vdare--2020-12-27--Virginia Decriminalizes Jaywalking Because Blacks Jaywalk More Than Whites

Earlier: Jaywalking And Race: Disparate Enforcement Or Disparate Lawbreaking?
Let’s just go ahead and make it illegal to arrest black people. After all, everything is being done to alleviate the problems facing black people in every aspect of their individual lives, including rewriting the criminal/judicial code to make otherwise illegal actions perpetually legal in the eyes of the law.
In other words, any crime that disproportionately impacts blacks must be outlawed.
Though it didn’t garner as much attention as other police reform measures during the special legislative session that ended this fall, a provision to decriminalize jaywalking in a pretextual policing bill from Delegate Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, means that come March 1, police will no longer be able to stop folks for the act of crossing the street outside of a marked crosswalk.
Criminal justice reformers called it a small step along the path to reducing encounters with the police, especially for people of color.
Although jaywalking will remain illegal, other advocates worry decriminalization could encourage pedestrians towards further unsafe crossings at a time when Virginia’s pedestrian death rate is already at a record high.
But are such fears founded?
Most countries would consider the concept of jaywalking a scam that Americans have been conditioned to believe is normal. In the Netherlands, for example, traffic engineers and urban planners have actually worked to lower the country’s curbs so as to encourage people to cross wherever they like.
Before the advent of the automobile, pedestrians in America were widely recognized as having the right of way in all situations. The road to car culture’s dominance in the United States was literally paved with blood — drivers had already killed some 200,000 people by 1920. In response, auto industry groups launched a “jaywalking” campaign to place blame for collisions on pedestrians rather than drivers.
The passage of laws making jaywalking expressly illegal over the following decades also led to an increase in pedestrian interactions with the police. African Americans have long complained of police stops for the offense of “walking while Black.”
A 2019 audit of the New York Police Department revealed that officers issued 90 percent of “illegal or unsafe crossing” tickets to Blacks and Hispanics although those two groups make up just 55 percent of the Big Apple’s population. A ProPublica investigation in Jacksonville, Florida similarly found Black residents received 78 percent of all tickets for “walking in the roadway where sidewalks are provided” despite comprising just 29 percent of the city’s population.
The lack of such figures for Virginia localities comes down to an absence of reporting. “Data on police encounters is difficult to gather, especially on something like this because jaywalking is very frequently just a pretext for stopping someone and not the actual thing the police officer wants to investigate,” said Brad Haywood — the founder and executive director of Justice Forward Virginia.
Haywood and the other public defenders behind Hope’s bill crafted the legislation based on their experience “representing poor, Black and brown people against some of the most ridiculous reasons for stops,” such as objects dangling from rearview mirrors, loud mufflers and tinted windows among others.
To Haywood and his colleagues, the disproportional enforcement of jaywalking was clear: “None of us had ever had a White client who was stopped for jaywalking. I probably jaywalk two times on my way to work every day, and I’ve never been stopped for it and likely never will. It’s just one of those things that led to racist policing.”
“I heard from countless communities of color that this type of thing happens to them all the time,” Hope said. “Jaywalking is a leading contributor of people being stopped and sometimes arrested. A disproportionate number of people that are stopped for these infractions are people of color and the purpose of this bill is to get at that issue and curb the number of negative interactions with police over minor offences.”
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story included a statistic claiming that 65% of people pulled in traffic stops in Arlington County were Black, despite African Americans making up 10-12% of the county’s population. A 2019 crime report from Arlington County says that this number is nearer 28.5% when counting non-residents and around 4% for residents.
Although the case for decriminalizing jaywalking as a piece of policing reform may be clear to proponents, some advocates worry the move could send mixed messages to pedestrians. “The fact that jaywalking is used as a tool to profile folks is appalling, but the reality is that jaywalking is a risky proposition,” said Mike Doyle, founding member of Northern Virginia Families for Safer Streets. “By decriminalizing it are we inferring that it’s OK to jaywalk?”
Doyle’s concern stems from Virginia law’s stance on contributory negligence. “What that term means is if the person who has been hit by a car is deemed to be even one percent at fault for the crash, then that person that was run over doesn’t get a single cent of compensation,” said Doyle. “Most of the time the driver is the one at fault, but it doesn’t matter because the car always wins and the pedestrian always loses in a crash.”
Other advocates argue decriminalization won’t trigger a spike in jaywalking because the true deterrent to pedestrians for an unsafe crossing was never a fine but rather the risk of being run over. “I don’t think this bill will encourage even one person to jaywalk,” Haywood said. “Maybe people will behave differently when there is a cop looking directly at them at an intersection, but other than that I don’t think anything will change. Around where I live the cops jaywalk too.”
Hope said the legislation is unlikely to cause an increase in dangerous crossings: “It doesn’t say that these infractions are no longer illegal, just that they can’t be the primary reason for someone to be stopped.”
Focusing on the act of jaywalking is to ignore the larger historical and structural context that has made crossing the road so dangerous, especially for people of color, argues Charles T. Brown, a senior researcher and adjunct professor at Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University.
“I find it disingenuous to hold accountable a population for jaywalking when they lack the proper infrastructure to traverse their communities safely to begin with,” he said. “People jaywalk out of necessity, so I find it unjust that we are targeting those who jaywalk when they are basically responding to the environment which they have been given.”
Brown points to racism in many instances of America’s push for urban renewal which often demolished prosperous Black neighborhoods in favor of imposing infrastructure like inner-city highways. In Richmond, the destruction of a large portion of Jackson Ward — the Harlem of the South — for I-95 and the bulldozing of part of the Black community of Granite for new highways are a few Virginia examples of the practice.


vdare--2020-12-27--Is It "ICE Dr. Abuses Immigrants" Or "Immigrant Dr. Abuses Women In America"? (Hint: "Dr. Mahendra A

Is It "ICE Dr. Abuses Immigrants" Or "Immigrant Dr. Abuses Women In America"? (Hint: "Dr. Mahendra Amin" )

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In a privately run ICE detention facility in Georgia, several illegal immigrant women are alleging they were given unnecessary hysterectomies and invasive gynecological procedures by an "ICE doctor" who turns out to be named Dr. Mahendra Amin.
More immigrant women say they were abused by Ice gynecologist More than 40 women submitted testimony claiming abuse, alleging they underwent invasive and unnecessary procedures [By Victoria Bekiempis, Guardian, December 22, 2020]
It would be just as true to say "women in America" say they were abused by "immigrant gynecologist." This follows the traditional MSM rule that when one immigrant victimizes another immigrant, only the victim's immigrant status appears in the headline.
A search for Dr. Amin's qualifications says he was "graduated from Government Medical College Srinagar, Kashmir University, Faculty Of Medicine medical school in 1975."
As is traditional in these cases, the Indian Press names him as an Indian-American. They didn't even bother to look up his medical school, they just assumed that a guy named "Mahendra" would be an Indian [Indian American doctor performed unneeded surgeries on immigrants: NYT American Bazaar Wire, September 30, 2020].
Heavy.com's web research got into his medical background. They don't call him an immigrant, either, you can just tell from this:
According to Amin’s profile on the website for the Coffee Regional Medical Center in Georgia — a profile that has been removed from the website since the original publication of this article — he was educated at the Medical School Government Medical College of South Gujarat University in Surat, India. Amin completed his internship at the New Civil Hospital in Surat, India. His residency was the University Hospital at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. Amin is a member of the American Medical Association, the Georgia Medical Association and the American Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons. Amin’s social security number was issued in 1988.
I don't know, by the way, if Dr. Amin is guilty, although he did settle with Medicare for $520,000 in case alleging overbilling, which is very popular with immigrant doctors.
He was turned in by a "whistleblower," a Licensed Practical Nurse named Dawn Wooten, who is also the subject of allegations:
Just days after a nurse at an ICE detention centre came forward with allegations of mass hysterectomies performed on immigrants detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, new details have emerged about the whistleblower. Several people who were detained at Irwin while Dawn Wooten, the whistleblower, was employed there as a licensed practical nurse have come forward with allegations that she was complicit in the abuses they experienced at the detention centre. A spokesperson for an organization that represents migrants held at the detention centre told Prism that multiple clients remembered Wooten making “jokes at their expense.” At least one other person said Wooten knew what the facility was doing to migrant women and did nothing to stop it. She added that Wooten made fun of the people detained at Irwin.
Well, if the alleged bad gynecologist is a guy named Mahendra, what does a nurse who makes fun of detainees and makes jokes at their expense look like?
Take a look:
See earlier on bad immigrant gynecologists:
Dr. Mohammed Haque's name never appeared in a headline about his case.
Then there was Dr. Nikita Levy, who secretly photographed patients' private parts, and committed suicide when he was found out.
Dr. Nikita Levy’s name has frequently appeared in headlines, and that gives you a false idea of his ethnic group. Dr. Levy (above) was a black immigrant from Jamaica, a fact that never appeared in a headline (unless the headline was written by me).
And on the general question of "Indian Doctors, Threat Or Menace" see


