Why is it that Russians are the one white people who have failed?

An American perspective: Why is it, that throughout their history, at every opportunity, Russians consistently make the wrong decision? What is it that Russians incorrectly intuit about the world? Why do they have the lowest trust most corrupt nation of all the white peoples? Why is it that Russians are the one white people who have failed.

If any people was ever incapable of self government, it’s Russians. If any people was less capable of governing others. It’s the Russians. What is it about the Russian character that causes them to consistently fail? What metaphysical assumption about the nature of man and his relationship to the world is so flawed that unless tightly bound to europe they contribute nothing to legacy of white people? Why is it that western peoples have dragged the entire world out of ignorance mysticism sickness and poverty, while russians try consistently to reverse the trend by dragging those white people near them into their failed civilization?

Why is it that Russians have nothing to offer the world other than corruption, violence, fear and poverty?

Why are Russians the only white people who have failed?

Forget moral equivalency. Go with the facts. Russians have the market on corruption, brutality, oppression, and have destroyed every white nation that they have touched with their corruption. And murdered more of their own people than any white people in history. Russians have nothing constructive to offer the world, and everything they do causes suffering.

COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:

* What really matters is that Jews rule US, and more diversity means more ‘divide and rule’ among diverse goyim. That is what Jews want, and that is what they will get.

Btw, diverse Brazil and South Africa got ‘gay marriage’ before US did.

In both cases, the homo thing got huge backing from globalist Jewish power.

* I would guess that a lot of the Russian-speakers [in the San Fernando Valley] are related by blood or marriage to Israelis and/or Armenians, but it can be pretty tenuous. A lot of the shoppers in the Jon’s Supermarket in North Hollywood look Russian enough that they could pick up some work as flathead bodyguards for Russian bad guys in movies. Or in real life, too.

And then there are the Other Slavs, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Bosnians, etc.

It’s a pretty interesting phenomenon, but they are a tight-lipped bunch and don’t seem interested in talking to journalists or academics about what is going.

* Portland might be the canary in the multicultural coal mine. They are filling up the greater metro area with Mexicans and Muslims. The city remains mostly white but with a budding Muslim population. In the city many of them are students who will presumably go home. Apparently there’s a lot of money here; I’ve seen at least two high-dollar sports cars with Kuwaiti and I think Emirates plates that a resident vulgarian paid to ship in. And they love to party. All they seem to do is smoke weed, drink and lurk about the females; they embody the first half of the cliche (of the degenerate Muslim dumbass who “self-radicalizes” and straps on a bomb) to a comic tee. God help us.

It’s a good thing we’ve been steadily chipping away at the idea of standards of behavior all these years; someone might get the idea all these poor Muslim Baby Bodies were a bad idea.

When I see the nice families of the other growing ethnic group–Asians–walking around, enjoying the amenities of a fine city, I get the impression they’re somewhat aware they’re going to be running things to a large extent, soon. It’s like they’re touring the grounds of their new colony. I hope they have some appreciation when the time comes.

* It’s pretty easy to tell apart Russians, Ukrainians, etc., who look like narrow-sense Whites and Russian-speaking Caucasians, who do not. Steve is right. Moldova and Ookrayeena are the most corrupt countries in Europe (the difference is especially clear if the Balkans are excluded). The same holds for Moldovans and Ookrayeeneans (for whom Steve’s description of Russians fits best) if Caucasians and Balkan people are excluded. Russians and Belorussians are a little better at self-government, but are still very, very different people from Germans, Balts, Poles and Finns.

The “distance from the Canadian border” rule also applies to Europe (including Eastern Europe), if the Canadian border is re-defined as the North Pole (hunter-gatherer exceptions apply).

Remember, Indo-Europeans came out of southern Russia and the northern Caucasus. Which partly explains Afghanistan today. Of course, other Indo-European people (e.g., Poles) were much more successful. But that may be in a large part due to genetics as well.

* I can’t speak directly to the Valley or greater LA, but if it mirrors the trends that are happening in NYC, then the newest batch of ex-Soviet immigrants are indeed largely Russians, Caucasians, Uzbeks and others from central Asian -stan countries. (I’d say less Russians and more from the other republics.)

