘despicable’ and ’embarrassing,’ and said he was told by an executive last year that the company had a financial arrangement with Trump. A second Breitbart staffer said he had heard a similar description of the site’s relationship with the billionaire but didn’t know the details; and a third source at the company said he knew of several instances when managers had overruled editors at Trump’s behest. Additionally, a conservative communications operative who works closely with Breitbart described conversations in which “multiple writers and editors” said Trump was paying for the ability to shape coverage, and added that one staffer claimed to have seen documentation of the ‘pay for play.’

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Mike Cernovich: Ted Cruz Sex Scandal Could End Cruz’s Campaign, Ensuring a Trump Victory

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

Mike Cernovich posts: An expose accusing Ted Cruz of having multiple affairs has now been confirmed by at least two other sources. The original source of the story, the National Enquirer, caused some to question it. While skepticism of all media is appropriate, the National Enquirer has previously broken affairs involving high-profile politicians, including former presidential candidate John Edwards.

The National Enquirer accused Ted Cruz of having an affair with five women.

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Journalist Drew Johnson of the Washington Times confirmed on Twitter that two of the women were accurately identified as Cruz’s mistresses.

Before the story broke, Johnson hinted that a Ted Cruz sex scandal was coming.

In early February Breitbart reporter Allum Bokhari hinted at a huge Ted Cruz story.

The story was ultimately killed by the editorial department.

The Ted Cruz sex scandal sheds light on an earlier investigation by the Federal Elections Commission.

The FEC investigated a $500,000 transfer made from Ted Cruz to Carly Fiorina, a competitor.

The unexplained manner in which Carly Fiorina got her hands on half a million dollars of another candidate’s money this summer has now graduated from being an internet curiosity to becoming a legal matter, as the Federal Election Commission has begun an inquiry into where the money really came from and why. It’s the latest scandal to surface in the Fiorina camp after her rise in the polls began this month, and this one may go beyond a mere problem of perception.

Why would Cruz donate money to another candidate? One of Cruz’s alleged mistresses is Sarah Isgur Flores. She was a manager of Fiorina’s campaign!

Hush money? Sounds like it.

Washington insiders hinted at Ted Cruz sex scandal, calling it “The Thing.”

Note that many Rubio backers mentioned a huge Ted Cruz scandal that they were sitting on. These are also anti-Trump forces who have chosen to back Cruz.

Many Rubio supporters and anti-Trump consultants hinted at The Thing- which was a campaign-ending Ted Cruz scandal. They dropped it once Rubio left the race, as they did not want Trump to win.

All talk of The Thing dropped once Rubio was out of the race, thus forcing GOP insiders to choose between tanking Cruz, guaranteeing Trump the primary nomination, or sitting on the information.

If the Ted Cruz sex scandal is confirmed as true, his campaign is over.

Cruz cannot ignore the sex scandal. Although the mainstream media tried dismissing it as unfounded rumor, we made #CruzSexScandal the #1 worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

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We created a news cycle using the power of social media, with my own Twitter account receiving hundreds-of-thousands of views per hour.

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Cruz and his campaign are going into full crisis mode.

Stay tuned for the latest developments.

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Twitter Reactions To The National Enquirer Story About Ted Cruz Having Five Mistresses

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

* If these Cruz allegations are true … kinda impressive, dude was banging half of the Conservative Punditress field.

* I’ve met and spoken with @amandacarpenter. Like most Republican operatives, she’s a provincial dimwit.

* Lots of vids of Cruz’s wife & kids recoiling from him, making faces. IMO, this is evidence that mom knows abt cheating, kids taking her cue.

* In SMV hierarchy, Cruz would be a lesser alpha: not a natural leader/ladykiller, but has dark triad traits & smarts that elevate his Game.

* Look at it this way, #TedCruz’s street cred just went way up. #TedCruzSexScandal

* Scott Adams: I’m watching CNN and Fox News awkwardly avoid the biggest story in politics because of journalistic standards.

* If Cruz had five mistresses, given his stiffness and sliminess, it’d be a testament to his Game, I suppose. Or the effect of power on women.

* I ask the #CruzCrew pray with me that #HeidiCruz’s HIV test comes back negative.

