Open borders wasn’t such a good idea after all

Our political elites are so stupid and vile it is hard to imagine how we ended up with these people making our collective decisions. None of the damage they do is ever visited on themselves but there is plenty to go around for the rest of us. So we get this, although far far too late: ‘DON’T COME HERE!’ Merkel migrant U-turn as Germany orders EU to SEND BACK boats to Africa. The first line.

ANGELA Merkel today performed an extraordinary U-turn on mass migration as Germany ordered the EU to begin turning back boats full of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean.

You can read it all at the link. But the real point is how stupidly incompetent these people are, incapable of understanding the obvious even when it’s right before their eyes. She has brought ruin to the European continent which will not survive her idiotic vandalism other than as a physical location.

Where’s the outrage?

I wonder if LIQ will continue with his advice to accept the result if Trump wins. It is now fully understood that the Democrats will do everything they can to steal this election, and this is the official view of the left from the President on down. The question is whether Trump can win beyond the range of deceit. So, as we head into the home stretch.

CONFUSED COMEY CLEARS HER AGAIN!
TRUMP: ‘SHE’S PROTECTED BY RIGGED SYSTEM’
POLL: THISCLOSE
TRUMP MARATHON SUNDAY
CLINTON WARNS ‘FAKE’ WIKIS COMING

Astonishing reversal by Comey, somehow managing to sift through 650,000 emails in a few days. It still seems to me that the aim is to make Tim Kaine president. She wins and is then indicted seems simple enough, but of course she first has to win. Comey re-opening the investigation suddenly brought Trump back to life so here they close it again. That they did shift back does make it seem that there now is a genuine possibility that Trump could win.

But what most of this has done is sidetrack the election from Trump’s main issue, which is open borders. The United States will be about as wealthy as Argentina when all this is over, with the same sort of distribution of income. Fascinating to have watched all of this even if extremely depressing.

In the sheltering darkness of the long evenings

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We went to see the new movie version of The Diary of Ann Frank yesterday. Before we went, my wife asked me why we were going, and I had no real answer. At the end, we both felt fortunate that we had seen the film. Since you know how it ends, the sense of oppression never lifts.

And as it happens, the picture above was just sent to us yesterday and comes with this text via Prodos:

German Rabbi & Philosopher, Leo Baeck, was one of the prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp, sent there in 1943.

He wrote later:

“In the sheltering darkness of the long evenings, they were together in the cold and gloomy attic of a barrack, close under the roof.

“There they stood, pressed close to each other, to hear a talk about the Bible and the Talmud, about Plato, Aristotle, Maimonides, about Descartes and Spinoza, about Locke and Hume and Kant or about days and problems of history, about poetry and art and music, about Palestine of old and today, about the Commandments, the Prophets, and the Messianic idea.

“All those hours were hours in which a community arose out of the mass and the narrowness grew wide.

“They were hours of freedom.”

The revolt of the dispossessed

I have been re-reading Christopher Lasch’s brilliant The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy which was published more than a decade ago. It’s about the we-know-what’s-best-for-you types who have risen to the top of power structures across the world. A brief but inadequate summary but you’ll get the point:

Controversy has raged around Lasch’s targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is riveting social commentary.

If you want to understand the attractions of Donald Trump, there is no better place I can think to look. And if you want an even better idea what it’s all about, you should read The economic losers are in revolt against the elites by Martin Wolf [perfect name] in The Financial Times.

Losers have votes, too. That is what democracy means — and rightly so. If they feel sufficiently cheated and humiliated, they will vote for Donald Trump, a candidate for the Republican party’s presidential nomination in the US, Marine Le Pen of the National Front in France or Nigel Farage of the UK Independence party. . . .

It is not hard to see why ordinary people, notably native-born men, are alienated. They are losers, at least relatively; they do not share equally in the gains. They feel used and abused. After the financial crisis and slow recovery in standards of living, they see elites as incompetent and predatory. The surprise is not that many are angry but that so many are not.

Branko Milanovic, formerly of the World Bank, has shown that only two parts of the global income distribution enjoyed virtually no gains in real incomes between 1988 and 2008: the poorest five percentiles and those between the 75th and the 90th percentile. The latter includes the bulk of the population of high-income countries.

