Friday, June 28, 2019

Kamala Harris just gave Steve Bannon an orgasm

In Michael Wolff's Seige, Steve Bannon says: “Don’t ever underestimate the Democrats’ ability to overplay their hand and fuck things up." I'm sure Bannon watched the Democratic debate last night. Kamala Harris probably made him cum so hard the janitor had to squeegee the ceiling.

I cannot freakin' buh-LIEVE this. The Democrats, running against a historically unpopular president, are going to get routed in 2020. Why? Because Kamala Harris -- in a play to steal Biden's African American supporters (the Obama-v-Clinton maneuver) -- just made forced busing a progressive litmus test.

Team Trump surely loves this turn of events. They are no doubt dying to make forced busing the issue. If Harris or any other pro-busing candidate takes the nomination, we are in for a rout -- maybe a 50-state rout.

Kamala Harris is, in essence, the new chair of the Trump Re-election Committee. Vladimir Putin is probably coming up with all sorts of new schemes to amplify her message and to funnel money to her campaign.

I was a Harris supporter until last night. She lost me -- forever. If she is the nominee, I will sit out the 2020 election.

Will she win over African American voters? Will they force the Democratic party to embark upon a suicide march? I fear so. That's the impression I've been getting from MSNBC and CNN.

Memories are short, so here's a history lesson: Forced busing has been tried. It failed spectacularly. 

(I shall expand upon points made in an earlier post.)

David Frum's book about the 1970s, How We Got Here, cites a Gallup poll from the early 1970s which said that four percent of whites and nine percent of blacks supported busing. In the 1970s, busing caused riots. In California, the people voted for Proposition 1, which effectively made it illegal.

Democrats destroyed their own brand in the 1970s, when they became linked in the public consciousness with mandatory busing. Remember, this was a time when Watergate and other scandals had the GOP on life support. It can fairly be said that, without mandatory busing, there would have been no Reagan revolution. Busing kept the Republican party alive. Busing created the monster that is modern conservatism.

If the issue of forced busing had not revitalized the Republican brand, this country would have instituted some sort of "single payer" health insurance overhaul in the 1980s. White flight would have been far less prevalent; our cities would have a more robust taxpayer base. The busing experiment extracted a heavy price.

Back in the 1970s, I was a high school student in Los Angeles. Freeways were not quite so crowded as today, but they still resembled parking lots during peak travel times. Mandatory busing presented kids with the prospect of rising well before dawn in order to sit through a two-hour ride -- and at the end of the school day there would be a return trip of similar length. After school programs, including athletic events, could be nightmarish.

White parents who objected to this plan were called racist. Reflexively. Constantly.

The parents would say: "We have no problem with black kids coming to our local school. We have no problem with people of different races learning together and socializing. In fact, we like that idea. But we refuse to make our kid spend four hours a day in traffic."

Racist racist racist! came the response.

And that's when the word "racist" lost its sting.

That's when the accusation stopped triggering an automatic guilt complex. That's when (in my home town) many life-long liberals -- working class liberals in the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood liberals living "south of the Boulevard" -- warmed to the idea of voting Republican.

From Wikipedia:
A 1978 study by the RAND Corporation set out to find why whites were opposed to busing and concluded that it was not because they held racist attitudes, but because they believed it destroyed neighborhood schools and camaraderie and increased discipline problems.[4] It is said that busing eroded the community pride and support that neighborhoods had for their local schools.[4] After busing, 60 percent of Boston parents, both black and white, reported more discipline problems in schools.[4] In the 1968, 1972, and 1976 presidential elections, candidates opposed to busing were elected each time, and Congress voted repeatedly to end court-mandated busing.[24]

Critics point out that children in the Northeast were often bused from integrated schools to less integrated schools.[4] The percentage of Northeastern black children who attended a predominantly black school increased from 67 percent in 1968 to 80 percent in 1980 (a higher percentage than in 1954).[4]

Busing is claimed to have accelerated a trend of middle-class relocation to the suburbs of metropolitan areas.[4] Many opponents of busing claimed the existence of "white flight" based on the court decisions to integrate schools.[4] Such stresses led white middle-class families in many communities to desert the public schools and create a network of private schools.
Throughout the 1970s, the proponents of forced busing kept referencing Brown vs. The Board of Education, continually pretending that there is no legal difference between de facto and de jure segregation. Guess what? They're still trying to pull off that smarmy trick.

