vdare--2020-10-22--USAF Recruiting Service  Commander Declares Reducing the Number of White Male Pilots A "War-Fighting

USAF Recruiting Service  Commander Declares Reducing the Number of White Male Pilots A "War-Fighting Imperative"

Previously by Paul Kersey : The United States Air Force “ Worries About the Lack of Diversity ” Among Pilots ( 93 % White ) Being ‘ Very White and Very Male ’ … Russia and China deploying next generation technology in their armed forces ( hypersonic flight and fighter jets flown via artificial intelligence ) is of no concern to our top brass in the U.S. Air Force , because we have a secret ingredient we ’ ve barely begun to tap into and utilize for undeniably advantageous military superiority .
Do you know what it is ?
Maj. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commander of Air Force Recruiting Service , will now tell you .
But , spoiler alert , it ’ s diversity and embracing the goal of replacing white men – who constitute nearly 9 of every 10 of our Air Force Pilots – with non-whites .
All in the name of George Floyd .
The tragic death of George Floyd and recent events have fueled widespread protests and a renewed call for racial equality nationwide .
Amid this , our country has been compelled to reflect on issues that are often uncomfortable , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their organizations in ways like never before .
The Air Force , in many ways , is no different .
But as a war-fighting organization we can not afford to squander this moment , because our future — and national security — depends on it .
Pursuing equality means we must be sure that we are attracting the most capable members of our society , from all races and walks of life , as we prepare for the next fight .
This fighting force should be highly capable while reflecting the diversity of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even took command of my service ’ s recruiting efforts this spring , Air Force leadership made it clear to me that improving diversity would be on the top of my to-do list .
And recent national events only serve as an accelerant as we take aim and tackle this vexing issue .
Pentagon leaders didn ’ t need to explain the why , although Gen. David Goldfein , our former chief of staff , did that in calling diversity “ a war-fighting imperative.
” It ’ s been clear for some time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society we serve has been too slow .
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q .
Brown Jr. , [ Right ] the first African-American to lead any branch of the military , has called on us to accelerate change or risk losing ground to Russia and China , both of which are integrating potential game-changing technologies like artificial intelligence and hypersonic flight .
We need both the best technologies and the best people to win .
Improving our diversity falls squarely in Brown ’ s mandate .
The competition to attract @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tougher all the time , and our connection with society grows more fragile every day .
Survey data shows that only one-quarter of American youth between the ages of 17 and 24 are qualified for military service for a variety of reasons , which include aptitude , chronic health conditions , obesity or drug use .
The pool is ever shrinking : In 1995 , 40 percent of Americans ages 16 to 24 had a parent who served in the armed forces .
Today that number is 15 percent .
The result is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans say they are interested in serving in the military .
We simply can no longer afford for significant segments of our society to be underrepresented in our U.S. Air Force or our newest branch , the U.S. Space Force .
To be clear , the Air and Space Forces are not setting quotas based on race or gender .
We will , however , focus intensely and concentrate our efforts in traditionally underserved communities .
It wouldn ’ t be legal or productive to hold recruiters accountable for bringing in a certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But if we see that we ’ re not hitting recruiting targets that mirror the qualified population in those categories , we will adjust to concentrate on areas where we can get a more representative balance in our applicant pool .
To use a fishing analogy , recruiters must not only cast a wide net but ensure we are spending time in the right fishing holes .
And by measuring those targets , we ’ ll employ the old management axiom that what gets measured gets done .
And we ’ ll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meeting or exceeding nearly all demographic targets in our enlisted ranks , inside our cockpits is where we have the greatest disparities and opportunities for improvement .
In all , 86 percent of our aviators are white males .
Less than 3 percent of our fighter pilots are females .
This is why we established a detachment within Air Force recruiting two years ago charged with improving diversity for those who wear flight suits .
The mission of Detachment 1 is to bring a singular focus to recruiting qualified women and minorities who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Our goal is to get in front of every demographic group in America and show them someone who wears a flight suit every day they can look up to and say , “ That could be me.
” There is evidence to suggest we can do significantly better in diversifying our aviator ranks .
Fifty years ago , just before the advent of the all-volunteer military , there was a paucity of women doctors and lawyers in the U.S. Only 4 percent of attorneys were female .
Today that number is 37 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : In five decades we ’ ve gone from 8 percent to 36 percent , and last year women outnumbered men in medical schools for the first time .
The time is now to make similar progress .
Our research data is clear on something else — the importance of exposure to aircraft and flight .
We ’ ve set up programs like Aim High Outreach and the Aim High Flight Academy to get young people into aircraft .
We ’ ve set up educational programs that allow both youth and their influencers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to join the Air Force , how to qualify for a flying position and what it ’ s like to have a career in military aviation .
It is the same kind of dedicated outreach that the legal and medical professions began decades ago .
I am amazed to still hear about young men and women who meet a pilot who , for the first time , looks like them .
Too often the teen will say , “ I didn ’ t know you could do that.
” Well , they can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make that clear to the next generation of young Americans .
Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas is the commander of Air Force Recruiting Service .

Previously by Paul Kersey: The United States Air Force “Worries About the Lack of Diversity” Among Pilots (93% White) Being ‘Very White and Very Male’…
Russia and China deploying next generation technology in their armed forces (hypersonic flight and fighter jets flown via artificial intelligence) is of no concern to our top brass in the U.S. Air Force, because we have a secret ingredient we’ve barely begun to tap into and utilize for undeniably advantageous military superiority.
Do you know what it is? Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, right, the commander of Air Force Recruiting Service, will now tell you. But, spoiler alert, it’s diversity and embracing the goal of replacing white men—who constitute nearly 9 of every 10 of our Air Force Pilots—with non-whites.
All in the name of George Floyd.
The tragic death of George Floyd and recent events have fueled widespread protests and a renewed call for racial equality nationwide. Amid this, our country has been compelled to reflect on issues that are often uncomfortable, and leaders have been driven to examine their organizations in ways like never before. The Air Force, in many ways, is no different. But as a war-fighting organization we cannot afford to squander this moment, because our future — and national security — depends on it.
Pursuing equality means we must be sure that we are attracting the most capable members of our society, from all races and walks of life, as we prepare for the next fight. This fighting force should be highly capable while reflecting the diversity of the country we serve.
Before I even took command of my service’s recruiting efforts this spring, Air Force leadership made it clear to me that improving diversity would be on the top of my to-do list. And recent national events only serve as an accelerant as we take aim and tackle this vexing issue.
Pentagon leaders didn’t need to explain the why, although Gen. David Goldfein, our former chief of staff, did that in calling diversity “a war-fighting imperative.” It’s been clear for some time that our progress in better reflecting the society we serve has been too slow.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. [Right], the first African-American to lead any branch of the military, has called on us to accelerate change or risk losing ground to Russia and China, both of which are integrating potential game-changing technologies like artificial intelligence and hypersonic flight. We need both the best technologies and the best people to win. Improving our diversity falls squarely in Brown’s mandate.
The competition to attract the best and brightest recruits is getting tougher all the time, and our connection with society grows more fragile every day. Survey data shows that only one-quarter of American youth between the ages of 17 and 24 are qualified for military service for a variety of reasons, which include aptitude, chronic health conditions, obesity or drug use. The pool is ever shrinking: In 1995, 40 percent of Americans ages 16 to 24 had a parent who served in the armed forces. Today that number is 15 percent. The result is that only about 1 in 10 young Americans say they are interested in serving in the military.
We simply can no longer afford for significant segments of our society to be underrepresented in our U.S. Air Force or our newest branch, the U.S. Space Force.
To be clear, the Air and Space Forces are not setting quotas based on race or gender. We will, however, focus intensely and concentrate our efforts in traditionally underserved communities. It wouldn’t be legal or productive to hold recruiters accountable for bringing in a certain number of recruits from various demographic groups. But if we see that we’re not hitting recruiting targets that mirror the qualified population in those categories, we will adjust to concentrate on areas where we can get a more representative balance in our applicant pool. To use a fishing analogy, recruiters must not only cast a wide net but ensure we are spending time in the right fishing holes.
And by measuring those targets, we’ll employ the old management axiom that what gets measured gets done. And we’ll get it done.
While we are meeting or exceeding nearly all demographic targets in our enlisted ranks, inside our cockpits is where we have the greatest disparities and opportunities for improvement. In all, 86 percent of our aviators are white males. Less than 3 percent of our fighter pilots are females. This is why we established a detachment within Air Force recruiting two years ago charged with improving diversity for those who wear flight suits. The mission of Detachment 1 is to bring a singular focus to recruiting qualified women and minorities who have not always felt they belonged.
Our goal is to get in front of every demographic group in America and show them someone who wears a flight suit every day they can look up to and say, “That could be me.”
There is evidence to suggest we can do significantly better in diversifying our aviator ranks. Fifty years ago, just before the advent of the all-volunteer military, there was a paucity of women doctors and lawyers in the U.S. Only 4 percent of attorneys were female. Today that number is 37 percent. The same was true for doctors: In five decades we’ve gone from 8 percent to 36 percent, and last year women outnumbered men in medical schools for the first time. The time is now to make similar progress.
Our research data is clear on something else — the importance of exposure to aircraft and flight. We’ve set up programs like Aim High Outreach and the Aim High Flight Academy to get young people into aircraft. We’ve set up educational programs that allow both youth and their influencers to ask aircrew members and experts how to join the Air Force, how to qualify for a flying position and what it’s like to have a career in military aviation. It is the same kind of dedicated outreach that the legal and medical professions began decades ago.
I am amazed to still hear about young men and women who meet a pilot who, for the first time, looks like them. Too often the teen will say, “I didn’t know you could do that.” Well, they can. And we’re going to make that clear to the next generation of young Americans.
Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas is the commander of Air Force Recruiting Service.


