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“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” — John Greenleaf Whittier
What might have been:
Oddly the picture looks like Trump leaving the White House after resigning, acknowledging his shame https://t.co/5fbAt1AHBz
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) March 23, 2019
But what is:
Another great day on the links! Thank you to POTUS for having me and to EVERYONE at Trump International for being so wonderful. What a great man, so down to earth and so fun to be with!! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!! -Kid Rock pic.twitter.com/cSsswI5PbW
— Kid Rock (@KidRock) March 23, 2019
1. Denial<———————–Glenn Fleishmann is here (as is most of the corporate Left)
2. Anger
3. Bargaining<——————————-(the rest are here (those talking about the SDNY, etc.)
4. Depression
5. Grief
Expectations for Trump:
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
"Give the Democrats Medicare-at-55 and a minimum wage hike in exchange for immigration restriction!"
Yeah, a billionaire boomer Republican is going to do that. Sorry guys, you don't get a political realignment in a single election.
25% Koch Brothers
25% Fox News loudmouth
25% Jeb Bush
It may be endemic to the odd structure of the US federal government relative to parliamentary systems that see the creation of new parties, coalitions with very focused groups of voters in small parties etc all the time.
Our swamp was desperate to keep the gravy train rolling and after the shock it was no holds barred to ensure the sinecures, graft, quasi deep state would preserve. Careerism, to be most charitable, alone
required that the useless dogma that had been memorized not be exposed as sophistry and self serving playacting to satisfy lobbyist paymasters.
I could ramble on here, but the notion that Trump is superman who can not only crush his opponents but then revolutionize political philosophy within two years of victory is a joke from twitter goons and journalists types.
It looks like the Italian BatMan is also shedding his Gotham-protecting cape, opting for a one-sided, neoliberal, importing-heavy deal with New Silk Road China, rather than beefing up his own country’s manufacturing, like a true populist hero.
But, maybe, it is a trade-off for less wage-undercutting, mass-scale immigration and less social unrest in Italy.
The Italian BatMan Lite may realize that—even if Italy ramped up its manufacturing—cheapskate, Italian employers would give most of the jobs to noncitizens—noncitizens receiving streams of welfare and child tax credit cash for their Italian-born kids that make puny pay that will not cover rent for non-welfare-eligible citizens acceptable.
Become active.
NPR is desperately trying to put a brave face on, pretending that there’s more to come, more and better besides. I know, I know, Schadenfreude is a sin, but hey, I’m fallen, what can I say?
793 days, and counting, and Donald J. Trump is still our President. Read it and weep, Rachel Madcow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGvAxdx7lQ#
793 days, and counting, and still Zero miles of new wall, no Executive Order ending “Birthright Citizenship,” increasing numbers of illegals crossing the border and being released into the interior of the US if they are caught, increasing “H-Series” visa issuances, and US military boots on the ground in a growing number of places questionably in the US’ national interest.
WTF, Donald J. Trump, do you want to be re-elected as our President?
But . . . how many of us could have done better if we: (a) became president unexpectedly with zero political experience; (b) were visciously attacked 24/7/365 by the establishment media; (c) were subjected to attempted coups, frame-ups, and sabotage by the Deep State and the permanent bureaucracy; and (d) had a Congress that was 45% Opposition party, 45% Cuck/Never-Trumper, and maybe 10% populist supporters.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
The french media of course dutifully and absolutely factually reported the happy event.
People like kid rock are direct causes of the tragedies like the terrorusm in new zeal and
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
Apparently it doesn't exist in your sentence.
Hey, Jordan Peele’s new flick made back its entire budget in just 1 day of wide release:
http://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-chart/daily/2019/03/22
Oh wait… The movie only cost $25 mil… Therefore this proves nothing about something-or-other… I’m sure that will be the measured judgment of Twitter (“where no one knows you’re actually SWPL”)
Has any recent US president not played golf ?
The daughter was a fan…
Carter and Truman didn’t play golf, maybe one other president back to Taft.
Reagan had mostly aged out of playing but he was moderately devoted to the game when younger.
GWB, who stopped playing golf over the war, made his first lifetime hole in one this month.
Used to be fishing was a popular activity for older men to while away their hours on vacation doing, but it's lost a lot of its appeal as more "active" vacations have been in vogue. And yes, golf is more active than a lazy day fishing---unless we're talking that deep-water speedboat and marlin fishing. I know there's a movement called "Take Me Fishing" as the fishing community tries to win back people.
That's nothing. 16 years ago he had a slam dunk.
Coolidge loved the sport so much that he may have spent more time fishing than governing, and some people said that made him exactly the kind of president we needed.
Never heard that Truman was much of a fisherman, but I've seen a few photos of him fishing from a boat in big water.
Did CNN just tweet “bathed in golden light” and “teenagerhood?” Are they writing an eighth-grade poem? Or are “bathe” and “golden” meant to remind us of Pee-pee-gate?
I think we all remember: “Now, watch this drive,” because it was repeatedly hammered into our heads.
GWB, who stopped playing golf over the war, made his first lifetime hole in one this month.
Well, at least he’s done something he can be proud of.
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
That Michael Tracy has it backwards. Trump campaigned on fighting the Uniparty (not explicitly, but by implication). He represented transcendence of playact partisanship for the Real Thing, at least on his Big Four issues.
People are overly apt to think reshuffling around this or that platform to be some sort of transcendence. Trump wasn’t a trans-politician or an anti-politician but a man seeking to represent a mass of people who had been ignored for a long time. And so far not doing all that well, but the bar is low.
Apparently, I’m not sufficiently woke to know who Glenn Fleishman is.
Kid Rock? I recognize him.
CNN? Remind me?
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
Actually, what some people were expecting was 50% Pat Buchanan, 50% Bernie Sanders.
“Give the Democrats Medicare-at-55 and a minimum wage hike in exchange for immigration restriction!”
Yeah, a billionaire boomer Republican is going to do that. Sorry guys, you don’t get a political realignment in a single election.
He really took the war as a mission from God. We got unlucky a better one didn’t come along. I’d have settled for Jake and Elwood’s.
Jake and Elwood ended up in Joliet. I'd have settled to see GWB end his days in a similar institution.
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
25% Berlusconi
25% Koch Brothers
25% Fox News loudmouth
25% Jeb Bush
By appropriate dimension-reduction, you would get a better estimate from
• 90% Likud
• 10% Saatchi & Saatchi (or ad agency of your choice)
Cela explique tout.
