September 24th, 2018 6:24 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump’s critics these days led by Anonymous, author of a New York Times op-ed and Bob Woodward, author of a new Trump book accuse him of being an erratic, unpredictable leaderwho inhabits an alternate universe that will destroy the economy, end the Western alliance and start World War III.
What planet do these critics inhabit? There has never been a more predictable, more steadfast or more constant president than Donald J. Trump. In public policy, he is the gold standard in staying the course.
In trade, Trump said he’d get out of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and he did. He said he’d re-negotiate NAFTA and he’s doing it. He said he’d impose tariffs on any country that didn’t agree to his terms and he has.
Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau’s escape from Trump’s trade trap is calling a snap election
William Watson: Is Trump rational? Unfortunately for Canada, the answer is yes.
Lawrence Solomon: Trump just unveiled the new trade world order. Canada not included
In the economy Trump said he’d cut taxes and he did, in spades with the first major tax reform bill in 30 years. He said heâd lower the unemployment rate and it’s now down to levels not seen in decades, while reaching historic lows for minorities. He said he’d bring back manufacturing plants and they’re coming back and without the “magic wand” former president Barack Obama mockingly said he’d need. He said he’d achieve four-per-cent economic growth and in the last quarter it reached 4.2 per cent. He said he’d cut red tape and he has. 860 regulatory actions have been scrapped or shelved since he became president, making him the biggest deregulator of all time.
In foreign policy Trump said he’d rebuild the military and he’s doing it through a massive funding bill he got through Congress. He said he’d recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and he has. He said he’d demolish ISIS and he’s doing it. He said he’d tear up the Iran nuclear deal and he did. He said he’d quit the Paris climate accord and he has.
In domestic policy Trump said heâd appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court and lower courts and he has, setting records for his number of appointments in the process. He said heâd approve the Keystone XL pipeline and he did. He said heâd repeal and replace Obamacare and heâs been doing it, step by step. He said heâd repeal Net Neutrality and he did. He said heâd work to get the black vote and he has â the latest Rasmussen poll shows him with 36-per-cent approval among likely black voters, compared to the eight per cent who voted for him in 2016.
Critics mistake his tactics, which are short-term and subject to change, for his strategy
In immigration he said heâd impose a travel ban; when he initially failed he tried again, and then again, until finally the Supreme Court sided with him. He said he wanted to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants and he initially did, and now that they have risen again heâs trying again. He said heâd build a wall on Americaâs southern border and, though heâs been mostly stymied to date, heâs trying and trying again there, too.
Trumpâs predictability can best be seen by his formal record in keeping promises. By the end of his first year, according to the Heritage Foundation, he had kept a stunning 64 per cent of the 334 promises made in his Mandate for Leadership pledge. Criticize him for his policies or his personality or his hair â that would be defensible. Criticize him for being unhinged and unpredictable in executing his policies and youâre the one who needs a checkup.
In one sense, Trump truly is unpredictable: He thinks outside the box, making him unpredictable to those without imagination, and unsuccessful to those who lack the equanimity and magnanimity to step back and grant him his policy achievements. Calling North Korean leader Kim âRocket Manâ one day and lavishing him with praise another isnât being unpredictable, itâs keeping your eye on the ball, which is to get Kim to the negotiating table to achieve denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.
Trumpâs critics mistake his tactics, which are short-term and subject to change, for his strategy â getting to the long-term deals that heâs after. Heâll threaten a country with tariffs, then zig with an offer to negotiate, then zag by threatening it with doubled tariffs, all with the ultimate end in mind. Or heâll publicly browbeat his military allies, threatening to end treaties, and using trade relations as leverage, to convince them to contribute more to their own defence, and to the common defence of the free world. These tactics may be diplomatic no-nos, but they succeeded, and in short order, in contrast to the decades of failure endured by Trumpâs White House predecessors. If itâs unpresidential to keep America safe and return it to prosperity, America can use more unpresidents.
