vdare--2020-06-21--Lions And Foxes: The Late Sam Francis On Why Our Ruling Class Won’t Stand Up To Rioters

See also : In Memoriam Sam Francis ( April 29 , 1947—February 15 , 2005 ) Our once-proud country is meekly standing down in the face of rioting mobs , and most of our political and corporate elite are openly siding with the black and radical rabble and against the civilizational inheritance which allows them to function .
Meanwhile , I have , quite by chance , been working on abridging the text of Dr. Samuel Francis ’ magnum opus Leviathan and Its Enemies .
It has been impossible not to notice how well certain passages that Dr. Francis wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure of nerve we are now witnessing .
Machiavelli drew a celebrated distinction between political “ lions ” and “ foxes ” —i.e.
, rulers who rely on force vs. rulers who rely on cunning as the primary tool of governance .
The current American Ruling Class is made up overwhelmingly of “ foxes ” —masters of manipulation who intensely dislike using force .
The Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto ( 1848-1923 ) , within whose intellectual tradition Sam Francis wrote , expanded Machiavelli ’ s insight into a general theory about the psychology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pareto held that the variations of human behavior throughout history could be analyzed in terms of underlying mental and behavioral instincts .
He distinguished six classes [ of such instincts ] , though he elaborated his theory of elites largely in terms of only two of them .
The two classes Pareto emphasized are what he called Class I , the “ instinct for combinations , ” [ corresponding to Machiavelli ’ s foxes ] and Class II , the instinct for “ group persistence ” or “ the persistence of aggregates ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Class I , the “ instinct for combinations , ” constitutes “ the propensity to take disparate elements out of their familiar contexts and unite them together in new combinations.
” Those persons in whom the instinct for combinations is prevalent will tend to be innovative and to seek new ways of combining , synthesizing , and relating different phenomena in their thought and activities .
In social and economic behavior , they “ are in general .
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adventurous souls , hungry for novelty in the economic as well as in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all alarmed at change , expecting as they do to take advantage of it.
” Intellectually , persons with a high concentration of Class I [ traits ] tend toward skepticism and other ideologies that have the effect of “ undermining the edifice of ‘ prejudice.
’ ” Class I [ traits ] have very significant manifestations in the political behavior of the individuals in whom they prevail and in the elites that such individuals form .
These persons tend to be averse to the use of force and to rely on various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , persuasion , manipulation ) in the pursuit and retention of power , for the combination‑instinct supplies ( as Pareto writes ) the artistry and resourcefulness required for evolving ingenious expedients as substitutes for open resistance…Policies of the governing class are not planned too far ahead in time .
The individual comes to prevail , and by far , over family , community , nation .
Material interests and interests of the present or a near future come to prevail over the ideal interests of community or nation and interests of the distant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mental and behavioral patterns of Class I [ “ fox ” types , ] are comfortable with and contribute to social and intellectual innovation , tend to suspend or avoid firm moral judgments and prejudices , lack strong feelings toward moral and social bonds , have an aversion to the use of force , violence , and physical conflict and a preference for reliance on intelligence and cunning in the resolution of conflicts and problems .
As Francis explains , the American Ruling Class since at least the time of Franklin Roosevelt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which Class I types prevail .
The Class II , or Lion type , which is now nearly absent from Western ruling elites , is characterized by mental and behavioral patterns very different from those of Class I : Persons in whom Class II [ tendencies , viz.
, “ group persistence , ” ] are dominant form enduring relationships with and attachments to other individuals , family , community , place , class , and nation .
In economic behavior Class II [ traits ] lead to caution and reliance on safe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Intellectually , those in whom Class II [ traits ] are prevalent tend to espouse ideas that emphasize faith , endurance , acceptance of traditional beliefs and prejudices , and group solidarity .
Elites in which Class II [ traits ] are concentrated tend to rely on force rather than on intelligence and cunning , to “ resist innovation , and seek to preserve old forms and traditions.
” They are aggressive , authoritarian , reliant on force and threats of force , and contemptuous of maneuver , persuasion and compromise .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or secular , among the latter being such nationalism , socialism , imperialism .
The goals are set for a distant future .
Self‑sacrifice for the community and the future , the subordination of the individual ’ s interest to both of these , courage and persistence in striving for them—these also are the characteristics of Class II .
Machiavelli believed that the ideal ruler would be able to use both force and cunning , to be both a fox and a lion as circumstances required .
But he also saw that such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rulers rely too heavily on one or the other , and that this constitutes an important weakness of many political regimes .
If the ongoing riots have made anything clear , it is that our current regime is characterized by an unhealthy reliance on manipulation and cleverness .
There has been a corresponding deemphasis on courage and the other virtues associated with the Lion or Class II character , and an apparent inability to apply force even in circumstances that cry out for it .
Francis wrote : “ Force , ” as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all social organization , ” but an elite composed largely of Class I [ types ] finds this principle difficult to understand and apply .
The tendency of the soft managerial elites has been to ignore force and the ideas , institutions , emotions , and values associated with it , to try to replace force in social and political relationships with manipulation—rehabilitation in place of punishment , negotiations and diplomacy in place of war , social reform in place of coercive discipline for the mass population , child psychology in place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of force .
Heroic and ascetic moral codes are replaced by the ideological formulas of hedonism and cosmopolitanism , which , in the form of liberal humanitarianism , discard appeals to sacrifice for the nation and other concrete or particularized identities and groups .
Traditional moral values themselves , emphasizing the responsibility of the individual and reward and punishment as the proper responses to individual conduct , are replaced by ideologies of environmentalism and relativism , which comport with the inclination of the managerial elite to avoid moral judgments and to respond to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solutions .
The managerialization of the instruments of force is one of the most important results of the predominance of Class I residues in the managerial elite , for it means that when the managers do make use of force , they do so in accordance with their prevalent psychic or instinctual inclinations and that their use of force is often inappropriate or maladroit .
In the soft managerial regimes , in which Class I residues prevail within the elites , the same type tends to replace traditional Class II residues as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of force .
This tendency is evident in the armed services , but it is also apparent in the large metropolitan police forces , where court decisions , minority hiring programs , public relations , specialized training , forensic science , rehabilitative penology , and social management and therapy have reduced , restricted , circumscribed , or replaced the reliance on force by law enforcement agencies in the apprehension , interrogation , and punishment of criminals .
As Class II Lions are pushed out of positions of authority , even in their natural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the police , they do not simply disappear from society , but rather start to accumulate in the subject population where their discontent gradually makes itself felt .
It is the constant refrain of the Class II opposition to the managerial regime that the elite is “ soft ” on crime and criminals , cowardly or uncertain in the use of military force against foreign threats , and in general decadent or effete .
To them the manipulative style of power relations appears to be weak , degenerate , and incompetent .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to regard Class II types as backward , volatile , aggressive , irresponsible , and even psychopathic in their appeal to force and its use in political and social conflicts .
[ The Class I elite ] are unable to appreciate the value of force in preserving social cohesion and meeting hostile challenges , and they take what appears to be a “ cynical ” view of heroism , patriotism , piety , and traditional morality and loyalties .
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regard [ ing ] such emotional and moral appeals as obsolete if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them as primitives or hypocrites .
American elites have been purging their Class II Lion elements for nearly a century now , and the resulting imbalance has become pathologically maladaptive ( cf .
recent calls to defund the police ) .
No civilization can maintain itself without some use of force , if only against criminals and revolutionaries .
If our Ruling Class can not resist criminals and revolutionaries , it will eventually be replaced .
If we are lucky , their replacements will be insurgent Class II Lions whom they have banished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are unlucky , their replacements will be the criminals and revolutionaries themselves , as happened in Russia in 1917 .
Right now , the latter group is far better organized and funded , while the “ forces of order ” appear demoralized and divided .
Roger Devlin is a contributing editor to The Occidental Quarterly and the author of Sexual Utopia in Power : The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization .

frogerdevlin@verizon.net (F. Roger Devlin)