He's not the Messiah - he's not even a naughty boy. He's just another compromised bullshit-artist.
Shakespeare had it wrong. It should’ve been
“First, kill all the golfers.”
In ? “Tinker, Tailor..” Le Carre has “Control” warning Smiley about the golfers. He was right.
From experience, though not in the same environment.
One of many great Kid Rock lyrics:
“I don’t like small cars or real big women, but somehow I always find myself in em.”
I'm just a regular failure
I ain't straight outta Compton
I'm straight out the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glb2U6y-GdU
Trump is the Uniparty. His only innovation lies in how effectively he duped the electorate into thinking he was not.
If that changes, like if the Ds get to his right, then he'll likely pay closer attention. Until then, the best option is making the case to influential people on the local level. Nation of immigrants is so ingrained it's going to take effort but people sense something is off.
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
That’s utter bullshit. Both parties immediately aligned to ensure that was an impossibility. Recall Trump likely supported single payer systems for provision of medical care as he said in the debates. Practical in stable reasonably homogeneous populations of related peoples. Numerous similar examples.
It may be endemic to the odd structure of the US federal government relative to parliamentary systems that see the creation of new parties, coalitions with very focused groups of voters in small parties etc all the time.
Our swamp was desperate to keep the gravy train rolling and after the shock it was no holds barred to ensure the sinecures, graft, quasi deep state would preserve. Careerism, to be most charitable, alone
required that the useless dogma that had been memorized not be exposed as sophistry and self serving playacting to satisfy lobbyist paymasters.
I could ramble on here, but the notion that Trump is superman who can not only crush his opponents but then revolutionize political philosophy within two years of victory is a joke from twitter goons and journalists types.
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
You’re back. Dang good to see you back in form. Our own plagiarist Godfrey Elfwick.
Okay, here’s another one:
Gold links and minks and shrimp dinners on the bayou,
Them is all the things that I ain’t gonna buy you,
It’s like one of them freak things, hit it once maybe every couple week days,
I got no love, I got no riches, I don’t roll vogues, and I ain’t got switches,
I got no game, I can’t reward you, but if you want a long one, baby
I got one for ya!
The GOP should disband the FBI, the State Department, the CIA, the Justice Dept. and any other agency they can. If this is what the Democrats do with these agencies when they are out of executive power, imagine what they will do with them when they are in power.
“Teenagerhood” might be a reference to Epstein?
That was a line from “Caddyshack”.
I love the way the sunbeams are hitting Trump. Neat effect or…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGvAxdx7lQ#
793 days, and counting, and still Zero miles of new wall, no Executive Order ending "Birthright Citizenship," increasing numbers of illegals crossing the border and being released into the interior of the US if they are caught, increasing "H-Series" visa issuances, and US military boots on the ground in a growing number of places questionably in the US' national interest.
WTF, Donald J. Trump, do you want to be re-elected as our President?
“Now, now, young lady, that’s just the speed of light.”
"Give the Democrats Medicare-at-55 and a minimum wage hike in exchange for immigration restriction!"
Yeah, a billionaire boomer Republican is going to do that. Sorry guys, you don't get a political realignment in a single election.
Trump’s personal goal has always been destroying NAFTA and the other free trade rot. A worthy goal, but not worth sacrificing immigration for. He’s fine with national healthcare, but again, it won’t get him the end of NAFTA, so he’s not going to work on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGvAxdx7lQ#
793 days, and counting, and still Zero miles of new wall, no Executive Order ending "Birthright Citizenship," increasing numbers of illegals crossing the border and being released into the interior of the US if they are caught, increasing "H-Series" visa issuances, and US military boots on the ground in a growing number of places questionably in the US' national interest.
WTF, Donald J. Trump, do you want to be re-elected as our President?
He’d rather be loved by Israelis (near and far) than actually support his own people.
When golf became the sport upper-middle class older men did business over is about the same time presidents became famous for it. Which was cause and which was effect?
Used to be fishing was a popular activity for older men to while away their hours on vacation doing, but it’s lost a lot of its appeal as more “active” vacations have been in vogue. And yes, golf is more active than a lazy day fishing—unless we’re talking that deep-water speedboat and marlin fishing. I know there’s a movement called “Take Me Fishing” as the fishing community tries to win back people.
Which war?
They do pay better.
Used to be fishing was a popular activity for older men to while away their hours on vacation doing, but it's lost a lot of its appeal as more "active" vacations have been in vogue. And yes, golf is more active than a lazy day fishing---unless we're talking that deep-water speedboat and marlin fishing. I know there's a movement called "Take Me Fishing" as the fishing community tries to win back people.
Maddow interrupted her fishing vacation in Tennessee to do her show tonight. Mueller emergency.
A real throwback, that one.
I'm sure her fishing was quite hilarious to behold.
It wasn’t Democrats. It was Cold War holdovers covering for Hillary because they were afraid of Bernie. Then one thing led to another.
"I don't like small cars or real big women, but somehow I always find myself in em."
His groupies are as ugly as he is.
Good news from Europe: The Dutch Senate election saw the two anti-immigration parties go from 9 to 17 seats, with the brand new party run by Thierry Baudet winning the most votes of any party.
Baudet is 37, an agnostic “cultural Christian,” favors burka bans and no Muslim migration, pro Israel, and has a little bit of Indonesian ancestry.
Looks like he’s taking the torch from Geert Wilders.
Damn straight!
"his current girlfriend is an Iranian refugee."
“Smile’
The name “Kid Rock” is increasingly hilarious now that he’s in his late 40’s.
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
Haven’t seen much of you around here lately, TD. You weren’t missed.
The GOP should disband itself. Then perhaps we could make a start on those other things.
Has anyone been tracking TD and Corvy sightings? They seem to dis/appear together.
Forget Corvinus; another red herring. I have proof in the form of photographic evidence of TD and Steve Sailer taking lunch together at Art's in Studio City. I do not have audio; but the pixs clearly show them scheming their schemes.
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
The very fact a place like even exists
Apparently it doesn’t exist in your sentence.
Baudet is 37, an agnostic “cultural Christian,” favors burka bans and no Muslim migration, pro Israel, and has a little bit of Indonesian ancestry.