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vdare--2020-12-25--Anarcho-Tyranny: Antifa Who Ran Over Proud Boy Not Even Charged, James Fields Still Has 400+Years To

Anarcho-Tyranny: Antifa Who Ran Over Proud Boy Not Even Charged, James Fields Still Has 400+Years To Serve

Earlier: MSM Still Silent About Proud Boy Shane Moon Being Run Down By Antifa, Not Like The Hysterical Reaction To The Death At Charlottesville
Listeners may remember the name James Fields, the young man sentenced to a life sentence plus 419 years for driving into a mob of anarchists at Charlottesville, Virginia following the Unite the Right rally in 2017. One of the anarchists died as a result.
There was a similar assault in Vancouver back in September. This is the American Vancouver, the one in Washington State, not the Canadian Vancouver. An Antifa activist named Charles Holliday-Smith had been harassing some Proud Boys who were standing smoking in a parking lot. Then he got into his own vehicle and drove off.
As he did so he hit one of the Proud Boys, Shane Moon. Moon wasn't killed, but he suffered brain damage. Holliday-Smith was arrested and then released on $100,000 bail.
Now we've heard that Holliday-Smith has been exonerated with no charges filed, pending further investigation. His bail has also been exonerated, whatever that means [Prosecutors Decline to Charge Black Lives Matter Militant Who Ran Over Proud Boy in Washington, by Cassandra Fairbanks, Gateway Pundit, December 22, 2020].
Granted, the two cases—James Fields and Charles Holliday-Smith—are different. The person James Fields hit died; Shane Moon didn't, though he was badly injured.
On the other side, however, Fields was plainly in fear for his life; there's no evidence that Holliday-Smith was.
So sure, there are differences. The differences, however, are nothing like as great—nothing like as great—as the difference between 419 years plus life and no-charges-filed.
We all understand, of course, that the real difference here is that Charles Holliday-Smith holds political opinions the ruling class approves of, while James Fields holds political opinions they don't approve of.
The difference, in other words, is Who? Whom?


vdare--2020-12-27--White Child Has Life Ruined for Liking Rap

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From the New York Times news section, a disheartening long article about one high school student wrecking another high school student’s life. My general policy is not to hurt children, so I’m deleting their surnames.
LEESBURG, Va. — Jimmy was in history class last school year when his phone buzzed with a message. Once he clicked on it, he found a three-second video of a white classmate looking into the camera and uttering an anti-Black racial slur.
A white high school student withdrew from her chosen college after a three-second video caused an uproar online. The classmate who shared it publicly has no regrets.
That the white girl got from rap music.
So he held on to the video, which was sent to him by a friend, and made a decision that would ricochet across Leesburg, Va., a town named for an ancestor of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and whose school system had fought an order to desegregate for more than a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.
The slur, he said, was regularly hurled in classrooms and hallways throughout his years in the Loudoun County school district. He had brought the issue up to teachers and administrators but, much to his anger and frustration, his complaints had gone nowhere.
Which was about a half century before the white victim in this story was born.
Mimi had originally sent the video, in which she looked into the camera and said, “I can drive,” followed by the slur, to a friend on Snapchat in 2016, when she was a freshman and had just gotten her learner’s permit.
“I wanted to get her where she would understand the severity of that word,” Jimmy, 18, whose mother is Black and father is white, said of the classmate who uttered the slur, Mimi. He tucked the video away, deciding to post it publicly when the time was right.
She was a 15-year-old rap fan.
White people should not listen to rap. You are just asking for grief.
Anyway, rap is Boomer Music from the 1970s. The youngest Boomers, like Kamala Harris, were 15 when “Rapper’s Delight” was on AM Top 40 radio in 1979.
It later circulated among some students at Heritage High School, which she and Jimmy attended, but did not cause much of a stir.
Jimmy had not seen the video before receiving it last school year, when he and Mimi were seniors. By then, she was a varsity cheer captain who dreamed of attending the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, whose cheer team was the reigning national champion. When she made the team in May, her parents celebrated with a cake and orange balloons, the university’s official color.
The next month, as protests were sweeping the nation after the police killing of George Floyd, Mimi in a public Instagram post, urged people to “protest, donate, sign a petition, rally, do something” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“You have the audacity to post this, after saying the N-word,” responded someone whom Mimi said she did not know.
Her alarm at the stranger’s comment turned to panic as friends began calling, directing her to the source of a brewing social media furor. Jimmy, who had waited until Mimi had chosen a college, had publicly posted the video that afternoon. Within hours, it had been shared to Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter, where furious calls mounted for the University of Tennessee to revoke its admission offer.
By that June evening, about a week after Mr. Floyd’s killing, teenagers across the country had begun leveraging social media to call out their peers for racist behavior. Some students set up anonymous pages on Instagram devoted to holding classmates accountable, including in Loudoun County.
The consequences were swift. Over the next two days, Mimi was removed from the university’s cheer team. She then withdrew from the school under pressure from admissions officials, who told her they had received hundreds of emails and phone calls from outraged alumni, students and the public.
“They’re angry, and they want to see some action,” an admissions official told Mimi and her family, according to a recording of the emotional call reviewed by The New York Times.
Mimi was among many incoming freshmen across the country whose admissions offers were revoked by at least a dozen universities after videos emerged on social media of them using racist language.
In one sense, the public shaming of Mimi underscores the power of social media to hold people of all ages accountable, with consequences at times including harassment and both online and real-world “cancellation.” But the story behind the backlash also reveals a more complex portrait of behavior that for generations had gone unchecked in schools in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties, where Black students said they had long been subjected to ridicule. “Go pick cotton,” some said they were told in class by white students.
“It was just always very uncomfortable being Black in the classroom,” said Muna Barry, a Black student who graduated with Mimi and Jimmy. Once during Black History Month, she recalled, gym teachers at her elementary school organized an “Underground Railroad” game, where students were told to run through an obstacle course in the dark. They had to begin again if they made noise.
The use of the slur by a Heritage High School student was not shocking, many said. The surprise, instead, was that Mimi was being punished for behavior that had long been tolerated.
A ‘hostile learning environment’
Leesburg, the county seat of Loudoun County, lies just across the Potomac River from Maryland, about an hour’s drive from Washington. It was the site of an early Civil War battle, and slave auctions were once held on the courthouse grounds, where a statue of a Confederate soldier stood for more than a century until it was removed in July.
The Loudoun County suburbs are among the wealthiest in the nation, and the schools consistently rank among the top in the state. Last fall, according to the Virginia Department of Education, the student body at Heritage High was about half white, 20 percent Hispanic, 14 percent Asian-American and 8 percent Black, with another 6 percent who are mixed race.
In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs. …
Mimi said the video began as a private Snapchat message to a friend. “At the time, I didn’t understand the severity of the word, or the history and context behind it because I was so young,” she said in a recent interview, adding that the slur was in “all the songs we listened to, and I’m not using that as an excuse.” …
Since the racial reckoning of the summer, many white teenagers, when posting dance videos to social media, no longer sing along with the slur in rap songs. Instead, they raise a finger to pursed lips. “Small things like that really do make a difference,” Jimmy said.


vdare--2020-12-27--Reuters: China Inc Will Recycle Used White Guys

From a Reuters opinion columnist:
Breakingviews – China Inc will recycle used white guys
By Lauren Silva Laughlin
BREAKINGVIEWS
DECEMBER 21, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – American company men may find a savior in China Inc. As corporations try to make their ranks more ethnically representative, many experienced – if white and older – males will find themselves without a job. Chinese companies, deterred from acquiring U.S. firms with valuable intellectual property, can recruit their discarded human capital instead.
Some of the largest U.S. companies are moving quickly to rebalance their headcount. At Apple, for example, women made up 38% of workers under 30 in 2018 versus just 31% four years earlier. The share of under-represented minorities in that group rose 10 percentage points to 35%. Meantime the employment-to-population ratio of white men fell from 76% in 1972 to 67% in 2018.
The coming year should be a banner one for diversity. California has rolled out quotas for boards; Nasdaq is considering requirements for listings. Companies from Wells Fargo to Google to Delta Air Lines have diversity hiring goals in place.
The goal is to reach new customers and positively transform corporate cultures. In the immediate term that may translate into net layoffs of older, more expensive, Caucasian men.
Some of those hitting the streets, resumé in hand, will have value for the right employer. Economic research firm Sonecon put the price of intellectual capital of U.S. companies at $9.2 trillion in 2011. Acquiring that by buying companies will be difficult under President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to continue the crackdown on Chinese acquisitions. Poaching talent is easier and, in some cases, may be more efficient.


