Luke Ford

A friend notes: “There is a lot about the Sacklers and their marketing techniques in Sam Quinones’ book Dreamland, about the Opoid Crisis. The book is terrific. I thought Quinones got robbed of a Pulitzer.”

From the Forward: If you’ve ever been to a famous art museum or glanced around a prestigious university, you’ve probably seen a wing or building named after a member of the Sackler family. But many may not know that the family’s fortune comes from selling pharmaceuticals—most notably OxyContin, the addictive painkiller at the center of America’s opioid epidemic.

A new profile in Esquire chronicles the life and business practices of Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, three brothers from a Jewish immigrant family who built a medical empire. Their descendants privately own Purdue Pharma, which was instrumental in using lobbying and advanced marketing techniques to convince doctors of the need to manage patients’ pain—and then prescribe OxyContin to manage it.

As OxyContin use ballooned in the 1990s and 2000s, so did addiction. Journalist Christopher Glazek noted that under the direction of Richard Sackler, Raymond’s son, “Purdue responded [to criticism] with symbolic concessions while retaining its volume-driven business model. To prevent addicts from forging prescriptions, the company gave doctors tamper-resistant prescription pads; to mollify pharmacists worried about robberies, Purdue offered to replace, free of charge, any stolen drugs.”

In 2007, Purdue was fined $600 million by the federal government for lying to doctors about the potential for patients to abuse OxyContin. No members of the Sackler family were named in the case.

* Liberal Jews are drinking their own supply, going extinct.

* Ariel Sharon was Israel’s Nixon without the paranoia.

* Israeli men are more alphas than nebbishy, while American Jewish men are often more nebbishy than alpha. Nebs often have higher IQs than alphas.

* The Eternal Jew of mythology is more nebbishy than alpha. He holds the King’s loans but he’s no threat to the throne.

* Bibi, Rabin, Avigdor Lieberman, Meir Kahane (Israeli leaders on right) are alphas. Shimon Peres and Laborites are nebbishes.

* Many USA Jews in power such as Harvey Weinstein, George Soros, Henry Kissinger, Abe Foxman, Richard Cohen, are more nebbishy than alphas.

* I’m organizing a WASP charm school for ex-Hasidim.

* Jewish feminism equals Jewish women who feel inferior to shiksas and are angry that Jewish men can do better than them.

* When inter-dating started by Jewish men, Jewish women reacted by pushing feminism (reducing male sex choices, increasing female choice).

* Jewish feminism is anger about not being wanted by Jewish men (who often prefer non-Jewish women as black men often prefer white women).

* Most obnoxious “Me too!” Harvey Weinstein posts are by fat ugly women who are proud that when they were younger, hotter and tighter, somebody wanted them. Hot women don’t need to tweet “Me too!”

Judaism holds that sex should be kept for marriage, but outside of Orthodox Judaism, Jews on average have far more sex partners than non-Jews.

The outrageous of Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood Gay Mafia, Jeffrey Epstein, and other Jewish sexual predators are just the flip side of the Jewish trait of assertiveness. Jews make excellent attorneys, for example, because they can passionately argue a case. Jews tend to have chutzpah. This allows them to do things that non-Jews would often feel too inhibited to do. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is bad.

I don’t think I could have ever written about the porn industry if I hadn’t converted to Judaism first. While Judaism is completely opposed to pornography, converting to the tribe gave me chutzpah to do anything and this has been good and bad.

America would never have had the nuclear bomb when it did if not for Jewish scientists (and this saved at least a million gentile lives that would have been spent invading Japan). On the other hand, all the scientists who gave America’s nuclear secrets to Stalin were Jewish.

Different groups have different gifts.

Name me a living German. It’s hard to do (other than Angela Merkel). Prior to WWII, Germany was the most culturally influential country in the world. After WWII, it had little cultural influence. Why? Because it lost its Jews.

Comment: It’s always amazing to me that Jews who are otherwise intelligent seriously spout–as if they believe it themselves, not just pushing it as propaganda–a completely cartoon version of Jewish history and “oppression”.

European national peoples are all a melange of whatever tribes existed in the area, plus the contributions of various invaders, who were Christianized–converted en masse–at various times over the last couple thousand years. The unique and salient feature of the Jews, is that they are a people who *refused* to integrate with their neighbors–socially, culturally, genetically–and hence were able to maintain themselves as a separate tribe down to the present day.

Jews acting like their ancestors were all little MLKs giving “I have a dream” speech and just wishing that every man should be judged “by the content of his character” and wanting to get together with the gentiles break bread and sing kumbaya … absolutely the most laughable pablum propaganda ever.

The Europeans were the integrationists–live there, speak the language, celebrate the local traditions, go to the local church, marry one of your neighbors … and you were, or would in a generation or two become, one of the local people–English, Bavarian, Frisan, Alsatian, what have you. The Jews were the reverse, the hyper-tribalist non-integrationists who rejected assimilation with their neighbors. (Actually with very specific religious commandments against social association with the goyim.)