How many people LITERALLY have to starve for identity politics?

Steve Sailer commented on a Yew Nork Times article, “FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans. 50,000 Were Delivered.”  Would you believe your federal government awarded a $156 million contract to a business with one – yes, one – employee? Would you believe the contract was set aside for a minority-owned business?

By Juvenal’s math, $156 million would have bought Puerto Ricans about 31 million meals at McDonald’s. With about 3.3 million Puerto Ricans, that is just about 10 meals a piece.

Thanks to identity politics, though, literally 3.3 million Puerto Ricans went hungry.

NYT: An offer the swamp animal can’t refuse…

Juleanna Glover still proudly advertises herself as an advisor to the dying breed of Republican that included George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and ¡Jeb!. The NY Times dropped her a crumb in the form of space in their op-ed page so that she can lay a trap that the remaining swamp animals may find too tempting to refuse.

A third party!

You, Ben Sasse, could be the next Abraham Lincoln! You could exercise “moral authority.” You, Jeff Flake, could build a “morally lucid” third party. You, Bob Corker, could ground that party on “unshakable commitment to democracy, truth and human rights.”

Now, at first you’d have to line up behind Joe Biden, but he’s old, right?

The sad thing is that a Sasse, a Flake, a Corker, a Kasich, might believe the puff pieces the NY Times would deign to publish about them, as part of its broader plan to split the Republican Party in 2020.

Brooks: Ivy League Supremacy

David Brooks wrote another column sneering at the people not good enough to get into Harvard – and who wouldn’t be caught dead there if they could.

Get in your car. If you start in rural New England and drive down into Appalachia or across into the Upper Midwest you will be driving through county after county with few immigrants. These rural places are often 95 percent white. These places lack the diversity restrictionists say is straining the social fabric.

Are these counties marked by high social cohesion, economic dynamism, surging wages and healthy family values? No. Quite the opposite. They are often marked by economic stagnation, social isolation, family breakdown and high opioid addiction. Charles Murray wrote a whole book, “Coming Apart,” on the social breakdown among working-class whites, many of whom live in these low immigrant areas.

That book does not mean what Brooks thinks it means. Murray’s Coming Apart is about the betrayal of working class whites – and the ideal of a middle class America – by the new upper-middle elite who segregate themselves from the working class, send their jobs overseas, import workers to take jobs that remain, and then have the bad grace to condescend to these working class whites.

It is not enough, though, for the Ivy League Supremacists simply to condescend to working class whites. Instead, Brooks and his ilk harbor the age-old temptation to “be as gods.” They want to use their technocratic knowledge of good and their democratic knowledge of evil to play the role of Savior to the world. But they are too soft to make sacrifices of themselves. Instead they send poor whites to hang on the cross.

Sailer: Wouldn’t It be More Moral for America to Brain-Drain Norway More and Haiti Less?

Steve Sailer is, as usual, on point. But our bureaucratic overlords aren’t interested in morality. They are interested in moral superiority. This is a good, apparently, that they can only buy with the currency of white culture.

Dreher: “The Complicated ‘Sh*thole’ Debate”

Rod Dreher, the crunchy-con, posted about “The Complicated ‘Sh*thole’ Debate.” He drew from a reader comment:

I recently moved. My prior residence was in what had been a very nice suburban community, with good schools.

But then post Katrina, the government bought a brand-new large apartment complex (designed for upper middle class) and turned it into Section 8, for the Katrina refugees, mostly. I visited it with church outreach and it quickly became slums, dangerous slums, with lots of police activity. It was just a few miles away.

Then the nearby neighborhoods became increasingly Section 8. The schools declined. The crime, including murders, increased. SWAT would be on my street once a year. Friends kept moving away.

Another new apartment complex opened, much closer. It was a luxury complex with high rates. But it didn’t fill, so it went 25% Section 8. Then 50%. Then 100%. Today it a slum, with massive police interaction every day.

