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From the Washington Examiner:
Trump taps Stephen Miller to run White House policy shop
By GABBY MORRONGIELLO (@GABRIELLAHOPE_) • 12/13/16 5:08 PM
President-elect Trump’s chief speechwriter, Stephen Miller, will serve as senior White House policy adviser in the next administration, transition officials announced Tuesday.
Miller has been a part of the incoming Republican president’s close circle of advisers since January. He assisted Trump with major speeches on myriad policy issues during the campaign and has overseen policy development efforts on the transition operation since the president-elect’s victory last month. When Trump enters office on Jan. 20, Miller will be in charge of all White House policy staffers and responsible for pushing the president-elect’s policy agenda.
“Stephen played a central and wide-ranging role in our primary and general election campaign,” Trump said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon. “He is deeply committed to the America First agenda, and understands the policies and actions necessary to put that agenda into effect.
“He is a strong advocate for protecting American workers,” Trump added. …
“Stephen Miller is the best person President-elect Donald Trump could have chosen to be his senior adviser for policy,” Sessions said, adding that he possesses “a unique understanding of very real and honest concerns of the American people.” …
Trump also named Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to the Cabinet-level secretary of state position on Tuesday and is expected to tap former Texas Gov. Rick Perry for energy secretary this week.
I like the Examiner’s Miller-centric viewpoint that leaves Tillerson and Perry to “and in other news …”
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Sounds good to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_operative)
I’ve never really understood the array of positions that surround the presidency.
I mean, just ’cause someone’s your Chief of Staff and another one’s your Official Policy Adviser, you’re going to listen to one more than the other? I doubt Trump is going to listen to someone based on their government paygrade but more on who he trusts, and I assume most presidents have been the same. Certain positions require expertise (e.g. NSA adviser, Sec of state), and have certain tasks (e.g. Chief of staff, Press secretary) but that doesn’t affect their advice, only their designated tasks.
Bureaucracy and leadership are two far different things. When your leadership judgment is affected by the bureaucratic position someone fills rather than their intelligence and trustworthiness, I’d say that hurts your abilities.
Well, well…
Russians were actually working for Hillary.
Russians helped Detroit stuff more votes for Hillary.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts/95363314/
GOOD NEWS! I have long respected Miller as a principled operative. Now it remains to be seen how much power Miller will be able to exert, although your last sentence gives hope for optimism (cautious of course!).
But he’s still an evil Nazi who must be stopped at all costs.
“Stephen Miller is the best person President-elect Donald Trump could have chosen to be his senior adviser for policy,” Sessions said….
I thought that was Steve Bannon’s job?
Miller answers the question "What do we want to accomplish?"
Bannon answers the question "How?"
Preibus mobilizes the coopted establishment to implement Bannon's strategy.
Is this a serious world?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/world/un-wonder-woman-campaign.html?_r=0
this dude is really on time….
You can read his teenage letter in one of the Wiki links. Letters like his are not even conceptually possible in educational institutions today. I wonder if a student who wrote something like this in 2016 would even have a chance of not being expelled and forever blacklisted from reputable schools and industries.
http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/letters/Letters-2002/MARCH_2002/03_27_2002_Political_Correctness_Out_of_Control.htm
Methinks Miller is, among all the people formally associated with the Trump Administration, going to be the one who both speaks the softest and carries the biggest stick.
Does that mean he reports to Bannon or to Priebus?
Fantastic news, a government of all the talents. And Rick Perry 😀
This Miller fella uses that scheming brain of his on behalf of Ameica.
A new day.
An invitation to read between the lines? Keep an eye on that AOL account, Steve..
He also talked about how he would have been okay with that, having known he'd done all he could as far as campaigning.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @Cagey Beast
Stephen Miller is (obviously) excellent news, but what’s the deal with Rick Perry at Energy?
30 years of age with all that power. Smart kid.
This is a very influential position. Stephanopolus, Rove, Emmanuel, Axelrod, Plouffe, and Jarrett have all held it at some point.
Hopefully Miller can keep a check on Pudzer.
I think this video is appropriate here:
“Trump Puts Stephen Miller in Charge of All White House Policy Staffers”
What a deliciously ambiguous headline. I wonder whether House Speaker Paul Ryan will also have a team of all-white House policy staffers.
Utterly off-topic, KKKrazy Glue enters the realm of true-life parody:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4029134/Florida-man-faked-pro-Trump-hate-crime-set-ex-s-car-fire-staged-kidnapping-ransom-note-covered-blood-said-taken-member-KKK.html
It’s as entertaining as it sounds.
http://gotnews.com/exposed-anti-trump-faithless-elector-thechrissuprun-paid-ashley-madison-bankrupt-married-w-3-kids/Replies: @slumber_j
In the entertainment media this course of conduct is glamorous. IRL it means shunning and, in this case, your car set on fire and your kids visiting daddy in state prison.
OT – NYPD Seeks Cure for Gun Violence With Data-Driven Cases
Even as homicide rates have climbed in other American cities, New York City is again on pace to have a near-record low number of shootings, and police are partly crediting refined tactics that include collecting more data and forensic evidence than ever before to go after the worst offenders.
….
Still, it’s not clear whether the crime reductions in New York are due to refined police tactics or other factors, like a continuing influx of wealth into the city.
…….
The drop in the number of shootings also comes in an era when the department is making fewer arrests overall and has vastly curtailed a strategy nicknamed “stop and frisk” that involved halting and searching hundreds of thousands of young men on the street to make sure they weren’t carrying weapons.
………..
“To say we locked up a few people and gun violence is down shows a disconnect,” she said. “There are people in this community who are afraid to send their children outside because of gun violence. It’s a disease. Taking one person out doesn’t work because other people are infected.”
Nope, refuse to make the connection between locking up hard core criminals and a corresponding reduction in crime. Instead it’s a “disease” which is the real culprit. Kind of like the spread of the Black Pla…..oops, almost committed a microaggresion!
Steve, I thought you’d get a kick out of this.
http://washex.am/2gJ8bjM
Steve Miller?
Didn’t he write a song about Trump?
It was the Now-defunct Outlook (not Lookout). A local paper published in Torrance, but centered on Santa Monica issues – mostly blow-by-blow coverage on the city council sqwabbling, leftie organizations Santa Monica Renters’ Rights and hotel workers union, zoning, and real estate issues. It’s pretty surprising it would have published his letter!
Miller has an exquisite understanding of the leftist mind. He is their worst nightmare and he’s not for sale.
“False song of globalism”, “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer”, “No dream is too big.
No challenge is too great.” These are Millerisms.
