vdare--2020-10-05--Biden, Wallace, Media Rout Trump With “White Supremacy” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees. It’s

Biden, Wallace, Media Rout Trump With “White Supremacy” Bogeyman—Helped By His Own Appointees. It’s His Own Fault For Quarrelling With Ann Coulter

Earlier : Joe Biden Thinks He 's Running Against Racism .
He 's Running Against America ; Biden Officially Announces He ’ s Running Against Charlottesville—With “ Black Lives Matter ” Kamala By His Side Last week ’ s presidential debate featured one of the most ridiculous claims in the annals of presidential debates : Imaginary “ white supremacists ” are a dire threat to the Republic , but the Antifa-Black Lives Matter rioters are nothing much to worry about .
Moderator Chris Wallace assisted Democrat Joe Biden by demanding that President Trump denounce those “ white supremacists , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absurdly , that Antifa is an “ idea.
” Though Trump rightly said the violence in Portland , Oregon , Kenosha , Wisconsin and elsewhere is the work of Leftist radicals , he subsequently betrayed the Proud Boys on Sean Hannity .
Dubious claims from Trump ’ s Deep State appointees and GOP cucks , whom Biden duly cited , haven ’ t helped .
Overall , Trump blew it .
But he can recover if he denounces and cracks down on Leftist violence .
But let ’ s be fair .
Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wallace , who showed his hand when he asked the loaded white-supremacists question , clearly meant to put Trump on the defensive and assist Sundown Joe .
Wallace framed Critical Race Theory , with which federal agencies are brainwashing employees , as mere “ racial sensitivity ” training .
Trump responded that he stopped it because the training is racist and anti-American .
But he didn ’ t tell the whole truth .
It ’ s anti-white .
Biden called Trump a “ racist ” anyway .
Wallace said nothing .
When Wallace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he flat-out lied in suggesting the arson and looting came from the Right .
Biden and his front man vehemently demanded Trump condemn “ militias , ” “ white supremacists , ” and the “ Proud Boys.
” Trump complied , telling the latter to “ stand down and stand by , ” while emphasizing that the violence in our cities is coming from the Left .
Wallace meekly asked Biden to condemn Antifa , which Biden refused to do .
“ Antifa is an idea , not an organization , ” said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Trump to far-right extremists : ‘ Stand back and stand by ’ , by Kathleen Ronayne and Michael Kunzelman , Associated Press , September 30 , 2020 ] .
Biden appeared completely unconcerned about Leftist revolutionary violence in Portland and denied he could do anything about it because he ’ s “ not in office.
” And that Trump was responsible anyway because he is blocking Democratic officials from stopping it [ Trump , Biden trade jabs about Portland , antifa , Proud Boys in first presidential debate , KGW , September @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Trump pulled back federal lawmen from Portland two months ago , and Antifa still rules the city [ Federal officers pulling out of Portland : U.S .
Homeland Security , Oregon governor , Reuters , July 29 , 2020 ] .
That claim from Biden went unchallenged , too .
On the other hand , Biden was mighty exercised about the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville way back in 2017 , and reprised the false narrative that “ white supremacists ” started the violence that day .
They didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But even if they had , it pales in comparison to Antifa-BLM ’ s subsequent costly campaign of arson , looting , and murder .
Biden delivered this dramatic rendition to pin the violence on Trump—whom he also called a “ liar ” and a “ clown.
” Biden has claimed the events in Charlottesville inspired what will be his last run for the White House , and after the debate , his campaign released an ad that falsely ties Trump to fantasy right-wing violence .
( That ad , by the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawsuit from famed lawyer Lin Wood on behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse , whom the ad falsely calls a white supremacist [ Kyle Rittenhouse suing Biden , campaign , by Victor Morton , The Washington Times , October 1 , 2020 ] .
This is potentially serious for Biden : Libel is notoriously tricky for public figures , but Rittenhouse is clearly not one , which is why Wood was able to force settlements out of CNN and The Washington Post on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann ) .
Biden ’ s move is clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ riots and non-whites who aren ’ t thrilled to vote for Biden .
If Trump wins , his message will say , bands of Nazis will roam the streets .
Bad as Biden ’ s smear was , cowardly Republicans effectively joined him and demanded Trump ’ s denunciation of a non-existent threat .
Trump folded and condemned “ white supremacists ” and also the “ Proud Boys ” on Sean Hannity ’ s Fox News show ( albeit while saying he knew little about them—which is entirely his fault for quarreling with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weak move , but at least he correctly argued—as he did during the debate—that the real danger emanates from the Left .
Trump can ’ t undo the error .
So now he must bring FBI director Christopher Wray and acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf into line .
Their obviously false claims about the danger of “ white supremacists ” gave Biden the ammunition to undermine Trump .
And Biden will continue using that ammo unless they change their tune .
This is what Wolf told a Senate committee : Wolf awaits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was trying to counter allegations that DHS is ignoring white supremacists to focus on the Left .
How reassuring FBI chief Wray told Congress before that “ racially-motivated violent extremism ” makes up the largest share of domestic terrorism .
His false claim that Antifa is an “ ideology ” presumably gave Biden the notion to claim that it was an “ idea ” during the debate [ FBI director says antifa is an ideology , not an organization , by Eric Tucker and Ben Fox , Associated Press , September 17 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ argument could be better used in the case of the amorphous white supremacist concept but , oddly , no one seems to apply it .
Significantly , Wray also told lawmakers that the FBI doesn ’ t classify Antifa violence as “ left-wing extremism , ” but instead calls it “ anti-government extremism.
” This category also includes militias and “ sovereign citizens ” —groups normally associated with the Right .
Wray did casually mention that most violence in 2020 originates from “ anti-government extremists , ” thus directly countering the popular media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supremacists.
” But most journalists didn ’ t pick up on the distinction .
They connect “ anti-government extremism ” with Timothy McVeigh , the Branch Davidians , and Cliven Bundy ( all white , none of them “ white supremacists ” but the MSM doesn ’ t know that ) not Antifa .
This classification obscures the truth .
Wray defended it by saying the FBI doesn ’ t look at politics .
“ We don ’ t really think of threats in terms of left , right , at the FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence , not the ideology , ” he said .
If true , then why mention “ white supremacists ” ?
The Wray-Wolf standard is ridiculous .
If it ’ s true , then all terrorism would be anti-government extremism .
Islamic terrorists also hate our government as well .
Are they merely “ anti-government extremists ?
” In other words , Wray and Wolf have provided Biden and his MSM auxiliary the means to hide Leftist terrorism and bolster Ruling Class willful ignorance about the source of the violence in places like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone that our intelligence agencies would hide the truth from the public .
The same people tried to topple Trump with the Russia collusion hoax and have undermined one policy after another for four years .
These Deep State apparatchiks know it would help Trump to classify Antifa correctly .
So they simply pretend it ’ s just an “ idea ” —far less dangerous than Klansmen burning crosses and sending frightened blacks screaming into the night .
Maybe BLM is an idea , too .
Yet the comments from Wray and Wolf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ house .
He might have to wait until he gets a second term , but in the meantime he should at least pull Wolf ’ s nomination .
He can ’ t permit cabinet secretaries to lie about domestic terror , and hide the real perpetrators , to help Biden and the MSM paint Trump as a racist sympathizer of “ white supremacists.
” Kris Kobach would be a much better pick .
He wouldn ’ t lie to the public about Antifa .
From now through Election Day , Trump must avoid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trap .
He must forget about “ denouncing ” imaginary threats , no matter how hard Biden ’ s MSM enforcers push .
His refusing to equate imaginary right-wing violence to real left-wing violence at the debate was correct , but he should have attacked the premise of the question .
Any feigned concern for “ white supremacist ” terrorism cedes the moral high ground to Biden .
As the election nears , more violence is inevitable .
Biden and the MSM are desperately citing Charlottesville and imaginary Klansmen precisely because the Antifa-BLM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s case .
If Biden can bamboozle the public into believing the false narrative , he can claim the Right is the real enabler of our current chaos .
But the real enemy in this country is Antifa and BLM .
Trump should say so—and say so loudly .
Washington Watcher II [ Email him ] is an anonymous DC insider .