See also: In Memoriam Sam Francis (April 29, 1947—February 15, 2005)
Our once-proud country is meekly standing down in the face of rioting mobs, and most of our political and corporate elite are openly siding with the black and radical rabble and against the civilizational inheritance which allows them to function. Meanwhile, I have, quite by chance, been working on abridging the text of Dr. Samuel Francis’ magnum opus Leviathan and Its Enemies. It has been impossible not to notice how well certain passages that Dr. Francis wrote some thirty years ago apply to the failure of nerve we are now witnessing.
Machiavelli drew a celebrated distinction between political “lions” and “foxes”—i.e., rulers who rely on force vs. rulers who rely on cunning as the primary tool of governance. The current American Ruling Class is made up overwhelmingly of “foxes”—masters of manipulation who intensely dislike using force.
The Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), within whose intellectual tradition Sam Francis wrote, expanded Machiavelli’s insight into a general theory about the psychology of elites. As Francis recounted:
Pareto held that the variations of human behavior throughout history could be analyzed in terms of underlying mental and behavioral instincts. He distinguished six classes [of such instincts], though he elaborated his theory of elites largely in terms of only two of them. The two classes Pareto emphasized are what he called Class I, the “instinct for combinations,” [corresponding to Machiavelli’s foxes] and Class II, the instinct for “group persistence” or “the persistence of aggregates” [corresponding to his lions]. Class I, the “instinct for combinations,” constitutes “the propensity to take disparate elements out of their familiar contexts and unite them together in new combinations.” Those persons in whom the instinct for combinations is prevalent will tend to be innovative and to seek new ways of combining, synthesizing, and relating different phenomena in their thought and activities. In social and economic behavior, they “are in general . . . adventurous souls, hungry for novelty in the economic as well as in the social field, and not at all alarmed at change, expecting as they do to take advantage of it.” Intellectually, persons with a high concentration of Class I [traits] tend toward skepticism and other ideologies that have the effect of “undermining the edifice of ‘prejudice.’” Class I [traits] have very significant manifestations in the political behavior of the individuals in whom they prevail and in the elites that such individuals form. These persons tend to be averse to the use of force and to rely on various forms of intelligence and cunning (deception, persuasion, manipulation) in the pursuit and retention of power, for the combination‑instinct supplies (as Pareto writes) the artistry and resourcefulness required for evolving ingenious expedients as substitutes for open resistance…Policies of the governing class are not planned too far ahead in time. The individual comes to prevail, and by far, over family, community, nation. Material interests and interests of the present or a near future come to prevail over the ideal interests of community or nation and interests of the distant future. In general, then, the mental and behavioral patterns of Class I [“fox” types,] are comfortable with and contribute to social and intellectual innovation, tend to suspend or avoid firm moral judgments and prejudices, lack strong feelings toward moral and social bonds, have an aversion to the use of force, violence, and physical conflict and a preference for reliance on intelligence and cunning in the resolution of conflicts and problems.
As Francis explains, the American Ruling Class since at least the time of Franklin Roosevelt has been a soft managerial regime in which Class I types prevail.
The Class II, or Lion type, which is now nearly absent from Western ruling elites, is characterized by mental and behavioral patterns very different from those of Class I:
Persons in whom Class II [tendencies, viz., “group persistence,”] are dominant form enduring relationships with and attachments to other individuals, family, community, place, class, and nation. In economic behavior Class II [traits] lead to caution and reliance on safe investments rather than adventure and risk‑taking. Intellectually, those in whom Class II [traits] are prevalent tend to espouse ideas that emphasize faith, endurance, acceptance of traditional beliefs and prejudices, and group solidarity. Elites in which Class II [traits] are concentrated tend to rely on force rather than on intelligence and cunning, to “resist innovation, and seek to preserve old forms and traditions.” They are aggressive, authoritarian, reliant on force and threats of force, and contemptuous of maneuver, persuasion and compromise. They give rise to ideals, whether supernatural or secular, among the latter being such nationalism, socialism, imperialism. The goals are set for a distant future. Self‑sacrifice for the community and the future, the subordination of the individual’s interest to both of these, courage and persistence in striving for them—these also are the characteristics of Class II.
Machiavelli believed that the ideal ruler would be able to use both force and cunning, to be both a fox and a lion as circumstances required. But he also saw that such an ability was rare, that most rulers rely too heavily on one or the other, and that this constitutes an important weakness of many political regimes.
If the ongoing riots have made anything clear, it is that our current regime is characterized by an unhealthy reliance on manipulation and cleverness. There has been a corresponding deemphasis on courage and the other virtues associated with the Lion or Class II character, and an apparent inability to apply force even in circumstances that cry out for it. Francis wrote:
“Force,” as Pareto noted, is “the foundation of all social organization,” but an elite composed largely of Class I [types] finds this principle difficult to understand and apply. The tendency of the soft managerial elites has been to ignore force and the ideas, institutions, emotions, and values associated with it, to try to replace force in social and political relationships with manipulation—rehabilitation in place of punishment, negotiations and diplomacy in place of war, social reform in place of coercive discipline for the mass population, child psychology in place of family discipline—and to managerialize the instruments of force. Heroic and ascetic moral codes are replaced by the ideological formulas of hedonism and cosmopolitanism, which, in the form of liberal humanitarianism, discard appeals to sacrifice for the nation and other concrete or particularized identities and groups. Traditional moral values themselves, emphasizing the responsibility of the individual and reward and punishment as the proper responses to individual conduct, are replaced by ideologies of environmentalism and relativism, which comport with the inclination of the managerial elite to avoid moral judgments and to respond to crime and violence with managerial and manipulative solutions. The managerialization of the instruments of force is one of the most important results of the predominance of Class I residues in the managerial elite, for it means that when the managers do make use of force, they do so in accordance with their prevalent psychic or instinctual inclinations and that their use of force is often inappropriate or maladroit. In the soft managerial regimes, in which Class I residues prevail within the elites, the same type tends to replace traditional Class II residues as the controlling and directing element within the instruments of force. This tendency is evident in the armed services, but it is also apparent in the large metropolitan police forces, where court decisions, minority hiring programs, public relations, specialized training, forensic science, rehabilitative penology, and social management and therapy have reduced, restricted, circumscribed, or replaced the reliance on force by law enforcement agencies in the apprehension, interrogation, and punishment of criminals.
As Class II Lions are pushed out of positions of authority, even in their natural habitats such as the Armed Forces and the police, they do not simply disappear from society, but rather start to accumulate in the subject population where their discontent gradually makes itself felt.
It is the constant refrain of the Class II opposition to the managerial regime that the elite is “soft” on crime and criminals, cowardly or uncertain in the use of military force against foreign threats, and in general decadent or effete. To them the manipulative style of power relations appears to be weak, degenerate, and incompetent. The managers, for their part, tend to regard Class II types as backward, volatile, aggressive, irresponsible, and even psychopathic in their appeal to force and its use in political and social conflicts. [The Class I elite] are unable to appreciate the value of force in preserving social cohesion and meeting hostile challenges, and they take what appears to be a “cynical” view of heroism, patriotism, piety, and traditional morality and loyalties. . . regard[ing] such emotional and moral appeals as obsolete if not fraudulent and those who appeal to them as primitives or hypocrites.
American elites have been purging their Class II Lion elements for nearly a century now, and the resulting imbalance has become pathologically maladaptive (cf. recent calls to defund the police). No civilization can maintain itself without some use of force, if only against criminals and revolutionaries.
If our Ruling Class cannot resist criminals and revolutionaries, it will eventually be replaced. If we are lucky, their replacements will be insurgent Class II Lions whom they have banished to the subject population. If we are unlucky, their replacements will be the criminals and revolutionaries themselves, as happened in Russia in 1917.
Right now, the latter group is far better organized and funded, while the “forces of order” appear demoralized and divided.
Roger Devlin [Email him] is a contributing editor to The Occidental Quarterly and the author of Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization.


vdare--2020-06-21--After John Roberts's DACA Betrayal, What Next?