vdare--2020-12-27--Israel Is Inoculating 6 Times as Fast as US

From Our World in Data:
Israel has an old fashioned greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number style philosophy, so it’s interesting to keep an eye on what they do. From the Times of Israel:
Netanyahu aims for 25% of Israelis vaccinated in month; 250,000 had shots so far PM says he wants to lift pace of inoculations to 150,000 a day; another 5,433 virus cases found, day before 3rd lockdown; Health Minister intends to vaccinate teachers this week By TOI STAFF
26 December 2020, 7:04 pm 1 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he sought to reach a vaccination rate of around 150,000 people a day within a week, and to have inoculated over 2 million Israelis by the end of January.
Israel’s population is about 9 million.
Though the Health Ministry had yet to issue updated figures after Shabbat, Channel 12 News reported that some 266,000 people had gotten the first of two shots by the end of the first week of Israel’s vaccination push. At a pace of 150,000 vaccines administered a day, Netanyahu said that within a month 2.25 million Israelis could receive both doses of the vaccine. That amounts to over a quarter of Israel’s 9.25 million population. “This is the critical stage… because this is the entire at-risk population: All the medical teams, all the people over 60. Within this stratum is 95 percent of the mortality. Once we finish this stage, within 30 days we can get out of the coronavirus [pandemic], open the economy and do things that no other state can do,” he claimed, echoing an assertion he made Thursday. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said in a statement Saturday night he would seek to vaccinate the country’s teaching professionals this week, to help protect them as schools remain open during a new national lockdown. … Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted on Thursday that Israel would likely be the first country in the world to overcome the pandemic. “I want to tell you that the combination of the marvelous vaccine campaign on the one hand, and a short and quick lockdown on the other, is allowing us to get out of the coronavirus [pandemic],” Netanyahu said in a statement. “And we’ll likely be the first country to get out of [it], within a few weeks,” he added.
Israel is signed up for 8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 6 million of Moderna, enough for 7 million people. Bahrain has been inoculating residents with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine for more than a month.
[Comment at Unz.com]


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vdare--2020-12-28--Were The Bang Girls The End For TPUSA’s Celebrity Conservatism?

Earlier, by James Kirkpatrick: The Altered Presidential Seal And The Farce Of Turning Point USA
While conservative values wither and die each day in America, Turning Point USA parties. By now, many have seen the video circulating around Twitter of Bang Energy drink girls, in tight yoga pants with their midriffs showing, shooting money out of a cannon into a crowd of excited teenagers. (Last year they shot t-shirts) [Conservatives slam Turning Point USA event for using 'Bang Girls' to blast free cash at teenagers from cannons, Daily Mail, December 21, 2020].
Turning Point USA sponsor "Bang Energy" continued to shoot money out of a cannon throughout their 25-minute sales pitch to attendees - urging TPUSA activists to buy their product. pic.twitter.com/KOB9bQwpnN — Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) December 20, 2020
If you didn’t know better, you could think this was a Las Vegas club. But no, it was the TPUSA Student Action Summit, in West Palm Beach, Florida, hosted for young conservatives between the ages of 15 and 25. It has worked—kids just want to have fun—but for how much longer?
TPUSA is considered one of the biggest, and certainly most well-connected, conservative organizations around. TPUSA’s most recent tax filing ending in the fiscal year 2019 shows the group brought in nearly $29 million in total revenue, up from only approximately $11 million the prior year. Charlie Kirk, age 27, the founder and conservative wunderkind, has a listed salary just shy of $300,000—still short of the $425, 000 Cuckservative Review Editor Rich Lowry reportedly earns.
Despite TPUSA’s gigantic budget, the SAS event still featured the segment by sponsor Bang Energy, in which conference-goers who regularly decry getting free money, were showered in… free money by “Bang girls.” (Last year, it was t-shirts). Before this partnership, TPUSA did a feature on Bang as part of its “Only in America” series.
Only in America, the video suggests, can you surround yourself in scantily clad models, prepped by your wife on how to be cheerleaders, while trying to promote yourself as a friend of conservatives and a devout Christian man.
The Bang Energy sponsorship is symptomatic of what TPUSA is as an organization. TPUSA tries to sell young people a vapid image of conservatism, focused on flashy materialism, rather than any sort of actual conservative principles. In short, TPUSA is focused on trying to give young people the lifestyle you can only find on reality TV, while promising that is one of the merits of capitalism.
It’s no surprise, therefore, that TPUSA’s programming is filled with failed reality TV stars.
Take a look no further than TPUSA’s POPlitics show. Previously a laughingstock on YouTube to the point where the videos are now unlisted, the show now only has a presence on Instagram, a website meant for nothing more substantive than photos. The show features Alex Clark, an advocate for getting Botox and plastic surgery while in your 20s and a lover of photos captioned with irrelevant comments about America, talking about the pop culture issues of the day. The show talks about the “conserva-tea” of the day and fans are called “cuteservatives.”
The show is best summarized by its promo, in which Clark yells, "What would it look like if Fox News and E! News had a baby? Me!"
In fact, before Clark was hired by TPUSA, she was a star on the “Bachelor”-esque celebrity dating show, FOX’s “Coupled.” One of the promo shots for the dating show featured Clark in a candle-lit bathtub making out with her co-star and partner on the show, a black male model. At the time of the show, she was recorded as having called herself “100% bangable,” because of her devotion to skin care and plastic surgery.
As you can tell, all of this is very conservative!
Clark is not the only reality TV star that got picked up by TPUSA. Rob Smith, who calls himself “America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican,” was once a reality TV star. And, like Clark, he was on a television show about his personal relationship. Smith was on Paramount Network’s “Marriage Rescue.” According to Smith, (who appears to have blocked VDARE.com on Twitter, although we’ve never written or tweeted about him), he “did the show because it was important for me to show that gay marriages have the same issues as all other marriages!”
In 2012, as a HuffPost contributor, Smith tried to create the “I am Trayvon Martin Project,” with people following his lead by contributing videos about how they, too, are just like Martin. As recently as in 2017, Smith was described as a contributor to the gay news site Queerty, which ran an article about his wedding photos (his byline called him an editor). In 2014, he called it the best website he had ever written for. Some of his articles during his tenure at Queerty were “Most Awesome Mom Ever Creates Tinder Profiles For Her Gay Sons” and “Iconic Children’s Book Characters ‘Frog and Toad’ Were Totally Gay.” In 2014, Smith used his column in Queerty to promote his own memoir. Like Clark, Smith said in 2014 that he writes for Queerty because of his love for pop culture.
For a devasting account of Smith’s recent ridiculous attempt to whore after Black Lives Matter, see The GOP’s Big Black Suicide Tent, by David Cole, TakiMag, December 22, 2020.
Both Clark and Smith were featured speakers at the SAS conference. Additionally the star-studded SAS conference’s lineup also included Vice President Mike Pence, Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Rudy Giuliani, Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, and Representative Matt Gaetz, who shared the same stage as the women showering the crowd with free cash.
If you just support TPUSA, you, too, can schmooze with some of the biggest names in conservatism and see shining examples of the influencers that you, too, can one day become. TPUSA conferences are meant to give supporters a taste of luxury, of the kind of life they can achieve if they just stay loyal to the TPUSA brand and to Charlie Kirk.
In 2019, the winter gala was hosted at Mar-a-Lago, with sponsorships going up to $100,000. The $100,000 sponsorship would allow people to meet not only Kirk, but other “special guests.” The 2017 SAS conference was marred by some of the reporting on the debauchery that occurred by those attempting to live the high life:
By all accounts, the 2017 Student Action Summit hosted last December by conservative college organization Turning Point USA was boisterous. During the day, more than 1,200 high school and college kids listened to speeches by big names like Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump, Jr., and Tomi Lahren. By night, some of those same students got blackout drunk. Witnesses describe a scene reminiscent of "Animal House." Kids weren’t just drinking in their hotel rooms. They say some wandered drunk through the lobby. Students weren’t just roughhousing by the hotel pool. They say some were wasted in the water. And while many of the young conservatives proved a temperate bunch, the vomit in the bushes served as visceral testament to the appetites of the rest. [Turning Point USA struggles with allegations of student sexual assault, harassment, by Philip Wegmann, Washington Examiner, June 20, 2018]
More than just access to cool parties and the ability to say you went to Mar-a-Lago, people are loyal to the TPUSA brand: you, too, can aspire to have your book promoted by the likes of President Trump and Don Jr. If you stray away and start associating with some of Kirk’s rivals, your fall from conservative grace will be swift. Kirk will make sure of it [Turning Point USA ‘brand ambassador’ dumped after photo with white nationalists and anti-Semites surfaces, by Carlin Becker, Washington Examiner, October 01, 2019].
When it comes to a coherent conservative political ideology, TPUSA’s positions are dependent on donor preferences, Kirk’s personal views at the time—and the amount of backlash he’s receiving from the right. In November 2019, Tucker Carlson used his Fox News platform to criticize Kirk for his position in favor of H-1B visas. In his segment, Tucker paraphrased one of Kirk’s statements, about wanting to “staple a green card to their diploma” (Kirk’s actual quote at the time was “If you graduate from a United States university, with a skill, upon graduation, on your diploma, we should staple a green card behind your diploma”).
Just a few days later, Kirk penned a piece in American Greatness outlining his newfound position on immigration: Kirk said he now supported
building the wall as a first priority; ending birthright citizenship; establishing English as the official language of the United States; ending chain migration and the visa lottery; lowering overall legal immigration levels; and dramatically increasing enforcement of E-Verify and visa overstays [Clearing the Air on the Right, by Charlie Kirk, American Greatness, November 21, 2019].
This appears to still be Kirk’s position, judging by one of his recent tweets, for what that’s worth. (Kirk’s Twitter account is reportedly run by an underling, but whoever he is, he’s pretty good. Hope this doesn’t get him fired!)
In his American Greatness piece, Kirk even correctly noted that many in the conservative base now feel betrayed by President Ronald Reagan over Amnesty. This is in striking contrast to how many conservatives, and especially the Beltway Right, have now bestowed sainthood on Reagan (disregarding how hard their forebears fought against him at the time).
TPUSA still posts Reagan content on social media, although seemingly less often than before. In general, Kirk now regularly espouses positions that he would’ve previously condemned and blacklisted fellow conservatives over… if the views are popular enough. Thus in one video during Black Lives Matter rioting, Kirk said:
Do you know that black men account for 6% of the U.S. population, yet account for 42% of all police deaths? So then 42% of all cop-killers are black men, despite them being only 6% of the U.S. population.
In his American Greatness piece, Kirk also mentioned being smeared by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This, however, has not stopped TPUSA from campaigning against political rivals if they’re deemed racist by the SPLCs of the world—or even their own TPUSA ambassadors if they’re seen hanging out with those supposed so-called racists.
Kirk’s fear of being called racist may also be why, in his American Greatness piece, he also wrote on immigration:
While I vehemently reject the notion that the melanin content in someone’s skin determines their views and voting patterns, it’s plain that culture plays a significant role at the ballot box.
And he went on to make the standard cuckservative obeisance to the Leftist ideological hegemons:
This means conservatives must do a better job winning over minority voters of all varieties—both native- and foreign-born.
Of course, what it actually means is that GOP/ GAP should fight for an immigration moratorium. But donors don’t like that. I saw no mention of immigration reduction at this year's TPUSA summit.
While American values are continuously under assault, and conservatives are constantly banned, censored, and canceled, Kirk’s brand of conservatism is focused on trying to make the next “stars” of the conservative movement. A glance at TPUSA’s social media shows quotes from nobodies who TPUSA is desperately trying to turn into “influencers” —as if being an influencer is a career path.
In fact, TPUSA even has its own “Influencer Media” program to do just that: turn people into influencers. The program boasts the average number of social media followers per TPUSA influencer, as if a measure of the success of conservative values is how many people follow girls who post bikini photos.
[TRUMP TRAIN RIDES AGAIN Students4Trump supporters strip down to their bikinis to back president as others pose with flags and GUNS, by Nicole Darrah, The Sun, July 21 2020]
Rather than advocating for conservative principles, TPUSA wraps up its ideology in a few “gotcha” words alongside funny faces. It seems that the TPUSA brand of conservatism is nothing more than claiming capitalism—not socialism—is the reason why 20-somethings like themselves can go out in party and post Instagram photos telling their hundreds of thousands of followers to buy this tea.
Will TPUSA’s recent SAS conference have been the group’s one big last hoorah—before the celebrity lifestyle brand of conservatism finally meets its end?
Rosa Luxemburg [Email her] is a philosopher who supports political dissidents and freedom of speech for all.