There IS no de jure segregation in our schools. It was, thank God, made illegal many years ago. What we have today is a problem of demographics, not law.

Do you believe that forced busing can somehow end the de facto segregation of neighborhoods? Stop fooling yourself. The hard fact is that the busing experiment of the 1970s made demographic separation worse, not better. Consider, for example, what happened in Richmond, Virginia:
In April 1971, in the case Bradley v. Richmond School Board, Federal District Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr., ordered an extensive citywide busing program in Richmond, Virginia. When the massive busing program began in the fall of 1971, parents of all races complained about the long rides, hardships with transportation for extracurricular activities, and the separation of siblings when elementary schools at opposite sides of the city were "paired", (i.e., splitting lower and upper elementary grades into separate schools). The result was further white flight to private schools and to suburbs in the neighboring counties of Henrico and Chesterfield that were predominately white...
The percentage of white students in Richmond city schools declined from 45 to 21 percent between 1960 and 1975 and continued to decline over the next several decades. By 2010 white students accounted for less than 9 percent of student enrollment in Richmond.[40] This so-called "white flight" prevented Richmond schools from ever becoming truly integrated.
Joe Biden was wiser than an army of owls when, decades ago, he tried to distance the Democratic party from the concept of busing. The party was bleeding from a massive self-inflicted wound; he tried to staunch the flow. 

Here's the paradox. Harris and Bernie Sanders want the party to embrace busing at a time when "progressive" colleges are instituting segregated dorms. Why are colleges enforcing segregation? To insure that black students won't have to intermingle with the irredeemable evil known as the white male. See here and here.

You should check out those links. That's the kind of heinous, separatist bullshit that the apostles of Identity politics have foisted on academia: You go over there, and you go over there. Based purely on skin color. Segregation for adults; busing for children. In the postmodernist mind, that kind of insanity is considered woke.

This brouhaha exemplifies why I haven't had the stomach for blogging lately. We are going to lose in November, 2020. I can see it. I can see it so clearly, it's as if it has already happened. I can already feel that loss like a sledgehammer blow to the gut.

Whenever I am tempted to become emotionally invested in this race, that gut-pain hits me so hard I practically double over. I want to vomit.

Let's be blunt. Progressives, feminists, gays, trans people and African Americans have become power-mad. Bannon was right: Progs will always overplay their hand. Progressives are so immersed in their own world, they have no idea how obnoxious they sound to people outside of their world.

They keep telling us that Dems must give up the white working class, formerly the backbone of the party.  Instead, we must somehow use Identity politics to eke out a win.

NO.

We live under the electoral college system. I don't like it, but there it is and we cannot change it. Thus, increasing black/queer/feminist turnout in California and other true-blue states won't change a goddamned thing. Continually kowtowing to the trans community is politically pointless: That community comprises roughly 0.6 percent of the population, although Hollywood is brainwashing this generation into believing otherwise.

Feminists keep pretending that they speak for all women, yet polls consistently indicate that the majority of women despise what feminism has become. Feminism is now controlled by a cabal of power-mad man-haters who have made their home in academia because they could never survive anywhere else. Most women dislike feminism because most women don't hate men. They love their fathers, brothers, husbands and lovers.

The vast majority of Americans favor gender equality, as do I. If feminists truly stood for equality, instead of the resentment-fueled hatred of All Things Male, then the numbers would be equal. In other words, the percentage of people favoring feminism would equal the number of people favoring gender equality. The fact that the numbers are very different indicates that modern feminism has gone very wrong.