…

Anyway, issues of class, race, and culture are complicated, especially when it isn’t politically correct to mention demographics associated with education outcomes and crime, independent of poverty.

Dreher appears to share the reader’s judgment that these issues are “complicated.” Juvenal disagrees. They are not complicated, some just do not want to face them.

(Dreher, in particular, seems conflicted on this issue. His book The Benedict Option calls for Christians to withstand the coming anarchy by building and maintaining their own institutions and culture, yet he doesn’t want to get his hands dirty with the enforcement of borders and of an immigration policy designed to protect national institutions and culture?)

What actually IS complicated? Building and maintaining a civilization that is generally peaceful, pleasant, and productive. This is a privilege – be it white or male or whatever other pejorative might be applied – that Juvenal does not take lightly. Alas, the moral superiority so desired by our Washington DC elite does not come cheaply; it can only be bought at the cost of the American inheritance.

 

Wallowing in the ****hole

In light of the media’s most recent effort to flush President Donald Trump down the, ahem, ****hole, Juvenal recalls that his namesake raised the perennial question: Who will watch the watchers?

Have you seen the news since President Trump’s alleged gaffe? It is a veritable ****storm. CNN’s red button must have broken during Don Lemon’s segment, and the Washington Post, even four days after the meeting, is still gleefully wallowing in ****, like so many pigs from Orwell’s Animal Farm, running no less than five front page articles on the topic.

Juvenal is beginning to suspect the media wants us to be talking about this. It’s almost like they’ve conspired to create an echo chamber we can’t escape.

President Trump admitted to using “tough” language about a “very poor and troubled country,” but he denied calling it a “****hole.” Maybe he did use that term, and maybe he didn’t.

Juvenal wonders if, say, the Crown Prince and Princess of the Acela Class inbred media, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, would leave the swamp and celebrate their union in the tropical paradise of Port-au-Prince.

(But let’s be honest for a minute; does any one of us think, that if a member of the Acela Corridor media elite was told they were being sent on an extended assignment to Haiti, they wouldn’t think, “Not that ****hole!”)

Either way, the key lesson is that even if President Trump didn’t do something – like urinate on a bevy of Russian prostitutes – the mainstream (no pun intended) media has proven it can conspire to publish the most patently ridiculous stories and force the rest of us to wallow in their filth.

The media is such an important institution that it is often referred to as the “fourth branch” of government. When this fourth branch of government abuses its power, what institution is there to provide the “checks and balances” that keep the others in line? Who will watch our media watchers?

Those still looking for reasons why Donald Trump was elected President should keep in mind that Americans understand their media swamp dwellers love nothing more than flinging ****. The Donald has proven, over a long career in the media’s eye, that at least some of that **** doesn’t stick.

Google’s Search for Reality Resulted in Zero Hits

James Damore and David Gudeman may have been scrubbed from Google’s employee search results, but the lawsuit they filed against Goo-lag is full of one hit after another.

The Federalist has a list of the outrages, with each being out-ragier than the last. But one particular episode – a footnote – struck Juvenal’s attention.

Juvenal can’t discern whether this “dragonkin” is wingless, but it could well be yellow-scaled! Either way, if it hasn’t happened yet, soon this dragonkin will be Google’s employee of the month!

Apparently one feature of Goo-lag’s internal indoctrination camp is an internal mailing list “catering to employees with alternative lifestyles, including furries, polygamy, transgenderism, and plurality, for the purpose of discussing sexual topics.”

[Aside: Juvenal was under the impression that discussing sexual topics with co-workers was not a subject for interoffice message boards, but a crime punishable by the ritual of termination, public humiliation, career obliteration, and a marking for castration (to be applied, *ex post facto*, as soon as the Kamala Harris Department of Justice locates that power under the perineum… err, penumbra… of the Eighth Amendment). Alas, it now becomes clear that this penalty for discussing sexual topics with co-workers is just a pretext to get rid of the white guy.]