Well , no surprise , Chief Cuck John Roberts expressed his hatred of President Trump with a series of decisions that show he is either legally illiterate , part of the Deep State , or easily intimidated .
There was no basis for the recent decision on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) .
DACA was , as I have repeatedly written , a matter of prosecutorial discretion , which is not reviewable by any court .
Even the parts of DACA that are not prosecutorial discretion , for example , the employment authorization , were declared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , based on the failure of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) , to follow the Administrative Procedures Act ( APA ) of 1946 , the same law that Roberts claimed President Trump had to follow to end the same program that did not follow the APA when created .
But the District Court Judge went further , and declared that the employment authorization part of DACA was itself illegal , as it usurped the authority of Congress to determine by legislation the granting of employment authorization and to determine which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States .
However , the main responsibility for the failure on DACA lies with President Trump .
Roberts relied not only on the mechanism of the APA ; publication and comment on proposed regulations underlying Executive branch actions ( for the record , DACA was not a regulation , but a policy of prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of immigration laws ) but also on the reasoning behind the repeal of DACA .
Roberts claimed that President Trump had to take into account factors that were irrelevant to the APA and reached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roberts made much about the impact of deporting the DACA illegal aliens , which is none of his concern .
Deporting illegal aliens is the job of the President , and the impact on illegal aliens who get deported is of no import .
Whether these aliens lose jobs or their employer loses employees is of no concern for the Chief Justice .
But it was the failures on President Trump ’ s part that allowed Roberts weasel room to attack the repeal of DACA root and branch .
And it was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Day One : Personnel is Policy .
From the start , saboteurs in his administration , whom he appointed and relied upon were seeking to ruin his administration .
The first and most obvious failure was that President Trump instead of ending DACA on Day One as he promised , allowed the program to continue until September 2017 , which undermined the legal reasoning that the Administration later relied upon , at least ostensibly , to end the program .
One can not with a straight face that DACA was illegal and unconstitutional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for almost a year .
And only one person , besides President Kushner , is responsible , and that is President Trump .
And there we have the underlying problem with the Trump Administration , Personnel is Policy , and President Trump is , again , responsible for all the saboteurs he appointed or acquiesced to , Jared Kushner being the most problematic .
But is not only President Kushner that is the problem .
Sadly , Jeff Sessions was a major cause of the DACA debacle .
The whole of the Administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claim that DACA was illegal .
This is true , but it challenged John Roberts in the area he was most comfortable in fighting .
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared before news cameras at the Justice Department in early September 2017 to announce that President Trump was ending deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants , he knew the administration had left itself more legally vulnerable than it should have… The president ’ s top lawyers , too , relied on Mr.
Sessions ’ s strong belief that the program had “ legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to defend Mr. Trump ’ s actions against the court challenge they knew was coming .
But Mr .
Sessions also understood that the legal argument was not the strongest possible rationale they could make in court , according to several people familiar with his thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal private deliberations .
If courts disagreed with him that DACA was unlawful , Mr .
Sessions knew , the president would lose .
And that is just what happened .
Judges have ruled that by citing only a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and no policy justifications — the administration ’ s decision was “ arbitrary and capricious , ” an illegal exercise of presidential power without any legitimate basis to end a program relied on by about 700,000 people .
[ How the Trump Administration Eroded Its Own Legal Case on DACA , By Michael D. Shear , Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Adam Liptak , NYT , November 11 , 2019 ] This was an unforced error by Jeff Sessions and the Trump Administration .
Instead , President Trump should have just announced that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a policy of identifying , arresting , and deporting all illegal aliens .
But what happened was that President Trump said publicly that he loved the so-called DREAMers and that they would not be deported even if the program ended .
Now , part of this was obvious signaling to the Democrats that he wanted a deal on immigration that included amnesty for those illegal aliens , but the Democrats , Paul Ryan , and saboteurs in the Trump Administration did not push for a deal that included amnesty , reducing illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But this angling for a deal , combined with Deep State sabotage ended quickly and gave Roberts an opening to thwart President Trump .
However , the sabotage only gets worse .
And again it was another high profile appointee of President Trump that directed the sabotage , the notorious Elaine Duke , another Obama holdover that John Kelly brought in .
At a contentious meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room several days earlier , Elaine C. Duke , then the acting secretary of homeland security , had broken with the rest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ balked at its demand that she issue a memo ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals , the Obama-era program known as DACA that shields immigrants who were brought to the United States as children .
Ms. Duke was deeply bothered by the idea that she could be responsible for deporting hundreds of thousands of young people from the country they considered their own , according to several people familiar with her concerns .
And she did not want her name on what she saw as anti-immigrant policy rationales put forth by Mr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s powerful immigration adviser ; and others who argued that the program encouraged new waves of illegal immigration and was an undeserved amnesty .
She eventually relented under intense pressure .
But her refusal to cite their policy objections to the program is now at the heart of what legal experts say is a major weakness in the government ’ s case defending the termination of the program , which will be argued on Tuesday at the Supreme Court .
Ms. Duke ’ s bare-bones memo ending the program did not make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gotten the policy wrong — that DACA recipients were not deserving of protection or that allowing them to stay in the country would create problems that the government wanted to avoid .
Instead , Ms. Duke , a career civil servant who volunteered with an immigrant aid group in her free time , relied solely on an assertion by Mr .
Sessions that it was unlawful .
Again , the Trump Administration thought they were being too clever by half , just as in the failure on the Census case .
Instead of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the public that the Citizenship Question was designed to help with immigration enforcement , they went with Sessions ’ s claim that it would help voting rights enforcement .
Roberts saw through that and again stabbed President Trump in the back .
Better to have been honest and trumped this enforcement mechanism to the public .
And even the NYT agrees with your humble correspondent , just be honest and let the deportations commence .
And guess who else was behind President Trump ’ s dithering on the issue , another backstabbing saboteur @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right instincts , but he is easily swayed to the dark side and that is his tragic flaw .
Failure universally follows his second guessing his instincts to support the Historic American Nation .
Only when conniving and playing games does he fail .
Now , what is to be done ?
A common question in history .
Well , the 5th Circuit shows us the way .
Let them determine , again , that DACA is illegal .
Let Texas renew their lawsuit against DACA .
The lawsuit was a dagger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had already killed off the successor to DACA , the Deferred Action For Parents Of Americans ( DAPA ) .
The Trump Administration is looking for another way to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , and a pending case in Texas could be a catalyst for the next round of litigation , according to reports .
The case the Supreme Court heard , Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California , came out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals .
But in a separate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Texas on Thursday ordered both sides to file paperwork next month following the high court ’ s opinion , NBC reported .
Tom Goldstein , a Washington D.C. attorney and publisher of SCOTUSblog , told the network that the president ’ s tweet was little more than bluster , and the real threat to the DACA program could be the Texas lawsuit .
That lawsuit was filed in 2018 in the Southern District of Texas by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and nine other states eventually joined the case , claiming that former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unilaterally enacted DACA… Paxton subsequently asked Hanen for a summary judgement on the case in 2019 , but Hanen put the case on hold pending the Supreme Court ’ s decision .
On Thursday , Hanen asked both sides to file reports “ setting out their respective positions ” by next month .
Paxton , meanwhile announced that his office would proceed with the lawsuit .
“ We are disappointed with today ’ s SCOTUS decision , but it does not resolve the underlying issue that President Obama ’ s original executive order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said in a written statement .
“ We look forward to continuing litigating that issue in our case now pending in the Southern District of Texas.
” [ After Supreme Court Ruling , Texas DACA Case Could Offer Another Chance At Ending Program , by Julian Aguilar , Texas Tribune , June 19 , 2020 ] But the real solution to the DACA illegal amnesty requires the President to be presidential .
Time to be Andrew Jackson .
Announce to the public that every illegal alien who applied for DACA will be immediately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their addresses , all it needs to do is send them a Form I-862 , Notice To Appear , in the mail , informing them that they have been found to be illegally in the United States and they have an appointment in the immigration courts .
The best part would be the fine middle finger to John Roberts .
Let him find out that DREAMer illegal aliens will be arrested and deported all because of him .

