vdare--2020-11-21--Bailing On Tucker, Will China Eat Our Lunch?, And Defund The Universities, Etc.

00m48s Bailing on Tucker .
( It would n't have hurt . )
14m22s Forgive us our debts .
( @ @ @ @ @ colleges eat 'em . )
19m47s Will China eat our lunch ?
( Report on @ @ @ @ @ 24m27s ChiComs get pushy .
( Five Eyes , Quad , and BRICS . )
@ @ @ @ @ ( No , but they 're Ice People . )
40m24s Coup in Peru .
@ @ @ @ @ )

00m48s Bailing on Tucker. (It wouldn't have hurt.)
14m22s Forgive us our debts. (Better yet, make the colleges eat 'em.)
19m47s Will China eat our lunch? (Report on a Zoom call.)
24m27s ChiComs get pushy. (Five Eyes, Quad, and BRICS.)
33m03s Deplatforming Treehouse. (No, not mine.)
34m15s Biden's economic plan. (Hire race grifters.)
35m27s Are Asians white? (No, but they're Ice People.)
37m09s Destroying the Boy Scouts. (A lawyers' ramp.)
39m22s A handy device. (Lonely in Japan.)
40m24s Coup in Peru. (Not much news.)
40m37s Signoff. (With a British tenor.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your systemically genial host John Derbyshire. That was a snippet of Haydn's Derbyshire March No. 1, to give us a change from No.2, the one I usually play.
Lots to discuss this week, both home and abroad, so let's get straight to it.
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02—Bailing on Tucker. Tucker Carlson's in trouble with his viewers, I see. Twitter and comment threads are filling up with people saying, "You're dead to me, Tucker."
I was loth to take that very seriously—all sorts of cranks post on the internet—until I saw that Ann Corcoran has joined the chorus.
Ann is not a crank. She is in fact a person for whom I have the greatest respect. For several years now Ann has been exposing the refugee rackets on her websites Refugee Resettlement Watch and Frauds, Crooks and Criminals. The former of those two, Refugee Resettlement Watch, was actually deplatformed by the hosting service WordPress last year. It's now back online at a more secure location, along with Frauds, Crooks and Criminals.
And rackets is what these resettlement agencies are. Ann has amply documented this. So have others: Ann Coulter, for instance, and of course ourselves here at VDARE.com. These resettlement agencies, hiding behind reassuringly churchy and humanitarian names, shovel money from the public fisc into the bank accounts of their executives while imposing critters like Representative Ilhan Omar on us. Ann Corcoran has been tireless at documenting and exposing the shameful stinking business.
So I sat up and paid attention this morning reading Ann's latest post at Frauds, Crooks and Criminals. Headline: Tucker Carlson Curries Favor with the Leftwing Media Mob. Ann's opening sentence, quote:
I guess you can say I am now completely done with Fox News after Tucker Carlson went after Sidney Powell last night.
End quote.
Who is Sidney Powell and what's this all about?
Sidney Powell is a lawyer—and that's a female "Sidney," by the way—representing President Trump's campaign in the matter of getting dubious vote counts investigated and overturned. She was there alongside Rudy Giuliani at a 90-minute press conference yesterday, Thursday, helping Rudy make the case that those dubious vote counts were part of a nationwide conspiracy to deny President Trump re-election. Sidney Powell's particular area of interest is the hacking of software that registers and counts votes in key states.
Thursday night on Fox News, Tucker told his viewers that:
[Clip: We took Sidney Powell seriously. We'd no intention of fighting with her. We've always respected her work, we simply wanted to see the details. How could you not want to see them?
So we invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the entire week, actually, and listened quietly the whole time at rapt attention. That's a big story.
But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her.
When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either; nor did she provide any today at the press conference.
Powell did say that electronic voting is dangerous, and she's right—we're with her there; but she never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another—not one.]
Ann Corcoran took this to be wounded amour propre on Carlson's part. His tone was, she wrote, "snarky and aggressive." She wrote, quote:
It was almost like he was saying: "I am a big media star and you dared to turn me down!"
End quote.
Sidney Powell issued a statement of her own, edited quote:
Apparently Mr Carlson missed the news conference today … Evidence continues to pour in, but a five-minute television hit is not my focus now. Collecting evidence and preparing the case are my top priorities.
End quote.
So what does Radio Derb think about this little tiff?
First, a few more words about the principals. Not Sidney Powell, about whom I know nothing at all.
Rudy Giuliani, who was running the press conference, I do know pretty well—not personally, I mean as a public figure. I'd heard about him when I was working at a bond brokerage in the 1980s and Rudy was a U.S. Attorney prosecuting securities malfeasance—a bit too vigorously, in the opinion of many. Traders all over Wall Street were sticking pins in wax figures of Rudy Giuliani. In that context, I put him in a novel, though I changed his ethnicity to Irish. You can't be too careful with lawyers.
Then Rudy was Mayor of New York City for eight years, for the first seven of which I was commuting daily into the city he was mayor of. My opinion of him went through a 180-degree turn. He was a very good mayor. The thing I liked best about Rudy, that has ever since inclined me in his favor: In all the years of his mayoralty his staff at City Hall had standing instructions not to let Al Sharpton in through the door.
Sure, I know Rudy's an open-borders neocon with a talent for public-relations disasters; but hey, there's some good in everyone.
Of Tucker Carlson, I count myself a fan. I try to watch his show every night, and watched the offending show last night—the one, I mean, that caused Ann Corcoran to cross Tucker off her dance card.
Tucker presents as a milquetoast Civic Nationalist type: not Dissident Right, definitely not a race realist. I say "presents" because I privately wonder if he is more over on our side than he presents, and just has a very acute sense of how far he can go on Fox. That's just me, though, possibly projecting my own sympathies on a guy I like.
Whatever. The Civic Nationalism grates on me sometimes. I wish, for example, Tucker would do more coverage of immigration and refugee issues—perhaps invite Ann Corcoran on? And Tucker has no math or science, so his outlook is somewhat limited in that way. A liberal-arts major, he lives in a world of words, not a world of facts.
That's nit-picking, though. Where TV commentators are concerned, I'll take what I can get. How many people are there on the silver screen that go as far as Tucker does from orthodoxy? Count me a Tucker fan.
I've already expressed my esteem and admiration for Ann Corcoran; but I have to say, if it's a matter of taking sides here, I think Ann went off the rails with this post.
Her headline, again: "Tucker Carlson Curries Favor with the Leftwing Media Mob"? Where did he do that? She says he was "snarky and aggressive." I just reproduced Tucker saying what he said. It didn't sound either snarky or aggressive to me. Sidney Powell's saying, "Apparently Mr Carlson missed the news conference today"—now that you could put in a dictionary to illustrate the word "snark."
Based on what Tucker told us, then fortified by Sidney Powell's statement, I've come away with the strong impression that Ms Powell is a precious jerk. That is, of course, perfectly compatible with her being on to something serious, and correct in what she believes. Being right and being a precious jerk are orthogonal: neither thing excludes the other.
Sure, she's busy with her investigations. And sure, we shouldn't expect her to reveal on TV what should properly be presented in court. Regarding that, however, given the depth of detail Rudy Giuliani went into standing alongside her at Thursday's press conference—he actually cited two of the affidavits he'd had sworn—I'd like to know why she didn't clap her hand over Rudy's mouth and hiss "Shut up, you fool!" in his ear.
Still, Tucker's show, whether Sidney Powell likes it or not, gets major ratings. A five-minute spot on the show, even just smiling at the camera while saying sweet nothings about preparing a strong case and not wanting to divulge details yet, that would be a boost for the investigation she's part of. It sure wouldn't have hurt, Lady.
Yes, yes, I know about the leftward drift of Fox News. I commented on it myself two weeks ago. I don't see it with Tucker, though. I'll go on watching him until Fox fires him—which, if the leftward drift continues, they surely will.
Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are trying to do a difficult thing, against strong headwinds. I wish them the very best of luck, with all my heart. I'm at a loss to see how blowing off Tucker Carlson helped their case.
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03—Forgive us our debts. Meanwhile we've been getting further glimpses of what will be in store from a Biden Presidency.
One thing that will apparently be in store, at any rate if congressional leaders of Biden's party have their way—leaders like Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer—one thing that will be enacted is forgiveness of student loans. Apparently this is something the President can do by executive order.
We're being told that the main goal here is "to stimulate the economy and provide relief to struggling borrowers."
There's also an issue of equity, though. That's "equity" in the woke sense, meaning that we all come out equal on everything. The Fed did a survey last year, found that only seven percent of white respondents were behind on their student loans, compared to 26 percent of Black respondents and 19 percent of Hispanics. Systemic racism!
In fact, as our boss Peter Brimelow explained at length seven years ago, the student debt bubble and the associated—very associated—college cost bubble are replays of the mortgage-lending bubble that eventually brought on the 2008-9 financial crisis.
Peter just this week, in a memorial tribute to the late Paul Streitz, re-linked to Paul's solution on student-loan debt: make the colleges eat it. Quote from Paul:
The IRS has strict guidelines as what is permissible for other non-profit organizations: only a certain percentage of revenue can be used for fund raising and administration.
But there appear to be no such guidelines for colleges and universities. So there are art museums, squash courts, luxury dorms, climbing walls, million-dollar college presidents, multi-million dollar loans to administrators, diversity deans, sustainability deans, bloated salaries, excessive staff, and minimal teaching hours (six hours of teaching class per week).
Congress should require the IRS to create and enforce such guidelines on colleges and universities. This would give them a choice: either colleges economize and reduce tuition, or lose their non-profit status and be taxed by federal, state and local authorities.
End quote.
Drastic? Well, it's milder than my solution. My solution would be, after a suitable warning period—48 hours would be about right—to call in the U.S. Air Force to bomb all the colleges and universities to rubble; then, when the smoke has cleared, call in the Army Corps of Engineers to plow the rubble under and sow the ground with salt.
Our colleges today are centers of indoctrination in a false and poisonous ideology, that is dragging our civilization down into self-loathing and self-annihilation. Bomb, burn, plow, and salt.
And no, I wouldn't make an exemption for the math faculties. They are as bad as the rest — I've been documenting that in my Diaries. In any case, you don't need special buildings or equipment to do math. Isaac Newton did his best work in a year sitting at home alone. Quote:
Freed from the restrictions of the limited curriculum and rigours of university life, Newton had the time and space to develop his theories on calculus, optics and the laws of motion and gravity.
That's what our civilization needs: more Isaac Newtons, fewer Ibram X. Kendis.