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Earlier: Joe Biden Thinks He's Running Against Racism. He's Running Against America; Biden Officially Announces He’s Running Against Charlottesville—With “Black Lives Matter” Kamala By His Side
Last week’s presidential debate featured one of the most ridiculous claims in the annals of presidential debates: Imaginary “white supremacists” are a dire threat to the Republic, but the Antifa-Black Lives Matter rioters are nothing much to worry about. Moderator Chris Wallace assisted Democrat Joe Biden by demanding that President Trump denounce those “white supremacists,” and then permitted Biden to claim, absurdly, that Antifa is an “idea.” Though Trump rightly said the violence in Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin and elsewhere is the work of Leftist radicals, he subsequently betrayed the Proud Boys on Sean Hannity. Dubious claims from Trump’s Deep State appointees and GOP cucks, whom Biden duly cited, haven’t helped. Overall, Trump blew it. But he can recover if he denounces and cracks down on Leftist violence.
But let’s be fair. Trump was debating two opponents. The schoolmarmish Wallace, who showed his hand when he asked the loaded white-supremacists question, clearly meant to put Trump on the defensive and assist Sundown Joe. Wallace framed Critical Race Theory, with which federal agencies are brainwashing employees, as mere “racial sensitivity” training. Trump responded that he stopped it because the training is racist and anti-American. But he didn’t tell the whole truth. It’s anti-white.
Biden called Trump a “racist” anyway. Wallace said nothing.
When Wallace addressed the Floyd- and Blake-Hoax riots, he flat-out lied in suggesting the arson and looting came from the Right. Biden and his front man vehemently demanded Trump condemn “militias,” “white supremacists,” and the “Proud Boys.” Trump complied, telling the latter to “stand down and stand by,” while emphasizing that the violence in our cities is coming from the Left. Wallace meekly asked Biden to condemn Antifa, which Biden refused to do. “Antifa is an idea, not an organization,” said he, with zero pushback from Wallace [Trump to far-right extremists: ‘Stand back and stand by,’ by Kathleen Ronayne and Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press, September 30, 2020].
Biden appeared completely unconcerned about Leftist revolutionary violence in Portland and denied he could do anything about it because he’s “not in office.” And that Trump was responsible anyway because he is blocking Democratic officials from stopping it [Trump, Biden trade jabs about Portland, antifa, Proud Boys in first presidential debate, KGW, September 29, 2020]. In fact, Trump pulled back federal lawmen from Portland two months ago, and Antifa still rules the city [Federal officers pulling out of Portland: U.S. Homeland Security, Oregon governor, Reuters, July 29, 2020]. That claim from Biden went unchallenged, too.
On the other hand, Biden was mighty exercised about the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville way back in 2017, and reprised the false narrative that “white supremacists” started the violence that day. They didn’t, as VDARE.com has repeatedly shown. But even if they had, it pales in comparison to Antifa-BLM’s subsequent costly campaign of arson, looting, and murder.
Biden delivered this dramatic rendition to pin the violence on Trump—whom he also called a “liar” and a “clown.”
Close your eyes, remember what those people looked like coming out of the fields, carrying torches, their veins bulging ... just spewing anti-Semitic bile and accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan—a young woman got killed—and they asked the president what he thought, he said there were very fine people on both sides. [Biden Says Trump 'Refused to Disavow White Supremacy' With Callback to Charlottesville Violence, by Darragh Roche, Newsweek, September 30, 2020]
Biden has claimed the events in Charlottesville inspired what will be his last run for the White House, and after the debate, his campaign released an ad that falsely ties Trump to fantasy right-wing violence.
There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night. pic.twitter.com/Q3VZTW1vUV — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020
(That ad, by the way, has provoked threats of a defamation lawsuit from famed lawyer Lin Wood on behalf of Kyle Rittenhouse, whom the ad falsely calls a white supremacist [Kyle Rittenhouse suing Biden, campaign, by Victor Morton, Washington Times, October 1, 2020]. This is potentially serious for Biden: Libel is notoriously tricky for public figures, but Rittenhouse is clearly not one, which is why Wood was able to force settlements out of CNN and Washington Post on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann).
Biden’s move is clearly aimed at white suburbanites who detest the riots and non-whites who aren’t thrilled to vote for Biden. If Trump wins, his message will say, bands of Nazis will roam the streets.
Bad as Biden’s smear was, cowardly Republicans effectively joined him and demanded Trump’s denunciation of a non-existent threat. Trump folded and condemned “white supremacists” and also the “Proud Boys” on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show (albeit while saying he knew little about them—which is entirely his fault for quarreling with Ann Coulter). It was a weak move, but at least he correctly argued—as he did during the debate—that the real danger emanates from the Left.
Trump can’t undo the error. So now he must bring FBI director Christopher Wray and acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf into line. Their obviously false claims about the danger of “white supremacists” gave Biden the ammunition to undermine Trump. And Biden will continue using that ammo unless they change their tune.
This is what Wolf told a Senate committee:
White supremacist extremists, from a lethality standpoint over the last two years, particularly when you look at 2018 and 2019, are certainly the most persistent and lethal threat when we talk about domestic violent extremists. [Acting DHS secretary: White supremacy is 'most persistent and lethal threat' internally to US, Savannah Behrmann, USA Today, September 23, 2020]
Wolf awaits confirmation as permanent DHS chief, and was trying to counter allegations that DHS is ignoring white supremacists to focus on the Left. How reassuring
FBI chief Wray told Congress before that “racially-motivated violent extremism” makes up the largest share of domestic terrorism. His false claim that Antifa is an “ideology” presumably gave Biden the notion to claim that it was an “idea” during the debate [FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization, by Eric Tucker and Ben Fox, Associated Press, September 17, 2020]. (That very same argument could be better used in the case of the amorphous white supremacist concept but, oddly, no one seems to apply it.)
Significantly, Wray also told lawmakers that the FBI doesn’t classify Antifa violence as “left-wing extremism,” but instead calls it “anti-government extremism.” This category also includes militias and “sovereign citizens”—groups normally associated with the Right. Wray did casually mention that most violence in 2020 originates from “anti-government extremists,” thus directly countering the popular media narrative that it comes from “white supremacists.”
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But most journalists didn’t pick up on the distinction. They connect “anti-government extremism” with Timothy McVeigh, the Branch Davidians, and Cliven Bundy (all white, none of them “white supremacists” but the MSM doesn’t know that), not Antifa. This classification obscures the truth.
Wray defended it by saying the FBI doesn’t look at politics. “We don’t really think of threats in terms of left, right, at the FBI. We’re focused on the violence, not the ideology,” he said.
If true, then why mention “white supremacists”?
The Wray-Wolf standard is ridiculous. If it’s true, then all terrorism would be anti-government extremism. Islamic terrorists also hate our government as well. Are they merely “anti-government extremists?”
In other words, Wray and Wolf have provided Biden and his MSM auxiliary the means to hide Leftist terrorism and bolster Ruling Class willful ignorance about the source of the violence in places like Kenosha.
It won’t surprise anyone that our intelligence agencies would hide the truth from the public. The same people tried to topple Trump with the Russia collusion hoax and have undermined one policy after another for four years. These Deep State apparatchiks know it would help Trump to classify Antifa correctly. So they simply pretend it’s just an “idea”—far less dangerous than Klansmen burning crosses and sending frightened blacks screaming into the night. Maybe BLM is an idea, too.
Yet the comments from Wray and Wolf show that Trump desperately needs to clean house. He might have to wait until he gets a second term, but in the meantime he should at least pull Wolf’s nomination. He can’t permit cabinet secretaries to lie about domestic terror, and hide the real perpetrators, to help Biden and the MSM paint Trump as a racist sympathizer of “white supremacists.” Kris Kobach would be a much better pick. He wouldn’t lie to the public about Antifa.
From now through Election Day, Trump must avoid the Media/ Dem Complex’s carefully laid trap. He must forget about “denouncing” imaginary threats, no matter how hard Biden’s MSM enforcers push. His refusing to equate imaginary right-wing violence to real left-wing violence at the debate was correct, but he should have attacked the premise of the question. Any feigned concern for “white supremacist” terrorism cedes the moral high ground to Biden.
As the election nears, more violence is inevitable. Biden and the MSM are desperately citing Charlottesville and imaginary Klansmen precisely because the Antifa-BLM riots and murders are hurting Biden’s case. If Biden can bamboozle the public into believing the false narrative, he can claim the Right is the real enabler of our current chaos.
But the real enemy in this country is Antifa and BLM.
Trump should say so—and say so loudly.
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-10-05--Patrick J. Buchanan: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency

Saturday , Sept. 26 , was among the best days of the Trump presidency , or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg 's seat on the Supreme Court .
The academic and professional credentials of Amy Coney Barrett , 48 , a U.S. appeals court judge , were superb .
Moreover , she was a devout Catholic and mother of seven , two of whom were adoptees from Haiti .
From every standpoint , a 10-strike for Donald Trump .
Ahead was the Tuesday debate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the long-awaited opportunity to expose Sleepy Joe 's visible loss of mental and verbal acuity in the four years since he was vice president .
Sunday , however , The New York Times detonated a bomb directly beneath the Trump campaign .
Declaring that it had Trump 's tax returns , the Times story blared : Far from being a billionaire , the Times said , Trump was mired in debt with hundreds off millions of dollars in loans coming due in 2021 .
Suddenly , Trump was on the defensive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he began a series of accusations and insults that lasted 90 minutes .
The debate was widely declared the worst in U.S. presidential history .
Moderator Chris Wallace and the media agreed that the descent into chaos was caused by the endless interruptions of Trump .
Believing he accomplished what he had come to do , Trump headed out for the friendly country of Minnesota 's Iron Range .
On the return trip on Air Force One , Hope Hicks , feeling unwell , was quarantined .
She later tested positive for COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ word came that both the president and first lady had tested positive .
By evening , Marine One was transporting Trump from the White House to Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda .
Saturday came the doctors ' report that the president was doing well , followed by chief of staff Mark Meadows ' backgrounder suggesting that Trump 's situation had been more serious than the country knew .
Came then news that some of Trump 's guests at the Rose Garden ceremony had tested positive : campaign manager Bill Stepien , Governor Chris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kellyanne Conway , and Sens .
Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina , both of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will vote on Judge Barrett .
Sunday , with a crowd in front of Walter Reed loudly cheering for him , Trump commandeered an SUV and ordered it to drive by his followers so he could wave to them .
In the front seat of the SUV , in masks and protective gear , were Trump 's Secret Service agents .
The cumulative impact of these 10 days has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worst .
And the pressure from Trump , to get back to the White House and the campaign , suggests this is his take as well .
The coronavirus and how he has handled it , the contraction of COVID-19 and how Trump got infected , his prior mockery of masks and ridicule of many who wear them , the specter of thousands of maskless Trumpsters at MAGA rallies—all are now the stuff of front-page news and back-page commentary .
The nation tends to respond sympathetically when the president faces a life-threatening situation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heart attack in 1955 , and to Reagan after he was shot at the Washington Hilton by John Hinckley and then had colon cancer surgery early in his second term .
But Trump may have forfeited some of that sympathy by his mocking the wearing of masks .
On the weekend after the Trump-Biden debate , a Wall Street Journal poll found that Trump had fallen 14 points behind Biden , and , in an average of national polls , Biden now led him by 8 points .
Trump has four weeks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while easy to describe , is not so easy to accomplish .
He needs to persuade undecided and soft Biden voters that Joe is simply not up to the job of president .
Assuming he is well enough to campaign as he used to , Trump has to convince the country that Joe Biden is too big a risk to take .
He has two more debates to do what he failed to do in the first debate .
Wednesday will be Mike Pence 's opportunity , in his debate with Kamala @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right call in choosing him .
He can pay back the favor by exposing the radicalism of the people and policies Joe Biden would bring with him into the White House .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

