Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Trump was pretty quick on his feet both rhetorically and physically for a guy pushing 70.

Notice his message after the bum rush:

* “Thank you for the warning….” Acknowledges the crowd, bringing them to his side.

* “Much easier if the cops handle it, don’t we agree…” A response to the “Trump beats up hippies” story line, plus the “don’t we agree” which pushes the crowd to actually agree with him.

* “What a great job” Acknowledges the cops, which plays well with the crowd.

* “And to think I had such an easy life, what do I need this for” Addresses the rich guy story line, plus shifts it to his quasi-humble assertion that he’s just returning something to the nation where he gained great wealth.

And all done with a sort of wise-guy New Yorker affect.

He’s been at this sort of thing a long time and he’s an instinctive salesman. I can’t think of any other candidate this cycle who could have extemporaneously created as good of a response.

Trump’s no conservative, doesn’t have much of an intellectual framework to guide his beliefs, and would sell out any of his current positions to gain some sort of “deal”, but, dammit, he keeps on putting on a class for how to deal with the anti-free-speech left.

* What is a conservative? The common denominator seems to be globalism, belligerent Zionist foreign policy and all for the investor class.

I would say a guy who’s even open to deal-making, let alone actually making deals, is infinitely preferable to every other candidate and politician who who dares not deviate from his overlords. This is why Trump is being barraged with calumnious attacks like no other person in history.

* Some responses to the Trump protest in Chicago:

Kasich: Trump’s sowing ‘seeds of division’ caused protest
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“Tonight the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly,” Kasich said

Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump Is to Blame for Violence at His Rallies
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“When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Mr. Cruz said. “And today is unlikely to be the last such instance.”

Hillary Clinton on Trump Rallies: ‘That’s Political Arson’
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“The ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it’s dangerous… “If you play with matches, you’re going to start a fire you can’t control. That’s not leadership. That’s political arson.”

* We don’t make people our national leader just because they are good at punching political opponents in the face, the way they do in Canada.

* The guy who threatened in his Twitter account to assault (or kill) Trump, and then went and attempted it, is now out on bail and back to tweeting at the same account: https://twitter.com/Younglionking7 Obviously Twitter is another “safe space”.

How very much like Weimar Germany and Republican Spain things are going. In both cases, authorities were shamelessly lenient with the street fighters and militants they saw as their own guys, whether right-wing or left-wing.

* From what I can tell here in CA, children of Muslim immigrants are the most anti-white group in America. They either go anti-white Muslim supremacist with the veils and everything, or else anti-white far-left identify group politics. The selective immigration of mostly higher IQ people from Muslim countries like Iran, Pakistan and Muslims parts of India means the immigrants themselves are generally well behaved, but their IQ-regressed kids go middle class radical.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Sailer: I’d hardly be surprised if Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to run. They had a phone conversation about a month before Trump announced his candidacy. Bill Clinton probably likes Trump on a golf buddy level more than he likes Jeb or Rubio or Walker or whomever, so why wouldn’t he go along with Trump’s usual egotism and tell him he’s better than the other Republicans.

* One thing that I don’t often see mentioned is one obvious similarity between Clinton and Trump: as different as they are in so many ways, they are perhaps the greatest natural politicians of our era.

* I wonder where Ben Shapiro and Mike Levin will be on this? They have endlessly attacked Trump for not being a true conservative or not supporting the Constitution and they are Cruz supporters. Of course Shapiro has cried about his boorish behavior. My guess is their neoconism won’t let them denounce Cruz and they will pretend it is already forgotten.

According to a recent poll, 61% of Israelis view Trump positively. But not the hardcore lefties like this guy.

