I love Chris Matthews. He’s very smart, quick on his feet, aggressive, non-ideological, and passionate about U.S. politics. He’s also a fantastic interviewer. Unlike other hosts on both the left and the right, who are just trying to push an agenda, Matthews has a genuine love for the ART of politics. He covers politics the way an obsessive sports fan would cover baseball. He just loves the game, and keeping score, and it’s a beautiful thing to see.
And to his credit, he was one of the few U.S. talking heads with the judgement and integrity to oppose the Iraq war before it began, and he opposed it right from the VERY moment it became a serious idea, yet unlike most white liberals, he’s not preachy and self-righteous. He comes from a family of Republicans so he’s open-minded enough to see both sides.
The U.S. media is so completely controlled, and the range of acceptable debate is so narrow, that there are so few cable news shows worth watching at all, but within the narrow confines of that controlled debate, Matthews does an excellent job educating his audience and making politics fun. If MSNBC were smart they’d give him a better time slot.
Ever since Trump won the election, I’ve heard so many weeping liberals say “I can’t believe this has happened”, and “It’s like a nightmare”, or “it’s like a horror movie”.
Like a horror movie, I thought. Let’s explore that. If Trump’s Presidency were a horror film, liberal elites might mockingly refer to it as “Revenge of the Retarded”.
I say that not to diminish Trump, who actually showed a special kind of Genius in outsmarting Ivy League liberal elites like Hillary, Obama, pollsters, pundits, and talking heads, but whether by accident or design, the persona, rhetoric, and speech patterns he displayed on the campaign trail, came across as retarded, as did so many of his followers in the eyes of the heartless elites.
Indeed a commenter who sometimes goes by the name William said that based on education level, he estimated the average Trump supporter has an IQ of 90. I’m not sure how he arrived at that figure but I agree with it, if we define Trump supporters as the core of his base (those who supported him in the Republican primary and remained with him in the general election).
As Steve Sailer reported back in January, not only is the core of Trump’s base poor, but only 20% have a college degree, compared to 40% for all working age American adults. That suggests Trump’s appeal selects people who are 0.87 standard deviations less educated than the average American. If we assume his appeal also selected people who are 0.87 standard deviations less intelligent than the average American, then you’re looking at a mean IQ of 91 (U.S. norms), 88 (U.S. white norms). But IQ tests are normed for age, and Trump’s base was generally older, and older people are less intelligent, both because of the biological component of the Flynn effect and because intelligence declines after age 25, so in absolute intelligence, Trump’s base is even duller than their IQs would show.
For decades, scholar Charles Murray has been warning us about the cognitive underclass, and the increasingly dysfunctional white cognitive underclass, simply can not adapt to globalism and our increasingly high-tech economy. They worked loyaly for auto companies, but the CEOS say “you’re stupid, FUCK OFF!. Any dumb Mexican can do your job for a fraction of the pay so we’re making our cars down there. BEAT IT!”
One could define intelligence as the mental ability for intentionally useful behavior, and below IQ 90, people are pretty much useless in a modern industrialized economy so they’re being kicked to the curb like yesterday’s trash. What some have called, the genetic garbage of society.
Entire towns voting Trump
Entire towns have been devastated by plants closing down, and everyone with a triple digit IQ moves out, leaving only the dullest and least desirable to remain and interbreed. I’m reminded of the 2006 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The Beginning. As I’ve explained before, in that film, a small Texas town is devastated when the local meat plant is condemned and everyone with an IQ above 70 leaves the town, leaving only Leatherface and his family.
Texas Town dies, screams the headline of the local paper.
Leatherface is a Trainable (moderately) Retarded man (I estimate his IQ to be in the 40s), whose only talent is violently cutting meat. If you watch the terrifying start of the film, you’ll see that Leatherface is in denial that the meat plant he works at has closed. He keeps violently chopping meat, long after the other employees go home.
“Tell that oversized retard to go home” screams management at his assistant. The assistant nervously and gently tries to convince Leatherface it’s time to leave. When Leatherface ignores him, he panics and calls Leatherface a dumb animal. Big mistake!
