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From The New Republic:
I Went to High School With Biden’s Homeland Security Team
Timothy Noah/January 18, 2021
Washington’s new national security establishment is coming straight outta Beverly Hills.
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
—George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, 1941
Future generations may well wonder how it came to pass that the federal government’s homeland security policy fell into the hands of a select group of people raised within a mere 23 neighborhoods inside the Los Angeles Basin, situated south of the Santa Monica Mountains, west of La Cienega Boulevard, north of the Santa Monica Freeway, and east of the Pacific Ocean. The area is known locally as the Westside. I grew up there myself from the age of 12—but I have no ready answer for the curious.
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for homeland security secretary is Alejandro Mayorkas, who was one year behind me at Beverly Hills High School. Biden has also named Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be White House homeland security adviser. Sherwood-Randall started out one year behind me at Beverly High but skipped a year and graduated with me in 1976. Michèle Flournoy, whom Biden came very close to nominating for defense secretary, and who will probably end up performing some high-ranking national security function in his administration, was three years behind me at Beverly High. …
More recently, though, Beverly High has been drifting into a role vaguely comparable to that of the ivy-laden New England prep schools that educated the moneyed WASPs who guided foreign policy during World War II and the Cold War. A story that ended unhappily, one recalls with a wince, in the deep muddy of Vietnam. …
What the Westsiders have in common is a grounding in the culture of affluent liberalism—the kind where you are passionately liberal on social issues but only mildly so on economic ones. .
Another common characteristic the Westsiders tend to share is Jewishness. Sherwood-Randall, Miller, and Kaus are all Jewish, as am I. Mayorkas is, too, though his more widely recognized identity is Cuban-American. Breitbart was adopted into a Jewish family.
Surely, it’s also relevant that Latino immigrants pushing African-Americans out of Los Angeles has reduced the cost of servants in Beverly Hills while lowering the crime rate.
Steve, you’ve commented before on Ibram X. Kendi’s academic and testing background. But were you familiar with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s GRE score? I just found out about it recently. His Verbal score was 350, and his Quantitative was 270, each on an 800 point scale.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/graduate-record-examination-scores-martin-luther-king-jr
You'd think the widow King would have gotten that federal judge to put that little fact under lock and key, too. If I had to choose between people learning that I had the IQ of an artichoke and that I was a rapist, I'd say, "Bury the GRE scores!"
Maybe there were just too many things for her to cover.
At least we have some adults in the room
Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversion
If so, most Biden voters will be in jail.
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“ivy-laden New England prep schools that educated the moneyed WASPs who guided foreign policy during World War II and the Cold War. A story that ended unhappily, one recalls with a wince, in the deep muddy of Vietnam.”
WASPs really did screw up.
But don't think an overly prep school WASP story. Kennedy and McNamara - were Irish, not WASP. Though Kennedy was New England Prep school and maybe compared to typical Irish politicians of the day (think Mayor Daley) and his brother Robert (who ran hotter while John ran cooler) he was kind of WASPish . McNamara was from SF. Dean Rusk was from Georgia. Rostow was Jewish. MacGeorge Bundy was WASP and as Boston Brahmin as you get and was related to Cabots and Lodges.Replies: @Hibernian, @Reg Cæsar
“the kind where you are passionately liberal on social issues but only mildly so on economic ones.”
There’s a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.
Those of us who had to put up with the pig-ignorant, violent chavs during our education are only too glad to let them wallow in the pits that their own stupidity has created.
The difference is that those WASPs were faced with a hyper-intelligent, aggressive opposition from upwardly mobile Jews like the parents of those Beverly Hills grads and their cousins in the media.
The liberal Jewish elite today doesn’t face anything like what those WASPs did. Also while young Jewish Americans and Jewish figures in the media were quite critical and opposed to the war, the broader American public was not as opposed.
Not the point of the piece and irrelevant but thanks anyway.
More widely recognized by YOU, the other Jews. To the rest of us, why would it matter?
Eerily reminiscent of the 25 Jews within a small radius of the (forgotten-by-me) author’s DC apartment orchestrating the Iraq invasion.
In Douglas J Feith's Wikipedia, General Tommy Franks, who led both the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War called Feith "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet".
A quite wonderful conclusion!
Chapeau!
Ah, California, the most disfunctional, way out there state in what is left of the Union.I want those people leading me. Sort of OT but LA County…the Department of Public Health in LA County, population 10 million plus, says one in three county residents have or have had Covid, and 13,000 have died. Shut everything down but don’t those numbers show 99.99% survive Covid.
Lockdowns didn’t kill the spread of the disease, only the economy. Even the initial 15 day shut down to “flatten the curve” was a mistake because it allowed the camel’s nose of shut downs into the tent of political possibility. Once we learned who the vulnerable were the shut downs should have ended and measures taken to protect the vulnerable. This was the first time we quarantined healthy people and the results have been disastrous.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
https://twitter.com/lapublichealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
If there have in fact been 3 million infections in LA rather than 1 million this is good news because that means it puts us closer to herd immunity, especially when combined with the vaccine. LA does seem to be past the December peak, with the # of cases/day declining from maybe 50,000 down to 10,000.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Zero self-awareness.
LOL. Uh, oh … someone said about some Jews that wasn’t uniformly 100% “may i suck your dick please.” Anti-Semitism!
Apparently no one ever said anything negative about the WASP prep-schooled ruling class.