vdare--2020-10-22--Australia Continues to CRUSH Its Former Problem with Racial Gaps

Many countries suffer the problem of one or more racial groups underperforming , such as blacks in the U.S. , First Nations in Canada , and Muslims in France .
But Australia is well on its way to CRUSHING its former problem of Aborigines not being high achievers on average .
Okay , I know I ’ ve run with this joke before , but the sheer details in this article are a hoot : Meet the man vying to be the City of Melbourne ’ s first Indigenous councillor Professor Mark McMillan , who hopes to serve as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ councillor , says his “ big desire ” is to see Aboriginal participation rather than tokenism in Australian politics .
The Wiradjuri man and public law academic is running as the third of nine candidates on lord mayor Sally Capp ’ s ticket for Melbourne Town Hall .
Team Capp will need 30 per cent of the vote for him to win a place on the council .
If elected , Professor Mark McMillan would be the City of Melbourne ’ s first Aboriginal councillor .
“ I was interested when Sally approached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because it wasn ’ t just , ‘ I want diversity ’ … it ’ s not about white virtue signalling , ” he said .
“ She actually wants people ’ s diverse lived experiences to be part of how we govern over the next four years .
None of us feel like we ’ re token.
” … If Professor McMillan , a gay man who lives in Seddon with his partner and son , achieves his goal of serving on the council , it will follow a long list of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives in Seddon , which is in the City of Maribyrnong , as a director of a company in Carlton that tackles climate change issues , he is eligible to run for the City of Melbourne .
Professor McMillan was born in 1969 in Trangie , a small town west of Dubbo in NSW , and his grandmother was one of 16 siblings .
“ Nan made us go to school because she wasn ’ t allowed to , ” he said .
“ She understood as an Aboriginal woman that education … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Between them , her grandchildren have 26 bachelor ’ s degrees , six master ’ s degrees and two doctorates .
Professor McMillan ’ s late eldest sister was the first in the family to attend university , his youngest sister was the first Aboriginal pharmacist in Australia and he was the first Indigenous academic to be appointed full-time to Melbourne Law School .
He used his time at the University of Melbourne to research Indigenous human rights .
Professor McMillan , who sued columnist Andrew Bolt over racial discrimination in 2009 That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Australia ’ s racial gap : a judge ruled you aren ’ t allowed to make fun of Professor McMillan .
So please don ’ t .
Sure , you may think that Professor McMillan looks like a relief pitcher from Scottsdale , AZ , but Professor McMillan ’ s indigenousness is sacred to Australia ’ s legal system .
, served as a director of the former National Congress of Australia ’ s First Peoples and is a board member of the Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council .
Before this , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yaqui Court of Appeals , a Native American tribal court in Tucson , Arizona .
And two years ago , Professor McMillan became RMIT University ’ s inaugural deputy pro vice-chancellor for Indigenous education and engagement .
“ I can ’ t disassociate … what I know about public law and Indigenous nation building and not bring that into the governing [ of Melbourne City Council ] , ” he said .
… He has taken leave from RMIT amid an employment dispute .
… “ And now , hopefully , rather than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we ’ ll have an Aboriginal man who is steeped in understanding of social law , ” he said .
… Cr Capp said it was also important that the city realise its ambition to put its Aboriginal heritage at its centre .
Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe was sworn in as the first Aboriginal senator for Victoria last week .
Sheena Watt was also last week sworn in as Victorian Labor ’ s first female Indigenous MP .
Professor McMillan said the appointments , and his candidacy , were exciting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where else but Victoria , and where else but Melbourne , would we be getting that opportunity ?
” What percentage of these high-achieving “ Aborigines ” ( or in Professor McMillan ’ s case , “ high-achieving ” Aborigines ) are descended from the Stolen Generations of mixed-race children who were given boarding school educations a century ago ?
As we all know , the Australian government taking the children of white men and Indigenous women away from their alcoholic , abusive , illiterate , and/or tubercular homes and educating them in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the general population and live kick-ass lives in the 21st Century as Professional Quota-Fillers was the Worst Thing Ever .
Still , it sort of seems from all the articles in 2020 about the First Indigenous This and the First Indigenous That that the Stolen Generations was one of the rare government programs that worked as hoped .
Keep in mind that the genes for Aboriginal Australian appearance have long been noted to be rather recessive , so that it ’ s usually harder to tell if a 1/8th or even 1/4th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say , sub-Saharan ancestry .
Here ’ s an old anthropology illustration of this :

Victoria council elections: The man vying to become Melbourne’s first Indigenous councillor @Steve_Sailer @CityBureaucrat
https://t.co/zAhqczlNlQ — Austopian (@austopian) October 22, 2020
Many countries suffer the problem of one or more racial groups underperforming, such as blacks in the U.S., First Nations in Canada, and Muslims in France.
But Australia is well on its way to CRUSHING its former problem of Aborigines not being high achievers on average.
Okay, I know I’ve run with this joke before, but the sheer details in this article are a hoot:
From Melbourne Age:
Meet the man vying to be the City of Melbourne’s first Indigenous councillor By Chloe Booker
October 22, 2020 — 7.30pm Professor Mark McMillan, who hopes to serve as the City of Melbourne’s first Indigenous councillor, says his “big desire” is to see Aboriginal participation rather than tokenism in Australian politics. The Wiradjuri man and public law academic is running as the third of nine candidates on lord mayor Sally Capp’s ticket for Melbourne Town Hall. Team Capp will need 30 per cent of the vote for him to win a place on the council. If elected, Professor Mark McMillan would be the City of Melbourne’s first Aboriginal councillor. “I was interested when Sally approached me to be on her ticket, because it wasn’t just, ‘I want diversity’ … it’s not about white virtue signalling,” he said. “She actually wants people’s diverse lived experiences to be part of how we govern over the next four years. None of us feel like we’re token.” … If Professor McMillan, a gay man who lives in Seddon with his partner and son, achieves his goal of serving on the council, it will follow a long list of personal and family firsts. Although he lives in Seddon, which is in the City of Maribyrnong, as a director of a company in Carlton that tackles climate change issues, he is eligible to run for the City of Melbourne. Professor McMillan was born in 1969 in Trangie, a small town west of Dubbo in NSW, and his grandmother was one of 16 siblings. “Nan made us go to school because she wasn’t allowed to,” he said. “She understood as an Aboriginal woman that education … has the capacity to transform lives.” Between them, her grandchildren have 26 bachelor’s degrees, six master’s degrees and two doctorates. Professor McMillan’s late eldest sister was the first in the family to attend university, his youngest sister was the first Aboriginal pharmacist in Australia and he was the first Indigenous academic to be appointed full-time to Melbourne Law School. He used his time at the University of Melbourne to research Indigenous human rights. Professor McMillan, who sued columnist Andrew Bolt over racial discrimination in 2009
That was a key step forward in solving Australia’s racial gap: a judge ruled you aren’t allowed to make fun of Professor McMillan. So please don’t. Sure, you may think that Professor McMillan looks like a relief pitcher from Scottsdale, AZ, but Professor McMillan’s indigenousness is sacred to Australia’s legal system.
, served as a director of the former National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and is a board member of the Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council. Before this, he served as an appellate judge in the Yaqui Court of Appeals, a Native American tribal court in Tucson, Arizona. And two years ago, Professor McMillan became RMIT University’s inaugural deputy pro vice-chancellor for Indigenous education and engagement. “I can’t disassociate … what I know about public law and Indigenous nation building and not bring that into the governing [of Melbourne City Council],” he said. … He has taken leave from RMIT amid an employment dispute. … “And now, hopefully, rather than a white guy who wants that engagement, we’ll have an Aboriginal man who is steeped in understanding of social law,” he said. … Cr Capp said it was also important that the city realise its ambition to put its Aboriginal heritage at its centre. Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe was sworn in as the first Aboriginal senator for Victoria last week. Sheena Watt was also last week sworn in as Victorian Labor’s first female Indigenous MP. Professor McMillan said the appointments, and his candidacy, were exciting milestones for Aboriginal leadership. “And where else but Victoria, and where else but Melbourne, would we be getting that opportunity?”
What percentage of these high-achieving “Aborigines” (or in Professor McMillan’s case, “high-achieving” Aborigines) are descended from the Stolen Generations of mixed-race children who were given boarding school educations a century ago? As we all know, the Australian government taking the children of white men and Indigenous women away from their alcoholic, abusive, illiterate, and/or tubercular homes and educating them in the hope that their descendants could blend into the general population and live kick-ass lives in the 21st Century as Professional Quota-Fillers was the Worst Thing Ever.
Still, it sort of seems from all the articles in 2020 about the First Indigenous This and the First Indigenous That that the Stolen Generations was one of the rare government programs that worked as hoped.
Here’s another such tweet:
"Lachlan McDaniel believes his arts degree was 'probably the best thing that ever happened' to him, but the Wiradjuri man fears new laws passed this week will make it much tougher for other Indigenous students to get the same opportunities."https://t.co/nnXf6dXxom — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) October 22, 2020
Keep in mind that the genes for Aboriginal Australian appearance have long been noted to be rather recessive, so that it’s usually harder to tell if a 1/8th or even 1/4th Indigenous person is Aboriginal than with, say, sub-Saharan ancestry. Here’s an old anthropology illustration of this:
As I wrote in 2011:
Before the development of antibiotics, full-blooded Australian Aborigines were dying off at a rapid rate from tuberculosis and other Afro-Eurasian diseases. The half-white children of Aboriginal mothers tended to be more resistant to diseases, but they tended to be neglected and abused by their often alcoholic Aboriginal relatives. So, reasoned the social workers, why not raise them in white ways in boarding schools, allowing them to find a place in white society and marry whites? Because Aboriginal looks tend to be relatively recessive when mixed with European looks, as compared to Sub-Saharan African looks, within a couple of generations you get a kid who looks like a cross between Prince Charles and Bing Crosby, so their descendants would be largely indistinguishable from the general population. Problem solved.
Of course, as we all know now, those reformers were The Worst People of All Time.
And yet, antibiotics aside, sensitive 21st Century Australians are better at feeling superior to their ancestors than at actually solving the problems that their ancestors confronted. For example, when Australian director Philip Noyce made the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence a decade ago condemning Evil Old Social Workers by showing girls who run away from their boarding school to return to their Aboriginal mothers, his adolescent star ran away from the set and had to be rounded up. Then when filming was over, Noyce saw what a disaster her Aboriginal home life was, so he ... paid to put her in a boarding school.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-22--Why Are There So Many L.A. Dodger Fans in Dallas-Fort Worth?