Looks like he’s taking the torch from Geert Wilders.
https://twitter.com/thierrybaudet/status/1108727618302562308
Damn straight!
What’s with the French name, though? “Thierry” was kind of a masculine “Linda” or “Jennifer” in France. Rocketed to the top, then slid.
Here’s him interviewed in English.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
https://postimg.cc/Z0sVky4c
But why would Barr sit quietly on evidence that Trump is a Russian? Unless … BARR ALSO IS A RUSSIAN! IN FACT THEY’RE ALL RUSSIAN!
https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/rose-1.jpg
Though, like Al Sharpton, she ain't the force she used to be:
https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2014829/rs_1024x845-140929112704-rs_1024x845-140409163018-1024.jpg
Picture of Trump right at the edge where the shrubbery meets the pillars. He’s just looking for where the steps are before he heads down on them. Libtard photog just tried to make it look like something else.
“GWB, who stopped playing golf over the war, made his first lifetime hole in one this month.”
That’s nothing. 16 years ago he had a slam dunk.
"I don't like small cars or real big women, but somehow I always find myself in em."
Mis, If Rock leaned left instead of right, those would be Pulitzer Prize winning lyrics.
Jokah, I always thought the same about Bobby Kennedy. Drop the “y” when you hit your twenties.
He’s also of Flemish ancestry, and they all speak French as a second language. Probably sounds classy to their ears compared to “Geert.”
Here’s him interviewed in English.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
His direct ancestry in the male line is upper middle class academics back to the early nineteenth century. His mother sheltered Jews during the war and is a "Righteous among the Nations". The Indonesian blood comes from his paternal grandmother's side and is very common in families (like her's) which provided military officers and state officials in the old Dutch East Indies. As long as that blood is not from slaves it was always considered acceptable, even exotic. British India was very different in that regard.
Baudet is both brilliant and charismatic. He's got a string of degrees in history and law, and already, in his mid-thirties, has some dozen substantial books to his name, including a novel or two.
I hope he has good bodyguards though - the Left is already wistfully (and in print) recalling the man who killed Pim Fortuyn.
All this in a suave, sophisticated, photogenic package. No wonder the left is openly calling for his assassination.
You are thinking of the other large language group in Belgium, the Walloons, who indeed speak a dialect of French.
Believe me, you can try to get people to call you Bob, but they won’t always cooperate. Especially when the surname is alliterative. I gave up and went with it.
What pure bull shit.
K… Trump still failed us though.
Jake and Elwood ended up in Joliet. I’d have settled to see GWB end his days in a similar institution.
I suspect this to be the first time GWB got anything right first try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGvAxdx7lQ#
793 days, and counting, and still Zero miles of new wall, no Executive Order ending "Birthright Citizenship," increasing numbers of illegals crossing the border and being released into the interior of the US if they are caught, increasing "H-Series" visa issuances, and US military boots on the ground in a growing number of places questionably in the US' national interest.
WTF, Donald J. Trump, do you want to be re-elected as our President?
Trump certainly hasn’t accomplished everything he promised and his base should continue to keep his feet to the fire.
But . . . how many of us could have done better if we: (a) became president unexpectedly with zero political experience; (b) were visciously attacked 24/7/365 by the establishment media; (c) were subjected to attempted coups, frame-ups, and sabotage by the Deep State and the permanent bureaucracy; and (d) had a Congress that was 45% Opposition party, 45% Cuck/Never-Trumper, and maybe 10% populist supporters.
Hey, nobody’s perfect.
It’s a wierd position we’re in that a President can’t get anything done if his only supporters are the 63 million people who voted for him. I would have thought that was worth something.
"Give the Democrats Medicare-at-55 and a minimum wage hike in exchange for immigration restriction!"
Yeah, a billionaire boomer Republican is going to do that. Sorry guys, you don't get a political realignment in a single election.
That’s true. And you don’t get it by just electing a new President.
But . . . how many of us could have done better if we: (a) became president unexpectedly with zero political experience; (b) were visciously attacked 24/7/365 by the establishment media; (c) were subjected to attempted coups, frame-ups, and sabotage by the Deep State and the permanent bureaucracy; and (d) had a Congress that was 45% Opposition party, 45% Cuck/Never-Trumper, and maybe 10% populist supporters.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
I think the biggest single factor is that only 10% of Congress is populist. And even some of those are Democrats who won’t give him anything because of partisan solidarity. You also might have added that Trump staffed his administration with obstructionists, Never-Trumpers, and outright opponents of his agenda.
It’s a wierd position we’re in that a President can’t get anything done if his only supporters are the 63 million people who voted for him. I would have thought that was worth something.
25% Koch Brothers
25% Fox News loudmouth
25% Jeb Bush
Oh please… did you want there to be 4 explanatory variables as an homage to the “4D Chess” meme?
By appropriate dimension-reduction, you would get a better estimate from
• 90% Likud
• 10% Saatchi & Saatchi (or ad agency of your choice)
Cela explique tout.
He’s not the Messiah – he’s not even a naughty boy. He’s just another compromised bullshit-artist.
I presume Mueller has at least left a lot of poisonous innuendo in the report, so that when it’s released (or leaked), it’ll give Trump another headache and sooth the rubes.
Baudet is 37, an agnostic “cultural Christian,” favors burka bans and no Muslim migration, pro Israel, and has a little bit of Indonesian ancestry.
Looks like he’s taking the torch from Geert Wilders.
https://twitter.com/thierrybaudet/status/1108727618302562308
Damn straight!
https://www.thenation.com/article/is-dutch-bad-boy-thierry-baudet-the-new-face-of-the-european-alt-right
“his current girlfriend is an Iranian refugee.”
(2) Whatever happened to that half-Persian-by-ancestry figure in the U.S. Alt-Right in the mid 2010s? He was implacably hostile to Islam and claimed to have extensive contacts with an underground anti-Islamic nationalist movement in Iran. His name was Jason Reza Jorjani.
Sort of sad that Trump has been reduced to schmoozing with types like Kid Rock after the “thinking Trumpers” (what there was of them) have left.
Rock is similar to Larry the Cable Guy and Adnrew Dice Clay in that he plays a character all the time. He was a upper-middle-class boy who tried for a long time to be a rapper and after that didn’t work came up with his proud trailer trash/wigger persona. The archetypal representative of Trump’s remaining base.