Trump isnât all over the map and the sky isnât falling. Trump is a steady hand, always down to earth, and for anyone who cares to compare his promises with his results, heâs highly predictable.
LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com
September 24th, 2018 6:24 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump’s critics these days led by Anonymous, author of a New York Times op-ed and Bob Woodward, author of a new Trump book accuse him of being an erratic, unpredictable leaderwho inhabits an alternate universe that will destroy the economy, end the Western alliance and start World War III.
What planet do these critics inhabit? There has never been a more predictable, more steadfast or more constant president than Donald J. Trump. In public policy, he is the gold standard in staying the course.
In trade, Trump said he’d get out of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and he did. He said he’d re-negotiate NAFTA and he’s doing it. He said he’d impose tariffs on any country that didn’t agree to his terms and he has.
Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau’s escape from Trump’s trade trap is calling a snap election
William Watson: Is Trump rational? Unfortunately for Canada, the answer is yes.
Lawrence Solomon: Trump just unveiled the new trade world order. Canada not included
In the economy Trump said he’d cut taxes and he did, in spades with the first major tax reform bill in 30 years. He said heâd lower the unemployment rate and it’s now down to levels not seen in decades, while reaching historic lows for minorities. He said he’d bring back manufacturing plants and they’re coming back and without the “magic wand” former president Barack Obama mockingly said he’d need. He said he’d achieve four-per-cent economic growth and in the last quarter it reached 4.2 per cent. He said he’d cut red tape and he has. 860 regulatory actions have been scrapped or shelved since he became president, making him the biggest deregulator of all time.
In foreign policy Trump said he’d rebuild the military and he’s doing it through a massive funding bill he got through Congress. He said he’d recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and he has. He said he’d demolish ISIS and he’s doing it. He said he’d tear up the Iran nuclear deal and he did. He said he’d quit the Paris climate accord and he has.
In domestic policy Trump said heâd appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court and lower courts and he has, setting records for his number of appointments in the process. He said heâd approve the Keystone XL pipeline and he did. He said heâd repeal and replace Obamacare and heâs been doing it, step by step. He said heâd repeal Net Neutrality and he did. He said heâd work to get the black vote and he has â the latest Rasmussen poll shows him with 36-per-cent approval among likely black voters, compared to the eight per cent who voted for him in 2016.
Critics mistake his tactics, which are short-term and subject to change, for his strategy
In immigration he said heâd impose a travel ban; when he initially failed he tried again, and then again, until finally the Supreme Court sided with him. He said he wanted to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants and he initially did, and now that they have risen again heâs trying again. He said heâd build a wall on Americaâs southern border and, though heâs been mostly stymied to date, heâs trying and trying again there, too.
Trumpâs predictability can best be seen by his formal record in keeping promises. By the end of his first year, according to the Heritage Foundation, he had kept a stunning 64 per cent of the 334 promises made in his Mandate for Leadership pledge. Criticize him for his policies or his personality or his hair â that would be defensible. Criticize him for being unhinged and unpredictable in executing his policies and youâre the one who needs a checkup.
In one sense, Trump truly is unpredictable: He thinks outside the box, making him unpredictable to those without imagination, and unsuccessful to those who lack the equanimity and magnanimity to step back and grant him his policy achievements. Calling North Korean leader Kim âRocket Manâ one day and lavishing him with praise another isnât being unpredictable, itâs keeping your eye on the ball, which is to get Kim to the negotiating table to achieve denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.
Trumpâs critics mistake his tactics, which are short-term and subject to change, for his strategy â getting to the long-term deals that heâs after. Heâll threaten a country with tariffs, then zig with an offer to negotiate, then zag by threatening it with doubled tariffs, all with the ultimate end in mind. Or heâll publicly browbeat his military allies, threatening to end treaties, and using trade relations as leverage, to convince them to contribute more to their own defence, and to the common defence of the free world. These tactics may be diplomatic no-nos, but they succeeded, and in short order, in contrast to the decades of failure endured by Trumpâs White House predecessors. If itâs unpresidential to keep America safe and return it to prosperity, America can use more unpresidents.
