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I’d heard a lot about Stefan Molyneux, but I’d never had the opportunity to speak with him before. We discussed the Michelle Fields debacle and other matters for nearly two hours. He’s a very smart guy and I quite enjoyed the chance to speak at length with him.
You can also download the MP3 audio if you prefer to listen to it.
The National Enquirer has run a story about “The 5 Romps that will destroy Ted Cruz”, complete with pictures of the five women with whom he has supposedly had affairs.
Oh dear, the National Enquirer has come out with a story claiming evidence of multiple sexual trysts by presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz.
Worse yet for the Cruz camp, the framework within the article is structurally very concerning:The National Enquirer is indeed a tabloid – and as such there are various grains of salt that should be applied when reviewing anything they present.
However, that said, they have been unfortunately accurate for more
than a few presidential hopefuls: Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson and John
Edwards to name a few of the more infamous examples. Beyond the story itself there’s a few presenting elements which point
to a high degree of confidence, and as a consequence ‘legal
avoidance’, on the publishers’ part.Firstly, they post pictures of the collective mistresses. NE would never legally “go there” if they did not hold a very reasonable certainty the outlined players were factually part of the story.
Despite being partially-obscured, three of the five women alleged to have been involved with Cruz have already been identified: Katrina Pierson, Sarah Isgur Flores and Amanda Carpenter. This story was already in the works at Breitbart, as Allum Bokhari had it back in February but was not permitted to run with it. The current timing strikes me as intriguing given the fact that Donald Trump already warned the Cruz campaign that there would be reprisals for their advertised attack on his wife Melania.
It also looks as if the Rubio campaign had the dirt on Cruz, but sat on it in order to keep him viable against Donald Trump.
Matt Walsh bravely strode forth to conquer the Lion Guard:
Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
I will debate any conservative media Trump shill who made my blacklist. I’m “just a blogger” so it should be easy to beat me, right?
Someone brought it to my attention, and as will probably surprise no one, I answered the call:
Ronald James @ron3name
If you’re serious hit up @voxday. He’s pretty good at demolishing churchian cucks, when he has time and can be bothered.Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
.@ron3names @MattWalshBlog I will debate you any time, Matt. And yes, it will be very easy to beat you up.
Thereby prompting Matt to imitate a contortion artist in coming up with excuses for why he is only going to debate people with their own show, which is to say, people who don’t know who Matt Walsh is and could not care less. One observer on Twitter characterized it thusly:
>be a cuck
>offer to debate
>vox: ahem
>ohshit.exe
>to cuck/not to cuck
>”I don’t debate trolls!”
>secret king wins…
See, Matt is TOO IMPORTANT a blogger to debate another blogger. Especially one whose readership he DWARFS!
Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
My readership is several million a month. Dwarfs yours and it’s not close.
And yet, he keeps running, running, running. Diagnosis: Gamma.
It’s interesting to see how the new media, particularly Twitter, Wikipedia, and Facebook, are blithely walking in the footsteps of the old media:
When Bill Kovach decided circa 1987 that the Atlanta papers needed a bureau in Nairobi, he could afford to do it, because the paper was making a handsome profit from advertising revenue. The fact that advertising ultimately paid the bills — the source of revenue, whereas the salaries of the newsroom staff were an expense — was an aspect of journalism that a lot of Good for Democracy types never really figured out. Bottom-line considerations were far from the minds of most people in our nation’s newsrooms 25 years ago, before Al Gore invented the Internet, and then some guy named Matt Drudge became America’s Editor-in-Chief.
Oh, the pages and pages of classified ads — help wanted, real estate,
used cars, whatever — that were once such a magnificent revenue
generator for newspaper publishers. Oh, the display ads from department
stores, and the full-color advertising inserts stuffed inside that thick
Sunday paper. Nearly all gone now — gone with the wind, along with the
fat profit margins that allowed Bill Kovach the luxury of force-feeding
readers in Atlanta their journalistic broccoli about the famine in
Sudan. Gone, those glory days when newsrooms were so crowded, and every
major metropolitan paper had an “investigative journalism” team of a
half-dozen hotshots whose bylines rarely appeared in print except on
those tedious five-part series written for the eyes of the Pulitzer
Prize judges.Yeah, once upon a time, every newspaper in every state capital in
America — from Tallahassee to Juneau, from Augusta, Maine, to Honolulu,
Hawaii — had its own local crew of would-be Woodward and Bernsteins who
believed they were producing journalism that was Good for Democracy.Gone! All gone now!