Los Angeles Dodgers World Series shirts sell out hours before Game 1 at Globe Life Field BY STEFAN STEVENSON OCTOBER 20 , 2020 08:58 PM , World Series apparel celebrating the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers sold out at Globe Life Field [ in Arlington , TX ] before the first pitch of Game 1 Tuesday night .
Plenty of Tampa Bay Rays shirts were still available but Dodgers fans looking for a wearable World Series keepsake were out of luck .
… Because of COVID-19 pandemic precautions , only about 11,000 fans are able to attend each World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic is the reason why the league is playing the World Series at the brand new , $ 1.2 billion stadium .
It ’ s being used to cut down on travel for the players , personnel and media .
It was also used for the National League Division Series and NLCS .
Typically , the teams playing in the World Series take turns hosting games at their own ballparks .
“ The Dodgers are more popular , I guess , ” she said .
“ There have been more Dodgers fans than @ @ @

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Los Angeles Dodgers World Series shirts sell out hours before Game 1 at Globe Life Field
BY STEFAN STEVENSON
OCTOBER 20, 2020 08:58 PM,
World Series apparel celebrating the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers sold out at Globe Life Field [in Arlington, TX] before the first pitch of Game 1 Tuesday night.
Plenty of Tampa Bay Rays shirts were still available but Dodgers fans looking for a wearable World Series keepsake were out of luck. …
Because of COVID-19 pandemic precautions, only about 11,000 fans are able to attend each World Series game. In fact, the pandemic is the reason why the league is playing the World Series at the brand new, $1.2 billion stadium. It’s being used to cut down on travel for the players, personnel and media. It was also used for the National League Division Series and NLCS. Typically, the teams playing in the World Series take turns hosting games at their own ballparks.
“The Dodgers are more popular, I guess,” she said. “There have been more Dodgers fans than Rays.”


vdare--2020-10-23--Biden Calls For Nation-Busting Amnesty In Final Debate

President Donald Trump turned in a restrained , respectable performance at the debate tonight .
If he was winning , it was probably the right tone .
The polls say he 's losing ; he does n't believe them .
We will just have to see .
Joe Biden also made a critical error when he claimed that he never supported a fracking ban , when we have it on video that he did .
What we know , with absolute certainty , is that Joe Biden would pass a nation-busting amnesty for tens of millions of illegals occupying our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figure , but we know the number of illegals is far higher .
Such an amnesty would also encourage additional illegal immigration .
Interestingly , Biden also seemed to throw his former boss , President Barack Obama , under the bus with his answer .
That comment that `` I 've changed '' was like a knife to the heart of every MAGA supporter from 2016 .
However , to his credit , President Trump showed a real understanding of the problem that illegals simply skip their court hearings once they are released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , `` They showed up for a hearing . ''
This is n't true .
And Trump knows it .
Of course , a real country would be able to enforce its immigration laws .
We should n't even be debating this .
The framing of the questions so that the illegals were always portrayed as victims was nauseating .
President Trump has accomplished some notable reforms .
But we have not seen mass deportations , the elimination of birthright citizenship , or a remittance tax .
It 's worse than disappointing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sociopathic indifference to the fate of this country and his guarantee of amnesty is far , far worse .

President Donald Trump turned in a restrained, respectable performance at the debate tonight. If he was winning, it was probably the right tone. The polls say he's losing; he doesn't believe them. We will just have to see. Joe Biden also made a critical error when he claimed that he never supported a fracking ban, when we have it on video that he did.
What we know, with absolute certainty, is that Joe Biden would pass a nation-busting amnesty for tens of millions of illegals occupying our country. Biden cited the 11 million figure, but we know the number of illegals is far higher. Such an amnesty would also encourage additional illegal immigration. Interestingly, Biden also seemed to throw his former boss, President Barack Obama, under the bus with his answer.
Joe Biden:
"I’ll be President of the United States, not Vice President of the United States. And the fact is I’ve made it very clear. Within a 100 days, I’m going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. And all of those so-called dreamers, those DACA kids, they’re going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship."
President Trump's retort was pathetic.
Kristen, he had eight years to do what he said he was going to do. And I’ve changed. Without having a specific, we got rid of catch and release. We got rid of a lot of horrible things that they put in and that they lived with. But he had eight years he was Vice President. He did nothing except build cages to keep children in.
That comment that "I've changed" was like a knife to the heart of every MAGA supporter from 2016.
However, to his credit, President Trump showed a real understanding of the problem that illegals simply skip their court hearings once they are released into the country. Joe Biden claimed, "They showed up for a hearing." This isn't true. And Trump knows it.
So important. It just shows that he has no understanding of immigration, of the laws. Catch and release is a disaster. A murderer would come in. A rapist would come in. A very bad person would come in. We would take their name. We have to release them into our country. And then you say they come back. Less than 1% of the people come back. We have to send ICE out and Border Patrol out to find them. We would say, “Come back in two years, three years. We’re going to give you a court case. You did Perry Mason. We’re going to give you a court case.” When you say they come back, they don’t come back, Joe. They never come back. Only the really… I hate to say this, but those with the lowest IQ, they might come back, but there are very, very few.
Of course, a real country would be able to enforce its immigration laws. We shouldn't even be debating this. The framing of the questions so that the illegals were always portrayed as victims was nauseating.
President Trump has accomplished some notable reforms. But we have not seen mass deportations, the elimination of birthright citizenship, or a remittance tax. It's worse than disappointing, it's infuriating. But Biden's sociopathic indifference to the fate of this country and his guarantee of amnesty is far, far worse.


vdare--2020-10-23--KIPP Schools Junk Their Famous "Work Hard, Be Nice" Slogan As Not Anti-racist

A rare success story from the once fashionable era of billionaire-funded Education Reform efforts was the KIPP chain of charter schools .
The point of KIPP was to offer volunteers schools that train poor students the way the military does : with an emphasis on order , character-building , and repetition in the fundamentals .
KIPP never sold itself as a panacea .
Instead , it was an option available for underclass kids willing to do the work to develop lower middle class habits .
From my review of historian Raymond Wolters ’ 2015 book The Long Crusade : A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , usually by undoing the work of past gurus .
Perhaps the most appealing figures in The Long Crusade are Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin , who founded the KIPP charter-school chain in 1994 to offer discipline , hard work , and back-to-basics schooling to the fairly small percentage of slum students serious about earning a way out of the hood .
Good kids deserve some breaks in life , such as getting to go to a school without a bunch of layabouts and knuckleheads .
Some of the success of KIPP is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of public order and respect used by schools before the ascendance of progressive education ideology in the late 1960s .
Thus , KIPP ’ s slogan was , “ Work hard .
Be Nice.
” But , it ’ s 2020 , so all good things must come to an end .
From KIPP.org : After adopting a new mission and vision , we understood that Work hard .
Be nice .
needed to change ; we needed to lift up a new national slogan .
We learned many KIPP Regions had either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ removing it from their schools .
… Feedback on the slogan falls into a few buckets : • Working hard and being nice is not going to dismantle systemic racism .
For example , in the words of student performers at KIPP School Summit : “ I ’ ve been told I should just work hard and be nice .
That it ’ ll pay off in the end .
I ’ ve worked hard and I ’ ve been nice but the nice guys finish last.
” • It suggests being compliant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the words of an alum : “ Asking us to ‘ be nice ’ puts the onus on kids to be quiet , be compliant , be controlled .
It doesn ’ t actively challenge us to disrupt the systems that are trying to control us.
” • It supports the illusion of meritocracy .
For example , in the words of Orpheus Williams who leads the Foundation ’ s equity programming : “ The slogan passively supports ongoing efforts to pacify and control Black and Brown bodies in order to better condition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ current social norms that center whiteness and meritocracy as normal.
” Yeah , kind of … Alternatively , you might phrase it as KIPP was offering black children an opportunity to learn a culture that doesn ’ t lead to so goddam many mass shootings at funerals .
… We are replacing it .
We are not going to rush this part .
Aligned with our shared mission and vision , we know we need to lift up a slogan that better represents the tomorrow we are hoping to build , together .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alumni Impact teams will facilitate the process , we want the new slogan to be designed by our students , alumni , and families .
We will share more details on this effort when we have them .
Suggestions for a new KIPP slogan : “ Goof off .
Do crimes.
” “ Be like George Floyd.
” “ Ibram X. Kendi for Philosopher-King .
”