Well, no surprise, Chief Cuck John Roberts expressed his hatred of President Trump with a series of decisions that show he is either legally illiterate, part of the Deep State, or easily intimidated. There was no basis for the recent decision on the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA was, as I have repeatedly written, a matter of prosecutorial discretion, which is not reviewable by any court. Even the parts of DACA that are not prosecutorial discretion, for example, the employment authorization, were declared illegal by a Federal District Court Judge, based on the failure of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) of 1946, the same law that Roberts claimed President Trump had to follow to end the same program that did not follow the APA when created.
But the District Court Judge went further, and declared that the employment authorization part of DACA was itself illegal, as it usurped the authority of Congress to determine by legislation the granting of employment authorization and to determine which aliens were authorized to remain in the United States.
A Time For Heroes
However, the main responsibility for the failure on DACA lies with President Trump. Roberts relied not only on the mechanism of the APA; publication and comment on proposed regulations underlying Executive branch actions (for the record, DACA was not a regulation, but a policy of prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of immigration laws) but also on the reasoning behind the repeal of DACA. Roberts claimed that President Trump had to take into account factors that were irrelevant to the APA and reached into the arena of policy preference.
Roberts made much about the impact of deporting the DACA illegal aliens, which is none of his concern. Deporting illegal aliens is the job of the President, and the impact on illegal aliens who get deported is of no import. Whether these aliens lose jobs or their employer loses employees is of no concern for the Chief Justice.
But it was the failures on President Trump’s part that allowed Roberts weasel room to attack the repeal of DACA root and branch. And it was the problem that President Trump has had since Day One: Personnel is Policy. From the start, saboteurs in his administration, whom he appointed and relied upon, were seeking to ruin his administration.
The first and most obvious failure was that President Trump instead of ending DACA on Day One as he promised, allowed the program to continue until September 2017, which undermined the legal reasoning that the Administration later relied upon, at least ostensibly, to end the program. One cannot with a straight face maintain that DACA was illegal and unconstitutional, then allow the program to continue for almost a year. And only one person, besides President Kushner, is responsible, and that is President Trump.
And there we have the underlying problem with the Trump Administration, Personnel is Policy, and President Trump is, again, responsible for all the saboteurs he appointed or acquiesced to, Jared Kushner being the most problematic. But it is not only President Kushner that is the problem. Sadly, Jeff Sessions was a major cause of the DACA debacle. The whole of the Administration’s legal argument revolved around the claim that DACA was illegal. This is true, but it challenged John Roberts in the area he was most comfortable in fighting.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared before news cameras at the Justice Department in early September 2017 to announce that President Trump was ending deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, he knew the administration had left itself more legally vulnerable than it should have… The president’s top lawyers, too, relied on Mr. Sessions’s strong belief that the program had “legal and constitutional defects” as they prepared to defend Mr. Trump’s actions against the court challenge they knew was coming. But Mr. Sessions also understood that the legal argument was not the strongest possible rationale they could make in court, according to several people familiar with his thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal private deliberations. If courts disagreed with him that DACA was unlawful, Mr. Sessions knew, the president would lose. And that is just what happened. Judges have ruled that by citing only a flawed legal rationale for ending DACA — and no policy justifications — the administration’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious,” an illegal exercise of presidential power without any legitimate basis to end a program relied on by about 700,000 people. [How the Trump Administration Eroded Its Own Legal Case on DACA, by Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Adam Liptak, NYT, November 11, 2019]
This was an unforced error by Jeff Sessions and the Trump Administration.
Instead, President Trump should have just announced that the policy was ending based on a return to a policy of identifying, arresting, and deporting all illegal aliens. But what happened was that President Trump said publicly that he loved the so-called DREAMers and that they would not be deported even if the program ended. Now, part of this was obvious signaling to the Democrats that he wanted a deal on immigration that included amnesty for those illegal aliens, but the Democrats, Paul Ryan, and saboteurs in the Trump Administration did not push for a deal that included amnesty, reducing illegal immigration, and a border wall. But this angling for a deal, combined with Deep State sabotage, ended quickly and gave Roberts an opening to thwart President Trump.
However, the sabotage only gets worse. And again it was another high profile appointee of President Trump that directed the sabotage, the notorious Elaine Duke, another Obama holdover that John Kelly brought in.
At a contentious meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room several days earlier, Elaine C. Duke, then the acting secretary of homeland security, had broken with the rest of Mr. Trump’s team and balked at its demand that she issue a memo ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program known as DACA that shields immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Ms. Duke was deeply bothered by the idea that she could be responsible for deporting hundreds of thousands of young people from the country they considered their own, according to several people familiar with her concerns. And she did not want her name on what she saw as anti-immigrant policy rationales put forth by Mr. Sessions; Stephen Miller, the president’s powerful immigration adviser; and others who argued that the program encouraged new waves of illegal immigration and was an undeserved amnesty. She eventually relented under intense pressure. But her refusal to cite their policy objections to the program is now at the heart of what legal experts say is a major weakness in the government’s case defending the termination of the program, which will be argued on Tuesday at the Supreme Court. Ms. Duke’s bare-bones memo ending the program did not make the case that President Barack Obama had gotten the policy wrong — that DACA recipients were not deserving of protection or that allowing them to stay in the country would create problems that the government wanted to avoid. Instead, Ms. Duke, a career civil servant who volunteered with an immigrant aid group in her free time, relied solely on an assertion by Mr. Sessions that it was unlawful.
Again, the Trump Administration thought they were being too clever by half, just as in the failure on the Census case. Instead of being forthright, tell the Court and the public that the Citizenship Question was designed to help with immigration enforcement, they went with Sessions’s claim that it would help voting rights enforcement. Roberts saw through that and again stabbed President Trump in the back. Better to have been honest and trumped this enforcement mechanism to the public.
And even the NYT agrees with your humble correspondent, just be honest and let the deportations commence.
Had the administration simply declared that it was changing direction as a matter of policy, the rulings indicated, the termination of DACA would have been a routine exercise of executive discretion.
And guess who else was behind President Trump’s dithering on the issue, another backstabbing saboteur, Hope Hicks.
The day before making the announcement in 2017, the president huddled with Hope Hicks, a close aide at the time, and Mr. Miller in the small dining room off the Oval Office, hesitating about his decision and agonizing over what to say, according to people close to him. He wanted to appear tough to his voters, but he was anxious about being seen as mean to young people.
President Trump has the right instincts, but he is easily swayed to the dark side and that is his tragic flaw. Failure universally follows his second guessing his instincts to support the Historic American Nation. Only when conniving and playing games does he fail.
Now, what is to be done? A common question in history. Well, the 5th Circuit shows us the way. Let them determine, again, that DACA is illegal.
The Trump administration argued that the program was an unlawful exercise of authority by the executive branch, relying on a ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, concerning a related program. The Supreme Court deadlocked, 4 to 4, in an appeal of that ruling. Judges in the DACA cases said the two programs differed in important ways, undermining the administration’s legal analysis.
Let Texas renew their lawsuit against DACA. The lawsuit was a dagger pointed at the heart of DACA and had already killed off the successor to DACA, the Deferred Action For Parents Of Americans (DAPA).
The Trump Administration is looking for another way to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and a pending case in Texas could be a catalyst for the next round of litigation, according to reports. The case the Supreme Court heard, Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, came out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. But in a separate DACA case, a federal judge in Texas on Thursday ordered both sides to file paperwork next month following the high court’s opinion, NBC reported. Tom Goldstein, a Washington D.C. attorney and publisher of SCOTUSblog, told the network that the president’s tweet was little more than bluster, and the real threat to the DACA program could be the Texas lawsuit. That lawsuit was filed in 2018 in the Southern District of Texas by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and nine other states eventually joined the case, claiming that former President Obama exceeded his authority when he unilaterally enacted DACA… Paxton subsequently asked Hanen for a summary judgement on the case in 2019, but Hanen put the case on hold pending the Supreme Court’s decision. On Thursday, Hanen asked both sides to file reports “setting out their respective positions” by next month. Paxton, meanwhile announced that his office would proceed with the lawsuit. “We are disappointed with today’s SCOTUS decision, but it does not resolve the underlying issue that President Obama’s original executive order exceeded his constitutional authority,” Paxton said in a written statement. “We look forward to continuing litigating that issue in our case now pending in the Southern District of Texas.” [After Supreme Court Ruling, Texas DACA Case Could Offer Another Chance At Ending Program, by Julian Aguilar, Texas Tribune, June 19, 2020]
But the real solution to the DACA illegal amnesty requires the President to be presidential. Time to be Andrew Jackson. Announce to the public that every illegal alien who applied for DACA will be immediately placed in deportation proceedings. DHS has their addresses, all it needs to do is send them a Form I-862, Notice To Appear, in the mail, informing them that they have been found to be illegally in the United States and they have an appointment in the immigration courts. The best part would be the fine middle finger to John Roberts. Let him find out that DREAMer illegal aliens will be arrested and deported all because of him.


