tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post811305228702752495..comments2024-03-29T11:03:56.085-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Trump, Dictatorship and Competing With An Illiberal LeftDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5600536503484405462016-06-14T04:00:27.866-04:002016-06-14T04:00:27.866-04:00Trump- Netanyahoos next president?Trump- Netanyahoos next president?Freigeisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11244016324436544772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-16002365442139502942016-01-29T08:06:30.791-05:002016-01-29T08:06:30.791-05:00Daniel,
Kudos for lumping non profits in with the ...Daniel,<br />Kudos for lumping non profits in with the other scoundrels.<br /><br />But I wish that my smart set (my term of endearment for the writers I read regularly) would stop distinguishing between "media" and "academia."<br /><br />College is exactly like any other subscribed-to magazine or televised news show: (1) tuition is academe-speak for subscription, (2) professor is academe-speak for news-caster (or weather-man), (3) a class is academe-speak for a situated group of subscriber-peers, (4) a degree (or "matriculation") is just academe-speak for the shiny bauble the magazine awards to its subscribers for, well, subscribing. Used to be Readers Digest would send you a porcelain doll or a miniature sailing ship just for paying for its copy.<br /><br />I'll leave on a final note: whenever an organization creates such specialized labels to describe mundane things, like "regents" used to denote board members, for instance, that organization is signalling that it's mission depends on pretending to be something that it is not. Strip away all the semantic drapery and you will see that the academy is just another media company.<br />-SteveazAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-43712013453113533102016-01-28T19:30:50.120-05:002016-01-28T19:30:50.120-05:00"Restoring the Constitution is going to mean ..."Restoring the Constitution is going to mean prying an illiberal left from power across a wide network of institutions."<br /><br />Thanks for the laugh. The constitution was lost from day one.<br /><br />Its purpose was to bail out the holders of the debts of the government created by the Articles of Confederation: the top 3%.<br />By the time Jefferson completed the illegal Louisiana Purchase, all hope was lostBill Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-36824361345583799642016-01-02T08:03:47.606-05:002016-01-02T08:03:47.606-05:00Daniel,
There are some places where the left is s...Daniel,<br /><br />There are some places where the left is so strongly entrenched, it can never, ever be ousted. The Pacific states and the Northeast (from Maryland on up) are examples. California being the leftist goal taken to its ultimate conclusion - a one party, semi-totalitarian Socialist state, where white non-Hispanics are vilified and marginalized, the left controls completely all government branches as well as all media and educational institutions, and where "democracy" becomes a choice at election time between a Progressive Tweedle-Dee and an even further leftist Tweedle Dum.<br /><br />The point being that Trump, or anybody else, cannot "save" all of America. Some of it is gone for good.<br /><br />We will have to accept that any attempt by the right to gain power will result in a break up of the United States and possibly a bloody civil war.<br /><br />I am prepared to live with that, but I do not know how many others are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-31043743277164986502015-12-31T18:38:05.355-05:002015-12-31T18:38:05.355-05:00What we need is a pinochet or francisco franco. We...What we need is a pinochet or francisco franco. We need above all else to delegitimize the idea that everyone has the right to vote and everyone has the right to have children at everyone else's expense. We need to have the jews and gentiles come together to demonstrate there are ways in between the new left and nazism.epochehusserlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62122552828511729362015-12-28T20:15:37.448-05:002015-12-28T20:15:37.448-05:00Voting for Trump is McAullife at Bastogne. Sociali...Voting for Trump is McAullife at Bastogne. Socialism, Islam, multiculturalism - "Nuts."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25193345691040829382015-12-28T13:45:30.054-05:002015-12-28T13:45:30.054-05:00"Please, let us all determine to solve this d..."Please, let us all determine to solve this dilemma with Reaganistic class and decorum."<br /><br />sorry, this is a losing strategy at this pointAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110209455298898002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-64792952542443267882015-12-27T23:57:34.529-05:002015-12-27T23:57:34.529-05:00Why do you compare what Trump faces to Cincinnatus...Why do you compare what Trump faces to Cincinnatus? Cincinnatus was early republic and faced troubles from without.