And not a moment too soon.Replies: @Marat, @Marat
Wow, just wow.
In a good way.
Strange new respect for Tillerson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/business/energy-environment/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-exxon-mobil.html
Bearing fruit.
"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."
- Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I
I thought for a moment that it was Dennis Miller.
In addition to being extremely intelligent and having his heart in the right place, Stephen Miller is the best political speaker I have heard in my lifetime. Late last summer some site I was reading praised Miller and linked to a video of him giving a warmup speech to a crowd waiting to see Trump. I’d never heard of Miller and decided to check him out by viewing a few minutes of the half-hour video. I wound up watching the whole thing and was electrified and entertained the whole time. He brought the crowd to their feet several times. He nearly brought me to my feet more than once! I predicted an incredible future for Miller then. He is one of a very small cadre which is the only hope for our nation’s future.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4029134/Florida-man-faked-pro-Trump-hate-crime-set-ex-s-car-fire-staged-kidnapping-ransom-note-covered-blood-said-taken-member-KKK.html
It's as entertaining as it sounds.Replies: @neprof, @Lot, @Lot
Check out this news also, the Texas college member who pompously stated way he’ll not vote for Trump.
http://gotnews.com/exposed-anti-trump-faithless-elector-thechrissuprun-paid-ashley-madison-bankrupt-married-w-3-kids/
Trump’s picks seem to be very good (Bannon, Sessions, Miller), very bad (Pudzer, Bolton, Perry), or very interesting (Carson, Tillerson, Mattis).
The Group of 88 will be sorry now.
Miller seems like a righteous dude.
Like the Catholic Church in its early years, the Alt-Right is capitalizing on renegade Jews (Breitbart RIP, Miller, Kushner) who have been converted to the faith and are using their tactical talents to increase the faith and help the belief system thrive.
So long as they do so in the service of the cause and not for their own ends, we will be ok. That requires a strong leader whom they will bend to.
Oh look at that, Mr. Trump is a strong leader.
I feel safe.
There aren't enough of them -- and the 'non-renegade Jews' are noxious and influential.
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversX4/status/808754229590499328Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
But, we need to come up with a better adjective than "renegade."
The established media used the whole "Renegade Jew" meme to bash Steve Bannon because the term once appeared in a Breitbart headline.
In that case, though, it was David Horowitz taking apart Bill Kristol over the latter's Never Trumpism. He wasn't complimenting Kristol.
And I think it's a safe bet that iSteve readers would side with Horowitz, not Kristol, in that dispute.
IOW, he’s a lived conservative. He’s been watching and learning from life and experience. Attending Santa Monica High and Duke didn’t teach him anything remotely politically conservative, but he realized what reality is by living and acting.
This is the best type of conservatism.
why had I never heard of Sam Hyde?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-hyde-speaks-meet-man-behind-adult-swims-canceled-alt-right-comedy-show-954487
https://twitter.com/LanaLokteff/status/808774208843055104
"False song of globalism", "The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer", "No dream is too big.
No challenge is too great." These are Millerisms.Replies: @Desiderius
This is the dawning of the age of the post-progressive.
And not a moment too soon.
Miller was the opening act for Trump at rallies for months, starting around the time Michelle Fields nearly died from Corey contact (March or so). But I suspect Sessions may have lent him to Trump very early on, for some crash lessons!
The tech giants will despise him. They will try to undermine him with Trump. Bannon can help prevent this.
But they'll hate America First -- the very idea will make their beta weanies shrivel. They will say something along the lines of , "Well if we don't get to keep our H1Bs, we'll have to take our high tech magic overseas. Because national security!"
They will be big trouble.
Miller was Trump's opening act since about March - after Michelle Fields nearly lost her arm in brusque contact touch practice with Corey.
The billionaire tech nerds visit Trump Tower tommorrow. They will despise the very idea of "America First". The lack of sophisticated chic will shrivel their beta weanies.
They will play games and try to undermine Miller with Trump. The Tech titans may say "We MUST keep our H1Bs or we will have no choice but to employ our entire organizational chart overseas. Because National Security."
To them, Miller will be the Russian Jew curiosity.
That Fly Like an Eagle clip opens with God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Didn’t expect to hear that.
Sounds like inspired by Beatles Revolution and may have inspired Who's Behind Blue Eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg6xaFZStEI
Tillerson is uber PC liberal. Perry is a NWO stooge.
But there is some good news tonight as Boehner’s protege neocon McMorris-Rogers (or whatever her name is) has been pushed out of Sec Interior by Zinke the Navy Seal from Montana.
Bottom line is this entire administration needs Trump to stay alive and be micromanaging the secretaries or it might as well be Jeb as potus…
Hey Sailer are you really going to kick your homie to the curb for the likes of authenticjizzman and whoredidentity ? I mean I don’t as a rule pick a fight with anybody but you right ? And you know what ? Their sins are even greater , their taste in music is sh*t and nobody can spam your site with better tunes than the Donut .
Show me some love .
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4029134/Florida-man-faked-pro-Trump-hate-crime-set-ex-s-car-fire-staged-kidnapping-ransom-note-covered-blood-said-taken-member-KKK.html
It's as entertaining as it sounds.Replies: @neprof, @Lot, @Lot
An unmarried white woman with 5 children with two different black men. I tend to see the white grandparents doing the child care more than the actual parents.
In the entertainment media this course of conduct is glamorous. IRL it means shunning and, in this case, your car set on fire and your kids visiting daddy in state prison.
Hopefully Miller can keep a check on Pudzer.Replies: @epebble
But I can’t think of any policy successes (good or bad) that can be traced to any of them. For example, compare the enormous influence of Vice President Dick Cheney on Bush administration ( Iraq war) or that of Condoleezza Rice on the PEPFAR program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President’s_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief
https://data.pepfar.net/
Stephanopolus – No effect AFAIK in helping pass Hillary’s healthcare plan; nor in preventing the Balkan war.
Rove – No impact on Afghan/Iraq wars, Katrina, economic collapse of 2008 AFAIK
Emmanuel et al. – No impact on signature achievement of Obamacare – all Nancy Pelosi’s work.
I wonder how the people who organized the Duke Lacross Pogrom are feeling about their decision now that a man they radicalized is HR Director in the White House.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4029134/Florida-man-faked-pro-Trump-hate-crime-set-ex-s-car-fire-staged-kidnapping-ransom-note-covered-blood-said-taken-member-KKK.html
It's as entertaining as it sounds.Replies: @neprof, @Lot, @Lot
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Buck v. Bell (1927)
Good news. Mr Miller has his hands full. Great that he is sharp: Strategizing to wrong foot McCain, Graham, Ryan, Rubio, LibMedia, & the Dems will be a thing to marvel at. He is going to need our help often.
