vdare--2020-07-01--Sailer In TakiMag On Althea Bernstein: Putting Out the Fire with Lighter Fluid

From my new column in Taki ’ s Magazine : Putting Out the Fire With Lighter Fluid Steve Sailer After race card driver Bubba Wallace ’ s NooseCAR debacle last week , it would have taken somebody truly dumb and publicity-crazed to breathe life into this week ’ s even more absurd hate-crime allegation : biracial 18-year-old Althea Bernstein ’ s assertion that four “ classic Wisconsin frat boys ” squirted lighter fluid on her and set her ablaze by tossing a lighter into her car in downtown Madison , Wis. , during an Antifa riot .
While nobody in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ skepticism about this hilariously unlikely tale , it hadn ’ t been getting the giant push that would have been expected if anybody of any importance were convinced this whopper were true .
After all , if Bernstein ’ s yarn about roving racist frat boys in Hawaiian shirts randomly incinerating a Jewish-Unitarian Woman of Color actually happened , it would be gigantic news , far bigger than , as Joe Biden would say , what ’ s his name—Pink Floyd ?
Boy George ?
—that drugged-up bouncer who wound up dead while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s greatest saint , or that drunk driver who got himself shot after stealing a cop ’ s Taser and lighting him up with it .
But , c ’ mon… Frat boys setting a semi-black girl on fire in super-liberal Madison is , obviously , Tawana Brawley/Jackie Coakley-level hate hoaxery , a silly teenager ’ s attempt to improvise an excuse for being where she shouldn ’ t have been .

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Putting Out the Fire With Lighter Fluid
Steve Sailer
July 01, 2020
After race card driver Bubba Wallace’s NooseCAR debacle last week, it would have taken somebody truly dumb and publicity-crazed to breathe life into this week’s even more absurd hate-crime allegation: biracial 18-year-old Althea Bernstein’s assertion that four “classic Wisconsin frat boys” squirted lighter fluid on her and set her ablaze by tossing a lighter into her car in downtown Madison, Wis., during an Antifa riot.
While nobody in the national press has dared express any skepticism about this hilariously unlikely tale, it hadn’t been getting the giant push that would have been expected if anybody of any importance were convinced this whopper were true.
After all, if Bernstein’s yarn about roving racist frat boys in Hawaiian shirts randomly incinerating a Jewish-Unitarian Woman of Color actually happened, it would be gigantic news, far bigger than, as Joe Biden would say, what’s his name—Pink Floyd? Boy George?—that drugged-up bouncer who wound up dead while resisting arrest and suddenly became history’s greatest saint, or that drunk driver who got himself shot after stealing a cop’s Taser and lighting him up with it.
But, c’mon… Frat boys setting a semi-black girl on fire in super-liberal Madison is, obviously, Tawana Brawley/Jackie Coakley-level hate hoaxery, a silly teenager’s attempt to improvise an excuse for being where she shouldn’t have been.


vdare--2020-07-01--One Good Effect of Lockdowns: Girls Are de-Transitioning Back to Being Girls

From Mums.net discussion group about how while school has been canceled , some young schoolgirls who had claimed to be boys were “ de-transitioning : ” The effect of lockdown on transitioning teen girls ( 116 Posts ) Add message | ReportThegenderbreadperson Sun 28-Jun-20 23:02:40 I mentioned this on another thread , but as a worker in a high school we have found out during weekly phone calls home that since lockdown that most of our FtM students have de transitioned , perhaps as there is no longer the group peer pressure or affirmation from teachers ?
I was interested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ examples – the other thread was started about Dr Haddock , and I felt this was worthy of its own thread .
In our school there were nine girls out of a approx 160 student year 9 cohort who identified as boys .
Seven have now de transitioned since lockdown and one is considering it .
Out of those nine I would have said three of them weren ’ t as committed as the others and had said they were “ thinking about being non binary ” , but were keen to remain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really is infectious .
28-Jun-20 23:05:05 If I were a journalist , I might be very interested in 8 out of 9 ‘ transboys ’ detransitioning over lockdown .
Just saying .
Sun 28-Jun-20 23:07:04 It ’ s very interesting and points to a large social contagion effect .
It crosses my mind that there might be less in the way sexist/objectifying remarks from boys at school and out and about as well .
A pressure from another angle that ’ s been removed .
Sun 28-Jun-20 23:10:04 Oh !
My friend whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non binary and then a boy for the last 3 years rang me the other day and in conversation was using her DDs birth name instead of the boys name she ’ s been using for the last couple of years .
I asked how that was going and she was a bit vague and just said it had been a really lovely few months and that her DD seemed to be doing a lot of growing up .
I didn ’ t push it because we have pretty much agreed to disagree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I use her DDs preferred name and pronouns but my friend is well aware I think it ’ s all bullshit !
I wonder… Sun 28-Jun-20 23:22:46 I wonder whether as well as a break from social contagion , it ’ s a respite from the adolescent male gaze , banter etc .

From Mums.net discussion group about how while school has been canceled, some young schoolgirls who had claimed to be boys were “de-transitioning:”
The effect of lockdown on transitioning teen girls (116 Posts)
Add message | ReportThegenderbreadperson Sun 28-Jun-20 23:02:40
I mentioned this on another thread, but as a worker in a high school we have found out during weekly phone calls home that since lockdown that most of our FtM students have de transitioned, perhaps as there is no longer the group peer pressure or affirmation from teachers? I was interested to see if there are any more examples – the other thread was started about Dr Haddock, and I felt this was worthy of its own thread.
In our school there were nine girls out of a approx 160 student year 9 cohort who identified as boys. Seven have now de transitioned since lockdown and one is considering it. Out of those nine I would have said three of them weren’t as committed as the others and had said they were “thinking about being non binary”, but were keen to remain part of that friendship group. It really is infectious.
28-Jun-20 23:05:05
If I were a journalist, I might be very interested in 8 out of 9 ‘transboys’ detransitioning over lockdown. Just saying.
Sun 28-Jun-20 23:07:04
It’s very interesting and points to a large social contagion effect.
It crosses my mind that there might be less in the way sexist/objectifying remarks from boys at school and out and about as well.
A pressure from another angle that’s been removed.
Sun 28-Jun-20 23:10:04
Oh! My friend whose teenage DD has been identifying as first non binary and then a boy for the last 3 years rang me the other day and in conversation was using her DDs birth name instead of the boys name she’s been using for the last couple of years. I asked how that was going and she was a bit vague and just said it had been a really lovely few months and that her DD seemed to be doing a lot of growing up. I didn’t push it because we have pretty much agreed to disagree on the matter in the past – I use her DDs preferred name and pronouns but my friend is well aware I think it’s all bullshit! I wonder…
Sun 28-Jun-20 23:22:46
I wonder whether as well as a break from social contagion, it’s a respite from the adolescent male gaze, banter etc.


vdare--2020-07-01--Radio Derb Transcript For June 26: Korean War, Karen Shaming, Tucker Carlson, And The Blacks In Brix

Radio Derb Transcript For June 26: Korean War, Karen Shaming, Tucker Carlson, And The Blacks In Brixton, Etc

The Radio Derb transcript is up for June 26 .
Go here to read or listen .
14m06s Tucker and @ @ @ @ @ right about Trump 's inaction ? )
20m37s It 's the blecks , cont .
@ @ @ @ @ peelers . )
27m32s Cutting back on guest workers .
( Thank you , Mr @ @ @ @ @ suggestion for the iconoclasts .
( Become ironoclasts ? )
33m24s Fined for using the @ @ @ @ @ to N ? )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for June 26. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
00m52s Remembering the Korean War. (Seventy years on.)
06m05s Karen shaming. (Sport for the fellas.)
14m06s Tucker and I. (Is he right about Trump's inaction?)
20m37s It's the blecks, cont. (Brixtonoids chase out the peelers.)
27m32s Cutting back on guest workers. (Thank you, Mr President!)
28m21s A suggestion for the iconoclasts. (Become ironoclasts?)
29m21s Rugger fans culturally appropriate. (Prince Dimwit is shocked.)
33m24s Fined for using the L-word. (Too close to N?)
35m13s Name-shaming Rhode Island. (Who knew?)
37m26s Aboriginettes passing. (Rachel Dolezal, call your agent.)
41m15s Signoff. (A Korean War-adjacent song.)


vdare--2020-07-01--A Reader Says American Leftist Now Further Left Than Leftists Anywhere But (For Now) China

I was wondering if VDare.com 's editors have noticed how radical the mainstream American Left has become .
Surely you did , but I mean not only by comparison to the benchmarks of our own nation , but for the first time in history by comparison to the Left outside of America .
At this point in time , the American Left is WAAAY more radical than the Left in Switzerland , Italy , Israel , Austria , Britain and even France .
Whereas the mainstream Left outside of America is still mostly occupied by economic questions , the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roger Scruton called the “ culture of repudiation.
” It used to be conventional wisdom that the American Left was what some European countries had for their Right : A pro-labor welfare-state-ish political movement .
Not any more !
The American Left calls for the abolishment of law enforcement , for the flooding of the nation by foreigners , for the defacing of the nation ’ s monuments , for the dismantlement of the American family , and for an overall project of erasure and deconstruction of historic America .
While our European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the mainstream European Left is still along the old fashioned lines of Francois Hollande and the German SPD .
A tired blend of socialism and protectionism , but not yet a full blown corrosive power of national dismantlement .