LOL. Zero insight. Zero understanding. Zero thought.
Immigration is orders of magnitude more important than Vietnam or all foreign war making. War comes, people die … and then life goes on. Immigration, in contrast, sticks you with the genes and–to lesser extent–the culture of the immigrants … forever.
We could “take up the white man’s burden” be out saving the some benighted natives from communism or islamism or whatever in missionary wars continuously and it wouldn’t begin to cause the damage that Jews have already done to the United States pushing immigrationism.
America has really shot to greatness in the 50 odd years of Jewish intellectual, ideological dominance, compared to the crappy first 200 we had under WASP leadership.
9/11 pt. II probably coming pretty soon then huh
Where does Kamala fit into this? Was she the “eager” student who stayed after class to work on that D?
Stupid WASP bastards. You’d never see Jews making those kinds of mistakes. For comparison, just take a gander at how successful Jewish neo-cons have been in terms of masterminding US foreign policy in the Middle East…..
Separate Nations.
I’ve got no problem with Beverly Hills Jews deciding they really really want to live with Mexicans, Central Americans, etc. etc. Go for it! However, they have absolutely no business forcing this on over a 100 million other people who do not agree. Much less the descendants of the people who actually founded and settled America.
Count me as deeply suspicious that these Beverly Hills Jews actually want to live with Latinos themselves. I strongly suspect what they deeply want is for we flyover country gentiles to be immivaded. But hey, i would be happy to be proved wrong: Let’s setup a Jewish-Latino homeland … i’ll even throw in their favorites–oppressed blacks–as “diversity is our greatest strength”.
Separate Nations.
Wow, east of the Pacific Ocean. Who knew?
As David Cole (aka, David Stein) has noted in Taki Magazine, Beverly Hill has recently transmogrified into a red redoubt in deep blue LA! What accounts for this wonderful change? Perhaps new Middle East additions (some with checkered police backgrounds) have contributed their bit.
No mention in the article if these participants have any demonstrated skill in keeping the nation safe.
Probably not needed in our declined country.
Just know all the right people; take all the right pills.
I have to add that Beverly Hills High never had to suffer busing because Beverly Hills is its own city.
I attended Palisades High School in the Pacific Palisades in the late-1960s. It was an exciting time. We were the intellectual arch-rival to Beverly Hills High.
In the A.P. classes I took, half the class was Jewish and the classes were demanding. I worked harder in high school than I did in my doctoral program and it was more competitive.
After I graduated, busing happened to Palihi. Then “white flight” and “bright flight.”
Palihi doesn’t compete with Beverly Hills High any more.
Well, the NR article doesn’t mention any grads from Palisades High going to the Biden Administration, now, does it?
I was bused in Memphis in the early ‘70s, the ratios were 50/50 and it was a total clown show. I’ve been immune from the influence of social justice baloney ever since and I’ve never met a white person who was bused to a low income black school who didn’t become a race realist. It is the ultimate inoculation. Everyone should go through it for one year and no more.Replies: @Bernie
The Dems talk incessantly about diversity but Uncle Joe’s apparently doesn’t believe it. Of his seven most important appointments six are from the jewish community or 2% of the population. The seventh is black so I guess white people ,the other 65%, don’t count. The six are Antony Blinken Sec of State, Janet Yellen Treasury Sec, Merrick Garland Atty General, Alejandro Mayorkas Sec of Homeland Sec, Avril Haines Dir of National Intelligence, and White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain. The Sec of Defense nominee is Lloyd Austin.
I’m not sure exactly what this guy’s implying, but Kaus is not an extremist at all on immigration. Typical of his views are:
— He thinks big amnesty programs tend to be scams, since promised crackdowns on illegal immigration never materialize.
— He thinks amnesties are O.K. as long as E-Verity (citizenship or authorized immigration status check) is made maditory and enforced.
— He outs potential or proposed appointees to public office if they have a past history of wanting to open the floodgates on immigration.
— He thinks low skill immigration hurts the employment prospects of American citizens, including blacks, and cites studies to that effect, and that worker shortage claims just come down to employers not wanting to pay enough.
— Vis-a-vis Robert Wright’s claims that it’s cruel to deport illegals because “we promised to let them stay tacitly by allowing them to congregate around Home Depots for work, sending a message,” Kaus points out that we have a clear immigration system (vd. state.gov), an enforcement system, a network of consulates, and other obvious signals that illegal immigration is not O.K., plus it’s illegal to illegally enter Mexico and other their home countries (the U.S. is not an outlyer), plus deporting someone to his home country is hardly cruel and the U.S. doesn’t recognize entire countries as unliveable, nor does any other country.
Kaus to me is annoyingly open to compromise on immigration.
All I can think is that this Timothy Noah guy is passing along some sort of Chinese whispers exagerated distortion of Kaus’s views and does not have the time to listen to his regular podcasts with Robert Wright.
Kaus was libeled in a BuzzFeed profile in 2015 by Ben Smith, which made it look like he was a crazy homeless street person. This tainted the way Kaus has been lazily viewed by media people ever since. (More recently Smith, now at the New York Times, libeled Glenn Greenwald in a profile. Smith is becoming quite the sleezeball.)
I read his tweets all the time. I am a Democrat myself who disagrees with them on immigration. He is one of the few people on the internet who are not conservative who disagrees with the Democrats about immigration. I am sure there are more but they don't want to admit it.