What a difference a week can make.
Saturday, Sept. 26, was among the best days of the Trump presidency, or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court.
The academic and professional credentials of Amy Coney Barrett, 48, a U.S. appeals court judge, were superb. Moreover, she was a devout Catholic and mother of seven, two of whom were adoptees from Haiti.
From every standpoint, a 10-strike for Donald Trump.
Ahead was the Tuesday debate, the first of three with Joe Biden, and the long-awaited opportunity to expose Sleepy Joe's visible loss of mental and verbal acuity in the four years since he was vice president.
Sunday, however, The New York Times detonated a bomb directly beneath the Trump campaign. Declaring that it had Trump's tax returns, the Times story blared:
"Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years—largely because he reported losing much more money than he made."
Far from being a billionaire, the Times said, Trump was mired in debt with hundreds of millions of dollars in loans coming due in 2021.
Suddenly, Trump was on the defensive. And in the Cleveland debate, he began a series of accusations and insults that lasted 90 minutes. The debate was widely declared the worst in U.S. presidential history.
Moderator Chris Wallace and the media agreed that the descent into chaos was caused by the endless interruptions of Trump.
Believing he accomplished what he had come to do, Trump headed out for the friendly country of Minnesota's Iron Range. On the return trip on Air Force One, Hope Hicks, feeling unwell, was quarantined.
She later tested positive for COVID-19.
At 1 a.m. Friday, came word came that both the president and first lady had tested positive. By evening, Marine One was transporting Trump from the White House to Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda.
Saturday came the doctors' report that the president was doing well, followed by chief of staff Mark Meadows' backgrounder suggesting that Trump's situation had been more serious than the country knew.
Came then news that some of Trump's guests at the Rose Garden ceremony had tested positive: campaign manager Bill Stepien, Governor Chris Christie of his debate prep team, Kellyanne Conway, and Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, both of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will vote on Judge Barrett.
Sunday, with a crowd in front of Walter Reed loudly cheering for him, Trump commandeered an SUV and ordered it to drive by his followers so he could wave to them. In the front seat of the SUV, in masks and protective gear, were Trump's Secret Service agents.
The cumulative impact of these 10 days has been distracting at best and dreadful at worst. And the pressure from Trump, to get back to the White House and the campaign, suggests this is his take as well.
The coronavirus and how he has handled it, the contraction of COVID-19 and how Trump got infected, his prior mockery of masks and ridicule of many who wear them, the specter of thousands of maskless Trumpsters at MAGA rallies—all are now the stuff of front-page news and back-page commentary.
The nation tends to respond sympathetically when the president faces a life-threatening situation. It did so to Ike's heart attack in 1955, and to Reagan after he was shot at the Washington Hilton by John Hinckley and then had colon cancer surgery early in his second term.
But Trump may have forfeited some of that sympathy by his mocking the wearing of masks.
On the weekend after the Trump-Biden debate, a Wall Street Journal poll found that Trump had fallen 14 points behind Biden, and, in an average of national polls, Biden now led him by 8 points.
Trump has four weeks to turn it around. And his task, while easy to describe, is not so easy to accomplish. He needs to persuade undecided and soft Biden voters that Joe is simply not up to the job of president.
Assuming he is well enough to campaign as he used to, Trump has to convince the country that Joe Biden is too big a risk to take. He has two more debates to do what he failed to do in the first debate.
Wednesday will be Mike Pence's opportunity, in his debate with Kamala Harris, to show that Trump made the right call in choosing him.
He can pay back the favor by exposing the radicalism of the people and policies Joe Biden would bring with him into the White House.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-10-05--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: California Reader Notes That The MSM Is WIlling To Blame Volksw

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: California Reader Notes That The MSM Is WIlling To Blame Volkswagen For "Dozens" Of Emissions Deaths, But NEVER Applies This Logic To Immigration

Originally published on this day in 2015 .
The Associated Press has gone to the trouble of doing an analysis of the Volkswagen emissions scandal that blames the company for some hypothetical statistical increase in deaths : AP analysis : VW evasion likely led to dozens of deaths , Associated Press , By Seth Borenstein , October 5 , 2015 .
Gee , what are the emissions of 25,000,000 illegal aliens and their 20,000,000 anchor babies and all their vehicles , and all their employers ’ emissions ?
( Note that I do n't buy the official figure—unchanged for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
Yes , Virginia , there really is a connection between mass immigration , housing prices , wages , air quality , lifespan , probability of rape , even the national trade deficit How many Americans have died from poor air quality from decades of immigration non-enforcement ?
Here 's a great way to calculate the deaths , test all the vehicles seized from illegal aliens in the City of Bell , CA and Huntington Park , CA , get an average and multiply by the federal government 's official illegal alien @ @ @ @ @ @ @ please don ’ t forget the mass immigration policy which drives the ever increasing emissions standards , which never seem to work .
( Odd the air gets more polluted and traffic longer in spite of the state importing millions of Latino drivers ) .
Air quality across the nation is dropping on account of invasion generated growth , every advance in internal combustion engine technology has been obliterated by immigrant growth .
And worse , the technology advances our immigration policy is predicated on have n't appeared .
A present , solar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does n't solve the issue of millions of polluters moving in every year .
See more letters from Steve Smith .

Originally published on this day in 2015.
From: Steve Smith [Email him]
The Associated Press has gone to the trouble of doing an analysis of the Volkswagen emissions scandal that blames the company for some hypothetical statistical increase in deaths: AP analysis: VW evasion likely led to dozens of deaths, Associated Press, by Seth Borenstein, October 5, 2015.
Gee, what are the emissions of 25,000,000 illegal aliens and their 20,000,000 anchor babies and all their vehicles, and all their employers’ emissions? (Note that I don't buy the official figure—unchanged for the last 10 years—of 11-12 million illegal aliens.)
Yes, Virginia, there really is a connection between mass immigration, housing prices, wages, air quality, lifespan, probability of rape, even the national trade deficit
How many Americans have died from poor air quality from decades of immigration non-enforcement?
Here's a great way to calculate the Deaths: test all the vehicles seized from illegal aliens in the City of Bell, CA and Huntington Park, CA, get an average and multiply by the federal government's official illegal alien rate for the entire nation.
And please don’t forget the mass immigration policy which drives the ever increasing emissions standards , which never seem to work. (Odd the air gets more polluted and traffic longer in spite of the state importing millions of Latino drivers.)
Air quality across the nation is dropping on account of invasion generated growth; every advance in internal combustion engine technology has been obliterated by immigrant growth.
And worse, the technology advances our immigration policy is predicated on haven't appeared. A present, solar energy is just a tax, it doesn't solve the issue of millions of polluters moving in every year.
See more letters from Steve Smith.


vdare--2020-10-05--A Reader In California Says Integration Has Failed, May Move To AZ If Biden Wins

Re : Hispanic Immigrant Says 1964 Civil Rights Act Enabled BLM War Against Historic American Nation And It Should Be Repealed and Jefferson 's Prophecy , The Rest Of The Story : `` The Two Races , Equally Free , Can not Live In The Same Government '' From : A Reader In California [ Email him ] With regards to your thesis in VDARE.com , you are spot on !
We tried .
We really did .
Civil Rights Act .
Voting Rights Act .
Affirmative Action .
Trillions and rrillions of Reparations in transfer payments of one kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naught .
We now have a race responsible for 50 % of the murders , 60 % of the violent crime and which has 75 % illegitimacy .
By any measure , this is a failure .
Watching the frenzied mobs riot , I could not see the point .
Any young black kid with an ounce of gumption and ambition will find the doors thrown wide open for him across the board .
He can get a full ride at Harvard with a C or B average in High School while the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can only dream… .
wwhat is the complaint ?
I , for one , have given up on the subject .
I live in what was once Paradise Found , California , but is now Paradise Lost .
I am thinking of moving to AZ pending the outcome of the November Election .
If Trump wins , I shall stay ( for family reasons ) but if the mentally defective Biden wins , I am off to a town that is 92 % White .
There I shall spend my declining years .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be around “ them ” as I regard “ them ” as volatile and dangerous .
Thank you for stating what i believe is the obvious .

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From: A Reader In California [Email him]
With regards to your thesis in VDARE.com, you are spot on! We tried. We really did. Civil Rights Act. Voting Rights Act. Affirmative Action. Trillions and trillions of Reparations in transfer payments of one kind or another. It was all for naught. We now have a race responsible for 50% of the murders, 60% of the violent crime and which has 75% illegitimacy. By any measure, this is a failure.
Watching the frenzied mobs riot, I could not see the point. Any young black kid with an ounce of gumption and ambition will find the doors thrown wide open for him across the board. He can get a full ride at Harvard with a C or B average in High School while the white student with a mere A average can only dream…. what is the complaint?
I, for one, have given up on the subject. I live in what was once Paradise Found, California, but is now Paradise Lost. I am thinking of moving to AZ pending the outcome of the November Election.
If Trump wins, I shall stay (for family reasons) but if the mentally defective Biden wins, I am off to a town that is 92% White. There I shall spend my declining years. I just don’t want to be around “them” as I regard “them” as volatile and dangerous.
Thank you for stating what I believe is the obvious.


vdare--2020-10-05--No, BUFFALO NEWS, It's "Surge In Gun Violence Disproportionately CAUSED BY Buffalo’s Black Residents

No, BUFFALO NEWS, It's "Surge In Gun Violence Disproportionately CAUSED BY Buffalo’s Black Residents"