After Leatherface kills the assistant, he goes up to management’s office. Management informs Leatherface that him and his family are the only ones stupid enough to still be in this town. Big mistake!
With the economy completely devastated, and everyone in the town gone, the only way Leatherface and his family can survive is by eating anyone who drives through.
Leatherface and his entire family (the only residents of the town) would have all voted Trump.
Texas Chainsaw was just a movie, but in real life Texas, life imitates art. ABC eyewitness news reports:
Roberts County, in the panhandle, a population of less than 1,000, 95.3% of whom cast their ballots for Donald Trump
People on the Net are telling stories about towns and cities in the Rust Belt where the plants closed up and went to Mexico and threw thousands out of work. One woman said the plant closed in her Ohio town and 2,000 people were thrown out of work. She said the whole town voted for Trump. Another man spoke of some very real poverty now afflicting parts of rural America, maybe especially in the Rust Belt. He said almost all of these towns have homeless people now, homeless Whites. And they never had that before. Many of the homeless are families with children. One town stopped giving out homework assignments because 20% of the students were homeless. This is an all-White school in an all-White town.
In other words, there is mass homelessness in White rural America now.
It’s as clear as air that neither Obama nor Hitlery nor any Democrat gives 1% of a flying fuck about these people.
Lower class white America has been spit on, and pissed on, for far too long, and they’re taking their revenge.
Moore gave the single greatest political speech of the 2010s
No one summed this up better than Michael Moore, who comes from the Rust Belt, yet was blessed with enough IQ to escape and articulate what they can not:
Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant, because he’s saying the things to people who are hurting. And it’s why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump.
He is the human Molotov cocktail that they’ve been waiting for, the human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.
And on November 8th, Election Day, although they’ve lost their jobs, although they’ve been foreclosed on by the bank—next came the divorce, and now the wife and kids are gone, the car has been repoed, they haven’t had a real vacation in years, they’re stuck with the shitty Obamacare Bronze Plan, where you can’t even get a FUCKING Percocet—they’ve essentially lost everything they had—except one thing, the one thing that doesn’t cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution: the right to vote. They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be FUCKED-over and FUCKED-up.
It doesn’t matter, because it’s equalized on that day. A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job: one. And there’s more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class.
So, on November 8th, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain and take that lever, or felt pen or touchscreen, and put a big FUCKING X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J. Trump.
They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump. Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump—after they loved him and created him, and now hate him. Thank you, media. The enemy of my enemy is who I’m voting for on November 8th. Yes, on November 8th, you, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow—all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system, because it’s your right. Trump’s election is going to be the biggest “FUCK you” ever recorded in human history.
Just watched Megyn Kelly being interviewed by Anderson Cooper on CNN, and she’s a very impressive woman, physically, cognitively, and emotionally.
I’ve long had respect for her because she’s one of the few “conservatives” to have opposed the Iraq war before it began, but I also have to admire the courage she’s showing in writing about Trump in her new book. You would think after the attack Trump unleashed on her when he was just a candidate for the Republican nomination, she’d be terrified of him. At the time she claims Trump unleashed his army of twitter followers on her, but pretty soon, he’ll have the full power of the Presidency, an institution that has become increasingly powerful in recent years.
On the other hand, standing up to Trump will make Megyn a hero to the millions of Americans who are devastated by him wining the Presidency and could send her book sales through the roof.
Nobody understands Trump voters better than Michael Moore. As I’ve noted before, his speech explaining Trump’s appeal was the best political speech of this entire political season. Nothing else even came close:
Devastated by the victory of Donald Trump, Michael Moore has been despondent since Nov 9th, and has been roaming the streets of New York city aimlessly. He saw a bunch of people protesting Trump and decided to join them. Like all socially insightful people, Moore is probably at risk for psychosis, and the thought of a Trump’s Presidency was slipping him into almost suicidal depression.