vdare--2020-12-28--Alec Baldwin's Wife Admits to Being White

From Vanity Fair:
Hilaria Baldwin’s Very Public Journey to Declaring “Yes I Am a White Girl”
After a long-simmering Twitter controversy about the authenticity of her Spanish accent, the yoga instructor issued a lengthy statement. Her husband Alec Baldwin also came to her defense on social media.
BY EMILY KIRKPATRICK
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Hilaria Baldwin addressed some lingering questions over her name, accent, and professed Spanish heritage over the weekend after a Twitter user sparked an online investigation last week, writing, “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.”
In a 2018 cover interview, the yoga instructor told Hola! magazine that she was born in Spain and “has made certain to raise her children with her native language, Spanish.” Her biography on her agency’s website also claims, “Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.” She also regularly speaks with a Spanish accent and during a cooking segment on the Today show seemed to forget the English word for cucumber.
However, in response to the viral tweet calling her Spanish ancestry into question, a number of people claiming to be Hilaria’s former high school classmates came forward to clarify that her name is, in fact, Hillary Hayword-Thomas, she grew up in Massachusetts, and while she’s a very nice girl, she is not Spanish. … Both her parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayword and David Thomas, do currently reside in Mallorca after moving there in 2011.
… “Yes I am a white girl, my family is white…Europe has a lot of white people in them.”


vdare--2020-12-28--Patrick J. Buchanan: 2020—America's Wake-Up Call

Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be.
By this New Year's Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us.
As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at the rate of 10,000 a week and contracting the virus at a rate of more than 1 million new cases a week.
Yet, during that same year, miracles occurred. Vaccines were created, tested and mass-produced by Pfizer and Moderna that could, with 95% effectiveness, stop this virus cold.
If Americans can reach "herd immunity"—from having caught and survived the virus or having been vaccinated against it—the COVID-19 pandemic might be contained by the summer of 2021.
Economically, the pandemic caused the worst crash since the Great Depression with scores of thousands of schools closed and empty, and scores of thousands of stores, bars and restaurants shuttered, many never to open again.
Yet, in the same year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke every record, crossing the 30,000 mark, again and again, with the NASDAQ and S&P 500 reaching new highs.
Thus, as tens of millions of Americans saw their savings wiped out and had trouble making rent payments and feeding their families, some investors saw their stock portfolios surge. Yes, Virginia, there are two Americas.
On Memorial Day weekend, a white police officer in Minneapolis was taped kneeling for nine minutes on the neck of a Black suspect.
Hours later, George Floyd would die, and his death would trigger protests against police brutality that quickly degenerated into radical and racial rioting unseen since the 1960s.
The arson, looting and attacks on police caused a backlash that spread across the country when the demands of antifa and Black Lives Matter suddenly became, "Defund the Police!" That anti-cop slogan did for law enforcement reform what rioters' cries of "Burn, baby, burn!" did for the civil rights movement in the '60s.
By the time the fires burned out, Middle America was recoiling against the left for indulging the anarchists and denouncing Democratic leaders who refused to condemn the rioting.
Still, despite the pandemic, the third of a million dead, the crash and the seemingly endless riots, President Donald Trump won 74 million votes, the largest total of any president in history. And he held the Senate for the Republicans and added more than a dozen seats in the House.
Yet, Joe Biden, who would be crushed in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary and lose Nevada to Bernie Sanders, would be rescued by a massive Black turnout in South Carolina. Revived, he would go on to win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot.
Sheltering in his basement through the fall, Biden would run up a 7 million-vote victory over Donald Trump, though his verbal and mental deterioration was almost painfully obvious in his few public appearances.
Another wake-up call to how polarized we are came with an orgy of icon-smashing of statues and monuments, from Columbus to presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
A large slice of America's academic and intellectual elite detests the men who created and built the country America has become. Not a positive omen for those who believe America has done great things, greater than any nation, and can do them again.
As America was shaken by its vulnerability to a pandemic, the U.S. saw its warships and warplanes challenged in the South and East China Seas and Taiwan Strait by a China, which, admonished to allow greater democracy in Hong Kong, proceeded to extinguish the existing democracy there. And the world and the West did nothing.
Revelations that China was running concentration camps in its interior to "reeducate" Muslim Uighurs in what it means to be a patriot in a nation dominated by Han Chinese and ruled by the Chinese Communist Party evoked only verbal protests.
By year's end, it was not America warning China but Beijing warning America that manifestations of political or military solidarity with Taiwan, and arms sales to the island, would constitute interference in the internal affairs of China—as Taiwan belongs to China.
Suddenly, a great awakening about the character of the regime we have pampered with investment and trade for three decades appeared stark.
Unable to stand up to a China in which they invested so many hopes, the American establishment turns to Russia—a nation with one-tenth China's population and one-tenth of its economy, and no army or navy to match Beijing's—as its adversary of choice.
But while President Vladimir Putin may fulfill well the role of villain, his principal foreign intervention in 2020 was to play the role of peacemaker in the South Caucasus' war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-12-28--Bang Girls, No Immigration Patriotism--Is This The End For TPUSA’s Celebrity Conservatism?