Re: James Kirkpatrick's Sanders Hard Left Creeps Up On Complacent Trump GOP
From: Eddie Burke [@EddieBurkeChi on Parler]
I was wondering if VDare.com's editors have noticed how radical the mainstream American Left has become. Surely you did, but I mean not only by comparison to the benchmarks of our own nation, but for the first time in history by comparison to the Left outside of America.
At this point in time, the American Left is WAAAY more radical than the Left in Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Austria, Britain and even France. Whereas the mainstream Left outside of America is still mostly occupied by economic questions, the American Left has gone 100% into what Roger Scruton called the “culture of repudiation.”
It used to be conventional wisdom that the American Left was what some European countries had for their Right: a pro-labor welfare-state-ish political movement. Not anymore! The American Left calls for the abolishment of law enforcement, for the flooding of the nation by foreigners, for the defacing of the nation’s monuments, for the dismantlement of the American family, and for an overall project of erasure and deconstruction of historic America.
While our European cousins definitely have their share of that, the mainstream European Left is still along the old fashioned lines of François Hollande and the German SPD. A tired blend of socialism and protectionism, but not yet a full blown corrosive power of national dismantlement.
Who’d have thought?


vdare--2020-07-02--Trump Action On Immigration Happening ("Sweeping Plan") But VERY Late

The story of the Trump Administration on making the necessary changes to immigration policy , regulations , and practice is a sad one of long term failure .
At almost every turn , instead of capitalizing on the immense power within administrative practice and executive authority to direct personnel and action , the Administration failed to take action , usually with dire consequences for any further action later , if that occurred .
Compare this to the Administration ’ s attitude and practice when dealing with administrative issues relating to Israel and the Iran Deal .
Both the Iran Deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in which city in Israel on one hand and , for instance , the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) , as well as other immigration enforcement issues , rested solely within the discretion of the President .
One one side , the Israel Lobby got everything it wanted : Embassy moved immediately to Jerusalem and within a few months the Iran Deal was dead .
President Kushner made certain that happened .
Even the sign for the new American Embassy in Jerusalem was ordered and made , ready for installation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DACA and the failure to immediately get moving with the border wall .
Instead of repealing DACA on the first day as promised , it continued for almost a year before being hamhandedly withdrawn , making it easier for Traitor John Roberts to overturn the incompetently presented case for ending it .
Similarly , the Administration did not allow Deep State bureaucrats in the State Department to interfere with or sabotage the Embassy move to Jerusalem .
The bureaucrats were given orders and directly supervised at all levels to make certain it happened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the President to end the Temporary Protected Status ( TPS ) of Central American illegal aliens .
The Administration let Deep State bureaucrats like Elaine Duke openly defy the President and extend TPS for some nations and gave others six more months to “ wind down ” their affairs .
Of course , what happened was that these delays enabled to kritarchy to step in and save TPS , with the bureaucrats even extending TPS at the demand of kritarchs despite the fact that TPS is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Executive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enabling legislation , Title 8 United States Code , Section 1254a , Temporary Protected Status .
Similarly , the Trump campaign promised administrative reforms of the asylum process , specifically to the previous sabotage of the asylum system and the Expedited Removal process by which fraudulent claimants are supposed to be removed .
That was almost three years ago .
Only now has the Administration proposed regulations to fight asylum fraud in the administrative procedures that were implemented by the Clinton Administration effectively nullifying the definition of asylum , opening it up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Administration , the asylum system , which starts with a `` credible fear '' determination , i.e .
an interview of an alien who claims fear of returning to their nation of citizenship based on persecution would received only a perfunctory interview and the claim rubber stamped .
The Bush and Obama Administrations would continue that fraud .
However , finally , the Trump Administration has proposed regulations that define the credible in the credible fear process that begins the asylum application process .
The good news is that the Open Border advocates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the asylum fraud system that has been going on since Bill Clinton , slowly flooding the country with asylum applicants , their anchor babies , and the resulting chain migration , both legal and illegal .
And they are correct to fear the reaper on this issue .
Reviewing the details shows that the Trump Administration plans to at least attempt to end the current endless appeals , though the jury is out on that as there are some problems with the regulations .
The most important change is that the definition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to something actually resembling an approximation of “ credible.
” The current standard of credible fear has long been “ any specious claim without any factual basis.
” Your correspondent was in on credible fear determinations from the beginning , and any ridiculous claim that was reviewed by an Asylum Officer was accepted as credible .
I recall a case from the first days , a Swiss citizen arrived at an international airport in the United States , made a claim that he was being persecuted in Switzerland for being a homosexual ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ! )
and that claim was not only accepted as credible for the purpose of referring the alien to an asylum interview , but also accepted as credible by the interviewing Asylum Officer and referred to a kritarch in the Executive Office for Immigration Review ( EOIR ) for a full hearing in immigration court .
That was sabotage from Day 1 by the Clinton Administration after the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 .
And it continues today under Deep State saboteurs at USCIS Asylum Offices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alien must make a “ credible ” claim of fear of persecution by the government of which he is a citizen before an immigration officer in the United States , usually with first with an Immigration Inspector of the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) at a Port-of-Entry ( POE ) or after an arrest in the United States by a Border Patrol Agent , Special Agent ( SA ) , or Deportation Officer ( DO ) when first implemented , or now with a Customs and Border Protection Officer ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Protection ( CBP ) or after arrest by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) SA or DO .
Only if the claim is facially credible is the alien referred to an Asylum Officer , once with the INS , now with U.S .
Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) .
The first encounter with an above officer should have been weeding out 99 % of claims , like our friend above from Switzerland or the Mexican nationals who were let in to make claims based on fear of not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Administration proposal does not address the problem of the fallacious claim made to a CBPO , SA , or DO .
Ostensibly the right to apply for asylum is statutory , but the statute is quite specific .
It requires an alien to specifically state that he is applying for asylum or fears persecution .
An intent to apply for asylum or a fear of persecution are quite different from “ credible fear.
” Inspecting Immigration Officers should have the authority and power to determine if an alien intends to apply for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In most cases of arriving aliens who later claim fear of persecution or intend to apply for asylum don ’ t actually do that with an immigration officer , especially when arriving at a POE .
Current regulations require that inspecting Immigration Officers prompt aliens who say , and I quote from personal experience , “ I am afraid to go back ” or words to that effect .
They don ’ t say “ I want to apply for asylum ” or “ I fear persecution by the government of my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ I am afraid ” which can mean they ’ re afraid of their parents , crime in their country , social ostracism , or fear they can ’ t improve their life by moving to America .
In the Clinton days and today , arriving aliens who are eventually referred for credible fear interviews who just say they ’ re “ afraid to go back ” are then either prompted to say the magic words “ I want to apply for asylum ” or asked about what they ’ re afraid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up being persecution by the government , but some other fear , mostly of poverty or of crime .
The regulations should concentrate on what the statute says , the alien , unprompted , must make a clear and convincing statement of “ …an intention to apply for asylum under section 1158 of this title or a fear of persecution… ” with accompanying credible facts that are recorded and can be used against the alien when he claims something different to the Asylum Officer , which is also quite common .
On the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ credible fear is solid and should help discourage mass asylum fraud and zerg rushes to the border by illegal aliens being smuggled by trafficking organizations , most located in the United States and whom still remain unmolested or arrested by ICE SVU .
Interpreting the legalese and bureaucrat speak , the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) is proposing that aliens who claim persecution , but have credible evidence that they will be persecuted to overcome the first hurdle to be referred to the EOIR for an immigration hearing .
We just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be applied to referral to an Asylum Officer or the standard for the Asylum Officer to refer the alien to the EOIR .
Another of the weakness of not addressing the details , which the Open Borders advocates will exploit later .
Also of note is that DHS has discovered what was well known at the time , that passing the Credible Fear interview with an Asylum Officer does not make one eligible for a full hearing before the EOIR .
The Administration is proposing a limited EOIR review of “ credible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t know what that will be and how soon the Deep State saboteurs , EOIR kritarchs , and the Treason Bar will make the abbreviated system the same as the current system where it ain ’ t over until the alien wins , or at least delays deportation forever .
Overall , these new regulations are a good start , but , more importantly , are 4 years too late .
And there are further changes on defining who is eligible , purposely excluding criminals , terrorists , crime victims , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ category for asylum based merely on being a woman .
But a good start and too late is the story of the Trump Administration .
It is ever the victim of the Deep State , but always the willing victim , never or belatedly taking action against the saboteurs or attempting to overturn the sabotage .
It is sad that this is the end result of what was so much hope from Donald John Trump .
But it is his own fault for allowing Jared Kushner and the Deep State to run amok @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better , he acted strongly on benefits for Israel , but did not for his signature immigration reforms .
Sad .