Earlier : Define Irony : As Black Lives Matter Terrorism Rages Across America , Blacks in 7 % Black Seattle Use Casket to Lament Black-On-Black Gun Violence in the City In the end , the only true way to address gun violence in America is to admit the racial dynamic to fatal and nonfatal gun violence in the USA .
It ’ s that simple .
The Buffalo News was just capable of admitting those responsible for gun violence in the city–disproportionately impacting black people in Buffalo–are black .
Not white supremacists , not white separatists , not white nationalists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nor maintaining systemic racism or implicit bias , but black people shooting other black people in the city of Buffalo .
Behind a boarded-up brick building on the corner of Jefferson and Glenwood avenues , blue balloons , purple flowers and stuffed teddy bears carry the memory of a young mother of three killed a week after her 23rd birthday .
Messages of love scrawled in blue , red and black marker hang on pieces of poster board .
On a nearby sidewalk , 37 tealight candles spell out “ Ray.
” On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and four others were shot near that intersection , in the second quintuple shooting of the year in Buffalo .
All five victims were Black .
Gun violence in Buffalo continues to disproportionately affect people of color .
So far this year , more than eight of every 10 shooting victims were Black .
Poverty in these neighborhoods is key factor , community activists say .
So is access to handguns , often trafficked illegally from other states , they say .
Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood and activists both agree that more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people away from resorting to violence .
Many of the shootings involve neighborhood gangs and are done in retaliation for previous shootings .
The shootings in Buffalo mirror what ’ s happening in other major cities across America and criminologists are still trying to parse out the role of the Covid-19 pandemic in the surge in violence .
They also are happening as the Black Lives Matter movement has forced questions about race , racism and the U.S. criminal justice system .
The shooting at Jefferson and Glenwood was Buffalo ’ s second @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Lockwood said police investigations often find one individual responsible for three or four shootings .
“ It ’ s a very small number of people causing this havoc on the East Side , ” Lockwood said .
“ The vast majority of people are law abiding citizens.
” Through the end of August , 217 people have either been injured or killed in a shooting in the city , according Buffalo Police Department data .
That ’ s 82 % higher than over the same period in 2019 , according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s also about 35 % higher than the average over that eight-month period from 2015 through last year , according to The News ’ analysis .
For three straight months , the number of people shot each month exceeded 40 – in June , 41 ; then 48 in July ; and 49 in August .
Before 2020 , the last time 40 people were shot in one month in Buffalo was July 2011 , according to police data .
Through early August , the number of shooting victims in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people shot last year .
“ Young people , they don ’ t really have anywhere to go , ” said Leroy Love , who runs a barbershop around the corner .
“ So when they meet up – it ’ s hundreds of them , usually – they ’ ll pick a block or something , have a party .
Or if there happens to be a party , they ’ ll show up there , and something seems to go wrong.
” The shooting at Jefferson and Glenwood was Buffalo ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a month .
Lockwood said police investigations often find one individual responsible for three or four shootings .
“ It ’ s a very small number of people causing this havoc on the East Side , ” Lockwood said .
“ The vast majority of people are law abiding citizens.
” Through the end of August , 217 people have either been injured or killed in a shooting in the city , according Buffalo Police Department data .
That ’ s 82 % higher than over the same period in 2019 , according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data .
It ’ s also about 35 % higher than the average over that eight-month period from 2015 through last year , according to The News ’ analysis .
For three straight months , the number of people shot each month exceeded 40 – in June , 41 ; then 48 in July ; and 49 in August .
Before 2020 , the last time 40 people were shot in one month in Buffalo was July 2011 , according to police data .
Through early August , the number of shooting victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of people shot last year .
“ Young people , they don ’ t really have anywhere to go , ” said Leroy Love , who runs a barbershop around the corner .
“ So when they meet up – it ’ s hundreds of them , usually – they ’ ll pick a block or something , have a party .
Or if there happens to be a party , they ’ ll show up there , and something seems to go wrong.
” It ’ s also established that a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , both locally and nationally .
According to 2019 Census Bureau estimates , Erie County ’ s population is 79.3 % white and 14 % Black .
During that same year , 46 % of those arrested in the county were white and 43 % were Black , according to statistics compiled by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services .
For felonies , 34 % of people arrested were white , 54 % Black .
Broken down to violent felonies , 23 % were white and 64 % Black .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ data on the race of shooting victims in documents released to The Buffalo News .
Residents who live in some areas of the city face disproportionate levels of gun violence .
A 2016 News analysis of shooting data showed the entire East Side , which accounts for only a third of the city ’ s population , accounted for about three-quarters of all shootings in the city from 2011 through 2016 .
At the memorial to Rayshionna Johnson , some of the candles carry messages including “ Rest in peace , RayRay , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” On a board covering a window on the back wall of the building , a message written in red marker reads “ Life is precious people ; this is not a joke !
Ray is gone & 3 babies will feel the pain forever… Put down the guns , please !
”

Earlier: Define Irony: As Black Lives Matter Terrorism Rages Across America, Blacks in 7% Black Seattle Use Casket to Lament Black-On-Black Gun Violence in the City
In the end, the only true way to address gun violence in America is to admit the racial dynamic to fatal and nonfatal gun violence in the USA. It’s that simple.
The Buffalo News was just capable of admitting those responsible for gun violence in the city—disproportionately impacting black people in Buffalo—are black. Not white supremacists, not white separatists, not white nationalists, not those clinging to white privilege nor maintaining systemic racism or implicit bias, but black people shooting other black people in the city of Buffalo.
Behind a boarded-up brick building on the corner of Jefferson and Glenwood avenues, blue balloons, purple flowers and stuffed teddy bears carry the memory of a young mother of three killed a week after her 23rd birthday.
Surge in gun violence disproportionately hits Buffalo's Black residents https://t.co/ZwPHeDQ8E2 — The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) October 2, 2020
Messages of love scrawled in blue, red and black marker hang on pieces of poster board. On a nearby sidewalk, 37 tealight candles spell out “Ray.”
On Sept. 19, Rayshionna Johnson was killed and four others were shot near that intersection, in the second quintuple shooting of the year in Buffalo. All five victims were Black.
Gun violence in Buffalo continues to disproportionately affect people of color. So far this year, more than eight of every 10 shooting victims were Black.
Poverty in these neighborhoods is key factor, community activists say. So is access to handguns, often trafficked illegally from other states, they say. Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood and activists both agree that more needs to be done to steer young people away from resorting to violence. Many of the shootings involve neighborhood gangs and are done in retaliation for previous shootings.
The shootings in Buffalo mirror what’s happening in other major cities across America and criminologists are still trying to parse out the role of the Covid-19 pandemic in the surge in violence. They also are happening as the Black Lives Matter movement has forced questions about race, racism and the U.S. criminal justice system.
The shooting at Jefferson and Glenwood was Buffalo’s second quintuple shooting in less than a month.
Lockwood said police investigations often find one individual responsible for three or four shootings.
“It’s a very small number of people causing this havoc on the East Side,” Lockwood said. “The vast majority of people are law abiding citizens.”
Through the end of August, 217 people have either been injured or killed in a shooting in the city, according Buffalo Police Department data. That’s 82% higher than over the same period in 2019, according to a Buffalo News analysis of the data. It’s also about 35% higher than the average over that eight-month period from 2015 through last year, according to The News’ analysis.
For three straight months, the number of people shot each month exceeded 40 – in June, 41; then 48 in July; and 49 in August. Before 2020, the last time 40 people were shot in one month in Buffalo was July 2011, according to police data.
Through early August, the number of shooting victims in the city already eclipsed the total number of people shot last year.
“Young people, they don’t really have anywhere to go,” said Leroy Love, who runs a barbershop around the corner. “So when they meet up – it’s hundreds of them, usually – they’ll pick a block or something, have a party. Or if there happens to be a party, they’ll show up there, and something seems to go wrong.”
The shooting at Jefferson and Glenwood was Buffalo’s second quintuple shooting in less than a month.
Lockwood said police investigations often find one individual responsible for three or four shootings.
“It’s a very small number of people causing this havoc on the East Side,” Lockwood said. “The vast majority of people are law abiding citizens.”
Through the end of August, 217 people have either been injured or killed in a shooting in the city, according Buffalo Police Department data. That’s 82% higher than over the same period in 2019, according to a Buffalo News analysis of the data. It’s also about 35% higher than the average over that eight-month period from 2015 through last year, according to The News’ analysis.
For three straight months, the number of people shot each month exceeded 40 – in June, 41; then 48 in July; and 49 in August. Before 2020, the last time 40 people were shot in one month in Buffalo was July 2011, according to police data.
Through early August, the number of shooting victims in the city already eclipsed the total number of people shot last year.
“Young people, they don’t really have anywhere to go,” said Leroy Love, who runs a barbershop around the corner. “So when they meet up – it’s hundreds of them, usually – they’ll pick a block or something, have a party. Or if there happens to be a party, they’ll show up there, and something seems to go wrong.”
It’s also established that a disproportionate percentage of people arrested are Black, both locally and nationally.
According to 2019 Census Bureau estimates, Erie County’s population is 79.3% white and 14% Black. During that same year, 46% of those arrested in the county were white and 43% were Black, according to statistics compiled by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. For felonies, 34% of people arrested were white, 54% Black. Broken down to violent felonies, 23% were white and 64% Black.
Buffalo police in July began including some data on the race of shooting victims in documents released to The Buffalo News.
Residents who live in some areas of the city face disproportionate levels of gun violence. A 2016 News analysis of shooting data showed the entire East Side, which accounts for only a third of the city’s population, accounted for about three-quarters of all shootings in the city from 2011 through 2016.
Gunfire nearly every night
At the memorial to Rayshionna Johnson, some of the candles carry messages including “Rest in peace, RayRay,” and “Love you, CrayCray.” On a board covering a window on the back wall of the building, a message written in red marker reads “Life is precious people; this is not a joke! Ray is gone & 3 babies will feel the pain forever… Put down the guns, please!”


vdare--2020-10-05--Grandson of Man Elected on 1840 Slogan 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too' Dies