He just moved on to other things. He, unlike most other "rappers" as far as I can tell, understood "rap" is tiresome drivel.
I don't remember the exact words, but after his "Devil Without a Cause" album some interviewer asked him what his next album would be about. He said "I'm great, I have lots of money and women, everyone else sucks. The usual".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGvAxdx7lQ#
793 days, and counting, and still Zero miles of new wall, no Executive Order ending "Birthright Citizenship," increasing numbers of illegals crossing the border and being released into the interior of the US if they are caught, increasing "H-Series" visa issuances, and US military boots on the ground in a growing number of places questionably in the US' national interest.
WTF, Donald J. Trump, do you want to be re-elected as our President?
Did you just mention “Birthright Citizenship,” ?
The french media of course dutifully and absolutely factually reported the happy event.
Notice the photos are of white babies. French journalists must go to the same training schools as US "journalists".
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
For once, I and undoubtedly many Isteve readers totally agree with you.
2. Anger
3. Bargaining<-------------------------------(the rest are here (those talking about the SDNY, etc.)
4. Depression
5. Grief
6. “Captain Marvel will save us all”
"his current girlfriend is an Iranian refugee."
That’s not a bad thing.
Iranian migrants are a pretty secular bunch, anyway, as you'd expect from people who've had to live under a no kidding theocracy and are well acquainted with its dangers. Even the relatively pious ones tend to have a distaste for Islamism specifically and religion in politics in general as a result of their background.
Mostly, you don’t get anything by just voting. If you want anything done you’ve got to buy politicians, or have them removed by force.
But why would Barr sit quietly on evidence that Trump is a Russian? Unless ... BARR ALSO IS A RUSSIAN! IN FACT THEY'RE ALL RUSSIAN!
The whole thing DOES appear to have been pushed by KGB/FSB deep cover types, now that you mention it!
Here’s him interviewed in English.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
Baudet’s family is not originally Flemish, but French: they are old-time Huguenot refugees from the France of 1685 and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
His direct ancestry in the male line is upper middle class academics back to the early nineteenth century. His mother sheltered Jews during the war and is a “Righteous among the Nations”. The Indonesian blood comes from his paternal grandmother’s side and is very common in families (like her’s) which provided military officers and state officials in the old Dutch East Indies. As long as that blood is not from slaves it was always considered acceptable, even exotic. British India was very different in that regard.
Baudet is both brilliant and charismatic. He’s got a string of degrees in history and law, and already, in his mid-thirties, has some dozen substantial books to his name, including a novel or two.
I hope he has good bodyguards though – the Left is already wistfully (and in print) recalling the man who killed Pim Fortuyn.
Those of you who are diverted by questions of phenotypical dominance within families might like to google "Han Baudet", our subject's great grandfather. His spitting image.
The french media of course dutifully and absolutely factually reported the happy event.
“It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.”
Notice the photos are of white babies. French journalists must go to the same training schools as US “journalists”.
It’s a wierd position we’re in that a President can’t get anything done if his only supporters are the 63 million people who voted for him. I would have thought that was worth something.
most of the 63 million who voted for Trump started home during the midterms or voted for politicians opposed to Trump’s agenda. Most of the 63 million “Trump” voters also voted for Romney and McCain. 60 million of the Trump voters would have voted for Jeb if he was on the GOP ticket.
Kid Rock has remarked on several occasions that he has the worst music name. He’s said he’s in the same group as Will ‘Fresh Prince’ Smith.
"I don't like small cars or real big women, but somehow I always find myself in em."
I ain’t no G
I’m just a regular failure
I ain’t straight outta Compton
I’m straight out the trailer
His direct ancestry in the male line is upper middle class academics back to the early nineteenth century. His mother sheltered Jews during the war and is a "Righteous among the Nations". The Indonesian blood comes from his paternal grandmother's side and is very common in families (like her's) which provided military officers and state officials in the old Dutch East Indies. As long as that blood is not from slaves it was always considered acceptable, even exotic. British India was very different in that regard.
Baudet is both brilliant and charismatic. He's got a string of degrees in history and law, and already, in his mid-thirties, has some dozen substantial books to his name, including a novel or two.
I hope he has good bodyguards though - the Left is already wistfully (and in print) recalling the man who killed Pim Fortuyn.
Oops! I got it wrong about his male line: not French, but southern Belgian (and thus French speaking). His immigrant ancestor fled to the Northern Netherlands, not for reasons of religion, but because the invading French were about to conscript him into the army of the Revolution. That was in 1795.
Those of you who are diverted by questions of phenotypical dominance within families might like to google “Han Baudet”, our subject’s great grandfather. His spitting image.
For some reason, this reminds me of that time when Barky locked himself out of the White House. Talk about symbolic and what might have been…
Rock is similar to Larry the Cable Guy and Adnrew Dice Clay in that he plays a character all the time. He was a upper-middle-class boy who tried for a long time to be a rapper and after that didn't work came up with his proud trailer trash/wigger persona. The archetypal representative of Trump's remaining base.
When I think of upper-middle class I think of growing up in Chevy Chase or Wellesley and going to St. Albans or Noble & Greenough. Not simply growing up well off as a son of a Michigan car dealer and getting arrested for fights at Waffle Houses.
Carter was an avid fly fisherman, as were Hoover, Coolidge, and Eisenhower. Hoover created Camp Rapidan, later Camp David, as his fly fishing retreat near D.C. I’ve fished the river below the camp.
Coolidge loved the sport so much that he may have spent more time fishing than governing, and some people said that made him exactly the kind of president we needed.
Never heard that Truman was much of a fisherman, but I’ve seen a few photos of him fishing from a boat in big water.
Agreed. I don’t get all the hate for the Persians around these parts. The Iranian regime is a nasty piece of work, but they are nowhere near as irrational as the Semites in Riyadh and Jerusalem want you to believe.
Iranian migrants are a pretty secular bunch, anyway, as you’d expect from people who’ve had to live under a no kidding theocracy and are well acquainted with its dangers. Even the relatively pious ones tend to have a distaste for Islamism specifically and religion in politics in general as a result of their background.
So are the US and UK regimes, in their eyes - and with reason.
We only used to get ratty with unpleasant regimes if they killed our people or harassed our traders. The hostage crisis was 40 years ago more or less.