I've taken note of this phenomenon before - commenters who seem to be American, based on their spelling and grammar, but who consistently fail to adhere to certain American conventions. Either they're foreigners, in which case their lapses are understandable (but still regrettable), or they're Americans who, for whatever reason, are unwilling and/or unable to do things the American way.
I'm not wild about people who come to this country and fly a foreign flag. They have the right to do it, and I have the right to find it inappropriate. I feel the same way about people who come over here and, for whatever reason, willfully violate our customs. There's no law that says that all Americans, native-born and/or naturalized, must always adhere to all American conventions, but I feel a certain hostility toward those who pick and choose the conventions they choose to follow. This feeling is irrational - no one follows every single rule, and the rules themselves are always shifting and open to interpretation - but it runs deep.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @CrunchybutRealistCon, @IBC
Miller discussed his (mother’s) roots in Johnstown, PA at the start of a recent warm-up speech for Trump :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7Fqmj4JjQ
Apparently his summers in Pennsylvania let him observe how de-industrialization plays out away from the elite bubbles.
This is good news. Stephen Miller is exactly the kind of person who should be in charge of policy in the Trump White House.
Is this song ‘right’ or ‘left’?
Sounds like inspired by Beatles Revolution and may have inspired Who’s Behind Blue Eyes.
Has any updated study been done about how white people who look white or identify as white are among millenials and generation z? Because American blacks for instance are about 1/4 white.
Miller might (or might not) have been the one to put the following words into a Trump speech in Las Vegas, reported here by a commenter:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/its-november-and-trump-is-very-much-in-the-race/#comment-1632133
If I had to guess, Miller, being an ideologue, would be more likely to actively despise and oppose neocons and work against them while in the White House, while pragmatist Trump is merely unsupportive of some of their policies. So it would be interesting to know who wrote that speech, or if Trump was improvising. He did start using the teleprompter late in the campaign.
Will Miller be okay when Rex Tillerson and Rick Perry visit the White House?
Getting an Order of Friendship award from Putin is not normally a positive qualification for US government office.
However, it turns out to be a very effective rebuke to the anti-Russia brigades. The unremitting hostility to Russia of most of the GOPe is and was a disaster of a foreign policy.
The War Party has to have an enemy to make its war profits. Saddam, Assad, Fidel, Bosnian Serbs.
Trump is the true peace candidate rejecting the bipartisan belligerence toward Russia of Obama, the Clintons, McCain and Romney. In particular, meddling with internal politics of places Russia cares about but have little connection to the United States, like Syria, Georgia, and Ukraine.
And not a moment too soon.Replies: @Marat, @Marat
Indeed!
Miller was the opening act for Trump at rallies for months, starting around the time Michelle Fields nearly died from Corey contact (March or so). But I suspect Sessions may have lent him to Trump very early on, for some crash lessons!
The tech giants will despise him. They will try to undermine him with Trump. Bannon can help prevent this.
But they’ll hate America First — the very idea will make their beta weanies shrivel. They will say something along the lines of , “Well if we don’t get to keep our H1Bs, we’ll have to take our high tech magic overseas. Because national security!”
They will be big trouble.
OT, but Keith Olbermann is totally unhinged.
It gets a little tendentious, but is worth slogging through the long middle to the very end, where he goes totally off the hook.
I dunno, maybe he’s picked up one of those cat-borne leptoviruses….
And, honestly, unhinged right-wingers are much more entertaining and interesting compared to the emerging left wing analogue.
They will have plenty of time to practice up during the Pax Trumpannica.
Enjoy, the dude is a totally wreck, I always reviled him, suspect substance abuse here…
I am warming even more to Tillerson. I already liked his background and accomplishments.
Getting an Order of Friendship award from Putin is not normally a positive qualification for US government office.
However, it turns out to be a very effective rebuke to the anti-Russia brigades. The unremitting hostility to Russia of most of the GOPe is and was a disaster of a foreign policy.
The War Party has to have an enemy to make its war profits. Saddam, Assad, Fidel, Bosnian Serbs.
Trump is the true peace candidate rejecting the bipartisan belligerence toward Russia of Obama, the Clintons, McCain and Romney. In particular, meddling with internal politics of places Russia cares about but have little connection to the United States, like Syria, Georgia, and Ukraine.
Will Richard Spencer try to contaminate Stephen Miller?
And not a moment too soon.Replies: @Marat, @Marat
Indeed!
Miller was Trump’s opening act since about March – after Michelle Fields nearly lost her arm in brusque contact touch practice with Corey.
The billionaire tech nerds visit Trump Tower tommorrow. They will despise the very idea of “America First”. The lack of sophisticated chic will shrivel their beta weanies.
They will play games and try to undermine Miller with Trump. The Tech titans may say “We MUST keep our H1Bs or we will have no choice but to employ our entire organizational chart overseas. Because National Security.”
To them, Miller will be the Russian Jew curiosity.
But there is some good news tonight as Boehner's protege neocon McMorris-Rogers (or whatever her name is) has been pushed out of Sec Interior by Zinke the Navy Seal from Montana.
Bottom line is this entire administration needs Trump to stay alive and be micromanaging the secretaries or it might as well be Jeb as potus...Replies: @Lot
So long as they do so in the service of the cause and not for their own ends, we will be ok. That requires a strong leader whom they will bend to.
Oh look at that, Mr. Trump is a strong leader.
I feel safe.Replies: @eah, @PV van der Byl
renegade Jews
There aren’t enough of them — and the ‘non-renegade Jews’ are noxious and influential.
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversX4/status/808754229590499328
They were contemporaneous at Duke, but Spencer has said they weren’t really in each other’s orbit.
In a recent interview, Spencer says that he once shook Bannon's hand. Why even go there? Why even give that to a hostile press? The media didn't ask him if he ever shook the guy's hand. They were asking whether he knew him, had a connection to him.Replies: @Desiderius
I would think then that the appropriate statement for Spencer to give (if anyone asks) is, “We didn’t know each other.” Full stop. Or better, “We never met.” Full stop. That in fact is Miller’s view.
In a recent interview, Spencer says that he once shook Bannon’s hand. Why even go there? Why even give that to a hostile press? The media didn’t ask him if he ever shook the guy’s hand. They were asking whether he knew him, had a connection to him.
Is that who you want to be?
Wow, that is who Stephen Miller is? I adored his warmup speeches at Trump rallies, he was always the best of the lot.