In south africa, jews were a big part of the anti-apartheid movement and then immigrated to israel en masse once apartheid ended. today, jews are driving the open borders movement which means it’s a good time to invest in tel-aviv real estate.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/graduate-record-examination-scores-martin-luther-king-jrReplies: @Steve Sailer, @Bubba, @Nicholas Stix
Wow, good find.
Was the GRE a 200 to 800 scale way back in 1951?
Beverly Hills does not scale.
Not for Los Angeles, not for California and certainly not for the nation.
Ssssh! Are you trying to make it harder for some of us goys to make a little money off of Jews?
“Not enough diversity” means “too many white gentiles”, nothing more. The post-white world won’t be very diverse in terms of who’s actually in control.
Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversionReplies: @Bubba, @Joseph Doaks, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910
Nice try Tiny D.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/graduate-record-examination-scores-martin-luther-king-jrReplies: @Steve Sailer, @Bubba, @Nicholas Stix
Well how could he study while he was having orgies and raping church ladies?
And Whitey will still be blamed for the low test scores.
It may not matter to you (one’s Jewishness quotient), but it seems to be of great interest to Wikipedia.
To Joe Biden equality is extremely important, which is why half his cabinet is female and why he’s pledged to finally bless us with a black, female Supreme Court Justice. But turning over the bulk of his policy decision making to an ethnic group that’s only 2-3% of the population? That’s totally cool. No implications for “equality” whatsoever, so long as some of them are women and Mayorkas is “Latino.”
Biden can promise us a black female SCOTUS nominee because I guess even he’s realized that having a fifth Jewish SCOTUS nominee out of the last six may pushing their luck just a little too much.
I think Ben Tillman’s point is that among other Jews it is Mayorkas’s status as a “Latino” that sets him apart. To the rest of us he’s just another Jewish person trying to claim some sort of aggrieved minority status.
One thing about Mayorkas is when the media first trotted him out and I looked up on the TV screen I thought I was watching a story about Jeff Bezos, he looks just like him, also bearing a strong resemblance to Blofeld and Dr. Evil.
There's a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.Replies: @photondancer, @njguy73, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Nico
True. They’re not going to dismantle an economic system that is serving them so well so they generate a lot of noise and light over social issues that don’t affect them as a distraction.
There's a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.Replies: @photondancer, @njguy73, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Nico
As Robert Conquest wrote, everyone is conservative about what they know best.
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Frank Gehry Says He Prefers a Fashionable Dictator to Democracy When it Comes to Creating Architecture
Beverly Hills High School immigration policy:
I hear Jess La Bombalera, a.k.a Jessica Krug, is available for service.
you blocked a post i made about this just last week.
shrug.
Close enough; 13,000/3,333,333 = .0039 or .39%, for an infection survival rate of 99.61%. This assumes that the samples upon which the number of infected is calculated are representative of LA County as a whole.
Lockdowns didn’t kill the spread of the disease, only the economy. Even the initial 15 day shut down to “flatten the curve” was a mistake because it allowed the camel’s nose of shut downs into the tent of political possibility. Once we learned who the vulnerable were the shut downs should have ended and measures taken to protect the vulnerable. This was the first time we quarantined healthy people and the results have been disastrous.
Beverly Hills 89-236
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965
Apparently no one ever said anything negative about the WASP prep-schooled ruling class.LOL. Zero insight. Zero understanding. Zero thought.
Immigration is orders of magnitude more important than Vietnam or all foreign war making. War comes, people die ... and then life goes on. Immigration, in contrast, sticks you with the genes and--to lesser extent--the culture of the immigrants ... forever.
We could "take up the white man's burden" be out saving the some benighted natives from communism or islamism or whatever in missionary wars continuously and it wouldn't begin to cause the damage that Jews have already done to the United States pushing immigrationism.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @James O'Meara
Good thing our Jewish rulers haven’t gotten us involved in any foreign wars!
Probably not needed in our declined country.
Just know all the right people; take all the right pills.Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
“Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening…”
-- He thinks big amnesty programs tend to be scams, since promised crackdowns on illegal immigration never materialize.
-- He thinks amnesties are O.K. as long as E-Verity (citizenship or authorized immigration status check) is made maditory and enforced.
-- He outs potential or proposed appointees to public office if they have a past history of wanting to open the floodgates on immigration.
-- He thinks low skill immigration hurts the employment prospects of American citizens, including blacks, and cites studies to that effect, and that worker shortage claims just come down to employers not wanting to pay enough.
-- Vis-a-vis Robert Wright's claims that it's cruel to deport illegals because "we promised to let them stay tacitly by allowing them to congregate around Home Depots for work, sending a message," Kaus points out that we have a clear immigration system (vd. state.gov), an enforcement system, a network of consulates, and other obvious signals that illegal immigration is not O.K., plus it's illegal to illegally enter Mexico and other their home countries (the U.S. is not an outlyer), plus deporting someone to his home country is hardly cruel and the U.S. doesn't recognize entire countries as unliveable, nor does any other country.
Kaus to me is annoyingly open to compromise on immigration.
All I can think is that this Timothy Noah guy is passing along some sort of Chinese whispers exagerated distortion of Kaus's views and does not have the time to listen to his regular podcasts with Robert Wright.