A rare success story from the once fashionable era of billionaire-funded Education Reform efforts was the KIPP chain of charter schools. The point of KIPP was to offer volunteers schools that train poor students the way the military does: with an emphasis on order, character-building, and repetition in the fundamentals. KIPP never sold itself as a panacea. Instead, it was an option available for underclass kids willing to do the work to develop lower middle class habits. From my review of historian Raymond Wolters’ 2015 book The Long Crusade:
A few reformers have actually done some good, usually by undoing the work of past gurus. Perhaps the most appealing figures in The Long Crusade are Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, who founded the KIPP charter-school chain in 1994 to offer discipline, hard work, and back-to-basics schooling to the fairly small percentage of slum students serious about earning a way out of the hood. Good kids deserve some breaks in life, such as getting to go to a school without a bunch of layabouts and knuckleheads. Some of the success of KIPP is due to reviving many of the techniques of public order and respect used by schools before the ascendance of progressive education ideology in the late 1960s.
Thus, KIPP’s slogan was, “Work hard. Be Nice.”
But, it’s 2020, so all good things must come to an end. From KIPP.org:
Retiring “Work hard. Be nice.” as KIPP’s national slogan
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 After adopting a new mission and vision, we understood that Work hard. Be nice. needed to change; we needed to lift up a new national slogan. We learned many KIPP Regions had either passively stopped using it or were actively removing it from their schools. … Feedback on the slogan falls into a few buckets: Working hard and being nice is not going to dismantle systemic racism. For example, in the words of student performers at KIPP School Summit: “I’ve been told I should just work hard and be nice. That it’ll pay off in the end. I’ve worked hard and I’ve been nice but the nice guys finish last.”
It suggests being compliant and submissive. For example, in the words of an alum: “Asking us to ‘be nice’ puts the onus on kids to be quiet, be compliant, be controlled. It doesn’t actively challenge us to disrupt the systems that are trying to control us.”
It supports the illusion of meritocracy. For example, in the words of Orpheus Williams who leads the Foundation’s equity programming: “The slogan passively supports ongoing efforts to pacify and control Black and Brown bodies in order to better condition them to be compliant and further reproduce current social norms that center whiteness and meritocracy as normal.”
Yeah, kind of … Alternatively, you might phrase it as KIPP was offering black children an opportunity to learn a culture that doesn’t lead to so goddam many mass shootings at funerals.
… We are replacing it. We are not going to rush this part. Aligned with our shared mission and vision, we know we need to lift up a slogan that better represents the tomorrow we are hoping to build, together. While the Foundation’s Marketing and Alumni Impact teams will facilitate the process, we want the new slogan to be designed by our students, alumni, and families. We will share more details on this effort when we have them.
Suggestions for a new KIPP slogan: “Goof off. Do crimes.” “Be like George Floyd.” “Ibram X. Kendi for Philosopher-King.”
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-23--John Derbyshire: The Moral Case For Trump—He Made His Money In Business, Biden Made His In Politics

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] That President Trump will lose his re-election bid is a common opinion among people who wish otherwise .
It ’ s not just me .
I got an email from an old friend who is nine times smarter than I am , and a Trump voter .
So Trump has an uphill battle—but he also has poor mountaineering skills .
That ’ s what mainly got my attention in Thursday night 's Trump-Biden debate Some of this has already been elaborated by my VDARE.com colleague James @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punch back good and hard when Biden said he would give citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens ?
The number is likely closer to twenty million ; and with chain migration following , that twenty million would bring in another forty , fifty , a hundred million .
Why did n't Trump say that ?
• And then , all the fluff about prison reform .
Is this really a popular item with voters ?
Biden mocked Trump for having said , twenty years ago , `` There 's not enough people in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his book The America We Deserve , ( 2000 ) referencing James Q. Wilson 's work , was “ No , the problem isn ’ t that we have too many people locked up .
It ’ s that we don ’ t have enough criminals locked up.
” Trump was right ; and I think a great many voters , most of them Trump voters , know that .
Do we really want fewer people in jail ?
To judge from crime rates , we need to put way more people in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of separating children from their parents at the border .
Trump did , to be sure , remind us that the Obama Administration did this too .
He could , however , kill the whole thing dead by asking the lefty moderator what she thinks should be done with children brought across the border illegally by their parents .
Put them into adult jails with the parents ?
Just release parents and kids together into the population with a stern reminder to the parents to show up for their court hearing two years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lady ?
• The biggest ball Trump dropped , though , was the moral case .
The U.S.A. , as every foreigner notices , is an intensely moralistic nation .
If you can make any kind of appeal from personal morality , that 's a big plus .
Trump can—but he does n't , I do n't know why .
This is the case : These two guys on the debate stage , Trump and Biden , are both stinking rich .
How did they get that way , though ?
It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump got a head start from his Dad , a successful businessman .
However , he did not do the Prodigal Son thing and waste his substance with riotous living ; he learned the commercial real-estate business and parlayed his Dad 's gift into a huge fortune , creating hotels , resorts , golf courses , and such , for the convenience and enjoyment of his fellow citizens .
Then he ventured into show business , and was successful there .
Trump 's fortune has been honestly earned .
Then , at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get a good pair of carpet slippers and relax by the fire to read Trollope and bore our grandchildren , Trump transferred his energies to public service , offering himself to voters as a guy who could fix things that many of us thought were wrong with our country .
That 's Trump .
Now , how did Joe Biden get rich ?
From politics , that 's how .
He 's been in politics for fifty years , well-nigh his entire adult life .
Politics does n't actually pay that well , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the older Anglo-Saxon tradition of public service , will live decently well , but he wo n't get stinking rich .
I gave a couple of examples in my book We Are Doomed : Well , that was then , when notions of gentlemanly restraint and duty were still current .
Ours is a cruder , coarser , more cynical age .
Gentlemanly restraint nowadays would be hooted down as `` toxic masculinity . ''
A President who left office with nothing but an army pension to fall back on—and who , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extravagant speaking fees or company directorships because it would demean the Presidency—would nowadays be regarded as a sucker .
So if Joe Biden did n't get rich on his politician 's salary , how did he get rich ?
We 've been getting some insights into that from these recent revelations about his hobnobbing with Russian and Chinese kleptocrats .
Even setting all that aside , though , being a U.S .
Senator for 36 years and then a Vice President for eight can be mighty remunerative .
You do n't have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Senator has enormous influence , a Vice President even more , and the money will come looking for you .
Forbes has the details of Biden 's post-Vice-Presidential income growth : How The Bidens Earned $ 16.7 Million After Leaving The White House , by Michela Tindera , October 22 , 2020 Absent the principled restraint of a Truman or a Menzies you just have to sit back and let the gifts , the fees , the favors , the `` contributions , '' the stock options roll in .
( Barack and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at $ 40 million—each !
[ Barack and Michelle Obama net worth 2020 , by Margaret Abrams , London Evening Standard , February 19 , 2020 . ]
) So comparing these two guys , there is a strong moral case in favor of Trump .
Why does n't he make it ?
Poor mountaineering skills .
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Earlier: Biden Calls For Nation-Busting Amnesty In Final Debate
That President Trump will lose his re-election bid is a common opinion among people who wish otherwise. It’s not just me. I got an email from an old friend who is nine times smarter than I am, and a Trump voter.
On the side of the Democrats are: The FBI, the CIA, the federal bureaucracy, academia, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Hollywood, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, the NYT, every magazine on the shelf, BLM, Antifa, 50 million illegal aliens, and now, the Chinese Communist Party.
If they can't steal an election with that group of supporters, what does it say about their general level of competence?
So Trump has an uphill battle—but he also has poor mountaineering skills. That’s what mainly got my attention in Thursday night's Trump-Biden debate
Some of this has already been elaborated by my VDARE.com colleague James Kirkpatrick here..
Why didn't Trump punch back good and hard when Biden said he would give citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens?
The number is likely closer to twenty million; and with chain migration following, that twenty million would bring in another forty, fifty, a hundred million. Why didn't Trump say that?
And then, all the fluff about prison reform. Is this really a popular item with voters?
Biden mocked Trump for having said, twenty years ago, "There's not enough people in jail."
What Trump said in his book The America We Deserve (2000) referencing James Q. Wilson's work, was “No, the problem isn’t that we have too many people locked up. It’s that we don’t have enough criminals locked up.”
Trump was right; and I think a great many voters, most of them Trump voters, know that.
Do we really want fewer people in jail? To judge from crime rates, we need to put way more people in jail.
Likewise with the business of separating children from their parents at the border.
Trump did, to be sure, remind us that the Obama Administration did this too.
He could, however, kill the whole thing dead by asking the lefty moderator what she thinks should be done with children brought across the border illegally by their parents. Put them into adult jails with the parents? Just release parents and kids together into the population with a stern reminder to the parents to show up for their court hearing two years on?
What would you do, lady?
The biggest ball Trump dropped, though, was the moral case.
The U.S.A., as every foreigner notices, is an intensely moralistic nation. If you can make any kind of appeal from personal morality, that's a big plus.
Trump can—but he doesn't, I don't know why.
This is the case: these two guys on the debate stage, Trump and Biden, are both stinking rich. How did they get that way, though?
It's not a mystery in either case. Trump got a head start from his Dad, a successful businessman. However, he did not do the Prodigal Son thing and waste his substance with riotous living; he learned the commercial real-estate business and parlayed his Dad's gift into a huge fortune, creating hotels, resorts, golf courses, and such, for the convenience and enjoyment of his fellow citizens. Then he ventured into show business, and was successful there. Trump's fortune has been honestly earned.
Then, at a point in life where many of us get a good pair of carpet slippers and relax by the fire to read Trollope and bore our grandchildren, Trump transferred his energies to public service, offering himself to voters as a guy who could fix things that many of us thought were wrong with our country.
That's Trump. Now, how did Joe Biden get rich?
From politics, that's how. He's been in politics for fifty years, well-nigh his entire adult life.
Politics doesn't actually pay that well, salary-wise. A conscientious politician, in the older Anglo-Saxon tradition of public service, will live decently well, but he won't get stinking rich. I gave a couple of examples in my book We Are Doomed:
When Harry Truman left office in 1953, he had no income but his army pension of $112.56 a month. He had to take out a bank loan while negotiating a deal to write his memoirs. That was the way of things all over the Anglosphere. It was part of the tradition of modest Anglo-Saxon government. When Bob Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, left office in 1966 after 18 years in power, having given up a lucrative legal career for politics, he could not afford to buy a house in Melbourne.
Well, that was then, when notions of gentlemanly restraint and duty were still current. Ours is a cruder, coarser, more cynical age.
Gentlemanly restraint nowadays would be hooted down as "toxic masculinity." A President who left office with nothing but an army pension to fall back on—and who, like Truman, would not accept offers of extravagant speaking fees or company directorships because it would demean the Presidency—would nowadays be regarded as a sucker.
So if Joe Biden didn't get rich on his politician's salary, how did he get rich? We've been getting some insights into that from these recent revelations about his hobnobbing with Russian and Chinese kleptocrats.
Even setting all that aside, though, being a U.S. Senator for 36 years and then a Vice President for eight can be mighty remunerative. You don't have to be sensationally crooked: a U.S. Senator has enormous influence, a Vice President even more, and the money will come looking for you.
Forbes has the details of Biden's post-Vice Presidential income growth:
How The Bidens Earned $16.7 Million After Leaving The White House, by Michela Tindera, October 22, 2020
Absent the principled restraint of a Truman or a Menzies you just have to sit back and let the gifts, the fees, the favors, the "contributions," the stock options roll in. (Barack and Michelle Obama's net worth is estimated at $40 million—each! [Barack and Michelle Obama net worth 2020, by Margaret Abrams, London Evening Standard, February 19, 2020.])
So comparing these two guys, there is a strong moral case in favor of Trump.
Why doesn't he make it? Poor mountaineering skills.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-10-23--Trump Drops The Ball, Fourth Industrial Revolution, SF's CAREN Law, And Defund NPR! Etc.