Trump’s M.O. during his Thank You tour has been a mix — mostly from the teleprompter, with ad libbed asides and interjections. It works pretty well, particularly since he’s more relaxed now. In his Wisconsin speech, he talked about how Ivanka thought he was going to lose when she saw the leaked exit poll data early, and how he thought he might lose too (Melania was confident he’d win though).
He also talked about how he would have been okay with that, having known he’d done all he could as far as campaigning.
That "false song of globalism" was the best and most important line of the campaign. But then Trump is capable of incredibly funny and disarming stuff on his feet - I will never forget the "somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds" line in the first debate.
Let's hope these two stick together for 8 years. A fantastic 1-2 punch.
He sort of has contaminated him already.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist
Emphasis mine.
I think it’s only a matter of time before the media goes after Miller for his association with Spencer and (LOL) “white nationalist Peter Brimelow”
In all fairness to Miller, Spencer did not hold the same views that he did back in 2007. He was very much a paleoconservative at that point. Miller and Bannon are both civic nationalists (or perhaps citizenists). Time for Spencer to keep quiet for once and work on his website.
What a clown. I'm sure he'll enjoy being the Millennial David Duke for the next 8 years.
Miller is such an interesting guy. A Millennial SoCal Jewish guy raised in SoCal who became a teen conservative prodigy - essentially Ben Shapiro's brother from another mother. But Shapiro went to UCLA and Harvard and never left his coastal elite bubble, while Miller went to Duke and then chose exile with the least cool/coastal politicians in the country in Bachmann and Sessions.
And now Shapiro has stagnated in the swamp of conservative media mediocrity while Miller is the pen of the President.
I opined a couple of weeks ago that Mr. Miller should be used in a position where he can shape the emerging discourse of MAGA and coach others to adopt it as well. We’re in need of a major shift in how ALL policy issues and American interests are discussed.
I’m still fuzzy on exactly what “being in charge of all White House policy staffers” means.
Great link. Miller was precociously ‘woke’ from the start. Compare and contrast his high school eloquence with Michelle O’s Princeton senior thesis.
My guess is it’s probably a continuation of what he did during the campaign: formulating policy papers and writing speeches.
I'd call it "Welcome to the humiliating world of professional writing, Lisa!"
Couldn't find that clip. So here's the Land of Chocolate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOziWm_MJ9k
Russians were actually working for Hillary.
Russians helped Detroit stuff more votes for Hillary.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts/95363314/Replies: @Jack D
Apparently they use OCR scanners and they were upping the Hillary total by running ballots thru the scanner more than once. How hard would it be to give each ballot a unique serial # so that the software would reject it if it had already been counted?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/business/energy-environment/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-exxon-mobil.htmlReplies: @Desiderius
Remember when Trump spanked the other media (especially CNN) but praised the NYT?
Bearing fruit.
“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”
– Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I
In a recent interview, Spencer says that he once shook Bannon's hand. Why even go there? Why even give that to a hostile press? The media didn't ask him if he ever shook the guy's hand. They were asking whether he knew him, had a connection to him.Replies: @Desiderius
So people like you will keep talking about him.
Is that who you want to be?
Richard Spencer is an idiot. If you want Trump to succeed, why even give the press ammunition? Richard Spencer just likes the attention given by the press. I think he will plateau at some point or Trump may even explicitly denounce him.
In all fairness to Miller, Spencer did not hold the same views that he did back in 2007. He was very much a paleoconservative at that point. Miller and Bannon are both civic nationalists (or perhaps citizenists). Time for Spencer to keep quiet for once and work on his website.
Obviously, a very ballsy guy. I’d bet he had damned few–if any–like-minded classmates at Santa Monica High. And that letter could not have made him any friends among the teachers or administrators, either.
Who gave him the bailout?
Matt Drudge & Stephen Miller, two sincere America firsters, helped pave his road to the White House. So maybe some will accept ((they)) aren’t all whipped up into a genocidal rage against white Christians.
strategy is not the same thing as policy imo
Energy is exactly the right place to put Perry. He will have nothing to do with immigration. The shale oil and gas boom in Texas has provided one of the few bright employment spots over the last eight years.
http://gotnews.com/exposed-anti-trump-faithless-elector-thechrissuprun-paid-ashley-madison-bankrupt-married-w-3-kids/Replies: @slumber_j
Good stuff. I’m getting a distinct Glenn Beck vibe from that headshot of his, by the way.
Chief of Staff is the key position because he controls access to the President–that’s why Chiefs of Staff and First Ladies inevitably have some degree of conflict. If your access is limited, so is your influence. Cabinet positions generally aren’t as influential with the President because they have agencies that they must supervise. But policy advisor could be crucial if your office can scotch proposed agency policies that aren’t consistent with those of the President. There is a weird logic as to who gets to review what–those bureaucratic titles and organizational boxes do have real world consequences.
So long as they do so in the service of the cause and not for their own ends, we will be ok. That requires a strong leader whom they will bend to.
Oh look at that, Mr. Trump is a strong leader.
I feel safe.Replies: @eah, @PV van der Byl
I’m with you on the substance of this issue.
But, we need to come up with a better adjective than “renegade.”
The established media used the whole “Renegade Jew” meme to bash Steve Bannon because the term once appeared in a Breitbart headline.
In that case, though, it was David Horowitz taking apart Bill Kristol over the latter’s Never Trumpism. He wasn’t complimenting Kristol.
And I think it’s a safe bet that iSteve readers would side with Horowitz, not Kristol, in that dispute.
I thought that was Steve Bannon's job?Replies: @John Gruskos, @Chrisnonymous
Miller is senior policy advisor, Bannon is chief strategist, Preibus is chief of staff.
Miller answers the question “What do we want to accomplish?”
Bannon answers the question “How?”
Preibus mobilizes the coopted establishment to implement Bannon’s strategy.
Correct me if I’m wrong here… This Stephen Miller is NOT on Twitter (unfortunately) and the Stephen Miller who IS on Twitter (@RedSteeze) is more of a GOP establishment type. Correct?
If only these Steves were as considerate as our host in trying to avoid mistaken identity. That’s what middle initials are for…
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-2016-policy-adviser-jeff-sessions-213992
Truly, the liberal tears are nectar and ambrosia…
Santa Monica, folks:
Schoenberg scion deploys genealogy and Jewish Guilt in desperate attempt to turn Miller away from Immigration Patriotism
http://www.jewishjournal.com/rob_eshman/article/stephen_miller_meet_your_immigrant_great_grandfather
Emphasis is now mine.
So if Spencer doesn’t want to harm Trump, why is he talking about the alleged “connection” with Mother Jones? Or does he now want to harm Trump?