vdare--2020-12-25--Cowardly British Publishers Cancel Julie Burchill's Cancel Culture Book, FIVE Other Publishers Start

Cowardly British Publishers Cancel Julie Burchill's Cancel Culture Book, FIVE Other Publishers Start Bidding For It

Here's a nice wrinkle on cancel culture.
In Britain there is a journalist named Julie Burchill, now 61 years old. I say "now" because I dimly remember her from the 1980s as an interesting lefty, by which I mean a lefty who couldn't stick to the party line and sometimes said things that made you stop and think—a sort of female Christopher Hitchens, though not as smart.
Well, Ms Burchill has also written a book. It's about cancel culture, title: Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity killed progressive politics. The inspiration for it was one of Ms Burchill's articles getting retracted by a respectable British newspaper because people claimed it was "transphobic."
The book was due to be released in March next year. However, Ms Burchill just recently got into a public row with a female Muslim journalist named Ash Sarkar [Tweet her]. In the course of some exchanges, Ms. Burchill referred to the Prophet Mohammed as a pedophile on account of his having married his third wife Aisha when she was nine or ten years old.
When the book's publisher heard about this, they canceled publication.
You get it? A book about cancel culture got canceled. Talk about a revolution eating its children!
In fairness to the publisher, I should note that they have agreed (though not without some prodding from free speech advocates) to pay Ms. Burchill's advance in full [Julie Burchill is paid her advance in full and gets her rights back for book after it was cancelled by publisher over 'Islamophobic' Twitter row, Daily Mail, December 23, 2020].
And don't shed any tears on the lady's behalf for having lost a publishing opportunity: the Daily Mail reports that five different publishers have offered to take on the book. With that much competition, I'm betting the advance she ends up with will be better than the original.
Ms. Burchill's comment on the whole business was, quote:
I've been upsetting bourgeois bed-wetters since I was 17. Now I'm 61 and nothing has changed.
I think I'm in love.


vdare--2020-12-28--Why Did the Black Cross the Road? Because Virginia Has Decriminalized Jaywalking

Earlier: Jaywalking And Race: Disparate Enforcement Or Disparate Lawbreaking?
From WTOP News:
Jaywalking decriminalization is coming to Va., 100 years after the auto industry helped make it a crime
Wyatt Gordon/Virginia Mercury
December 25, 2020, 10:54 PM
Though it didn’t garner as much attention as other police reform measures during the special legislative session that ended this fall, a provision to decriminalize jaywalking in a pretextual policing bill from Delegate Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, means that come March 1, police will no longer be able to stop folks for the act of crossing the street outside of a marked crosswalk.
Criminal justice reformers called it a small step along the path to reducing encounters with the police, especially for people of color.
Although jaywalking will remain illegal, other advocates worry decriminalization could encourage pedestrians towards further unsafe crossings at a time when Virginia’s pedestrian death rate is already at a record high.
But are such fears founded?
…The passage of laws making jaywalking expressly illegal over the following decades also led to an increase in pedestrian interactions with the police. African Americans have long complained of police stops for the offense of “walking while Black.”
A 2019 audit of the New York Police Department revealed that officers issued 90 percent of “illegal or unsafe crossing” tickets to Blacks and Hispanics although those two groups make up just 55 percent of the Big Apple’s population. A ProPublica investigation in Jacksonville, Florida similarly found Black residents received 78 percent of all tickets for “walking in the roadway where sidewalks are provided” despite comprising just 29 percent of the city’s population.
… Focusing on the act of jaywalking is to ignore the larger historical and structural context that has made crossing the road so dangerous, especially for people of color, argues Charles T. Brown, a senior researcher and adjunct professor at Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University.
“I find it disingenuous to hold accountable a population for jaywalking when they lack the proper infrastructure to traverse their communities safely to begin with,” he said. “People jaywalk out of necessity, so I find it unjust that we are targeting those who jaywalk when they are basically responding to the environment which they have been given.”
Brown points to racism in many instances of America’s push for urban renewal which often demolished prosperous Black neighborhoods in favor of imposing infrastructure like inner-city highways. In Richmond, the destruction of a large portion of Jackson Ward — the Harlem of the South — for I-95 and the bulldozing of part of the Black community of Granite for new highways are a few Virginia examples of the practice.
“By destroying the very fabrics of these communities by placing highways here, the government has prioritized the car over the safety of the folks who live in these communities and then over polices residents trying to navigate these dangerous corridors,” Brown said. “Only an unjust system would not provide people with the infrastructure they need to safely move through their environment and then police them for not doing so.”
The criminalization of jaywalking also ignores logical, safety-based reasons people may cross mid-block. “In some cases people are choosing jaywalking over confrontation and potential violence,” said Brown.
Brown hopes decriminalizing jaywalking may lead to a paradigm shift in how pedestrians in overpoliced areas perceive their world.


vdare--2020-12-28--Rest in Peace, Vagina Monologues, We Hardly Knew ye

From the Cornell U. Daily Sun:
Curtains Close on The Vagina Monologues
By Sophie Arzumanov
The student actors of the play The Vagina Monologues unknowingly took their final bows last winter. The past sponsor of the popular show, the Women’s Resource Center, has announced that due to recent changes in its mission statement—the group was rebranded the Gender Justice Advocacy Coalition this year—it will no longer support the play.
The show is a collection of interviews-turned-narratives from people of all ages and backgrounds about their relationships and experiences with their vaginas.
“The limitations of the script, namely that it equates having a vagina with female identity, and the requirement by Eve Ensler that it remain unchanged, leaves us with an incomplete play that doesn’t honor the experiences of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people. It is thus hurtful, harmful and exclusionary to folks with these identities,” said Shura Gat, interim director of the Women’s Resource Center and advisor to GJAC.
… The episodic play has been performed annually for the past 21 years by a large student cast in Bailey Hall. …
Aboaf talked further about the impact that the monologues have on the Cornell community.
“There are lots of people on this campus who are uncomfortable with their vaginas, gender identity aside. It’s still beneficial to people,“ she said. …
Lakhani also noted that in her forward for last February’s play, “we specifically mentioned that this play is inclusive of people who have vaginas, who don’t have vaginas, of people of all sexualities and genders.”
“My entire message was about inclusivity. If you don’t have a vagina, you’re still a part of this play,” said Lakhani.
Inclusivity concerns regarding The Vagina Monologues are not new to college campuses. Whitman College, Mount Holyoke, American University, Southwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis have all either rebranded or banned the play outright since 2015. For instance, Washington University has rebranded it as The [Blank] Monologues to be inclusive of all genitals, while the three other schools completely canceled it.


vdare--2020-12-28--Only Four Days To Meet A New $8,000 Matching Challenge

We leave 2020 with the knowledge that unless we act, the historic American majority will expire in 2042. Immigration continues to undermine the West. And patriotism is a curse word to our enemies. Those of us who fight for America, the future and each other, are under serious threat from censorship and deplatforming.
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In the age of tech media, we are at a disadvantage. We’re controversial. We take sides. Other websites depend on advertising revenue and advertisers don’t like people who take sides—people who are controversial. They’re afraid.
We have suffered blows, especially the losses of Facebook, YouTube and others. And more recently as the censors try to stifle our message by purging us from domain registrars, payment processors and banking services.
To keep truly independent news sources like this alive in an increasingly totalitarian landscape, we have to exist in partnership with our readers. We're a few days from the close our end-of-year fundraiser and we still need $34,510.50 by the end of December to make our $200,000 goal. Time is running out.
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vdare--2020-12-29--MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: The Pilgrims Landed At Plymouth Rock 400 Years Ago This Month. Guess Why T

MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: The Pilgrims Landed At Plymouth Rock 400 Years Ago This Month. Guess Why There’s No Celebration?