19m03s Decline of the World Series .
( Fans just do n't care anymore . )
27m11s Defund NPR !
@ @ @ @ @ … for Joe Biden . )
33m17s And one for the Brits .
( Bring @ @ @ @ @ 36m10s Masked figures raid California bank .
( The way we live now . )
@ @ @ @ @ an old concert song . )

03m12s Trump drops the ball. (Uphill battle; poor mountaineering skills.)
11m03s The Fourth Industrial Revolution. (Launched by Covid-19.)
19m03s Decline of the World Series. (Fans just don't care anymore.)
25m22s A small break for Derek Chauvin. (One charge dropped.)
27m11s Defund NPR! (Your taxes at work … for Joe Biden.)
28m51s San Francisco's CAREN law. (The intensifying war against whites.)
31m03s A suggestion for antiracism's theologians. (Was Abe Lincoln a virtuous pagan?)
33m17s And one for the Brits. (Bring back the hulks!)
36m10s Masked figures raid California bank. (The way we live now.)
37m11s Toobin's Zoom flash. (Taking matters in hand.)
38m32s Finland's PM shows her charms. (Causing a cleavage among commentators.)
41m21s Seasonal news. (Pitching a pumpkin at partner.)
42m11s Signoff. (With an old concert song.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Welcome, listeners. This is your contrarily genial host John Derbyshire, reporting to you eleven days before the election. How do things look?
For National Conservatives, they don't look good. My first prophecy, sixteen months ago, was that Trump will lose his re-election bid. I cited three determinative factors:
the quality of the opposition (which, I figured, could not possibly be worse than Mrs Clinton, who was liked by just about nobody),
the uniform hostility of the media, and
Trump himself.
In later commentary I added the demographic factors: young wokesters coming on the voter rolls at one end, conservative geezers dropping off them at the other, and low-wage immigrants becoming citizens.
So according to me, Trump has been facing a steep uphill battle; and this is a guy with poor mountaineering skills.
That Trump will lose is a common opinion among people who wish otherwise. It's not just me. I got an email from an old friend who is nine times smarter than I am, and a Trump voter. Quote from him:
On the side of the Democrats are: The FBI, the CIA, the federal bureaucracy, academia, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Hollywood, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, the NYT, every magazine on the shelf, BLM, Antifa, 50 million illegal aliens, and now, the Chinese Communist Party.
If they can't steal an election with that group of supporters, what does it say about their general level of competence?
End quote.
What mainly got my attention in last night's Trump-Biden debate was those poor mountaineering skills. If you'll excuse my mixing sports metaphors, Trump kept dropping the ball. Permit me to elaborate.
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02—Trump drops the ball. Some of the elaborating I want to do has actually been done by my colleague James Kirkpatrick on the VDARE.com website.
Why didn't Trump punch back good and hard when Biden said he would give citizenship to 11 million illegal aliens? The number is likely closer to twenty million; and with chain migration following, that twenty million would bring in another forty, fifty, a hundred million. Why didn't Trump say that?
And then, all the fluff about prison reform. Is this really a popular item with voters? Biden mocked Trump for having said, twenty years ago, "There's not enough people in jail." Trump was right; and I think a great many voters, most of them Trump voters, know that. Do we really want fewer people in jail? To judge from crime rates, we need to put way more people in jail.
Likewise with the business of separating children from their parents at the border. Trump did, to be sure, remind us that the Obama administration did this too. He could, however, kill the whole thing dead by asking the lefty moderator what she thinks should be done with children brought across the border illegally by their parents. Put them into adult jails with the parents? Just release parents and kids together into the population with a stern reminder to the parents to show up for their court hearing two years on? What would you do, lady?
The biggest ball Trump dropped, though, was the moral case. The U.S.A., as every foreigner notices, is an intensely moralistic nation. If you can make any kind of appeal from personal morality, that's a big plus. Trump can, but he doesn't, I don't know why.
These two guys on the debate stage, Trump and Biden, are both stinking rich. How did they get that way, though?
It's not a mystery in either case. Trump got a head start from his Dad, a successful businessman. However, he did not do the Prodigal Son thing and waste his substance with riotous living; he learned the commercial real-estate business and parlayed his Dad's gift into a huge fortune, creating hotels, resorts, golf courses, and such, for the convenience and enjoyment of his fellow citizens. Then he ventured into show business, and was successful there. Trump's fortune has been honestly earned.
Then, at a point in life where many of us get a good pair of carpet slippers and relax by the fire to read Trollope and bore our grandchildren, Trump transferred his energies to public service, offering himself to voters as a guy who could fix things that many of us thought were wrong with our country.
That's Trump. Now, how did Joe Biden get rich? From politics, that's how. He's been in politics for fifty years, well-nigh his entire adult life.
Politics doesn't actually pay that well, salary-wise. A conscientious politician, in the older Anglo-Saxon tradition of public service, will live decently well, but he won't get stonking rich. I gave a couple of examples in my book We Are Doomed, quote:
When Harry Truman left office in 1953, he had no income but his army pension of $112.56 a month. He had to take out a bank loan while negotiating a deal to write his memoirs. That was the way of things all over the Anglosphere. It was part of the tradition of modest Anglo-Saxon government. When Bob Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, left office in 1966 after 18 years in power, having given up a lucrative legal career for politics, he could not afford to buy a house in Melbourne.
End quote.
Well, that was then, when notions of gentlemanly restraint and duty were still current. Ours is a cruder, coarser, more cynical age. Gentlemanly restraint nowadays would be hooted down as "toxic masculinity." A President who left office with nothing but an army pension to fall back on—and who, like Truman, would not accept offers of extravagant speaking fees or company directorships because it would demean the Presidency—would nowadays be regarded as a sucker.
So if Joe Biden didn't get rich on his politician's salary, how did he get rich? We've been getting some insights into that from these recent revelations about his hobnobbing with Russian and Chinese kleptocrats.
Even setting all that aside, though, being a U.S. Senator for 36 years and then a Vice President for eight can be mighty remunerative. You don't have to be sensationally crooked: A U.S. Senator has enormous influence, a Vice President even more, and the money will come looking for you. Absent the principled restraint of a Truman or a Menzies you just have to sit back and let the gifts, the fees, the favors, the "contributions," the stock options roll in.
So comparing these two guys, there is a strong moral case in favor of Trump. Why doesn't he make it? Poor mountaineering skills.
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03—The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Having been writing about China for forty years, I was naturally interested to see what Trump and Biden had to say about that place.
Answer: Nothing with any real insight or understanding. There was a lot of back and forth about whether this guy or the other guy was taking money from the ChiComs; then some bluster from both candidates about how tough they have been with China. Watching it, I thought I could hear from the far distance the sound of the ChiCom politburo rolling around on the floor hooting with laughter.
For a clue to my frame of mind here I refer you to David Goldman's October 19th article at Asia Times, title: Covid-19 launches the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Goldman describes in detail how the ChiComs have used the pandemic to advance their lead in AI (Artificial Intelligence). Closing paragraphs:
Computer science could not have devised a more useful dataset for the development of AI than the propagation of the Covid-19 virus. The exercise requires sophisticated real-time management of datasets involving impossibly large numbers of individual observations, and the ability to correlate locational, medical and demographic data with population sampling through forensic tests.
AI helped control the pandemic, but the pandemic gave Chinese AI an unprecedented push forward. The West hasn't even begun to address the problem. And that is the most troubling observation of all.
End quote.
There is much more to be said about that. Goldman's observations agree with what I hear from my wife, who keeps in touch with her family and friends in China through social media. Yes, they tell us: Anywhere they go their movements, contacts, temperature and other health indices are constantly monitored and scanned. They are barred from certain places if they don't meet the right criteria.