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04—Will China eat our lunch? This morning, Friday morning, I started off my day by Zooming in to a one-hour webinar presented by Asia Times. The host was David Goldman—"Spengler" to Asia Times followers, and author just recently of a new book You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-form the World.
David's guest was Dr Handel Jones, who has spent thirty years at senior positions in the high-tech industry, has deep expertise on China—with published books to show for it—and knows all there is to know about microchips.
If you don't know David Goldman's work, his strongest theme is the need for the U.S.A. to get serious about the high-tech competition with China, in areas like manufacturing of microchips, 5G broadband services, big data, and artificial intelligence. By "get serious" David means government-sponsored industrial policy, as we had in the Cold War—the kinds of policies that brought us the Internet, via DARPA, Bell Labs, IBM, and so on. If we don't get up to speed on this, says David, China will eat our lunch.
Dr Handel Jones filled out supporting details from his vast store of knowledge. The webinar was very instructive, once I got past wondering about Dr Jones' first name. (Does he have a brother named Bach?)
His reminders of what the Chinese are already doing, or are close to doing, with AI and 5G were sobering. No more railroad tickets: You're checked in by facial-recognition software. Smart cities, fully-automated factories, full-time remote health monitoring, autonomous vehicles, …
As always, I was left wondering how much of our liberty we shall trade away for convenience. If our experience with this pandemic is any guide, I fear the answer is, a lot.
Be that as it may, the very rapid advances in high-tech that China's been pushing through pose a geopolitical question. The question is: Will the ChiComs keep the competition between us and them at a purely commercial level? Or will they advance to land grabs and claims to sovereignty over ever bigger stretches of ocean—perhaps even to space?
David Goldman says, and I think he's probably right, that aside from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and a few small disputed border areas that the ChiComs consider historically Chinese, they don't want to take over anyone's country and rule it. They just want to be the world's landlord, with the rest of us paying rent to them.
(I'd add to that: Even if the ChiComs wanted to go off a-colonizing, with their cratering fertility, the manpower just won't be there. In 1920 Britain ruled a quarter of the world; but in 1920 my British grandmother had given birth to thirteen children.)
For sure the ChiComs have been getting awful pushy lately. A segment on that.
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05—ChiComs get pushy. Pushy, yes. Here are some instances.
The crushing of Hong Kong's last traces of autonomy continues apace. November 11th four legislators were removed from the assembly for being "unpatriotic," which of course means they'd spoken out against the ChiCom power grab. Fifteen other pro-democracy legislators then resigned en masse.
Here's a national alliance you may not have heard of: the Five Eyes. The nations in this alliance are Britain, the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The BBC tells us that, quote: "Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance of the five Anglophone countries set up during the Cold War and initially developed to monitor the USSR and its allies." End quote.
Well, the Five Eyes had words to say about the ChiCom crushing of Hong Kong. They said it violates the agreement signed in 1997 when Britain relinquished the territory to China. So indeed it does, flagrantly.
The ChiComs responded with their usual delicacy and tact. A ChiCom spokesman told journalists in Peking on Thursday that it doesn't matter if they have five eyes or ten eyes: If foreign countries dare to harm China's sovereignty, they should, quote, "beware that their eyes could be blinded." Nice.
Tuesday evening in Tokyo the prime ministers of Australia and Japan came to an agreement on allowing the military of each to train on the other's territory. The only point not resolved is whether Australian troops who commit capital crimes in Japan will be hanged, as Japanese law allows.
That aside, this agreement is another layer of cement in the Quad group that I've been telling you about: Japan, Australia, India, and the U.S.A.
The point of the Quad group is of course to keep a wary collective eye on rising China, the way the Triple Entente—Britain, France, Russia—tried to manage the rise of Wilhelmine Germany in the early 1900s. That didn't end well, but the Quad group believe they can do better.
The ChiComs of course hate the whole idea of the Quad. The Global Times newspaper, a ChiCom mouthpiece, snarled that this Japan-Australia agreement, quote, "accelerates the confrontational atmosphere in the Asia-Pacific region."
Right. And ChiCom jets hot-dogging over Taiwan, China's military building up non-Chinese islands in the West Pacific to use as bases, China's making aggressive troop movements against India in the Himalayas, none of that generates any "confrontational atmosphere" at all. Right.
The Five Eyes; the Quad group; I'm having a fire sale here of news items about alliances, groupings, and ententes. Here's another one.
Remember the BRICS group of countries? That's B-R-I-C-S, stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. What makes them a group? Well, the logic was that each of them is an emerging economy—that means poor by comparison with Europe, Australia / New Zealand, and North America, but not seriously poor and coming up fast—so each is an emerging economy thus defined, with major influence in its area: respectively, South America, North Eurasia, South Asia, East Asia, and Africa. The BRICS, remember them?
The BRICS have been having annual meetings since 2009. This year's was at first canceled because of the pandemic; but on Tuesday this week the BRICS leaders had a Zoom call hosted by Vladimir Putin.
I did my best to follow the proceedings of the Zoom call by reading about it, but my eyes soon glazed over. I anyway doubt the BRICS will be a thing much longer, given India's membership in the Quad, and …
The ChiComs of course hold one of the five permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council, the other four held by Britain, France, Russia, and the U.S.A.
In today's world there's something anachronistic about that list. India certainly thinks so. With nuclear weapons, a space program, and a population due to overtake China's in size round about 2024, India has for some years been lobbying for a permanent seat.
Biggest obstacle to that? China, which has a veto over such structural changes. So at any rate said an article in the Hindustan Times this Thursday.
Radio Derb's position on this would be to give our permanent seat to India, then quit the whole clown show and give the U.N. a month's notice to vacate that ugly slab in Turtle Bay.
That aside, I can't help wondering whether, geostrategic considerations aside, the ChiComs don't perhaps see India's population overtaking China's as a loss of face.
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06—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Back there in my first segment I mentioned Ann Corcoran's having been deplatformed last year by the hosting service WordPress. Well, now it's happened to the Conservative Treehouse.
They posted the news on Sunday, November 15th. You can access Conservative Treehouse for a few more days, but Wordpress told them that, quote:
Given the incompatibility between your site's content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.
End quote.
By "our terms" Wordpress means of course the ideological rigidity of their staff and management.
I'll try to keep tabs of where the Treehouse migrates to and post it here.
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Item: Does Joe Biden have an economic plan? What will he do to make us more prosperous and our nation economically secure? Headline from Bloomberg, November 15th, headline: Biden Fills Economic Posts With Experts on Systemic Racism.
Oh, great. That should do wonders for the Gross National Product.
Sub-heading: "Previous administrations haven't made race scholarship such a clear priority."
Well, darn it, that explains our economic problems these past few administrations! We left federal employees at Treasury and the Fed playing with their fool spreadsheets instead of giving them seminars on Critical Race Theory. No more of that! Joe Biden's on the case.
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Item: More on the race front: North Thurston Public School system, which oversees some 16,000 students up there in Washington State, tried to change their method for classifying students by race. They removed Asians from the "students of color" category and grouped them together with whites.
That led to protests from Asian Americans, and the school board backed down. Asians are once again "colored," alongside black, indigenous, multi-racial, Pacific islander and Latinx students.
In my paradigm-shifting bestseller We Are Doomed I adopted the schema proposed by distinguished race scholar Leonard Jeffries, former Professor of Black Studies at City College, New York. Professor Jeffries suggested "Ice People" for whites and East Asians, "Sun People" for Blacks and Hispanics.
I am at a loss to know why this usage has not been taken up by educators. There is no respect for true scholarship nowadays.
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Item: Monday was the deadline for filing a claim against the Boy Scouts of America. If you wanted to get some of the loot from the BSA's bankruptcy proceedings by claiming to have been groped by a scoutmaster, Monday was your last chance.
How many of these claims are there? Ninety thousand, if you can believe it. Ninety thousand.
Several commentators have said that the BSA brought this on themselves by opening their ranks to homosexual scoutmasters. However, they didn't do that until 2015—and only then to fend off endless litigation. Reporting on the Monday deadline, Associated Press said, quote:
Most of the pending sex abuse claims date to the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
End quote.
So you can get a payout in 2020 for having been groped in 1965. My question: How on Earth do you prove such a claim to courtroom standards of evidence?
This destruction of the Boy Scouts is nothing but a lawyers' ramp: the cold, wanton destruction of an organization that helped tens of millions of boys become men. Everyone involved—the parasite lawyers and the clients making unprovable claims about events of fifty years ago—they should all should be ashamed of themselves. Of course, none of them are.
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Item: Robotics researchers at Japan's Gifu University have designed a robotic hand that can make you feel like you're going on a walk and holding hands with someone.
The hand is called "Osampo Kanojo," which means "My Girlfriend in Walk." It's made of a soft and pliable gel material to create the feel of human skin. The animated fingers detect pressure and squeeze back when gripped tightly. And it has of course a built-in heater. Nobody likes cold hands.
Can I get through this item without even a passing reference to Jeffrey Toobin? No, I guess I can't …
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Item: There has been a coup in Peru. A coup … in Peru.
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07—Signoff. That's all I have for you, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and double thank you, this weekend before Thanksgiving, for your comments, suggestions, and contributions.
Some music to see us out. A Radio Derb listener who has perceived my weakness for early 20th century concert songs directed my attention to Marston Records, whose mission, and I quote from their website, quote, "is to preserve the great performances of the past and keep alive the traditions that were prevalent at the dawn of recording."
My attention thus directed, I bought a three-CD set titled A survey of British Tenors Before Peter Pears. Here's a little gem from the second CD in the set: Joseph Hislop singing an arrangement of his fellow Scot Robert Burns' fine love poem "Afton Water."
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
The recording's dated June 17th 1927.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-11-20--POLITICO DIscovers Trump-Supporting Tejanos on the Border