The story of the Trump Administration on making the necessary changes to immigration policy, regulations, and practice is a sad one of long-term failure. At almost every turn, instead of capitalizing on the immense power within administrative practice and executive authority to direct personnel and action, the Administration failed to take action, usually with dire consequences for any further action later, if that occurred.
Compare this to the Administration’s attitude and practice when dealing with administrative issues relating to Israel and the Iran Deal. Both the Iran Deal and the U.S. Embassy’s location in which city in Israel on one hand and, for instance, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), as well as other immigration enforcement issues, rested solely within the discretion of the President. On one side, the Israel Lobby got everything it wanted: Embassy moved immediately to Jerusalem and within a few months the Iran Deal was dead. President Kushner made certain that happened. Even the sign for the new American Embassy in Jerusalem was ordered and made, ready for installation.
Contrast this with the dithering over DACA and the failure to immediately get moving with the border wall. Instead of repealing DACA on the first day as promised, it continued for almost a year before being hamhandedly withdrawn, making it easier for Traitor John Roberts to overturn the incompetently presented case for ending it.
Similarly, the Administration did not allow Deep State bureaucrats in the State Department to interfere with or sabotage the Embassy move to Jerusalem. The bureaucrats were given orders and directly supervised at all levels to make certain it happened. Compare this to the order of the President to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Central American illegal aliens.
The Administration let Deep State bureaucrats like Elaine Duke openly defy the President and extend TPS for some nations and gave others six more months to “wind down” their affairs. Of course, what happened was that these delays enabled to kritarchy to step in and save TPS, with the bureaucrats even extending TPS at the demand of kritarchs despite the fact that TPS is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Executive, as it clearly states in the enabling legislation, Title 8 United States Code, Section 1254a, Temporary Protected Status.
Similarly, the Trump campaign promised administrative reforms of the asylum process, specifically to the previous sabotage of the asylum system and the Expedited Removal process by which fraudulent claimants are supposed to be removed. That was almost three years ago. Only now has the Administration proposed regulations to fight asylum fraud in the administrative procedures that were implemented by the Clinton Administration effectively nullifying the definition of asylum, opening it up to fraud and sabotage. Under the Clinton Administration, the asylum system, which starts with a "credible fear" determination, i.e., an interview of an alien who claims fear of returning to their nation of citizenship based on persecution, would received only a perfunctory interview and the claim rubber stamped. The Bush and Obama Administrations would continue that fraud.
However, finally, the Trump Administration has proposed regulations that define the credible in the credible fear process that begins the asylum application process.
The Trump administration has unveiled its furthest-reaching plan yet to change asylum law in the U.S., redefining the meaning of “persecution” and raising the bar for refugees seeking protection under the Convention Against Torture, among other changes. The 161-page proposal, officially posted Monday in the Federal Register, would also streamline the asylum-approval process, letting immigration judges rather than immigration courts make rulings in asylum cases and redefining the definition of a frivolous application. The proposal follows similar actions by the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, but legal experts say this time it will be harder to challenge in court than those previous rules. “Essentially this rule tries, in a way that hasn’t been done before, to define what can be grounds for asylum,” said Jessica Bolter, an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. [Administration Unveils Sweeping Plan To Tighten Rules On Asylum Seekers, by Conkite News, WYMA, June 16, 2020]
The good news is that the Open Border advocates see this as a death knell for the asylum fraud system that has been going on since Bill Clinton, slowly flooding the country with asylum applicants, their anchor babies, and the resulting chain migration, both legal and illegal.
The proposal, first unveiled Wednesday, was swiftly condemned by advocates like the Tahirih Justice Center, which called the proposed regulations “an assault on the fundamental right to seek asylum.” “If fully implemented, they will gut years of progress in the U.S. to create bridges to safety for so many whose governments could not and would not protect them from severe harm and even death,” said a statement from the nonprofit, which advocates for immigrants escaping gender-based violence.
And they are correct to fear the reaper on this issue. Reviewing the details shows that the Trump Administration plans to at least attempt to end the current endless appeals, though the jury is out on that as there are some problems with the regulations.
The most important change is that the definition of “credible fear” is being changed to something actually resembling an approximation of “credible.” The current standard of credible fear has long been “any specious claim without any factual basis.”
Your correspondent was in on credible fear determinations from the beginning, and any ridiculous claim that was reviewed by an Asylum Officer was accepted as credible. I recall a case from the first days, a Swiss citizen arrived at an international airport in the United States, made a claim that he was being persecuted in Switzerland for being a homosexual (where gay sex was legalized in 1942!) and that claim was not only accepted as credible for the purpose of referring the alien to an asylum interview, but also accepted as credible by the interviewing Asylum Officer and referred to a kritarch in the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) for a full hearing in immigration court. That was sabotage from Day 1 by the Clinton Administration after the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. And it continues today under Deep State saboteurs at USCIS Asylum Offices.
Remember, in practice, an alien must make a “credible” claim of fear of persecution by the government of which he is a citizen before an immigration officer in the United States, usually first with an Immigration Inspector of the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at a Port-of-Entry (POE) or after an arrest in the United States by a Border Patrol Agent, Special Agent (SA), or Deportation Officer (DO) when first implemented, or now with a Customs and Border Protection Officer (CBPO) of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or after arrest by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) SA or DO. Only if the claim is facially credible is the alien referred to an Asylum Officer, once with the INS, now with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The first encounter with an above officer should have been weeding out 99% of claims, like our friend above from Switzerland or the Mexican nationals who were let in to make claims based on fear of not finding work in Mexico.
Sadly, the Administration proposal does not address the problem of the fallacious claim made to a CBPO, SA, or DO. Ostensibly the right to apply for asylum is statutory, but the statute is quite specific. It requires an alien to specifically state that he is applying for asylum or fears persecution.
If an immigration officer determines that an alien (other than an alien described in subparagraph (F)) who is arriving in the United States or is described in clause (iii) is inadmissible under section 1182(a)(6)(C) or 1182(a)(7) of this title and the alien indicates either an intention to apply for asylum under section 1158 of this title or a fear of persecution, the officer shall refer the alien for an interview by an asylum officer under subparagraph (B). [Title 8 United States Code, Section 1225, Inspection By Immigration Officers, unattributed, GovInfo.gov, undated]
An intent to apply for asylum or a fear of persecution is quite different from “credible fear.” Inspecting Immigration Officers should have the authority and power to determine if an alien intends to apply for asylum or has a fear of persecution. In most cases arriving aliens who later claim fear of persecution or intend to apply for asylum don’t actually do that with an immigration officer, especially when arriving at a POE.
Current regulations require that inspecting Immigration Officers prompt aliens who say, and I quote from personal experience, “I am afraid to go back” or words to that effect. They don’t say “I want to apply for asylum” or “I fear persecution by the government of my country of nationality,” but just that “I am afraid,” which can mean they’re afraid of their parents, crime in their country, social ostracism, or fear they can’t improve their life by moving to America. In the Clinton days and today, arriving aliens who are eventually referred for credible fear interviews who just say they’re “afraid to go back,” are then either prompted to say the magic words “I want to apply for asylum” or asked about what they’re afraid of, which usually does not end up being persecution by the government, but some other fear, mostly of poverty or of crime. The regulations should concentrate on what the statute says: The alien, unprompted, must make a clear and convincing statement of “…an intention to apply for asylum under section 1158 of this title or a fear of persecution…” with accompanying credible facts that are recorded and can be used against the alien when he claims something different to the Asylum Officer, which is also quite common.
On the positive side, the new definition of credible fear is solid and should help discourage mass asylum fraud and zerg rushes to the border by illegal aliens being smuggled by trafficking organizations, most located in the United States and who still remain unmolested or arrested by ICE SVU.
The Departments propose amending 8 CFR 208.30 and 8 CFR 1208.30 to raise the standard of proof in “credible fear” screenings for aliens in expedited removal proceedings and for stowaways from a significant possibility that the alien can establish eligibility for statutory withholding of removal to a reasonable possibility that the alien would be persecuted because of his or her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. See 8 CFR 208.16, 208.30(e)(2), 1208.16. Similarly, for aliens expressing a fear of torture, the Departments propose amending 8 CFR 208.30 and 8 CFR 1208.30 to raise the standard of proof from a significant possibility that the alien is eligible for withholding or deferral of removal under the CAT regulations to a reasonable possibility that the alien would be tortured in the country of removal. [Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review, Chad R. Mizelle, Senior Official Performing The Duties of the General Counsel for DHS, Federal Registrar, June 16, 2020]
Interpreting the legalese and bureaucrat speak, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing that aliens who claim persecution, but have credible evidence that they will be persecuted, will overcome the first hurdle to be referred to the EOIR for an immigration hearing. We just don’t know if this standard will be applied to referral to an Asylum Officer or the standard for the Asylum Officer to refer the alien to the EOIR. Another of the weaknesses of not addressing the details, which the Open Borders advocates will exploit later.
Also of note is that DHS has discovered what was well known at the time, that passing the Credible Fear interview with an Asylum Officer does not make one eligible for a full hearing before the EOIR. The Administration is proposing a limited EOIR review of “credible” claims of persecution, though we don’t know what that will be and how soon the Deep State saboteurs, EOIR kritarchs, and the Treason Bar will make the abbreviated system the same as the current system where it ain’t over until the alien wins, or at least delays deportation forever.
For several reasons, the Departments believe that section 235(b)(1), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1), when compared with section 235(b)(2), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2), may also be read as permitting a procedure for “further consideration of [an] application for asylum” that is separate from section 240 proceedings. First, while section 235(b)(1), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1), mandates that an alien with a positive credible fear determination receive “further consideration of [his or her] application for asylum,” section 235(b)(2), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2), mandates that other classes of aliens receive “a proceeding under section 1229a of this title”—i.e., section 240 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1229a. Compare INA 235(b)(1)(B)(ii), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), with INA 235(b)(2)(A), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(A). The difference in language suggests that section 235(b)(1), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1), does not require use of section 240 proceedings, in contrast to section 235(b)(2), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2), which does so require. See Henson v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718, 1723 (2017) (“differences in language [generally] convey differences in meaning”). That negative inference is reinforced by the fact that aliens in expedited removal are expressly excluded from the class of aliens entitled to section 240 proceedings under section 235(b)(2)(A), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(A). See INA 235(b)(2)(B)(ii), 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(2)(B)(ii).
Overall, these new regulations are a good start, but, more important, are four years too late. And there are further changes on defining who is eligible, purposely excluding criminals, terrorists, crime victims, firm resettlement, and women being a category for asylum based merely on being a woman. But a good start and too late is the story of the Trump Administration. It is ever the victim of the Deep State, but always the willing victim, never or belatedly taking action against the saboteurs or attempting to overturn the sabotage. It is sad that this is the end result of what was so much hope from Donald John Trump. But it is his own fault for allowing Jared Kushner and the Deep State to run amok. Trump had the power to do better, he acted strongly on benefits for Israel, but did not for his signature immigration reforms. Sad.


vdare--2020-07-01--DERB'S JUNE DIARY: Hell Of A Month;  Anti-White All The Way Down; And Life in Jim Snow America, Etc.