Trump isnât all over the map and the sky isnât falling. Trump is a steady hand, always down to earth, and for anyone who cares to compare his promises with his results, heâs highly predictable.
LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com
The hard thing to swallow is the lack of agency of all but a few. The rest are just gene machines, riders of propaganda on an elephant of r-biased genes.
The hard thing to swallow is the lack of agency of all but a few. The rest are just gene machines, riders of propaganda on an elephant of r-biased genes.
—“Basically, I consider liberal deniers of truth to be like retarded people—and as such, they should be treated as such, and although they should be allowed to live, they get no opinions on anything of import AND shouldn’t have any rights to anything determinative.”— Michael Val Hietter
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_SxeO6JU-xg/42266850_10156654890892264_5840317299562643456_n_10156654890887264.jpg Jonathan WilburOne thing that makes me really mad about the politicization of racial science (inb4 race is innately political; you know what I mean) is the lack of scientific and precise racial cladistics. Particularly for the purposes of modeling people in databases or software, the only formalized racial cladistics to which I have access is the census bureau’s broad and specious seven categories, which absurdly clusters Southern Asian and Northern Asian, for instance, which we know from pedestrian observation are categorically different.Sep 22, 2018, 11:51 AMJonathan WilburSo I love stuff like this. I wish we had a formally defined taxonomic hierarchy of races.Sep 22, 2018, 11:51 AMDon LemonatiI bet there are parts of India with less Dravidians than Canada and BritainSep 22, 2018, 12:05 PMJoe Boyumleave no street left behindSep 22, 2018, 12:07 PMCurt Doolittlewe do. it’s on my site. I maintain it.Sep 22, 2018, 12:20 PMCurt DoolittleThe principle issue is that India is a race-in-the-making but it won’t get made in modernity.Sep 22, 2018, 12:22 PMThiago Modelborn Pereira-BerthoVeddoidSep 22, 2018, 12:25 PMVincent PicciottiMy heavily Jewish grandmother traveled the entire country throughout a month
She said it was amazing how much the India on the border with west Pakistan was grateful of the British rule to remove the Arabs
Many will still adhere to British customs and style and traditionsSep 22, 2018, 12:26 PMVincent PicciottiMakes me think of I believe the Bantu tribe of South Africa who liked apartheid do to their separation from the ZuluSep 22, 2018, 12:28 PMAdam J. Meekthe castes function as mini races. India is a forge for many breeds of men.Sep 22, 2018, 12:31 PMErnest HeideggerRegress this map with per capita GDP pls.
Caucasoid supremacy rears its ugly head!Sep 22, 2018, 12:31 PMSteven GantI need proof.Sep 22, 2018, 12:32 PMSteven Ganthttps://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-most-prosperous-and-most-backward-area-in-IndiaSep 22, 2018, 12:36 PMErnest Heidegger”Most prosperous” and “most backwards” are misleading. Regressing it across the board paints a better picture overall.Sep 22, 2018, 12:37 PMArno KælandVincent Picciotti Bantu is not a tribe but an ethnicity (or linguistic group). The Zulu, for example, are Bantus.Sep 22, 2018, 12:41 PMErnest HeideggerHigher caste are higher income. Higher caste also tend to be lighter complected.
Because I know the zulus aren’t the original natives
The Lesotho people are much different and are closer to the minority black group that the zulus mercilessly murdered shortly after the Dutch made settlementSep 22, 2018, 12:45 PMArno KælandVincent Picciotti That’s correct – the Bantus moved into South Africa. The original inhabitants are the San / Khoi peoples – who were replaced by the Bantus in the Eastern half of South Africa. San are not ethnically related to Bantus.Sep 22, 2018, 12:47 PMErnest HeideggerIt’s not just India. In South America and Asia, lighter characteristics are socially desirable, with women in those countries specifically requesting ethnic European sperm from sperm banks, and having plastic surgery to make their facial attributes appear lighter.