Politico ran an interesting article , published November 17 , entitled Trump Didn ’ t Win the Latino Vote in Texas .
He Won the Tejano Vote .
It 's written by Jack Herrera [ Tweet him ] `` an independent immigration reporter , an Ida B .
Wells Fellow with Type Investigations and an elections correspondent at Prism . ''
It 's an interesting article , about Trump 's electoral success in three majority Hispanic border counties of Texas ( Webb , Zapata and Starr ) .
Of all the results from the November 3 election , few drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as what happened in a quiet county on the banks of the Rio Grande .
Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Zapata County ’ s vote in a hundred years .
But it wasn ’ t its turn from a deep-blue history that seemed to be the source of such fascination but rather that , according to the census , more than 94 percent of Zapata ’ s population is Hispanic or Latino .
Zapata ( population less than 15,000 ) was the only county in South Texas that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no means an anomaly : To the north , in more than 95-percent Hispanic Webb County , Republicans doubled their turnout .
To the south , Starr County , which is more than 96-percent Hispanic , experienced the single biggest tilt right of any place in the country ; Republicans gained by 55 percentage points compared with 2016 .
The results across a region that most politicos ignored in their preelection forecasts ended up helping to dash any hopes Democrats had of taking Texas .
The city of Laredo is the county seat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the article explains why .
And the Latino population is not a monolith .
Ross Barrera , a retired U.S. Army colonel and chair of the Starr County Republican Party , put it this way : “ It ’ s the national media that uses ‘ Latino.
’ It bundles us up with Florida , Doral , Miami .
But those places are different than South Texas , and South Texas is different than Los Angeles .
Here , people don ’ t say we ’ re Mexican American .
We say we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Rio Grande Valley self-identifies as Tejano , the descriptor captures a distinct Latino community—culturally and politically—cultivated over centuries of both Mexican and Texan influences and geographic isolation .
Nearly everyone speaks Spanish , but many regard themselves as red-blooded Americans above anything else .
And exceedingly few identify as people of color .
( Even while 94 percent of Zapata residents count their ethnicity as Hispanic/Latino on the census , 98 percent of the population marks their race as white . )
Their Hispanicness is almost beside the point to their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a National Guard unit in a Texas border town .
It was overwhelmingly Hispanic , and I would consider most of them as racially white .
Many Guardsmen were in , or aspired to be in , the Border Patrol or Customs .
It 's a rather long article , so let me just list factors listed that appear to explain why a high percentage of Tejanos in the region voted for Trump : • The importance of the oil and gas industry in the region .
• `` Support for law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patrol is rock-solid . ''
• `` Many neither see themselves as immigrant or diverse . ''
What about Trump 's rhetoric about illegal aliens ?
The article quotes Yvonne Trapp , Trump supporter , who said that `` I see myself as just an American .
Growing up , I never knew that Hispanics were another race , that we were brown .
Everybody just put white—not that it matters .
Our culture is one thing , but we were just Americans.
`` She also said that “ Today , the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who came before , like the braceros , who came to work , to educate their children , to better themselves .
No , the people coming now are looking for handouts.
” Leroy Cruz , who manages a car-detailing business out of his garage with a Trump flag close by , had some interesting things to say : • “ Everything has been better under Trump '' • “ The oilfield is back up .
There are more jobs , more work than everAnd yeah , I like [ Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way he talks.
” • “ I think people are starting to wake up and realize that the Democrats aren ’ t good.
” One other factor that is n't explicitly pointed out is that people who live on the border are more likely to be aware of border problems .
And these three counties are on the border .