I assume the issue had to do with how the offices are structured. For example, maybe the president sees person A once a day but person B 5 times a day. Or maybe person C is available to the president at any time, but person D gets to interpret the president’s intentions and pass them on to underlings.
I thought that was Steve Bannon's job?Replies: @John Gruskos, @Chrisnonymous
What is Bannon now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/world/un-wonder-woman-campaign.html?_r=0Replies: @Chrisnonymous
It is serious.
I agree completely, calling into question the UN’s notion of gender equity…
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-hyde-speaks-meet-man-behind-adult-swims-canceled-alt-right-comedy-show-954487Replies: @Joe Sweet
Possibly because you have not explored ” the world’s most goal-oriented Republican website”
This Miller guy will be POTUS one day, mark my words.
Some states do have serial numbers on the ballot. For example, Texas. I was unable to find a list of serial number policies by state though.
What intrigued me in that article was the breakdown of precincts:
I wish they gave more information on the over 5 ballots out of balance groups. If we are talking fewer than 10 ballots out of balance per precinct that is probably not relevant to the outcome (but may be relevant as a sign of procedural problems). On the other hand, this may be like Philadelphia in 2012 where over 100% turnout was a clear indicator of fraud, but 90-100% turnout is probably a pretty good clue as well.
Why do you omit the period from your abbreviation of Mister? You seem to follow American spelling rules, but you violate some (but not all) American punctuation rules. Are you status-signaling?
I’ve taken note of this phenomenon before – commenters who seem to be American, based on their spelling and grammar, but who consistently fail to adhere to certain American conventions. Either they’re foreigners, in which case their lapses are understandable (but still regrettable), or they’re Americans who, for whatever reason, are unwilling and/or unable to do things the American way.
I’m not wild about people who come to this country and fly a foreign flag. They have the right to do it, and I have the right to find it inappropriate. I feel the same way about people who come over here and, for whatever reason, willfully violate our customs. There’s no law that says that all Americans, native-born and/or naturalized, must always adhere to all American conventions, but I feel a certain hostility toward those who pick and choose the conventions they choose to follow. This feeling is irrational – no one follows every single rule, and the rules themselves are always shifting and open to interpretation – but it runs deep.
“I’m kind of glad no one’s talked about this because I don’t want to harm Trump,” Spencer says to Mother Jones.
What a clown. I’m sure he’ll enjoy being the Millennial David Duke for the next 8 years.
Miller is such an interesting guy. A Millennial SoCal Jewish guy raised in SoCal who became a teen conservative prodigy – essentially Ben Shapiro’s brother from another mother. But Shapiro went to UCLA and Harvard and never left his coastal elite bubble, while Miller went to Duke and then chose exile with the least cool/coastal politicians in the country in Bachmann and Sessions.
And now Shapiro has stagnated in the swamp of conservative media mediocrity while Miller is the pen of the President.
Spencer sure shows an awareness that his daily MSM attention-whoring is bad for Trump. Note that he said that for a Oct 27 piece, thus before the election.
So all Spencer, who dropped out, can point to for his supposed “knew him very well” was working together on a single event. I wonder how hard Spencer actually worked though, he dropped out of Duke and was fired by the American Conservative.
He can be the Moriarty of hate-hoaxes.
He also talked about how he would have been okay with that, having known he'd done all he could as far as campaigning.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @Cagey Beast
Miller’s speeches make for great tweet quotes from Trump’s speeches, even if they deprive us of Trump improv.
That “false song of globalism” was the best and most important line of the campaign. But then Trump is capable of incredibly funny and disarming stuff on his feet – I will never forget the “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds” line in the first debate.
Let’s hope these two stick together for 8 years. A fantastic 1-2 punch.
Looking forward to Spencer’s “If I Did It” alternate history tell-all about his role in the Duke Lacrosse rape.
He can be the Moriarty of hate-hoaxes.
He also talked about how he would have been okay with that, having known he'd done all he could as far as campaigning.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @Cagey Beast
Yeah I found that whole part of the speech very interesting and funny. It starts around 3hrs, 2mins in the Right Side Broadcasting video entitled: “LIVE Stream: President-Elect Donald Trump Rally in West Allis, WI 12/13/16”
This is where being Jewish and being of the right pays off. Any attempt to tar Miller with NPI is easy to shrug off by saying “I’m Jewish. I don’t associate with white nationalists.” Game over. Not that I hope it comes to that, but that’s the ace he holds.
Good speech. The country is fortunate to have him.
I've taken note of this phenomenon before - commenters who seem to be American, based on their spelling and grammar, but who consistently fail to adhere to certain American conventions. Either they're foreigners, in which case their lapses are understandable (but still regrettable), or they're Americans who, for whatever reason, are unwilling and/or unable to do things the American way.
I'm not wild about people who come to this country and fly a foreign flag. They have the right to do it, and I have the right to find it inappropriate. I feel the same way about people who come over here and, for whatever reason, willfully violate our customs. There's no law that says that all Americans, native-born and/or naturalized, must always adhere to all American conventions, but I feel a certain hostility toward those who pick and choose the conventions they choose to follow. This feeling is irrational - no one follows every single rule, and the rules themselves are always shifting and open to interpretation - but it runs deep.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @CrunchybutRealistCon, @IBC
A grammar nationalist, not a grammar nazi, I see.
If only these Steves were as considerate as our host in trying to avoid mistaken identity. That's what middle initials are for...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-2016-policy-adviser-jeff-sessions-213992
Truly, the liberal tears are nectar and ambrosia...Replies: @Steve Sailer
My impression is that that the two right of center Stephen Millers emerged about the same time, so it’s hard to blame either for not noticing the other until it was too late to adopt the use of a middle initial.
Biggest jerk in that regard is black British movie director Steven Rodney “Steve” McQueen of “12 Years a Slave.” Dude … in movie history there should only be one “Steve McQueen.”
I presume it’s going to be a four year long battle royale among staffers for Trump’s ear.
A pretty good job if you’re 30.
So famous, so easily, so soon, is not the wisest thing to be.
All the young you've made it would agree!
Although I fervently hope that it is not the case with Mr. Miller, there is such a thing as peaking too soon. He may, of course, launch his own political career, but that's a different thing from writing speeches or even reviewing policy. I wish him luck however--he seems to be overflowing with talent.
Not hard at all, but the Dems would attack any attempt at reducing voting fraud as “voter suppression”.
Many of us are eager to accept that.
I fully endorse the UN wasting large amounts of time castigating cartoons. It’s less dangerous than whatever else they’ll get into.