DERB'S JUNE DIARY: Hell Of A Month;  Anti-White All The Way Down; And Life in Jim Snow America, Etc. [10 ITEMS!]

Yes , the riots , assaults , lootings , and statue-destruction of the past month have been something to watch , and of course the topic of endless comment and speculation .
I 've been contributing my own comments at Radio Derb .
Speculation-wise , there are two areas concerning which I 'd be very interested to see what future historians , with full documentation available to them , have to say : • How much of what 's been happening is random trouble-making by young people with not much prospect of well-paid employment and way too much time on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ staged , managed , or encouraged by organizations trying to influence the November election ?
• Of the deliberately staged/managed/encouraged portion , what sub-portion is being run from abroad ?
To the second point there , I aired my suspicions here at VDARE.com , June 7th : We shall find out the truth of the matter when the ChiComs lose power and the records are opened up to historians .
To the first point , Old Scratch makes work for idle hands , and we have a lot of idle hands right now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to it .
Or , both the Trump administration and its enemies may be cynically calculating that the riots are to their advantage .
Trumpists : This will make plain to patriotic voters how much the Left hates our country , and what happens when Democrats control a city or a state .
Anti-Trumpists : If the Feds react with force there 'll be widespread outrage ; if not , and the riots continue , voters will be disgusted by the Feds ' inability to control the situation .
Win-win for us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ spend on law enforcement , the military , and the National Guard , our city , state , and federal authorities could crush the rioters if they chose to .
In my last podcast of the month I quoted a passage from Christopher Caldwell 's new book , The Age of Entitlement .
The topic here is the forced de-segregation of schools in Boston during the mid-1970s .
So , yes , the authorities could restore order if they chose to .
They choose not to , and that calls for some explanation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down .
But wait : Is n't it all to do with blacks , with their mistreatment at the hands of police ?
Black Lives Matter !
Uh-huh .
So far I have n't seen anything to disturb my basic template of a Cold Civil War : two big groups of whites at angry loggerheads with each other , blacks recruited in as auxiliaries , allowed on to the battlefield when convenient for some opportunistic looting and white-beating , none of the whites on either side much caring what blacks think or say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back me up .
Pew Research has come up with some numbers .
Recent protest attendees are more racially and ethnically diverse , younger than Americans overall , by Amanda Barroso and Rachel Minkin , Pew Research , June 24 , 2020 I 'll admit I suffer from a mental block here , though .
I simply ca n't connect with the narrative about blacks being oppressed by White Privilege .
Black Americans seem to me to be the spoiled , pampered pets of our nation .
For decades they 've been accumulating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black nonentities are wafted up effortlessly into positions of authority on thermals of white guilt .
We just recently had a two-term black President with blacks well-represented in his cabinet : Attorneys General , DHS , Education , & Transportation Secretaries , U.N .
Ambassador , … Law enforcement ?
An actual majority of police chiefs who show up on TV news segments are black .
Black perps are given endless breaks by the criminal-justice system—103 , in one recent case locally .
Our courts are choc-full—I think that 's the right expression—of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black prosecutors pushing for anti-white outcomes .
Some of the worst rioting this month was in Minnesota .
The Attorney General of that state is a black Muslim Social Justice Warrior .
And as much as black lives may matter to white protestors , they do n't seem to matter much to actual blacks , judging by the stupendous black homicide rate — at least eight times the white rate , and most of the victims themselves being black .
In the last week of June , six children were killed by gunshot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in news stories , two—ages three and one—were black , the third , ten years old , was Hispanic .
Nobody , black or white , seems to care much .
The mob only comes out screeching `` Black Lives Matter ! ''
when a white person can be blamed .
The sentiment here is not pro-black ; it 's anti-white—anti-those other whites—all the way down .
Elite overproduction ?
A reader asks me what I think of biologist Peter Turchin 's cliometric theory about elite overproduction leading to intra-elite conflict .
Ten @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that matters would come to a head for the U.S.A. in 2020 .
As historical predictions go , that is remarkably accurate , and Turchin 's been getting a lot of attention recently .
Yes , the theory seems plausible , although I admit I have n't yet chewed through all the quantitative stuff .
One thing nags at me , though .
If the true conflict here is among under-employed , over-educated elites , why do the protestors all come across as so durn stupid ?
If I am an over-educated Humanities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my student loans , should n't I know who Ulysses S. Grant was ?
Why would I want to pull down his statue ?
The protestors all come across as so dumb : chanting their stale , coarse , meaningless slogans : `` No justice , no peace !
… Black lives matter !
… ACAB !
FTP ! ''
They seem not to be able to utter a complete sentence without an f-word in it .
The females are screechy and hysterical : all emotion , no reason .
Their targeting of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's point about intra-elite conflict .
If these protestors are representative of our elite—or candidate-elite—classes , though , all I can say is : God help us !
Atheist humor .
One of the dumbest proposals in this ocean of dumbery has been to remove the statue of the Roman Emperor Constantine that stands outside York Minster , the Anglican cathedral that graces the city of York , in the North of England .
The advertised grounds for the proposal are , according to the Daily Mail , `` complaints about [ Constantine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
That makes it sound as though the Emperor was supervising the transportation of blacks across the Atlantic to the New World … in the fourth century a.d .
Probably the illiterate morons who are driving this current wave of iconoclasm think that he actually was doing so .
I doubt the average BLM activist could place the Roman Empire in the correct millennium .
It 's true that slavery was a fundamental feature of Rome 's society and economy .
It was n't particularly race-based , though , and the Romans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem not to have nursed any strong feelings one way or the other about them .
I dare say if you 'd asked a Roman , he would have agreed that yes !
Black Lives Matter !
Constantine 's connection with York is , that he happened to be in that city campaigning against the Picts of what is now Scotland when his father died and the legions proclaimed Constantine Emperor .
The reason for his statue being at the Minster is , that he was the first Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this .
He was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York in 1940 .
Before he could take up the position , though , church leaders in the city , Catholic and Protestant both , demanded that the appointment be annulled on the grounds that Russell was `` alien and immoral . ''
He was an atheist and a freethinker , and had expounded his views in books .
There was an almighty fuss , and the appointment was annulled at last .
Cute : but he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there .
It 's true that Constantine was proclaimed Emperor at York , and it 's true that he embraced Christianity .
The second thing happened thirty years after the first , though , when Constantine was on his deathbed in present-day Turkey , seventeen hundred miles from York .
It was a merely personal conversion , too ; Christianity did n't formally become the state religion of Rome until the Edict of Thessalonica in a.d. 380 , forty-three years after Constantine 's death .
As anti-religious quips go , however , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't compare with Russell 's brilliant aphorism on the Ten Commandments .
They are , he said , like an examination paper : `` Three only to be attempted . ''
Back to church .
That 's a neat segue to my own church 's reopening on June 21st after thirteen weeks of no services .
I was curious to see how many congregants would show up .
Having tasted the delights of lying in bed late Sunday morning , would some portion give up their weekly devotions for good ?
I was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was normal for an ordinary Sunday : around thirty in the pews .
That 's probably a thin crowd by Bible Belt megachurch standards ; but for suburban New York Protestants , it 's not bad .
Everyone seemed happy to be there , though of course we were all told to practice social distancing .
There was a good stirring sermon from a visiting pastor ( our regular guy quit in March , pre-pandemic ) and it was like old times , except for all the face masks .
At this point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normality I can get .
Revolutionary esthetics .
One thing to hate—one of many—about the woke revolutionaries is the ugliness they generate .
Just look at the graffiti they spray everywhere , ugly in both form and content .
The f-word is universal ; they ca n't speak or spray for long without it .
At this point I 'd vote for a Constitutional Amendment making public use of the f-word a federal crime , minimum sentence ten years .
Revolutionary movements can turn up some decent esthetics .
We giggle now at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but as Darren Beattie has pointed out , the creators of that artwork were at least adults with some rigorous training in depiction of the human form ( as of course were the sculptors of those fine statues and monuments the woke mob is merrily pulling down ) .
The esthetic of our current revolution is nothing like that .
Visually , it is the formless scrawling of uneducated children ; aurally , it is the obscene shrieking of crazed fanatics .
Beauty and clarity of speech are counter-revolutionary—not who we are !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are trading in civilization for barbarism , reason for superstition , the prefrontal cortex for the reptilian brain stem .
Sometimes the boundary line is plain to see .
Listen to this .
An older white guy ( WG ) was walking his dog , and a bicycle , along a footpath .
The louder voice here—recording the event from his smartphone—is a younger black guy ( BG ) who seems to have thought the white guy was in his way .
Just another everyday encounter in Jim Snow America .
If that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burned down yet , Black Lives Matter are off their game .
But again , the thing that gets my attention is the crudeness and ugliness of the black guy 's diction and vocabulary .
This is not the speech of a rational human being ; this is the barking of a wild animal .
Cultural appropriation conundrums .
Watching TV—yeah , I still do that—I sometimes catch a commercial for Shriners Hospitals for children—for children , that is , with various kinds of disabilities .
The commercials are well-made and appealing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great things on behalf of unfortunate kids .
I have no argument with any of that .
God bless the Shriners for their good works ; send them a donation if you can .
One thing I wonder about , though .
Some of the hospital orderlies in those commercials are shown wearing a fez .
That 's a Shriners thing , apparently , and has been since 1872 .
How is this not cultural appropriation ?
The fez was the standard headgear of the later Ottoman Empire ; so much so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a strong program of Europeanization and de-Ottomanization , he banned public wearing of the fez .
At least 13 people were executed for protesting the ban .
Given this rather fraught cultural history behind the fez , how are the Shriners still getting away with it ?
Or … wait a minute : Maybe Atatürk 's Hat Law , his imposing European dress on his subjects , maybe that was the act of cultural appropriation .
Perhaps the Shriners ' continuing attachment to the fez could be seen as taking a stand for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much a deep-in-the-bone reactionary to figure this stuff out .
If anyone more woke can enlighten me , I 'll appreciate it .
Cowboy fiction .
Another casualty in the current Down With the Four Olds !
frenzy is movie actor John Wayne .
The airport named after him in southern California should be renamed , says an editorial in the Los Angles Times , in order to `` help Orange County confront its racist past . ''
Wayne 's offense is some opinions about race he uttered aloud in a 1971 interview @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Good ( although not , at least as of June 29th , President Trump ) are piling on .
The probability has to be that the Duke will soon be unpersoned , or at least unairported .
Paul Kersey has a summary of Wayne 's thoughtcrimes , with a link to the full Playboy interview , over at AmRen .
The opinions Wayne expressed were commonplace at the time , shared by tens of millions of his fellow Americans .
Probably they are still widespread , although nowadays you will lose your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Sample : `` I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility . ''
John Wayne 's particular case aside , the figure he personified—the cowboy of the old West—is offensive to Progressive sensibilities all by itself for its shameless whiteness and toxic masculinity .
All the more reason for us dissidents to celebrate it any way we can .
If it 's cowboy movies you want , Criterion has a good selection .
I 'm more of a book person than a movie person , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the cowboy cause by reading Jack Schaefer 's 1963 novel Monte Walsh in a good sturdy paperback edition from the University of New Mexico Press , gifted to me by a friend .
( Thanks , pal ! )
The novel 's structure is plain and straightforward in the true cowboy spirit : nineteen episodes in chronological order about the life of the title character , a cowboy born in 1856 .
It 's beautifully done , by a natural writer .
At month 's end I am in the penultimate episode @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turning elegiac as modernity creeps over the western ranges , automobiles appear , and cowboy skills , cowboy lifestyle , cowboy culture are slipping into irrelevance .
I did n't recognize the author 's name .
Then , reading the book 's back cover , I saw that Schaefer also wrote Shane , from which a movie was made in 1953 .
I saw that movie the following year at the BAOR base where my brother was stationed in Düsseldorf , Germany .
I ca n't truthfully say I remember much about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the time , and that my two-years-older sister developed a crush on Alan Ladd .
So now I 've had two encounters with Jack Schaefer , 66 years apart .
Life closes round on itself in circles … Math Corner .
I mentioned Bertrand Russell back there .
Here is what he had to say about math in 1919 .
Here , by way of contrast , is part of an interview with Lily Khadjavi , editor of the 2019 book Mathematics for Social Justice : Resources for the College Classroom .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 issue of Focus , newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America .
I really do n't like the 21st century very much .
For distraction , here is something from the 17th .
Antoine Gombaud was a French gent of that era , and a gambler .
Knowing that the chance of getting a six on one roll of a die is one-sixth , he figured that the chance of getting a six on four rolls is four times one-sixth , which is two-thirds .
Betting even money that he 'd get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a nice little earner .
So it proved .
Gombaud 's math was actually wrong ; but it was wrong in the right direction , so to speak , and he came out ahead .
Thus encouraged , he cooked up a new game .
The chance of getting a pair of sixes on a roll of two dice is , he figured ( correctly ) one-thirty-sixth .
On twenty-four rolls of a dice pair , therefore , the chance of getting at least one pair of sixes should be twenty-four times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrong again ; but this time it was wrong in the wrong direction .
Betting evens on this new game , he could n't stay ahead .
He grumbled about this in 1654 to Blaise Pascal , a real first-rank mathematician .
Pascal kicked it around in some correspondence with Pierre Fermat , another of the same .
Out of their correspondence emerged foundations for the modern Theory of Probability .
A nice bit of mathematical folklore .
But where did Gombaud go wrong in his math ?
email him ] writes an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