Earlier, 2005: Conversations With Tejanos, by Juan Mann
Politico ran an interesting article, published November 17, entitled Trump Didn’t Win the Latino Vote in Texas. He Won the Tejano Vote. It's written by Jack Herrera [Tweet him] "an independent immigration reporter, an Ida B. Wells Fellow with Type Investigations and an elections correspondent at Prism."
It's an interesting article, about Trump's electoral success in three majority Hispanic border counties of Texas (Webb, Zapata and Starr).
From the article:
Of all the results from the November 3 election, few drew as much attention from national political observers as what happened in a quiet county on the banks of the Rio Grande. Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Zapata County’s vote in a hundred years. But it wasn’t its turn from a deep-blue history that seemed to be the source of such fascination but rather that, according to the census, more than 94 percent of Zapata’s population is Hispanic or Latino. Zapata (population less than 15,000) was the only county in South Texas that flipped red, but it was by no means an anomaly: To the north, in more than 95-percent Hispanic Webb County, Republicans doubled their turnout. To the south, Starr County, which is more than 96-percent Hispanic, experienced the single biggest tilt right of any place in the country; Republicans gained by 55 percentage points compared with 2016. The results across a region that most politicos ignored in their preelection forecasts ended up helping to dash any hopes Democrats had of taking Texas.
The city of Laredo is the county seat of Webb County.
To many outsiders, these results were confounding: How could Trump, one of the most virulently anti-immigrant leaders, make inroads with so many Latinos, and along the Mexican border no less?
The rest of the article explains why.
In Zapata, however, these questions have been met with mild chuckles to outright frustration. The shift, residents and scholars of the region say, shouldn’t be surprising if, instead of thinking in terms of ethnic identity, you consider the economic and cultural issues that are specific to the people who live there. Although the vast majority of people in these counties mark “Hispanic or Latino” on paper, very few long-term residents have ever used the word “Latino” to describe themselves. Ascribing Trump’s success in South Texas to his campaign winning more of “the Latino vote” makes the same mistake as the Democrats did in this election: Treating Latinos as a monolith.
And the Latino population is not a monolith.
Ross Barrera, a retired U.S. Army colonel and chair of the Starr County Republican Party, put it this way: “It’s the national media that uses ‘Latino.’ It bundles us up with Florida, Doral, Miami. But those places are different than South Texas, and South Texas is different than Los Angeles. Here, people don’t say we’re Mexican American. We say we’re Tejanos.” Though not everyone in the Rio Grande Valley self-identifies as Tejano, the descriptor captures a distinct Latino community—culturally and politically—cultivated over centuries of both Mexican and Texan influences and geographic isolation. Nearly everyone speaks Spanish, but many regard themselves as red-blooded Americans above anything else. And exceedingly few identify as people of color. (Even while 94 percent of Zapata residents count their ethnicity as Hispanic/Latino on the census, 98 percent of the population marks their race as white.) Their Hispanicness is almost beside the point to their daily lives.
I served many years in a National Guard unit in a Texas border town. It was overwhelmingly Hispanic, and I would consider most of them as racially white. Many Guardsmen were in, or aspired to be in, the Border Patrol or Customs.
In the end, Trump’s success in peeling off Latino votes in South Texas had everything to do with not talking to them as Latinos. His campaign spoke to them as Tejanos, who may be traditionally Democratic but have a set of specific concerns—among them, the oil and gas industry, gun rights and even abortion—amenable to the Republican Party’s positions, and it resonated. To be sure, it didn’t work with all of Texas’ Latinos; Trump still lost that vote by more than double digits statewide, and Joe Biden won more of the nationwide Latino vote than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. But Trump proved that seeing specific communities as persuadable voters and offering targeted messaging to match—fear of socialism in Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan and Cuban communities, for example—can be more effective than a blanket campaign that treats people as census categories. And in the end, it was enough to keep Florida and Texas in his column. If the Democratic Party’s 2020 postmortem for Texas—indeed, for the whole nation—goes only as far as to try to increase their appeal to “Latinos” as an undifferentiated bloc, they’re going to experience even harsher losses in the next election.
It's a rather long article, so let me just list factors listed that appear to explain why a high percentage of Tejanos in the region voted for Trump:
The importance of the oil and gas industry in the region. Pre-Covid rise in employment. Wariness of future Democratic shutdowns. A general cultural conservatism. A "Tejano ranch and small-town rural population". A frontier legacy. People like to hunt. High rate of gun ownership. "Deeply Catholic". "Practically nonexistent" support for abortion. "Support for law enforcement, the military and even Border Patrol is rock-solid." "Many neither see themselves as immigrant or diverse."
What about Trump's rhetoric about illegal aliens?
While many Trump supporters in South Texas... have Mexican roots and say they can understand how the president’s crude and derogatory language might seem divisive to some, few of them hear the president talking about them when he makes comments about Mexicans. “I think when people say they don’t like Mexicans, to me it means a Mexican citizen, or a Mexican national, who has crossed illegally,” says Barrera, the Starr County Republicans' chair. “And then again, not all Mexicans look alike. So when they say they don’t like Mexicans, I don’t think it means me. … It means a Mexican national who has broken the law.”
Interesting point.
The article quotes Yvonne Trapp, Trump supporter, who said that "I see myself as just an American. Growing up, I never knew that Hispanics were another race, that we were brown. Everybody just put white—not that it matters. Our culture is one thing, but we were just Americans. "
She also said that “Today, the people coming over are not the kind of people who came before, like the braceros, who came to work, to educate their children, to better themselves. No, the people coming now are looking for handouts.”
Leroy Cruz, who manages a car-detailing business out of his garage with a Trump flag close by, had some interesting things to say:
“ Everything has been better under Trump"
“The oilfield is back up. There are more jobs, more work than ever. And yeah, I like [Trump’s] attitude. I like the way he talks.”
“I think people are starting to wake up and realize that the Democrats aren’t good.”
It's an interesting article.
One other factor that isn't explicitly pointed out is that people who live on the border are more likely to be aware of border problems. And these three counties are on the border.


vdare--2020-11-21--Immigrant Filmmaker Learns the Magnitude of Illegal Immigration Problem

October 18 was a big media day for documentary filmmaker Namrata Singh Gujral , an immigrant to the United States who now thinks that open borders may not be a great idea .
Her film got a front-page treatment from the Washington Times , with an article titled ‘ America ’ s Forgotten ’ : Democrat director discovers horrors of illegal immigration while making film .
A Breitbart piece included a short clip from the documentary with a smuggler hawking America ’ s available free stuff to potential customers : Watch : Documentary Shows Coyotes Using Democrat Debate Footage to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ film with the intention that it was going to be pro-illegal alien , but the specifics of several cases convinced her that too much suffering and death was the real result — both from disastrous illegal border crossings and preventable crimes of unlawful aliens .
Following is the film trailer : An interview with Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business provided more detail , where Gujral noted , “ Most of the people that are coming in are coming in for what we call in the film a ‘ lifestyle upgrade ’ —a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , $ 50,000 per person—these are not people that are poor.
” The film is available for streaming at AmericasForgottenMovie.com .