It’s not impossible Richard Spencer is an FBI informant. I’d give it 50-50.
Miller knows all the local shrieking civic group arguments, boohoo victim ploys, and ancestor/historic guilt-bashing maneuvers. He could write a book on their novel applications, except he’s just a little too busy — with a country to save and all!
I've taken note of this phenomenon before - commenters who seem to be American, based on their spelling and grammar, but who consistently fail to adhere to certain American conventions. Either they're foreigners, in which case their lapses are understandable (but still regrettable), or they're Americans who, for whatever reason, are unwilling and/or unable to do things the American way.
I'm not wild about people who come to this country and fly a foreign flag. They have the right to do it, and I have the right to find it inappropriate. I feel the same way about people who come over here and, for whatever reason, willfully violate our customs. There's no law that says that all Americans, native-born and/or naturalized, must always adhere to all American conventions, but I feel a certain hostility toward those who pick and choose the conventions they choose to follow. This feeling is irrational - no one follows every single rule, and the rules themselves are always shifting and open to interpretation - but it runs deep.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @CrunchybutRealistCon, @IBC
Well spotted. You have an eye for the finer points. In an age of Tweets, Texts & ADHD, we must all guard the iSteve comments section against the forces of entropy. A missing punctuation could be the tip of the iceberg.
He’d better start doing some squats then.
There aren't enough of them -- and the 'non-renegade Jews' are noxious and influential.
https://twitter.com/JohnRiversX4/status/808754229590499328Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
How many do we need?
The question is whether Trump will roll over like a cucked Republican and fire Miller. Or will Trump tell the media to pound sand. I expect the latter.
There is only and exactly one Steve McQueen. The brit is an impostor.
Miller knows all the local shrieking civic group arguments, boohoo victim ploys, and ancestor/historic guilt-bashing maneuvers. He could write a book on their novel applications, except he's just a little too busy -- with a country to save and all!Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
Oh come on, we all know he is a false flag operator planted by the CIA.
The Department of Energy also manages the nuclear weapons complex. There are plans to significantly upgrade the nuclear capability of the U.S. military, but I don’t know how much it will go into the actual nuclear explosives (the DOE side) as opposed to the delivery systems (the DOD side). This will be expensive.
From Evita (“High Flying Adored,” sung by Che about Evita Person):
So famous, so easily, so soon, is not the wisest thing to be.
All the young you’ve made it would agree!
Although I fervently hope that it is not the case with Mr. Miller, there is such a thing as peaking too soon. He may, of course, launch his own political career, but that’s a different thing from writing speeches or even reviewing policy. I wish him luck however–he seems to be overflowing with talent.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
What bailout? Wiki says he left Goldman Sachs in 2002. He bought up some troubled banks in 2009 and 2010 and turned them around. If his banks did get a bailout it was likely a condition for his buying them in the first place.
Can you elaborate a little? Evan McMullen seems to be in that slot right now.
We’re bound to get a Jewish president eventually. Let’s hope it’s this one.
Thanks for the laugh, somewhat subtly delivered. As an American who’s spent a lot of time in the UK, I sometimes lapse likewise and I’d be horrified to learn I was enabling, likewise.
Mother Jones is back for Round 2:
https://twitter.com/Rongwrong_/status/809404941785845760
I didn’t know that, did you know that?
Spencer just can’t stop talking to Mother Jones:
Ok, he’s a short balding Jewish guy, but not that bad looking for a Jew and quite virile (no homo). What’s his ceiling in the future, vice-president?
That said, squats can work miracles.
Merlin arguably had more power than Arthur, so it depends on what you mean by ceiling.
That said, squats can work miracles.
I concur but wouldn’t call that “in charge of” other staffers.
I’d call it “Welcome to the humiliating world of professional writing, Lisa!”
Couldn’t find that clip. So here’s the Land of Chocolate:
Not everyone would consider that a step up in power.
🙂
I've taken note of this phenomenon before - commenters who seem to be American, based on their spelling and grammar, but who consistently fail to adhere to certain American conventions. Either they're foreigners, in which case their lapses are understandable (but still regrettable), or they're Americans who, for whatever reason, are unwilling and/or unable to do things the American way.
I'm not wild about people who come to this country and fly a foreign flag. They have the right to do it, and I have the right to find it inappropriate. I feel the same way about people who come over here and, for whatever reason, willfully violate our customs. There's no law that says that all Americans, native-born and/or naturalized, must always adhere to all American conventions, but I feel a certain hostility toward those who pick and choose the conventions they choose to follow. This feeling is irrational - no one follows every single rule, and the rules themselves are always shifting and open to interpretation - but it runs deep.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon, @CrunchybutRealistCon, @IBC
I’m American and live in the US. I see “grey” instead of “gray” all the time. I think most people don’t notice a difference but “grey” is technically wrong by American standards. I’ve also heard “lever” pronounced “leaver” by someone from Mississippi with a rural-sounding accent. I had thought “leaver” was strictly British. Increasingly, I’m hearing names like New Hampshire pronounced “Hampsheyer” instead of “Hampshear.” Does “Hampsheyer” sound more American to you? Maybe people are just eating more sausages these days. In Britain, you can find “American” spellings in many older documents (-er instead of -re) and also the “American” date format of month, day, year (See the crypt in St. Paul’s). In 19th century American documents, you can also find examples of “British” spellings. And the Times of London and Nature, both tend to use the “American” style -ize rather than the more contemporary British -ise. I actually like the British practice of leaving punctuation marks that are not part of a quotation, outside the marks, but I don’t favo(u)r their use of single marks instead of double. Outside of English, I’m not crazy about the use of commas instead of decimal points as practiced in some countries like Germany and Sweden. But I don’t care that much.
You sound like you might have a gudgeon pin working loose, but at least you’re honest about your pet prejudices. Stay away from anything by H. P. Lovecraft.
When Howard Stringer took over CBS in the late '80s, one of his underlings had this quote printed, framed, and placed on Stringer's office wall.
Stringer, a Welshman, was a definite anomaly at the time. Today foreigners run the media without any controversy whatsoever.
(Stringer did not run the whole show, of course. He reported to Larry Tisch.)
One prerequisite for Stringer's becoming news-division president (a stepping stone to the top network job) was that he become an American citizen. Then-president Ed Joyce gave Stringer the ultimatum while he was still being groomed.
(Joyce was fired for pissing off everyone's favorite all-American anchor, Dan Rather. He unwisely referred to Dan's triple-parentheses agent, who had a penchant for driving up salaries for the on-air "talent," as a "flesh-peddler." Hysterical accusations of anti-Semitism followed.)