Now the question is: is this psychological undercurrent derived from western marketing, or an innate/evolved understanding of what functions better?
To be clear, straightening hair and bleaching skin doesn’t make non-European societies function like European societies, because race is more than skin deep, but imitation is the highest form of flattery.Sep 22, 2018, 12:48 PMNick BaileyLet no street be devoid of human shit.Sep 22, 2018, 12:50 PMJoe Boyumhow many H-1B’s in san francisco. seems they bring their culture with themSep 22, 2018, 12:51 PMVincent PicciottiAaron Kahland ahhh see that makes sense
And apartheid saw them get their own respective sovereign lands correct? I know they are still quite backwards to most of the civilized world but I personall see no issue in that if they have their own space
But I only find it funny because the zulus want all this power and the white beta cucks just can’t wait to steal land from other whites and give it awaySep 22, 2018, 12:54 PMCurt DoolittleNeoteny is desirable always and everywhereSep 22, 2018, 12:56 PMMatthew MorrisonWould that be your propertarianism site?Sep 22, 2018, 12:56 PMCurt Doolittleyes.
https://propertarianism.com/2015/07/19/aristocracy-for-everyone-how-many-races-and-tribes/Sep 22, 2018, 1:04 PMMatthew MorrisonthanksSep 22, 2018, 1:06 PMNatasha Mariahas me wanting to play europa universalis again : PSep 22, 2018, 1:44 PMTom JamesLooks like it’s where the 3 races meetSep 22, 2018, 3:07 PMMarcus JamesVincent Picciotti Khoisan are who you’re thinking of.Sep 22, 2018, 4:17 PMVincent PicciottiJames Archer thank you JamesSep 22, 2018, 4:20 PMConnor Whittlawp o o
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oSep 22, 2018, 5:16 PMUjjwal Kumar ChoudharyThat was extremely stereotypical.Sep 22, 2018, 11:28 PMUjjwal Kumar ChoudharyThe progress is real, but anyway, have your fun.Sep 22, 2018, 11:30 PMUjjwal Kumar ChoudharyThere is no truth in this map, Mr. Curt.Sep 22, 2018, 11:32 PMCurt DoolittleThat is not an argument. ;)Sep 23, 2018, 5:57 AMUjjwal Kumar ChoudharySo you mean to say that, I am a caucasoid? XDSep 23, 2018, 6:05 AMEric GroseJiggs Chasmawala your thoughts?Sep 23, 2018, 6:10 AMJiggs ChasmawalaDravidians aren’t a separate race. This is more of a linguistic map. But even the dravidian languages share about 80% of their vocabulary with the northern languages.Sep 23, 2018, 6:11 AMJiggs ChasmawalaA separate Dravidian race is a British invention to play divide & rule.Sep 23, 2018, 6:14 AMEric GroseJiggs Chasmawala perfidious AlbionSep 23, 2018, 6:16 AMJiggs ChasmawalaI’d say abominable.Sep 23, 2018, 6:17 AMJiggs ChasmawalaCurt Doolittle About the myth of a separate dravidian race. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rajiv-malhotra/how-evangelists-are-inven_b_841606.htmlSep 23, 2018, 6:24 AMPepe Le PewLOL East Asians and Asians in thee US form the richest salaried employees.