* Did Cruz give $500,000 in hush money to cover up #CruzSexScandal? The FEC wants to know!

Mike Cernovich: Journalist Drew Johnson of the Washington Times confirmed on Twitter that two of the women were accurately identified as Cruz’s mistresses.

Drew: COMING CLEAN: From what I know, at least 2 of the women named as Cruz mistresses by the National Enquirer are accurate.

Drew posted March 14: SCANDAL: Within 24 hrs of #Rubio dropping out, #Trump (who had at least 2 affairs) will leak info about a #Cruz extramarital affair.

In early February Breitbart reporter Allum Bokhari hinted at a huge Ted Cruz story.

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John Lott: 19 of the worst 20 mass public shootings in the world were committed by Muslims

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Luke Ford

REPORT: After the Charleston massacre, President Obama made this comment: “the unique mayhem that gun violence afflicts upon this nation.” Yet, since 1970, 19 of the worst 20 public mass shootings occurred outside the US. Of those cases, five occurred in developed or “advanced” countries. Muslims also committed 19 of the worst 20 mass public shootings in the world. 29 of the 33 worst shootings are outside the US. It is possible that I am still missing even some of these large mass public shootings prior to 2000, but any of the ones being missed are outside of the US and Europe.

The FBI definition of mass public shootings excludes “shootings that resulted from gang or drug violence” or that were part of some other crime. The FBI also defines “public” places as “includ[ing] commercial areas (divided into malls, businesses open to pedestrian traffic, and businesses closed to pedestrian traffic), educational environments (divided into schools [pre-kindergarten through 12th grade] and IHEs), open spaces, government properties (divided into military and other government properties), houses of worship, and health care facilities.” A report by the New York Police Department has a very similar definition. The 33 worst mass public shootings all have at least 15 people who were shot to death.

The worst public mass shooting are as follows:

1) Mumbai, India, November 26th to 29th, 2008: Islamic terror group based in Pakistan named Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) and killed 164 and wounded 308.

2) Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State, Nigeria, May 5 and 6, 2014: Boko Haram Islamic militants killed more than 300 residents.

3) Borno massacre, in Konduga, Borno State, on May 7, 2014: Boko Haram Islamic militants killed at least 200 Christian villagers. Several others were injured.

4) University College Campus of Garissa, in northeastern Kenya, April 2, 2015: Al-Shabaab, An Al-Qaeda offshoot, took responsibility for the attack where 147 people were killed.

5) Paris, France, November 14, 2015: Three teams of extremists carried out the coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left 130 people dead and 352 injured, a French prosecutor said Saturday.

6) Borno massacre, in Konduga, Borno State, on February 14, 2014: Boko Haram Islamic militants killed at least 121 Christian villagers.

7) Izghe, Borno State, February 15, 2014: Islamic group Boko Haram killed 105 men and 1 elderly woman

8) Utoya, Norway, July 22, 2011: Anders Behring Breivik used a gun to kill 67 people and wound 110 others. Still others were killed by bombs that Breivik detonated.

9) Nairobi, Kenya, September 21, 2013: the terrorist group Al-Shabaab killing 63 victims and wounding 175 at the Westgate shopping mall shooting.

10) Yobe State, Nigeria, February 25, 2014: 59 boys were killed at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi. The boys were separated from the girls and the young girls were told to get married at a very early age.

11) Gujba, Yobe State, Nigeria, September 29, 2013: gunmen from the Islamic group Boko Haram entered the male dormitory in the College of Agriculture and killed “as many as 50 dead.” Most of the dead were Muslim college students.

12) Mamudo, Yobe State, Nigeria, July 6, 2013: Islamic group Boko Haram killed 42 children and teachers at a boarding school.

13) Sousse, Tunisia, June 26, 2015: Seifeddine Rezgui, a college student, used a gun to kill 39 people at a crowded tourist beach resort at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

14) Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, April 28 and 29, 1996: Martin Bryant killed 35 people and wounded another 23 at a popular tourist site, the historic Port Arthur former prison colony.

15) Rome, Italy, December 17, 1973: 33 killed and 20+ injured. Black September Terrorists attacked airport and airplane.

16) Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 by gun fire at Virginia Tech University.

17) Gujarat, India, September 24 and 25 2002: Two terrorists attacked the Akshardham temple complex and killed 31 people and wounded 80 others by using automatic weapons and hand grenades

18) Hebron, Israel, February 25, 1994: Baruch Goldstein killed 29 and wounded 125 Muslim worshippers in an attack on the Cave of the Patriarchs.

19) Jammu, India, July 22, 2002: Islamic militants killed 27 Hindus and injured at least 30 others, some critically

20) Lod Airport outside Tel Aviv, Israel, May 30, 1972: three members of the Japanese Red Army attacked Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others

21) Newtown, Connecticut, USA, December 14, 2012: 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

22) Killeen, Texas, USA, October 16, 1991: George Hennard crashed his pickup truck into the plate glass windows of the Luby Cafeteria and then shot 23 people to death.

23) Bamako, Mali, November 20, 2015: Siege at the Radisson hotel, a luxury hotel, in the capital Bamako that left 20 people dead

24) San Ysidro, California, USA July 18, 1984: James Huberty shot and killed 21 people and wounded another 19 at a McDonald’s restaurant.

25) Otite, Kogi State, Nigeria, August 7, 2012: Three Islamic terrorists attacked the Deeper Life Bible Church killing 19 people and wounding an unknown number of others.

26) Erfurt, Germany, April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhäuser, a recent graduate of the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, killed 18 people.

27) Near Stirling, Scotland, UK, March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people at the Dunblane Primary School.

28) Popular Ivory Coast beach resort, March 13, 2016: 16 people shot to death in a terrorist attack at the Etoile du Sud, a hotel popular with Westerners. The attack was probably directed at Americans who were traveling in the area.

29) Rome, Italy, December 27, 1985: 16 killed and 99 injured. Abu Nidal Organization attacked the ticket counter for Israel’s El Al Airlines.
30) Popular Ivory Coast beach resort, March 13, 2016: 16 people shot to death in a terrorist attack at the Etoile du Sud, a hotel popular with Westerners. The attack was probably directed at Americans who were traveling in the area.

31) Hungerford, UK, August 19, 1987: Michael Robert Ryan killed 16 people, but they occurred at several locations.

32) São Gonçalo do Amarante, Natal, Brazil, May 21, 1997: Genildo Ferreira Do Francais killed 15 people in a small northern Brazilian town.

33) Winnenden, Germany, March 11, 2009: 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer 15 killed at the Winnenden School.

Other cases: Montreal, Quebec, Canada had 14 people killed and another 14 injured in a shooting at the École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989. The Zug Switzerland shooting left 14 people killed in September 27, 2001. The 1966 University of Texas shooting left 14 people dead (wife and mother were killed through other means). Edmond, Oklahoma shooting at a post office left 14 people killed on August 20, 1986. Honduras, November 25, 2015: “Two massacres that killed 15 people in less than 12 hours rocked Honduras and left the country’s top cop in tears on Wednesday. Police say seven were shot in the capital of Tegucigalpa early Wednesday, while eight bus drivers were killed in the northern city of San Pedro Sula late Tuesday.”

UPDATE: Woo Bum-kon killed 56 people a over two days in South Korea (April 26-27, 1982). It is hard to include him in the above list because there was no large number of people killed in any one single public place, but instead he would kill one or two people in a lot of different public places. He also used grenades to kill people.

Other cases: The Zug Switzerland shooting left 14 people killed in September 27, 2001. The 1966 University of Texas shooting left 14 people dead (wife and mother were killed through other means). Edmond, Oklahoma shooting at a post office left 14 people killed on August 20, 1986.

Nigeria. Given that these were attacks by Islamic militants purely against civilians, they are classified as terrorist attacks.

Israel. Given that most of these attacks were conducted by Palestinians, one could argue that these were attacks over sovereignty. Above we have only included one attack by the Red Japanese Army against Israel.

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IVANKA TRUMP AND DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR JEWISH CONVERTS

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Don’t expect converting to Orthodox Judaism will be easy. Don’t expect becoming Jewish to be easy. It’s a challenging life. If you want love and acceptance without judgment, convert to another religion.