It's total social control, backed by colossal databases and massive AI programs. It seems to have conquered the pandemic: Life is back to normal in China, and the third-quarter numbers for economic growth, just released this week, show almost five percent improvement over third quarter last year. The corresponding figure for the U.S.A. is negative ten percent.
Should we, like David Goldman, find this "troubling"? Well, yes, but with qualifications.
If, as Goldman argues, Big Data joined with AI is a "fourth industrial revolution," and if China is steaming ahead of us in those fields, then the U.S.A. will soon, for the first time in living memory—for the first time in 150 years, I think—be a second-rate technological power. That's going to be quite an adjustment.
However, if the price to be paid for addressing the problem is a Chinese level of social control, the price is too high. That would be the death of our traditional liberties.
One of my favorite words in the American language is "ornery." I like orneriness. I don't just like it, I think it's socially valuable.
I'm not very ornery myself by nature. I wear a face mask when I go shopping, just on the chicken soup principle: It can't hurt. Still, when I see two people in a yelling match because one of them isn't wearing a mask, I instinctively side with the non-mask-wearer. He's being ornery, and I like ornery.
In a country with China's level of social control, orneriness will get you ten to fifteen breaking rocks in a labor camp on the Qinghai Plateau; or, at the very least, confined to your apartment 24/7 because the algorithms won't let you go anywhere. I don't want to live in a country like that. Liberty!—especially the liberty to be ornery.
David Goldman is right none the less. China is roaring ahead of us into that Fourth Industrial Revolution, and we will become a second-rate technological power. That's not a disaster, and I don't myself mind it if it's the price of keeping our liberties; but it will need some big adjustments that our leaders show no signs they are prepared for.
In military matters, for example. If I had been moderating Thursday's debate, here's a question I would have put to both candidates.
Question: China's saber-rattling towards Taiwan has been getting louder and louder in recent months. There is a probability that the next President will, at some point in his four years in office, be confronted by a Chinese military assault on Taiwan. Based on your understanding of the situation there, what is your estimate of that probability? Twenty percent? Fifty percent? Ninety percent? How should the U.S.A. respond to such an assault?
End question, end of segment.
I'll just add as a footnote that David Goldman, whose essay at Asia Times I was quoting there, has a new book out, title You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-form the World. I recommend it. The thirty-page appendix is worth the book's price all by itself.
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04—World Series. Have you been watching the World Series? I confess I haven't. Not that I'm much of a sports fan. Sports-enthusiasm-wise, I'm down in the bottom decile, low down. I always try to catch the World Series, though; in part from the immigrant's desire to be fully American, in part from lingering sentimental recollections of the late-1970s New York Yankees, many of whose games I attended. I shared a house with a work colleague at that time. We jointly owned a cat named Thurman.
This year I haven't bothered, though. I didn't even know the Series was under way, or who was playing, until I read a story on Breitbart about the abysmally low viewing numbers the Series got for its first game on Tuesday—"the lowest number of viewers in recorded history," said the Breitbart report.
I don't think that's right, actually. The first televised World Series was in 1947, when there were less than 50,000 TV sets in the U.S.A. It's true that most of that 50,000 were in bars, restaurants, and clubs, so there would have been many people viewing each set. To get up to this Tuesday's viewership of 9.2 million, though, you'd have to have an average 184 people per set … which doesn't seem likely.
You could quibble over the phrase "recorded history," I guess. Nielsen didn't start counting viewers until the 1960s, so probably that's what Breitbart meant; but then, they should have said so.
Whatever: That 9.2 million figure was 25 percent down on last year, which was in turn a five-year low for Game One. This year's poor number is the more surprising when you think of all the people stuck at home bored because of the pandemic.
So what's going on here? It can't have helped that Major League Baseball started off this season with affirmations of support for Black Lives Matter and anti-white dogma in general. Baseball fans are overwhelmingly white. Some I suppose are social-justice ethnomasochist types who—as the saying goes—feel good about feeling bad about their whiteness, but I'd guess that a much bigger number are fine with being white and resent all the anti-white propaganda.
You're a lower-middle-class white baseball fan making $30,000 a year. How do you feel about some black baseball player on a nine-digit contract lecturing you about your "privilege"?
I doubt that's the whole story, though. The Breitbart writer, Dylan Gwinn, agrees. Quote from him:
Fans just don't care anymore. Politics—everything from the election, to Covid, to economic collapse, to China, and whatever the scandal of the day happens to be—has become better theater than sports.
End quote.
It's common to hear people say that sport is a substitute for war. Have we moved into a historical epoch where public events are a substitute for sport?
I really hope not. Yankees fans and Mets fans may have regarded each other with scorn and derision, but those emotions were restricted to the game, they didn't affect any other aspect of life. Public events spread the emotions much wider. And war is a public event, the ultimate public event. We're better off with sport.
Perhaps I and the Breitbart guy are taking too dark a view. Sport is subject to fashions, after all. I have read somewhere that before WW2 the most popular spectator sports in America were horse racing and boxing. Where are they now?
A footnote here, for listeners who haven't been following the Series but now think maybe they should: It's between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays. All games are being played in Arlington, Texas, for reasons to do with the coronavirus. As I go to tape here Friday evening the Series is tied at one game each, with the third game about to start. Game Four tomorrow evening, Saturday.
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05—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items. Lots of them! There was no closing miscellany last week, so I feel I should make up.
Imprimis: There has been some slight movement in the case against the four Minneapolis cops who tried to arrest juiced-up criminal George Floyd in that city May 25th.
You'll recall that the state Attorney General, communist black Muslim Keith Ellison, hit the four officers with nine charges, ranging from second-degree murder to the aiding and abetting thereof. Well, one of the nine charges has now been ordered dropped by a county judge.
This is the charge of third-degree murder against cop Derek Chauvin. Chauvin faced three charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. The third-degree murder charge has been dropped; he still faces the other two.
Second-degree murder in Minnesota law is intentional killing without malice; third-degree murder hovers between that and manslaughter—un-intentional but with a depraved mind. So third-degree, the charge that's been dropped, is less serious than second-degree.
It's not much, but it reminds us that there's a court case coming up here with serious implications for public order if these cops are acquitted, which they should be.
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Item: In my opening segment I quoted an email from a friend, listing all the cultural and power centers on the side of the Democratic Party in this election. His list included NPR, National Public Radio.
In case anyone was in doubt about which side NPR is working for, NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel removed all possible doubt in the station's weekly newsletter, responding to a question about their lack of coverage in the matter of Hunter Biden's laptop. Quote from Mr Samuel:
We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions.
End quote.
NPR's financing is a long and tangled story but it is certain that some of their $200 million revenues come out of taxpayers' pockets, directly or indirectly. That's a scandal. NPR should not be getting any funds from the federal government, or from any institution—universities, for example—that is itself in receipt of federal funds. Defund NPR!
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Item: News from the intensifying war against white people.
The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco have unanimously approved a new law allowing blacks to sue white people who call 911 on them. The law is officially called the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act. Do you get that? The initial letters spell out CAREN.