Kaus was libeled in a BuzzFeed profile in 2015 by Ben Smith, which made it look like he was a crazy homeless street person. This tainted the way Kaus has been lazily viewed by media people ever since. (More recently Smith, now at the New York Times, libeled Glenn Greenwald in a profile. Smith is becoming quite the sleezeball.)Replies: @Lockean Proviso, @notsaying
Kaus is a mensch- a stand-up guy. I bet he reads this blog, and maybe knows Steve. Mickey stays just inside the lines that separate uncensored pundits from the outer darkness into which heretics like Sailer have been cast. He probably wants to say more than he does but minds the gap.
His podcast with Wright is one of my favorites. Wright is a globalist, but at least critical of “the blob”- the foreign policy establishment. He’s against invade the world, but sympathetic to woke yet leavened with a rare political realism not often seen in that camp. He’s still wrong about many things, of course. Both Kaus and Wright are smart, experienced, and skeptical of the sanctimonious posturing of the MSM. Kaus probably makes the case for American citizenism about as effectively as can be done within the mainstream for the growing number of disgruntled liberals. I am glad to have this and other samizdat sites to help connect those dots, though.
Mr. Kaus is definitely not a Conservative or Libertarian in favoring universal healthcare, but at least he rubs two brain cells together to realize universal healthcare or other benefits of a comprehensive Welfare State are not possible without some manner of control over immigration that we don't exercise now.
WASPs really did screw up.Replies: @LondonBob, @flyingtiger, @RAZ
Famous WASP Walter Rostow.
The liberal Jewish elite today doesn't face anything like what those WASPs did. Also while young Jewish Americans and Jewish figures in the media were quite critical and opposed to the war, the broader American public was not as opposed.Replies: @LondonBob
No but as Ron has shown Jews today aren’t half as talented as their parents and grandparents were.
There's a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.Replies: @photondancer, @njguy73, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Nico
Spot on. There is a similar correlation in the UK, where those who wring their hands most fervently over the woes of the underclass are those who lived in nice neighbourhoods and went to a fee-paying school.
Those of us who had to put up with the pig-ignorant, violent chavs during our education are only too glad to let them wallow in the pits that their own stupidity has created.
I attended Palisades High School in the Pacific Palisades in the late-1960s. It was an exciting time. We were the intellectual arch-rival to Beverly Hills High.
In the A.P. classes I took, half the class was Jewish and the classes were demanding. I worked harder in high school than I did in my doctoral program and it was more competitive.
After I graduated, busing happened to Palihi. Then "white flight" and "bright flight."
Palihi doesn't compete with Beverly Hills High any more.
Well, the NR article doesn't mention any grads from Palisades High going to the Biden Administration, now, does it?Replies: @Curle, @Polistra
Over time I’ve slowly moved from opposition to support for school busing.
I was bused in Memphis in the early ‘70s, the ratios were 50/50 and it was a total clown show. I’ve been immune from the influence of social justice baloney ever since and I’ve never met a white person who was bused to a low income black school who didn’t become a race realist. It is the ultimate inoculation. Everyone should go through it for one year and no more.
Regarding the Changing of the Guard of the American Ruling Class from WASPS to Jews :
What’s Yiddish for noblesse oblige ?
I’m just surprised to learn that The New Republic still exists. 🙂
New Republic and Newsweek seem more interesting in recent months.
Are you suggesting that there’s some sort of thing like a cabal?? Because I’m reliably assured that there’s no such thing, ever. As with conspiracies, unless of course you mean white supremacist conspiracies, because those are absolutely everywhere.
That’s actually arguable, because the ‘neocons’ don’t mind the degree of damage they’ve done to America, which is ultimately expendable when its status as a Golden Host for Parasites draws to a close. They care about the damage they inflict upon their various Tribal Enemies, which now incidentally includes Anglo-Americans, without whose sacrifices they might not even exist today.
They may not calculate perfectly, but their calculations are consistent and always with a single goal in mind. The Tribe.
It is true that Anglo-Americans and other highly capable White ethnic groups are competition to Jews. That is the reason Jews treat them as enemies.
I attended Palisades High School in the Pacific Palisades in the late-1960s. It was an exciting time. We were the intellectual arch-rival to Beverly Hills High.
In the A.P. classes I took, half the class was Jewish and the classes were demanding. I worked harder in high school than I did in my doctoral program and it was more competitive.
After I graduated, busing happened to Palihi. Then "white flight" and "bright flight."
Palihi doesn't compete with Beverly Hills High any more.
Well, the NR article doesn't mention any grads from Palisades High going to the Biden Administration, now, does it?Replies: @Curle, @Polistra
Right, but it’s interesting that in some cases “consolidated” school districts were created explicitly to address (nullify) white flight to the suburbs. I’ve no idea where this phenomenon stands in the Current Year.
Follow Up: Beverly Hill’s main ethnic group are Persians (with a large Jewish component)! Showing that grissled race realist ethnics can prove to be a godsend.
They say Jews frequently ask “Is this good for the Jews?”.
Well, this Biden cabinet definitely isn’t.
JFK understood this well when he hesitated to appoint McNamara because he thought McNamara was an Irish American/Catholic, so… Only after he had been assured that McNamara is just of insignificant Irish heritage, he appointed him.