Larry Derfner writes: In the 31 years I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve never voted in a U.S. election – mainly because I have a problem voting in a country where I don’t live anymore, especially when the one I do live in makes such a big issue of telling outsiders to stay out of its business. Also, I would be voting in California, which is by now so solidly Democratic that my vote would just be sending coals to Newcastle. 
But if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination as expected, I’m going to vote in the November election. Because he is in an entirely different category from any Republican leader I ever opposed, including Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush. No need to explain why; his story is being written every day, and it’s all too unmistakably clear. 
But I want to point out a few things about Trump, any one of which would have hobbled or destroyed the candidacy of a normal American politician, but which have been swallowed up and forgotten in the daily cascade of new moral atrocities he produces.      
1. The news is that Trump got the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and that he won’t renounce it. What’s forgotten is that his father, Fred Trump, the formative influence in his life, his mentor and benefactor, was arrested at age 21 during a KKK  brawl with New York police. The roots of the younger Trump’s racism run very deep. 
2. In the 1970s, by which time Trump had taken over his father’s New York real estate business, the Justice Department sued his company for refusing to rent to black tenants. Despite an out-of-court agreement to end the practice, three years later, the Justice Department charged the Trump Organization with continuing its exclusionary policy: “[R]acially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity,” the Justice Department declared.  
3. Before running for president, Trump’s political renown came mainly from his leading role in the “birther” movement – the bunch that deny Obama’s right to be president because they claim he wasn’t born in America, but in Kenya. The movement is built on white racism, Islamophobia and ultra-nationalism, all staples of Trump’s appeal.   
4. Last July, when Republican Senator John McCain slammed him for “firing up the crazies” in the party, Trump belittled McCain for having been a POW during the Vietnam War. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump told an Iowa audience. Trump didn’t only denigrate McCain with that remark – he denigrated all POWs. Trump himself ducked the Vietnam War with a series of college and medical deferments, which hadn’t stopped him from being a self-described “star athlete” in high school. This is the individual who’s going to “make America great again,” whose fanatical supporters chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” at his rallies. 
There’s never been an American presidential candidate remotely like him. And the worse he is, the better he does. 
So this year’s U.S. election will be to other U.S. elections like World War II was to other wars – truly a battle of good vs. evil, a holy war, a war for survival. And I believe it’s not enough to beat Trump – his candidacy and everything it stands for has to be utterly destroyed, obliterated, left in smoking ruins. America must violently cast him out. It must write in the sky, “This is not us.” 

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* In addition to being a tireless worker with abundant energy, Trump appears to have a long memory. Should he win the White House, its a safe bet that he would bring the law and order policies of former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani to a national level.

Speaking of law and order, this does remind one of 1968, when far leftists disrupted the Democratic Convention in Chicago. One has to ask here, does BLM and Soros funded groups think that they are actually persuading independent/moderate voters into supporting their cause, OR are they rather driving more and more voters….to support Trump at the ballot box? If anything, like the Mitt Romney criticism, BLM/protesting/coalition of fringes nuttery may just have the opposite effect and drive more and more independent voters into fully supporting Trump’s candidacy. This is why I’ve said before that Trump, if he is the GOP nominee in November, should carry ca. 70% of the total white vote; BLM/overall fringe nuttery is helping to make this a reality.

Trump has publicly run on a law and order platform. This weekend is making his case that voters should seriously consider the truthiness of his words.

* I know Trump has a conceal carry permit, I think it would have made a great Instagram if he had pulled that pistol out, and stood there like Steve McGarrett in the old Hawaii 5-O shows. I’m not saying he should have shot him, but hey, I am not saying he should not have shot him either.

* PC is no longer “fringe”. It is, in fact, the new bourgeois morality. It must be embraced by all ‘right-thinking’ educated persons, from senators and CEOs on down to ordinary accountants and adjunct professors. To repudiate it publicly is to invite total ostracism–if not legal sanction.

* When a candidate rents a hall in which to speak and when private citizens have taken the time and trouble to attend and hear what this speaker has to say, is their right to hear him rather than some disruptive protester protected by some variety of right to peaceable assembly?

If we pay to attend a professional basketball game and some clown runs out on the court dribbling his own ball and starts shooting baskets, do we tolerate his behavior in the name of “freedom of expression” or are we not delighted when security tackles the idiot?

If we are attending a theater and someone in the audience disrupts the performance by loudly giving vent to his personal views on the world, do we good-naturedly tolerate the interruption and listen closely to the text of what he is saying in order to assess its merits relative to the lines of the actors whom we came to hear?

If we are on a jet airplane 35,000 feet in the air and some person gets out of their seat and belligerently rants about some private grievance do we allow them to continue undisturbed, acknowledging their right to freedom of expression or are we not grateful when the flight attendants shut him down (and hopefully sedate him)?

Please help me out here people.

What is the general Law which you, as Chief Justice, would invoke that would justify suppressing the disruptive behavior of the offending individual in all these cases?