vdare--2020-06-21--The Totalitarianism Is Strong in This One

From the New York Times news section : Shows of support from Facebook , Twitter and YouTube don ’ t address the way those platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs .
Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The Times .
His column , “ The Shift , ” examines the intersection of technology , business , and culture .
You can find him on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , or Instagram .
@ kevinroose • Facebook June 19 , 2020 Several weeks ago , as protests erupted across the nation in response to the police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote a long and heartfelt post on his Facebook page , denouncing racial bias and proclaiming that “ black lives matter.
” Mr. Zuckerberg , Facebook ’ s chief executive , also announced that the company would donate $ 10 million to racial justice organizations .
A similar show of support unfolded at Twitter , where the company changed its official Twitter bio to a Black Lives Matter tribute , and Jack Dorsey , the chief executive , pledged $ 3 million to an anti-racism organization started by Colin Kaepernick , the former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protests , too .
Susan Wojcicki , its chief executive , wrote in a blog post that “ we believe Black lives matter and we all need to do more to dismantle systemic racism.
” YouTube also announced it would start a $ 100 million fund for black creators .
Pretty good for a bunch of supposedly heartless tech executives , right ?
Well , sort of .
The problem is that , while these shows of support were well intentioned , they didn ’ t address the way that these companies ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ YouTube — have been successfully weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs , and are being used to undermine Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements… .
But in recent years , a right-wing reactionary movement has turned the tide .
Now , some of the loudest and most established voices on these platforms belong to conservative commentators and paid provocateurs whose aim is mocking and subverting social justice movements , rather than supporting them .
The result is a distorted view of the world that is at odds with actual public sentiment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lives Matter , but you wouldn ’ t necessarily know it by scrolling through your social media feeds .
… Ms. [ Candae ] Owens is a serial offender , known for spreading misinformation and stirring up partisan rancor .
( Her Twitter account was suspended this year after she encouraged her followers to violate stay-at-home orders , and Facebook has applied fact-checking labels to several of her posts . )
But she can still insult the victims of police killings with impunity to her nearly four million followers on Facebook .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ K. Williams , Ben Shapiro and the Hodgetwins , all of whom have had anti-Black Lives Matter posts go viral over the past several weeks .
In all , seven of the 10 most-shared Facebook posts containing the phrase “ Black Lives Matter ” over the past month were critical of the movement , according to data from CrowdTangle , a Facebook-owned data platform .

From the New York Times news section:
Social Media Giants Support Racial Justice. Their Products Undermine It.
Shows of support from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way those platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs.
By Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The Times . His column, “The Shift,” examines the intersection of technology, business, and culture. You can find him on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram. @kevinroose • Facebook
June 19, 2020
Several weeks ago, as protests erupted across the nation in response to the police killing of George Floyd, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a long and heartfelt post on his Facebook page, denouncing racial bias and proclaiming that “black lives matter.” Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, also announced that the company would donate $10 million to racial justice organizations.
A similar show of support unfolded at Twitter, where the company changed its official Twitter bio to a Black Lives Matter tribute, and Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, pledged $3 million to an anti-racism organization started by Colin Kaepernick, the former N.F.L. quarterback.
YouTube joined the protests, too. Susan Wojcicki, its chief executive, wrote in a blog post that “we believe Black lives matter and we all need to do more to dismantle systemic racism.” YouTube also announced it would start a $100 million fund for black creators.
Pretty good for a bunch of supposedly heartless tech executives, right?
Well, sort of. The problem is that, while these shows of support were well intentioned, they didn’t address the way that these companies’ own products — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — have been successfully weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs, and are being used to undermine Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements….
But in recent years, a right-wing reactionary movement has turned the tide. Now, some of the loudest and most established voices on these platforms belong to conservative commentators and paid provocateurs whose aim is mocking and subverting social justice movements, rather than supporting them.
The result is a distorted view of the world that is at odds with actual public sentiment. A majority of Americans support Black Lives Matter, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it by scrolling through your social media feeds. …
Ms. [Candace] Owens is a serial offender, known for spreading misinformation and stirring up partisan rancor. (Her Twitter account was suspended this year after she encouraged her followers to violate stay-at-home orders, and Facebook has applied fact-checking labels to several of her posts.) But she can still insult the victims of police killings with impunity to her nearly four million followers on Facebook. So can other high-profile conservative commentators like Terrence K. Williams, Ben Shapiro and the Hodgetwins, all of whom have had anti-Black Lives Matter posts go viral over the past several weeks.
In all, seven of the 10 most-shared Facebook posts containing the phrase “Black Lives Matter” over the past month were critical of the movement, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data platform.


vdare--2020-06-21--Breaking News in the NYT: A 45-Year-Old Video Clip from a PBS Documentary Shows White Children Being

Breaking News in the NYT: A 45-Year-Old Video Clip from a PBS Documentary Shows White Children Being Mean to Black Children!

From the New York Times news ( i.e.
, not so new and often downright antiquarian ) section : A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975 .
We Found Them .
A snippet of the documentary “ Rosedale : The Way It Is ” has ricocheted across the internet , upending for another generation New York City ’ s narrative as a bastion of tolerance .
A Racist Attack Was Caught on Camera .
Nearly 45 Years Later , It Still Stings .
The video rolls on a sunny suburban street , and a group of black children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a parade — there ’ s a small crowd , and an American flag .
Suddenly , they ’ re swarmed by a group of white children , who hurl racial epithets and rocks .
Adults gathered nearby do nothing .
The black children had bicycled straight into a white supremacist rally .
The scene captured in 1975 by “ Bill Moyers Journal , ” a PBS documentary series , has echoes of the racist clashes more than a decade earlier in places like Selma , Ala. , Birmingham , Ala. , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unfolded in New York City , in the bedroom community of Rosedale in Queens , nearly a dozen years after the Civil Rights Act was made law .
Forty-five years later , that virulent two-minute , 20-second snippet of the documentary , “ Rosedale : The Way It Is , ” resurfaced online , shared last year by a graduate student , and boomeranged across the internet .