Earlier: A Mayflower Descendant Remembers Her Ancestors And The Faith Of Her (And America's) Fathers
Four hundred years ago, in late December 1620, the Pilgrims who had sailed from England on the Mayflower finally came ashore at what would become Plymouth Plantation. They began building houses and a fort, painfully slowly because of the deep snow and frozen ground. While still on board, they had signed the Mayflower Compact (which has inspired VDARE.com’s 1620 Society). You’d think such an auspicious anniversary would occasion many celebrations and re-enactments. Not so.
Of course, it's partly because of COVID-19 policies. But even that shouldn't prevent more media and political celebration, with COVID-19 accomodations.
One must also suspect the influence of the relentless Leftist attack on America’s forebears and its English heritage explains the omission. By forcing us to forget the Pilgrims and their dangerous ocean voyage to settle a new land, Cultural Marxists intend to force us to forget the Historic American Nation. The Pilgrim saga and the story of Plymouth Rock must be retrofitted because of what it was: the establishment of an English Christian colony that was a foundation of the current United States of America.
The Cultural Marxists portray it as the beginning of a racial genocide, as the reliably Leftist Associated Press just did [400 years on, Mayflower’s legacy includes pride, prejudice, by David Goldman and Alanna Durkin Richer, October 23, 2020]. And on the other, it must be transmogrified into something it wasn’t: the arrival of “refugees” and “illegal immigrants.”
(Right, the cover of the New Yorker from Thanksgiving, 2011. )
How about radical Latino activists? Consider that 24 years ago, for instance, Agustin Cebada, of the Brown Berets of Aztlan, offered this boiling bile:
“Go back to the Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims!” he shouted. “Get out! We are the future. You’re old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you; leave like beaten rats.” [Mexico’s “Reconquista” — We Have Been Warned, American Renaissance, June 1998]
Listen below, and go here for more:
But perhaps that was thought to be too explicit. Some on the Left have settled on rewriting the story of the Pilgrims: they were not settlers, but instead “refugees” and “illegal immigrants,” as I wrote when describing the effort to Hispanicize Thanksgiving.
Of course this is wrong, given that a country must already exist for the refugees or illegal immigrants to go to. But recasting the narrative that way enlists the Pilgrims as partners in The Great Replacement being orchestrated by today’s refugees and illegal aliens.
How, the argument goes, can we deport illegal immigrants today? The Pilgrims were illegal too! And they were refugees from religious oppression! How dare we deny Islamic refugees a place in this Melting Pot—this Nation of Immigrants!
Of course, the Pilgrims were neither. They were settlers looking for a place to establish their own sectarian polity, where they got to make the rules.
The Pilgrims didn’t call themselves Pilgrims, but “Saints”. They were also referred to as “Brownists,” after Separatist Robert Browne (who later returned to the Anglican Church). The term “Pilgrims” only came into use in 1800 [What’s the Difference Between Puritans and Pilgrims?, by Dave Roose, History.com, July 31, 2019].
A Calvinist sect, the Pilgrims were Separatists who had separated from the Church of England because they did not believe it could be purified according to their beliefs. They wanted to create their own society, governed by their own religious principles, and so, while still wanting to remain English culturally, they left their country for Leiden in The Netherlands during the reign of James I.
They began arriving in 1607, the year Jamestown was founded in the New World. Some were textile workers; others taught English to Dutchmen. (Teaching English in a foreign country, by the way, is still a stereotypical Anglo expatriate thing. I taught English in Mexico for years.)
Though the Pilgrims freely practiced their religion in Holland, they left because England’s King James was prodding the Dutch government to crack down on them. And, significantly, they were concerned that their children were assimilating to their host country; i.e., becoming Dutch. They were English, and wanted to remain English.
When the chance came to colonize a new world, they took it. They would still be on English territory, yet they would also be autonomous. Their only financial obligation: repaying the joint stock company that sponsored the colony. In that exchange, beaver pelts were coin of the realm.
Having returned to England to embark on the adventure, the settlers were supposed to sail on two ships, the Speedwell and the Mayflower. The passengers, including some who hadn’t lived in Leiden, packed onto the Mayflower after they determined the Speedwell was leaking and unseaworthy.
It left Plymouth, on the south coast of Devon, on September 16. To today’s Americans with modern comforts, the prospect of crossing the Atlantic on a wooden ship, with all its dangers and discomforts and no GPS or iPhones, would be impossibly daunting. Not so for the Pilgrims. It was a chance for a new life, free from the smothering edicts of the Anglican Church.
They sighted Cape Cod on November 19. The Mayflower attempted to sail south toward the Hudson River, but strong currents and unexpected shoals, and nearly being shipwrecked convinced the crew to turn back. They dropped anchor in Provincetown Harbor at the northern end of the hook-shaped Cape Cod, on November 21. This is where they drafted and signed the famous Mayflower Compact.
For the next month, groups of Pilgrims and crew scouted the area in a smaller sailing vessel called a shallop, seeking a suitable settlement location. They eventually decided upon “New Plymouth”, which had been previously named by none other than John Smith, former leader of the Jamestown colony, who had explored that coast (and named it New England) in 1614.
On December 16, the The Mayflower dropped anchor in New Plymouth Harbor and after 3 days, a specific settlement site abandoned by the Patuxet Indians was chosen.
The first formal landing party disembarked on December 21 (O.S. December 11) and two days later, construction began. This is celebrated in Plymouth on December 22 as “Forefathers’ Day”.
But throughout the winter, most of the Pilgrims remained on the Mayflower, with the bulk of the passengers not disembarking until March 31, 1621.
The Mayflower and crew didn’t leave until April 15.
The Plymouth Colony lasted just 72 years. It was absorbed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay, dominated by the later-settled but larger Massachusetts Bay Colony of Puritans.
Nevertheless, Plymouth is the most famous of the English colonies which eventually became the United States of America, partly because of the First Thanksgiving in the Fall of 1621.
Today, it's estimated that 35 million people are descendants of 51 Plymouth Rock colonists.
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants has 30,000 members and worldwide chapters. Some descendants claim several colonists as ancestors. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin descended from six.
I present below a partial list of Americans who wouldn’t be here if William Bradford and his stout band hadn’t sailed for Plymouth Rock, from the following six sources:
PRESIDENTS
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Note on Coolidge: In a 1920 tricentennial speech, Coolidge, then governor of Massachusetts and vice president-elect, said he was not a Mayflower descendant. Instead, he said, his ancestors were Massachusetts Bay Puritans [Learn From Pilgrims, Coolidge Admonishes, New York Herald, November 23, 1920]. However, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants claims Coolidge descended from Plymouth colonists and the website Mayflower Faces documents it. So Coolidge descended from both groups of Massachusetts colonists.
OTHER POLITICAL PERSONAGES
Frances Perkins, Nelson Rockefeller, Dan Quayle , Howard Dean, U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Barbara Bush (née Pierce), Jeb Bush and George P. Bush.
MILITARY LEADERS
Generals George McClellan and Leonard Wood .
ACTORS
Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Clint Eastwood, Dick Van Dyke, Christopher Reeve, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Richard Gere , John Lithgow, Jodie Foster, Christopher Lloyd, Sigourney Weaver, Matt Damon, James Spader, and the Baldwin Brothers: Alec Baldwin , Daniel Baldwin, William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin .
LITERARY FIGURES
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Noah Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phillips Brooks, clergyman (wrote O Little Town of Bethlehem), Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and John Bartlett (Bartlett’s Quotations).
SINGERS
Bing Crosby, Pete Seeger, and Taylor Swift.
CEOs
George Eastman, founder Eastman Kodak, and Berkshire Hathaway tycoon Warren Buffet.
OTHER FAMOUS AMERICANS
Lavinia Warren (dwarf performer), Julia Child, Cokie Roberts, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Grandma Moses , Amelia Earhart, Alan Shepard, Benjamin Spock, Hugh Hefner, and “Mayflower Madam” Sydney Biddle Barrows.
NON-AMERICANS
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Canadian songstress Avril Lavigne. Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, is a Mayflower descendant on her American-born father’s side. Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940-1948, was a Mayflower descendant on his American mother’s side.
These are only a few Mayflower descendants. Maybe you're one too. Although I'm not (the Wall family lived in colonial Virginia) I honor them as founders of our nation.
What the Pilgrims accomplished and left for the world, a new nation and millions of descendants, was no mean feat. And so we must not allow the Pilgrims to be ignored, or worse, turned into villains, or redefined to fit today’s leftist narratives.
To its credit, the U.S. Postal Service has produced a beautiful stamp featuring the Mayflower to honor our Pilgrim heritage. Buy some, and use them proudly.
The Pilgrims must be honored for what they are: Founders of the Historic American Nation.
For more information, try these websites, in addition to those listed above:


vdare--2020-12-28--Donate Before January 1st And ANY American Can Deduct $300! (Bonus: Higher Limits For Itemizers)

