Luke Ford

From the Chateau: Post-Nice, post-Dallas, and post-…well, pretty much every mass killing that’s happened in the last five years, I’ve been hearing a lot of comments from shitlibs bemoaning the “exhaustion” they feel over all these events, and how it’s more important that ever to keep hope alive and tell people to love each other.

This is the classic shitlib retreat to sentimentality, coupled with a gnawing sense that surrender is about to subsume them, that happens when near-daily doses of reality put the lie, bluntly and relentlessly, to their equalism religion. Liberals retreat to sentimentality when inconvenient facts are freely aired, and surge forward with snark when facts are suppressed. As a Twatter reader observes:

Leftists I know:
2009 – happy, hopeful
2013 – angry, gloating, bullying
2016 – tired, confused, afraid

Why are shitlibs exhausted? Because they’re losing their religion. Religious beliefs — and make no mistake the typical shitlib’s belief in race creationism and autonomic White perfidy is as piously felt and immune to contradicting evidence or reason as any radical muslim’s belief in the teachings of the koran — are hard to dislodge without causing extreme emotional distress.

Religious fanatics, when emotionally distressed by an uncooperative reality, double down on adherence to their beliefs. We see this happening all over the West, as shitlibs and the cucks who lap their runny effluvia come to sound more like gibbering lunatics than sensible classical liberals as the mountain of evidence discrediting their kumbaya worldview crushes them into a brainless paste.

But there’s a stage after the doubling-down. That’s exhaustion. It’s when you’ve lost that loving feeling for your Synagogue but you can’t yet let go of everything you’ve believed in since you were a wee shitlib bouncing on your libdaddy’s lap. Exhaustion, the feeling of it or the claiming of it, is how a shitlib reconciles her cognitive dissonance. No more fighting, now. No more raging against the BadWhites. Just sweet release into the long slumber of empty, nihilist, emotional vacuity. Rest your weary head on that inviting id-pillow, sing “Imagine” in a low whisper, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll wake up tomorrow to a fresh injection of ego-assuaging feelz. Usually this ego reaffirmation takes the form of the shitlib clinging to her rare outlier while ignoring overwhelmingly common instances of the opposite occurring.

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Related, media shitlibs have taken to cooing stuff like “We can’t let fear and anger dictate our policies.” Newsflash, fear and anger are justified responses to endless violent attacks by enemies within. Fear and anger motivate actions to defend oneself from continuing attacks on one’s countrymen. If you aren’t fearful or angry, you’re holding a useless candlelight vigil and hoping the next truck doesn’t run over you and yours.

Snarky, juvenile language allows media shitlibs to emotionally disengage from a credible threat to one of their own. To wit, shitlibs also like to say “let’s not reduce this problem to something simplistic.” No, of course not. Complicating a rather straightforward horror show — muslim aggression against infidel White Westerners — is the rhetorical legerdemain that allows shitlibs to maintain a facsimile of faith in their Equalism ideology. What the shitlib mistakes for simplicity is to the sane mind known as clarity. More clarity, please, and don’t stop with the clarity until every last shitlib is too exhausted to fagslap the shitlord army as they’re assuming control of the main engine room.

Executive summary:

Houellebecq was right.
Powell was right.
Raspail was right.
Juvenal was right.
CH was right.
Modern liberalism is wrong.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* So I am watching the GOP convention for the first time, and Peter Thiel gets up there and gives a good common sense speech, and afterwards, all the CNN people can talk about — literally — is that he said he was gay. Just utterly clueless.

* Surely you don’t expect the CNN agitpropbots to discuss the issues Thiel raised? To borrow Thiel’s wording, are they going to talk about how the bubble economy is good for Wall Street but lousy for everybody else? Are they going to talk about Hillary’s endless and useless wars? About how fake culture wars distract from these issues? Of course not, they are going to talk about their obsession, identity politics. From the identity politics point of view — and today’s media progs don’t accept the existence of any other point of view — Thiel is a traitor to his tribe. That’s all they’re going to talk about. What else have they got?

* I know it was a good speech because the liberals are in a tizzy over it.

For the last ten months, people (myself included) worried that he’d back down on immigration when the general election came around. He did not. That we would be listening to a nominee hammer on the costs of illegals and the necessity of managing immigration in the national interest was the stuff of delusional fantasy a year ago. Trump has come through. Now he has to win.

* Trump’s speech KICKED ASS. This guy means to restore some sanity for real. Quite the opposite of his evil opposition.

At one point he even mimed a deliberate hand-to-chin smug Pepe.