I don’t know where you are getting those numbers. The LA Dept. of Public Health says that there have been 1 million cases and 14,000 deaths or a case fatality rate of 1.4%. It’s possible that for every diagnosed case there have been two more infections but I don’t see that data.
https://twitter.com/lapublichealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
If there have in fact been 3 million infections in LA rather than 1 million this is good news because that means it puts us closer to herd immunity, especially when combined with the vaccine. LA does seem to be past the December peak, with the # of cases/day declining from maybe 50,000 down to 10,000.
There's a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.Replies: @photondancer, @njguy73, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Nico
I think this is related to the idea/term telescopic philanthropy, coined by Charles Dickens in his 1853 novel Bleak House.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversionReplies: @Bubba, @Joseph Doaks, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910
“Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversion”
If so, most Biden voters will be in jail.
902 uh oh.
It’s hilarious (but sad) that absolutely nothing has changed – Mrs. Jellyby’s failed philanthropic project sounds ripped from the headlines. I’m sure that some NGO has tried to set up an organic coffee plantation in somewhere in Africa and that some local warlord has burned plantation and kidnapped the inhabitants as child soldiers, wives, etc. It’s still completely credible today.
Never heard if it worked out.Replies: @Dissident
It’s a between-the-lines thing.
Well, this Biden cabinet definitely isn't.
JFK understood this well when he hesitated to appoint McNamara because he thought McNamara was an Irish American/Catholic, so... Only after he had been assured that McNamara is just of insignificant Irish heritage, he appointed him.Replies: @Jack D, @Hibernian
This is a secret plot by Joe to discredit the Jews. After his first Cabinet’s policies fail spectacularly (“ONE MILLION HONDURANS MARCH TO BORDER, SEEK ASYLUM”), Joe will sweep them all out and appoint the people he REALLY wants – an all Biden cabinet. Dr. Jill can be Secretary of Education. Hunter will take care of the Treasury – he can also be in charge of data security. Joe’s brother can be Secretary of State. Etc.
WASPs really did screw up.Replies: @LondonBob, @flyingtiger, @RAZ
The American army won all the battles. It was the South Vietnam that lost the war.
Mickey Kaus is the Christopher Hitchens of immigration policy.
Mr. Kaus is definitely not a Conservative or Libertarian in favoring universal healthcare, but at least he rubs two brain cells together to realize universal healthcare or other benefits of a comprehensive Welfare State are not possible without some manner of control over immigration that we don’t exercise now.
If Vietnam has been a spectacular success would you be giving Rostow credit as the sole Jewish genius behind it all?
I was bused in Memphis in the early ‘70s, the ratios were 50/50 and it was a total clown show. I’ve been immune from the influence of social justice baloney ever since and I’ve never met a white person who was bused to a low income black school who didn’t become a race realist. It is the ultimate inoculation. Everyone should go through it for one year and no more.Replies: @Bernie
Certainly worked for me. I went into the military in the late 1980s as a liberal but came out a race realist. Nothing educates about race more than living with lots of blacks (as opposed to watching them portrayed on TV).
No doubt!
Bear in mind that you were working around the Talented Twentieth, too, because even then the AFQT screened out a fair number of sub-85 IQ people. Oddly enough, some of the guys I know who are totally blank slate are former military, usually their whole worldview reduces to "I knew a good one...". Yeah, I know some good ones, too, usually active or former Air Force because different standards. But that didn't change my attitude last time I was on South Street in Philadelphia, and it sure won't change my opinion of Memphis, one of the "Don't stop, don't even slow down, just drive right on" cities.
That one year tour of duty being bused in high school looks just about right. Although it's not as long as some tours to the sandbox that friends of mine have done. They came back from there pretty realistic, too.
Jews, schmoos. Here’s why we’re really doomed.
There's a strong correlation between people who are passionately liberal on social issues and the significant distance they reside from those social issues they are so liberally passionate about.Replies: @photondancer, @njguy73, @Anonymous, @Anon, @Nico
I don’t think this is necessarily true. I have a high school acquaintance who thinks that trannies, illegal aliens, ghetto mamas and blue-haired lesbians should be the future of America just because she hangs out with some “nice” ones. (She’s a headcase herself I might add.)
Stephen Miller went to Santa Monica High School. I wonder which HS has more cachet.
I am certain that the majority of Americans want less immigration, but both parties don’t care. That’s the main thing that got Trump the Republican nomination in the first place.
Happy Birthday to Betty White!
Beverly Hills High Class of ‘39.
It’s ridiculous that BHHS is tuition-free. The BMWs lined up on Durant(?) at 2:40 must account for 10% of the local dealership’s sales last year.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/graduate-record-examination-scores-martin-luther-king-jrReplies: @Steve Sailer, @Bubba, @Nicholas Stix
So, he was a bloody imbecile.
You’d think the widow King would have gotten that federal judge to put that little fact under lock and key, too. If I had to choose between people learning that I had the IQ of an artichoke and that I was a rapist, I’d say, “Bury the GRE scores!”
Maybe there were just too many things for her to cover.
Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversionReplies: @Bubba, @Joseph Doaks, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910
bigdicknick,
I somehow get on all kinds of Jewish diaspora Face Book advert target lists. I’m now getting many adverts contact Jewish Americans who somehow have some ethnic relations to Js who were once expelled from Portugal and Spain in the 15th century and Austria in the 1940s.