And then Oprah, speaking on Entertainment Tonight, gave him a moment of hope:
Moore has wanted Oprah to run for President for over a decade, because she was one of the only major U.S. media to jump off the pro-Iraq war bandwagon months before the war began, and courageously showed an incredibly subversive anti-war montage Moore had created, just 48 hours before the invasion:
Less well known is that Oprah and her spiritual guru Marianne Williamson even had the wisdom to oppose the war in Afghanistan, which was also a disaster for America. Very few Americans had the self-awareness to look critically at American foreign policy at this time:
Moore’s love for Oprah is also an example of Rushton’s genetic similarity theory. Both Moore and Oprah struggle with their weight, so by advancing Oprah, Moore’s obesity genes are behaving selfishly, as Richard Dawkins might say.
Similarly the skinny Jared Kushner getting the overweight Chris Christie (who put Jared’s father in jail) fired from Trump’s inner circle is an example of the dark side of selfish genes.
I used to think Megyn Kelly had an IQ equivalent of around 133 (white norms), because I thought she claimed to have scored at the 95 percentile on the LSAT, but upon listening carefully to her interview with Howard Stern, she actually claims to have scored scored at “only” the 85th percentile and on the SAT, not the LSAT (see 8:45 mark in below video)
That’s still a very good score, though not quite good enough to qualify as Extremely Bright. About one in seven SAT takers scored as high or higher than Megyn, but since only one third of U.S. teens took the SAT, and virtually 100% of the top talent did (and whatever shortfall, was negated by bright foreign test takers, Ron Hoeflin argued), the rarity of Megyn’s score triples when compared to all Americans of her cohort (not just the college bound third).
Thus being in the top 15% of SAT takers might have been crudely equivalent to being in the top 5% of her entire U.S. cohort, and thus equivalent to IQ 125 (U.S. norms; 124 U.S. white norms). I suspect Megyn’s IQ is typical of U.S. media elites, though Megyn is more successful than most because in addition to being smarter than 95% of her generation, she’s better looking than perhaps 99%. That’s a powerful combination.
Meanwhile Howard Stern is perhaps the biggest ass-kisser in the history of media. Although he prides himself in being a media bad boy and rebel, he’s actually a boot-licker in the extreme, and a vulgar and crude one to boot. He can’t stop gushing about how smart and good looking Megyn is, and how hot Stern’s wife thinks Megyn is. He also gushes over the good looks of male stars too, and it’s embarrassing, and while this comes across as the authentic hero worship, it’s also a calculated attempt to get powerful celebrities to befriend him. I suspect Stern’s Theory of Mind IQ is a lot higher than his overall IQ though his use of it is shameless.
Although I do have some grudging respect for his black co-host Robin Quivers. While she obviously has some talent and the two of them have genuine chemistry, let’s be honest: she’s also largely a token he uses to avoid looking racist and sexist when he rips on blacks and women. And she shrewdly sucks up to him to keep the money rolling in, but deep down you can tell she doesn’t respect him and is forcing herself to laugh at his jokes.
One of the funniest moments in media history was when former daytime talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael invited Robin on her show, and went Robin appeared on TV, the Sally’s show placed the caption “I hate my race” under Robin’s image. What evidence did they have that Robin hates her race? The mere fact that she works for Howard. LOL. When Stern heard about this he went ballistic:
Incredibly sad news. PBS journalist Gwen Ifill has passed away this week. I wasn’t lucky enough to watch her show, but I admired and respected her from her other public appearances.
My favorite memory of her was during the 2004 Vice Presidential debate when Democratic VP nominee John Edwards went on the attack against then Vice President Dick Cheney, and debate moderator Ifill turned to Cheney and said “your response?”
“I have a response,” said Cheney “but it’s going to take more than 30 seconds.”
“Well, that’s all you got,” replied Ifill, to laughter from the audience.
The WTF look on Cheney’s face, when he realized this was one journalist he couldn’t bully, was priceless.
Since the 1970s, the black-white IQ gap has dramatically shrunk on scholastic tests:
For example, on a scale where white 12th graders average 100, the reading scores of black 12th graders would have increased from IQ 80 in the 1970s to IQ 90 in recent years.