They’re so good that white people start talking about unfairness :pSep 23, 2018, 7:03 AMJoe BoyumVivek Na incredible what they can do when they live in a white country run by whites. wonder what india would look like under such circumstances?Sep 23, 2018, 8:00 AMPepe Le PewI frankly feel that the intellectual people of India are far better letting caucasians manage stuff – especially since western capitalism and consumerism is the way the world works
We come from a history of scarcity, adjustment and a knowledge based culture – Leadership, planning etc seem to be not quite the forte of the indian psyche.Sep 23, 2018, 8:04 AMEric GroseCurt Doolittle India is the country of the future, and always will be.Sep 23, 2018, 8:53 AMScott Throne”huffpo”Sep 23, 2018, 10:27 PMHuy-Anh LêDon’t forget the Australoid natives in the middle of the country, and of course scattered in the Andaman Islands.Oct 8, 2018, 7:57 PMCurt DoolittleWell, the australoids passed through India, and mixed with denisovians, so there should be remnants in India, and those rare island people are of course also remnants.
At present I think there is a lot of debate over dravidian orgins as ancestral Indians, and elamites, and hrpappans. And I am not yet knowledgeable enough to make an argument one way or the other. Although some others who follow me are. I had thought that Dravidians like Australoids were artifacts of the Ethiopian Departure 70K years ago. the the competing arguments are just as confusing.Oct 8, 2018, 9:40 PMSasha ShepherdThis would imply that Pakistan is almost entirely Caucasian?Oct 9, 2018, 2:15 AMSasha ShepherdThe designation ‘Caucasian’ is actually quite broad.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Carleton_Coon_races_after_Pleistocene.PNGOct 9, 2018, 2:16 AMArno KælandNot really because Pakistani isn’t an ethnicity. After Indian indpendence in 1948 there was a massive population transfer between newly created India and Pakistan based on religious affiliation. Hindus were supposed to go South, Muslims North. Pakistan is thus very heterogenous.Oct 9, 2018, 10:02 AMCurt Doolittle^YepOct 9, 2018, 11:02 AMTaylor SpoonerWhat’s your reasoning for the stark difference in phenotypes?Oct 9, 2018, 4:22 PMJiggs Chasmawaladifferent climates in the subcontinentOct 9, 2018, 4:23 PMMichael ChurchillMany Pakistanis have very large heads and look extremely intelligent. I went to Lahore and Karachi within the last five years. They are extremely INTENSE places. I ended up investing in Pakistan for a number of years because it looked to me that they would figure out their problems. Still seems that way to me. Basically they are building new cities on the outskirts of their existing cities.Oct 9, 2018, 11:07 PMMichael ChurchillWhat do you think of the theory that the high caste of India was actually a function of westerners settling there, and that the Upanishads are really western mystical thought. Sanskrit was sort of a western-created language for elites only. Does this hold water?Oct 9, 2018, 11:08 PMArno KælandMichael Churchill average IQ of Pakistan is 84 – which is no different from India and extremely low.Oct 10, 2018, 6:22 AMJayant BhandariIndia is the most complex experiment about multi-ethnic, tribal society. Nothing works. No decisions get taken. No discussion takes place.Oct 10, 2018, 10:32 AMJayant BhandariIt is hard to believe that this was’t the case. It might not have been western people, but a bunch of people who came to India around 2,500 years back were unique people, very smart. My guess is that the caste system was created to ensure that the genes didn’t get diluted.Oct 10, 2018, 10:37 AMMichael ChurchillInteresting … thanks. Michael Tsarion writes about this theory a lot and I have heard it elsewhere as well. But I have no idea if it is true.Oct 10, 2018, 10:42 AMCurt DoolittleAFAIK, the ANI’s were defeated by the IE’s, and imposed the caste system. This looks like the genetic record as well.Oct 10, 2018, 1:46 PMCurt DoolittleOver time IE-ANI, interbred with ASI (Dravidians), producing the three indias: north, mixed, south.Oct 10, 2018, 1:46 PMJanderson RexJayant Bhandari The genetic data really supports this.
Suggest reading David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here.
Essentially the Indians have lived side by side for thousands of years and done very very little inbreeding. It’s remarkableOct 11, 2018, 1:34 PMJanderson RexKarlin’s article on India is great