The Clinton Foundation is the perfect example of how our elites operate. They shaft you and steal your money, and most importantly, they use government as their major tool to syphon the wealth of the hard-working majority to themselves and their friends.

The argument for Western civilisation

From Trump’s two-minute final ad: “The Argument for America”.

Meanwhile I am looking at what passes for financial sense at the AFR where its coverage of the American election is from #Never Trump’s master moron, Bill Kristol, with the heading “Not My Kind of Conservative”. Presumably, Hillary is more his kind of conservative, although what exactly will be conserved by four years of Hillary is an unknown.

It is now down to the wire. The drift is towards Trump but Democrat larceny never ends. But what makes this exceptional is that even now, with all of the media only one way, it is still possible that Trump may win.

Meanwhile, you should see this, which is just one of many similar examples that can be found all over the net. She is an uncontrollable psychopath. Watch.

Diana West on Cultural Marxism: Political Correctness

This is about freedom of speech, both in content and in actual circumstance.

Picked up at Diana West’s website, The Death of the Grown-Up. In this case, she is talking about the roots of a worldwide problem where the left believes it has the right and the duty to silence anyone with a different point of view. It goes back a long way. A very engaging presentation as well.

I’ve worked out how it ends

I’m afraid much of my interest in the American election has disappeared now that I have worked out how it is going to end. Hillary will win the election, she will then be indicted by the FBI, she will be forced to resign and Tim Kaine will become President.

Here is the backstory.

From the start, the selection of Tim Kaine was a curiosity since he is 100% from the Obama side of the Democratic Party and Hillary would never under ordinary circumstances have picked one of Obama’s closest associates. As in:

Kaine held the key fundraising position of Democratic National Committee chairman during the entire run-up to Obamacare’s passage, as the Democrats passed that unpopular 2,400 page legislation without a single Republican vote. But Kaine’s ties to Obama go back further. In November of 2005, during Obama’s first year in the Senate, Obama campaigned for Kaine in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Just over a year later, in February of 2007—as the Los Angeles Times reports—Kaine became the first statewide elected Democrat outside of Illinois to support Obama’s presidential bid against the Democratic heir apparent, Hillary Clinton.

The Clintons are not exactly known for their short memories. So how is it that someone who was among the first to break ranks with Hillary in 2007 was rewarded with the top prize that she could grant in 2016? Could it be that Clinton decided that the largely unknown Kaine was such a big political asset that she should let bygones by bygones? Or could it be that Clinton, who has tied herself to Obama and is highly dependent on his help in turning out the Democratic base, was told whom to pick?

Or more to the point, Obama has always had the ability to short circuit any presidential ambitions Hillary might have had by getting the Department of Justice and Loretta Lynch to prosecute for unambiguous violations of national security laws that forbid government officials to use private email servers. So she chose for VP who she was told to choose. The question therefore was not whether she would be indicted but when.

Comey the first time round did nothing, against all of the evidence and the clear views of the rest of the FBI. So Hillary owed Obama to no end, if for nothing else, for keeping her out of jail, since if Lynch (ie Obama) had said indict, indicted she most surely would have been. This time round, however, Comey has raised the possibility of prosecution. So what do we have, from The NYT even: Loretta Lynch to Accept F.B.I. Recommendations in Clinton Email Inquiry. Really? It’s not just that the law must be obeyed, but must be seen to be obeyed? Think how ridiculous this sounds in the middle of the crimes the Obama administration has routinely undertaken.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over the federal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made about whether to bring charges in the case.

Ms. Lynch said she had decided this spring to defer to the recommendations of her staff and the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest. But the meeting with Mr. Clinton, she acknowledged, had deepened those questions, and she said she now felt compelled to explain publicly her reasoning to try to put the concerns to rest.

“People have a whole host of reasons to have questions about how we in government do our business,” Ms. Lynch said at an Aspen Institute conference in Colorado. “My meeting on the plane with former President Clinton could give them another reason to have questions and concerns.”