Whatever they are — they’re not Jewish. All the Jews who wanted to leave have already done so a long time ago. Even the ground zero of Russian-Jewish immigration, southern Brooklyn, has changed remarkably in recent years with the huge influx of ex-Soviet but non-Jewish immigrants. It’s very noticeable.

The migration has been driven mostly by lower-skilled workers looking to make a few bucks and send the rest home, and by young women looking for husbands. While I think they’re far from the worst people washing up on our shores, I do agree that they will assimilate very poorly, or not at all. (Again, mostly talking about the Caucasians and -stans, and not so much Russians).

* Right, here’s a classic in political science that shows that “public opinion” is pretty much whatever elites want it to be.

The Council of Conservative Citizens is considered crazy and hateful for focusing on black on white crime, while CNN is a respected news source that implies that cops are regularly hunting down young men of color. Most Americans are more scared of ISIS than illegal immigrants, even though the latter kills many more people, as Ann Coulter points out.

The narrative that they’re pushing need not have any connection to reality. And most people will eat it up, because they don’t have the time or inclination to think about these things themselves.

The idea that the descendants of Mexicans are going to rise up and repeal feminist and gay-friendly legislation is laughable. Gay marriage is even legal in Mexico now! And for no other reason than the elites wanted it. “Diversity” on college campuses in California hasn’t stopped them from getting crazier and crazier. It’ll be the same with the larger society.

* I recently moved to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn (“Little Russia by the Sea”). It’s overwhelmingly Jewish-Russian (throw in some Uzbeks as well I suppose). I am still learning the ropes, but I hear lots of little, grand-standing arguments amongst them about “following the rules” with regards to not walking on the grass or not smoking under the awning or whatever. But then I go to the myriad fruit and vegetable shops up and down Bright Ave and I see everyone is paying with EBT cards…and then getting into their Bugattis or Rolls-Royces and driving away. (The phrase I mutter to myself every time is, “Penny compliant; pound criminal.”) I’m curious if you’re seeing anything remotely similar in the San Fernando valley, and whether this is just a Jewish-Russian thing or a [non-hyphenated] Russian thing.

MORE COMMENTS:

* Like the other hucksters of Conservative Inc. Coulter usually waits until it is safe to stake out her turf. She’s very good at sounding like a heretic, while making it clear she poses no threat to the orthodoxy. This is a woman who goes drinking with Bill Maher on a regular basis, after all.

This is not the wheel turning in our favor. Coulter is the signal that the game is lost.

* She did say in one column:

Adelson himself [told the Los Angeles Times] he wanted to “Put a big fence around our country.”

By “our country,” he, of course, meant Israel. In America, he wants illegal immigrants pouring across the border to provide him with an endless supply of cheap labor.

But she usually steers clear of that factor.

* As for Jim Crow, I once believed it was an appalling oppression of a people and a denial of their basic humanity, solely based on their race. But in light of the increasing amount and savagery of black-on-white crime in the US, denied by the MSM but celebrated by many blacks on WorldStarHipHop, I now believe it was less a cruel and unnecessary measure to oppress blacks and more a necessary evil to protect whites from the blacks in their midst.

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What A Girl’s Job Tells You

Report: Journalist

Don’t ask me why but for some reason these girls have absolutely no personal ethical code whatsoever. Which may be why the journalism profession is in such disarray today and trusted by no one. The she-journo will fuck around remorselessly with a dashing embed while her fiancee waits loyally at home for her return.
Sexual Satisfaction Rating: 3/4th erection
Long Term Potential Rating: 1/24 carat

Artist

Every man should experience at least once in his life the joy of dating an artist chick. Painters, photographers, singers, freelance fiction writers, actresses… their exuberant lovemaking will spoil you for all other women. Their beautiful romantic gestures will capture your heart. Their craving for intimacy and their wellspring of empathy will draw you in. And then right at the moment you fall deepest for her you will catch her one night frenching a half-shaven DJ at a seedy club.
Sexual Satisfaction Rating: titanium rod minus refractory period
Long Term Potential Rating: cracker jack box ring

Blogger

If she writes a confessional online diary, expect her to be passive-aggressive, petty, moody, cruel, untrustworthy, vengeful, and highly libidinous. Make a sex tape as soon as it is feasible so you can use it as blackmail in the event of post-breakup threats to out your dirty laundry on her blog.
Sexual Satisfaction Rating: N/A
Long Term Potential Rating: N/A

I hope it hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that sexual satisfaction and long term potential are inversely related.