If you show you can be easily intimidated, you will be. If you show you can be bullied, you will be. It’s funny, nobody has tried to bully me in over six years. The last person who tried, an Orthodox rabbi, got his nose bloodied (metaphorically). If you try to bully me, I fight back.

Anyone else notice how much Bethany Mandel whines? Particularly about the Trumps? Is there a big audience for this kvetching?

Bethany Mandel writes:

No one has the right to judge Ivanka’s Jewishness or religiosity as a convert, just as no one has the right to judge—or question, or pry into—mine. Yet it is hard for me to believe anyone in her well-heeled congregation is giving her a hard time about this. Why, then, am I and the majority of converts I know, constantly the subject of such scrutiny? For any other female convert, emulating the types of posts Ivanka puts on Instagram would be unthinkable.

While conversion revocations aren’t common in the United States, there is intense communal pressure for converts to stay on the straight and narrow because of a perception that they often “fall off the derech,” or stop being observant. And the very fact that some conversions have been revoked puts intense pressure on converts, especially women (for whom the issue of modest dress is much more germane and whose Judaism their children’s identity hinge on). Who will see it? Will they “inform” on you? Will the impression of laxity give them cause to stop eating at your home, or having their children avoid yours?

As an active member of the conversion community I’ve heard enough horror stories to fill a book: shadchans (matchmakers) refusing to work with converts, probing questions at a Shabbos table with strangers, conversions overseen by rabbis who want to take a walk around the block (if you catch my drift) with their shiksa conversion candidate before she becomes officially Jewish. And throughout my own conversion process—and long after—close friends, family, and strangers would tell me: But you’re not really Jewish.

Then there are the horror stories of conversions revoked or questioned for “offenses” like wearing pants or not keeping Shabbat after the conversion. The Israeli Rabbinate—a kind of College of Cardinals for global Jewry—has lent credence to this absurdity, sending a chill through converts and conversion candidates in the United States.

All of which makes much of the Jewish community’s response to Ivanka Trump’s Orthodox conversion—or better yet, the apparent lack thereof— so astounding. Somehow Ivanka has managed to obtain what no other Orthodox convert I know has: acceptance from the Jewish community while at the same time flouting convention that the rest of us could hardly get away with. Apparently having wealth, fame and power buys you a lifetime supply of indulgences. I don’t think the Jewish community has begun to grasp how this makes us look.

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Giggling White Nationalists Gloat: Trump Is Encouraging Twitter Racists to Spew Their ‘Pro-White’ Hate

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Travis Gettys, Raw Story, March 24, 2016

A pair of white nationalists cackled with glee at the growing popularity of their fringe movement–thanks to social media and Donald Trump.

James Edwards, host of the “Political Cesspool” radio program, gloated that the so-called “alt right” movement had ushered a diverse collection of younger social media users into the white nationalist movement, reported Right Wing Watch.

“There’s so many different audiences within the ‘pro-white’ spectrum that they don’t overlap anymore,” Edwards said. “We have an audience that is different from some of the others, and it’s encouraging and uplifting when we come into contact with one another. Used to–10, 15, 20 years ago–all five of us knew each other. That’s not the case anymore.”

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His guest, the prominent white nationalist Jared Taylor, said he agreed “100 percent”–saying the movement had grown far past his influence and now included a number of bloggers who put out high-quality productions to help spread the “pro-white” message.

“We are putting out a message that is vital to our people more effectively and in more different places, coming from more reliable, believable people than ever before,” Taylor said. “I find it hugely encouraging.”

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“The most visible manifestation of this is the support for Donald Trump,” Taylor said. “Donald Trump is an opportunity for ordinary Americans to say they are fed up. And one of the big things they’re fed up about is the racial changes going on in the United States, and they think Donald Trump might actually do something about it.”

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I’m Sure The Community Will Engage In Deep Soul-Searching

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

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News: Some residents in Spring Valley are expressing outrage after a black-faced doll with what appears to be dreadlocks was found hanging at a home during the Jewish holiday of Purim.