The only way  for Dems to win is to appeal to the working class -- including white working class males, who are sick and tired of being hated.

White males are hurting. They are committing suicide in frightening numbers. Feminists and blacks don't care about these suicides -- in fact, they sneer. They applaud white male suicide: Serves 'em right. Conduct the test for yourself and you'll see what I mean. If you mention this suicide epidemic in a progressive forum, feminists will make sneering references to toxic masculinity.

And then they wonder why their party loses elections...!

Don't be surprised if they use the word butthurt to describe working-class white males and their grievances. That has become the chic new term. The last time I dared to bring up the topic of white male suicides, they walloped me with that word more than once: Butthurt. As in: Who the fuck cares whether butthurt white males live or die?

Let that sink in. That's how feminists respond to SUICIDE.

What cruelty. What inhumanity. Identity politics is a brainwashing device -- an indoctrination program designed to remove all vestiges of normal human sympathy.

If you examine the rhetoric of feminists and other advocates of Identity politics, you will see that their end goal is the same as Richard Spencer's: Total segregation. Don't believe me? See here and here and here. And that's just for starters.

Identity politics is fascism's best friend. No, that's not right. Better: Identity politics is fascism -- period. Hitler was the ultimate Identity politician.

Feminism, postmodernism, intersectionality and all other forms of Identity politics are an absolute evil. Indefensible.

As long as Dems champion these vile causes, they will lose. As long as they continue to spit on white males purely on the basis of skin color and sex, they will lose. Dems will start winning again only when they once again champion the working class -- by which I mean all members of the working class.

29 comments:

Gus said...

As I started reading this, I initially was feeling I couldn't agree with you. However, by the end, I think you swayed me, at least where busing is concerned (I already agreed with your views on modern feminism). I was already sure the Dems would loose in 2020 for a variety of reasons, now I have another one. So, thanks? I think? Anyway, you are right that hard core progressives are STILL not really understanding why they lost the last election (without even getting in to the argument about whether or not Hillary was even a progressive, or even a liberal, herself........but I voted for her anyway because I saw very clearly the danger of Trump). They want it all, and they want it now, and it's going to cost them another election. The truth is, even with a candidate as out of touch as Biden, the left would at least have someone to hold accountable. Something that it should be painfully obviously by now will NEVER happen with Trump. I still hope you are wrong (and that I'm wrong as well) about 2020, just as I did about 2016, but it feels like we are heading in the same direction once again. Only now, Trump has the upper hand with gerrymandering now made completely legal by Trump's Supreme Court (which, for all her problems, would not have been the case with Hillary.....assuming she could get anyone past the Senate) and we have no oversight of election hacking by Russia or anyone else that wants to interfere.

Alessandro Machi said...

Joseph, you beat me to the punch. I recall the EXACT SAME THING about busing. The 2 hours on the bus in each direction is what was infuriating parents the most. I have this feeling we are going to find out that Harris was bused like 20 minutes away.

Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...

To listen to you lot, one would think that Benedict Donald had won a Reaganesque landslide victory in 2016, instead of a perfect storm of Black Swan Events, the greatest of which was unprecedented meddling in our elections by a hostile foreign power.

The fact that Trump did "win" somewhat obscures just what a fluke it was, rather like the fact that the Pearl Harbor raid partly* succeeded obscures just what a crazy roll of the dice it was. The Japanese went in expecting to lose at least two of their six big carriers.

Even Putin would have been helpless without the gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the structural favoring of the Waco Kid's "morons" by the Constitutional structure of the Senate and the Electoral College.

The Elephascists are losing the loyalty even of young white people--"progress moves at the speed of a hearse", "and yet, it moves".

You saw the 2018 election results. 2016 was the pale fascists' last hurrah, and they needed foreign help for even that.