These adverts report that it’s now very doable to get dual or tipple citizenship in Portugal/Spain the EU or Austria again the EU because of supposed mistreatment of Jewish in the 15th century and in the 1940s. These adverts are very open that they are offering nice, much Whiter places to go if their part of the United States gets too unpleasant just as South African Liberal anti Apartheid Jews left en masse after SA was turned over to ANC Black rule. My take is that most Lib Leftist Jews in South Africa didn’t go to Israel, but that is always an option.
So, American Jews are now shopping around for places to go, live good lives in whiter places if and when the USA goes down like South Africa.
Give these international Js credit, they know how to get around. Another more negative way to look at this is that international Js have little or no loyalty to their White host countries – they are there to make a $, corrupt the place, insult White Christians, incite Blacks, North African Muslim migrants than dine and dash and do the same back in places like Portugal and Spain that they always lament were the most horrible, terrible place for Js to live. That’s why they want to go back.
Apparently no one ever said anything negative about the WASP prep-schooled ruling class.LOL. Zero insight. Zero understanding. Zero thought.
Immigration is orders of magnitude more important than Vietnam or all foreign war making. War comes, people die ... and then life goes on. Immigration, in contrast, sticks you with the genes and--to lesser extent--the culture of the immigrants ... forever.
We could "take up the white man's burden" be out saving the some benighted natives from communism or islamism or whatever in missionary wars continuously and it wouldn't begin to cause the damage that Jews have already done to the United States pushing immigrationism.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @James O'Meara
The difference is that the WASP elite may have made mistakes, or been downright stupid, but the Jewish elite is malevolent. As the kids say, the ruin of America via immigration isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
It's not so much that Jewish elites are generally malevolent. It's more that Jewish elites are specifically malevolent towards you because you're a Gentile.
In their own homeland of Israel, Jewish elites are patriotic and civic minded. Very far from malevolent (except towards Palestinians).
Certainly worked for me. I went into the military in the late 1980s as a liberal but came out a race realist
No doubt!
Bear in mind that you were working around the Talented Twentieth, too, because even then the AFQT screened out a fair number of sub-85 IQ people. Oddly enough, some of the guys I know who are totally blank slate are former military, usually their whole worldview reduces to “I knew a good one…”. Yeah, I know some good ones, too, usually active or former Air Force because different standards. But that didn’t change my attitude last time I was on South Street in Philadelphia, and it sure won’t change my opinion of Memphis, one of the “Don’t stop, don’t even slow down, just drive right on” cities.
That one year tour of duty being bused in high school looks just about right. Although it’s not as long as some tours to the sandbox that friends of mine have done. They came back from there pretty realistic, too.
Does anyone else recall the Biden (and Democrats) constant bleating in speeches that “unlike Trump” they would when elected “have leaders who look like America.”
Who knew that what they meant was, for them, America looks like Beverly Hills High School?
And not the fictional 90210 TV version either.
I guess ‘what America looks like’ depends on where you live.
Do they allow Deplorables to live anywhere near there?
https://twitter.com/lapublichealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
If there have in fact been 3 million infections in LA rather than 1 million this is good news because that means it puts us closer to herd immunity, especially when combined with the vaccine. LA does seem to be past the December peak, with the # of cases/day declining from maybe 50,000 down to 10,000.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Jack, lead article at SF Gate…one in three have or have had Covid in LA County. By the way, no more comment section at SF Gate.
Lockdowns didn’t kill the spread of the disease, only the economy. Even the initial 15 day shut down to “flatten the curve” was a mistake because it allowed the camel’s nose of shut downs into the tent of political possibility. Once we learned who the vulnerable were the shut downs should have ended and measures taken to protect the vulnerable. This was the first time we quarantined healthy people and the results have been disastrous.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
FPD, thank you for the correction, but the point is we are being bullshitted.I took the .0039 from 100.00 and that gave me 99.9961. Stay safe.
Check these Wikipedia articles: Project for the New American Century, Foreign Policy Institute, Office of Special Plans (OSP), Iranian Directorate and Hudson Institute.
In Douglas J Feith’s Wikipedia, General Tommy Franks, who led both the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War called Feith “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet”.
I would contend that it matters quite a bit.
WASPs really did screw up.Replies: @LondonBob, @flyingtiger, @RAZ
Halberstam’s Best & The Brightest gives you all you ever would want to know about the screwups leading us into and into staying in Vietnam.
But don’t think an overly prep school WASP story. Kennedy and McNamara – were Irish, not WASP. Though Kennedy was New England Prep school and maybe compared to typical Irish politicians of the day (think Mayor Daley) and his brother Robert (who ran hotter while John ran cooler) he was kind of WASPish . McNamara was from SF. Dean Rusk was from Georgia. Rostow was Jewish. MacGeorge Bundy was WASP and as Boston Brahmin as you get and was related to Cabots and Lodges.
The Lowells speak only to the Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God!
pantsmarriage? Bobby's 12 is more than Catholic; it was typical of the old Puritans. David Hackett Fischer said he knew of no demographic in history with a higher birth rate.That was then, this is now.
oh its only “today” that they are driving it? Who was it pushing immigration in the 1920s?
The Army was fine. The foreign policy establishment was not. Imagine choosing a war and still losing it, against a massively inferior enemy.
Joe, I couldn’t find that. There was a story that said that there were 3 million cases in all of California, not just LA.
I saw this at university too, people who naively support an entire group because one member of it sucked up to them. Student societies are well aware of this dynamic and make sure their representatives are good at smiles and flattery.
What's Yiddish for noblesse oblige ?Replies: @Hunsdon
That’s one of my favorite jokes. There is no translation.