Iranian migrants are a pretty secular bunch, anyway, as you'd expect from people who've had to live under a no kidding theocracy and are well acquainted with its dangers. Even the relatively pious ones tend to have a distaste for Islamism specifically and religion in politics in general as a result of their background.
Iran is a large country. Arabs to the South, Turks, Tajiks to the North, Armenians, Persians and Jews elsewhere. I’ve met some Persians, and they’re generally more open and intelligent than Arabs. Also, Chiite Islam is slightly less crazy and backward than Sunnite Islam, particularly the Wahhabi kind spreading from Saudi Arabia. But, make no mistake, deep down they don’t like Americans. But who can blame them? You won’t find much love for Americans in Christian Serbia either for obvious reasons. American foreign policy seems to be more about “shock and awe” than “winning hearts and minds”.
Here’s him interviewed in English.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
This guy is the best spoken politician I’ve heard in decades, and English is probably his third language!
He also notes that the EU always loses referenda in the Netherlands (which are then ignored), and that illegal aliens’ compliance with judicial deportation orders is strictly voluntary (which needless to say they don’t volunteer to comply with).
All this in a suave, sophisticated, photogenic package. No wonder the left is openly calling for his assassination.
When I first went there I learned how to ask “do you speak English” in Dutch to be polite. After the first couple days I realized this was not needed, and the reaction was a smile or laugh and “Of course I do.”
A distant second in English ability in Europe are Denmark/Norway/Sweden. But there the accent is stronger and fluency lower. Norwegians have a small edge over the other Scandis because they are so rich they are more likely to study for a year or more in the US/UK when they are young.
In Germany, English ability varies a lot by level of education, but the very basics are nearly universal in younger people.
Iranian migrants are a pretty secular bunch, anyway, as you'd expect from people who've had to live under a no kidding theocracy and are well acquainted with its dangers. Even the relatively pious ones tend to have a distaste for Islamism specifically and religion in politics in general as a result of their background.
” The Iranian regime is a nasty piece of work”
So are the US and UK regimes, in their eyes – and with reason.
We only used to get ratty with unpleasant regimes if they killed our people or harassed our traders. The hostage crisis was 40 years ago more or less.
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
My expectations were less jaded: 25% Buchanan, 25% Coulter, 25% Perot and 25% BatMan. That is what you get for suspending willing disbelief past its shelf life: no BatMan and not even a Robin.
It looks like the Italian BatMan is also shedding his Gotham-protecting cape, opting for a one-sided, neoliberal, importing-heavy deal with New Silk Road China, rather than beefing up his own country’s manufacturing, like a true populist hero.
But, maybe, it is a trade-off for less wage-undercutting, mass-scale immigration and less social unrest in Italy.
The Italian BatMan Lite may realize that—even if Italy ramped up its manufacturing—cheapskate, Italian employers would give most of the jobs to noncitizens—noncitizens receiving streams of welfare and child tax credit cash for their Italian-born kids that make puny pay that will not cover rent for non-welfare-eligible citizens acceptable.
But . . . how many of us could have done better if we: (a) became president unexpectedly with zero political experience; (b) were visciously attacked 24/7/365 by the establishment media; (c) were subjected to attempted coups, frame-ups, and sabotage by the Deep State and the permanent bureaucracy; and (d) had a Congress that was 45% Opposition party, 45% Cuck/Never-Trumper, and maybe 10% populist supporters.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
I see far too much of this talk, implicitly (sometimes more explicitly) excusing-away the Great Trump Betrayal. He failed in even the most basic of ways from the beginning. Signs point to it all having been a long con. (Reminder: “Highest Numbers Ever”).
It’s time to let go. Say ‘No’ to Trump. It’s over.
What a shame he was ever the spokesman for American nationalism. What’s all the worse is that he has served as an energy-sink for nationalist energies; he still has plenty of instinctive defenders even while the betrays his own people over and over.
She’s not gonna find much tuna in Tennessee.
"his current girlfriend is an Iranian refugee."
(1) Since when are Dutchmen named ‘Thierry’?
(2) Whatever happened to that half-Persian-by-ancestry figure in the U.S. Alt-Right in the mid 2010s? He was implacably hostile to Islam and claimed to have extensive contacts with an underground anti-Islamic nationalist movement in Iran. His name was Jason Reza Jorjani.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni.com/p13/ed/ef/9e/64/534448429c21366e/han_baudet_medium.jpg
8 Countries With Fascinating Baby Naming LawsDouble Surnames: Can You Do That Here? --Amsterdam MamasMy daughter’s first name is Cohen which is consistently pronounced as two distinct syllables by Dutchies. Still, plenty of English speakers have misheard it as ‘colon’. (Yep, I named my kid colon but only because anus was taken). --Amsterdam Mamas: Choosing an ‘international name’ for your child
(2) Whatever happened to that half-Persian-by-ancestry figure in the U.S. Alt-Right in the mid 2010s? He was implacably hostile to Islam and claimed to have extensive contacts with an underground anti-Islamic nationalist movement in Iran. His name was Jason Reza Jorjani.
Apparently his grandfather’s mother (an Ernestine van Heemskerck) was from the mixed-race Eurasian caste in Indonesia called “the Indos.”
Without any other non-European ancestry, this makes Thierry Baudet ca. 4-10% Southeast Asian, depending on the exact racial balance of the Eurasian great-grandmother.
(They sure don’t make White racialists like they used to…)
There is a whisp of the exotic in many of Thierry Baudet’s pics.
Here is a pic of his grandfather, Ernest Baudet, who had a substantial amount of Southeast Asian ancestry via his mother:
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Here’s him interviewed in English.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
The Flemish speak Flemish (a dialect of Dutch) and have Flemish names (this guy does not) and they definitely don’t speak French as a second language, the proper order would of course be English, then German, then French.
You are thinking of the other large language group in Belgium, the Walloons, who indeed speak a dialect of French.
But why would Barr sit quietly on evidence that Trump is a Russian? Unless ... BARR ALSO IS A RUSSIAN! IN FACT THEY'RE ALL RUSSIAN!
I can think of few more entertaining ways to suppress evidence than to have Barr sit on it.
Though, like Al Sharpton, she ain’t the force she used to be:
Trump back on the golf course. That hardly inspires confidence. Lazy spoiled rich guy continues to fool middle America that he gives a crap.