From the New York Times news (i.e., not so new and often downright antiquarian) section:
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
A snippet of the documentary “Rosedale: The Way It Is” has ricocheted across the internet, upending for another generation New York City’s narrative as a bastion of tolerance.
A Racist Attack Was Caught on Camera. Nearly 45 Years Later, It Still Stings.
By Sarah Maslin Nir
June 21, 2020, 5:00 p.m. ET
The video rolls on a sunny suburban street, and a group of black children bike toward what looks to them like a parade — there’s a small crowd, and an American flag. Suddenly, they’re swarmed by a group of white children, who hurl racial epithets and rocks. Adults gathered nearby do nothing.
The black children had bicycled straight into a white supremacist rally.
The scene captured in 1975 by “Bill Moyers Journal,” a PBS documentary series, has echoes of the racist clashes more than a decade earlier in places like Selma, Ala., Birmingham, Ala., and Little Rock, Ark. But it unfolded in New York City, in the bedroom community of Rosedale in Queens, nearly a dozen years after the Civil Rights Act was made law.
Forty-five years later, that virulent two-minute, 20-second snippet of the documentary, “Rosedale: The Way It Is,” resurfaced online, shared last year by a graduate student, and boomeranged across the internet.


vdare--2020-06-22--Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow Joined By Andrew Torba, Wednesday, 3 p.m. EST

On Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST , our latest episode of “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow ” will livestream @ @ @ @ @ from travels for his regular hosting duties , and will be joined by Andrew Torba @ @ @ @ @ founder and CEO of Gab.com .
They will talk big tech censorship and why alternatives @ @ @ @ @ patriots to fight back against the forces trying to overwhelm our nation .
Be sure @ @ @ @ @ conversation !
They will be talking about tech censorship .
You can join the conversation @ @ @ @ @ episodes of “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow ” :

On Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST, our latest episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow” will livestream. Mr. Brimelow is returning from travels for his regular hosting duties, and will be joined by Andrew Torba. Mr. Torba is the founder and CEO of Gab.com.
They will talk big tech censorship and why alternatives must be created for American patriots to fight back against the forces trying to overwhelm our nation.
Be sure to tune for this important conversation!
They will be talking about tech censorship.
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vdare--2020-06-22--MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: Actually, Trump’s Tulsa Speech Was A Success. I Know, I Was There