October 18 was a big media day for documentary filmmaker Namrata Singh Gujral, an immigrant to the United States who now thinks that open borders may not be a great idea.
Her film got a front-page treatment from the Washington Times, with an article titled ‘America’s Forgotten’: Democrat director discovers horrors of illegal immigration while making film.
A Breitbart piece included a short clip from the documentary with a smuggler hawking America’s available free stuff to potential customers: Watch: Documentary Shows Coyotes Using Democrat Debate Footage to Recruit Illegal Border Crossers
Gujral started her film with the intention that it was going to be pro-illegal alien, but the specifics of several cases convinced her that too much suffering and death was the real result — both from disastrous illegal border crossings and preventable crimes of unlawful aliens.
Following is the film trailer:
An interview with Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business provided more detail, where Gujral noted, “Most of the people that are coming in are coming in for what we call in the film a ‘lifestyle upgrade’—a lot of them spending $75,000 per person, $50,000 per person—these are not people that are poor.”
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
The film is available for streaming at AmericasForgottenMovie.com.


vdare--2020-11-21--Left Suppressing Election Fraud Issue Because It No Longer Believes In Rational Debate—And Thinks Th

Left Suppressing Election Fraud Issue Because It No Longer Believes In Rational Debate—And Thinks The Cossacks Are Coming