When David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures around the same time, he quickly managed to alienate most of Hollywood. One criticism was that he favored British directors over American ones. He was seen as a curiosity at best.
Two books were written about Puttnam's short tenure.
Now, I shed few tears for those of a certain ethnicity who object to Anglo usurpers in their midst. (Puttnam is Jewish himself.) But it is telling that, at one time, the hiring of foreigners was viewed as unusual, and not always welcomed.
Even vile Hollywood once had a strong nationalist hiring preference. Now, much of that preference was literally tribal, but the phenomenon whereby entire casts of American characters are played entirely by foreign actors was rare until recently.
What does this have to do with punctuation? It is a question of standards. All standards are at least somewhat arbitrary. The standards we choose to follow indicate where our true loyalty lies. I strive to follow American standards, and I urge my countrymen to do the same.
For many years, many prominent newspapers in this country attempted to push through new Americanized spellings such as employe and cigaret. (I'm not kidding - some papers were doing this as late as the '80s.) This idea strikes me as silly, but at least it was an effort to break through some of the stodgy, arbitrary conventions that have made English spelling the mess that it is today.
The more we allow our American tongue to melt into a muddled mid-Atlantic hodgepodge, the more we allow our American identity to become subsumed into a nebulous entity called the Anglosphere.
Brits voted to divorce themselves from a nebulous entity called the European Union. But the move toward an Anglospheric Union is well under way, at the cultural and even interpersonal level. (My local mass-transit system has switched to an Indian-sounding computer-generated female voice for PA announcements. No one seems to care.) Whether Trump will bring about an Anexit, or whether America will be further annexed into the u-adding/er-switching realm, remains to be seen.Replies: @IBC
Lacking Hollywood good looks and height, a requisite for the highest office in America, maybe that’s his “glass-ceiling”, the vice-presidency.
105% of what is required is between the ears, but a good physique can help with that.Replies: @BB753
So does Tom Cruise.
105% of what is required is between the ears, but a good physique can help with that.
105% of what is required is between the ears, but a good physique can help with that.Replies: @BB753
When was the last time the POTUS was an average-looking man? I was going to say Carter, but Obama isn’t that good – looking, now that I think of it, just tall. Ok, let me put it this way: when was the last time a fat and/or ugly man took the highest office in America? Taft?
Ugly - Nixon.
If Miller gets in shape he won't be considered ugly. He'll need to keep the hair tightly trimmed.Replies: @BB753
Fat is obviously a non-starter.
Ugly – Nixon.
If Miller gets in shape he won’t be considered ugly. He’ll need to keep the hair tightly trimmed.
Obama is plausibly athletic, plus passing for black adds a lot of assumed dominance even if the reality didn’t back it up. Miller will have to make sure his body language is suitably dominant.
Ugly - Nixon.
If Miller gets in shape he won't be considered ugly. He'll need to keep the hair tightly trimmed.Replies: @BB753
Nixon was still quite handsome when he was running against Kennedy. A few years after that, age (and booze) took its toll.
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/presidential-debates-are-rarely-game-changers-they-are-good-us#stream/0Replies: @BB753
On the contrary, Obama is totally unathletic: clumsy on his feet and he throws like a girl. He’s just a skinny tall dude with some charm.
People assume short, white, bald men aren't, so Miller would need to demonstrate his dominance one way or another. Squats are a good start.Replies: @BB753
Not so much:
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/presidential-debates-are-rarely-game-changers-they-are-good-us#stream/0
http://davidostewart.com/2015/07/enduring-lure-richard-nixon/
I’ve never seen him stumble or throw, and his suits have a good drape. All that is beside the point, since the blackness covers all the bases we’re talking about re: Miller. People assume black men are plenty dominant – Obama had to reassure people about the other stuff.
People assume short, white, bald men aren’t, so Miller would need to demonstrate his dominance one way or another. Squats are a good start.
The media wants us to find Blacks irresistible, and portrays them invariably as wise, noble and bright. Do you seriously know anybody with half a brain who entertains such silly notions, contradicted by millenia of factual experience?
Edward R. Murrow once said something like, “Can you imagine an Englishman running one of the U.S. television networks? It’d be unthinkable!”
When Howard Stringer took over CBS in the late ’80s, one of his underlings had this quote printed, framed, and placed on Stringer’s office wall.
Stringer, a Welshman, was a definite anomaly at the time. Today foreigners run the media without any controversy whatsoever.
(Stringer did not run the whole show, of course. He reported to Larry Tisch.)
One prerequisite for Stringer’s becoming news-division president (a stepping stone to the top network job) was that he become an American citizen. Then-president Ed Joyce gave Stringer the ultimatum while he was still being groomed.
(Joyce was fired for pissing off everyone’s favorite all-American anchor, Dan Rather. He unwisely referred to Dan’s triple-parentheses agent, who had a penchant for driving up salaries for the on-air “talent,” as a “flesh-peddler.” Hysterical accusations of anti-Semitism followed.)
When David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures around the same time, he quickly managed to alienate most of Hollywood. One criticism was that he favored British directors over American ones. He was seen as a curiosity at best.
Two books were written about Puttnam’s short tenure.
Now, I shed few tears for those of a certain ethnicity who object to Anglo usurpers in their midst. (Puttnam is Jewish himself.) But it is telling that, at one time, the hiring of foreigners was viewed as unusual, and not always welcomed.
Even vile Hollywood once had a strong nationalist hiring preference. Now, much of that preference was literally tribal, but the phenomenon whereby entire casts of American characters are played entirely by foreign actors was rare until recently.
What does this have to do with punctuation? It is a question of standards. All standards are at least somewhat arbitrary. The standards we choose to follow indicate where our true loyalty lies. I strive to follow American standards, and I urge my countrymen to do the same.
For many years, many prominent newspapers in this country attempted to push through new Americanized spellings such as employe and cigaret. (I’m not kidding – some papers were doing this as late as the ’80s.) This idea strikes me as silly, but at least it was an effort to break through some of the stodgy, arbitrary conventions that have made English spelling the mess that it is today.
The more we allow our American tongue to melt into a muddled mid-Atlantic hodgepodge, the more we allow our American identity to become subsumed into a nebulous entity called the Anglosphere.
Brits voted to divorce themselves from a nebulous entity called the European Union. But the move toward an Anglospheric Union is well under way, at the cultural and even interpersonal level. (My local mass-transit system has switched to an Indian-sounding computer-generated female voice for PA announcements. No one seems to care.) Whether Trump will bring about an Anexit, or whether America will be further annexed into the u-adding/er-switching realm, remains to be seen.