Oh, and I'm 56, and I'm as white and male and non-elite as you and Machi, and I've lived my whole life in a "red" state--and yet, somehow, I don't feel threatened by the "Coalition of the Ascendant". I wonder what makes me different.


*("Partly" because they failed to bomb the repair facilities, the submarine pens, or the fuel storage tanks. I exclude not hitting the carriers, because they simply were not present.)

joseph said...

My problem with Harris is Willie Brown. How does she tell men not to expect subordinates to give implied consent when she screwed her way to the top? How to integrate schools is a difficult problem I live in Rockford, Illinois and we have struggled with the issue for years. Of course, nobody would be bused for hours, we're just not that big. https://www.rrstar.com/news/20170806/segregated-again-but-equal

gadfly said...

We need only return to the 2007 Supreme Court decision [PICS v. Seattle School District No. 1] that slammed the door on mandatory busing. Writing for the majority Justice Kennedy wrote, "A compelling interest exists in avoiding racial isolation, an interest that a school district, in its discretion and expertise, may choose to pursue." He went on to say, "What the government is not permitted to do, absent a showing of necessity not made here, is to classify every student on the basis of race and to assign each of them to schools based on that classification."

According to Kennedy, "The cases here were argued upon the assumption, and come to us on the premise, that the discrimination in question did not result from de jure actions." That point was challenged in Justice Breyer's dissent . . . [as] Breyer questioned the utility "of looking simply to whether earlier school segregation was de jure or de facto in order to draw firm lines separating the constitutionally permissible from the constitutionally forbidden use of 'race-conscious' criteria." Justice Breyer noted, "No one here disputes that Louisville's segregation was de jure" and cites a 1956 memo where the Seattle School Board admitted its schools were de jure segregated as well.

De facto as in "in fact," de jure as in "rightfully." “I know that, de jure, this is supposed to be a parking lot, but now that the flood has left four feet of water here, it’s a de facto swimming pool.”

Or perhaps we should forget busing, Kamala, Jim Jones and Willie Brown and pursue Chris Hayes' recent Twitter suggestion:

"We should just ditch this whole primary thing and just have a panel of Never Trump Republicans solomonically decide which Democrat would make them most comfortable."

Michael said...

Joseph, your underlying point is well-taken, but your over reaction is not.

Joseph Cannon said...

Michael, the last time I wrote about the suicide epidemic among white males, I received sneering comments about "butthurt" males.

And you're questioning MY reaction?

Have you been paying attention to what these bastards are doing on college campuses?

Anonymous said...

Progressives, feminists, gays, trans people and African Americans have become power-mad.

That's ridiculously insane. Demanding equal footing in our democracy and equal rights is "power-mad", is it? I posit that white men that put crap statements like that out for actual serious consideration are "power-hoarding","power-retentive", "power-greedy"; Take your pick.

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Joseph Cannon said...

Anoymous, you are the reason Trump is president. You accuse ME of "power hoarding"? What an asshole! I literally -- LITERALLY -- do not have a dollar to my name right now. For years, I wore old boots that someone else cast off. I found 'em outside of a housing project which appeared to be entirely populated by African Americans -- in other words, a black man wouldn't wear them any longer, so I took 'em. At the moment, I am literally THAT close to homelessness. Hell, I will probably find myself on the streets before another year is out. Things are looking grim.

Yet you insist that I have "power" simply because my skin is pale. FUCK YOU, BIGOT. Fuck EVERYONE who judges me or anyone else purely on the basis of skin color.

Reflexive anti-white bigots like YOU are the reason the white working class won't vote Dem any longer. As much as I loathe Trump, I find myself increasingly unable to stomach the party which has claimed my allegiance for six decades.