Hell of a month. Good grief! They looted Macy's!
Yes, the riots, assaults, lootings, and statue-destruction of the past month have been something to watch, and of course the topic of endless comment and speculation.
I've been contributing my own comments at Radio Derb. Speculation-wise, there are two areas concerning which I'd be very interested to see what future historians, with full documentation available to them, have to say:
How much of what's been happening is random trouble-making by young people with not much prospect of well-paid employment and way too much time on their hands? As opposed to deliberately staged, managed, or encouraged by organizations trying to influence the November election?
Of the deliberately staged/managed/encouraged portion, what sub-portion is being run from abroad?
To the second point there, I aired my suspicions here at VDARE.com, June 7th:
I have this image in mind of the [ChiCom] Politburo gathering of an evening to binge-watch the latest riot coverage, chuckling and passing around the after-dinner mints and maotai … If the CCP doesn't have people in place here helping the rioters, whoever's in charge of ChiCom undercover special ops in North America isn't doing his job.
We shall find out the truth of the matter when the ChiComs lose power and the records are opened up to historians.
To the first point, Old Scratch makes work for idle hands, and we have a lot of idle hands right now. That may be all there is to it.
Or, both the Trump administration and its enemies may be cynically calculating that the riots are to their advantage. Trumpists: This will make plain to patriotic voters how much the Left hates our country, and what happens when Democrats control a city or a state. Anti-Trumpists: If the Feds react with force there'll be widespread outrage; if not, and the riots continue, voters will be disgusted by the Feds' inability to control the situation. Win-win for us.
Certainly, given the prodigious sums we spend on law enforcement, the military, and the National Guard, our city, state, and federal authorities could crush the rioters if they chose to. In my last podcast of the month I quoted a passage from Christopher Caldwell's new book, The Age of Entitlement. The topic here is the forced de-segregation of schools in Boston during the mid-1970s.
When the whites of South Boston and Charlestown protested, their neighborhoods were put under military occupation. "Southie" had a curfew and laws against public assembly, enforced by 1,600 police officers, 100 federal marshals, 50 FBI agents, and 600 National Guard troops.
So, yes, the authorities could restore order if they chose to. They choose not to, and that calls for some explanation.
[Permalink]
It's anti-white all the way down. But wait: Isn't it all to do with blacks, with their mistreatment at the hands of police? Black Lives Matter!
Uh-huh. So far I haven't seen anything to disturb my basic template of a Cold Civil War: two big groups of whites at angry loggerheads with each other, blacks recruited in as auxiliaries, allowed on to the battlefield when convenient for some opportunistic looting and white-beating, none of the whites on either side much caring what blacks think or say.
Surveys of this month's protestors back me up. Pew Research has come up with some numbers.
Though recent protests and riots have been centered around racial tensions with law enforcement, only 17 percent of protesters have been black, while 46 percent are white, 22 percent are Hispanic, and eight percent are Asian.
Recent protest attendees are more racially and ethnically diverse, younger than Americans overall, by Amanda Barroso and Rachel Minkin, Pew Research, June 24, 2020
I'll admit I suffer from a mental block here, though. I simply can't connect with the narrative about blacks being oppressed by White Privilege. Black Americans seem to me to be the spoiled, pampered pets of our nation. For decades they've been accumulating favoritism, preferences, and privileges.
Black nonentities are wafted up effortlessly into positions of authority on thermals of white guilt. We just recently had a two-term black President with blacks well-represented in his cabinet: Attorneys General, DHS, Education, & Transportation Secretaries, U.N. Ambassador, …
Law enforcement? An actual majority of police chiefs who show up on TV news segments are black. Black perps are given endless breaks by the criminal-justice system—103, in one recent case locally.
Our courts are choc-full—I think that's the right expression—of black judges, black DAs, and black prosecutors pushing for anti-white outcomes.
Some of the worst rioting this month was in Minnesota. The Attorney General of that state is a black Muslim Social Justice Warrior.
Oppression? Excuse me?
And as much as black lives may matter to white protestors, they don't seem to matter much to actual blacks, judging by the stupendous black homicide rate—at least eight times the white rate, and most of the victims themselves being black. In the last week of June, six children were killed by gunshot in Chicago. Of the three identified in news stories, two—ages three and one—were black, the third, ten years old, was Hispanic.
Nobody, black or white, seems to care much. The mob only comes out screeching "Black Lives Matter!" when a white person can be blamed. The sentiment here is not pro-black; it's anti-white—anti-those other whites—all the way down.
[Permalink]
Elite overproduction? A reader asks me what I think of biologist Peter Turchin's cliometric theory about elite overproduction leading to intra-elite conflict.
Ten years ago Turchin published an article predicting that matters would come to a head for the U.S.A. in 2020. As historical predictions go, that is remarkably accurate, and Turchin's been getting a lot of attention recently.
Yes, the theory seems plausible, although I admit I haven't yet chewed through all the quantitative stuff.
One thing nags at me, though. If the true conflict here is among under-employed, over-educated elites, why do the protestors all come across as so durn stupid? If I am an over-educated Humanities major in despair of ever paying off my student loans, shouldn't I know who Ulysses S. Grant was? Why would I want to pull down his statue?
The protestors all come across as so dumb: chanting their stale, coarse, meaningless slogans: "No justice, no peace! … Black lives matter! … ACAB! FTP!" They seem not to be able to utter a complete sentence without an f-word in it. The females are screechy and hysterical: all emotion, no reason. Their targeting of statues looks random.
I get Turchin's point about intra-elite conflict. If these protestors are representative of our elite—or candidate-elite—classes, though, all I can say is: God help us!
[Permalink]
Atheist humor. One of the dumbest proposals in this ocean of dumbery has been to remove the statue of the Roman Emperor Constantine that stands outside York Minster, the Anglican cathedral that graces the city of York, in the North of England.
The advertised grounds for the proposal are, according to the Daily Mail, "complaints about [Constantine's] links to the slave trade." That makes it sound as though the Emperor was supervising the transportation of blacks across the Atlantic to the New World … in the fourth century a.d. Probably the illiterate morons who are driving this current wave of iconoclasm think that he actually was doing so. I doubt the average BLM activist could place the Roman Empire in the correct millennium.
It's true that slavery was a fundamental feature of Rome's society and economy. It wasn't particularly race-based, though, and the Romans, who certainly knew about blacks, seem not to have nursed any strong feelings one way or the other about them. I dare say if you'd asked a Roman, he would have agreed that yes! Black Lives Matter!
Constantine's connection with York is, that he happened to be in that city campaigning against the Picts of what is now Scotland when his father died and the legions proclaimed Constantine Emperor. The reason for his statue being at the Minster is, that he was the first Roman Emperor to embrace Christianity.
Bertrand Russell got a quip out of this. He was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York in 1940. Before he could take up the position, though, church leaders in the city, Catholic and Protestant both, demanded that the appointment be annulled on the grounds that Russell was "alien and immoral." He was an atheist and a freethinker, and had expounded his views in books. There was an almighty fuss, and the appointment was annulled at last.
Russell reacted thus:
Old York was the first place where Christianity was the State religion, and it was there that Constantine assumed the purple. Perhaps New York will be the last place to have this honour.
Cute: but he was playing fast and loose with the dates there. It's true that Constantine was proclaimed Emperor at York, and it's true that he embraced Christianity. The second thing happened thirty years after the first, though, when Constantine was on his deathbed in present-day Turkey, seventeen hundred miles from York. It was a merely personal conversion, too; Christianity didn't formally become the state religion of Rome until the Edict of Thessalonica in a.d. 380, forty-three years after Constantine's death.
As anti-religious quips go, however, it's not bad; although it doesn't compare with Russell's brilliant aphorism on the Ten Commandments. They are, he said, like an examination paper: "Three only to be attempted."
[Permalink]
Back to church. That's a neat segue to my own church's reopening on June 21st after thirteen weeks of no services.
I was curious to see how many congregants would show up. Having tasted the delights of lying in bed late Sunday morning, would some portion give up their weekly devotions for good?
I was pleased and encouraged to see that attendance was normal for an ordinary Sunday: around thirty in the pews. That's probably a thin crowd by Bible Belt megachurch standards; but for suburban New York Protestants, it's not bad.
Everyone seemed happy to be there, though of course we were all told to practice social distancing. There was a good stirring sermon from a visiting pastor (our regular guy quit in March, pre-pandemic) and it was like old times, except for all the face masks. At this point, I'll take whatever measure of normality I can get.
[Permalink]
Revolutionary esthetics. One thing to hate—one of many—about the woke revolutionaries is the ugliness they generate.