Yes, here they are, the most ethical administration in history and would not wish to have any blemish of impropriety on its record. And then from a few days ago, there was even this: Obama has not condemned Comey for raising these issues now.

Earnest [Obama’s press secretary] did reiterate that President Barack Obama thinks Comey is a man of “integrity” who didn’t do anything to “intentionally” influence the impending election when he offered Congress sketchy details about a new line of inquiry into the scandal over Clinton’s use of a private email server at the State Department.

Do you really think that is designed to help Hillary or to set things up to have her in jail once she wins the election?

Third, let me note how incredible it is that 650,000 emails have ended up on Weiner’s laptop, some of them highly classified and none of which he would have been sent by anyone, especially not by his estranged wife, Huma Abedin. So let’s add this in to the rest:

Abedin claims to be at a loss as to how her emails got onto Anthony’s laptop. That surprise could well be genuine. . . .

Weiner’s laptop contains 650,000 emails? If he sent or received 200 emails a day, 365 days a year–a considerable number!–it would take 3,250 days, or just about nine years, to accumulate 650,000 on the laptop’s hard drive. It is not clear–to me, anyway–what would cause such a large number of emails to reside on the laptop, absent some sort of bulk downloads.

Bulk downloads, you say. Who would do it? Who could do it? Huma is out of sight and probably has no idea what took place, while Weiner is facing many years in jail for sexting an underage teenager. Whatever she may know or wish, he is likely to be highly cooperative. He is anyway under lock and key somewhere and is guaranteed never ever to say anything that will upset the official version.

Lastly, with voting machines in place, boxes filled with pre-completed ballots, plenty of multiple voting, plus the illegals, there is no mechanism imaginable that Obama does not have everything sewn away.

Where it comes down to is this. Clinton will win the election and then be forced to resign making Kaine president.

Hillary pro and con

I have come across two articles today, each providing their last set of public advice before the election. For Hillary, we have that NYT political lunatic Thomas Friedman with his vapid and inane Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out. I did hear him out, and it comes down to concern that Trump has been known to eat with his elbows on the table. I only bring it to your attention as evidence that there is no case for Hillary of any substance. You do have to laugh at this, when immigration to the US is almost entirely third-world peasants with no first-world skills who will be living on welfare for generations. Meanwhile, all you folks looking for jobs and a decent incomes, well you will just have to depend on the welfare state.

The smartest thing we can do now is to keep our economy as open and flexible as possible — to get the change signals first and be able to quickly adapt; create the opportunity for every American to engage in lifelong learning, because whatever jobs emerge will require more knowledge; make sure that learning stresses as much of the humanities and human interactive skills as hard sciences; make sure we have an immigration policy that continues to attract the world’s most imaginative risk-takers; and strengthen our safety nets, because this era will leave more people behind.

And on the other side, we have Ann Coulter My Final Argument for Trump. It’s almost as if she had read Friedman’s arguments since she manages to plough through them all, one by one. Her article comes with a language warning. This is her basic premise.

For every argument the media make against Trump, Hillary’s worse.

And from there she goes through thirteen different issues giving both sides. I will start you off with the first, but go read all thirteen.

(1) Eleven years ago, Trump said on a secretly recorded tape that celebrities can do anything — even grab a woman’s p*ssy.

Hillary, born-again Victorian virgin, campaigns with Beyonce, who performs a duet with the words “curvalicious, p*ssy served delicious.”

Hillary is thrilled to have the support of Madonna — who has publicly offered to give blow jobs to anyone who votes for Hillary. (She’ll even remove her teeth!)

Hillary’s campaign has deployed Miley Cyrus to canvas for her — when Cyrus is not busy inviting men in the audience to reach up and grab her p*ssy. (Here’s a video of delicate flower Miley Cyrus in action.)

When Vernon Jordan was asked by CBS’ Mike Wallace what he talked about while golfing with Bill Clinton — aka Hillary’s husband — he answered: “P*ssy.”

Oh, and 11 years before Teddy Kennedy ran for president as the Conscience of the Democratic Party — he killed a girl. After grabbing her p*ssy.

If this p*ssy business is the clincher for you, then you really are too stupid to vote.