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How To Identify A Slut

Chateau Heartiste: Here is a list of tramp tells:

She broaches the subject of sex first.
The more explicitly she talks about sex before you’ve banged her, the likelier she has a storied slutty past.

She suggests kinky sex acts.
If you’ve been dating a short while and she eagerly implores you for public sex before the glow of bedroom missionary sex has worn off, you’ve got a slut.

She’s neurotic and disagreeable.
Emotionally flighty girls are vaginally flighty girls. They are ruled by their vaginas. If she’s the gossipy, backstabbing, conniving sort who drips with sarcasm and generally disdains everyone around her, you can bet her black soul will seek sustenance on a carousel of cock.

She frequently goes commando.
Yeah, as guys, we think it’s hot when we slide our hands under our girlfriends’ dresses during dinner in a fancy restaurant and discover a panty-less pussy waiting for us, but what if you notice she’s sans underwear while you’re both shopping in Whole Foods? At a family picnic? In church? On a ferris wheel? In a glass elevator? You get the picture.

She’s got that crazy, hyper, coked-up look in her eyes.
Welcome to attention whore land!

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Murder By Race

Chateau Heartiste writes:

Although blacks only constitute 12% of the total US population, they murder nearly as many whites as the number of whites murdered by other whites, who are 64% of the total US population.

This website is running a tally of black-on-white and white-on-black murders in the year 2014. The numbers currently stand at 348 BoW murders to 4 WoB murders.

What about all categories of violent interracial crime?

But in fact, white-on-black crime is a statistical rarity. According to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), an estimated 320,082 whites were victims of black violence in 2010, while 62,593 blacks were victims of white violence. That same year, according to the Census Bureau, the white and black populations in the U.S. were 196,817,552 and 37,685,848, respectively. Whites therefore committed acts of interracial violence at a rate of 32 per 100,000, while the black rate was 849 per 100,000. In other words, the “average” black was statistically 26.5 times more likely to commit criminal violence against a white, than vice versa. Moreover, blacks who committed violent crimes chose white victims 47.7% of the time, whereas whites who committed violent crimes targeted black victims only 3.9% of the time.

FBI stats show that blacks are 50 times more likely to commit a violent crime against whites than vice versa.

John Derbyshire combs National Crime Victimization Survey data and does the math, finding that any given black was almost fifteen times more likely to have killed a white in 2013 than any given white was to have killed a black.

Derbyshire also responds to slithery reptilian leftoid critics who claim that the disproportionate black-on-white crime rates are simply a consequence of population ratios and nothing else.

The argument here is that blacks move among whites much more than whites move among blacks. We encounter blacks much less frequently than they encounter us, so of course we commit fewer crimes against them! If we moved among blacks more, we’d commit more crimes against them!

Er, possibly: but wouldn’t they also commit more crimes against us? And are we sure that the whites who avoid moving among blacks (why?) are just as criminally inclined as those who mingle?

Derb goes on to explain the math underlying the disparate black-on-white crime stats. Short story: Tim Wise can’t do math. But he sure can do sophistry, that rascally bloodsucker!

The arid “population ratio” argument against the idea of blacks deliberately targeting whites in racial antagonism crimes strikes me as specious for another reason. How often do upstanding members of the criminal class of blacks encounter whites in real life? Blacks are fairly concentrated in their rural and urban enclaves. (Even middle class suburban blacks tend to live in majority black neighborhoods.) For a benign “population ratio” argument to have any merit, you’d need to have conditions on the ground that greatly increased the actual encounter rate between blacks and whites. The crude population ratio number doesn’t accurately reflect the real world daily encounter rate between the races.