His direct ancestry in the male line is upper middle class academics back to the early nineteenth century. His mother sheltered Jews during the war and is a "Righteous among the Nations". The Indonesian blood comes from his paternal grandmother's side and is very common in families (like her's) which provided military officers and state officials in the old Dutch East Indies. As long as that blood is not from slaves it was always considered acceptable, even exotic. British India was very different in that regard.
Baudet is both brilliant and charismatic. He's got a string of degrees in history and law, and already, in his mid-thirties, has some dozen substantial books to his name, including a novel or two.
I hope he has good bodyguards though - the Left is already wistfully (and in print) recalling the man who killed Pim Fortuyn.
My understanding is this is mistaken: The non-European blood comes from Thierry Baudet’s paternal grandfather’s mother ( Thierry Baudet’s great grandmother).
From what I read, this great-grandmother was herself a Eurasian, and not an “Indonesian” in a racial sense. When all is said and done, Thierry Baudet probably has a 6-7% Southeast Asian share of his personal ancestry, plus or minus several points. The great-grandmother could have been in a multi-generational Eurasian breeding pool in Dutch Indonesia (referred to as the “Indo” people) and it may be that Thierry Baudet doesn’t have a full-‘Indonesian’ ancestor for quite a few generations. See pic of Thierry Baudet’s grandfather.
I wonder if knowledge of his non-European ancestry has allowed Thierry to advocate racialist politics, using his non-European DNA as a kind of political shield?
The genealogies of the van Heemskerck family which I have consulted are confused; suffice it to say that it appears that our Thierry has both Indonesian and Chinese blood back some five or six generations. The Chinese is through the van Heemskercks and the Indonesian through a very exotic family called David von Franquemont, which originated with a certain Carl Philip August David von Franquemont, who, born in 1772, was one of the four or five illegitimate sons of Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg.
There are Indos, and there are Indos. The sort which Thierry descends from were always high class, and would not have thanked you had you pointed out that their features were not unlike those of their servants.
“Has anyone been tracking TD and Corvy sightings?”
Forget Corvinus; another red herring. I have proof in the form of photographic evidence of TD and Steve Sailer taking lunch together at Art’s in Studio City. I do not have audio; but the pixs clearly show them scheming their schemes.
(2) Whatever happened to that half-Persian-by-ancestry figure in the U.S. Alt-Right in the mid 2010s? He was implacably hostile to Islam and claimed to have extensive contacts with an underground anti-Islamic nationalist movement in Iran. His name was Jason Reza Jorjani.
Faddism in names isn’t limited to the Anglosphere. Some Dutch are attracted to exotic monikers for their kids. I once knew a Pjotr.
In European countries, you have to have the child’s name approved by local authorities, but the Dutch are more liberal than most. I have a bunch of foreign name dictionaries, and the Dutch one isn’t a dictionary at all. Just a list of approved names.
Thierry is a French cognate of “Derek”, which actually looks more Dutch than English.
8 Countries With Fascinating Baby Naming Laws
Double Surnames: Can You Do That Here? –Amsterdam Mamas
My daughter’s first name is Cohen which is consistently pronounced as two distinct syllables by Dutchies. Still, plenty of English speakers have misheard it as ‘colon’. (Yep, I named my kid colon but only because anus was taken). —Amsterdam Mamas: Choosing an ‘international name’ for your child
Did Nixon play golf? Can’t seem to remember seeing him on the links but I suppose he did. If so he must have been godawful in as much as he was a certified klutz who had problems uncapping soda bottles.
8 Countries With Fascinating Baby Naming LawsDouble Surnames: Can You Do That Here? --Amsterdam MamasMy daughter’s first name is Cohen which is consistently pronounced as two distinct syllables by Dutchies. Still, plenty of English speakers have misheard it as ‘colon’. (Yep, I named my kid colon but only because anus was taken). --Amsterdam Mamas: Choosing an ‘international name’ for your child
Correct. I know a Syrian named Giovanni. His parents admired Italian culture and thought Giovanni was a cool-sounding name.
Living the dream!
All this in a suave, sophisticated, photogenic package. No wonder the left is openly calling for his assassination.
It’s uncanny how perfectly Dutchmen speak English. He is not unusual in that respect. Indeed he’s easier to understand for an American than a lot of regional British accents.
When I first went there I learned how to ask “do you speak English” in Dutch to be polite. After the first couple days I realized this was not needed, and the reaction was a smile or laugh and “Of course I do.”
A distant second in English ability in Europe are Denmark/Norway/Sweden. But there the accent is stronger and fluency lower. Norwegians have a small edge over the other Scandis because they are so rich they are more likely to study for a year or more in the US/UK when they are young.
In Germany, English ability varies a lot by level of education, but the very basics are nearly universal in younger people.
So his kids are all fluent in English and they learn a little German/French/Spanish in school.
I have certain admiration for the Dutch's hard-headed practical sensibility about things.
Kid Cuck
Its hilarious when dykes try so hard to affect masculinity. Of course, having a partial hatred and insecurity about it, they always get the concept wrong. It’s much like how they view being the”man” in the relationship means they get to abuse their partner (lesbian relationships are among the most physically abusive).
I’m sure her fishing was quite hilarious to behold.
This is why we need to hate speech laws and codes
The very fact a place like even exists is a testament to the white supremacy that controls America
Tiny, we really are concerned for you welfare, when we ask you to take your meds, we don’t want to doubling up like this.
Did you not receive your free Trumpophone and did Trump not pay yo rent?
"his current girlfriend is an Iranian refugee."
He has a female amour? Finally, the Euro-Right has a straight man or two. I sort of assume that all Dutch people are homosexual until they prove otherwise.
You are correct. I misread some information about his father as being about him. In other words I was also wrong to say that his mother was a “Righteous among the Nations”: it was his paternal grandmother, who seems to be alive still, at 95.
The genealogies of the van Heemskerck family which I have consulted are confused; suffice it to say that it appears that our Thierry has both Indonesian and Chinese blood back some five or six generations. The Chinese is through the van Heemskercks and the Indonesian through a very exotic family called David von Franquemont, which originated with a certain Carl Philip August David von Franquemont, who, born in 1772, was one of the four or five illegitimate sons of Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg.
There are Indos, and there are Indos. The sort which Thierry descends from were always high class, and would not have thanked you had you pointed out that their features were not unlike those of their servants.