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Milo: ‘Why Are We Surprised Muslims Are Blowing Things Up? That’s What They Do’

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos joined Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report Tuesday after the Brussels terrorist attacks, during which he discussed the implications of importing millions of Muslims into the west, and the reason why Islam, not just radical Islam, is part of the problem.

“This is sort of what liberalism has welcomed into Europe,” Yiannopoulos said. “This is the excuse making that’s being made for radical Islam that has prevented us from fighting this problem by people who lie about the source of these people and news stations who refuse to accept that these attacks have anything to do with Islam… this is preventing us from fixing the problem. This is preventing people from taking adequate security precautions, and looking after themselves.”

“Europe now is welcoming in millions of people from alien cultures whilst the establishment refuses to accept that these people’s belief systems are just dramatically incompatible with our own, and the regular citizenry are being lied to and lied about constantly, all the time by the media on this stuff,” Yiannopoulos said on the topic of the Brussels attacks.

“We have a population that is not able to protect itself, that is not adequately informed about the risks and dangers of radical Islam, and the problem in Europe is that this stuff is now happening everywhere,” he continued. “No one is safe, anywhere in Europe. It’s happened in Paris, it’s happened in London, it’s happened in Brussels, no one is safe from this stuff and what do our politicians leap to the airways to say? ‘I really want to make it clear that this has nothing to do with Islam’. Well it does. It does, and as a gay man I am terrified by the prospect of mass Muslim immigration into Europe. This is one of the reasons I spend so much time in America now, I don’t want to be there anymore.”

“Why are we surprised that Muslims are blowing things up? That’s what they do,” Yiannopoulos claimed. “I don’t care about that, you know it’s horrific for the people who are on the receiving end of this terrorist stuff, but is anybody surprised that ISIS blew something up? No.”

Rubin told Yiannopoulos that he was going to save him “a little bit of Internet hate” and reiterated that the conversation was about extremism, not about Muslim’s as a whole, clarifying that there was a distinction between peaceful Muslims and extremists.

“You don’t need to do me that favour. No, I don’t care about the distinction,” Yiannopoulos countered. “It is not extremists. It is not radical Islamists. It is not the people that the security service are worried about that’s the problem, it is the silent majority of Muslims who do nothing in this situation, have no peace movement, have no resistance to their own extreme elements, just like the progressive left in the West. Is it eleven countries that you and I could be killed for who we are? That’s not ISIS, that is mainstream Muslim culture, and we are importing that stuff into Europe in millions.”

“No, I don’t make a meaningful distinction between these things because I don’t care. I don’t see any reason to import these cultures into liberal Western democracies,” he continued. “I see no reason to do it whatsoever, and as Brigitte Gabriel once brilliantly said, ‘In any case, the peaceful majority are irrelevant.’ It is not the peaceful majority that blow up buildings, it is the extremists, and right now in the world all of this stuff is coming from one culture and one religion, and I don’t want it here.”

Upon being asked about how to sort out the problem and what the world needs to do to face this issue, Yiannopoulos responded: “We don’t have to welcome 1.4 million of them into Germany. We don’t have to lie to people about what Islam is, and what Muslims believe, which the press and our politicians do all the time. We don’t have to intervene in their counties where it’s not necessary and we don’t need to, and I supported the Iraq war, but some of the other things we do in the Middle East are not necessary and just drum up this Western hatred.”

“I mean look, the problem is not just radical Islam. The problem is Islam,” he argued. “There are structural problems with this religion that means it is incompatible with the modern free Western liberal democracy that we live in.”

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The Ted Cruz Foreign Policy Team

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Paul Gottfried:

* Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, has unveiled his new foreign policy team, stacked with some of the most aggressive hawks imaginable, saying they are a group of his “trusted friends” who believe in a “strong America.”

At the center of his team is neoconservative ultra-hawk Frank Gaffney, a loudly anti-Muslim figure who believes in a wild array of conspiracies, including that a number of top political figures from both parties of being part of a secret Muslim cabal plotting the conquest of America.

Gaffney had previously been speculated to be a Trump adviser, as his dubious work has been cited by that candidate repeatedly in trying to back up his proposals to ban Muslim immigration. Gaffney’s overt hostility toward Muslims in general made him a virtual pariah during the 2012 campaign. Incredibly, a number of Republican hopefuls have courted him this time around, with Cruz declaring him “clear-eyed” and “a patriot.”