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Study Says Empathy Varies By Race

Wow: “The ADRA2b deletion variant appears in varying degrees across different ethnicities. Although roughly 50 per cent of the Caucasian population studied by these researchers in Canada carry the genetic variation, it has been found to be prevalent in other ethnicities. For example, one study found that just 10 per cent of Rwandans carried the ADRA2b gene variant.”

Chateau Heartiste: Mic dropped. 50% of white Canadians have an empathy-boosting genetic variant which only 10% of black Rwandans possess.

The writers of this article must’ve been so shaken to their equalist cores by that hatefact which slipped through the cracks that they hastily flubbed the second to last line, resulting in a humorous contradiction between “prevalent” and “just 10%”.

CH has a big post coming soon which delves more deeply into the darkest of dark truths about racial differences in the empathy response. There are studies out there which the Hivemind won’t touch even obliquely, or through professional grade distortion filters. Ignorance is mind control.

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White Men Need To Watch Their Words

Comments to Steve Sailer about the Tim Hunt fiasco:

* In modern Western society every white male needs to consider his words very carefully before speaking them. He needs to be at least as cautious as a new stand-up comedian trying out new material in the Comedy Club in Kobani with a room full of ISIS militants.

* You didn’t mention his accuser’s creativity in drafting her CV. Her stated academic qualifications and work record are in doubt. But she has nothing to worry about – the university that employs her is not going to sack her. They say they will “help her update her CV”. Another Nobel Prize winner, Sir Andre Geim, predicted that. He said: “No Vice Chancellor would take on an ethnic-minority militant feminist. Those are not humble Nobel laureates who can be forced to resign quietly.”

* I am a nerdy type, but I also grew up in South Africa. So I have both personal (violent) experiences and like reading history and like to look at things like rankings of countries in various things. For me the people that deny race exists is probably as bizarre as it is for those internet atheists that like going after creationists. The difference however between those race denialists and creationists is obvious, the global system is now dominated by the race denialists (and the harm they are causing is immense), what great harm the creationists are doing I have yet to find out.

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Google Photos Mislabels 2 Black Americans as Gorillas

Yahoo: The image recognition software built into Google Photos is impressive. Show it a photo of the Eiffel Tower, and it will know that picture was taken in Paris. Snap an image of a dog or a tree, and it will automatically put them in a group with all your other pictures of dogs or trees.

But the software is far from foolproof. And when it fails, it does so in a spectacular way — as when it recently processed a photo of two black friends and labeled them “Gorillas.”

Jacky Alcine, a 21-year old programmer who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., was checking out his Google Photos account last night when he saw that the service had automatically generated a folder titled “Gorillas.” It contained nothing but pictures of him and a friend that he had taken in 2013.

When alerted to the error, Google provided a solution to the problem within hours and issued an immediate mea culpa.

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What Percent Of Haredi Jews Are On Welfare?

My perception is that the figure worldwide is at least 50%.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Steve Sailer has never been shy about pointing out three crucial points:

(1) American Jews are now, and have long been, disproportionately successful compared to American gentiles, when it comes to their share of wealth and power.

(2) Therefore (according to the traditional mores of American gentiles), they ought to adopt an attitude of “noblesse oblige” – i.e., a condescending kindness to their gentile inferiors.

(3) But, instead, they relentlessly persist in playing the role of the victim, for all it’s worth, regardless of the facts.

This is a huge problem.

* By some reasonable (dissident haredi Jewish) estimates, 80% of NY/NJ black hat Jews are on welfare. How else could it be when the black hat ne plus ultra lifestyle is to hang out with the guys all day in the local kollel [adult Jewish guy religious school], while banging out a house full of kids and sending the wife off to work to make a few bucks for the family.

Make regular trips to the Failed Messiah website and find out what is really going on with the welfare scams, kidnappings and beatings, bought-off NYC politicians cops and prosecutors, and child molestation cover ups.

Failed Messiah is a website by and for assimilated Jews who know the black hat community intimately, and how anti-liberal it is.

If their lifestyle is “super affordable” and worthy of emulation, so is the lifestyle of the ghetto baby daddy with ten kids, and for the same reasons: other people’s money. Plus unremitting religious, cultural, social, and racial segregation.