A helpful footnote in the lawsuit explains to those, like Juvenal, who have not yet caught up to what the “plural” kids are doing. Apparently they are living in the land of make-believe. Defining “plurality,” the legal brief uses the example of “an employee who sexually identifies as ‘a yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin’ and ‘an expansive ornate building’ [who] presented a talk entitled ‘Living as a Plural Being’ at an internal company event.”

This is Google, folks: Controls what information we are allowed to access, but is so detached from reality that it celebrates employees who are delusional while blacklisting those who want open discussion.

Tireder! Poorer! Huddlier!

The Los Angeles Times reports: “Brutal crackdown has gay and transgender Egyptians asking: Is it time to leave?”

This is the kind of story that makes the left reflexively invoke what Steve Sailer calls the “Zeroth Amendment” – an imagined provision of the Constitution that so fully realizes our American ideals that it is realer than the actual Constitution, and that grants every tired, poor, or huddled mass of humanity the inalienable right to emigrate to the United States.

Now Juvenal is not a big fan of crackdowns; they just take so much energy. So he hopes this crackdown cracks up, and the queens and fairies of Egypt can get back to having a gay old time together.

But in any event, he hopes this crackdown doesn’t lead to the State Department offering refugee status to Egypt’s gays and transgenders. America’s bakers and florists are busy enough fighting not to serve the gays and transgenders we already have.

#ShittyMediaMen

BuzzFeed reports that the girls in the newsroom are circulating a list about what the boys will do. It’s totally gross.

Some of these shitty media men, whose names are listed in red, are accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Others are accused of offering “weird lunch dates”. It’s totally creepy.

If only there was some Pence… I mean, Prince… out there who respected women enough not to invite them into a situation where there could be any possibility of a weird lunch date, or other form of sexual violence. Wouldn’t he be dreamy?

ESPN: Back to the Plantation

Juvenal prefers the news media when it is breaking news rather than making news. But the sports network that perhaps should be known as ESPCN just can’t seem to keep itself out of the headlines. Or rather its black anchors can’t keep out of the headlines.

Last month, Jemele Hill managed to insult the President of the United States, and the sixty three million Americans who voted for him with this tweet:

Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017

If she says so. She doubled down with this tweet:

He is unqualified and unfit to be president. He is not a leader. And if he were not white, he never would have been elected

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017

 

An ironic proclamation, coming from Jemele Hill.

She made national news for her twitstorm, that is tweetstorm, and apologized. But Juvenal thinks she had her fingers crossed for that apology, because she’s at it again. Responding to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who has told his team they are not permitted to protest the American flag or national anthem, Hill once again contracted Twitterrhea and told those who follow her bird droppings that they should boycott firms that advertise with the Cowboys.

There is no possible way that such a ploy could end well for Hill, as her network is in a widely publicized ratings nosedive, and desperately needs advertising revenue to recoup the costs of its $15 billion contract with the NFL. She got off easy with a two-week suspension.

But before the network could heal from its second black eye, one of ESPCN’s biggest names, Michael Wilbon, forced the network back into the ring, likening the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones to a plantation owner. Wait, the Jerry Jones who is making nearly two dozen black players millionaires this year alone, has a plantation owner mentality because he expects those on his payroll to act professionally and to respect their customers?

Why is it that people like Hill and Wilbon keep trying to drag us back to the plantation? Juvenal suspects that it is because on the plantation, the evil white man was responsible for everything bad that happened. And this is how the anthem protest crowd and their media enablers think. Big Mike Brown robs a convenience store, roughs up its owner, and gets killed attempting to murder a police officer? Blame whitey. Anthony Lamar Smith is dealing heroin, nearly runs over a police officer while fleeing, endangers countless innocent bystanders on a high speed chase, then is killed when leaning over to pick up a revolver? Blame whitey. It’s a simple game to play. But don’t be surprised when whitey decides not to spend his advertising dollars on that game.