“The White House”! When are progressive Americans going to protest this racist appellation?
And what should the building be properly called? Perhaps The Rainbow Center? Or Hillary House, to honor a great American who should rightly have become the first womin President?
People assume short, white, bald men aren't, so Miller would need to demonstrate his dominance one way or another. Squats are a good start.Replies: @BB753
“People assume black men are plenty dominant – Obama had to reassure people about the other stuff.
People assume short, white, bald men aren’t, so Miller would need to demonstrate his dominance one way or another.”
That’s buying into the narrative. Don’t assume people view black men as charismatic and short white bald men as submissive. Watch old movies. In the not so distant past, Blacks were seen as submissive and slow-witted, while short white bald men in tailored suits ran society and were considered dominant and bright.
The media wants us to find Blacks irresistible, and portrays them invariably as wise, noble and bright. Do you seriously know anybody with half a brain who entertains such silly notions, contradicted by millenia of factual experience?
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/presidential-debates-are-rarely-game-changers-they-are-good-us#stream/0Replies: @BB753
I’m neither a woman nor gay so I’m not the best arbiter of masculine beauty, but scroll down this page or google “young Nixon” and you’ll have to agree he was quite fetching until his jawline started to swell.
http://davidostewart.com/2015/07/enduring-lure-richard-nixon/
When Howard Stringer took over CBS in the late '80s, one of his underlings had this quote printed, framed, and placed on Stringer's office wall.
Stringer, a Welshman, was a definite anomaly at the time. Today foreigners run the media without any controversy whatsoever.
(Stringer did not run the whole show, of course. He reported to Larry Tisch.)
One prerequisite for Stringer's becoming news-division president (a stepping stone to the top network job) was that he become an American citizen. Then-president Ed Joyce gave Stringer the ultimatum while he was still being groomed.
(Joyce was fired for pissing off everyone's favorite all-American anchor, Dan Rather. He unwisely referred to Dan's triple-parentheses agent, who had a penchant for driving up salaries for the on-air "talent," as a "flesh-peddler." Hysterical accusations of anti-Semitism followed.)
When David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures around the same time, he quickly managed to alienate most of Hollywood. One criticism was that he favored British directors over American ones. He was seen as a curiosity at best.
Two books were written about Puttnam's short tenure.
Now, I shed few tears for those of a certain ethnicity who object to Anglo usurpers in their midst. (Puttnam is Jewish himself.) But it is telling that, at one time, the hiring of foreigners was viewed as unusual, and not always welcomed.
Even vile Hollywood once had a strong nationalist hiring preference. Now, much of that preference was literally tribal, but the phenomenon whereby entire casts of American characters are played entirely by foreign actors was rare until recently.
What does this have to do with punctuation? It is a question of standards. All standards are at least somewhat arbitrary. The standards we choose to follow indicate where our true loyalty lies. I strive to follow American standards, and I urge my countrymen to do the same.
For many years, many prominent newspapers in this country attempted to push through new Americanized spellings such as employe and cigaret. (I'm not kidding - some papers were doing this as late as the '80s.) This idea strikes me as silly, but at least it was an effort to break through some of the stodgy, arbitrary conventions that have made English spelling the mess that it is today.
The more we allow our American tongue to melt into a muddled mid-Atlantic hodgepodge, the more we allow our American identity to become subsumed into a nebulous entity called the Anglosphere.
Brits voted to divorce themselves from a nebulous entity called the European Union. But the move toward an Anglospheric Union is well under way, at the cultural and even interpersonal level. (My local mass-transit system has switched to an Indian-sounding computer-generated female voice for PA announcements. No one seems to care.) Whether Trump will bring about an Anexit, or whether America will be further annexed into the u-adding/er-switching realm, remains to be seen.Replies: @IBC
A lot of Americans never sounded like Dan Rather, and today in Britain, most people don’t sound like Owen Bennet-Jones. Newscasting is partly acting, and this was especially true in the past when more people were actually tuning in to it.
And I for one, refuse to salute the Modern Language Association or any other semi-authoritarian cabal of language prescriptionists, whether they’re American or not. You are pushing me towards randomly adding “e”s at the end of words…
I think we could agree though that some Americans are too easily impressed by people with certain accents –namely posh English ones. You could classify it more broadly as the prestigious import brand effect “e.g. German-engineered = must be superior,” or more specifically in this case as the Economist effect: where the Economist’s anonymous writers are automatically accorded credibility points because they’re half-assumed to be old Etonians when they might just be pimply-faced but well-connected 20-year-olds. And who cares about Eton anyway? David Cameron? Captain Hook?
On the other hand, there are many, very high quality documentaries that are produced in Britain and then re-dubbed with American-accented voices presumably so that they’ll be more salable to people like you. For example, Oprah was selected to replace David Attenborough in the American version of the BBC’s “Planet Earth” even though he helped write the script. There’s also the whole B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ English villain phenomenon in American media. Even the male nemesis of the new rape-survivor-Marvel-super-hero has an English accent. Hollywood bad guys: another job Americans just won’t do anymore? Or just a convenient storytelling device?* And actually, there were numerous Britons involved in the early development of the American film industry itself. For example, two British-born people established the first film studio that was actually in Hollywood (though not LA).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Film_Company
*If somehow, Hollywood decides to make a movie or Netflix series about the 2016 presidential election: would they cast an identifiably English actor in the role of Trump’s would-be assassin? Maybe not…
I'd rather listen to static or dead air than Oprah. God, what were the producers thinking?
(Static can be soothing. Try it sometime. If you don't have an old radio, then look it up on YouTube.)
Oprah will be interviewing Michelle the Messianic Mulatto's Wife on prime-time TV soon, if she hasn't already done so. This will be her biggest interview since she interrogated everyone's favorite child-molesting vitiligo sufferer back in '93.
(I'm being sarcastic about Michael Jackson, as well.)
And what should the building be properly called? Perhaps The Rainbow Center? Or Hillary House, to honor a great American who should rightly have become the first womin President?Replies: @Ivy
I hope that Trump puts a blue light display on the White House as an honor to law enforcement and a rebuke to Obama who refused to.
I was being sarcastic about Dan Rather.
I’d rather listen to static or dead air than Oprah. God, what were the producers thinking?
(Static can be soothing. Try it sometime. If you don’t have an old radio, then look it up on YouTube.)
Oprah will be interviewing Michelle the Messianic Mulatto’s Wife on prime-time TV soon, if she hasn’t already done so. This will be her biggest interview since she interrogated everyone’s favorite child-molesting vitiligo sufferer back in ’93.
(I’m being sarcastic about Michael Jackson, as well.)