* I too am disappointed in Charles Murray, especially since I am from his hometown, Newton, Iowa. He’s now 73 and maybe the fight has just gone out of him–he wants to be intellectually “respectable” there at AEI and he’s smart enough to see where racial consciousness could take him. He also has some half-Asian children, so the temptation to just close his eyes and pretend it’ll all be okay in the end is enormous. Never forget that that “blue pill” can be awfully tempting, especially if you live in rural Maryland and don’t see the consequences of racial diversity in your face everyday.

* Agreed, I haven’t been this disappointed in an intellectual since George Borjas threw Jason Richwine under the bus during a PC shakedown ginned up by Vox’s Dylan Matthews, during which Murray condemned Heritage for doing so.

* No one has been more formative in Donald Trump’s thinking on social and political matters than Michael Savage. Trump has been a big fan and listener of Savage for years and identified with his fellow Queens native. And they are a lot alike. Savage was promoting the “border, language, and culture” theme decades ago.

* It was a tremendous speech. After the Obama debacle, it is refreshing to see someone defend America so unapologetically and so forcefully. The President is, above all, a cheerleader for the country. Trump gets it.

* Miller is living the dream right now. My first real corporate job I remember the thrill I got when the big bosses started reading and considering the ambitious memos I was penning in the equivalent of the mail room. I can’t even imagine the rush I’d get from having my earnest manifestos suddenly getting plucked up and plugged verbatim by one of the most powerful people on Earth.

* Several weeks ago someone posted a link to a Steve Miller speech introducing Trump. It was one of the most inspiring speeches I have ever heard. Miller is an incredible public speaker. In our sad age when someone with the limited rhetorical skills of MLK is held up as an example of oratorical excellence, it’s inspiring to have heard someone like Steve Miller, who may not match the oratory of earlier US politics but can still give a speech that is lucid, logical and emotionally inspiring.

I hope Trump has this man preaching to the hustings up through and beyond November.

Steve Sailer writes: It’s hard to remember all the media manias that have come and gone in attempts to derail the Trump candidacy. For example, the Great Six-Pointed Star Crisis of early July 2016 is already largely forgotten.

It’s hard to remember now after so much leftist violence, but one of the biggest coordinated press campaigns back in the late winter was the idea that Trump rallies were loci of “violence.” Thus, when there was mob violence at a Trump rally in Chicago in March, it was widely blamed initially by the press and politicians on Trump and his violent supporters. Of course, that was 180 degrees backward.

So how did Trump’s convention in Cleveland turn out? Did Trump’s cossacks sack Shaker Heights? Or did that not actually go through the formality of taking place?

COMMENTS:

* Trump’s supporters tend to be tough looking, blue collar white men. Lots of bikers, truckers, cops, firefighters, and ex-military types. They’re ready for violence and capable of winning fights, but they’re not really anarchic or lawless. They’re sort of like guards, not rioters.

Up until the 90s, there were lots of urban working class neighborhoods full of these types. Their neighborhoods tended to be relatively safe and minorities were often too scared to move in.

Lots of them used to be hardhat Democrats. Since the mid 90s, they’ve been economically and racially marginalized by both parties. Trump seems to really appeal to them.

They’ve never been much into racial guilt or acting deferential to minorities. They’ve beat up some rowdy black protesters who tried to disrupt Trump rallies.

* Hats off to Trump and [Stephen] Miller. I was totally blown away. Trump’s obvious sincerity when describing the murders of Americans by illegal aliens and the effects on their families was very impressive and touching. A truly great and historic speech in my opinion. Also the perfect setup for Hillary’s BLACK LIVES MATTER heartless hatefest scheduled in Philadelphia. It’s on now, and I couldn’t have asked for a better kickoff.

* Was there ever a time that it was against the law for non-citizens/foreign interests to own sizable/ shares/control over national media generators? Imagine Japan having editorial control over or even owning part of the LA Times prior/ during WWII.

Why is Carlos Slim allowed to own a sizable interest in the NY Times as Mexico continues to aggressively mass carpet-bomb us with strategic, sporadically virus-laden, biological warheads, with threats of sending even more if politicians don’t do his/Mexico’s bidding?

* The political geeks can’t figure out why Peter Thiel would endorse Trump, but it makes sense given their German connection. Germans like Thiel’s and Trump’s extended families, along with Scots like Trump’s mother, have a long history of valuing the United States as a second home and a refuge from the Old World. German Americans’ proprietary orientation towards this country leads them to treat it as an asset that needs careful management to maintain its value.