TYLER , Lyon Gardiner , Jr. , age 95 , of Franklin , Tenn. , died September 26 , 2020 .
His beloved wife of 43 years , Lucy Jane Pope Tyler , preceded him in death .
He is survived by his daughter , Susan Selina Pope Tyler ; his brother , Harrison Ruffin Tyler of Richmond , Va. ; his niece , Julia Gardiner Tyler Samaniego of Rancho Santa Fe , Calif. ; his nephew , Harrison Ruffin Tyler Jr. and wife , Cathy , of Alexandria ; and his nephew , William Bouknight Tyler and wife , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as eight great-nieces and nephews .
Lyon was born in Richmond , Va. , to Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. and Susan Ruffin Tyler on January 3 , 1925 , and lived his youth in Charles City County , Va. , and grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler .
So his brother Harrison Ruffin Tyler Jr. , grandson of President Tyler ( 1841-1845 ) , is still alive .
He graduated from St. Christopher ’ s School ( ’ 41 ) and entered The College of William and Mary at age 16 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Body , a member of the Kappa Alpha Order and graduated in 1947 .
His formal education was interrupted in 1942 due to World War II , where he served as a Naval officer in the Pacific .
After the war , he served in the Naval Intelligence Reserve and retired with the rank of Commander .
He earned a law degree from the University of Virginia ( ’ 49 ) , served as a law clerk to a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals , practiced Virginia law and was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ City County .
In 1960 , he became the Assistant Director of the Virginia Civil War Centennial Commission , hoping to unite the country rather than further divide it , which led him to earn his doctorate in history from Duke University .
He embarked on a teaching career at Virginia Military Institute , where he re-designed the VMI Museum , followed by The Citadel for over 20 years , establishing a Full Gospel Businessmen ’ s Fellowship for cadets .
In 2000 , he and his family moved to his wife ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where he was an active member in many organizations including St. Bartholomew ’ s Episcopal Church .
Funeral services and interment will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday , October 3 , 2020 , at Westover Episcopal Church in Charles City , Va. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday , October 13 , 2020 , at St. Bartholomew ’ s Episcopal Church , Franklin , Tenn .
Both services will be live streamed and recorded via the respective church ’ s websites .
In lieu of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Christ for All Nations , P.O .
Box 590588 , Orlando , Fla. 32859-0588 or cfan.org/donate .
Professor Tyler was born in 1925 when his father , Lyon Gardiner Tyler , Sr. ( president of William and Mary College ) , was 73 .
In turn , LG Tyler Sr. was born to ex-President John Tyler ( 1790-1862 ) in 1853 , when the former President was 63 .
John Tyler was elected vice-president in the wonderful 1840 election of 180 years ago as the running mate on the Whig ticket of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indian chief Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe .
Harrison and Tyler defeated Martin Van Buren and nobody , running on the slogan “ Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
” Tyler won easily in the electoral college over America ’ s Greatest Vice President , Richard “ Dick ” Johnson , in part because the Democrats failed to renominate Johnson for VP after he ’ d taken a year off from the duties of the Vice President ( such as they are ) to manage his tavern in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ candidate to have a Tecumseh-related slogan , having been elected in 1836 on : Johnson was dropped from the Democratic re-election ticket in 1840 , but ran for re-election anyway .
Wikipedia claims that his rambling , incoherent speeches on the re-election trail were poorly received , touching off a riot in Cleveland .
But Johnson still won 48 electoral votes in 1840 as an independent candidate for Vice President .
Other frustrated Johnsonian projects were funding American exploration and conquest of the Hollow Earth and having his part-black daughters by his slave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never have lived up to that record as VP , but President Harrison came down with his death of cold while giving a 2-hour Inaugural address and so he moved up to the White House .

An obituary:
TYLER, Lyon Gardiner, Jr., age 95, of Franklin, Tenn., died September 26, 2020. His beloved wife of 43 years, Lucy Jane Pope Tyler, preceded him in death. He is survived by his daughter, Susan Selina Pope Tyler; his brother, Harrison Ruffin Tyler of Richmond, Va.; his niece, Julia Gardiner Tyler Samaniego of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.; his nephew, Harrison Ruffin Tyler Jr. and wife, Cathy, of Alexandria; and his nephew, William Bouknight Tyler and wife, Kay, of Richmond; as well as eight great-nieces and nephews. Lyon was born in Richmond, Va., to Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. and Susan Ruffin Tyler on January 3, 1925, and lived his youth in Charles City County, Va., and grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler.
So his brother Harrison Ruffin Tyler Jr., grandson of President Tyler (1841-1845), is still alive.
He graduated from St. Christopher’s School (’41) and entered The College of William and Mary at age 16, where he was President of the Student Body, a member of the Kappa Alpha Order and graduated in 1947. His formal education was interrupted in 1942 due to World War II, where he served as a Naval officer in the Pacific. After the war, he served in the Naval Intelligence Reserve and retired with the rank of Commander. He earned a law degree from the University of Virginia (’49), served as a law clerk to a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, practiced Virginia law and was elected Commonwealth’s Attorney for Charles City County. In 1960, he became the Assistant Director of the Virginia Civil War Centennial Commission, hoping to unite the country rather than further divide it, which led him to earn his doctorate in history from Duke University. He embarked on a teaching career at Virginia Military Institute, where he re-designed the VMI Museum, followed by The Citadel for over 20 years, establishing a Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship for cadets. In 2000, he and his family moved to his wife’s family farm in Franklin, Tenn., where he was an active member in many organizations including St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. Funeral services and interment will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 3, 2020, at Westover Episcopal Church in Charles City, Va. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Franklin, Tenn. Both services will be live streamed and recorded via the respective church’s websites. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Christ for All Nations, P.O. Box 590588, Orlando, Fla. 32859-0588 or cfan.org/donate.
Professor Tyler was born in 1925 when his father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Sr. (president of William and Mary College), was 73. In turn, LG Tyler Sr. was born to ex-President John Tyler (1790-1862) in 1853, when the former President was 63.
John Tyler was elected vice-president in the wonderful 1840 election of 180 years ago as the running mate on the Whig ticket of General William Henry Harrison, victor over Indian chief Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Harrison and Tyler defeated Martin Van Buren and nobody, running on the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.”
Tyler won easily in the electoral college over America’s Greatest Vice President, Richard “Dick” Johnson, in part because the Democrats failed to renominate Johnson for VP after he’d taken a year off from the duties of the Vice President (such as they are) to manage his tavern in Kentucky. Johnson was the first national candidate to have a Tecumseh-related slogan, having been elected in 1836 on:
Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey
Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh
(The American hero famous for not running for national office was William Tecumseh Sherman.)
Johnson was dropped from the Democratic re-election ticket in 1840, but ran for re-election anyway. Wikipedia claims that his rambling, incoherent speeches on the re-election trail were poorly received, touching off a riot in Cleveland. But Johnson still won 48 electoral votes in 1840 as an independent candidate for Vice President. Other frustrated Johnsonian projects were funding American exploration and conquest of the Hollow Earth and having his part-black daughters by his slave wife debut in Society.
Tyler could never have lived up to that record as VP, but President Harrison came down with his death of cold while giving a 2-hour Inaugural address and so he moved up to the White House.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-05--Lesson from 2000 Election: Blacks Mess Up Their Ballots More

Earlier : Florida Foul-Up Focuses Attention on America 's Huge but Hidden Minority : The Easily Confused and 2012 : Florida 2000 : The 50-50 Principle Exemplified It ’ s not remembered much , but what cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000 was that blacks messed up their ballots that they tried to cast in-person at a higher rate than whites did , judging by the demographics of precincts .
More Florida voters attempted to vote for poor Al than for Bush , but more Bush voters successfully executed .
Here ’ s a New York Times article from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ THE VOTE : DUVAL COUNTY ; Democrats Rue Ballot Foul-Up In a 2nd County By RAYMOND BONNER with JOSH BARBANEL Published : November 17 , 2000 Democrats in Duval County prepared meticulously for Election Day .
They registered thousands of voters and ferried enough people to the polls in predominantly African-American precincts to give a solid boost to Vice President Al Gore in a county expected to swing reliably into Gov .
George W. Bush ’ s column .
But the results of Duval County ’ s vote left Democrats here shaking their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invalidated , the vast majority because they contained votes for more than one presidential candidate .
Nearly 9,000 of the votes were thrown out in the predominantly African-American communities around Jacksonville , where Mr. Gore scored 10-to-1 ratios of victory , according to an analysis of the vote by The New York Times .
The percentage of invalidated votes here was far higher than that recorded in Palm Beach County , which has become the focus of national attention and where Democrats have argued that so many people were disenfranchised it may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Neither Democrats nor Republicans have demanded a hand recount or new election in Duval County .
Local election officials attributed the outcome to a ballot that had the name of presidential candidates on two pages , which they said many voters found confusing .
Many voters , they said , voted once on each page .
The election officials said they would not use such a ballot in the future .
Rodney G. Gregory , a lawyer for the Democrats in Duval County , said the party shared the blame for the confusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instructed voters , many persuaded to go to the polls for the first time , to cast ballots in every race and ” be sure to punch a hole on every page.
” If Mr. Gregory ’ s assessment is correct , and thousands of Gore supporters were inadvertently misled into invalidating their ballots , this county alone would have been enough to give Mr. Gore the electoral votes of Florida , and thus the White House .
The voters turned out by Democrats , Mr. Gregory said , took the instructions to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” I ’ ve got to vote for Gore .
I ’ ve got to be sure Bush doesn ’ t get elected .
I ’ ve got to vote on every page.
” Here ’ s La Griffe du Lion ’ s analysis of how the standard IQ gap between the races explains much about the different rates of failing to execute voting properly .
The Democrats missed several opportunities before and after the 2000 election to help Gore win because they didn ’ t understand that the IQ gap meant that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often .
I have no idea if the Democrats have figured that out since then .
On one hand , it would be very much in their interest to keep in mind the racial IQ gap when thinking about voting procedures .
On the other hand : crimethink !
As a friend said , the 2020 election may turn on whether Millennials can figure out how to mail a letter…

