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Ilana Mercer
295 quotes
“Tyranny strives for uniformity.”
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Recorded in: America's youth: Dim-witted, self-indulgent, politically correct,” Junge Freiheit, March 26, 2015.
“Demographics need not be destiny. The West became the best not by out-breeding the undeveloped world... but because of human capital; people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”
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Recorded in: The ‘We Need To Have A Conversation’ Malarkey,” The Libertarian Alliance, March 30, 2015.
“The Articles of Confederation, which were usurped in favor of the Constitution at the Philadelphia convention, are better founding documents than the Constitution.”
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Recorded in: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Compatible with Natural Justice?” Unz Review, April 3, 2015.
“The individual living in America as it was meant to be would be free to run his business as he wishes, associate with those he likes, dissociate from those he dislikes or disapproves; hire, fire, rent to or evict from, invest and disinvest, speak and misspeak at will. This hypothetical free man is at liberty to bruise as many feelings as he likes, so long as his mitts stop at the next man's face. So long as he harms nobody's person or property, our mythic man may live as he wishes to live.”
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Recorded in: Get off your knees, Gov. Pence!” Target Liberty, April 5, 2015.
“Anti-discrimination law is inconsistent with freedom of association and the right of private property.”
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Recorded in: The right to discriminate is the essence of liberty,” Junge Freiheit, April 9, 2015.
“Programmed from on high, Europeans, like Americans, are bound by the suicide pact of political correctness to open their borders to the huddled mass of Third World people, no matter the consequences to their societies.”
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Recorded in: The curse of Colonel Gadhafi,” Praag.org, April 24, 2015.
“Republicanism is so meaningless a political identity that a Democrat can just as easily transition to being one, without too much pain.”
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Recorded in: Bruce Jenner and Chris Kyle: is either a hero?" WorldNetDaily.com, April 30, 2015
“Another dynamic is at play in the region besides the Sunni-Shia divide. It is that between the forces of centralization and the forces of decentralization. As a rule, the U.S. sides with the former; the Arab people with whom we meddle generally side with the latter. Given the tribal, familial focus of their societies; Arabs are unlikely to abandon their particularism in favor of American statism.”
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Recorded in: Ask Bush Why The Iraqi Military Won't Fight," The Unz Review, May 29, 2015.
“Yankees are fond of citing Confederacy officials in support of slavery and a war for slavery. Most Southerners, however, were not slaveholders. All Southerners were sovereigntists, fighting a 'War for Southern Independence.' They rejected central coercion. Southerners believed a union that was entered voluntarily could be exited in the same way.”
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Recorded in: Yankee Supremacists Trash South’s Heroes," Praag.org June 26, 2015.
“In America, black is beautiful. To be black is to be more righteous, nobler; carry the heaviest historic baggage — heavier than the Holocaust — and be encouraged to perpetually and publicly pick at those suppurating sores. To be black is to have an unwritten, implicit social contract with wider, whiter society. To be black it to be born with an IOY (I Own You); it is to be owed apologies, obsequiousness, education, and auto-exculpation for any wrongdoing.”
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Recorded in: Rachel Dolezal: A Racially Abused Girl—Really," The Libertarian Alliance, July 19, 2015.
“Like no other, drug legalization is a proxy black issue, worthy of the endorsement of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement.”
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Recorded in: Trump Should Triangulate,” The Unz Review, August 7 2015.
“A professional politician is opportunistic and parasitic. For his survival, he must feed off his hosts. To convince the host to let him hook on and drain his lifeblood, the political hookworm must persuade enough of them to believe his deception. The energies of this political confidence trickster are thus focused on gaining voter confidence by promising what will never be delivered and what is impossible to deliver.”
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Recorded in: Trump Should Triangulate,” The Unz Review, August 7 2015.
“Henpecked though he was by the Murdoch Media's golden goose — Megyn Kelly — Trump demonstrated that he is what his constituency craves: A man in the old mold.”
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Recorded in: Trump Could Send the System's Sycophants Scattering," WorldNetDaily.com, August 14, 2015.
“Fox News' Megyn Kelly has fast succumbed to the female instinct to show-off, bare skin, flirt and wink. She now also regularly motormouths it over the occasional smart guest she entertains (correction: the one smart guest, Ann Coulter). At the same time, Kelly has dignified the tinnitus named Dana Perino with a daily slot as Delphic-oracle.”
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Recorded in: Motormouth Megyn Meets her Match,"The Quarterly Review, August 21, 2015.
“Guns are not the root cause of man's evil actions... Evil is part of the human condition, always has been, always will be. Evil can't be wished away, treated away, medicated away or legislated away. Evil is here to stay. Bad people do bad things. Deal, as they say in the hood.”