* I can remember a time when the GOP stood for more than just cutting taxes and killing our little brown brothers. It’s been a while, though.

I don’t want to invade the world; I don’t want to invite the world, and I don’t want to be in hock to the world.

Is Libya better off today than it was under Cathafi? Is Iraq better off now than it was under Saddam? (Some people, sure.)

Is America better off for having a substantial Somali community in Minnesota? If so, how?

People talk about free trade and comparative advantage and forget that the United States isn’t just some other country—-it’s the single largest market in the world. Why not experiment some with tariffs to move production back in country?

Do we benefit from having the Chinese manufacture our dog food? Chips for our missiles?

Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban might be fine gentlemen on the whole but I somehow suspect that they are a wee bit more concerned about Israel than the average American is.

* The Trump administration should focus on humiliating and destroying left-wing idiocy (and its followers). He should start a relocation program aimed at dumping millions of blacks and immigrants from red states into nice, white democrat areas – then denounce them for racism when they flee or protest. The only way to destroy the mental illness of the left is to publicly humiliate its followers by giving them what they profess. Progressivism is a mental illness – a personality defect focused on social advancement by extreme (and almost always hypocritical) virtue signalling. Stop fighting the symptoms and destroy the disease.

* If Trump is successful it will be a masterstroke. He will have simultaneously bested the feminism/black/Latino Democratic coalition while handcuffing the religious conservatives and moneyed elites within his own party at the same time Religious conservatives have held the Republicans hostage for a generation but you can only keep losing for so long. They have no where else to go now. That has been OK with the Republican elite, who does not care whether abortion is legal or not. They only care if their economic interests are served. The irony is that religious conservatives and white liberals now have a way out of the box they have put themselves in. Perhaps they can be passionate about something else for a few decades while we move on to other more interesting things.

* Trump tosses around some pretty inflammatory rhetoric, and the MSM had been running some very inflammatory rhetoric against him. I’m not surprised there are some clashes.

I do wonder to what extent this was orchestrated (or simply exploited) by Trump. This whole election, watching Trump vs the other candidates has been like watching a really good chess player play against a bunch of novices. And this image of protesters (especially young, nonwhite, leftist, educated SJW types) trying to shut Trump down is going to play very well with his natural voters.

I think that most things that people do, aside for reasons of survival, are to gain in social status and to avoid humiliation.

Tom Wolfe is the master of chronicling social striving.

The following article sounded like a cheap shot against Trump but it turned out to be a compelling read.

New York Times reports:

Donald J. Trump arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April 2011, reveling in the moment as he mingled with the political luminaries who gathered at the Washington Hilton. He made his way to his seat beside his host, Lally Weymouth, the journalist and socialite daughter of Katharine Graham, longtime publisher of The Washington Post.

A short while later, the humiliation started.

The annual dinner features a lighthearted speech from the president; that year, President Obama chose Mr. Trump, then flirting with his own presidential bid, as a punch line.

He lampooned Mr. Trump’s gaudy taste in décor. He ridiculed his fixation on false rumors that the president had been born in Kenya. He belittled his reality show, “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

Mr. Trump at first offered a drawn smile, then a game wave of the hand. But as the president’s mocking of him continued and people at other tables craned their necks to gauge his reaction, Mr. Trump hunched forward with a frozen grimace.

After the dinner ended, Mr. Trump quickly left, appearing bruised. He was “incredibly gracious and engaged on the way in,” recalled Marcus Brauchli, then the executive editor of The Washington Post, but departed “with maximum efficiency.”

That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world. And it captured the degree to which Mr. Trump’s campaign is driven by a deep yearning sometimes obscured by his bluster and bragging: a desire to be taken seriously.

That desire has played out over the last several years within a Republican Party that placated and indulged him, and accepted his money and support, seemingly not grasping how fervently determined he was to become a major force in American politics. In the process, the party bestowed upon Mr. Trump the kind of legitimacy that he craved, which has helped him pursue a credible bid for the presidency.

“Everybody has a little regret there, and everybody read it wrong,” said David Keene, a former chairman of the American Conservative Union, an activist group Mr. Trump cultivated. Of Mr. Trump’s rise, Mr. Keene said, “It’s almost comical, except it’s liable to end up with him as the nominee.”