Earlier: Florida Foul-Up Focuses Attention on America's Huge but Hidden Minority: The Easily Confused and 2012: Florida 2000: The 50-50 Principle Exemplified
It’s not remembered much, but what cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000 was that blacks messed up their ballots that they tried to cast in person at a higher rate than whites did, judging by the demographics of precincts.
More Florida voters attempted to vote for poor Al than for Bush, but more Bush voters successfully executed. Here’s a New York Times article from the middle of the recount:
COUNTING THE VOTE: DUVAL COUNTY; Democrats Rue Ballot Foul-Up In a 2nd County
By RAYMOND BONNER with JOSH BARBANEL
Published: November 17, 2000 Democrats in Duval County prepared meticulously for Election Day. They registered thousands of voters and ferried enough people to the polls in predominantly African-American precincts to give a solid boost to Vice President Al Gore in a county expected to swing reliably into Gov. George W. Bush’s column. But the results of Duval County’s vote left Democrats here shaking their heads. More than 26,000 ballots were invalidated, the vast majority because they contained votes for more than one presidential candidate. Nearly 9,000 of the votes were thrown out in the predominantly African-American communities around Jacksonville, where Mr. Gore scored 10-to-1 ratios of victory, according to an analysis of the vote by The New York Times. The percentage of invalidated votes here was far higher than that recorded in Palm Beach County, which has become the focus of national attention and where Democrats have argued that so many people were disenfranchised it may be necessary to let them vote again. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have demanded a hand recount or new election in Duval County. Local election officials attributed the outcome to a ballot that had the name of presidential candidates on two pages, which they said many voters found confusing. Many voters, they said, voted once on each page. The election officials said they would not use such a ballot in the future. Rodney G. Gregory, a lawyer for the Democrats in Duval County, said the party shared the blame for the confusion. Mr. Gregory said Democratic Party workers instructed voters, many persuaded to go to the polls for the first time, to cast ballots in every race and ”be sure to punch a hole on every page.” ”The get-out-the vote folks messed it up,” Mr. Gregory said ruefully. If Mr. Gregory’s assessment is correct, and thousands of Gore supporters were inadvertently misled into invalidating their ballots, this county alone would have been enough to give Mr. Gore the electoral votes of Florida, and thus the White House. The voters turned out by Democrats, Mr. Gregory said, took the instructions to vote in every race to mean: ”I’ve got to vote for Gore. I’ve got to be sure Bush doesn’t get elected. I’ve got to vote on every page.”
Here’s La Griffe du Lion’s analysis of how the standard IQ gap between the races explains much about the different rates of failing to execute voting properly.
The Democrats missed several opportunities before and after the 2000 election to help Gore win because they didn’t understand that the IQ gap meant that their black voters would mess up more often.
I have no idea if the Democrats have figured that out since then. On one hand, it would be very much in their interest to keep in mind the racial IQ gap when thinking about voting procedures. On the other hand: crimethink!
As a friend said, the 2020 election may turn on whether Millennials can figure out how to mail a letter…
[Comment at Unz.com]


Blonde vs. Brunette

How many intellectuals in 2020 can figure out the point of this 1939 cartoon ?
Source : `` You and Heredity : Genetics and the Inheritance of Musical Talent , '' by Amram Scheinfeld Amram Scheinfeld , a comic‐strip artist who became a widely read science writer on genetics , died yesterday at University Hospital .
He was 79 years old and lived in Greenwich Village .
Mr. Scheinfeld ’ s first book , “ You and Heredity , ” published by Stokes in 1939 , was credited with being the first accurate interpretation of the science of human genetics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ features were illustrations by the author and a report on Mr. Scheinfeld ’ s own study of the inheritance of musical talent that led him to conclude that true musical talent was probably inherited and required the the coexistence of several genetic units , or genes .
Personal information was obtained by Mr. Scheinfeld from 36 outstanding instrumentalists , 36 principals of the Metropolitan Opera and 50 students of the Juilliard School of Music .
Another study was made of children of musical artists .
“ You and Heredity , ” written with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Schweitzer , was praised by scientists in the United States and Britain , where it was prepared for publication by J.B.S .
Haldane .
As the science of human genetics grew , Mr. Scheinfeld produced expanded editions .
“ The New You and Heredity ” was published in 1950 .
He also wrote “ Your Heredity and Environment , ” published in 1965 and given The Saturday Review Anisfield‐Wolff award .
In the meantime , Mr. Scheinfeld had written “ Women and Men , ” a 1944 analysis of sex differences that foreshadowed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He also wrote “ The Human Heredity Handbook ” ( 1956 ) ; “ Why You Are You , ” a work for children published in 1958 and revised in 1970 ; “ Basic Facts of Human Heredity ” ( 1961 ) ; “ Twins and Supertwins , ” an investigation of the social and psychological aspects of twinship ( 1967 ) , and “ Heredity in Humans ” ( 1972 ) .
His novel , “ Postscript to Wendy , ” was published in 1959 .
… Mr. Scheinfeld ’ s wife @ @ @ @ @ @ @ husband had completed another book before his death .
It is called “ The Human Sexes ” and will be published next year by Alfred A. Knopf .
Mr. Scheinfeld was born in Louisville , Ky. , a son of Rabbi Solomon I. Scheinfeld and the former Sanna R. Sachs .
… He also produced a daily column , “ Snappy Shots , ” for The New York American , drawing from life to accompany his humorous profiles of well‐known people .
“ Meeting all these big‐shots , close‐up day after day , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ has set me thinking about what makes some people rise to the top , and so many others — the nobodies , failures , criminals I ’ d met as a reporter —stay at the bottom.
” His speculations led to his interest in heredity .
Surviving is his wife .
There will be no service .

How many intellectuals in 2020 can figure out the point of this 1939 cartoon?
Source: "You and Heredity: Genetics and the Inheritance of Musical Talent," by Amram Scheinfeld
For clues, here’s Amram Scheinfeld’s 1979 New York Times obituary:
Amram Scheinfeld, Cartoonist And Writer on Human Genetics
By Thomas W. Ennis
Sept. 12, 1979
Amram Scheinfeld, a comic‐strip artist who became a widely read science writer on genetics, died yesterday at University Hospital. He was 79 years old and lived in Greenwich Village.
Mr. Scheinfeld’s first book, “You and Heredity,” published by Stokes in 1939, was credited with being the first accurate interpretation of the science of human genetics for the general public.
Among its features were illustrations by the author and a report on Mr. Scheinfeld’s own study of the inheritance of musical talent that led him to conclude that true musical talent was probably inherited and required the the [sic] coexistence of several genetic units, or genes.
Personal information was obtained by Mr. Scheinfeld from 36 outstanding instrumentalists, 36 principals of the Metropolitan Opera and 50 students of the Juilliard School of Music. Another study was made of children of musical artists.
“You and Heredity,” written with the the [sic] technical assistance of Dr. Morton Schweitzer, was praised by scientists in the United States and Britain, where it was prepared for publication by J.B.S. Haldane.
As the science of human genetics grew, Mr. Scheinfeld produced expanded editions. “The New You and Heredity” was published in 1950. He also wrote “Your Heredity and Environment,” published in 1965 and given The Saturday Review Anisfield‐Wolff award.
In the meantime, Mr. Scheinfeld had written “Women and Men,” a 1944 analysis of sex differences that foreshadowed many issues of the feminist movement.
He also wrote “The Human Heredity Handbook” (1956); “Why You Are You,” a work for children published in 1958 and revised in 1970; “Basic Facts of Human Heredity” (1961); “Twins and Supertwins,” an investigation of the social and psychological aspects of twinship (1967), and “Heredity in Humans” (1972). His novel, “Postscript to Wendy,” was published in 1959. …
Mr. Scheinfeld’s wife, Dorothy, said yesterday that her husband had completed another book before his death. It is called “The Human Sexes” and will be published next year by Alfred A. Knopf.
Mr. Scheinfeld was born in Louisville, Ky., a son of Rabbi Solomon I. Scheinfeld and the former Sanna R. Sachs.
… He also produced a daily column, “Snappy Shots,” for The New York American, drawing from life to accompany his humorous profiles of well‐known people.
“Meeting all these big‐shots, close‐up day after day,” Mr. Scheinfeld wrote to his family, “has set me thinking about what makes some people rise to the top, and so many others — the nobodies, failures, criminals I’d met as a reporter —stay at the bottom.” His speculations led to his interest in heredity.
Surviving is his wife. There will be no service.


vdare--2020-10-05--NYT: Black Microbiologists Push for Visibility

From the New York Times : A week of talks , panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression “ @ @ @ @ @ does not exist.
” Ariangela Kozik , Ph.D. , a research fellow at the University @ @ @ @ @ co-founder of the group , Black in Microbiology .
Credit…Cydni Elledge for The New York @ @ @ @ @ in recent years of Blackness Uber Alles in the media is driven by a combination @ @ @ @ @ privileging black women more than most others combined with the normal female urge of black @ @ @ @ @ have an excuse to get herself all dolled up and have her picture taken ?