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Recorded in: Gun Violence? No! Goon Violence," The Unz Review, September 4, 2015.
“Canada is a high-wage area. The U.S. is a high-wage area. Latin America is a low-wage area. Migratory pressure flows from low-wage to high-wage regions; from the Third World to the First World (until migratory equilibrium is reached when First World becomes Third World).”
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Recorded in: Trump’s Good for the English Language," WorldNetDaily.com, September 17, 2015.
“According to liberal liturgy, if not for largely exogenous circumstances—all human beings would be capable of similar accomplishments. Many a co-opted scientist will second the political dictum that there is no such thing as general intelligence. Speak, if you must, about the phenotype—even genotype—of all individual traits other than intelligence. As for the possibility of group genotypic intelligence: Don't go there!”
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Recorded in: Trump’s Good for the English Language," WorldNetDaily.com, September 17, 2015.
“Neoconservatives are still in the business of creating their own parallel reality and forcing ordinary Americans, Europeans and Middle-Easterners to inhabit the ruins.”
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Recorded in: Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America… Again,” LewRockwell.com, September 25, 2015.
“If America busies itself not with elective wars, but with commerce, the shift in power and prestige will be away from politicians who prosecute wars, and back to The People who produce prosperity.”
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Recorded in: Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America… Again,”LewRockwell.com, September 25, 2015.
“Jews like presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have forgotten that riches are a reward for work well done. In the Jewish faith's infinite wisdom, wealth justly acquired is a sign of God's blessing.”
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Recorded in: Burn-the-Wealth Bernie & His Partial Enslavement System,"The Quarterly Review, October 16, 2015
“Be it Hillary Clinton or burn-the-wealth Bernie Sanders — both agree that it is up to them, the all-knowing central planners, to determine how much of your life ought to be theirs to squander.”
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Recorded in: Burn-the-Wealth Bernie & His Partial Enslavement System,"The Quarterly Review, October 16, 2015
“Like gun laws, spy laws, courtesy of the Surveillance State, oppress only law-abiding, harmless individuals.”
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Recorded in: In the West, the Inmates Run the Asylym," Praag.org, December 4, 2015.
“Donald Trump's political rivals look at the price exacted by a Muslim like Syed Farouk and his bride in the aggregate. To a politician, 14 lives in 322 million is a small price to pay for 'our freedoms.' Fourteen dead in San Bernardino is not a steep price to pay for unfettered immigration from Islamic countries, peddled politically as 'our values,' 'our tolerance,' 'our greatness.' This callous calculus is second nature to neoconservative politicians like Lindsey Graham or Darth Vader Cheney. Not to Trump.”
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Recorded in: No Wonder the Pols Think Businessman Trump’s Crazy; He Understands Scarcity," The Unz Review, December 11, 2015.
“Said Saint Augustine, 'The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.' The Republican Party under Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq. To embark on the good, the GOP must come clean about the bad.”
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Recorded in: Making America great means exposing 'W'," Praag.org, February 20, 2016.
“Donald Trump has buried George W. Bush, for good. Or so we hope. This might not be 'Morning in America,' but it is a moral victory for values in America. Somewhere in those Judeo-Christian values touted by 'values voters' is an injunction against mass murder.”
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Recorded in: Trump called Bush a liar & he won South Carolina (Nevada, too)," The Unz Review, February 27, 2016.
“We do know. We can say for sure. And we have all the documents. George W. Bush lied America into war.”
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Recorded in: Trump called Bush a liar & he won South Carolina (Nevada, too)," The Unz Review, February 27, 2016.
“In the classical conservative and libertarian traditions values are private things. They must be left to individuals and to civil society to practice and police. Party and state operatives have police powers with which to back their 'values.' Therefore, never-ever are they to preach or police The People's values.”
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Recorded in: Trump nation tired of racial sadomasochism," WorldNetDaily.com, March 3, 2016.
“The no-longer-silent majority is exhausted, sick-and-tired of being racially ramrodded. They've had enough of the pigment burden.”
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Recorded in: Trump nation tired of racial sadomasochism," WorldNetDaily.com, March 3, 2016.
“I don't know that Trump favors protective tariffs, import quotas or export subsidies. I do know that we don't have free trade. What goes for 'free trade' is trade managed by powerful bureaucracies—national and transnational international—central planners concerned with regulating, not freeing, trade; whose goal it is to harmonize labor, health, and environmental laws throughout the developed world. The undeveloped and developing worlds do as they please. My understanding is that Trump simply wants to make these agreements and organs work for the American people.”
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Recorded in: Trump and Trade," WorldNetDaily.com, March 11, 2016.
“Democrat Grover Cleveland was America’s last conservative president. He preached and practiced the maxim that ‘the people must support the government, but the government must not support the people.'”