I had always thought that the Jewish equivalent of "how can I help you ? " is "welcome suckers "
-- He thinks big amnesty programs tend to be scams, since promised crackdowns on illegal immigration never materialize.
-- He thinks amnesties are O.K. as long as E-Verity (citizenship or authorized immigration status check) is made maditory and enforced.
-- He outs potential or proposed appointees to public office if they have a past history of wanting to open the floodgates on immigration.
-- He thinks low skill immigration hurts the employment prospects of American citizens, including blacks, and cites studies to that effect, and that worker shortage claims just come down to employers not wanting to pay enough.
-- Vis-a-vis Robert Wright's claims that it's cruel to deport illegals because "we promised to let them stay tacitly by allowing them to congregate around Home Depots for work, sending a message," Kaus points out that we have a clear immigration system (vd. state.gov), an enforcement system, a network of consulates, and other obvious signals that illegal immigration is not O.K., plus it's illegal to illegally enter Mexico and other their home countries (the U.S. is not an outlyer), plus deporting someone to his home country is hardly cruel and the U.S. doesn't recognize entire countries as unliveable, nor does any other country.
Kaus to me is annoyingly open to compromise on immigration.
All I can think is that this Timothy Noah guy is passing along some sort of Chinese whispers exagerated distortion of Kaus's views and does not have the time to listen to his regular podcasts with Robert Wright.
Kaus was libeled in a BuzzFeed profile in 2015 by Ben Smith, which made it look like he was a crazy homeless street person. This tainted the way Kaus has been lazily viewed by media people ever since. (More recently Smith, now at the New York Times, libeled Glenn Greenwald in a profile. Smith is becoming quite the sleezeball.)Replies: @Lockean Proviso, @notsaying
Mickey Kaus is not on the right fringe, unless maybe you are far left. I do not even think of him as a Republican. He used to be a Democrat — and maybe still is one — and I think still agrees with them on many things. He certainly doesn’t though on immigration.
I read his tweets all the time. I am a Democrat myself who disagrees with them on immigration. He is one of the few people on the internet who are not conservative who disagrees with the Democrats about immigration. I am sure there are more but they don’t want to admit it.
No, Eastern Europe. If American Jewry decides to move, it will be to there, not to Israel or Iberia or anywhere else. It will be a homecoming of sorts.
You’d think he could at least get a decent verbal score.
Sure. Anglo elites may have been corrupt, exploitative, and incompetent at times. However, they had no reason to hate their own people. Today’s Jewish elites feel active revulsion toward the White Gentile masses because they come from a different tribe.
It’s not so much that Jewish elites are generally malevolent. It’s more that Jewish elites are specifically malevolent towards you because you’re a Gentile.
In their own homeland of Israel, Jewish elites are patriotic and civic minded. Very far from malevolent (except towards Palestinians).
Imagine arguing about a war that ended nearly 50 years ago in the abundant spare time left over from arguing about a war that ended 75 years ago, because that’s easier than some alternative or other.
Well, this Biden cabinet definitely isn't.
JFK understood this well when he hesitated to appoint McNamara because he thought McNamara was an Irish American/Catholic, so... Only after he had been assured that McNamara is just of insignificant Irish heritage, he appointed him.Replies: @Jack D, @Hibernian
McNamara was half Irish. I wouldn’t call that insignificant since he’s therefore almost as Irish as me. Ans JFK didn’t hesitate to nominate an Irish Catholic Attorney General.
No malevolent WASPs? Jake, call your office!
But don't think an overly prep school WASP story. Kennedy and McNamara - were Irish, not WASP. Though Kennedy was New England Prep school and maybe compared to typical Irish politicians of the day (think Mayor Daley) and his brother Robert (who ran hotter while John ran cooler) he was kind of WASPish . McNamara was from SF. Dean Rusk was from Georgia. Rostow was Jewish. MacGeorge Bundy was WASP and as Boston Brahmin as you get and was related to Cabots and Lodges.Replies: @Hibernian, @Reg Cæsar
Boston is a fine old town in the land of cod.
The Lowells speak only to the Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God!
Anglo-Americans and other Whites aren’t actually “enemies” of Jews; but Jews treat them as enemies and in the process often generate suspicion and other hostile reactions.
It is true that Anglo-Americans and other highly capable White ethnic groups are competition to Jews. That is the reason Jews treat them as enemies.
Just turned the TV on. Breaking news Beverly Hills residents arrested for being at the January 6 DC “riot”
Then an AD unbelievable. It was chase bank business loans and accounts. Business was a black family that raised and sold at the farmers market organic raw honey. Turned the TV off.
ludicrous , how many blacks are in the organic raw honey business and even more ridiculous what black ever applied for a private rather than small business administration loan and other government help. Organic honey. How’s it possible to make sure the bees only drink nectar from pesticide free organic certified flowers?
There was an animal rights group that wanted to train wolves to be vegetarians so as to avoid conflict with farmers and ranchers who dislike their livestock being eaten by wolves.
Never heard if it worked out.
I saw the article. It’s probably a lie.
Alternative? Like going for a walk?
Would it be less than apt to wonder whether our diminutive duck friend is aware that the standard, universally accepted English transliteration of the Hebrew name Dov has no e?
(Or that it means bear?)