* Read the Jewish press. When Jews get hot under the collar they love to fling “Nazi” and “Hitler” at each other, paint swastikas and such. Ultra-orthodox Jews do it in Israel all the time. It really chaps the heinies of secular Jews. It’s almost an intramural sport.

Only Jews don’t sue each other for really, really hurt feelings in Israel. My guess is that most Israeli judges and juries treat such nastiness as nothing more than loud-mouthed obnoxious politics and would advise the defendants to grow a thicker skin if they ever tried to wrap themselves in the Holocaust flag and weep about their emotional trauma. Israeli politics is a full contact sport, and Israeli Jews (unlike weepy Western Jews) can dish it out as well as take it.

But the goyim in the West (well, Christians, anyway–Muslims not so much) have an internalized race guilt that is much more easily exploited.

* Yes–that was a fascinating episode of “This American Life.” It showed the utter contempt in which the Hasidim hold those outside their community and their ruthlessness in acting solely in their own interest and with disregard for everyone else’s. I was surprised it was aired on public radio.

* The Benny Steinmetz saga continues. The FT is doing a series (they are very good on business corruption in the Third World) on the BSGR Corp. / Steinmetz saga. This combines all ISteve obsessions: grotesque African corruption, Men In Gold Chains, dirty deals, mega corporations fighting.

Short version: Guinea has an entire mountain made of almost pure Iron Ore. It is of course in Guinea, and even worse in the middle of nowhere. Probably worth a lot less with falling Chinese demand. But its still worth something. A multinational, Rio Tinto (UK/Aussie) mining company obtained the rights. Vale (a Brazilian multinational) wanted it. They used Benny Steinmetz, operator of the Benny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) to bribe the dying dictator (and his wife) considerable sums to have the rights turned over to BSGR which then sold them to Vale. The dictator died, and the new guy is hopping mad … he didn’t get any bribe money. Needless to say the whole deal is off, Tinto is suing both Vale and Steinmetz, the widow made off to Switzerland with millions, and Steinmetz is being investigated by the FBI and the Swiss authorities. Steinmetz himself lives in Geneva.

What amazes me is how low rent everything is. Steinmetz has “only” (yeah I know) $3.5 billion. By comparison, Bill Gates has about $80 billion and Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett about 72 billion. According to Google.

Lesson: bribing African dictators is hard work. And it pays relatively little compared to establishing a world wide monopoly for years on PC operating systems and office suites, or Mexicans phoning home, or creating insurance based mega corps.

* Raj Rajnaratum, of Galleon Fame. His entire insider trading ring included Anil Kumar and Rajat Gupta of McKinsey. There’s also Fabulous Fab, Fabrice Tourre, the Black guy at some British trading firm (a relative of some African dictator), about a zillion Chinese sharp guys selling junk on the financial markets (non existent shell companies), and the IIRC, White WASP guy making London Whale trades at JP Morgan. There is also the LIBOR and Gold Fixing scandals, resulting in prosecutions. Anju Jain of Deutschbank is probably looking at charges there.

Financial Fraud seems to come in three flavors: rogue traders encouraged to take more risks exploiting weak controls to make back losses and getting in ever deeper: Toure being a good example. The others, ethno rings exploiting insider info, laws are made for dopes etc; and cartels of cozy traders who move about each others firms like LIBOR and the Gold Fix cartels.

* Though Jewish hysteria pisses me off, it makes perfect sense from a business and medical perspective.

If you’re in business, what do you do to stay in business? To grab attention and sell stuff, you have to keep convincing people that they are sick, too fat, un-hygienic, unfulfilled, and etc, etc. If people felt secure and content, why would they buy your product? You have to keep sounding the alarm. So, even in a safe neighborhood, you have to spread fear about burglars so that everyone will get an alarm system. You have to make people feel that they don’t take enough vitamins. You have tell people that they need a certain exercise equipment or they’ll become fat and unfit. You gotta make people feel anxious, unfulfilled, fearful, and etc. to grab their attention and sell stuff.

Most political and social professionals are in the business of making people feel anxious, afraid, unsafe, crisis-ridden, insecure, and etc. Only then will people pay heed to their advice, ‘wisdom’, recommendations, warnings, and etc.