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Recorded in: Trump Doesn’t Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative,” WND.com, March 17, 2016
“While the Left controls the intellectual means of production—schools (primary, secondary, tertiary), media, foundations, think tanks, publishing prints—the 'Respectable Right' is hardly on the outs with the liberal smart set.”
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Recorded in: Trump Doesn't Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative," WND.com, March 17, 2016.
“Republican presidents who've talked and acted conservatively are as elusive as Big Foot. There hasn't been a sighting in maybe a century. A purist would cite Democrat Grover Cleveland as America's last conservative president. He preached and practiced the maxim that 'the people must support the government, but the government must not support the people.”
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Recorded in: Trump Doesn’t Need to Talk Like A Conservative," The Unz Review, March 19, 2016.
“When it comes to philosophical convictions, most conservatives more closely resemble their beltway liberal friends than Republican Party voters. From the country's dismal finances and propagandized population, a sizable segment has concluded that conservative power-brokers and liberal power-brokers are indistinguishable.”
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Recorded in: Trump Doesn’t Need to Talk Like A Conservative," The Unz Review, March 19, 2016.
“One defining issue over which New Conservatives and liberals practically converge: Islam is peaceful, except for a few bad Abduls.”
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Recorded in: Trump Doesn’t Need to Talk Like A Conservative," The Unz Review, March 19, 2016.
“Centuries of Islam, transmitted through mother's milk, cannot be tweaked out of the Muslim DNA like some unsightly nose-hair.”
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Recorded in: The Expert Idiocracy Is More dangerous Than Islam, Almost," Townhall.com, July 17, 2016.
“Survival—of the species of the culture of the faith—has a biological dimension. What would have befallen our Hominid ancestors had they implemented gender parity in their hunter-gatherer societies—sometimes the women hunt while the men forage and mind the kids, and vice versa?”
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Recorded in: Emasculated West Primed For A Muscular, Muslim Takeover," FrontPage Magazine, July 29, 2016.
“At its core, the argument against racism, at least as it works to further black interests, is an argument against collectivism. You're meant to avoid judging an entire people based on the color of their epidermis or the conduct of a statistically significant number of them. It is, however,deemed perfectly acceptable to malign and milk Europeans for all they're worth, based on the lack of pigment in their skin and their overall better socio-economic performance.”
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“The following quotes are taken from Mercer's column "The Third Degree à la Germany," Townhall.com, Nov 29, 2016, in which she answers the Junge Freiheit questionnaire.”
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“I‘m strictly reality oriented. I don’t indulge in make-believe. I don’t wish to be where I’m not.”
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“I’d give "anything" for freedom from The State, provided "anything" is a figure of speech (no limbs, eyes, etc.)”
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“(When asked - "What do you consider important in life?") "Meaningful work, intellectual honesty (rare), close relationships, good health, my guns, my companion parrot (Oscar-Wood), related advocacy and charities.”
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“The concept of a Favorite Book is childish, if you’re a lifelong reader. Lots of books of political theory, philosophy and economics have indelibly influenced my thinking.”
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“In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," instead of "life, liberty and property." With that vagueness, Jefferson undermined the foundation of civilization: private property right.”
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“Traditionalists value hierarchy. An infantile, immoral society deifies The Child. Kids should follow Florence King's injunction that "children have no business expressing opinions on anything except, 'Do you have enough room in the toes?'”
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“Liberals have developed a utopian vision of how nature should behave. It must remain in perfect balance. To that end, they’ll exterminate harmless critters that violate the liberal idea of Order; of species correctness. While animals may not migrate illegally, or disrupt the preordained ‘natural’ order—liberal social engineers encourage non-indigenous peoples to mess with the social habitat of historic, host populations. Provided they’re white.”
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Recorded in: The Curious Case of America's Waning Whites" The Daily Caller, December 8, 2016
“The Left's delayed Russophobia is about a century too late.”—ILANA MERCER,”
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Recorded in: The Proof is Not In The Putin,” The Daily Caller, December 16, 2016
“Mythical thinking thrives in a culture that eschews objective truth: ours.”
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Recorded in: Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good" The Daily Caller, January 13, 2017
“Where once there was an understanding that a reality independent of the human observer exists; students are now taught that truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position—or lack thereof—of persons or groups in society.”
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Recorded in: Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good" The Daily Caller, January 13, 2017
“Obama is a case study in hubris.”
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Recorded in: Obama’s Terrific Tantrum,” Constitution.com, January 2, 2017:
“The countdown to President-elect Trump's inauguration has morphed into a search-and-rescue for the Barack Obama legacy, except that when something is dead; it becomes a recovery operation.”
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Recorded in: ‘Go On Now Go,’ Barack Obama, ‘Walk Out The Door …’ Townhall.com, January 19, 2017