This year only, thanks to the CARES act passed in Spring, all Americans can take advantage of tax deductions by donating to a 501c3 Nonprofit organization such as the VDARE Foundation.
As described on the IRS site here, Americans who usually take the standard deduction instead of itemizing can now deduct up to $300 from their taxes.
Bonus: For 2020 only, there are also higher limits on tax-deductions to nonprofits for itemizers and corporations!
As law firm Skadden Arps explains in its client briefing:
Prior to the CARES Act, an individual’s deduction for cash contributions to public charities generally was limited to 60% of the individual’s adjusted gross income. The act increases the deductible amount for an individual’s “qualified contributions” — which are defined as cash contributions made during the 2020 calendar year to public charities [i.e. VDARE Foundation!]… — to 100% of the individual’s adjusted gross income, subject to a reduction for other charitable contributions.” [CARES Act Increases Deductions for Certain Charitable Contributions, by Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, March 30, 2020 Skadden]
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vdare--2020-12-29--Michelle Malkin: 2020—The Year 'Expert' Credibility Died

If there were ever a time to "question authority," as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. 2020 will go down in American history as the year that public health "experts" got everything wrong.
It's not just that their judgment was faulty. It's that time and again, the professional elites deceived the citizenry, derided other academics and medical professionals who challenged them and de-platformed outspoken dissidents who refused to obey them. These pathological liars are the true public health threat.
Exhibit A: Anthony Fauci.
The incurably smug director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases led the "Great Mask Hoax" in March 2020 when he told CBS News, "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask." He very explicitly characterized mask-wearing as a performative gesture that "might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is."
Months later, fact-doctorer Fauci performed a whiplash-inducing 180-degree turnaround and became the planet's No. 1 mask cheerleader. He rationalized that he needed to mislead the nation about the efficacy of masks in order "to save the masks for the people who really needed them because it was felt that there was a shortage of masks."
I don't know about you, but in my house, we call this sick behavior "covering your behind."
Last week, Fauci was at it again. After repeatedly asserting over the past year that 60-70% of Americans would need to submit to vaccine jabs to reach herd immunity, he cranked up the number to between 70-90% in an interview with the New York Times. Fauci confessed that he manipulated the numbers based on polling data about citizens' vaccine hesitancy:
"When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent ... Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85. We need to have some humility here .... We really don't know what the real number is."
"We" need to have some humility? Speak for yourself, Dr. Gasbag!
Fauci further disclosed on CNN this weekend that his herd immunity pronouncement was nothing more than a "guesstimate."
I don't know about you, but in my house, we call this kind of prestidigitation "pulling things out of your behind."
Fauci's colleagues performed similar feats of scientific fraud, deception, misdirection and political propaganda.
The Erroneous Experts shut down playgrounds, ordered us to stop singing and dancing, and canceled Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas in the name of social distancing—but gave the green light to Black Lives Matter marches, antifa protests and post-election celebrations by Joe Biden supporters.
The Erroneous Experts caused panic shortages of hand sanitizer and antiseptic wipes with unsupported claims that COVID-19 spread through surfaces.
The Erroneous Experts facilitated the suffering of countless patients by recklessly hooking them up to ventilators, turning their lungs to mush and forbidding their loved ones from comforting them as they lay dying unnecessary deaths—while publicity-thirsty doctors and nurses went viral twerking for TikTok and Twitter.
The Erroneous Experts conducted online purges and witch hunts against naturopaths, chiropractors, independent investigative journalists, informed parents and frontline doctors who advocated vitamin D, zinc, sunshine, exercise, hydroxychloroquine or any other commonsense measures that did not involve lining the pockets of Big Pharma—even as two-faced Fauci admitted he takes vitamins C and D to boost his immunity.
The Erroneous Experts stoked widespread fear of "asymptomatic transmission" of COVID-19, forcing catastrophic lockdowns of healthy people around the globe. But as a new British Medical Journal article acknowledges: "(W)e know very little about the proportions of people with positive results who are truly asymptomatic throughout the course of their infection." About half of people classified as "asymptomatic" go on to develop symptoms. Contrary to the impression Erroneous Experts have left the public with, they have no idea to what extent people with no symptoms transmit the virus to others.
Moreover, the BMJ article makes clear: "No test of infection or infectiousness is currently available for routine use. As things stand, a person who tests positive with any kind of test may or may not have an active infection with live virus, and may or may not be infectious."
So, the COVID-19 tests are unreliable as we hurtle toward mandatory, universal testing, tracking and tracing. And, as I reported in my three-part series on the clinical trials, the COVID vaccines are neither safe nor effective by any honest measure. Indeed, the World Health Organization's chief scientists admitted Monday what I pointed out last month:
"I don't believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it's going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore being able to pass it on," Dr. Soumya Swaminathan stated.
The "believe science" cult of Erroneous Experts is the epitome of anti-scientific thought. May 2021 be the year of resistance and the death knell for COVID control freakism.
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-12-29--A Non-Mayflower Descendant (Dutch-American) Tells How His Assimilated Ancestors Fought In The Americ

A Non-Mayflower Descendant (Dutch-American) Tells How His Assimilated Ancestors Fought In The American Revolution

VDARE asked a short time ago for stories regarding Mayflower descendants and people who feel themselves to be assimilated into the Historic American nation that was founded by the pilgrims. My family came to this continent to the colony of New Netherlands in 1637- 17 years after the Mayflower, from Amersfoort, Holland to what was then Amersfoort, Long Island
By the time of the revolution they were settled in Stone House Plains, now Bloomfield, NJ. They resisted linguistic and religious assimilation but became thoroughly Americanized in all other ways, with a total loyalty to their neighbors and colony. Below please find the story of how these simple Jersey Dutch farmers delayed the British army in 1776 and helped save the revolutionary cause.
How the Garrabrandt Family Delayed the British Army and Saved the Revolutionary Cause
Soon after the Continental Congress declared the Colonies’ freedom from Great Britain, Britain determined to crush the rebellion, sent a large fleet, along with more than 34,000 troops to New York. In August, British General Howe’s Redcoats routed the Continental Army on Long Island; our army was nearly surrounded in New York and Washington was forced to flee with his troops from New York City by September. The retreat from New York City was more of a panicked rout, with the American troops passing through Jersey City (then called Bergen). A Garrabrandt relative, named Zabriskie, asked General Washington where the Continental Army was fleeing to. Washington asked Zabriskie, ‘Can you keep a secret?” Zabriskie answered, “Yes.” Washington then responded, “So can I.” and left to lead the army west. They were headed for Pennsylvania.
Geography dictates that to get to Pennsylvania the army had to cross northern New Jersey. One of the rivers the army had to cross was the Passaic River. There was one covered wooden bridge over the Passaic River, it was a key bridge, since without it, an army would have to wait to be boated across the Passaic, which was deep enough back then for ships to sail up it.
The Continental Army, in full retreat, with the British only hours behind them, made it across the bridge. The last soldiers across the bridge were supposed to set fire to the bridge so that the British could not follow—this was key to the US Army escaping, since the British were catching up with it quickly. However, the soldiers thought they saw the British coming and panicked, and left without burning the bridge.
As the army retreated across Passaic County, some of the frightened soldiers came to the Garrabrandt farm in Stone House Plains (now Bloomfield New Jersey). My ancestor, Garrabrandt Garrabrandt, learned from them that the bridge was still standing and that the British were getting close. He called his family together and they got into their farm wagons.
The Garrabrandts, like most of the people in New Jersey north of Newark, were of Dutch ancestry. They spoke Dutch and went to Dutch churches and since New Netherlands was taken by force by the English in 1664 they had no love for the English government and most of them were Patriots, like my family. Garrabrandt Garrabrandt had a plan to help our army escape—he and his boys would make the bridge useless to the British, while saving it for use in the near future.
When they got to the Passaic River Bridge, there were no soldiers in sight. The Americans had already run away and the British had not gotten there yet. The Garrabrandt men and boys climbed down from their farm wagons and went to work. It would have been easy for them to set the bridge on fire and then leave, but they were practical Dutch farmers, they did not want to see the bridge destroyed for nothing, so Garrabrandt gave them the instructions to start ripping up the floorboards of the bridge. Without a floor a bridge is useless, but the floor can be replaced in a matter of days whereas building a new bridge would take a month or more. Garrabrandt knew that the Continental Army only needed a day or two to escape to Pennsylvania, and that the British could never replace the floor in that time, so the Garrabrandt men went to work and ripped up all the floorboards.
They could not just leave the boards on the west side of the Passaic as the British could have sent swimmers across and just nailed them back down again—work of only a few hours, not enough time to let the American Army escape. So they loaded the boards onto their wagons and brought them back to Stone House Plains with them.
At Stone House Plains, they used the boards to build fences around some of their fields. The wood was so strong, such fine hardwood, that a few of the fences, old and weathered, were still standing in the fields when I was a little boy and was shown them by my grandfather.
The British got to the Passaic River and found the floorless bridge. They could look across, but could not march across. The whole British Army had to stop and cut wood for boards. It took them enough time that the American Army was able to get safely to Pennsylvania. And that is how the Garrabrandt family saved the Continental Army and maybe the American Revolution.
Later Garrabrandt Garrabrandt served in Captain Speer’s Company in many battles, one of which was in Springfield, New Jersey. His wife was granted a pension for his service in the Army, but his greatest service was when he and his family delayed the Brits that day in North Jersey at the Passaic River.