The Democrat/ Main Stream Media Complex want you to believe the relaunch of President Trump ’ s 2020 campaign on Saturday in Tulsa , Oklahoma , fell flat .
They ’ re lying .
I was there .
And I ’ m a connoisseur of Trump rallies : Oklahoma City ( 2015 ) , Oklahoma City ( 2016 ) , Topeka , Kansas ( 2018 ) , Columbia Missouri ( 2018 ) , and almost Springfield , Missouri ( 2018 ) , where I was unable to enter because so many people attended .
Attendance was lower this time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ below .
But the level of motivation and support for Trump among rally-goers was as high as at any Trump rally I ’ ve attended .
Trump sounded like his old self and hit key hot-button topics , not least the arson , looting , and vandalism of the Floyd-Hoax Riots .
I went to the rally in Tulsa ’ s BOK Center with my niece and younger son and his friend , all three of whom served as volunteers there .
Trump rallies are unique political events .
They ’ re part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part rock concert and part stand-up comedy .
And , they ’ re a venue for fellowship among like-minded Americans .
The attendees were mostly Oklahomans with a few non-Okies from neighboring and even distant states .
I met a young man who drove from Minnesota and a couple who flew in from California .
Lower attendance , which the Dem/MSM complex wants you to believe means Trump ’ s support is dissipating , doesn ’ t mean Trump ’ s base won ’ t show up at the polls .
There would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One gate was temporarily blocked thanks to demonstrators ( my niece was working at that gate when it happened ) ; • Dirty tricks by Trump foes who booked tickets and didn ’ t show up .
[ TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally , by Taylor Lorenz , Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel , The New York Times , June 21 , 2020 ] .
Because of the extraordinary hype about registration , people were probably afraid of not getting in , a real risk at Trump rallies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the 19,199-seat arena was only one-third full [ Trump Rally Filled Less Than a Third of Arena : Protest Wrap , DNYUZ , June 21,2020 ] .
The tweet that accompanied this video says the enthusiasm of 2015 is gone , but the images suggest the arena was two-thirds full .
This photo , focusing on the mostly empty upper tier , was deceptively featured on the increasingly tiresome Drudge Report The Hill reported that fewer than 6,200 attended the rally , an estimate based on the fire marshal ’ s tally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says Trump rally attendance was about 6,200 , by Justin Wise , June 21 , 2020 ] .
But when I entered , no one scanned my phone , which raises the obvious question of how many others weren ’ t scanned .
A Trump campaign put the figure at 12,000 , The Hill ’ s Wise reported , which comports with The New York Times ’ s estimate that the seats were “ at least one-third empty , ” meaning at least two-thirds could have been full [ Trump Rally Fizzles as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Expectations , by Michael D. Shear , Maggie Haberman , Astead W. Herndon , The New York Times , June 20 , 2020 ] .
An aside : TikTok ’ s owner is a Chinese tech tycoon .
Will Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others crowing about the “ Tik Tok teens ” who sabotaged the event be investigated for colluding with a foreign government to influence a U.S. presidential election ?
There were a number of speakers before Trump 's speech .
The invocation was delivered by Dr. Alveda King ( niece of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ salute and the national anthem .
Several Oklahomans spoke , as did Diamond and Silk , Kimberly Guilfoyle , Lara Trump and Eric Trump .
Vice President Mike Pence delivered an address—full YouTube video here—with a fairly courageous comment , which was met with chants of “ Build the Wall.
” Pence noted that police are among the finest Americans and directly denounced the Floyd Hoax Riots : “ There ’ s no excuse for what happened to George Floyd , but there ’ s also no excuse for the rioting , looting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s speech itself was unquestionably a success .
He kept a rapt audience thoroughly engaged for more than 90 minutes [ Donald Trump Tulsa , Oklahoma Rally Speech Transcript , Rev.com , June 21 , 2020 ] .
How many politicians can do that these days without graphics ?
Some high points that should be used in his campaign : Most Americans just don ’ t agree with allowing mobs to loot and plunder our cities .
Trump said : Trump should remind people of his own question from 2017 , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comments : Trump skillfully drove a wedge between Biden and the radicals in his party .
Yet Biden remains silent in his basement in the face of this brutal assault on our nation and the values of our nation .
Joe Biden has surrendered to his party and to the left-wing mob .
He has no control .
Does anybody honestly think he controls these radical maniacs ?
[ 41:14 ] If the Democrats gain power , then the rioters will be in charge and no one will be safe and no one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not the leader of his party .
Joe Biden is a helpless puppet of the radical left , and he ’ s not radical left .
[ 42:35 ] Nowadays , disrespecting the flag is even A-OK with NASCAR .
Trump said : VIOLENCE , FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND THE BORDER Trump skillfully segued several topics into one accusation against the Democrats : RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS , LAW AND ORDER , IMMIGRATION AND BIDEN Why does Trump get the blame when these “ racist cities ” are run by Democrats ?
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again .
And name names , of cities and mayors : Trump made it clear he understands exactly what ’ s going on .
The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history , desecrate our monuments , our beautiful monuments .
Tear down our statues and punish , cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control…This cruel campaign of censorship and exclusion violates everything we hold dear as Americans .
They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] If Joe Biden were to become president an emboldened left , will launch a full-scale assault on American life .
You know that .
They ’ ll expel anyone who disagrees with them .
Look what happens when you disagree .
You use a term that ’ s perfect and they ’ re not happy with it .
They call you a racist .
They call you a horrible person .
They want to crush religious liberty .
[ 1:07 : -08 ] Near the end , Trump unabashedly linked us to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which the rioters hate .
My conclusion : Trump still has good political instincts and he showed in Tulsa he can still connect with his base .
What he needs is the discipline to put together a campaign based on those instincts , to appeal to the undecided voters who don ’ t like what ’ s going on in our country .
The clock is ticking .
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The Democrat/ Main Stream Media Complex want you to believe the relaunch of President Trump’s 2020 campaign on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, fell flat. They’re lying. I was there.
And I’m a connoisseur of Trump rallies: Oklahoma City (2015), Oklahoma City (2016), Topeka, Kansas (2018), Columbia Missouri (2018), and almost Springfield, Missouri (2018), where I was unable to enter because so many people attended.
Attendance was lower this time, for obvious reasons I’ll discuss below. But the level of motivation and support for Trump among rally-goers was as high as at any Trump rally I’ve attended. Trump sounded like his old self and hit key hot-button topics, not least the arson, looting, and vandalism of the George Floyd Riots.
I went to the rally in Tulsa’s BOK Center with my niece and younger son and his friend, all three of whom served as volunteers there.
Trump rallies are unique political events. They’re part religious revival, part pep rally, part rock concert and part stand-up comedy. And, they’re a venue for fellowship among like-minded Americans. The attendees were mostly Oklahomans with a few non-Okies from neighboring and even distant states. I met a young man who drove from Minnesota and a couple who flew in from California.
Lower attendance, which the Dem/MSM complex wants you to believe means Trump’s support is dissipating, doesn’t mean Trump’s base won’t show up at the polls. There would good reasons for not attending:
Fear of catching the Chinese Virus;
The possibility of dangerous protestors;
One gate was temporarily blocked thanks to demonstrators (my niece was working at that gate when it happened);
Sure no blocked gates @cnn. @cnn if you think families with children will push through this your sick.
America, this is the country @CNN is ok with, think about that.
This is the main gate of the rally: pic.twitter.com/wSKwotoajq — Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 21, 2020
Dirty tricks by Trump foes who booked tickets and didn’t show up. [TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally, by Taylor Lorenz, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, June 21, 2020]. Because of the extraordinary hype about registration, people were probably afraid of not getting in, a real risk at Trump rallies.
It’s simply not true that the 19,199-seat arena was only one-third full [Trump Rally Filled Less Than a Third of Arena: Protest Wrap, DNYUZ, June 21,2020]. The tweet that accompanied this video says the enthusiasm of 2015 is gone, but the images suggest the arena was two-thirds full. This photo , focusing on the mostly empty upper tier, was deceptively featured on the increasingly tiresome Drudge Report
The Hill reported that fewer than 6,200 attended the rally, an estimate based on the fire marshal’s tally of scanned tickets [Tulsa Fire Department says Trump rally attendance was about 6,200, by Justin Wise, June 21, 2020]. But when I entered, no one scanned my phone, which raises the obvious question of how many others weren’t scanned.
A Trump campaign put the figure at 12,000, The Hill’s Wise reported, which comports with The New York Times’s estimate that the seats were “at least one-third empty,” meaning at least two-thirds could have been full [Trump Rally Fizzles as Attendance Falls Short of Campaign’s Expectations, by Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, June 20, 2020].
An aside: TikTok’s owner is a Chinese tech tycoon. Will Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others crowing about the “Tik Tok teens” who sabotaged the event be investigated for colluding with a foreign government to influence a U.S. presidential election?
There were a number of speakers before Trump's speech. The invocation was delivered by Dr. Alveda King (niece of MLK), there was a flag salute and the national anthem. Several Oklahomans spoke, as did Diamond and Silk, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump and Eric Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered an address—full YouTube video here—with a fairly courageous comment, which was met with chants of “Build the Wall.” Pence noted that police are among the finest Americans and directly denounced the Floyd Riots: “There’s no excuse for what happened to George Floyd, but there’s also no excuse for the rioting, looting, and violence that followed.”
Trump’s speech itself was unquestionably a success. He kept a rapt audience thoroughly engaged for more than 90 minutes [Donald Trump Tulsa, Oklahoma Rally Speech Transcript, Rev.com, June 21, 2020]. How many politicians can do that these days without graphics?
Some high points that should be used in his campaign:
LAW AND ORDER
Most Americans just don’t agree with allowing mobs to loot and plunder our cities. Trump said:
But Americans have watched left wing radicals burn down buildings, loot businesses, destroy private property, injure hundreds of dedicated police officers…And injure thousands upon thousands of people only to hear the radical fake news say what a beautiful rally it was. [14:28]
DESTRUCTION OF OUR HERITAGE
Trump mentioned this several times:
Trump should remind people of his own question from 2017, in his unfairly-maligned “very fine people” comments:
George Washington was a slave owner…. So will George Washington now lose his status. Are we gonna take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson?... Are we gonna take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now are we gonna take down his statue?...You’re changing history, changing culture…. [Donald Trump to reporters: 'George Washington was a slave owner,' YouTube, August 15, 2017]
JOE BIDEN
Trump skillfully drove a wedge between Biden and the radicals in his party.
Yet Biden remains silent in his basement in the face of this brutal assault on our nation and the values of our nation. Joe Biden has surrendered to his party and to the left-wing mob. He has no control. Does anybody honestly think he controls these radical maniacs? [41:14] If the Democrats gain power, then the rioters will be in charge and no one will be safe and no one will have control. Joe Biden is not the leader of his party. Joe Biden is a helpless puppet of the radical left, and he’s not radical left. [42:35]
FLAG SALUTE
Nowadays, disrespecting the flag is even A-OK with NASCAR. Trump said:
We will never kneel to our national anthem or our great American flag. We will stand proud and we will stand tall. [54:54]
VIOLENCE, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND THE BORDER
Trump skillfully segued several topics into one accusation against the Democrats:
Joe Biden and the Democrats want to prosecute Americans for going to church, but not for burning a church. They believe you can riot, vandalize and destroy, but you cannot attend a peaceful pro-America rally. They want to punish your thought, but not their violent crimes. They want to abolish bail, abolish and open up your borders. They want open borders … [56:26]
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, LAW AND ORDER, IMMIGRATION AND BIDEN
Trump offered another colorful montage of Democrat dangers:
They want to disarm law, abiding citizens and dismantle our police forces while freeing vicious MS-13 gang members. In Joe Biden’s America, rioters, looters, and criminal aliens have more rights than law abiding citizens. And that’s true. In my administration, we defend American citizens and we deport MS-13 members or put them in jail if we have to. [58:13]
DEMOCRAT CITIES
Why does Trump get the blame when these “racist cities” are run by Democrats?
The chaos you’re seeing in our Democratic run cities, these are all run by the Democrats, is what will happen in every city and community and America, and much, much worse if we don’t keep them out. We have to do this. We have to go to the polls on November 3rd and the rest of you know what to do. You know what to do. Got to keep the White House. [58:13]
This ought to be brought up again and again. And name names, of cities and mayors:
The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala, or even Afghanistan. How are they doing, the Democrats running those cities? Your whole country will be like that. [1:31:59]
BIDEN AND IMMIGRATION INSANITY
He [Biden] voted for mass amnesty for illegal aliens. He supports sanctuary cities and now Biden wants to end immigration enforcement and he wants to require you to provide free healthcare for millions and millions of illegal aliens. [1:00:01]
CANCEL CULTURE
Trump made it clear he understands exactly what’s going on.
The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments, our beautiful monuments. Tear down our statues and punish, cancel and persecute anyone who does not conform to their demands for absolute and total control…This cruel campaign of censorship and exclusion violates everything we hold dear as Americans. They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place. [19:04] If Joe Biden were to become president an emboldened left, will launch a full-scale assault on American life. You know that. They’ll expel anyone who disagrees with them. Look what happens when you disagree. You use a term that’s perfect and they’re not happy with it. They call you a racist. They call you a horrible person. They want to crush religious liberty. [1:07:-08]
LEFT-RIGHT DOUBLE STANDARD
In Seattle the Democrat mayor and the Democrat city council have surrendered control of six city blocks to an anarchist … Now these are anarchists, these are not protestors. You listen to the fake news, they say, “Oh, the protesters were lovely.” Could you imagine if people just even slightly to the right tried to take over Seattle? They’d have machine guns out to get them, but these people can take over the city… [37:54]
THE HISTORIC AMERICAN NATION
Near the end, Trump unabashedly linked us to our ancestors in the Historic American Nation, which the rioters hate.
We stand on the shoulders of American heroes who crossed the oceans, blazed the trails, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, dug out the Panama Canal, laid down the railroads, revolutionized industries, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and made America the single greatest nation in the history of the world. And we are making it greater and greater every single day. Proud citizens like you helped build this country, and together we are taking back our country. [1:37:08]
My conclusion: Trump still has good political instincts and he showed in Tulsa he can still connect with his base. What he needs is the discipline to put together a campaign based on those instincts, to appeal to the undecided voters who don’t like what’s going on in our country.
The clock is ticking. Less than five months to go…
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-06-22--Peter Brimelow On The Dino Show With Dino Costa, 9 PM EST/ POSPONED TILL 10 PM!!