Progressive talking heads on TV keep assuring us that the white working class is lost forever, that Dems should forget all about winning them back, that the only way to win is to form some sort of black/feminist/gay coalition which can maybe, perhaps, just barely eke out a victory. You know why those talking heads keep spewing that line? Because black people and feminists now control the Democratic party, and they do not want to share power. They know that they will lose that power if the white working class returns to the party they once called home.

I know that what I just said infuriated you. But think about it: We are now in a situation where the Dem nominee is being forced to embrace BUSING, even though busing is despised by the majority of voters. This, despite the fact that everyone knows that a pro-busing candidate absolutely cannot win in November, 2020. Everyone knows that busing will never be popular. It will never happen again.

The Democratic party is, in short, being forced to commit suicide.

THAT, my bigoted friend, is POWER. Yes, actual, serious, world-changing power -- wielded by black people. Power over a major political party. "Do as we demand, even if it means Trump wins! Even if it means climate change dooms the earth! All we care about is having our egos stroked! Nothing else matters!"

How is that NOT an exercise of power?

I know you have been continually brainwashed to see blacks as perpetual victims and whites as perpetual victimizers. But if you can cast off your brainwashing and look at the situation objectively, maybe you'll see things as they truly are.

The brainwashing runs so deep, most progs will offer no disagreement if someone proclaims a white homeless man in Baltimore (i.e., my future self) to be "privileged." In the meantime, black students at Yale -- freakin' YALE -- impudently proclaim themselves "oppressed." (That's real. Look it up on Youtube. The students were citing some bullshit grievance about Halloween costumes.) And no prominent liberal dares to challenge this disgusting racist horseshit, because black people control the party.

It's reached the point where the only liberals I can stand to listen to these days are Stephen Fry, John McWhorter and Helen Pluckrose. A gay guy, a black guy, and a bisexual woman. But they've done a remarkable job of exposing "political correctness" and Identity Politics as the slimy power grab that it obviously is.

Stephen Morgan said...

I'm completely in agreement with Joe on this.

Regarding de jure and de facto, de jure is not rightful, but according to the law. The difference between de jure and defacto segregation is that one is enforced by the law and the other is not. This is a real difference.

Anonymous said...

All the participants in the second debate also supported decriminalizing undocumented immigration, which is essentially open borders. They've just handed Trump a second term.

Chum'sfriend

gadfly said...

Kamala's dad didn't teach daughter not to avoid the truth that she is descended from a Jamaican slave owner.

Harris’ father Donald Harris made a startling admission in an essay he wrote entitled “Reflections of a Jamaican Father” which was published at Jamaica Global Online:

“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).”

Alessandro Machi said...

it appears that Kamala Harris was bused 2.4 miles to school, listed on google as a 10 minute trip, lets call it 20 since she was on a bus. If true, this completely discredits her. The vast majority of parents were ot against 10 to 20 minute busing trips.

Parker said...

Nice post.Keep sharing. Thanks for sharing.

OTE admin said...

Feminism is not "identity politics." It is a political movement based on material reality. A woman is not an identity but a reality. You don't really understand it at all. Queer theory underlies "identity politics and is absolutely anti-feminist.

Kamala Harris cannot get elected dogcatcher outside of California. That is because of her screwing Wille Brown in the 1990s, which in and of itself isn't disqualifying, but his giving her a BMW and two do-nothing six-figure "commission" jobs are. She is so badly tainted, I cannot believe she ever thought she had a prayer of ever being president.

Biden will still be the nominee.

Joseph Cannon said...

There is a difference between what feminism once was (and ought to be again) and what feminism has become. It's a little like Marxism: Like or not, the definition of the word changed between (say) 1883 (the year of Marx's death) and 1933 (Stalin's second purge). Continuing with that metaphor: There WERE completely insane "Marxists" during Marx's lifetime, which is why, toward the end of his life, he announced "I am not a Marxist." Over the next fifty years, the movement was taken over by crazies, manipulators, and ruthless thugs.

My argument is that something similar happened to feminism, within pretty much the same 50-year time frame.