Just look at the graffiti they spray everywhere, ugly in both form and content. The f-word is universal; they can't speak or spray for long without it. At this point I'd vote for a Constitutional Amendment making public use of the f-word a federal crime, minimum sentence ten years.
Revolutionary movements can turn up some decent esthetics. We giggle now at the Socialist Realism of the Soviets; but as Darren Beattie has pointed out, the creators of that artwork were at least adults with some rigorous training in depiction of the human form (as of course were the sculptors of those fine statues and monuments the woke mob is merrily pulling down).
The esthetic of our current revolution is nothing like that. Visually, it is the formless scrawling of uneducated children; aurally, it is the obscene shrieking of crazed fanatics. Beauty and clarity of speech are counter-revolutionary—not who we are!
[Permalink]
Life in Jim Snow America. We are trading in civilization for barbarism, reason for superstition, the prefrontal cortex for the reptilian brain stem. Sometimes the boundary line is plain to see.
Listen to this. An older white guy (WG) was walking his dog, and a bicycle, along a footpath. The louder voice here—recording the event from his smartphone—is a younger black guy (BG) who seems to have thought the white guy was in his way.
BG: … keep on rollin'. I from L.A, bitch. Bes' keep on rollin'.
WG: [Unintelligible]
BG: I'n give a f***. I'n [unintelligible] You wanna knock my a** up? Knock my a**, I'm right here.
WG: [Unintelligible]
BG: Knock my a** up! Do it right now! Do it right now, bitch!
WG: Why d'you want to do that? Huh? I was way over here. I was giving you all kinds of …
BG: No you wasn't. You was in the f***in' way! An' you jus' starin' at me, like, like: "Get the f*** out the way! I don't wanna see your bitch a**, get the f*** out the way!"
WG: You're walking on the street like this …
BG: Yeah, cause move! You in the f***in' way! People gotta walk here. Stupid a**!
WG: Are you kidding me?
BG: Yeah, I'm kiddin you. I'll knock your f***in' a** up! [Unintelligible] there's gonna be some trouble!
WG: You're pretty violent.
BG: Yeah, I am violent. Thass … I'm a f***in' fighter, I'm a f***in' f***in' boxer an' s**t. You got here I'm a f***in' [unintelligible]. You wanna step over, you say you gonna knock my a** up, I wish yo' a** would! Cause I'll jab yo' a** in the f***in' throat an' the f***in' nose, so you'll be bloody all over the f***in' place.
WG: [Unintelligible]
BG: [Unintelligible] me if you want, li'l bitch.
Expect more of this... https://t.co/GL1eHtJaWI — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 19, 2020
Just another everyday encounter in Jim Snow America. If that white guy's house hasn't been burned down yet, Black Lives Matter are off their game.
But again, the thing that gets my attention is the crudeness and ugliness of the black guy's diction and vocabulary. This is not the speech of a rational human being; this is the barking of a wild animal.
[Permalink]
Cultural appropriation conundrums. Watching TV—yeah, I still do that—I sometimes catch a commercial for Shriners Hospitals for children—for children, that is, with various kinds of disabilities. The commercials are well-made and appealing, and these hospitals seem to be doing great things on behalf of unfortunate kids.
I have no argument with any of that. God bless the Shriners for their good works; send them a donation if you can.
One thing I wonder about, though. Some of the hospital orderlies in those commercials are shown wearing a fez. That's a Shriners thing, apparently, and has been since 1872.
How is this not cultural appropriation? The fez was the standard headgear of the later Ottoman Empire; so much so that when Atatürk took over post-WW1 Turkey with a strong program of Europeanization and de-Ottomanization, he banned public wearing of the fez. At least 13 people were executed for protesting the ban.
One of the most interesting figures opposing the "Hat Law" was Iskilipli Mehmed Âtif Hodja, an Islamic scholar who made a name for himself in Istanbul's Darü'l-fünun Divinity School. In an influential pamphlet, "The Imitation of the West and the Hat," he argued that it was absurd for Muslims to try to dress like Westerners. Mehmed Âtif's pamphlet was seen as particularly toxic by state officials who gave orders to detain the scholar immediately. In December 1925 he was arrested and sent to an Independence Tribunal. During his inquisition, Mehmed Âtif was pressured to repent for his views and at the end of his two-day long trial he was sentenced to death by hanging.
Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution, by Kaya Genç, LA Reveiw Of Books, November 11, 2013
Given this rather fraught cultural history behind the fez, how are the Shriners still getting away with it?
Or … wait a minute: Maybe Atatürk's Hat Law, his imposing European dress on his subjects, maybe that was the act of cultural appropriation. Perhaps the Shriners' continuing attachment to the fez could be seen as taking a stand for Ottoman cultural authenticity!
I'm too much a deep-in-the-bone reactionary to figure this stuff out. If anyone more woke can enlighten me, I'll appreciate it.
[Permalink]
Cowboy fiction. Another casualty in the current Down With the Four Olds! frenzy is movie actor John Wayne. The airport named after him in southern California should be renamed, says an editorial in the Los Angeles Times, in order to "help Orange County confront its racist past." Wayne's offense is some opinions about race he uttered aloud in a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine.
The Great and the Good (although not, at least as of June 29th, President Trump) are piling on. The probability has to be that the Duke will soon be unpersoned, or at least unairported.
Paul Kersey has a summary of Wayne's thoughtcrimes, with a link to the full Playboy interview, over at AmRen. The opinions Wayne expressed were commonplace at the time, shared by tens of millions of his fellow Americans. Probably they are still widespread, although nowadays you will lose your job if you voice them out loud. Sample: "I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility."
John Wayne's particular case aside, the figure he personified—the cowboy of the old West—is offensive to Progressive sensibilities all by itself for its shameless whiteness and toxic masculinity. All the more reason for us dissidents to celebrate it any way we can.
If it's cowboy movies you want, Criterion has a good selection.
I'm more of a book person than a movie person, so I've been doing my bit for the cowboy cause by reading Jack Schaefer's 1963 novel Monte Walsh in a good sturdy paperback edition from the University of New Mexico Press, gifted to me by a friend. (Thanks, pal!)
The novel's structure is plain and straightforward in the true cowboy spirit: nineteen episodes in chronological order about the life of the title character, a cowboy born in 1856. It's beautifully done, by a natural writer. At month's end I am in the penultimate episode. The tone of the story is turning elegiac as modernity creeps over the western ranges, automobiles appear, and cowboy skills, cowboy lifestyle, cowboy culture are slipping into irrelevance.
I didn't recognize the author's name. Then, reading the book's back cover, I saw that Schaefer also wrote Shane, from which a movie was made in 1953. I saw that movie the following year at the BAOR base where my brother was stationed in Düsseldorf, Germany. I can't truthfully say I remember much about the movie, only that I enjoyed it at the time, and that my two-years-older sister developed a crush on Alan Ladd.
So now I've had two encounters with Jack Schaefer, 66 years apart. Life closes round on itself in circles …
[Permalink]
Math Corner. I mentioned Bertrand Russell back there. Here is what he had to say about math in 1919.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
Here, by way of contrast, is part of an interview with Lily Khadjavi, editor of the 2019 book Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom. The full interview is in the June/July 2020 issue of Focus, newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America.
Mathematics often has this aura of objectivity (accompanied by a good dose of irrelevance to the daily concerns of people), around it, and I think many mathematicians really like this. But then we also like to remind people that whatever we do today might someday be useful, so they should keep supporting our "useless" mathematics. I think we need to be a bit more upfront about our obligations as mathematicians.
Most of our immediate impact on this world as academic mathematicians is through our teaching. And our students are concerned about a lot of things going on in the world right now. We like to think that we value truth. And the truth is that math does play a role in many social issues. We do our students a great disservice if we do not teach that.
I really don't like the 21st century very much.
For distraction, here is something from the 17th.
Antoine Gombaud was a French gent of that era, and a gambler. Knowing that the chance of getting a six on one roll of a die is one-sixth, he figured that the chance of getting a six on four rolls is four times one-sixth, which is two-thirds. Betting even money that he'd get a six in four rolls would therefore be a nice little earner.
So it proved. Gombaud's math was actually wrong; but it was wrong in the right direction, so to speak, and he came out ahead.
Thus encouraged, he cooked up a new game. The chance of getting a pair of sixes on a roll of two dice is, he figured (correctly) one-thirty-sixth. On twenty-four rolls of a dice pair, therefore, the chance of getting at least one pair of sixes should be twenty-four times one-thirty-sixth—two-thirds again!
Gombaud's math was wrong again; but this time it was wrong in the wrong direction. Betting evens on this new game, he couldn't stay ahead.
He grumbled about this in 1654 to Blaise Pascal, a real first-rank mathematician. Pascal kicked it around in some correspondence with Pierre Fermat, another of the same. Out of their correspondence emerged foundations for the modern Theory of Probability.
A nice bit of mathematical folklore. But where did Gombaud go wrong in his math?
[Permalink]
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--2020-07-01--James Kirkpatrick Invites You To "Grill Me!"