In the same way the old media chased off its readers with what McCain calls “broccoli journalism”, the new media is chasing off its readers by telling them what they can and cannot say. In both cases, it is because the media wrongly believes it, and not its readers, are in control.
And that is only going to be of benefit to what we might call the next media, or if you prefer, the Alt Right media.
Mike Cernovich provides an analysis of his Kickstarter’s exceptional performance:
Traffic sources to Silenced:
- Twitter – 57%
- Direct via D&P – 24%
- Vox Day – 5%
As you can see, having a large website and social media is important.
This is sort of a duh point, but seeing data put everything into
context. It also helps to have friends who help you. This is also duh,
although you guys wouldn’t believe how people try using me every day
while offering me nothing.
I have no doubt that more than a few Ilk found their way to the Kickstarter by way of Twitter and Danger & Play, mostly because I initially went there via Twitter myself. But no matter how you got there, I’m very pleased to see how many of you have been willing to support the man who has become one of my closest social media allies.
It’s that combination of selflessness and enthusiasm that sets the Dread Ilk apart; I can’t tell you how many public figures, some of them names much better known than mine, ask me how I do it and why I have such phenomenal “followers”.
To which my response is always the same. I don’t do anything. The Dread Ilk do. I don’t have followers. I’m not a leader. I don’t lead anyone anywhere. I simply go and people decide to accompany me or not. One of the primary problems that those who consider themselves leaders have is that they delude themselves into thinking that they somehow control their supporters and followers. But they don’t, not even when they police them with fear and violence.
I never take anyone’s support for granted, not Mike’s and not yours. All of us are free and independent individuals. All of us have our own agendas, our own interests, and our own free will. And that is why I am so appreciative of the fact that many of you are willing to walk alongside me.
Except, of course, for the VFM. Them, we have to keep chained, leashed, and kenneled, lest they inadvertently lay waste to the countryside. I may be the Supreme Dark Lord, but I’m not irresponsible.
David Brooks promises newfound respect for the people whose message he is refusing to receive:
The question is: Should deference be paid to this victor? Should we bow down to the judgment of these voters?
Well, some respect is in order. Trump voters are a coalition of the dispossessed. They have suffered lost jobs, lost wages, lost dreams. The American system is not working for them, so naturally they are looking for something else.
Moreover, many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country….
Donald Trump is an affront to basic standards of honesty, virtue and citizenship. He pollutes the atmosphere in which our children are raised. He has already shredded the unspoken rules of political civility that make conversation possible. In his savage regime, public life is just a dog-eat-dog war of all against all.
As the founders would have understood, he is a threat to the long and glorious experiment of American self-government. He is precisely the kind of scapegoating, promise-making, fear-driving and deceiving demagogue they feared.
Trump’s supporters deserve respect. They are left out of this economy. But Trump himself? No, not Trump, not ever.
It’s amusing to Brooks declare, in the same column, that he is concerned about “a threat to the long and glorious experiment of American self-government” while wondering “should we bow down to the judgment of these voters” and ultimately concluding, no, he will not.
Brooks is an anti-democratic elitist who thinks, wrongly, that his opinion is still relevant. And, sooner or later, he will go the way of all those who set themselves in the path of a popular uprising against a corrupt and enervated elite.
Trump’s supporters don’t want David Brooks’s respect. They want his scalp.
This should bring the Denton empire to an end sooner rather than later:
Hulk Hogan Gets $115M Verdict Against Gawker at Sex Tape Trial. Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tap.
Showing someone else’s video isn’t free speech. But regardless, it’s good to see the one of GG’s most egregious enemies going down.
Cernovich’s video analysis summarized:
First, the Kickstarter for Silenced is winding down. You only have four more hours to back it. Back Silenced here. I did. And I suspect that you’re going to want to be able to say you did too.