I went into the debate a believer in Kamala Harris. I told my ladyfriend "Watch her. She's the one. She'll be the best and the brightest." As you know, I have my own reasons for believing that Biden must not be the nominee.

And then she came out in favor of BUSING. An issue destined to make the Dem candidate a 50-state loser.

That debate may have been the most depressing, disappointing political experience I've ever had, with the possible exception of election night 2016.

Well, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker looked great during the first debate. So there's still hope. But if THEY come out in favor of busing, all hope is lost.

joseph said...

OTE,

Trump said that powerful men can do anything they want because women let them. How does Harris argue against that when she let a married man 30 years her senior do what he wants to her? If she were a man, she'd be handling drunk driving cases for the city prosecutor.

Anonymous said...

Kamala Harris gave her little busing speech at the debate simply to take down Biden. She was advocating federal intervention into local communities to desegregate schools. Biden defended his stance of leaving the decision up to the communities involved. Well now that she completed her hit job on Biden, Harris is saying that the decision should be up to the local school districts. Huh? Wasn't that Biden's position?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kamala-harris-reverses-her-stance-on-busing-says-it-should-not-be-mandated-2019-07-04

chum'sfriend

Anonymous said...

Good points, even if might be edited for tone. Difficult to talk about such loaded issues.

in re: economic difficulty. Donation made.

Thanks, Joseph for the thought-provoking and informative work.

Tom

Bob Harrison said...

Those of us who live in rural areas yawn at busing. A two hour ride? Routine. For every color. Busing might drive the Democrats to Hell but jumping on reparations will keep them there forever.

Anonymous said...

Maybe a second Trump term is necessary to bring the Dems to their senses. But it will be too late; as Gorby said: history punishes the latecomers.
-brumel

Alessandro Machi said...

Joseph, why don't let you readers decide if they want to donate to your page so you aren't in danger of homelessness? Nobody is going to boss you around just because they made a donation. I assume the real issue is getting some donations but they aren't really enough, but now you feel beholden to those who did give to keep going even if you then can't afford to.

However, you do come up with quality articles, why are you preventing your readers from making easy donations to you?

Gus said...

Probably should leave this on the previous post, but since this is still the most recent, I'll put it here. How did Epstein make his money?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/hedge-funders-have-some-thoughts-on-what-epstein-was-doing.html

D-Jay said...

Hi Joseph

Sorry to use this form to write a personal message, but I just wanted to make sure you're okay.
I recently sent a draft of a third article I thought you might be interested in posting to your Vivaldi e-mail address but haven't heard anything back from you one way or the other. This seems quite unlike you so I a little worried....

David Jay Morris

OTE admin said...

Joseph, that is why Kamala Harris is not just unelectable, but Willie Brown's string-pulling on her behalf is totally disqualifying for the presidency. She can't make her case at all against Trump when she is guilty of much of the same things, albeit on a smaller scale.

Harris isn't even the biggest weapon the GOP have against the Dems. Now we have the utterly STUPID AOC as the perfect lightning rod for the right. She has been called the Sarah Palin of the left, but I would add AOC has serious narcissistic issues on top of it, unlike Palin. Now that Bernie Sanders is all but out of the picture, no worries. AOC is more than filling the void Sanders has left. Ditto for Ilhan Omar, who is almost as big an idiot as AOC.

D-Jay said...

Dear Joseph,

Are you okay?
Nothing posted to the site in weeks and emails go unanswered.
Hope you're not back in the hospital...although the possible alternative that you've just turned away from everything in disgust saddens me almost as much.

In any case, be well!

Regards,
David Jay Morris

stickler said...

Since this post is getting a little old, maybe you can feel justified in your position on the bum's rush of Al Franken. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

b said...

Following further headlines about "Prince Andrew's" alleged engagement in sexual abuse as a guest of his friend the convicted paedophile abuser Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein was today found dead in his prison cell.