Iranian migrants are a pretty secular bunch, anyway, as you'd expect from people who've had to live under a no kidding theocracy and are well acquainted with its dangers. Even the relatively pious ones tend to have a distaste for Islamism specifically and religion in politics in general as a result of their background.
I don’t hate Persians. I don’t want them in my country.
Dttb, You’re right, my family often calls me Joey, even Papa Joey, but not in public. Enjoy your life Dttby.
This would benefit from sidenotes. The NYT (paper of record for Israel) includes sidenotes in its online version. To wit:
Does this guy read iSteve? Does iSteve read this guy? Enquiring minds want to know.
I digress.
For the benefit of the (collective noun alert) Wisdom of iSteve readers, I offer the following sidenotes:
Yup, that explains it.
50% Pat Buchanan
50% Silvio Berlusconi
Reality of Trump:
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1106699754799616001
The reality on the ground is: If you and I don’t go into being part of the election process nothing will change. You know, the swamp will be drained by people that won’t explicitly say they will do so.
Become active.
Didn’t mean it that way. Defies expectations of do-gooders. Geert Wilders has some Indonesian ancestry, too, btw. *
* “he was born to a Dutch father and a mother born in colonial Indonesia,[28][29] whose background was mixed Dutch and Indonesian.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders
When I first went there I learned how to ask “do you speak English” in Dutch to be polite. After the first couple days I realized this was not needed, and the reaction was a smile or laugh and “Of course I do.”
A distant second in English ability in Europe are Denmark/Norway/Sweden. But there the accent is stronger and fluency lower. Norwegians have a small edge over the other Scandis because they are so rich they are more likely to study for a year or more in the US/UK when they are young.
In Germany, English ability varies a lot by level of education, but the very basics are nearly universal in younger people.
The father of an expatriate Dutch family told me he wasn’t bothering to teach his kids to speak Dutch. “Hardly anyone uses it,” he said dismissively. (They have substantial extended family back in the Netherlands, but I guess they all speak English as well, so why bother with a whole extra language just for family occasions?)
So his kids are all fluent in English and they learn a little German/French/Spanish in school.
I have certain admiration for the Dutch’s hard-headed practical sensibility about things.
Good bowler and deadly at poker tho.
I'm sure her fishing was quite hilarious to behold.
To her credit that’s how she chacterized it. Even money she’s married with two kids and back to blond within ten years.
In ten years, if she's off TV, she'll be a fellow or chancellor or president at some university, like most upwardly mobile lesbians seek. And then her lovers will mysteriously throw themselves off roofs.
if she's not hung for her treasonous behavior in spreading the Russia Hoax.
No, prime McDougal doesn’t have to take a back seat to anyone.
Not a chance, dude. She’s a Lifetime Lesbian. How do you think she got her Rhodes Scholarship—through merit? She used the old-lesbian system and played the victim.
In ten years, if she’s off TV, she’ll be a fellow or chancellor or president at some university, like most upwardly mobile lesbians seek. And then her lovers will mysteriously throw themselves off roofs.
if she’s not hung for her treasonous behavior in spreading the Russia Hoax.
Isn’t Sinema bi- now?
No more ridiculous than when The Who sings Talking “Bout My Generation: “I hope I die before I get old”….
https://youtu.be/eswQl-hcvU0
Many of our high rise building were designed by Persians. Go figure.
In ten years, if she's off TV, she'll be a fellow or chancellor or president at some university, like most upwardly mobile lesbians seek. And then her lovers will mysteriously throw themselves off roofs.
if she's not hung for her treasonous behavior in spreading the Russia Hoax.
She seems to cry a lot. Doesn’t feel like the whole schtick is really working for her. Unlike most lesbians, she has some traits the next generation could be pining for. Women can feel that sort of thing in their bones.
Isn’t Sinema bi- now?
Their whole generation just substituted “grow up” for “get old” and it was all good.
Great minds, etc.
There ought to be a long list of genuine problem minorities to politely but firmly expel well before you even bring up Persians.
8 Countries With Fascinating Baby Naming LawsDouble Surnames: Can You Do That Here? --Amsterdam MamasMy daughter’s first name is Cohen which is consistently pronounced as two distinct syllables by Dutchies. Still, plenty of English speakers have misheard it as ‘colon’. (Yep, I named my kid colon but only because anus was taken). --Amsterdam Mamas: Choosing an ‘international name’ for your child
Why — would someone do this?
Neither Jews not Europeans use surnames as given names, and in many countries it's ilkegal. It can have weird consequences-- Husband O Kimmel. Young Boozer. Yelberton Abraham Tittle.
Forget Corvinus; another red herring. I have proof in the form of photographic evidence of TD and Steve Sailer taking lunch together at Art's in Studio City. I do not have audio; but the pixs clearly show them scheming their schemes.
Did they play golf afterwards?
It means “priest”, ie, a male. And a generic priest. Not an elevated Levy or Shapiro. Weyl and Possony determined that mere Cohens were underrepresented in Who’s Who compared to other Jews . The high-priest surnames were highly overrepresented.
Neither Jews not Europeans use surnames as given names, and in many countries it’s ilkegal. It can have weird consequences– Husband O Kimmel. Young Boozer. Yelberton Abraham Tittle.
He should run with The Rock on some ticket.
The Sears was designed by a Bangladeshi .
I had a Bengali working in my group. He got Friday afternoons off. The rest of us stayed for the free beer.
Trump changes his mind eight times a day. He loves his country, it’s just that that country now comes with an empire attached that has the country by the short hairs. He’s letting himself get played on immigration because it doesn’t feel to him, and he always goes by feel, like a battle he can win right now or even one where he’s sure which side is right.
If that changes, like if the Ds get to his right, then he’ll likely pay closer attention. Until then, the best option is making the case to influential people on the local level. Nation of immigrants is so ingrained it’s going to take effort but people sense something is off.
Suburban liberals always assumed that Mueller was /theirguy/ but I never believed he would start throwing over tables and busting heads. He’s too insidery, too enamored of his respectability– ordering a hit on POTUS is the kind of thing that might earn you undying enmity from certain fellow insiders. Really now that Democrats control the House anyway his Russia shop had outlived its usefulness
For some time it has become quite apparent that Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump are curiously similar.
A recently read book review echoed that sentiment quite aptly.