Strictly speaking the plaintiff need not be black. Sex, age, religion, disability, gender identity, weight or height also count. There's not much doubt that the main point of the law is anti-white, though. It was introduced by Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is black, and whose introductory speech did not fail to mention Emmett Till.
Reading the story, I learned that these anti-white laws are proliferating, which I didn't know. There's already a similar one in New York: and civil lawsuits aside, in California it is already a criminal misdemeanor to hurt black people's feelings this way.
The Board of Supervisors has received written complaints from eight people named Karen, objecting to the way this law was named. Seems to me San Francisco needs a supplementary law to protect the hurt feelings of Karens. They could call it the Directive Ending Supervisors' Hate Against Womens' Names, or the DESHAWN Act.
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Item: As we all know, the fiercest zealots of antiracism—our new state religion—have been pulling down and defacing statues of historical figures who were not believers. October 11th in Portland, Oregon they pulled down a statue of Abe Lincoln, presumably because he wasn't antiracist enough.
Scholars of the Christian religion in the Middle Ages had similar issues with what they called "virtuous pagans." The problem they wanted to solve was: What is the fate, in the Afterlife, of people like Aristotle and Cicero, who lived virtuous lives before the coming of Christ? Not having been able to receive Christ's message through having been born too early, they couldn't be admitted to Heaven; but plainly they didn't deserve the torments of Hell. They were virtuous pagans.
I don't know enough about theology to tell you what majority opinion among the scholars settled on, but I do know that Dante put these virtuous pagans in Limbo, the first circle of Hell. They weren't tortured, but they were sad and gloomy. Heaven was nearby, but they weren't allowed to enter.
Can't the theologians of antiracism come up with something similar for figures like Abraham Lincoln, who did their best to live good lives but couldn't come up to the woke standard because they lived before Ibram X. Kendi's revelation? Just a suggestion.
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Item: Here's another suggestion, this one offered in a constructive spirit to the British government.
Britain is currently being invaded by illegal aliens from Africa and the Middle East crossing the English Channel from France in small boats. Numbers this year already exceed seven and a half thousand — more than four times the number for the whole of last year. There's speculation that this year's total will pass ten thousand.
The British government, which takes orders from open-borders globalists, is trying hard to ignore the issue, but public anger is rising. There have been demands to return the invaders to France—a perfectly safe country, of course—but the French won't take them. They can't be repatriated because they destroy their identity documents in mid-voyage, so no-one knows where any particular invader should be repatriated to.
Until recently the government has been putting up these invaders in hotels while it dithers about what to do with them. Now they've run out of hotel space, and are starting to use old army bases. The invaders make a nuisance of themselves to local people, though, especially women—these invaders are of course mostly young men. It's getting to be a major issue.
So here's my constructive suggestion: hulks. No, not green-skinned mutants with over-developed musculature. I mean hulks as in prison ships: vessels retired from the Royal Navy, permanently anchored along the banks of the River Thames and at seaports like Plymouth. From the 1770s to the 1850s hulks were used in place of jails. One of my great-great-grandfathers served seven years on the hulks back in the 1840s "for stealing 3 hen fowls & 20 chickens."
I dare say accommodations on the hulks were less than ideal; but at least the inmates couldn't harass law-abiding citizens. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Item: A bank in Redwood City, California was broken into by two raccoons. An ATM customer spotted them in there and the Humane Society was summoned.
This story has a way-we-live-now angle to it. The news story I read came with pictures of the intruders taken by security cameras in the bank. My first momentary impression of the pictures was: "Good Heavens, those critters are Covid-compliant! They're wearing masks!"
They weren't, of course; that's just what raccoons look like. It goes to show how public controversies warp our perceptions, though.
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Item: CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who is also a staff writer at the far-left New Yorker magazine, was caught out on a Zoom conference call romancing Mrs Palm and her five lovely daughters when he thought he was off-camera. He has been suspended from the magazine pending an investigation.
I think we should give Toobin the benefit of the doubt. It is so easy for misunderstandings to arise. Perhaps he had just previously made a pass at a lady who'd rebuffed him by saying, "Beat it, pal!" Or perhaps his magazine work had been falling below standard and the editor had told him to get a grip on himself. Who knows?
Mr Toobin has in any case shown courage in adversity, single-handedly taking on those mocking him, standing firm and proud — yes, holding his own. Good luck there, guy.
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Item: In the same regrettable zone, last December on VDARE.com I advertised the charms of Finland's then-new Prime Minister Sanna Marin, age 34. I don't mean political charms, either: the lady is exceptionally easy on the eye.
Ms Marin makes no attempt to hide those charms. Just recently she did a photo shoot for a fashion magazine. In one picture she was wearing a very low-cut jacket, cut low enough to tell us that (a) she was not wearing a bra, and (b) has small but well-formed breasts.
Commentarial opinion has been sharply divided. On one side of the cleavage, there's a Grundy faction saying that as Prime Minister, Ms Marin should attend to the dignity of her office and not distract us with her secondary sexual characteristics. The more easy-going faction to which I belong counters that politicians take themselves far too seriously, so that any trace of normal human impulses, like a young woman showing off her bristols, is welcome relief.
For commentary on this episode with some intellectual depth, check out Ed Dutton, the Jolly Heretic, who is a very occasional VDARE.com contributor. Ed actually lives in Finland, and he introduced us to Ms Marin last year via his YouTube channel when she became Prime Minister. Ed bases all his commentary on evolutionary psychology.
Just today Ed has posted a vidcast at BitChute, the first fifteen minutes or so given over to an analysis of Ms Marin's career and boobs, which latter Ed describes delicately as, quote, "fried-egg standard" (11m37s). You have to not mind Ed's occasional lapses into Finnish and his rapid-fire delivery, much more challenging to the attention than my more leisurely style.
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Item: Finally, in seasonal news, 26-year-old Nathan Garisto of Largo, Florida, was arrested Monday on a domestic battery charge for throwing a pumpkin at his girlfriend. He was, say police, "heavily intoxicated." Ah, the holiday spirit.
What we all want to know, of course, is: Did Mr Garisto yell "Trick or treat!" before hurling the pumpkin? Alas, the news reports don't tell us. Journalistic standards are not what they once were.
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06—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and for your many emails.
Many, many: email volume has been increasing the past few weeks, I don't know why. Yes, we're coming up to an election, and everyone's excited about that. I haven't done much commentary directly about election issues, though, so that can't be it. Perhaps there's a rising general level of excitement, general enough to encompass the kind of mostly cultural and social commentary I do.
Whatever: the volume is way higher than I can reply to individually, except on occasional whim. I can only promise as always that everything non-abusive gets read, pondered, and, where appropriate, plagiarized.
OK, some signout music. Longtime listeners know my affection for the early-twentieth-century popular concert repertoire. Here is an old favorite from that genre, "Somewhere a Voice is Calling," sung here by the English and then Canadian tenor Hubert Eisdell. Wikipedia says the song was published in 1901, but it only really took off in World War One. Eisdell's recording is from 1916, and I apologise for the somewhat primitive sound quality. The lyrics are plain and minimal:
Dusk, and the shadows falling,
O'er land and sea;
Somewhere a voice is calling,
Calling for me!
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-10-23--INDEPENDENT: Sacha Baron Cohen Survived 'Cancel Culture' by Evolving Instead of Moaning (I.E He REAL