Meanwhile the math scores of black 12th graders have increased from IQ 82 in the 1970s to IQ 86 in recent years.
Assuming about a 0.67 correlation between reading and math skill from the 1970s to today, this suggests the composite scholastic black IQ has increased from IQ 79 in the 1970s to IQ 87 in recent years. A gain of 8 points!
But on official adult IQ tests like the WAIS, the black-white IQ gap has been stable since the 1970s, and probably since the pre-Wechsler IQ tests of WWI.
When the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Revised) (WAIS-R) was normed in 1978, whites outscored blacks by 14.6 points (U.S. norms). By the time the WAIS-IV was normed in 2006, the gap was 15.7 points.
What this suggests is that in past decades, scholastic tests underestimated the intelligence of blacks while official IQ tests have not. This is also consistent with the Minnesota transracial adoption study done in the 1970s, where blacks kids adopted into upper middle class white homes scored 10 IQ points higher than the black average on scholastic tests, but not at all above the black average on the WAIS-R.
Of course, this was not an apples to apples comparison of the gap on achievement tests and official IQ tests, since the scholastic data is from 12th graders while the WAIS data is from adults of all ages
I was very pleased to see Trump and Obama strike a conciliatory tone this afternoon, with Trump calling Obama a good man, and saying he looks forward to seeking his council many, many times in the future.
Trump WORSHIPS Oprah so we know, deep down he’s a good person, and he will not want to undermine Oprah’s legacy, by destroying all the accomplishments of the man she was so instrumental in electing, but more importantly, Trump wants to unite the country, and what better way to do that, than by showing the first black President some respect.
Sadly, a lot of people were disgusted by thought of an Ivy League black man arrogantly strutting around the white house for 8 years, so perhaps Trump felt compelled to put Obama in his place by questioning his citizenship and admission to Ivy League schools, but now that Obama has been humbled, and Trump’s huge ego has been fed, he can admire Obama for his historic accomplishments.
However one of Obama’s goals was putting distance between America and the policy’s of Israel’s Likud party.
Not that Obama’s anti-Semitic. He loves the Jewish people, and so many of them love him and worked to elect him, but at the same time, Obama wanted to send a message to the World, especially the anti-Israel segment of the Arab world, that the U.S. is not Netanyahu’s puppet.
However Netanyahu hated Obama for this, and wants to convince Americans that Israel and the U.S. are two sides of the same coin, so he’s wasted no time in reaching out to Trump, calling him a friend, and Trump is being pressured to side completely with Israel against the Palestinians.
Meanwhile Trump’s beautiful and articulate daughter Ivanka is caught in the middle. On the one hand, her husband Jared Kushner is Jewish and like ambitious men of any race, he probably wants a powerful position in the Trump cabinet, and her children are half-Jewish so siding with Israel is in their ethnic genetic interests.
On the other hand, she loves her dad more than life itself, and doesn’t want him to be seen as a puppet the way George W. Bush was.
But, although Trump can be ignorant about some topics, he strikes me as far too shrewd to not understand Jewish politics, especially after spending decades in New York real-estate. He is loved by both pro-Israel extremists and anti-Semitic white nationalists and has pandered to both on more than one occasion.
I normally don’t like to make too many posts in one day, but I felt this comment by black national merit finalist ruhkukah captured this historic moment so well it deserved to be highlighted:
I saw Trump’s victory coming. I mean, I wasn’t 100% sure, but it made sense to me. I figured there was no way the polls would be completely accurate, given that a lot of whites wouldn’t admit to voting for Trump. And given increasing racial tension/resentment/partisanship, Trump’s election makes sense. Because ultimately this isn’t about Trump, but about the issues he brought into focus (political correctness, white working class resentment, the national/global elite).
I just checked my Facebook feed. Pretty everyone on both sides of my family is despondent, except for my one crazy uncle who went for Trump. Most of the minority people I’m friends with on Facebook (a lot of Asian and South American immigrants) are despondent, too. One white liberal friend of mine says they might be leaving for Canada or going to therapy.