Also featuring prominently in the Cruz team is Michael Ledeen, the man at the center of the yellowcake uranium forgeries, among the pretexts for the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Ledeen has been involved in a litany of scandals, dating all the way back to Iran-Contra. He was also, notably, the man who got Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard his job at the US Navy.

Of course speaking of Iran-Contra, one must inevitably discuss Elliott Abrams, who famously pled guilty to two charges of withholding information related to the scandal from Congress, and is likewise a central player in the new Cruz team. In addition to the Contra scandal, Abrams was involved in myriad ugly Reagan-era operations, and was a close ally of both former presidents Bush, receiving a pardon for his Reagan-era crimes by George H.W. Bush, and being appointed as a special adviser to George W.

During his tenure with the later Bush, Abrams was accused by The Guardian of being at the center of a failed 2002 US-backed coup attempt against Venezuela, and was said to have personally given the go-ahead for the effort.

Abram’s most recent media comments, interestingly enough, were railing against Cruz, accusing him of being anti-semitic for even using the term “neocon.” Now that Cruz is establishing himself as the neocon candidate of choice, that allegation has been quickly brushed aside.

With this team and more, Cruz is surrounding himself with warmongers and criminals of the highest caliber. While the attempt appears to center on making him a more straightforward Republican insider, to serve as a counter to Trump, the jingoist and xenophobic policies these advisers portend also threatens to sabotage any hope he has of presenting himself as a safer alternative.

Cruz hires liars,conspiracy theorist,ex,current and possible future felon – Abrams, but NYT allows the intentionally misleading mischaracterizing David Brooks to pen columns calling Trump liars,ignorant ,unprepared ,no capacity to learn,have no advisors and most dishonest.( in page A25 NYT -David Brooks 3/18/16)

Neocons are protected by the system promoted by Cruz,and purveyed to Ametican as good products who are not liars not misleading,not closed minded not criminal ,not unprepared by the media .
We have to wait to see if David Brooks helps America recognize the dangers that are inherent in the nature of the neo con beasts from the known display of their vile uncouth tribal behaviors in a few past administrations. Instead for reason unknown ( only to the unwashed clueless ) he tries to warn Americans of what could happen from someone who hasn’t hurt American interests or destroyed American life if he gets elected.

* Trump can indeed break the stranglehold that Jewish Americans hold on US policy in the Middle East and towards Russia – if he is determined to do so.

It should be part of a new US foreign policy that pulls back the American Empire.

If Trump articulates a clear and reasonable policy, and directs the money the US gives to Israel to truly American causes, it will be supported by most people, and the pro-Israel lobby will not be able to play one side against the other.

What are Jewish Americans going to do, withhold money from the Democratic AND Republican parties? Then they lose their influence with both parties.

* I’ve had the same exposure to the neo-con’s of the late 70s and 80s. At that time Irving Kristol’s and Nathan Glazer’s Public Interest seemed to be the pearl of the neo-con public intellectual universe. Norman Podhoretz’s Commentary was stridently anti-Soviet, pro-Zionist, but engaged in heavy ridicule of Leftist social experiments, and even went after pop-culture Leftism in their long movie reviews by writers like Richard Grenier. Midge Decter, Mrs. Norman Podhoretz, was scathing about the alternative family and sexual experiments of the New Left types. Irving Kristol’s articles in the WSJ were full of commonsense on economics and skeptical of social experimentation. However, underneath it all was a fear of any kind of nationalism or cultural conservatism based on the inherited traditions of Anglo-America. In the end it was their cosmopolitanism and their fear of distinct nationality that won out after the fall of Communism. I think it was also a generational thing, the original neo cons came from that Marxist/Old Left tradition which was basically ascetic and was distrustful of revolutionary and anti-bourgeois sexual experimentation. The neo-Wilsonianism is a replacement for the universalist ideology that was lost when the Marxism of their youth sputtered out and with the fall of Communism the vacuum had to be filled with a replacement.