A whole bunch of Jews in media, academia, and other social science professions would be out of a job unless they constantly made us feel that SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!

But Jewish fear-mongering is also understandable from a medical viewpoint. In medicine, they say prevention is the BEST way. So, don’t wait for the problem to get out of hand. Go for prevention before the problem begins. If you let the problem fester, it may TOO LATE.
Better to be worried than complacent and found out too late when the disease has progressed.

And in away, this is a good advice. After all, look what happened because America ignored and overlooked the problem of Jewish radicalism? Americans just let it fester, and it grew and grew and now messed up America royally. And look at the ‘gay’ germ. America tolerated it and let it grow, and now we have homos forcing ‘gay’ propaganda in elementary schools so that young ones will grow up worshiping homos. America is now totally ‘gay’-diseased cuz it tolerated its initial incubation.

So, it is smart from a medical viewpoint for Jews to get alarmed about anti-Jewishness before it even takes shape. It’s like preventing forest fire by forbidding even a flicker is better than dealing with the fire once it flares into sizable flame. And given the nature of Jewish power and influence, anti-Jewish rage is certainly possible in America.

But, there is an aspect of hypochondria in the Jewish mania, I must say.

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Yasiel Puig Hated By His Dodger Teammates

Howard Cole writes:

Between the entries for A.J. Preller and Albert Pujols in the index of Molly’s Knight’s new book, “The Best Team Money Can Buy,” there are 42 sub-headings for the search term, “Puig, Yasiel.”

An alphabetical listing can be quite helpful, and is here, with “anger issues of” in the leadoff spot, followed by “awards and honors of” and “beaning of,” with “benching of” cleaning up. Skipping merrily along, we come to “brawls and,” “in brushes with law,” “chronic tardiness,” “disappearance of,” “discipline issues of,” “Gonzalez episode of,” “pickoff tutorial of,” “private security for” and my personal favorite, “in relationships with women.”

With Knight’s book scheduled for an All-Star Tuesday release, Yahoo’s Jeff Passan got the jump on most of us with a copy, by picking out some choice items concerning L.A.’s mercurial right fielder and penning a Puig-centric piece, which is either entertaining or disheartening, depending on your perspective.

Twitter blew up within minutes of Passan’s article going live at 6:00 p.m. EST Tuesday, as you might expect, with the usual choosing up sides in support of and finger-wagging at the unfortunate Puig.

As Knight will tell you – and she found it necessary to tweet the thought precisely – her book is not a “NOT a Yasiel Puig pile-on,” and it’s not all about Puig. If his is the only name that’s used in a chapter title (and it is, in “Puigatory”) and if that chapter is the longest of 10 (and it is, at 36 pages), it’s because Puig is a compelling character, one worthy of attention.

Puig is, as I once wrote, the most interesting man in the baseball world.

There’s no mention of race in this new book, but much of the divide is between the black Yasiel Puig and his white teammates and the white rules of decorum.

Anglos tend to have a stricter sense of time and of decorum than most members of tribes (Jews, blacks, etc).

Many of the problems between Puig and his teammates are common problems between whites and blacks. How many whites have you heard complain about black arrogance, black tardiness, black sexuality? How many blacks have you heard complain about white uptightness and white prissiness? Our different groups tend to have different norms and different levels of empathy and intelligence and social pathology.

Yahoo: Inside the Los Angeles Dodgers’ clubhouse, the contempt some teammates hold for outfielder Yasiel Puig is no longer a secret limited to whispers. They discuss it openly, resigned to the fact that the Dodgers don’t plan to trade their mega-talented right fielder no matter how deep the animus runs.

“We’ve talked about this,” one Dodgers player told Yahoo Sports. “At this point, it would be addition by subtraction.”
Stories of Puig’s ability to infuriate teammates have percolated through baseball since he shot to fame as a rookie in 2013 and cemented himself last season as one of baseball’s greatest talents. Now, in “The Best Team Money Can Buy,” a fascinating new book that explores the inner workings of the Dodgers’ clubhouse, author Molly Knight delivers anecdote after Puig anecdote that illuminates what makes him so off-putting to so many.

