RSSI think you’re reading a lot more into this film than what’s actually there.
You successfully convinced me that racial diversity works best when everyone has a six figure job and expensive real estate.
I think the fact that George Bush’s longest serving Chief of Staff, John Sununu, is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent played some factor in the cooler relationship with Israel.
I think it’s interesting that nobody who argues against racial differences in intelligence ever tries to disprove the existence of racial differences in intelligence. Instead they make other claims.
They claim that intelligence isn’t real.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9755929/IQ-tests-do-not-reflect-intelligence.html
That race isn’t real.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/
Or my personal favorite; that racial differences in intelligence might exist, but we shouldn’t try to know.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/race-iq-debate-serves-no-purpose/
The reason they do this is that racial differences in intelligence have been proven thousands of times over. Races differ in spatial reasoning, verbal intelligence, mathematical skills, brain size, and more. If biological racial differences in intelligence explain the achievement gap then the rationale for the therapeutic state programs to help bridge that gap goes away. If relative failure or success isn’t caused by discrimination, but by ability then anti-discrimination measures are window dressing. If students fail because they are naturally less intelligent giving education czars more money won’t make rocket scientists out of D students.
All of those potential cuts to the bureaucracies, managerial elite rationales, and vainglorious hope are too terrifying to consider. So instead our intellectual class proposes we ignore reality.
I think that blaming the collapse of the Republican party in California on the backlash to proposition 187 ignores a few major issues. First that it kept the Republican party on life support for 8 years longer than it would have otherwise. Pete Wilson would have lost in 1992 without it. Second is the unexamined question of why Californian whites don’t vote Republican.
If you removed every single Hispanic from California it would still vote Democratic. In the 1990s over 100,000 working class white families left California. They were displaced economically by the Hispanic working class, many of whom were illegally in the US. The white professional class wasn’t displaced at all they just had new serfs.
Immigration causes internal migration at nearly a 1 to 1 rate. The whites who have the most animosity against newcomers leave their old neighborhoods. The whites who have the least animosity against newcomers employ them.
This is a ridiculous and a specious argument. It's an example of the philosophical fallacy called false dichotomy that is created here by the underlying false assumption of there being only two legitimate political parties. But there are always potentially more legitimate options than two, so despite what Ann Coulter says and despite the perennial complaints by losing Republicans and Democrats, it can never be logically or credibly claimed that any losing third party candidate imperiled the election of any other candidate.Replies: @Wizard of Oz, @Sean, @follyofwar, @Curmudgeon, @Bill Smith, @TTSSYF
Of course, he might not be in this fix if yet another pie-in-the-sky Libertarian hadn’t siphoned off 37,094 votes, many of which would have been Kemp’s.
In Montana the Libertarian candidate for Senate withdrew because he realized that he was the useful idiot in a liberal dark money mailer. He endorsed the Republican for Senate and admitted that he would only get about 3% of the vote effectively functioning as a spoiler.
On election day he got 2.9% of the vote and functioned as a spoiler. At first this sounds crazy. The Libertarian not only withdrew, but endorsed the Republican. Even after that he still got about as many votes as he was expected to. That doesn’t make sense until you realize that nobody is really voting for a Libertarian Senate candidate.
Meanwhile in Montana the Democratic party sued to keep the Green party off of the ticket. Spoilers are real, but only the party of power understands that. The party of principle doesn’t get it at all.
Libertarian
https://helenair.com/news/government-and-politics/libertarian-candidate-backs-rosendale-in-montana-s-u-s-senate/article_e7525245-9365-5d54-92d9-8e02b5216ce3.html
Green
https://helenair.com/news/government-and-politics/judge-orders-montana-green-party-removed-from-november-ballot/article_145ad8f9-8fe7-5891-a2bc-304cdb6ed50d.html
The more a stupidity is repeated, the more it takes on the appearance of wisdom. (Voltaire)
...he realized he was the useful idiot...that he (was)...effectively functioning as a spoiler...Spoilers are real...
Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis laid the groundwork for the Trump revolution by providing an intellectual framework for the Middle American Radical. Pat did more than that though. The Rockefellers had been engaged in a long fight to control populations through the Club of Rome, ghostwritten Papal Bulls, and most notably a blue ribbon panel. The Rockefellers successfully imposed mandatory sterilization and forced abortions on both India and China. In both countries these policies lead to abuse and horror. In India it didn’t even control the population growth.
After the 1969 Population Commission there was a move to do the same in the US. Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself noted that this was the long term goal of Roe v. Wade. The overpopulation buzzword carried great clout. President Nixon knew this was a moral abomination and told Pat Buchanan to “kick that population commission in the ass”. Buchanan drafted a retort which rebuked the moral, economic, and social myopia in the population commission’s goals.