From the New York Times:
Black Microbiologists Push for Visibility Amid a Pandemic A week of talks, panels and discussions seeks to counter an impression “that this talent pool just does not exist.” Ariangela Kozik, Ph.D., a research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School and co-founder of the group, Black in Microbiology. Credit…Cydni Elledge for The New York Times By Katherine J. Wu
Sept. 28, 2020
How much of surge in recent years of Blackness Uber Alles in the media is driven by a combination of The Theory of Intersectionality privileging black women more than most others combined with the normal female urge of black women like Dr. Kozik to have an excuse to get herself all dolled up and have her picture taken?
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vdare--2020-10-05--Peak Projection: ”My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away“

This may be Peak 2020ish Journalistic Projection ( and that ’ s saying a lot ) .
From the New York Times : My Screens Are Filled With Black Death , but I Won ’ t Look Away Scenes of racist brutality both real , in news videos , and imagined , in series like “ The Boys , ” can veer between exposure and exploitation .
But sometimes we need to pay the price of our contentment .
This essay includes spoilers from the current season of “ The Boys.
” The most recent episode of Amazon ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a gun-toting white man killing a South Asian storekeeper while hateful rhetoric about dangerous illegal immigrants runs through his head .
Later at a public rally , two heroes decry “ godless , inhuman supervillains ” who are “ pouring across our borders ” while standing in front of a giant American flag .
And to think that when I watched the episode screener recently , I had turned to it for a break from news stories about senseless murders of people of color and the poisonous , racist discourse that ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great country .
But this season of the series delivers more of the same : I was asked to watch more Black men die .
The show ’ s fictional renderings of Black deaths pale in comparison to the real tragedies they mirror .
But I found their effect to be similarly distressing , and the presentations of both raise ethical questions about how we convey the horrors of America .
When is this documenting of wrongs , as art or as journalism , a worthwhile public service intended to awaken people to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
And when is it simply exploiting tragedy for the sake of spectacle ?
Adapted from Garth Ennis ’ s notoriously graphic comic book of the same name , “ The Boys ” has never been light viewing .
But it has a dark sense of humor , and the explicit violence has a point , as part of a larger critique of capitalism , consumerism , jingoism and the American obsession with celebrity .
In the show ’ s alternative version of the world , superheroes are everywhere , and the best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — are backed by an evil corporation , Vought International .
But unbeknown to their fans , the corrupt crusaders would rather pursue their own hedonistic , and often criminal , interests than save the day .
A group of literal antiheroes , the Boys , work to get back at the “ supes , ” in the show ’ s parlance , for their misdeeds and keep them in line .
The second season narrows its gaze to focus on a timely topic : the power of hateful , fear-mongering political rhetoric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ introduces a brand-new member of the Seven : Stormfront , an ageless wonder , played by Aya Cash , who we discover fought previously under the nom de guerre Liberty and was a member of the Nazi elite during World War II .
The Stormfront of the comic is a savage Nazi man in a cape , a fierce , powerful hero who openly terrorizes people of color .
The series switches the gender and makes the unveiling of her villainy more subtle : She is a white feminist who challenges sexist double @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first via social media and then at raucous rallies , manipulating people ’ s fears to her advantage .
Her bigotry is revealed gradually , but as we see in flashbacks from when she was Liberty , it runs deep .
In one triggering scene set in the ’ 70s , Liberty stops a Black man and his younger sister as they ’ re driving along at night .
The superhero cites a car robbery , though the man insists the car is his .
Nevertheless , Liberty kills the man as his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as Stormfront , she chases a superpowered character into an apartment complex full of Black families , thoughtlessly killing bystanders along the way .
She flings a Black man against his own refrigerator and he dies in his home , and it ’ s implied that the rest of his family does , too .
She tosses another out of a window as if he were a piece of trash .
When she reaches her target , an Asian man , she kills him slowly , cruelly , spitting out a racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a rally , we see her proclaiming the need to “ Keep America safe again , ” in an explicit callback to our president ’ s favorite catchphrase .
Then there ’ s that opening scene of the episode released on Friday , when a random white Stormfront fan , infected by her rabble-rousing racism , shoots the man at his own convenience store , afraid that he is one of the immigrant superterrorists he has been warned about .

This may be Peak 2020ish Journalistic Projection (and that’s saying a lot). From the New York Times:
My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away
Scenes of racist brutality both real, in news videos, and imagined, in series like “The Boys,” can veer between exposure and exploitation. But sometimes we need to pay the price of our contentment.
By Maya Phillips, Oct. 2, 2020
This essay includes spoilers from the current season of “The Boys.”
The most recent episode of Amazon’s superhero spoof “The Boys” opens with a gun-toting white man killing a South Asian storekeeper while hateful rhetoric about dangerous illegal immigrants runs through his head. Later at a public rally, two heroes decry “godless, inhuman supervillains” who are “pouring across our borders” while standing in front of a giant American flag.
And to think that when I watched the episode screener recently, I had turned to it for a break from news stories about senseless murders of people of color and the poisonous, racist discourse that’s become the norm in my supposedly great country. But this season of the series delivers more of the same: I was asked to watch more Black men die.
The show’s fictional renderings of Black deaths pale in comparison to the real tragedies they mirror. But I found their effect to be similarly distressing, and the presentations of both raise ethical questions about how we convey the horrors of America. When is this documenting of wrongs, as art or as journalism, a worthwhile public service intended to awaken people to what’s happening in their country? And when is it simply exploiting tragedy for the sake of spectacle?
Adapted from Garth Ennis’s notoriously graphic comic book of the same name, “The Boys” has never been light viewing. But it has a dark sense of humor, and the explicit violence has a point, as part of a larger critique of capitalism, consumerism, jingoism and the American obsession with celebrity. In the show’s alternative version of the world, superheroes are everywhere, and the best — an adored group called the Seven — are backed by an evil corporation, Vought International.
But unbeknown to their fans, the corrupt crusaders would rather pursue their own hedonistic, and often criminal, interests than save the day. A group of literal antiheroes, the Boys, work to get back at the “supes,” in the show’s parlance, for their misdeeds and keep them in line.
The second season narrows its gaze to focus on a timely topic: the power of hateful, fear-mongering political rhetoric. To that end, the show introduces a brand-new member of the Seven: Stormfront, an ageless wonder, played by Aya Cash, who we discover fought previously under the nom de guerre Liberty and was a member of the Nazi elite during World War II.
The Stormfront of the comic is a savage Nazi man in a cape, a fierce, powerful hero who openly terrorizes people of color. The series switches the gender and makes the unveiling of her villainy more subtle: She is a white feminist who challenges sexist double standards but then mobilizes her fans, first via social media and then at raucous rallies, manipulating people’s fears to her advantage. Her bigotry is revealed gradually, but as we see in flashbacks from when she was Liberty, it runs deep.
In one triggering scene set in the ’70s, Liberty stops a Black man and his younger sister as they’re driving along at night. The superhero cites a car robbery, though the man insists the car is his. Nevertheless, Liberty kills the man as his sister watches.
In the present day, as Stormfront, she chases a superpowered character into an apartment complex full of Black families, thoughtlessly killing bystanders along the way. She flings a Black man against his own refrigerator and he dies in his home, and it’s implied that the rest of his family does, too. She tosses another out of a window as if he were a piece of trash. When she reaches her target, an Asian man, she kills him slowly, cruelly, spitting out a racial epithet as she does. Later, at a rally, we see her proclaiming the need to “Keep America safe again,” in an explicit callback to our president’s favorite catchphrase.
Then there’s that opening scene of the episode released on Friday, when a random white Stormfront fan, infected by her rabble-rousing racism, shoots the man at his own convenience store, afraid that he is one of the immigrant superterrorists he has been warned about.


vdare--2020-10-05--"President Had Stakes In Makers Of Antibody Cocktail, Remdesivir"—Will This be the Next Conspiracy T

"President Had Stakes In Makers Of Antibody Cocktail, Remdesivir"—Will This be the Next Conspiracy Theory?

That Trump didn ’ t really have COVID , he just faked it to promote his golf buddy ’ s stock ?
From USA Today : Trump COVID-19 treatment : President had stakes in Regeneron and Gilead , makers of antibody cocktail , Remdesivir President Donald Trump previously reported he earned capital gains from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Gilead Sciences Inc. , the manufacturers of two of the medicines he ’ s taken as part of his COVID-19 treatment plan .
According to a 2017 financial disclosure form filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in June 2017 , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to $ 100,000 for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and $ 100,001 to $ 1 million for Gilead Sciences Inc .
The form notes the information was of April 15 , 2017 .
Trump ’ s subsequent disclosure forms , including his 2020 form signed July 31 , did not list Regeneron or Gilead .
Trump received a single 8-gram dose of Regeneron ’ s polyclonal antibody cocktail as a precautionary measure , according to his physician Sean Conley .
The antibody cocktail is in four late-stage clinical trials , and its safety and efficacy have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority , the company said on its webpage .
As part of Operation Warp Speed , New York state-based Regeneron won a $ 450 million federal contract in July to manufacture and supply the company ’ s antibody cocktail REGN-COV2 .

That Trump didn’t really have COVID, he just faked it to promote his golf buddy’s stock? From USA Today:
Trump COVID-19 treatment: President had stakes in Regeneron and Gilead, makers of antibody cocktail, Remdesivir
Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY
President Donald Trump previously reported he earned capital gains from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Gilead Sciences Inc., the manufacturers of two of the medicines he’s taken as part of his COVID-19 treatment plan.
According to a 2017 financial disclosure form filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in June 2017, Trump had a capital gain of $50,001 to $100,000 for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and $100,001 to $1 million for Gilead Sciences Inc. The form notes the information was of April 15, 2017.
Trump’s subsequent disclosure forms, including his 2020 form signed July 31, did not list Regeneron or Gilead.
Trump received a single 8-gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail as a precautionary measure, according to his physician Sean Conley. The antibody cocktail is in four late-stage clinical trials, and its safety and efficacy have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority, the company said on its webpage.
As part of Operation Warp Speed, New York state-based Regeneron won a $450 million federal contract in July to manufacture and supply the company’s antibody cocktail REGN-COV2.


vdare--2020-10-05--#NobelsSoWhite: White Males Keep Winning Nobel Prizes by Benefiting Humanity

STOCKHOLM ( Reuters ) – Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus , which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer .
The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter , Charles Rice and Briton Michael Houghton [ now in Canada ] meant there was now a chance of eradicating the Hepatitis C virus completely , the award-giving body said .
Remarkably , the hard science Nobel Prizes have , so far , been the last refuge from the otherwise universal urge to lower standards in the name of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the discovery of the Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps forward , ” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden ’ s Karolinska Institute said in a statement on awarding the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ( $ 1.1 million ) .
“ The discovery of Hepatitis C virus revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.
” By the way , why isn ’ t the Nobel Prize more like $ 10 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their own prizes , which is good , but nobody pays much attention to any prizes other than the Nobel and the Fields medal for mathematicians .