Network television used to love “ conflict , ” and the more acrimonious and hate-filled the better .
As pack animals , humans are fascinated by intense disagreements , especially between their leaders , and by fights in general [ Why Do We Enjoy Watching Other People Fight ?
, By Christian Jarrett , Science Focus , 2020 ] .
So intense political conflict means more viewers and more add revenue .
But clearly this doesn ’ t apply to the disputed Trump-Biden election .
All the Main Stream Media has adopted the “ narrative ” that “ Biden is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ conflict ” happening behind the scenes , rendering their broadcasts bland and hardly worth watching .
Why ?
After all , you would think that the networks would be elated .
Able to present the U.S. as a country in crisis , on the brink of self-destruction , there could be constant , dramatic , rolling news bulletins—all of them more than paying for the commercials by which they ’ d be regularly interrupted .
Biden-supporters would ardently insist that their man won “ fair and square , ” Trump supporters would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they weren ’ t going to give in .
News networks used to live for situations like this—as they did during the Gore-Bush “ conflict.
” What happened ?
A key part of the answer : we live in a remarkably different world from that of the year 2000 .
As I have reported before , the U.S. has suddenly become much more polarized .
Modelling by Russian biologist Peter Turchin , Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut , has found that America is as polarized now as it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This has led him to predict that the 2020s will be a decade of quite incredible strife and unrest .
The causes he highlights : • An excess of workers ( caused by immigration and de-industrialization ) leading to declining living standards and the potential , thus , to be mobilized by zealots at the extremes .
• Intra-Elite Competition : The over-production of elites ( too many people with degrees to fill the relevant jobs ) leading to lots of resentful , educated people struggling for status—such as white BLM marchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggle for status by using religion or traditional values .
We are adapted to be impressed by both tactics [ Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations , by J. Graham et al.
, Personality Processes and Individual Differences , 2009 ] • State Fragility , due to a loss of financial confidence , causing more and more people to distrust the elite and turn to the extremes .
• International Environment – Foreign governments helping to undermine the elite : think of Democrat paranoia about “ Russia.
” All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2000 , when the economy was in superb shape , there was no international competitor to America , and the bitter harvest of mass immigration and elite-overproduction had not yet fully delivered its poisonous fruit .
The result now : polarization , with each side tending to distrust intensely , and even despise , the other .
But Liberals – possibly because they specifically score higher in “ moral disgust , ” i.e .
are repulsed with those who disagree with them—tend to hate and distrust “ conservatives ” even more than “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to research by psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his team [ The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives : Exaggeration of Differences across the Political Spectrum , By J. Graham et al.
, PLOS One , 2012 ] .
To make matters worse , because of immigration policy , America has become more ethnically diverse since the year 2000 .
According to research by Harvard psychologist Robert Putnam , this has the effect of reducing trust : firstly , because the natives and the foreigners do not trust each other ; secondly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will collaborate against them with the foreigners , reducing trust even between the natives [ E Pluribus Unum : Diversity and community in the twenty-first century , By Robert Putnam , Scandinavian Political Studies , 2007 ] .
And then there are other , more subtle , demographic changes in the last twenty years .
Improving transport links , gentrification , greater university attendance , which permits a certain psychological type to abandon small-town America ) and even the rise of the internet mean that people can more easily find other people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This results in them having less and less to do with people who are psychologically , and thus politically , different .
In turn , they will decreasingly trust such people .
This process—which Charles Murray has called “ Coming Apart ” —is gradually dividing America , and other Western countries , into two really quite separate tribes who are mutually antagonistic towards each other .
In a context of extreme polarization such as this—in which some Trump supporters seem genuinely to believe that some leading Democrats are child-sacrificing , pedophile Satanists [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ring , By Moira Donegan , The Guardian , September 20 , 2020 ] and indeed can point to the peculiar case of Jeffrey Epstein—the liberals who have control of the Main Stream Media and the most popular social media platforms , what Steve Sailer calls “ The Megaphone , ” are able to impose a certain “ narrative.
” And we can understand why that “ narrative ” would be that there is no serious “ conflict ” over the presidency/ Biden has won/ Trump is a child-like sore loser to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this had happened 20 years ago , the MSM probably would have presented both points of view , in the hope of drumming up viewers .
But there would never have been a candidate such as Trump in 2000 , because America was so much less polarized .
In 2020 , we have an elite media that despises and distrusts Trump and his supporters ; that believes that Trump and his people want to destroy the system that gives them their wealth and power ; that believes that Trump and his supporters may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role in the “ fake news ” regime ; and which , on some level , feels that America may be close to some kind of war , which their side may well lose .
This was tweeted by Matt Yglesias in 2016 : Furthermore , research show that extreme liberals also tend to be very strongly governed by emotion .
They feel negative emotions far more strongly that do conservatives .
They simply don ’ t believe that “ the truth will out ” after a rational discussion .
Instead , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emotionally , since they themselves are driven by emotion , not rationality [ Are leftists more emotion-driven than rightists ?
by Ruth Pliskie et al.
, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 2014 ] .
And in fact they are way more likely to suffer from anxiety and other mental problems , as I have previously reported .
Liberals also tend to believe that people who disagree with them are less intelligent , meaning they think that they can manipulated into violence .
For example , it has been found that liberals will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they disagree with liberal dogmas [ Do Politically Non-Conservative Whites “ Bend Over Backwards ” to Show Preferences for Black Politicians ?
by Daniel Bird et al.
, Race and Social Problems , 2015 ] .
Barack Obama just said that the internet is “ the single biggest threat to our democracy ” [ Obama : The internet is “ the single biggest threat to our democracy ” , by Peter Kafka , Vox , November 16 , 2020 Of course , he doesn ’ t mean the internet itself , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on it .
He , and his Ruling Class peers , increasingly think that stupid conservative people shouldn ’ t be shown evidence that suggests they might be correct even if they are correct— for example that police do not disproportionally target blacks or that Black Lives Matter is a hoax—not least because those who present this evidence are , anyway , likely to be wicked people with ultimately evil motives , like Jared Taylor or Peter Brimelow .
To put it simply : The Leftists who now control the MSM believe that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that takes in a highly technological country—might be coming ; and that if they report both sides of any argument , they might trigger it .
They genuinely think the Cossacks are coming .
And America is now so polarized that they may well be right .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Network television used to love “conflict,” and the more acrimonious and hate-filled the better. As pack animals, humans are fascinated by intense disagreements, especially between their leaders, and by fights in general [Why Do We Enjoy Watching Other People Fight?, By Christian Jarrett, Science Focus, 2020]. So intense political conflict means more viewers and more add revenue. But clearly this doesn’t apply to the disputed Trump-Biden election. All the Main Stream Media has adopted the “narrative” that “Biden is the President-Elect,” essentially ignoring the “conflict” happening behind the scenes, rendering their broadcasts bland and hardly worth watching. Why?
After all, you would think that the networks would be elated. Able to present the U.S. as a country in crisis, on the brink of self-destruction, there could be constant, dramatic, rolling news bulletins—all of them more than paying for the commercials by which they’d be regularly interrupted. Biden-supporters would ardently insist that their man won “fair and square,” Trump supporters would deplore the “steal” and insist they weren’t going to give in. News networks used to live for situations like this—as they did during the Gore-Bush “conflict.” What happened?
A key part of the answer: we live in a remarkably different world from that of the year 2000. As I have reported before, the U.S. has suddenly become much more polarized. Modelling by Russian biologist Peter Turchin, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, has found that America is as polarized now as it was at the beginning of the Civil War. This has led him to predict that the 2020s will be a decade of quite incredible strife and unrest. The causes he highlights:
An excess of workers (caused by immigration and de-industrialization) leading to declining living standards and the potential, thus, to be mobilized by zealots at the extremes. Intra-Elite Competition: The over-production of elites (too many people with degrees to fill the relevant jobs) leading to lots of resentful, educated people struggling for status—such as white BLM marchers violently signalling their virtue, while others struggle for status by using religion or traditional values. We are adapted to be impressed by both tactics [Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations, by J. Graham et al., Personality Processes and Individual Differences, 2009] State Fragility, due to a loss of financial confidence, causing more and more people to distrust the elite and turn to the extremes. International Environment – Foreign governments helping to undermine the elite: think of Democrat paranoia about “Russia.”
All of this has developed since the year 2000, when the economy was in superb shape, there was no international competitor to America, and the bitter harvest of mass immigration and elite-overproduction had not yet fully delivered its poisonous fruit.
The result now: polarization, with each side tending to distrust intensely, and even despise, the other.
But Liberals – possibly because they specifically score higher in “moral disgust,” i.e. are repulsed with those who disagree with them—tend to hate and distrust “conservatives” even more than “conservatives” loathe and distrust liberals, according to research by psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his team [The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives: Exaggeration of Differences across the Political Spectrum, By J. Graham et al., PLOS One, 2012].
To make matters worse, because of immigration policy, America has become more ethnically diverse since the year 2000. According to research by Harvard psychologist Robert Putnam, this has the effect of reducing trust: firstly, because the natives and the foreigners do not trust each other; secondly, because the natives become paranoid that fellow-natives will collaborate against them with the foreigners, reducing trust even between the natives [E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and community in the twenty-first century, By Robert Putnam, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2007].
And then there are other, more subtle, demographic changes in the last twenty years. Improving transport links, gentrification, greater university attendance, which permits a certain psychological type to abandon small-town America) and even the rise of the internet mean that people can more easily find other people who are like themselves politically and psychologically. This results in them having less and less to do with people who are psychologically, and thus politically, different. In turn, they will decreasingly trust such people.
This process—which Charles Murray has called “Coming Apart”—is gradually dividing America, and other Western countries, into two really quite separate tribes who are mutually antagonistic towards each other.
In a context of extreme polarization such as this—in which some Trump supporters seem genuinely to believe that some leading Democrats are child-sacrificing, pedophile Satanists [QAnon conspiracists believe in a vast pedophile ring, By Moira Donegan, The Guardian, September 20, 2020] and indeed can point to the peculiar case of Jeffrey Epstein—the liberals who have control of the Main Stream Media and the most popular social media platforms, what Steve Sailer calls “The Megaphone,” are able to impose a certain “narrative.” And we can understand why that “narrative” would be that there is no serious “conflict” over the presidency/ Biden has won/ Trump is a child-like sore loser to be ignored, pitied and mocked.
If this had happened 20 years ago, the MSM probably would have presented both points of view, in the hope of drumming up viewers. But there would never have been a candidate such as Trump in 2000, because America was so much less polarized.
In 2020, we have an elite media that despises and distrusts Trump and his supporters; that believes that Trump and his people want to destroy the system that gives them their wealth and power; that believes that Trump and his supporters may well punish them personally for their prominent role in the “fake news” regime; and which, on some level, feels that America may be close to some kind of war, which their side may well lose.
This was tweeted by Matt Yglesias in 2016:
Furthermore, research show that extreme liberals also tend to be very strongly governed by emotion. They feel negative emotions far more strongly that do conservatives. They simply don’t believe that “the truth will out” after a rational discussion. Instead, they strongly fear that people can be manipulated emotionally, since they themselves are driven by emotion, not rationality [Are leftists more emotion-driven than rightists? by Ruth Pliskie et al., Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2014]. And in fact they are way more likely to suffer from anxiety and other mental problems, as I have previously reported.
Liberals also tend to believe that people who disagree with them are less intelligent, meaning they think that they can manipulated into violence. For example, it has been found that liberals will rate blacks as less intelligent—but only if they disagree with liberal dogmas [Do Politically Non-Conservative Whites “Bend Over Backwards” to Show Preferences for Black Politicians? by Daniel Bird et al., Race and Social Problems, 2015].
Barack Obama just said that the internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”[ Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”, by Peter Kafka,Vox, November 16, 2020 ] Of course, he doesn’t mean the internet itself, but the Politically Incorrect information that can be found on it. He, and his Ruling Class peers, increasingly think that stupid conservative people shouldn’t be shown evidence that suggests they might be correct even if they are correct— for example that police do not disproportionally target blacks or that Black Lives Matter is a hoax—not least because those who present this evidence are, anyway, likely to be wicked people with ultimately evil motives, like Jared Taylor or Peter Brimelow.
To put it simply: The Leftists who now control the MSM believe that some kind of Civil War—in whatever form that takes in a highly technological country—might be coming; and that if they report both sides of any argument, they might trigger it.
They genuinely think the Cossacks are coming.
And America is now so polarized that they may well be right.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-11-21--A Talk Radio Listener Says That The Dominion Voting Systems User Manual Details All The Security Ris

A Talk Radio Listener Says That The Dominion Voting Systems User Manual Details All The Security Risks Of Their Machines

Jeff Brown of Brownstone Research said on the Glenn Beck show that he has read the Dominion Voting Systems user manual , which does not seem to be available online .
( We need a copy , and we need to circulate a copies to friendly techies .
It 's more than 500 pages long . )
In addition to numerous other security problems , Brown discovered that anyone with the administrative password can alter voting results on a Dominion machine .
I wonder whether all Dominion machines ship with the same default administration password , and whether the contested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ password on all of their machines .
It 's well documented that many , perhaps a majority of users never change default passwords .
Brown also said that it 's possible to edit log files to coverup tampering and to swap `` memory cards '' , maybe SSD ?
, on a machine .
In addition , when machines are connected to the Internet , remote tampering becomes possible .
The manual even includes Dominion 's own ratings of the security risks of various features of the machines , several of which are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letters from the same reader