Jordan Peterson: “A Donald, for the Educated Reader”
“These people are what the German sociologist Max Weber called ‘charismatics.’ They arrive at a time of crisis, make a cold world seem warm once more through emotional oratory, inspire a movement, and change the world: Buddha, Socrates, Christ, Lenin . . . as well as public intellectuals like Nietzsche, Sartre and Schopenhauer. They appeal today to the marginalized, to those for whom the world is an unforgiving place, to those who were hitherto ‘the norm’, namely men, Christians, Europeans, religious believers, heterosexuals, cis people, and traditionalists.”
We are fortunate to have both of them at THIS time of crisis.
Although our Donald may be a Very Special Genius, its kind of amusing, and probably a bit of a stretch to think of him as the Buddha……maybe more one of the more benevolent gods of chaos – say, the Chinese god Hun-Dun, perhaps?
Back to Taft, Steve? I doubt that FDR played golf during his presidency, and for over a decade becoming president. I don’t know if he played as a young man.
Hilarious that the day after Mueller’s nothing-burger, Trump invites Russians to the White House:
https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/1110276442192052225/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1110276442192052225&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fafrica.espn.com%2Fnhl%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F26357829%2Fstanley-cup-winning-capitals-visit-white-house
Lame as Trump's gotten, ya gotta admire how he sticks his finger in his critics' eye.
Rock is similar to Larry the Cable Guy and Adnrew Dice Clay in that he plays a character all the time. He was a upper-middle-class boy who tried for a long time to be a rapper and after that didn't work came up with his proud trailer trash/wigger persona. The archetypal representative of Trump's remaining base.
He was actually quite a successful rapper. His “Devil Without a Cause” sold over 14mm copies.
He just moved on to other things. He, unlike most other “rappers” as far as I can tell, understood “rap” is tiresome drivel.
I don’t remember the exact words, but after his “Devil Without a Cause” album some interviewer asked him what his next album would be about. He said “I’m great, I have lots of money and women, everyone else sucks. The usual”.
A compelling statement that cannot be argued with, to be sure.
When I first went there I learned how to ask “do you speak English” in Dutch to be polite. After the first couple days I realized this was not needed, and the reaction was a smile or laugh and “Of course I do.”
A distant second in English ability in Europe are Denmark/Norway/Sweden. But there the accent is stronger and fluency lower. Norwegians have a small edge over the other Scandis because they are so rich they are more likely to study for a year or more in the US/UK when they are young.
In Germany, English ability varies a lot by level of education, but the very basics are nearly universal in younger people.
A girl I met in a Rotterdam bar told me that speaking fluent English is required for the the Dutch to graduate high school. I haven’t bothered to verify her claims though.
If that changes, like if the Ds get to his right, then he'll likely pay closer attention. Until then, the best option is making the case to influential people on the local level. Nation of immigrants is so ingrained it's going to take effort but people sense something is off.
Ron Unz on Donald Trump:
What’s even worse than that is that Trump has served as an energy-stimulant for anti-nationalists. While almost every nationalist opportunity has been squandered, the anti-nationalists/#Resistance/GloboHomo has been all hands on deck for maximum effort. Immigration is higher, speech is more restricted, the media are even more depraved, insane and openly calling for genocide.
In other words, we’ve gotten the worst of both worlds: none of the benefit of an offensive that never went through the formality of taking place, but all of the cost of weathering a full-scale counter-offensive. All incoming counterattack, no outgoing attack.
Net-net, would a Hillary victory have been worse? It’s getting hard to say…
Trump has arguably been worse than Obama, especially Obama’s first term. But a retread of Obama’s first term wasn’t one of the choices.
Meanwhile, Trump losing would have given Ryan/Rubio/Kochs the upper hand in the party again.
Agree, sadly.
Replaying June 2015 to (say) December 2015, what is a best(better)-case scenario for within-the-system, formal politicking?
I’d propose this: Trump causing the same duststorm that he did but then dropping out and handing over his endorsement to Scott Walker, who then beat Hillary. President Scott Walker would quietly work to implement the NumbersUSA/FAIR immigration agenda as priority-number-one. No flashy talk, no gratuitous insults on a daily basis, no tweetstorms — and definitely no outsourcing the nation’s fate to a dual-citizen named Kushner. Just quiet work.
https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/1110276442192052225/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1110276442192052225&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fafrica.espn.com%2Fnhl%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F26357829%2Fstanley-cup-winning-capitals-visit-white-house
Trump did this after he fired Comey too, IIRC.
Lame as Trump’s gotten, ya gotta admire how he sticks his finger in his critics’ eye.
So his kids are all fluent in English and they learn a little German/French/Spanish in school.
I have certain admiration for the Dutch's hard-headed practical sensibility about things.
Cultural self-genocide
Hillary would have immediately imposed a bigger executive amnesty and locked in Dem control of the courts for 20+ years.
Trump has arguably been worse than Obama, especially Obama’s first term. But a retread of Obama’s first term wasn’t one of the choices.
Meanwhile, Trump losing would have given Ryan/Rubio/Kochs the upper hand in the party again.
And it seems to me Ryan and the Koches did have the upper hand. What did they want that they did not get?
Walker was pretty solid on a lot of issues, but he was also pro amnesty and pro worker visa increases.
Dutchmen seem to be less fond of their language than their Flemish cousins, who fiercely defend its use and vitality.
Trump has arguably been worse than Obama, especially Obama’s first term. But a retread of Obama’s first term wasn’t one of the choices.
Meanwhile, Trump losing would have given Ryan/Rubio/Kochs the upper hand in the party again.
Yeah, I considered that, but Justice Kennedy only retired because Trump asked him to, so the Supreme Court would not yet have changed, and given that the judicial leftists now openly use the federal bench as a one judge veto on anything they don’t like as their part in the energized Resistance I spoke of, I’m sure sure how much other judicial appointments matter.
And it seems to me Ryan and the Koches did have the upper hand. What did they want that they did not get?
Well, you could say that, but given that he moved from Old Amsterdam where they speak Dutch to New Amsterdam where they speak English, it is hard to be too critical. Also, while we’ve been criticizing modern Euros who have 1.3 babies sometime in their 30’s, this guy and his Dutch wife managed to have five kids and raised them all pretty successfully, so whatever cultural traditions he didn’t carry along, no one can accuse him of biological self-genocide.
I, for one, welcome our new non-Dutch-speaking Dutch overlords.