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* I’ve heard from three people (an anti-globalization democrat & two mainstream republicans) who have been glued to the TV this week that are now voting for Trump. Seeing his family has humanized him to those who previously viewed him as a one-dimensional villain. The consensus across party lines is that Ted Cruz is a weasel.

* Ivanka’s obviously a super-impressive lady, but I don’t think that she–or her brothers–have their dad’s humor or moxie. Trump makes me LOL pretty regularly, but I’ve never laughed at anything his kids have said.

* Reporters have never been able to find a single person who has spent time with Cruz who can stand him.

* I agree that his future prospects are exceedingly dim, but I thought that before last night’s speech, which really hurt him. The more you saw of him on the campaign trail, the less you liked him. I have a theory that the reason he withdrew from the race immediately after the Indiana primary was not just because of Indiana but his fear that he was going to lose Nebraska the following week where he was ostensibly favored and that would hurt his future prospects. (Nebraska had an open primary, whereas next door Kansas had a caucus a few weeks earlier, which Cruz carried handily.) He certainly lacks the charm and likeability of Mike Huckabee, who also is very religious, so it is not religion which makes Cruz unlikeable. I think Huckabee may be the best natural politician in the traditional sense than anyone I have seen. If you recall, Cruz sidled up to Trump all last fall, even adopting the same positions, and then did an abrupt 180 degree turn at that Fox debate which Trump skipped. So he wound up burning all his bridges with Trump, and the prospects of being the VP or AG or Supreme Court nominee all went up in smoke.

* I ended up favoring Ted Cruz over Donald Trump, but I was glad that Trump raised the question about whether Cruz’s father Rafael was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald.

It’s plausible that Cruz’s father really is the man photographed handing out leaflets with Oswald.

I’d like to know whether Cruz’s father ever has responded to the question.

* Trump’s (feels like) 12 kids being everywhere at the Convention subliminally speaks to Affordable Family Formation and the Blue-Metro/Red-State divide.

That they are articulate, well-behaved, successful, and can be trusted to go out alone in public doubles-down on the message in ways that Palin never could. That Trump is not an overt or, apparently any kind of, religious nut and yet has 5 kids doubles-down on the double-down. Trump has 5 successful kids because he is a positive, successful guy. Wouldn’t we all if we could afford them? Isn’t that a sub-text of MAGA: hang-up the smart phone and live life well.

More generally, I see at the local level you can categorize people by the number of their off-spring:

* Less than 1.1 kids and that person is a Progressive that wants to invite the world to take care of them when they are old (ahem, for minimum wage) and buy their house for 5-10x what they paid for it.

* Greater than 2.9 kids and that person is a True-Con that wants to build a wall to stem the flood of immigration because they look around and are rightly worried what their children’s employment opportunities are going to be, and how or where their children are going to find decent, affordable housing.

* …the big difference between the rare right-wing terrorist (Breivik or Roof) and leftist or Islamic terrorists is how rare it is for right-wing terrorists to have accomplices. One sign that a particular ideology is especially violent is the ability of a would-be terrorist to find accomplices.

* Middle Easterners tend to be very clannish. So when you fight one of them, you fight the entire clan. That’s why it’s misleading to think that terrorists are just violent individuals. The reality is that these terrorists are members of much, much larger clans. If the terrorist hates you, his clan (whether it wants to or not) gets drawn into the conflict.

Euro whites are more individualistic and not much into the idea of clan loyalty. So they’re more likely to be lone wolves.

* Because Ted Cruz won the largest delegate haul in at least 8 states, he is granted an automatic speaking slot according to RNC rules. There was nothing Trump could do to prevent Cruz from speaking if he wanted to; and since Trump either knew or guessed that Cruz would never endorse him, he decided to let him make a douchebag out of himself on international TV. It was a masterstroke given the constraints of the situation.

What Ted Cruz did last night was literally psychopathic. With the whole world watching, with the fate the party and the country on the line, with the future of law and order up for grabs, Ted Cruz decided to nurse a personal grudge and throw a stink bomb at the man whom we were all there to honor and support, the man who is the reason for the whole occasion. No only was this atrociously bad form, it was also cowardly to a degree that makes me queasy.

There is something deeply, disturbingly wrong with Ted Cruz which makes normal people run in the other direction. This freak and anybody who supported him (including El Rushbo) will need to be dealt with after the election is secured.

