On Poisoned Wells, Cherry Picking and … Trump

12/07/2015 

The other day I stepped on a land mine. I posted an article by John Kaminski. I admit it was laziness on my part to rush to post an article without at least doing my homework on the author. I had read a couple of articles of unredeemed gloom by him in the past that made him sound a bit unhinged. I did not know he was THAT unhinged. I did not know he had attacked Mark personally, and the quotes provided by commenters indict him without appeal as an Islmaophobe. Yet he was OK in March, it seems. Mea culpa.

What he had to say about 9/11 — with which I agree completely — that “solving” it, i.e., revealing the truth about it, is of unparalleled importance for waking up America, is not a novel idea and it could have been emphasized with a post from a source that is not a poisoned well. Mea culpa.

Nevertheless, in general, and I emphasize, in general, NOT in this case, there is nothing wrong with cherry picking. By that I mean that there are quite a few writers with whose views we do not agree in toto who are nevertheless worth reading.

One such example is Paul Craig Roberts. He seems afraid to write the words “Jewry” or “Jewish power elite,” he only uses the code word “neocons” even though it is technically incorrect: democrats like Shumer or Sanders do not belong to that side of the choir but they sing from the same hymn book. Nevertheless PCR’s analyses are usually sterling. Another example is Pat Buchanan, with whose views in general many disagree. He was, however, the first notable politician/pundit to say on television that “The US Congress is Israeli occupied territory.” As the saying goes, you can’t take that away from him. I think the worst one can say about the two men cited above is that they may be honestly wrong about some things, but they don’t carry water for the hostile foreign elite. I don’t think we can say the same about Trump, who seems to have caught the fancy of millions and even of some of my best friends.

To me Trump is a self-experiment in judaization, the kosher Goy Joker in the pack. He embodies the Goy imitation of Jewishness: arrogance, narcissism, ostentatiousness, vulgar materialism, the façade of the self-made man (which he is not), impersonating the ‘real McCohn’ who deeply admires and emulates his “betters– the Jews. He is a self-promoted brand who made his fortune selling his name when his real estate fortune crumbled, famous for being famously outrageous, a Kardashian of NYC and now of American political life.

I think it is a comedy of errors that he tried to seduce a crowd of rich and influential Jews by telling them he is just like them: all about schmoozing, making “deals” and not trusting what you can’t own (including politicians) and offering them the best deal ever if they support him: free devotion. It may have struck some of them as naively uppity: no kidding, offering free tricks to the pimp who owns you?

He assured them Israel has no better friend than he, he mentioned his close friendship with Netanyahu and how he, oh, can’t even see his daughter on Saturdays anymore since she converted to Judaism.

When asked his view about Jerusalem he pretended to demur coyly. The message intended was “I am such a good deal maker I won’t even tell you, what I think about it. Wink, wink. Imagine what circles I’d dance around your dumb enemies.” That last bit was too much for his audience. Jewish Jerusalem is an axiom, what’s the Goy prattling about? He also said the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in the hands of the Israelis who may have to make some “painful concessions.” His audience were Republican Jews. Such a statement might have been favorably received by the other side of the Jewish choir, the “progressive” Democrat Jews who think Palestine is Jewish land but some “painful concessions” might appease the “Ayrabs.” He got confused.

Nevertheless, the whining complaints about his “stereotypical” image of Jews (all about money, etc) did not come from anyone important. The ADL was OK with him, as was his good friend Adelson and not a whisper was heard from Netanyahu. The whiners were the many little Judaic proofreaders who patrol the media, faithful guard dogs against politically incorrect forms of expression. Oy the tropes, the tropes, that make us seem like Shylocks!

At a deeper level, not only are the Jews reassured by Trump’s thorough judaization but they are also convinced he will not be elected President of USrael no matter what his poll numbers show. He is the Goy Joker in the pack. His populist slogans, anti-immigration and Islamophobic rants, and his fake patriotism allow the masses to vent a bit. That’s all.

Wait until spring, Bandini … The Democrat debate in Maimi Dade College… Bernie Sanders is coming softy but steadily from behind on cat’s feet.

When it comes to cherry picking I happen to think Trump is a poisoned well.