The idea of trading Puig – a notion the Dodgers have never seriously entertained, according to sources – comes down to a simple question: Would Los Angeles really be better without him? And even if some players believe that might be the case, none of the past incidents have convinced the Dodgers that Puig’s harm today goes beyond occasional annoyance.

While some issues, like his habitual tardiness for games, have abated this year, according to sources, Puig’s work ethic in batting practice and the weight room continue to bother some teammates. Much of the hostility stems from a general sense of entitlement shown by the 24-year-old. During spring training this year, as Knight writes and multiple sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports, Puig argued with teammates over who should be allowed on a plane ride that typically includes wives and girlfriends. The subject of someone from Puig’s entourage joining the traveling crew came up, and sources told Yahoo Sports that Puig argued with pitcher Zack Greinke and nearly came to blows with infielder Justin Turner over the matter.

Greinke, the National League ERA leader and one of the game’s best pitchers, was at the center of another memorable Puig moment related in Knight’s book. In 2014, during the Dodgers’ annual trip to Chicago, the team bus stopped downtown to allow rookies undergoing hazing to walk into a pizza place and emerge with food for the veterans. Some Dodgers players, not wanting to wait, skipped off the bus. When the bus was ready to leave, Puig was outside, looking for his luggage inside of the bay underneath the bus. After Puig ignored multiple requests to close the luggage bay, Greinke hopped off the bus, grabbed the suitcase in front of Puig and chucked it onto Michigan Avenue. Puig stepped toward Greinke and was restrained by reliever J.P. Howell.
Word of the incident spread quickly, those there giddily recounting it to those who got off the bus, and highlighted the chasm between Puig and his teammates.

Puig’s reputation preceded his time with the Dodgers. During spring training 2013, Mitch Poole, the Dodgers’ longtime clubhouse manager, assigned Puig’s jersey number on a lark. “I thought it’d be funny to give him number 66 to reference 666, like he was Diablo,” Poole told Knight. During the spring, Puig cottoned to the number and asked to keep it because he thought it was good luck.

Upon his debut, Puig already made teammates wary by engaging in a relationship with a minor league coach’s daughter. His inability to show up on time was another constant problem. Puig was chided by veteran Skip Schumaker during his rookie season for coming to the stadium 20 minutes after he was expected to arrive. Manager Don Mattingly benched Puig opening day when he was nearly an hour late.

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Steve Sailer Reviews Ann Coulter’s New Book On Immigration

Steve Sailer writes: It’s difficult for excerpts to reproduce the punch-drunk hilarity that Coulter induces in the reader as she artfully piles up the details. Here’s one example that ought to sound disturbing (because it is):

“In a case the New York Times described as a “family drama involving clashes of cultures,” a Brazilian woman and a Palestinian man in St. Louis murdered their own daughter because she was a “whore” for “going out with a black boy.” By lucky coincidence the girl’s father, Zein Isa, was a suspected terrorist, so the FBI captured the entire murder on a surveillance tape in their home—in subsidized housing, naturally. (Zein could be heard on the tape boasting about how much he loved the United States because there were so many different welfare programs to game.)”

But then Ann immediately follows up with the tale of the Chinese immigrant Dong Lu Chen, who beat his unfaithful wife to death with a claw hammer:

“Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Edward Pincus let Chen off with probation—for murder—after an anthropologist testified that, in Chinese culture, the shame of a man being cuckolded justified murder…. The female head of the Asian-American Defense and Education Fund, Margaret Fung, applauded Chen’s light sentence, saying that a harsher penalty would “promote the idea that when people come to America they have to give up their own way of doing things. This is an idea we cannot support.”… Chen immigrated to America with his entire family when he was fifty years old—fifteen years away from collecting Social Security—to be a dishwasher.”

In 1980 I worked as the research assistant to the top criminal defense lawyer in Texas, Racehorse Haynes, as he was considering writing an autobiography. From his scrapbook I learned that back in the 1960s you could kind of get away with murdering a cheating spouse in Texas, so long as he or she had it coming (and you hired Racehorse to defend you). Of course, that was a long time ago.

Perhaps if The New York Times were to start referring to immigrants as Extreme Texans they’d find it easier to comprehend the patterns.

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