What this means for the future, I don’t know. As a black man, I don’t think my day-to-day life will change. I am actually somewhat excited about a Trump presidency. I hope he does reduce immigration and fix our trade deals.
Will this election open up further discussion of racial/gender/class taboos, particular those regarding IQ and genetics? Probably, and that’s only a good thing, because instead of people talking about such taboos in a furtive manner on blogs like this one, people can have an adult conversation, face-to-face, and acknowledge what most people already accept, on some level. Enough of this political correctness BS which creates more anger and resentment from all sides.
More extreme outcomes of this election may be reversal of Obama’s policies (as Pumpkin mentioned, and very possible), the actual building of a wall (which I think is somewhat unlikely), more policing in urban neighborhoods (possible), and increased conflict with other nations (likely, not actual wars though).
Domestically, could this lead to an up-rising of white nationalists/supremacists? Who knows. I don’t think most whites are that angry….yet. Although it has emboldened people like David Duke. I don’t foresee a return of Jim Crow or a race war, but do think race relations will change somewhat in a way most people are not predicting…
Well, after ending on that ominous note, I’m glad you’re taking off moderation Pumpkin!
I had also thought of ruhkukah’s point about whites not wanting to admit to pollsters they supported Trump, as this is a variant of the well known Bradley effect, named after African American mayor Tom Bradley, who lost the 1982 California governor’s race despite being ahead in the polls, because whites lied to pollsters about supporting him, out of fear of looking racist.
However no Bradley effect appeared to distort Barack Obama’s election results, so I kind of figured that was largely a thing of the past. I guess I was wrong, or perhaps the problem with the polls had more to do with identifying “likely voters” in such an unpredictable election than it had to do with a Bradley effect. It will be fascinating to see the analysis of why the polling went awry.
Speaking of poignant black reactions to Trump’s victory, CNN’s Van Jones had a great moment last night. This brought a tear to my eye:
Early Tuesday morning I checked Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll and it had Clinton at 45% and Trump at 43%, and I thought, if even a poll as Trump friendly as Rasmussen had him losing to Clinton right before the election, it’s unlikely he will win. I knew that he would turnout the white working class more than most polls predicted, but with changing demographics, I didn’t think there’d be enough of them for him to win. I also figured they’d be negated by huge turnout in the Hispanic community.
But I guess the tie breaker was blacks, who probably turned out at much lower levels than they had for Obama.
Trump must be so incredibly happy. One Trump expert on TV was saying that a lot of Trump’s rhetoric against the elite stemmed from the fact that he was never truly accepted by other rich people, who looked down on him for being a philistine. Perhaps his constant boasting about his wealth and elite education was not just savvy marketing, but an attempt to prove himself worthy.
Well tonight Trump took his revenge by rising to a level of power, far above other elites. Mark Cuban and Michael Bloomberg must be pulling their hair out in jealousy.
On The O’reilly Factor, Geraldo Rivera suggested that Trump ran for President as revenge for Barack Obama “humiliating” him at the white house correspondence dinner.
Trump has made them all eat humble pie.
His ego is going to be worse than ever, since he’s proved all the pollsters, politicians and pundits wrong, without any political experience whatsoever.
I just hoping he doesn’t destroy the legacy of the first black President by killing what some consider his greatest accomplishments: The Iran nuclear deal (which some feel prevented WWIII) and Obamacare.
Meanwhile one can’t help but feel sorry for Hillary. All her life, she had largely one goal: become the First woman president. She tolerated the humiliation of her husband’s affairs and even lowered herself to taking orders from Obama for 4 years (the freshman senator who dethroned her) all in an effort to reach that life long prize, and just when she had it in her grasp, it was taken from her again.
Just goes to show that no matter how smart you are, the Presidency is not really something you can strategize your way to decades in the future. You just have to be the right person for the right time, and smart enough to recognize it, and not screw it up.
It also shows regression to the mean. For the Clintons to have reached the white house even once was an incredibly rare achievement, akin to winning a massive lottery, so to expect to be able to repeat that, is really pushing your luck.
Pumpkin Person 