INDEPENDENT: Sacha Baron Cohen Survived 'Cancel Culture' by Evolving Instead of Moaning (I.E He REALLY Loves Big Brother)

From The Independent in the UK , a good example of my long-running theme about how discourse in English-speaking world is deteriorating toward a child ’ s view of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys based on identity Pokemon Points and partisanship .
The leftist critic says that , while you might think , Sacha Baron Cohen deserves cancelation , not that cancelation exists , for making fun of hip-hop fans , Muslims , and gays , but unlike Bad Guy comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle , SBC has saved himself from cancelation ( which is a right-wing myth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Up ( i.e.
, making fun of Republican voters ) and demanding that the little people be censored by social media monopolies under the guidance of the ADL : Borat 2 : Sacha Baron Cohen survived ‘ cancel culture ’ by evolving instead of moaning While his peers fret about being unable to tell jokes anymore , Sacha Baron Cohen has carefully avoided so-called ‘ cancellation ’ despite a dubious track record with race and stereotyping , writes Adam White The “ cancel culture ” narrative promoted by the right-wing , if it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Sacha Baron Cohen ’ s downfall .
The British comic became a household name playing Ali G , a white , middle-class male appropriating black culture and hip-hop vernacular .
It was a satire at the expense of men like Ali G , individuals trying on a persona they had no real right to adopt , but was also criticised for making hip-hop culture the butt of the joke , too – whether deliberately or inadvertently .
Much of the same criticism trailed his later creations , the antisemitic , xenophobic Kazakh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designer Bruno , both of whom have been accused of contributing to racism and homophobia as much as exposing them .
And yet , for all his apparent sins , Baron Cohen is still here .
This week marks the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm , a belated sequel to the first Borat movie that is just as perceptive , cringeworthy and crude .
That its arrival hasn ’ t been serenaded by controversy or “ cancellation ” , the perceived ruining that occurs in the wake of Twitter backlash , speaks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waters .
His approach has always tended to punch up – exposing the hypocrisy , ignorance and hatred in those wielding power , and expressing sympathy towards those lower down the social ladder haplessly parroting them… .
Last year , Baron Cohen condemned Google , Facebook , YouTube and Twitter for “ deliberately amplifying … stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear ” via their algorithms .
It was a rare act of celebrity activism directly targeting platforms usually off-limits for criticism , but also got to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survival .
Here is a comedian able to see the world from outside of himself , who is aware of politics , corruption and what truly matters , and then slips it all into his work .
While it ’ s easy to be distracted by the absurdity of Republican politicians being tricked into advocating for three-year-olds owning guns ( as South Carolina representative Joe Wilson did in Baron Cohen ’ s Who Is America ?
series last year ) , truth and horror always bubble under the surface .
That few high-profile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been truly “ cancelled ” is a mere technicality – JK Rowling ’ s books are still bestsellers , Woody Allen ’ s still getting his films financed , and many of us will have seen more of Laurence Fox ’ s face this year than we have our own .
Yet so many comedians seem to be fretting about it , even while remaining gainfully employed , injecting every interview with claims that they can ’ t tell jokes anymore .
Baron Cohen , meanwhile , seemingly spends his downtime in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than sitting in an expensive house getting increasingly pissed off about non-existent things .
… In effect , Baron Cohen subverted 2020 “ cancellation ” and the apparent extinction of outrageous comedy not by rejecting it or complaining about what a victim he has become , but by evolving and maturing .
OK , based on the gleeful cringe of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm , maybe just the former .

From The Independent in the UK, a good example of my long-running theme about how discourse in English-speaking world is deteriorating toward a child’s view of Good Guys vs. Bad Guys based on identity Pokemon Points and partisanship. The leftist critic says that, while you might think Sacha Baron Cohen deserves cancelation, not that cancelation exists, for making fun of hip-hop fans, Muslims, and gays, but unlike Bad Guy comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle, SBC has saved himself from cancelation (which is a right-wing myth) by “evolving” by Punching Up (i.e., making fun of Republican voters) and demanding that the little people be censored by social media monopolies under the guidance of the ADL:
Borat 2: Sacha Baron Cohen survived ‘cancel culture’ by evolving instead of moaning
While his peers fret about being unable to tell jokes anymore, Sacha Baron Cohen has carefully avoided so-called ‘cancellation’ despite a dubious track record with race and stereotyping, writes Adam White
16 hours ago
The “cancel culture” narrative promoted by the right-wing, if it existed, should have long ago led to Sacha Baron Cohen’s downfall. The British comic became a household name playing Ali G, a white, middle-class male appropriating black culture and hip-hop vernacular. It was a satire at the expense of men like Ali G, individuals trying on a persona they had no real right to adopt, but was also criticised for making hip-hop culture the butt of the joke, too – whether deliberately or inadvertently. Much of the same criticism trailed his later creations, the antisemitic, xenophobic Kazakh journalist Borat and the flamboyant gay fashion designer Bruno, both of whom have been accused of contributing to racism and homophobia as much as exposing them. And yet, for all his apparent sins, Baron Cohen is still here.
This week marks the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a belated sequel to the first Borat movie that is just as perceptive, cringeworthy and crude. That its arrival hasn’t been serenaded by controversy or “cancellation”, the perceived ruining that occurs in the wake of Twitter backlash, speaks to how successfully Baron Cohen has navigated treacherous waters. His approach has always tended to punch up – exposing the hypocrisy, ignorance and hatred in those wielding power, and expressing sympathy towards those lower down the social ladder haplessly parroting them….
Last year, Baron Cohen condemned Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for “deliberately amplifying … stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear” via their algorithms. It was a rare act of celebrity activism directly targeting platforms usually off-limits for criticism, but also got to the root of Baron Cohen’s survival. Here is a comedian able to see the world from outside of himself, who is aware of politics, corruption and what truly matters, and then slips it all into his work. While it’s easy to be distracted by the absurdity of Republican politicians being tricked into advocating for three-year-olds owning guns (as South Carolina representative Joe Wilson did in Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? series last year), truth and horror always bubble under the surface.
That few high-profile stars engulfed in recent social media storms have been truly “cancelled” is a mere technicality – JK Rowling’s books are still bestsellers, Woody Allen’s still getting his films financed, and many of us will have seen more of Laurence Fox’s face this year than we have our own. Yet so many comedians seem to be fretting about it, even while remaining gainfully employed, injecting every interview with claims that they can’t tell jokes anymore. Baron Cohen, meanwhile, seemingly spends his downtime in between projects reading and learning, rather than sitting in an expensive house getting increasingly pissed off about non-existent things.
… In effect, Baron Cohen subverted 2020 “cancellation” and the apparent extinction of outrageous comedy not by rejecting it or complaining about what a victim he has become, but by evolving and maturing. OK, based on the gleeful cringe of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, maybe just the former.


vdare--2020-10-22--A Gay VDARE.com Reader Says Chadwick Moore's Video Says Sensible Things About Immigration, Etc.

`` Bait and switch '' should be the slogan of today 's gay rights movement , now known as the LGBTQ+ movement .
The leadership likes to entice young people with attractive promises of equal rights .
Who does n't want that ?
And who does n't deserve that ?
But what follows nearly all of the time these days is the entire left-wing agenda .
Every liberal idea suddenly becomes a gay ( or LGBTQ+ ) issue .
This includes the right of biological males to dominate women 's sports .
The hostility of the movement leadership to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things , lockstep subordination to the interests of the Democratic Party , alliance with Marxist Black Lives Matter , and support for open borders and mass immigration .
What do those things have to do with sexual orientation ( or preference , if you wish ) ?
Nothing , of course .
Journalist Chadwick Moore , known to many VDARE.com readers from his appearances on Tucker Carlson 's show , has made a video under the auspices of the Log Cabin Republicans explaining the LGBTQ+ movement 's sorry facts of life .
Watch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you hear .
See the video here on Vimeo , or here : Chadwick Moore exposes the truth about Gay , Inc. , getoutspoken.com Chadwick Moore : `` Gay Inc speaks with one voice on issues affecting the gay community , and increasingly on issues that have nothing to do with being gay , such as immigration , minimum wage , abortion , and healthcare . ''
James Fulford writes : I remember arch-conservative Florence King ( 1936-2016 ) writing at the end of the 20th century of `` today 's atmosphere of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It Or Leave It : In my 1985 memoir Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady , I related a Lesbian affair I had in graduate school at the University of Mississippi in 1958 .
It made me the darling of radical left-wing females who assumed that I shared their political views merely because I had gone to bed with a woman .
She was invited to speak at a weekend Lesbian retreat in the Blue Ridge mountains whose flyer said : `` Corn-worshipping Festival , Witchcraft Workshop , Automatic Writing Demonstrtion , Logic-is-Dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Non-Smokers . ''
King wrote `` I returned the flyer with a note across the top : `` It 's time you knew I 'm a Republican . ''

From: A Gay VDARE.com Reader [Email him]
"Bait and switch" should be the slogan of today's gay rights movement, now known as the LGBTQ+ movement. The leadership likes to entice young people with attractive promises of equal rights. Who doesn't want that? And who doesn't deserve that? But what follows nearly all of the time these days is the entire left-wing agenda. Every liberal idea suddenly becomes a gay (or LGBTQ+) issue.
This includes the right of biological males to dominate women's sports. The hostility of the movement leadership to the historic American nation means, among other things, lockstep subordination to the interests of the Democratic Party, alliance with Marxist Black Lives Matter, and support for open borders and mass immigration. What do those things have to do with sexual orientation (or preference, if you wish)? Nothing, of course. Journalist Chadwick Moore, known to many VDARE.com readers from his appearances on Tucker Carlson's show, has made a video under the auspices of the Log Cabin Republicans explaining the LGBTQ+ movement's sorry facts of life. Watch. You may be surprised at what you hear.
See the video here on Vimeo, or here: Chadwick Moore exposes the truth about Gay, Inc., getoutspoken.com.
Chadwick Moore: "Gay Inc speaks with one voice on issues affecting the gay community, and increasingly on issues that have nothing to do with being gay, such as immigration, minimum wage, abortion, and healthcare."
James Fulford writes: I remember arch-conservative Florence King (1936-2016) writing at the end of the 20th century of "today's atmosphere of politicized homosexuality" in her book Lump It Or Leave It:
In my 1985 memoir Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, I related a Lesbian affair I had in graduate school at the University of Mississippi in 1958. It made me the darling of radical left-wing females who assumed that I shared their political views merely because I had gone to bed with a woman.
She was invited to speak at a weekend Lesbian retreat in the Blue Ridge mountains whose flyer said: "Corn-worshipping Festival, Witchcraft Workshop, Automatic Writing Demonstration, Logic-is-Dead Bonfire, Nude Dancing, Vegetarian Cafeteria, Non-Smokers."
King wrote "I returned the flyer with a note across the top: "It's time you knew I'm a Republican."