Earlier: This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: 2017 Hard Science Nobels: White Men Win 9 of 9
From Reuters:
Scientists who helped identify Hepatitis C virus win 2020 Nobel Medicine Prize
By Reuters Staff STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Briton Michael Houghton [now in Canada] meant there was now a chance of eradicating the Hepatitis C virus completely, the award-giving body said.
Remarkably, the hard science Nobel Prizes have, so far, been the last refuge from the otherwise universal urge to lower standards in the name of Diversity.
“Prior to their work, the discovery of the Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps forward,” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement on awarding the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
“The discovery of Hepatitis C virus revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.”
By the way, why isn’t the Nobel Prize more like $10 million?
Lots of rich guys have started their own prizes, which is good, but nobody pays much attention to any prizes other than the Nobel and the Fields medal for mathematicians.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-03--Woke Capital Worship at Its Funniest: The Story of Banking‘s “Sole Black CEO”

From the New York Times news section : A tall , reserved , bespectacled polyglot , Mr. Thiam did the job he was hired to do : He made Credit Suisse profitable again after a long decline .
But he never had to stop fighting for acceptance and respect , both within the bank and in Switzerland generally .
At a shareholders meeting , his background was denigrated as “ third world.
” A subordinate purchased the home next to his , which was taller and looked directly into Mr. Thiam ’ s windows .
For Mr. Thiam , now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a series of painful incidents that shaped his five years atop Credit Suisse , when he was the only Black chief executive in the top tier of banking .
Some moments were shocking , others disturbing ; most had to do with tensions around being Black in a predominantly white industry and an overwhelmingly white city .
Eventually they returned to the party , only to be astonished again .
A group of Mr. Rohner ’ s friends took the stage to perform their own musical number , all wearing Afro wigs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the events , which were described by three guests . )
The festivities had a Studio 54 theme , with 1970s costumes and hired entertainers .
Mr. Thiam watched as a Black performer came onstage dressed as a janitor , and began to dance to music while sweeping the floor .
Mr. Thiam excused himself and left the room .
His partner and another couple at his table , including the chief executive of the British drug company GSK , followed .
Last November , Urs Rohner , the chairman of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ party at a Zurich restaurant to celebrate his 60th birthday .
Among the scores of friends , family and business associates who gathered , attendees say , there was a single Black guest : Tidjane Thiam , the bank ’ s chief executive .
Tidjane Thiam made Credit Suisse profitable again .
But the Swiss rejected him as an outsider , and a sudden scandal took him down .
Why doesn ’ t Switzerland have sumptuary laws anymore to prevent non-Black executive vice presidents from buying houses that are taller than those of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousand [ sic ] of layoffs and paring back sales and trading , making many employees nervous for their jobs .
It was an executive he promoted , however , who gave Mr. Thiam one of his first unsettling experiences in Switzerland .
To bolster Credit Suisse ’ s private wealth management business , he had tapped Iqbal Khan , 39 , who had been born in Pakistan but moved to Switzerland as a child .
The two were discussing strategy one day late in 2015 , according to people familiar with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ d bought the house next door to Mr. Thiam ’ s in Herrliberg , a suburb with lofty prices and views of Lake Zurich .
Mr. Thiam asked Mr. Khan if he was serious .
Mr. Khan said yes .
Later , Mr. Thiam told friends and colleagues that the news disturbed him .
Fiercely private , he was going through a divorce , and he was leery of a subordinate having a view of his low-slung property .
As a C.E.O.
, he didn ’ t relish the idea of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Thiam was closer to the precipice than he knew .
In early 2019 , he hosted a holiday party at his home .
Mr. Khan had by then moved in next door , and Mr. Thiam had planted trees to obstruct the view .
At the party , Mr. Khan got into a heated discussion with Mr. Thiam ’ s partner about the landscaping , upsetting her , and the two men stepped downstairs for a private word .
Mr. Khan quickly left the scene .
Neither executive will say exactly what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Khan shocked Zurich by decamping to UBS .
Wealth management had been the most successful aspect of Mr. Thiam ’ s tenure , and now his star executive would be working for the bank ’ s biggest competitor .
That September , Mr. Khan and his wife were driving to lunch at a Zurich restaurant when they noticed they were being followed .
Mr. Khan parked and confronted the man , who turned out to be a detective from a Swiss firm called Investigo .
An argument ensued , during which each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming physically aggressive .
Mr. Khan filed a police report , and both Credit Suisse and the canton opened investigations .
“ Spygate , ” as the Swiss media called it , was a sensation .
At Credit Suisse , the chief operating officer , Pierre-Olivier Bouée , admitted to ordering the surveillance , saying he had suspected Mr. Khan of trying to poach employees .
He resigned .
Mr. Thiam , who denied any knowledge of the spy games , was cleared .
But Mr. Bouée was not just his No .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the bank from Prudential , and the chief executive ’ s name was deeply tarnished by association .
The incident was a debacle for all of Credit Suisse , an institution that was a source of great national pride .
A contract worker who had been involved in hiring Investigo died by suicide .
Mr. Rohner felt obliged to publicly apologize to the Khans and the Swiss public .
… The repercussions of the scandal progressed with remarkable speed .
… On Feb. 7 , he resigned .
A Swiss member of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
… For his sister Yamousso , one question about the Swiss still lingers .
“ I would be curious to know , ” she said , “ if today they ’ d finally have the honesty to recognize that seeing a Black man at the top of one of their most prestigious companies was unbearable .
”

From the New York Times news section:
The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banking’s Sole Black C.E.O. Tidjane Thiam made Credit Suisse profitable again. But the Swiss rejected him as an outsider, and a sudden scandal took him down. By Kate Kelly
Oct. 3, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET Last November, Urs Rohner, the chairman of the board of Credit Suisse, had a party at a Zurich restaurant to celebrate his 60th birthday. Among the scores of friends, family and business associates who gathered, attendees say, there was a single Black guest: Tidjane Thiam, the bank’s chief executive. The festivities had a Studio 54 theme, with 1970s costumes and hired entertainers. Mr. Thiam watched as a Black performer came onstage dressed as a janitor, and began to dance to music while sweeping the floor. Mr. Thiam excused himself and left the room. His partner and another couple at his table, including the chief executive of the British drug company GSK, followed. Eventually they returned to the party, only to be astonished again. A group of Mr. Rohner’s friends took the stage to perform their own musical number, all wearing Afro wigs. (Mr. Rohner declined to comment on the events, which were described by three guests.) For Mr. Thiam, now 58, the party was just one in a series of painful incidents that shaped his five years atop Credit Suisse, when he was the only Black chief executive in the top tier of banking. Some moments were shocking, others disturbing; most had to do with tensions around being Black in a predominantly white industry and an overwhelmingly white city. A tall, reserved, bespectacled polyglot, Mr. Thiam did the job he was hired to do: He made Credit Suisse profitable again after a long decline. But he never had to stop fighting for acceptance and respect, both within the bank and in Switzerland generally. At a shareholders meeting, his background was denigrated as “third world.” A subordinate purchased the home next to his, which was taller and looked directly into Mr. Thiam’s windows.
Why doesn’t Switzerland have sumptuary laws anymore to prevent non-Black executive vice presidents from buying houses that are taller than those of Black CEOs?
His restructuring plan involved thousand [sic] of layoffs and paring back sales and trading, making many employees nervous for their jobs. It was an executive he promoted, however, who gave Mr. Thiam one of his first unsettling experiences in Switzerland. To bolster Credit Suisse’s private wealth management business, he had tapped Iqbal Khan, 39, who had been born in Pakistan but moved to Switzerland as a child. The two were discussing strategy one day late in 2015, according to people familiar with the incident, when Mr. Khan announced that he’d bought the house next door to Mr. Thiam’s in Herrliberg, a suburb with lofty prices and views of Lake Zurich. Mr. Thiam asked Mr. Khan if he was serious. Mr. Khan said yes. Later, Mr. Thiam told friends and colleagues that the news disturbed him. Fiercely private, he was going through a divorce, and he was leery of a subordinate having a view of his low-slung property. As a C.E.O., he didn’t relish the idea of being literally looked down upon. … Mr. Thiam was closer to the precipice than he knew. In early 2019, he hosted a holiday party at his home. Mr. Khan had by then moved in next door, and Mr. Thiam had planted trees to obstruct the view. At the party, Mr. Khan got into a heated discussion with Mr. Thiam’s partner about the landscaping, upsetting her, and the two men stepped downstairs for a private word. Mr. Khan quickly left the scene. Neither executive will say exactly what transpired. But later that year, Mr. Khan shocked Zurich by decamping to UBS. Wealth management had been the most successful aspect of Mr. Thiam’s tenure, and now his star executive would be working for the bank’s biggest competitor. That September, Mr. Khan and his wife were driving to lunch at a Zurich restaurant when they noticed they were being followed. Mr. Khan parked and confronted the man, who turned out to be a detective from a Swiss firm called Investigo. An argument ensued, during which each party has since accused the other of becoming physically aggressive. Mr. Khan filed a police report, and both Credit Suisse and the canton opened investigations. “Spygate,” as the Swiss media called it, was a sensation. At Credit Suisse, the chief operating officer, Pierre-Olivier Bouée, admitted to ordering the surveillance, saying he had suspected Mr. Khan of trying to poach employees. He resigned. Mr. Thiam, who denied any knowledge of the spy games, was cleared. But Mr. Bouée was not just his No. 2; he had followed Mr. Thiam to the bank from Prudential, and the chief executive’s name was deeply tarnished by association. The incident was a debacle for all of Credit Suisse, an institution that was a source of great national pride. A contract worker who had been involved in hiring Investigo died by suicide. Mr. Rohner felt obliged to publicly apologize to the Khans and the Swiss public. … The repercussions of the scandal progressed with remarkable speed. … On Feb. 7, he resigned. A Swiss member of his executive team was named his successor. … For his sister Yamousso, one question about the Swiss still lingers. “I would be curious to know,” she said, “if today they’d finally have the honesty to recognize that seeing a Black man at the top of one of their most prestigious companies was unbearable.”
In summary, Ivorian CEO and Pakistani underling get involved in a scandalous clash, but white Swiss people are to blame.
[Comment at Unz.com]