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vdare--2020-06-22--Patrick J. Buchanan: How Long Will the Vandals Run Amok?

The left 's war on America 's past crossed several new frontiers last week .
Portland 's statue of George Washington , the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States , the greatest man of his age , was toppled and desecrated .
While the statue stood , an American flag was draped over its head and set ablaze .
After it was pulled down , a new fire was set on another American flag spread across the statue , and also burned .
The vacated pedestal was painted with the words , `` You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Portland also , a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood at the entrance of a high school named for the author of the Declaration of Independence was torn down .
In New York , city council members demanded that the Jefferson statue in city hall be removed .
Anticipating what was coming , the New York Museum of Natural History got the permission of city hall to have the giant statue of Theodore Roosevelt astride a horse , flanked by an African and a Native American , removed from the front of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 80-year-old statue ?
Said museum president Ellen Futter [ Email her ] the problem is its `` hierarchical composition . ''
Only Roosevelt was mounted .
With Washington , Jefferson and Roosevelt all under attack , three of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore are now repudiated by the left .
Our Taliban have moved on , past Columbus and the Confederate generals , to dislodge and dishonor the Founding Fathers and their patriot sons .
In Philadelphia , the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution , with its statue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tomb is the final resting place for thousands of soldiers , known but to God , who died in the struggle for American independence .
`` Committed Genocide '' is the charge scrawled on the memorial .
Local authorities or police did not stop the vandals .
One wonders what will happen should the haters of Washington and Jefferson decide to torch their ancestral homes at Mount Vernon and Monticello .
Still another line was crossed last week in the war against the past .
A statue of Ulysses S. Grant in San @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Police watched as hundreds gathered to take down the general and 18th president , who accepted the surrender of General Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia .
Also pulled down in Golden Gate Park was a statue of Francis Scott Key , who wrote our national anthem , `` The Star-Spangled Banner , '' after he watched all through the night in 1814 as British warships bombarded Fort McHenry .
A third statue torn down in Golden Gate Park was that of Father Junipero Serra , the Franciscan priest who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in California that run from San Diego to San Francisco .
Serra lived in the 18th century , long before the U.S. acquired California and decades before Mexico won its independence .
Pope Francis canonized him in 2015 .
At the end of last week , the last statue of a Confederate soldier in the nation 's capital , that of Gen. Albert Pike , who spent his years after the war doing good works , was pulled down , while Mayor Muriel Bowser 's D.C. cops watched from police cruisers .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ honor those whom we memorialize .
And what is the motivation of the people who tear them down and desecrate them ?
In a word , it is hate .
A goodly slice of America 's young hates this country 's history and the men who made it .
It hates the discoverers and explorers like Columbus , the conquistadores and colonists .
It hates the Founding Fathers and the first 15 presidents , all of whom either had slaves or coexisted with the injustice of slavery .
But hating history and denying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the men who made that history does not change history .
So , where are we going ?
Today , as was true in the 1960s , the American establishment is on the run .
It recoils from mob action but can not bring itself to condemn those tearing down the statues , for it basically agrees with them and seeks to marshal their energy to help it get back into power in November .
But this can not go on .
The political and propaganda war on the cops , the vandalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disgracing and dishonoring of American heroes can not go on indefinitely .
At some point , in the near future , the establishment , and its questionable political instrument , Joe Biden , will have to have his Sister Souljah moment , and stand up and stay , `` This should stop . ''
For , whatever happens in this election , the American people will not stay united around a party and a movement built on the proposition that America has been , from before its birth , a racist criminal enterprise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose history and heroes you hate .
A house divided against itself can not stand .
And a society whose history is hated by millions of its members will not survive .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: Cancel the White Men—And What's Left?
The left's war on America's past crossed several new frontiers last week.
Portland's statue of George Washington, the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated.
While the statue stood, an American flag was draped over its head and set ablaze. After it was pulled down, a new fire was set on another American flag spread across the statue, and also burned. The vacated pedestal was painted with the words, "You're on Native Land."
In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood at the entrance of a high school named for the author of the Declaration of Independence was torn down. In New York, city council members demanded that the Jefferson statue in city hall be removed.
Anticipating what was coming, the New York Museum of Natural History got the permission of city hall to have the giant statue of Theodore Roosevelt astride a horse, flanked by an African and a Native American, removed from the front of the museum.
What was wrong with the 80-year-old statue?
Said museum president Ellen Futter [Email her] the problem is its "hierarchical composition." Only Roosevelt was mounted.
With Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt all under attack, three of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore are now repudiated by the left.
Our Taliban have moved on, past Columbus and the Confederate generals, to dislodge and dishonor the Founding Fathers and their patriot sons.
In Philadelphia, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, with its statue of Washington, was defaced. The tomb is the final resting place for thousands of soldiers, known but to God, who died in the struggle for American independence.
"Committed Genocide" is the charge scrawled on the memorial.
Local authorities or police did not stop the vandals. One wonders what will happen should the haters of Washington and Jefferson decide to torch their ancestral homes at Mount Vernon and Monticello.
Still another line was crossed last week in the war against the past.
A statue of Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was toppled. Police watched as hundreds gathered to take down the general and 18th president, who accepted the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Also pulled down in Golden Gate Park was a statue of Francis Scott Key, who wrote our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," after he watched all through the night in 1814 as British warships bombarded Fort McHenry.
A third statue torn down in Golden Gate Park was that of Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan priest who founded nine of the 21 Spanish missions in California that run from San Diego to San Francisco.
Serra lived in the 18th century, long before the U.S. acquired California and decades before Mexico won its independence. Pope Francis canonized him in 2015.
At the end of last week, the last statue of a Confederate soldier in the nation's capital, that of Gen. Albert Pike, who spent his years after the war doing good works, was pulled down, while Mayor Muriel Bowser's D.C. cops watched from police cruisers.
We erect statues to remember, revere and honor those whom we memorialize. And what is the motivation of the people who tear them down and desecrate them?
In a word, it is hate. A goodly slice of America's young hates this country's history and the men who made it. It hates the discoverers and explorers like Columbus, the conquistadores and colonists. It hates the Founding Fathers and the first 15 presidents, all of whom either had slaves or coexisted with the injustice of slavery. But hating history and denying history and tearing down the statues of the men who made that history does not change history.
So, where are we going?
Today, as was true in the 1960s, the American establishment is on the run. It recoils from mob action but cannot bring itself to condemn those tearing down the statues, for it basically agrees with them and seeks to marshal their energy to help it get back into power in November.
But this cannot go on. The political and propaganda war on the cops, the vandalism of the statues and memorials, the disgracing and dishonoring of American heroes cannot go on indefinitely.
At some point, in the near future, the establishment, and its questionable political instrument, Joe Biden, will have to have his Sister Souljah moment, and stand up and stay, "This should stop."
For, whatever happens in this election, the American people will not stay united around a party and a movement built on the proposition that America has been, from before its birth, a racist criminal enterprise.
You cannot lead a people whose history and heroes you hate.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. And a society whose history is hated by millions of its members will not survive.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-06-22--Religion of Woke, Taliban Edition

Religion of Woke, Taliban Edition

From the same SurveyUSA poll referenced yesterday : “ In 1492 , Columbus sailed the ocean blue ” .
Sigh @ @ @ @ @ pathetic end to a once mighty civilization .
Getting humanity off this planet is entirely @ @ @ @ @ now .
Unlike the more introspective Occident , the East doesn ’ t have many @ @ @ @ @ in the past and , hopefully , of outer space in the future .

From the same SurveyUSA poll referenced yesterday:
“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Sigh. What a sad, pathetic end to a once mighty civilization.
Getting humanity off this planet is entirely in Asia’s hands now. Unlike the more introspective Occident, the East doesn’t have many qualms about colonization–of other lands in the past and, hopefully, of outer space in the future.
[Comment at Unz.com]