While Pat Buchanan will be remembered as a political writer of extraordinary wit and the John the Baptist of the populist right I believe those great accomplishments pale in comparison to defeating the Rockefellers’ dream for America. Involuntary sterilization, child quotas, and forced abortion were all on the menu in the land of the free. They don’t award medals for preventing catastrophes before they start, but if they ever did Pat earned his.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/kick-that-population-commission-in-the-ass-the-nixon-administration-the-commission-on-population-growth-and-the-american-future-and-the-defusing-of-the-population-bomb/8FC47627F1CF4BC949F70203B9C2829A
Considering the NED and NDI were both writing anti-Bolsonaro and pro-Haddad blogs prior to the election it’s clear that elements within the US deep state were trying to harm Bolsonaro. The articles in Foreign Policy Magazine and The Atlantic, both required reading at the State Department, confirm this. Bolsonaro may like America more than Haddad, but Haddad owed America big time.
The real question is why is the US deep state backing anti-American communists in Brazil instead of pro-American conservatives? That’s something to look into.
Anti-Bolsonaro NED articles.
https://www.demdigest.org/brazil-the-next-democracy-to-fall-in-populist-wave/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181007054703/https://www.demdigest.org/brazil-the-next-democracy-to-fall-in-populist-wave/
https://www.demdigest.org/does-populism-really-threaten-democracy/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181007054736/https://www.demdigest.org/does-populism-really-threaten-democracy/
Anti-Bolsonaro article in the US State Department’s semi-official magazine.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/05/bolsonaros-model-its-goebbels-fascism-nazism-brazil-latin-america-populism-argentina-venezuela/
http://archive.fo/PwLzg
Pro-Haddad and Anti-Bolsonaro NDI article.
https://www.demworks.org/making-democracy-popular-corruption-populism-brazil
http://archive.fo/Uthsp
Anti-Bolsonaro article in the Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/brazil-election-democracy-jair-bolsonaro-lula-haddad/572470/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181008144704/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/brazil-election-democracy-jair-bolsonaro-lula-haddad/572470/
This Antifa rally was designed to intimidate federal law enforcement. There were individual officers targeted and threatened by name in front of their children. There is no possible excuse for refusing to prosecute these dregs. Jeff Sessions needs to drop a RICO prosecution against the organizations responsible. If he doesn’t he is tacitly authorizing criminality bordering on revolution.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/anarchy-breaks-out-in-portland-with-the-mayors-blessing-1533331454
“A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. “At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.”
“Federal workers were defenseless. An ICE officer, who asked that his name not be published, told me one of his colleagues was trailed in a car and confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp. Later people showed up at his house. Another had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the “Gestapo.”
Mr Unz,
I believe there is a deeper Jewish element to the Frank case. The elements of legal chicanery, high finance, and historical revisionism are pretty clear. There is though a deeper religious demand here. Pidyon Shvuyim as the religious obligation to free captive Jews would certainly play a part in such a zealous attempt to liberate this patently guilty man. I suspect the Jews of 1913 were more religious than their modern coethinics, but I also suspect this lingers in cultural vestiges as well.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/where-jamal-khashoggi
I think Mr. Khashoggi’s ties to the CFR are the unexamined piece here. KSA is practically untouchable in American politics for their friendly relationship with Israel, animosity against Iran, and purchase of US weapons. Had Khashoggi not been a friend, if not member, of the CFR no one would care about his death.
https://spectator.us/2018/09/ron-unz/
While the ADL itself has been silent about you other mainstream outlets have taken note. The Spectator claims that you’re just a contrarian who went “too far”. He never really addresses the facts of your claims because he thinks repeating them is self-discrediting enough. The minor exception is when he quoted one of Lipstadt’s historians who claimed to have totally discredited David Irving without really backing that up with any specifics.
The purpose of this article was definitely to scare people away from following your path. You are a prominent person who has come to accept “out there” ideas. If that weren’t bad enough you cite evidence and reasoning which means they can’t just smear you. Furthermore I think your Jewish ancestry would make any accusations of “anti-Semitism” sound absurd.
What do you think of this article?
When you’re a Republican you have two goals. The first is to get elected, unfortunately this may require Republican voters. The second is to get the Democrats to like you. If they Democrats like you then you aren’t a racist or a sexist. Nice Republicans get sinecures in Democratic administrations and think tanks to signal bipartisanism.
The Republican politician has to keep these two goals in tension. If you get too many Republican votes you stop being liked by Democrats. If you get too liked by Democrats you may not get reelected. Their pathetic behavior makes a lot of sense when you realize their options.