<br />Sulla was late republic and faced trouble within favoring the outliers coming in for free stuff.<br /><br />Daniel. You have the intellectual might to follow out this line of thought. <br /><br />Sulla succeeded in restoring republican institutionalization on its face, and retired; but ultimately it was too late for his republic as it may be too late for ours. <br /><br />Should the fed-up voters go with Trump and he is inaugurated, what could he possibly do that Sulla failed to do that indeed could restore the republic? <br /><br />Won't the Progs have ultimately succeeded in taking us where the wish to go once the dictatorial pattern is sustained?Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75223332473367374872015-12-27T14:48:19.268-05:002015-12-27T14:48:19.268-05:00Just another MODERATED/CENSORED siteJust another MODERATED/CENSORED siteRalphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18305077992774795335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-50947042676102463992015-12-27T14:47:49.031-05:002015-12-27T14:47:49.031-05:00CRAP
Where are these constitutional Republicans? ...CRAP<br /><br />Where are these constitutional Republicans? There are not any or they wouldnt be funding open borders and obamacare...<br />THEY WOULD HAVE IMPEACHED THE USUSRPER!!<br /><br />They dont exist - they are too the LEFT.......Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18305077992774795335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29074495112822383562015-12-26T23:35:09.246-05:002015-12-26T23:35:09.246-05:00To Daniel, you said:
<< But it would take t...To Daniel, you said:<br /><br /><< But it would take two things... 1. An understanding that the left is the enemy, it's not "incompetence" or "bad policies", that must be defeated.<br />I see no sign that Trump gets point 1... >><br /><br />Make no mistake, Trump gets it. I have watched most, if not all of Trump's speeches and have been studying him since he announced. I was torn between Cruz and Trump, so my motivation was to discern if Trump is pathological with his narcissism or simply your garden-variety egocentric businessman who truly loves his country and is motivated by frustration. (I have advanced training in behavioral analysis).<br /><br />My conclusion is that he loves being underestimated (typical of blonds, I might add. :-) He instinctively knows that a direct and public conversation about this "incompetent" vs. "treasonous" question is simply not in his best interests right now. Not yet. <br /><br />As just one example, on several occasions during his early speeches he has thrown out those cursory "Obama is incompetent" statements, only to follow it up with words such as, "...I mean, what ELSE could it be?" or "I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here." Each time he used these follow-up words, he paused and seemed to be gauging the crowd's reaction. OH yeah; he knows. But he also knows that timing is everything in high-stakes competition, and he plans on winning. <br /><br />A major component of his love for winning seems to be outsmarting his competition. No doubt, you've noticed that he is always a few steps ahead of his enemies in this prolonged chess game. There was an article a few days ago in the LATimes where a woman who's known Donald for 40 years claims that the word "chaos" does NOT characterize how he operates. I hate that it was published right now because, speaking as one of those stereotyped dumb blondes, I know first-hand the advantages of being misunderestimated. :-)<br /><br />Great article, btw. I love your work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-42493987877443060112015-12-26T16:58:32.984-05:002015-12-26T16:58:32.984-05:00The problem is better shown in this little fact. D...The problem is better shown in this little fact. During the Regan years Dems controlled Congress. All of Reagan's proposals were called "dead on arrival". Yet here we are 30 years later. The demographics are opposite. Yet Obama got the Republicans to roll over and give him everything. How is this possible unless Reagan was an abberation and we never really had an oppisition? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808496154931412706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-49252638865321856772015-12-26T15:33:17.452-05:002015-12-26T15:33:17.452-05:00we are Rome, it is 49 BC, and Trump is about to cr...we are Rome, it is 49 BC, and Trump is about to cross the Rubicon. <br /><br />Cruz is Cato the Younger--and it is no accident that our Founding Fathers thought the best play ever was "Cato, a Tragedy." <br /><br />Trump will in all likelihood win, and then be assassinated, either in fact or for all practical purposes. We will then keep the trappings of small-r republican government as Rome did, but we will become an executive dictatorship. For all practical purposes this has been the case since 2009, and once that corner was turned, turning it back is well nigh impossible. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20823053753748803402015-12-26T14:46:19.606-05:002015-12-26T14:46:19.606-05:00Interesting that nothing much is said about/heard ...Interesting that nothing much is said about/heard from Sarah Palin these days. The GOPe consultants must have understandably freaked out over her VP acceptance speech (by far the most compelling rhetoric from any quarter in the 2008 campaign... go re-read it, it's online!) and even though she kicked McCain briefly over the top in the first post-convention polls, the Rethug establishment twisted enough arms to leave her gutted and bleeding on the floor within days... aided and abetted with the greatest relish by the Soviet Media.jeyihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16895211028160718377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21130704489635129812015-12-26T14:36:39.670-05:002015-12-26T14:36:39.670-05:00Donald Trumps bluster/brashness is superseded only...Donald Trumps bluster/brashness is superseded only by extreme narcissism. He is flimflam hucksterism in spades! If The Donald is the best hope to right the Republican Ship we will all need more life vests. Please, let us all determine to solve this dilemma with Reaganistic class and decorum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-57279780597393506732015-12-26T13:12:39.496-05:002015-12-26T13:12:39.496-05:00I have put forth an argument as to why we cannot r...I have put forth an argument as to why we cannot return America to its former glory. Go here to read it. Would love to get any comments if you find it interesting. <br /><br />http://givinguponamerica.blogspot.co.uk/p/giving-up-on-america-or-how-i-learned.htmlTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15980704748112298933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76114302739020302462015-12-26T11:21:40.000-05:002015-12-26T11:21:40.000-05:00In 1972 the Democrat party abandoned me. Recently...In 1972 the Democrat party abandoned me. Recently, the Republican party abandoned me. Now, sadly, all I have left is Donald Trump. Joe PolowskiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48659120562065154892015-12-26T08:47:38.840-05:002015-12-26T08:47:38.840-05:00I'm cool with Trump. He strikes me as a man wh...I'm cool with Trump. He strikes me as a man who has had a plan for most of his life. Being wealthy, young and eligible in NYC during the days of the Studio 54 lifestyle must have offered Don Trump tremendous opportunity for self-destruction but he made it through and prospered. <br /><br />Here is Trump talking with Larry King at the 1988 Republican convention. He come across as a very amiable young man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usb0iE5WiZI&feature=youtu.be<br /><br />Another thing: Trump is the kind of man that the Founders were. Wealthy, intelligent, competent, highly accomplished. Politics were not the first career choice of the Founders. Politics were something the Founders took up in defense of their own Liberty and the Liberties of their countrymen. The medium and the message is different today--not nearly as eloquent & articulate as the Founders. Trump's love of Liberty is as genuine as the Founders. Is there any evidence of tyranny & oppression in Trump's business practice or in the way Trump treats his employees? I daresay if there were, the Left Propaganda Complex would be shouting it from the rooftops 24/7.<br /><br />I was a teenager during the Sixties. Every evening the family would sit and watch Cronkite or Huntley & Brinkley describe the Leftist atrocities being committed on-campus and in the workplaces. The turmoil seemed endless and it was oppressive. It remains so. The Relentless Left believes Karl Marx with the same ardent fervor as a devout Muslim believes the Koran. Muslims & Leftists both use Death & the threat of Death to achieve their ends. What is oppression & tyranny & loss of Liberty but a slow, agonizing death?<br /><br />Donald Trump is no longer a young man. In his career he has dealt more or less successfully with some of the most corrupt & difficult people on earth. The final task Trump has set for himself will be the biggest task of all. Trump has said as much himself. <br /><br />I pray Trump Godspeed and I hope Donald John Trump will avail himself of whatever counsel Daniel Greenfield & David Horowitz & many other thinkers & writers of goodwill may choose to provide if they are invited to do so. I believe Trump believes deeply in the genuine excellence of human accomplishment that the Constitutional Republic of The United States has made possible in its relatively brief history. I hope Donald Trump gets a chance to make good on the deal he is offering to We The People.LONDONBACHhttp://www.thesupernaturalist.com/MARRIAGE.