* Supposedly Trump extended an invitation to Cruz a couple of weeks ago without any conditions after failing to get him to agree to live up to his commitment to endorse the RP’s nominee at one of the debates. Apparently, Trump got an advance copy of Cruz’s speech two hours before the scheduled appearance and, despite the fact that the draft contained no endorsement, he decided to let Cruz go ahead and speak. Had he cancelled Cruz’s appearance, the odium would have fallen on Trump. Maybe that was what Cruz was counting on. Since Trump didn’t blink, Cruz probably felt he had to go through with the speech, lest the odium fall on him. Being the vain and self-centered creature he is, Cruz may have convinced himself that his “brilliant” speech-making would sway the audience and carry the day. Trump, being the very savvy judge of men and a completely unscrupulous operator (think of Chris Christie’s withering cross-examination of Senator Rubio in the NH debate, which brought out Rubio’s best robotic qualities), probably arranged for his manager Paul Manafort to organize the chorus of boos and probably figured that, if Cruz delivered the draft speech without endorsing him, Cruz would be committing political suicide. It looks like Trump figured it out perfectly and Cruz not so much.

* Trump’s “attack” consisted of retweeting side-by-side pictures of the two wives– with his wife, Melania, by the way, actually being older than Cruz’ wife, Heidi! As far as I know, the picture of Heidi Cruz used was (a) taken in public; (b) taken by a professional photographer; and (c) not digitally retouched, in any way, to make her look any worse than she actually did, at that instant. Again, Trump’s retweeting, however dubious as a campaign tactic, was in direct response to that Cruz PAC’s sending a modeling photo of Melania in the buff, long before her marriage to Trump, to married women voters in Mormon precincts of Utah, telling those married female voters that they could have Melania Trump as their next First Lady– or else vote for Ted Cruz!

In addition to that Cruz PAC’s dubious tactic, a female Cruz surrogate had appeared previously on Fox News Channel, on Neil Cavuto’s 4 p.m. (E.S.T.) show, decrying the possibility of a Trump presidency by pointing out that Melania Trump was (a) an immigrant (!); (b) a third wife; and (c) a former professional model who had posed in the nude, and thus was, according to that female surrogate for Senator Cruz, unfit to serve as the First Lady of the United States!

Even more egregious, to my own mind, than the two above-noted instances of Cruz supporters’ maligning Melania Trump, earlier this year, was what Ted Cruz’ most famous and prominent surrogate, Glenn Beck, had to say about her, last year: Beck claimed that Melania Trump had appeared in “lesbian porno videos!” How often have the mainstream media mentioned this fact, while they were condemning Trump for “attacking” poor, innocent political wife, Heidi Cruz, the Goldman Sachs banking executive?!?

Finally, I read an ABC News story about Ted Cruz, this morning, which continued to push the myth that it was Trump’s campaign that had pushed the Cruz sex-scandal story, earlier this year. Everyone who followed Twitter knew that it was Rubio supporters who were pushing the story– not Trump supporters, let alone the Trump campaign itself. In fact, it was reported that the source of the eventual story in “The National Enquirer” was neither Trump nor Roger Stone, as falsely asserted by Senator Cruz himself; it was one (or more) of the private eyes hired by Rubio surrogates to trail Cruz and his supposed women friends! When Rubio withdrew, his surrogates immediately stopped pushing the sex-scandal story, and one (or more) of their private eyes decided to repurpose their handiwork by selling it to the aforementioned tabloid. Since the owner of that tabloid is a Trump friend, Trump was blamed for what was a Rubio dirty-tricks operation.

* I can recall the very first Republican debate (in Cleveland, of all places) last August, which was moderated by Fox. (That was the debate where Megyn Kelly famously asked Trump about all the bad things he had said about women over the years.) After the debate, where Fox did their best to torpedo Trump’s candidacy, Mr. Luntz held one of his focus groups, and they all agreed that Trump had lost the debate. Polls revealed the next day that Trump had won the debate. So much for the Luntz focus groups.

* This is one of those iSteve posts where the comment quality just craters for some reason. It’s like when you’re eating strawberries out of one of those big flats from Costco, and they’re all ripe and delicious but then you pick up that mushy one with the gray mold on it.

* The Don not only hit a grand slam home run tonight, he hit it out of the stadium, across the street, and into the parking lot, where it broke the window on Hillary’s limo.

* As far as what George Will will do should Trump win, I suggest he retire from the opining business. The man is 75, has had nothing of interest to say for the past 15 years, and ought to have put aside sufficient savings to live comfortably.

* Instead the DNC has Ivanka’s ugly step-sister, Chelsea Clinton. Can’t you picture her watching Ivanka on TV, then letting out a blood-curdling shriek, throwing herself on her bed, kicking her feet and crying into her pillow. “Mom! Don’t make me do this!!”