Second, Mike Cernovich explains why the media is losing its undeclared, but vicious war on the Alt Right:
Why has the mainstream media and especially conservative pundits
projected their rage onto Donald Trump and his supporters? Pundits are
fighting hard because there’s a war going on. No one saw this war. Well,
almost no one…This is a real time battle for future leadership of right wing media. I know it, Trump knows it, and even some cucks know it. @sorin— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 10, 2015
This election has been about more than Trump.
This is a war over the future of the media.Pundits are poor in money and rich and status. Most of them live off
of sugar daddies to pay their bills, and money does not drive pundits.Pundits are status obsessed. Being seen as the right kind of person
is their only goal in life. They live and die on shame…the feeling that
they do or do not belong to the proper social class.Supposed journalists and pundits have accumulated considerable social
status and power. With the power of an article, journalists have forced
the most powerful politicians and richest chief executives to quit
their jobs.One does not lose power without a fight.
Third, on the basis of the new polls that show Trump +52 in New York, +12 in Arizona, and +16 in California (the latter is less credible since Rubio is included, but he’s only got 10 points), it is safe to conclude that Donald Trump has effectively won the Republican nomination.
He’s still got to close it out, but at this point, it would be a major surprise if he didn’t. He’s clearly increasing his lead over Cruz at this point.
UPDATE: Holy cats, nice work, everyone. It was at 58K when I last noticed. It finished with 838 backers pledging $71,060 to bring SILENCED to life. Well done.
I’ve spoken to Mike about this, and I don’t think he’d mind me telling you that the seeds being planted here are going to result in a lot more than just a single documentary film. The man has a vision and it is one worth supporting.
Apparently I was supposed to create a new thread, which is here. A sample:
3rdNipp1e 107 points
You’ve quite been an outspoken critic of free trade theory, remarking that it impoverishes wealthy nation’s standards of living down to third-world levels, and I must admit I’ve been persuaded to mostly agree with your point of view over time. However, do you believe there is a nationalist case to be made for only allowing free trade policies with first-world countries that have higher standards of living than the U.S., while rejecting free trade with countries with lower standards of living? I don’t see how Americans lose in that situation as industries in free trade countries would be more incentivized to outsource their jobs to America than vice versa due to our lower wages, which would in turn raise the standard of living for Americans. This also limits the incentive for domestic employers to hire foreign replacements, except in cases where sufficiently qualified laborers can only be found abroad. Due to the trading partner having the higher standard of living (at least for the time being), emigration becomes more of an issue than immigration for the U.S., while the opposite occurs for the country with which we are trading freely. Thoughts?On a related note, will you ever present a positive case for protectionism or tariffs in the near future? Thanks.
[–]voxday[S] 111 points
Yes, in fact, that is precisely the strategy that has been ruthlessly pursued by the Asian “tigers” to develop their economies. “Free Trade up” is also the method historically used by the United States.And I do plan to write more on free trade and protectionism in the future, but not any time soon. I have three other books in the works.
[–]bestinlife 30 points
As it seems this year is going to see many vicious battles, I’m sure many of us are wondering this: how do you sanitize the skulls of your enemies to ensure there are no diseases before using them to build your throne or to drink from?
[–]voxday[S] 35 points
Malwyn urinates in them, then gives them to the dwarrow for silvering.
I conceded defeat to Milo, as he managed 1,634 comments and 1,797 points to my 628 and 1,123, but he was gracious in victory and wrote to say that he was “proud of you anyway”. Despite my being late, the AMA was high energy throughout, thanks to the credible showing of the VFM and assorted Dread Ilk.
Just a reminder of the FABulously GOLDen OPportunity to make Reddit great again at The Donald, where I will be doing an Ask Me Anything. Spacebunny has even threatened to make an appearance and ask “the questions you don’t want asked” if I am insufficiently nice to her today.
Vox Day, Trump supporter and author of Cuckservative: How “Conservatives” Betrayed America will be doing an AMA today 3/17 @ 2:30PM EST
The moderator reports that there has already been an amount of troll activity from Sanderson supporters, so it could get even more interesting than one would normally anticipate.