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75454724032862994532015-12-26T00:26:36.424-05:002015-12-26T00:26:36.424-05:00Although the Republican Congress has given Obama a...Although the Republican Congress has given Obama a carte blanche, I doubt they'd do the same for Trump. They hate other Republicans more than they hate leftists. Elisheva Hannah Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061377724926154037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-64874474713424532142015-12-26T00:03:18.486-05:002015-12-26T00:03:18.486-05:00Absolutely the most cogent description of the Left...Absolutely the most cogent description of the Left's MO that I have ever seen; lots of people have kind of danced around the concept, but Daniel nails it.<br /><br />As suggested in his additional comments, the Constitutional order can be saved through legal Constitutional means, but it requires a President (and Congress and Courts) willing to do it -- or at least quit actively undermining the Constitution.AesopFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27579245091847469502015-12-25T21:24:12.690-05:002015-12-25T21:24:12.690-05:00The GOP establishment plays the Washington General...The GOP establishment plays the Washington Generals to the Democrats' Globtrotters. <br /><br />There is no simple answer, as the Democrat base is more interested in outcome than process (I live among them in Westchester County, NY, so I hear the end justifying the means all the time). As long as the SCOTUS continues to provide cover, the base will have all the ammunition it needs to justify extra-constitutional governance. And the GOP establishment plays the lip-service game to keep its high-paying position as the fake opposition in the DC establishment - they get paid for being the foil that allows the Democrats to play to the baseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61834235186536552122015-12-25T21:21:31.625-05:002015-12-25T21:21:31.625-05:00"where the left hides"???
I think they a..."where the left hides"???<br />I think they are stealth aristocrats of the socialist collective. As their leaders say, "one issue at a time". They don't need a violent, communistic revolution. They build from local issues and then make it a national issue.<br /><br />The only thing that allows them the ability to succeed is "the power of the purse". I've maintained since I can remember that the income-tax amendment was the overthrow of the American Revolution and the beginning of the end. Defund their strategy and they'd be left with shining shoes on a street corner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-11310068729150427792015-12-25T19:50:52.662-05:002015-12-25T19:50:52.662-05:00I find it a little amusing that everyone, even Tru...I find it a little amusing that everyone, even Trump supporters denigrate him with the "he has no credibility, but screw everyone else and the parties" attitude. <br /><br />You want him to be this media portrayed clown so bad that you are agreeing he is one 'because he's Trump' ; yet what proof has he given you beyond his boisterous methods that this is so?<br /><br />Some of us who do support him have that mentality sans the 'he has no credibility' mantra. <br /><br />We hope he will be the bloodless revolution that we need to purge us of our virus of bureaucratic tyranny. <br /><br />I think and believe that Trump would do just that. I am placing a a bit of faith in his business acumen as it should apply to a citizen government; if it doesn't work, remove it, kill it, throw it away.<br /><br />I hope he wins and uses a daily bully pulpit to berate, belittle and destroy the cronies and political nobles. <br /><br />Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208056266601282059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-882788752267685802015-12-25T16:11:52.744-05:002015-12-25T16:11:52.744-05:00Good article, as usual, and I was surprised that I...Good article, as usual, and I was surprised that I found all the comments made good sense. One thing not to worry about is the "suitcase nuke". A truck nuke maybe, with the weapon loaded by a tractor. The lightest nuke that might do significant damage would probably weigh no less than 400 lbs.<br />Ryan's budget showed us that the first priority of Republican office-holders is re-election and the funds to pay for it. They work for the lobbyists willing to put up the cash, and everyone here seems to understand that.<br />Solving that first is the only way we can be heard. Without a voice, we'll never accomplish cleaning-up all levels of government, education and the Media.<br />The Left, following Communist tactics, has compromised education, history, knowledgeable voters, and the purveyors of opinion. They're way ahead of us, and comfortably on the road to totalitarianism. It is a mysterious death-wish they have come to love.<br />I support Cruz, who has demonstrated love of the Constitution, but Trump will do in the "pinch" we're in, and I'll take that chance.<br />Regards,denisOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6936586641939166012015-12-25T15:29:27.390-05:002015-12-25T15:29:27.390-05:00Again, sounds like a lot of unskilled, unemployed ...Again, sounds like a lot of unskilled, unemployed liberals on the welfare lines...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com