From: A Talk Radio Listener [Email him]
Jeff Brown of Brownstone Research said on the Glenn Beck show that he has read the Dominion Voting Systems user manual, which does not seem to be available online. (We need a copy, and we need to circulate a copies to friendly techies. It's more than 500 pages long. )
In addition to numerous other security problems, Brown discovered that anyone with the administrative password can alter voting results on a Dominion machine. I wonder whether all Dominion machines ship with the same default administration password, and whether the contested states and cities use the same administrative password on all of their machines. It's well documented that many, perhaps a majority of users never change default passwords.
Brown also said that it's possible to edit log files to coverup tampering and to swap "memory cards", maybe SSD?, on a machine. In addition, when machines are connected to the Internet, remote tampering becomes possible. The manual even includes Dominion's own ratings of the security risks of various features of the machines, several of which are "High Risk".
See earlier letters from the same reader


vdare--2020-11-21--Tell Us Your Stories! We Are Not A Nation Of Immigrants. Honoring 400 Years Of The Mayflower Compact

Throughout the month of December , VDARE.com will feature a series of letters from our readers , honoring our Pilgrim forebears and the powerful legacy that their survival story still inspires in patriotic Americans today .
VDARE.com 's Matthew Richer wrote earlier this year that , “ [ T ] he Pilgrims did not immigrate to the New World , they settled it .
And those whose ancestors immigrated to America afterwards are indebted to them because they paved the way for the rest of us … However , many Americans who do not descend from the Pilgrims ( like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is an example of a phenomenon once favorably known as ‘ assimilation.
’ “ ... Those who love this country will want to celebrate this anniversary .
Those who loathe it will obnoxiously denigrate it.
” — Matthew Richer , We Are All Puritans Now !
2020 Election Will Be Debate On Mayflower Anniversary/America ’ s Founding .
Trump Will Win Now , we want to hear from you : Are you a Mayflower descendant ?
The Pilgrims were prolific .
Among their 35 million descendants are a dozen Presidents including both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , along with many other notables as diverse as Humphrey Bogart , Marilyn Monroe , Amelia Earhart , Astronaut Alan Shepherd , Warren Buffett and Winston Churchill , Prime Minister of England .
Or are you , like Richer , an “ assimilated ” part of the Historic American Nation for whom the Mayflower story nevertheless has personal meaning and significance ?
The Mayflower Compact and subsequent government were the first exercise in self-government in the English speaking world , not to mention the New World , and it inspired the framers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ please help us remember and celebrate the historic American nation by letting us know : What does the Mayflower mean to you , to your family , and to our nation ?
Please send all submissions to rose @ vdare.com .
They Were SETTLERS , Damn It , Not `` Immigrants '' !
The Fulford File : Happy 432nd Birthday , Virginia Dare !
—Despite the NEW YORK TIMES “ 1619 Project ” Historical Revisionism 2020 Attacks on Plymouth Rock ( And The Historic American Nation ) Have Begun Ann Coulter On The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ...
Sorry , I Mean College Professors !
The 1620 Project : To Win Re-election , Trump Should Defend The Mayflower Pilgrims

400 Years Ago Today: Pilgrims Sign The Mayflower Compact
Throughout the month of December, VDARE.com will feature a series of letters from our readers, honoring our Pilgrim forebears and the powerful legacy that their survival story still inspires in patriotic Americans today.
VDARE.com's Matthew Richer wrote earlier this year that, “[T]he Pilgrims did not immigrate to the New World, they settled it. And those whose ancestors immigrated to America afterwards are indebted to them because they paved the way for the rest of us …
However, many Americans who do not descend from the Pilgrims (like myself) still consider them our forefathers—and that is an example of a phenomenon once favorably known as ‘assimilation.’
“...Those who love this country will want to celebrate this anniversary. Those who loathe it will obnoxiously denigrate it.”
— Matthew Richer, We Are All Puritans Now! 2020 Election Will Be Debate On Mayflower Anniversary/America’s Founding. Trump Will Win
Now, we want to hear from you:
Are you a Mayflower descendant?
The Pilgrims were prolific. Among their 35 million descendants are a dozen Presidents including both Adamses, both Roosevelts and both Bushes, along with many other notables as diverse as Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, Astronaut Alan Shepherd, Warren Buffett and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England.
Or are you, like Richer, an “assimilated” part of the Historic American Nation for whom the Mayflower story nevertheless has personal meaning and significance?
The Mayflower Compact and subsequent government were the first exercise in self-government in the English speaking world, not to mention the New World, and it inspired the framers of the Constitution.
In either case, please help us remember and celebrate the historic American nation by letting us know:
What does the Mayflower mean to you, to your family, and to our nation? Please send all submissions to rose@vdare.com.
More from VDARE.com:
They Were SETTLERS, Damn It, Not "Immigrants"!
The Fulford File: Happy 432nd Birthday, Virginia Dare!—Despite the NEW YORK TIMES “1619 Project” Historical Revisionism
2020 Attacks on Plymouth Rock (And The Historic American Nation) Have Begun
Ann Coulter On The War On Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving For Dummies ... Sorry, I Mean College Professors!
The 1620 Project: To Win Re-election, Trump Should Defend The Mayflower Pilgrims


vdare--2020-11-20--POLITICO Discovers Trump-Supporting Tejanos on the Border

Politico ran an interesting article , published November 17 , entitled Trump Didn ’ t Win the Latino Vote in Texas .
He Won the Tejano Vote .
It 's written by Jack Herrera [ Tweet him ] `` an independent immigration reporter , an Ida B .
Wells Fellow with Type Investigations and an elections correspondent at Prism . ''
It 's an interesting article , about Trump 's electoral success in three majority Hispanic border counties of Texas ( Webb , Zapata and Starr ) .
Of all the results from the November 3 election , few drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as what happened in a quiet county on the banks of the Rio Grande .
Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Zapata County ’ s vote in a hundred years .
But it wasn ’ t its turn from a deep-blue history that seemed to be the source of such fascination but rather that , according to the census , more than 94 percent of Zapata ’ s population is Hispanic or Latino .
Zapata ( population less than 15,000 ) was the only county in South Texas that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no means an anomaly : To the north , in more than 95-percent Hispanic Webb County , Republicans doubled their turnout .
To the south , Starr County , which is more than 96-percent Hispanic , experienced the single biggest tilt right of any place in the country ; Republicans gained by 55 percentage points compared with 2016 .
The results across a region that most politicos ignored in their preelection forecasts ended up helping to dash any hopes Democrats had of taking Texas .
The city of Laredo is the county seat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the article explains why .
And the Latino population is not a monolith .
Ross Barrera , a retired U.S. Army colonel and chair of the Starr County Republican Party , put it this way : “ It ’ s the national media that uses ‘ Latino.
’ It bundles us up with Florida , Doral , Miami .
But those places are different than South Texas , and South Texas is different than Los Angeles .
Here , people don ’ t say we ’ re Mexican American .
We say we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Rio Grande Valley self-identifies as Tejano , the descriptor captures a distinct Latino community—culturally and politically—cultivated over centuries of both Mexican and Texan influences and geographic isolation .
Nearly everyone speaks Spanish , but many regard themselves as red-blooded Americans above anything else .
And exceedingly few identify as people of color .
( Even while 94 percent of Zapata residents count their ethnicity as Hispanic/Latino on the census , 98 percent of the population marks their race as white . )
Their Hispanicness is almost beside the point to their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a National Guard unit in a Texas border town .
It was overwhelmingly Hispanic , and I would consider most of them as racially white .
Many Guardsmen were in , or aspired to be in , the Border Patrol or Customs .
It 's a rather long article , so let me just list factors listed that appear to explain why a high percentage of Tejanos in the region voted for Trump : • The importance of the oil and gas industry in the region .
• `` Support for law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patrol is rock-solid . ''
• `` Many neither see themselves as immigrant or diverse . ''
What about Trump 's rhetoric about illegal aliens ?
The article quotes Yvonne Trapp , Trump supporter , who said that `` I see myself as just an American .
Growing up , I never knew that Hispanics were another race , that we were brown .
Everybody just put white—not that it matters .
Our culture is one thing , but we were just Americans.
`` She also said that “ Today , the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who came before , like the braceros , who came to work , to educate their children , to better themselves .
No , the people coming now are looking for handouts.
” Leroy Cruz , who manages a car-detailing business out of his garage with a Trump flag close by , had some interesting things to say : • “ Everything has been better under Trump '' • “ The oilfield is back up .
There are more jobs , more work than ever .
And yeah , I like [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like the way he talks.
” • “ I think people are starting to wake up and realize that the Democrats aren ’ t good.
” One other factor that is n't explicitly pointed out is that people who live on the border are more likely to be aware of border problems .
And these three counties are on the border .