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The Trump Way

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments: Cruz’ surrogates post a nude picture of Trump’s wife online.
Trump responds threatening to reveal something nasty about Cruz wife if Cruz doesnt stop.
Your analysis: Trump is the villain in this affair

Trump’s style is to give back twice as nasty as he gets.

He’s not Bush or Romney letting the left sh*t on him without any response.

From McClatchy:

Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump’s entry a clown candidacy, the “Dilbert” cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton’s candidacy next.

Adams, mind you, is not endorsing Trump or supporting his politics. (“I don’t think my political views align with anybody,” he tells The Washington Post, “not even another human being.”) And he is not saying that Trump would be the best president. What the Bay Area-based cartoonist recognizes, he says, is the careful art behind Trump’s rhetorical techniques. And The Donald, he says, is playing his competitors like a fiddle – before beating them like a drum.

Most simply put: Adams believes Trump will win because he’s “a master persuader.”

The Manhattan mogul is so deft at the powers of persuasion, Adams believes, that the candidate could have run as a Democrat and, by picking different hot-button issues, still won this presidency. In other words: Trump is such a master linguistic strategist that he could have turned the political chessboard around and still embarrassed the field.

“Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president,” writes Adams, adding: “Trump knows psychology.”

Within that context, here is what Candidate Trump is doing to win campaign hearts and minds, according to Scott Adams:

1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.

“If you see voters as rational you’ll be a terrible politician,” Adams writes on his blog. “People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”

2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an emotional level.

“The evidence is that Trump completely ignores reality and rational thinking in favor of emotional appeal,” Adams writes. “Sure, much of what Trump says makes sense to his supporters, but I assure you that is coincidence. Trump says whatever gets him the result he wants. He understands humans as 90-percent irrational and acts accordingly.”

Adams adds: “People vote based on emotion. Period.”

3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.

“While his opponents are losing sleep trying to memorize the names of foreign leaders – in case someone asks – Trump knows that is a waste of time … ,” Adams writes. “There are plenty of important facts Trump does not know. But the reason he doesn’t know those facts is – in part – because he knows facts don’t matter. They never have and they never will. So he ignores them.

“Right in front of you.”

And stating numbers that might not quite be facts nevertheless can anchor those numbers, and facts, in your mind.

4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”

Trump “doesn’t apologize or correct himself. If you are not trained in persuasion, Trump looks stupid, evil, and maybe crazy,” Adams writes. “If you understand persuasion, Trump is pitch-perfect most of the time. He ignores unnecessary rational thought and objective data and incessantly hammers on what matters (emotions).”

“Did Trump’s involvement in the birther thing confuse you?” Adams goes on to ask. “Were you wondering how Trump could believe Obama was not a citizen? The answer is that Trump never believed anything about Obama’s place of birth. The facts were irrelevant, so he ignored them while finding a place in the hearts of conservatives. For later.

“This is later. He plans ahead.”

5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.

Steve Jobs famously aimed to create “reality distortion fields” to meet his needs and achieve his ends. Trump employs similar techniques, and apparently can be similarly thin-skinned when his “reality” is challenged. “The Master Persuader will warp reality until he gets what he wants,” writes Adams, noting that Trump is “halfway done” already.

(Among the persuasive techniques that Trump uses to help bend reality, Adams says, are repetition of phrases; “thinking past the sale” so the initial part of his premise is stated as a given; and knowing the appeal of the simplest answer, which relates to the concept of Occam’s razor.)

6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics – and identity is the strongest persuader.

“Do you think it is a coincidence that Trump called Megyn Kelly a bimbo and then she got a non-bimbo haircut that is … well, Trumpian?” Adams writes. “It doesn’t look like a coincidence to this trained persuader.”

One way to achieve this is by deploying “linguistic kill shots” that land true, and alter perception through two ways.

“The best Trump linguistic kill shots,” Adams writes,”have the following qualities: 1. Fresh word that is not generally used in politics; 2. Relates to the physicality of the subject (so you are always reminded).”

Writes Adams: “Identity is always the strongest level of persuasion. The only way to beat it is with dirty tricks or a stronger identity play. … (And) Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.

“If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?”

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