Dav Pilkey: I never hypnotised my principal! That part I made up
Never heard if it worked out.Replies: @Dissident
Reminds me of reading of vegans who imposed their utopianism upon their dogs and even cats.
For cats, the results of such experiments were said to be invariably and predictably drastic (catastrophic?), as the feline is an obligate carnivore. For dogs, however, being omnivores, being able to thrive on a vegan diet (with sufficient planning and care) was said to at least be a possibility.
It wasn’t, nor have any of the other wars been spectacular successes, but if it happens I will be sure to.
You mean it’s not a typo on a fast food joint’s name tag?
Dav Pilkey: I never hypnotised my principal! That part I made up
But don't think an overly prep school WASP story. Kennedy and McNamara - were Irish, not WASP. Though Kennedy was New England Prep school and maybe compared to typical Irish politicians of the day (think Mayor Daley) and his brother Robert (who ran hotter while John ran cooler) he was kind of WASPish . McNamara was from SF. Dean Rusk was from Georgia. Rostow was Jewish. MacGeorge Bundy was WASP and as Boston Brahmin as you get and was related to Cabots and Lodges.Replies: @Hibernian, @Reg Cæsar
In that, unlike brothers John and Edward, he kept it in his
pantsmarriage? Bobby’s 12 is more than Catholic; it was typical of the old Puritans. David Hackett Fischer said he knew of no demographic in history with a higher birth rate.That was then, this is now.
Architects aren’t.
Frank Gehry Says He Prefers a Fashionable Dictator to Democracy When it Comes to Creating Architecture
Interesting that we talk about “Latino immigrants pushing African-Americans out of Los Angeles” rather than Black Flight.
I wonder why.
The subtext to this article is the decline of American Jewish intellectual achievement.
The big thing that strikes me about the Nulland-Blinken-Beverley Hills Axis of Evil is how stupid this generation of liberal statespeople is. Blinken supported the Iraq War. Nulland spent her entire tenure in the Obama administration trying to get him to bomb more countries. The liberal Jews Noah speaks so highly of are just a bunch of grifters. They don’t seem quite up to snuff compared to their ancestors.
And this is not the only area of life where this is evident. Ron Unz did a fair amount of Noticing in his article “The Myth of American Meritocracy.” David Brooks, John Podhoretz, Bill Kristol, and Tom Friedman are notably dumber than Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Noam Chomsky. Paul Krugman is unreadable. Jennifer Rubin is a joke. Is it surprising that American public discourse is extremely childish and pedantic these days? Does it have something to do with ossified Jewish control of the media?
I feel like Steve could shine a light on this issue and come up with some interesting conclusions.
He was not perceived as belonging to the Irish tribe.
The big thing that strikes me about the Nulland-Blinken-Beverley Hills Axis of Evil is how stupid this generation of liberal statespeople is. Blinken supported the Iraq War. Nulland spent her entire tenure in the Obama administration trying to get him to bomb more countries. The liberal Jews Noah speaks so highly of are just a bunch of grifters. They don't seem quite up to snuff compared to their ancestors.
And this is not the only area of life where this is evident. Ron Unz did a fair amount of Noticing in his article "The Myth of American Meritocracy." David Brooks, John Podhoretz, Bill Kristol, and Tom Friedman are notably dumber than Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and Noam Chomsky. Paul Krugman is unreadable. Jennifer Rubin is a joke. Is it surprising that American public discourse is extremely childish and pedantic these days? Does it have something to do with ossified Jewish control of the media?
I feel like Steve could shine a light on this issue and come up with some interesting conclusions.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
You overestimate intelligence of these people. They have never been too bright. Any generation.
https://twitter.com/DavidColeStein/status/1354154682332049408
Truth is, we don’t stand a chance
It’s something that you’re born into
And we just don’t belong
We might as well enjoy our lives
And watch the stars govern
It was one of his better efforts though wasn’t it?
Thanks .I really didn’t know but thought as much .
I had always thought that the Jewish equivalent of “how can I help you ? ” is “welcome suckers ”
Hopefully we will put more effort into fighting domestic terrorism treason and subversionReplies: @Bubba, @Joseph Doaks, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910
See Unz’s article “The Myth of American Meritocracy,” also Greg Cochran’s study of Ashkenazi intelligence. I do think there is something to the stereotype of Jews being exceptionally clever (at one time).
I’m assuming you mean Robert McNamara, not Robert Kennedy. So McNamara’s Band was not the Finest in the Land? No Hennessey to complete the Irish roll?
No, “the rest of us” for the most part don’t know this at all, I’d say “the rest of us” are quite unaware about this particular “commonality” that most of Biden’s cabinet shares.
One thing about Mayorkas is when the media first trotted him out and I looked up on the TV screen I thought I was watching a story about Jeff Bezos, he looks just like him, also bearing a strong resemblance to Blofeld and Dr. Evil.
My favorite was right after the 2016 election when she thought she might persuade me by lamenting that her “veiled liberal Muslim woman friend” had been harrassed by “MAGA” boys on the street.
Of course, there is no such thing as a “veiled liberal Muslim woman.” A “veiled Muslim woman,” sure. A “liberal Muslim woman,” sure. A “veiled Muslim woman who votes Democratic,” yes, insofar as she allies with the left in “having it out” for Western and Christian society but rarely would she have actually internalized feminism, etc.. A truly *liberal* woman who wears an Islamic veil is a provocatress at best.
That, and I also doubt the incident in question ever took place.