vdare--2020-12-29--AP Blames Massive 2020 Increase In Black Shootings on Everything but Black Shooters

The rise in fatal/nonfatal shootings across America, almost exclusively in non-white communities, is blamed on COVID-19 and white privilege. Per the Associated Press…
When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close.
Avery, 57, grew up in the Motor City and is aware that homicides and shootings are surging, even though before the pandemic they were dropping in Detroit and elsewhere. His gun is legal, and he carries it with him for protection.
“I remain extremely alert,” said Avery, who now lives in nearby Belleville. “I’m not in crowds. If something looks a little suspicious, I’m out of there.”
In Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and even smaller Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Milwaukee, 2020 has been deadly not only because of the pandemic, but because gun violence is spiking.
Authorities and some experts say there is no one clear-cut reason for the spike. They instead point to social and economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 virus, public sentiment toward police following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody and a historic shortage of jobs and resources in poorer communities as contributing factors. It’s happening in cities large and small, Democrat and Republican-led.
Two years ago, Detroit had 261 homicides — the fewest in decades. That year there were about 750 nonfatal shootings in the city of more than 672,000.
But with only a few days left in 2020, homicides already have topped 300, while non-fatal shootings are up more than 50% at more than 1,124 through the middle of December.
“I think the pandemic — COVID — has had a significant emotional impact on people across the country,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said. “Individuals are not processing how they manage disputes. Whether domestics, arguments, disputes over drugs, there’s this quickness to use an illegally carried firearm.”
About 7,000 guns had been seized through mid-December in Detroit, with more than 5,500 arrests for illegal guns. There were 2,797 similar arrests last year.
“I’ve not seen a spike like this. But when it’s happening in other cities — some smaller — what do we all have in common?” Craig said of the slayings and shootings. “That’s when you start thinking about COVID.”
Washington, D.C., a city of about 700,000, has seen more than 187 homicides this year, eclipsing last year’s total by more than 20. Among the most horrible: A 15-month-old baby boy was shot to death during a drive-by shooting.
“We’re all sick of the heinous crimes in our city,” said Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Crime in parts of the U.S. dropped during the early weeks of the pandemic when stay-at-home orders closed businesses and forced many people to remain indoors.
University of Pennsylvania economics professor David Abrams said crime began to spike in May and June when initial orders in some states were lifted.
Some people “may have been a little stir crazy,” Abrams said. “At the end of May, George Floyd’s killing led to protests and looting. That led to police reform movements. Any of that could have potentially affected individual behavior and also the police response to that.”
Calls for some cities to reduce funding for police departments may have led some officers to take a less aggressive approach to policing, he added.
What the COVID-19 virus did was exacerbate all of the frustration and anger that some in Black and brown communities already were dealing with, according to retired Michigan State University sociology professor Carl Taylor. The virus has killed more than 300,000 people across the country, with minority communities hardest hit.
“The COVID has been absolutely the trigger of an everlasting bomb that’s exploding in many parts of our community,” he added.
Nowhere is that more true than inside people’s homes. “The COVID crisis and the economic shutdown is forcing people into their homes, creating conditions where people are more volatile,” said Kim Foxx, the top prosecutor in Cook County, which includes Chicago. And the most jarring statistic that illustrates that volatility is this: The number of domestic-related homicides in the nation’s third-largest city are up more than 60% compared with last year.


vdare--2020-12-28--"Bang Girls," No Immigration Patriotism--Is This The End For TPUSA’s Celebrity Conservatism?


vdare--2020-12-28--Rest in Peace, Vagina Monologues, We Hardly Knew Ye


vdare--2020-12-28--Only Three Days To Meet A New $8,000 Matching Challenge


vdare--2020-12-27--Israel Is Inoculating 6 Times As Fast As US


vdare--2020-12-29--How To Use (And Donate!) Cryptocurrency

How To Use (And Donate!) Cryptocurrency

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One of the best pieces of advice was that we ought to make it clear we accept cryptocurrency! See all of our crytpo addresses here!
Bitcoin is hitting record highs as we close 2020, and those of you that invested in it may be feeling extra blessed this year. (And if you’re facing capital gains tax, well, we can help you out with that! See earlier blog on higher limits on tax deductions for 2020.)
But some of our readers who want to be proactive in adopting cryptocurrency don’t know where to begin.
We can help with that too! Follow these steps below to become a cryptocurrency wiz. And if you have further questions or just want some live support, don't hesitate to call our office at 860-361-6231.
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Once you have an exchange account you can link you bank account and buy cryptocurrency. Bitcoin and Etherium are the most popular. Litecoin brags a low transaction fee and fast block approval time [Investing in Litecoin (LTC) – Everything You Need to Know, by David Hamilton, October 25, 2020, Securities.io]. Monero is a preferred option for many due to its ability to help anonymize users [Six Private Cryptocurrencies, by Shobhit Seth, December 24, 2020, Investopedia]. VDARE.com accepts all coins. If you would like to donate a coin that isn't listed on our donate page, please email Lydia Brimelow at lbrimelow@vdare.com to make arrangements.
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vdare--2020-12-29--A Reader Says Pence Has Always Been Untrustworthy, And Can Be Expected To Be So On January 6

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Re: Patrick Cleburne's 2016 blog post Trump/Pence: Blunder Or Betrayal?
From: A OneOldVet Fan [Email him]
Pence is and what his actions will be on January 6th and the electoral votes. In the last week, many people have speculated upon what type of person Mikeis and what his actions will be on January 6th and the electoral votes.
Pence was governor of Indiana at the time), Mr. Taylor had a deeper insight into Pence' s political proclivities than most. His opinion: Pence was not a man to be trusted and more or less part of the corporate establishment. Years ago, immigration patriot and news aggregator Allen Taylor of OneOldVet.com had an opinion of Pence .(See R.I.P. ONE OLD VET—A Great Patriot, Fallen In Arms ) Residing in Indianapolis and being familiar with state politics (was governor of Indiana at the time), Mr. Taylor had a deeper insight intos political proclivities than most. His opinion:was not a man to be trusted and more or less part of the corporate establishment.
Pence is expected to Also worth noting,is expected to board a plane and leave the country i mmediately following the vote on Jan. 6th. Coincidence?
James Fulford writes: I doubt if anything can be done at this point to keep Biden from being sworn in, but if plans to stop it involve Pence standing like a stone wall, then new plans are needed.
One Old Vet (Allen Taylor) died August 23rd, 2016, and his blog is gone from the web, but still available in Archive.org. His opinion of Pence can be read here: The Mike Pence I Know , Posted on July 6, 2016
Patrick Cleburne quoted it here:
In choosing Mike Pence as his running mate Donald Trump has made a serious blunder as Ann Coulter warned . And the best that can be hoped is that it is just a mistake, and that Trump has not been betrayed... Last week One Old Vet, a veteran of Indiana politics, reposted The Mike Pence I Know relating a conversation with him in which he directly lied about his 2006 proposal Pence personally assured me that he would never support amnesty nor any legislation that rewarded ILLEGALS. He lied. In May of this year (2013) Mike Pence signed into Indiana law a bill that provides in-state tuition for ILLEGAL aliens. We can expect more of the same hispandering and semantic game playing from him that we”ve seen from other RINOS like Graham, McCain and Rubio. [Read the whole thing.]
For more of what we've thought of Pence over the last 15 years, when he went from Amnesty-proposing Congressman to Governor to VP (against our specific advice) see
When I say "against our specific advice," I mean it: see NO To “Hapless Jackal” Mike Pence Too! Trump Has Better VP Choices.