vdare--2020-11-22--A Reader Suggests A Source For Dominion Voting Systems Manuals, Helpful, But Not Quite What We're Lo

A Reader Suggests A Source For Dominion Voting Systems Manuals, Helpful, But Not Quite What We're Looking For

Re : A Talk Radio Listener Says That The Dominion Voting Systems User Manual Details All The Security Risks Of Their Machines From : An Anonymous Reader [ Send him mail ] Per your request in the video about Dominion , here is a link that may help for the manuals , via Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold 's official web page .
James Fulford writes : These are useful links , but they 're not the manual referred to by Jeff Brown of Brownstone Research in the Glenn Beck video .
Our Talk Radio Listener correspondent tells us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it does n't have the lengthy manual to which Jeff Brown referred .
Brown cites specific pages in the 400s , and the longest manual on this link is less than 100 pages long . ''
I will note that the manuals are ( a ) proprietary , and ( b ) redacted , as published by the Colorado Secretary of State under transparency laws , so the reason people ca n't find a manual online is that it 's supposed to be confidential for either trade secret protection , or hiding security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2.07 Democracy Suite system test and verification ( PDF ) link has a page that looks like this :

Re: A Talk Radio Listener Says That The Dominion Voting Systems User Manual Details All The Security Risks Of Their Machines
From: An Anonymous Reader [Send him mail]
Per your request in the video about Dominion, here is a link that may help for the manuals, via Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold's official web page.
James Fulford writes: These are useful links, but they're not the manual referred to by Jeff Brown of Brownstone Research in the Glenn Beck video. Our Talk Radio Listener correspondent tells us that he found that link "but it doesn't have the lengthy manual to which Jeff Brown referred. Brown cites specific pages in the 400s, and the longest manual on this link is less than 100 pages long."
I will note that the manuals are (a) proprietary, and (b) redacted, as published by the Colorado Secretary of State under transparency laws, so the reason people can't find a manual online is that it's supposed to be confidential for either trade secret protection, or hiding security loopholes from hackers.
For example, the 2.07 Democracy Suite system test and verification (PDF) link has a page that looks like this:


vdare--2020-11-22--Muslim Murderer Of Two Daughters Arrested After 12 Years On The Run

There was a blast from the past on Wednesday , when the Dallas branch of the FBI announced that Yaser Abdel Said had been arrested after being a fugitive since 2008 when he shot his teenage daughters to death in his own taxi—something I wrote about at the time : Honor Killing in Texas ?
Below , Amina and Sarah Said , along with the father Yaser Abdel Said .
Yaser was born in Egypt in 1957 , according to his description on the FBI ’ s 10 Most Wanted list .
Since his arrival in the US , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harsh parenting , while his daughters grew up to live like American teens in their home in the Dallas area with their US-born mother .
And that behavior seemed to be a problem to Yaser , though it was a predictable outcome of the situation .
Unless children of immigrants are sent to religious or foreign-language schools , they will normally absorb conduct typical in a public high school—like dating Americans , which was an irritant for the Muslim father .
It ’ s interesting that Yaser was arrested in Justin , Texas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Irving where the double murder took place .
Was he in hiding for 12 years in the Dallas area ?
If so , it might suggest a community of traditional Muslims willing to protect a killer who was seen as sharia friendly .
The August 2016 issue of the Texas Monthly reported that the Dallas metro area is “ home to more than 150,000 Muslims.
” If any of those persons protected Yaser Said from the law , they would be in big trouble because Texas takes harboring offenses seriously : In fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Said ’ s son Islam and brother Yassim were arrested for harboring .
Fugitive dad arrested for slaying teen daughters in ‘ honor killing ’ , New York Post , August 27 , 2020 A Texas father — one of the FBI ’ s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives — wanted for the slayings of his two teen daughters was busted after more than 12 years on the run , the federal law enforcement agency announced .
Yaser Abdel Said , 63 , was arrested Wednesday by agents in the small town of Justin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , officials said .
The Egyptian-born taxicab driver was sought on capital murder charges since the New Year ’ s Day 2008 shootings of his two daughters , Sarah Yaser Said , 17 , and Amina Yaser Said , 18 , which have been described as “ honor killings.
” The teens were found shot multiple times in a cab outside an Irving motel after one of them called 911 , saying she was dying , authorities said .
“ Help , ” the younger sister could be heard crying on a 911 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Oh my God .
Stop it.
” Relatives at the time told cops that Yaser threatened “ bodily harm ” against Sarah for going on a date with a non-Muslim .
The girls ’ mother , Patricia Said , fled with both girls in the week before their killings because she was in “ great fear of her life , ” police said .
Gail Gattrell , the sisters ’ great-aunt , described the deaths as an “ honor killing ” — which are often carried about by a relative who believes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on love or marriage .
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There was a blast from the past in August, when the Dallas branch of the FBI announced that Yaser Abdel Said had been arrested after being a fugitive since 2008 when he shot his teenage daughters to death in his own taxi—something I wrote about at the time: Honor Killing in Texas?
Below, Amina and Sarah Said, along with the father Yaser Abdel Said.
Yaser was born in Egypt in 1957, according to his description on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. Since his arrival in the US, he exhibited traditional Muslim values of misogyny and harsh parenting, while his daughters grew up to live like American teens in their home in the Dallas area with their US-born mother.
And that behavior seemed to be a problem to Yaser, though it was a predictable outcome of the situation. Unless children of immigrants are sent to religious or foreign-language schools, they will normally absorb conduct typical in a public high school—like dating Americans, which was an irritant for the Muslim father.
It’s interesting that Yaser was arrested in Justin, Texas, which is only 35 miles from Irving where the double murder took place. Was he in hiding for 12 years in the Dallas area? If so, it might suggest a community of traditional Muslims willing to protect a killer who was seen as sharia friendly. The August 2016 issue of the Texas Monthly reported that the Dallas metro area is “home to more than 150,000 Muslims.”
If any of those persons protected Yaser Said from the law, they would be in big trouble because Texas takes harboring offenses seriously:
Federal and State Laws Punish “Harboring” In Texas, the law that criminalizes the act of harboring a fugitive is known as Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution. . . Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution is a Class A misdemeanor unless the harbored person is wanted for a felony, in which case it is a Third-Degree Felony punishable by 2-10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
In fact, a Dallas CBS report noted that Said’s son Islam and brother Yassim were arrested for harboring.
Muslim family values are strong—but deadly.