To celebrate the 4th of July , VDARE.com writer and author of Conservatism Inc : The Battle for the American @ @ @ @ @ invites you to grillmeme.jpg “ Grill Me !
” Throughout the month of July , @ @ @ @ @ are invited to send in your questions for James Kirkpatrick which he will answer on @ @ @ @ @ by a special guest .
All book club subscribers are invited to send in your @ @ @ @ @ .
New to the VDARE.com Book Club ?
Join here !
This month , we @ @ @ @ @ : The Battle for the American Right—discussion questions compiled by the author himself .

To celebrate the 4th of July, VDARE.com writer and author of Conservatism Inc: The Battle for the American Right, James Kirkpatrick, invites you to grillmeme.jpg “Grill Me!”
Throughout the month of July, all VDARE.com Book Club participants are invited to send in your questions for James Kirkpatrick, which he will answer on an exclusive podcast appearance accompanied by a special guest.
All book club subscribers are invited to send in your questions to assistant@vdare.com.
New to the VDARE.com Book Club? Join here!
This month, we'll be reading Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right—discussion questions compiled by the author himself.


vdare--2020-07-02--Patrick J. Buchanan: Are Uncivil Protests and Mob Violence Winning?

Earlier , by Ann Coulter : Antifa Are A Laugh Riot—Until They Come For You The Seattle Commune is no more .
Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ , the City Hall Autonomous Zone , rechristened CHOP , the City Hall Occupation Protest , the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1 .
The cops shut it down .
As Marx said , history repeats itself , first as tragedy then as farce .
If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype , that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seattle is the farce .
Police Chief Carmen Best , who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan 's surrender of one of her precinct stations to the mob , explained in exasperation why her cops finally acted : The shooting death of a 16-year-old and critical wounding of a 14-year-old on Monday finally forced the mayor 's hand .
Some journalists touring the CHOP had burbled on like Lincoln Steffens on his first trip to Lenin 's Russia , `` I have been over into the future and it works ! ''
They wrote of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ screenings '' and `` concerts . ''
Best was more hardheaded about what she found after recapturing the CHOP : `` After walking through the area I was stunned by the amount of graffiti , garbage , and property destruction . ''
Apparently , however , Mayor Durkan does not want posterity to forget the glory days of what she had predicted would be a `` summer of love . ''
Hard to believe .
Statues of Washington , Jefferson , Jackson , Lincoln , Grant and Theodore Roosevelt are dragged down , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who trashed downtown Seattle are to be preserved .
Have the six weeks of protests since the death of George Floyd—weeks featuring riots , looting and trashing of city centers , desecration of monuments from Columbus to the Founding Fathers , presidents and Confederate generals , proven to be a cultural and political victory for the radical left ?
More precisely , is the mob winning ?
The case can be made that the mob has won already .
People have gotten away with massive demonstrations blocking roads , highways and parks .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of scores of cities have been torched and looted .
Police have been insulted , taunted and showered with debris .
Result : Mob demands to `` Defund the Police '' have been met by political concessions and capitulations .
Minneapolis is moving to abolish its police force .
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has slashed $ 1 billion from the NYPD budget .
Protesters camping out at city hall are demanding more .
Joe Biden , who began his campaign by telling us how well he had gotten on with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Strom Thurmond , has been scrambling as swiftly as he can in that basement .
This mush comes from a senator who probably can not remember how many Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners he has attended and addressed .
Consider what else the radicals and rioters have accomplished .
They have made mass civil disobedience an acceptable and even praiseworthy form of protest , if you are justifiably outraged .
They have won near-immunity for burning and looting stores .
Blanket amnesties at the state and city level appear to be in the cards .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ indulgent media , the radicals have turned public opinion against the cops .
They have forced the issue of defunding the police onto the national agenda .
They have pulled the center of gravity of politics sharply to the left .
Contrast how our establishment has been panicked into headlong retreat , with how Xi Jinping 's Chinese Communist Party handled its year of protests in Hong Kong—protests aimed at attaining the democratic rights that the American protesters are abusing .
The Chinese made a calculated decision : They would not use the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1989 .
But bottom line , they would also not lose Hong Kong to the democratic camp .
Beijing has now taken over Hong Kong , stifled the protests and begun a roundup of those who initiated and led the disorders .
And the West has done nothing .
As the world observes how the world 's greatest democracy handles disorders arising from left-wing radicals , and how China is handling an anti-Communist uprising in its city of Hong Kong , which appears to be more in command and control of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier, by Ann Coulter: Antifa Are A Laugh Riot—Until They Come For You
The Seattle Commune is no more.
Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ, the City Hall Autonomous Zone, rechristened CHOP, the City Hall Occupation Protest, the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1. The cops shut it down.
As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.
If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype, that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose against the regime, what happened in Seattle is the farce.
Police Chief Carmen Best, who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan's surrender of one of her precinct stations to the mob, explained in exasperation why her cops finally acted:
"Enough is enough. The CHOP (had) become lawless and brutal. Four shootings—two fatal—robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area."
The shooting death of a 16-year-old and critical wounding of a 14-year-old on Monday finally forced the mayor's hand.
Some journalists touring the CHOP had burbled on like Lincoln Steffens on his first trip to Lenin's Russia, "I have been over into the future and it works!"
They wrote of "peaceful" meetings, "documentary screenings" and "concerts." Best was more hardheaded about what she found after recapturing the CHOP: "After walking through the area I was stunned by the amount of graffiti, garbage, and property destruction."
Apparently, however, Mayor Durkan does not want posterity to forget the glory days of what she had predicted would be a "summer of love."
Writes The Washington Post:
"Durkan called for charges to be dismissed against those who were arrested for alleged misdemeanors ... The mayor also said that Seattle arts and parks departments would preserve a community garden and artwork and murals that protesters created within the zone."
Hard to believe. Statues of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Theodore Roosevelt are dragged down, while the murals and graffiti of misfits who trashed downtown Seattle are to be preserved.
This raises a larger question.
Have the six weeks of protests since the death of George Floyd—weeks featuring riots, looting and trashing of city centers, desecration of monuments from Columbus to the Founding Fathers, presidents and Confederate generals, proven to be a cultural and political victory for the radical left?
More precisely, is the mob winning?
The case can be made that the mob has won already. People have gotten away with massive demonstrations blocking roads, highways and parks. Shopping areas in elite and working-class sections of scores of cities have been torched and looted. Police have been insulted, taunted and showered with debris.
Result: Mob demands to "Defund the Police" have been met by political concessions and capitulations. Minneapolis is moving to abolish its police force. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has slashed $1 billion from the NYPD budget. Protesters camping out at city hall are demanding more.
Joe Biden, who began his campaign by telling us how well he had gotten on with the old segregationist senators like Jim Eastland and Strom Thurmond, has been scrambling as swiftly as he can in that basement.
Said Biden this week:
"(W)ith regard to those statues and monuments, like the Jefferson Memorial, there's an obligation that the government protect those monuments because they're different. That's a remembrance, it's not dealing with revering somebody who had that view. ... They may have had things in their past that were now and then distasteful, but that's a judgment."
This mush comes from a senator who probably cannot remember how many Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners he has attended and addressed.
Consider what else the radicals and rioters have accomplished.
They have made mass civil disobedience an acceptable and even praiseworthy form of protest, if you are justifiably outraged. They have won near-immunity for burning and looting stores. Blanket amnesties at the state and city level appear to be in the cards.
With the collaboration of an allied and indulgent media, the radicals have turned public opinion against the cops. They have forced the issue of defunding the police onto the national agenda. They have pulled the center of gravity of politics sharply to the left.
Contrast how our establishment has been panicked into headlong retreat, with how Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party handled its year of protests in Hong Kong—protests aimed at attaining the democratic rights that the American protesters are abusing.
The Chinese made a calculated decision: They would not use the methods they had employed in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But bottom line, they would also not lose Hong Kong to the democratic camp.
Beijing has now taken over Hong Kong, stifled the protests and begun a roundup of those who initiated and led the disorders.
And the West has done nothing.
As the world observes how the world's greatest democracy handles disorders arising from left-wing radicals, and how China is handling an anti-Communist uprising in its city of Hong Kong, which appears to be more in command and control of its nation's destiny?
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
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--2020-07-02--Two Trump-Endorsed Immigration Boosters Lost Their Primaries. Does This Mean Sessions Can Win?

Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton , a five-term incumbent endorsed by Donald Trump , lost his primary race against an anti-establishment upstart this week .
The media has fixated on the challenger , Lauren Boebert , allegedly entertaining the QAnon conspiracy theory while ignoring one of the real issues of the campaign : immigration [ Trump-backed five-term Republican lawmaker loses primary to challenger who praised QAnon conspiracy , by Paul LeBlanc , CNN , July 1 , 2020 ] .
Tipton supported increasing guest worker visas and liberalizing immigration law .
He co-sponsored several pieces of legislation that would make it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Last year , he co-sponsored the Farm Workforce Modernization Act , which would legalize millions of illegal aliens and turn them into indentured servants .
He also cosponsored the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act , which would scrap country caps and allow Indians to monopolize the green card system .
That bill was supported by Big Tech and other despicable corporate interests .
Boebert also earned the key endorsement of immigration patriot Tom Tancredo .
“ For 10 years in Congress , I fought hard to secure our borders and enforce our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ radio ads for Boebert ’ s campaign “ Now I ’ m asking you to send Lauren Boebert to Congress because Lauren Boebert has the same fight in her that I brought to Washington.
” [ Tancredo endorses gun-toting restaurant owner Boebert for Tipton 's seat , by Charles Ashby , The Daily Sentinel , January 30 , 2020 ] .
Tancredo also attacked Tipton for his terrible immigration policy in those ads , saying : “ Scott Tipton and Nancy Pelosi handed amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
” This message seemed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establishment Goliath .
The same thing happened in central Virginia a few weeks ago .
Rep. Denver Riggleman who received Trump ’ s endorsement , lost to conservative challenger Bob Good in a landslide .
The media blamed this result on Riggleman officiating a gay wedding , but a more likely reason is immigration [ Virginia Rep. Riggleman , Who Officiated Same-Sex Wedding , Loses Republican Primary , by Hannah Hagemann , NPR , June 14 , 2020 ] .
The Virginia Republica voted against the Big Ag Amnesty Tipton co-sponsored , yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ giveaway .
Riggleman also co-sponsored a bill that would create a H-2C visa that would allow 85,000 foreigners to take American jobs every year [ Second Republican Loses Primary After Backing Big Tech ’ s Green Card Giveaway , by John Binder , Breitbart , July 1 , 2020 ] .
His opponent attacked Riggleman on immigration , saying in one campaign message : “ Riggleman ’ s votes facilitate the importation of well over a half-million foreign workers per year—and millions more over the next decade—to directly compete with our own neighbors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wide variety of employment sectors.
” Good put out a video saying he would support “ America First ” immigration policies that would “ protect American jobs for American workers , secure our borders , and strengthen our immigration system.
” These two races indicate that a Trump endorsement in Alabama may lose in a few weeks .
Tommy Tuberville , like Tipton and Riggleman , is weak on immigration .
Jeff Sessions is a committed immigration patriot who campaigns on America First issues .
This strategy worked against Trump-backed candidates Colorado and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alabama .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton, a five-term incumbent endorsed by Donald Trump, lost his primary race against an anti-establishment upstart this week.
The media has fixated on the challenger, Lauren Boebert, allegedly entertaining the QAnon conspiracy theory while ignoring one of the real issues of the campaign: immigration [Trump-backed five-term Republican lawmaker loses primary to challenger who praised QAnon conspiracy, by Paul LeBlanc, CNN, July 1, 2020].
Tipton supported increasing guest worker visas and liberalizing immigration law. He co-sponsored several pieces of legislation that would make it easier for corporations to import foreign workers. Last year, he co-sponsored the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would legalize millions of illegal aliens and turn them into indentured servants. He also cosponsored the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, which would scrap country caps and allow Indians to monopolize the green card system. That bill was supported by Big Tech and other despicable corporate interests.
Boebert attacked Tipton’s support for liberal immigration policies.
Boebert also earned the key endorsement of immigration patriot Tom Tancredo. “For 10 years in Congress, I fought hard to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws,” Tancredo said in radio ads for Boebert’s campaign “Now I’m asking you to send Lauren Boebert to Congress because Lauren Boebert has the same fight in her that I brought to Washington.” [Tancredo endorses gun-toting restaurant owner Boebert for Tipton's seat, by Charles Ashby, Daily Sentinel, January 30, 2020].
Tancredo also attacked Tipton for his terrible immigration policy in those ads, saying: “Scott Tipton and Nancy Pelosi handed amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.”
This message seemed to work and the underdog defeated the establishment Goliath.
The same thing happened in central Virginia a few weeks ago. Rep. Denver Riggleman, who received Trump’s endorsement, lost to conservative challenger Bob Good in a landslide. The media blamed this result on Riggleman officiating a gay wedding, but a more likely reason is immigration [Virginia Rep. Riggleman, Who Officiated Same-Sex Wedding, Loses Republican Primary, by Hannah Hagemann, NPR, June 14, 2020]. The Virginia Republican voted against the Big Ag Amnesty Tipton co-sponsored, yet he also co-sponsored the Indian green card giveaway. Riggleman also co-sponsored a bill that would create a H-2C visa that would allow 85,000 foreigners to take American jobs every year [Second Republican Loses Primary After Backing Big Tech’s Green Card Giveaway, by John Binder, Breitbart, July 1, 2020].
His opponent attacked Riggleman on immigration, saying in one campaign message: “Riggleman’s votes facilitate the importation of well over a half-million foreign workers per year—and millions more over the next decade—to directly compete with our own neighbors and families for good-paying jobs across a wide variety of employment sectors.”
Good put out a video saying he would support “America First” immigration policies that would “protect American jobs for American workers, secure our borders, and strengthen our immigration system.”
These two races indicate that a Trump endorsement in Alabama may lose in a few weeks. Tommy Tuberville, like Tipton and Riggleman, is weak on immigration. Jeff Sessions is a committed immigration patriot who campaigns on America First issues. This strategy worked against Trump-backed candidates Colorado and Virginia—it may work again in Alabama.


vdare--2020-07-02--Peter Brimelow Appears Live On Killstream, Tonight At  9:45 EST

Peter Brimelow will be live on the Killstream podcast , which you can stream live on https : //dlive.tv/theralphretort You @ @ @ @ @ Podcasts and iTunes .

Peter Brimelow will be live on the Killstream podcast, which you can stream live on https://dlive.tv/theralphretort
You can also subscribe via Google Podcasts and iTunes.
Killstream/RalphRetort Links
Patreon: http://patreon.com/theralphretort
StreamElements: https://streamelements.com/colorfulralph/tip
NewProject2: https://newproject2.com/theralphretort/
Merch: http://shop.theralphretort.com/
Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort
Telegram: https://t.me/theralphretort
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRalphRetort
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theralphretort
Gab: https://gab.com/theralphretort
Email: theralph@theralphretort.com


vdare--2020-07-02--And ... They're Gearing Up to Dynamite Mount Rushmore

Earlier : DNC Deletes Tweet Accusing President Trump Of `` Glorifying White Supremacy '' By Attending Fireworks Celebration At Mt @ @ @ @ @ not appear in the NYT ’ s Opinion section but in its “ News ” @ @

Earlier: DNC Deletes Tweet Accusing President Trump Of "Glorifying White Supremacy" By Attending Fireworks Celebration At Mt. Rushmore
Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb — The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2020
This article did not appear in the NYT’s Opinion section but in its “News” section.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-02--Stereotypes of Criminals in San Francisco vs. Russia

The Tatar looks like Walter White of “ Breaking Bad ” playing Lenin in an Albuquerque community theater production of @ @ @ @ @ Travesties .
”

San Francisco police will stop making public the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes, the city's police chief said. https://t.co/xWV2HPddYc — The Associated Press (@AP) July 1, 2020
Who knew that Gypsies are the handsomest criminals in Russia? https://t.co/Giw8PO5YPV — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) July 2, 2020
The Tatar looks like Walter White of Breaking Bad playing Lenin in an Albuquerque community theater production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties.
[Comment at Unz.com]