The downfall of Dinesh D'Souza

[Deleted member 196663]

There is absolutely no "power game" in criticizing someone like D'Souza who is very clearly a charlatan who preys upon aggrieved older white people who believe absolutely anything (however outlandish) negative about the left. I mean seriously, if someone who says that the Democratic Party platform is like the Nazi platform is really a leading intellectual of your movement/party, that movement/party is pretty bottom feeder'ish to say the least.

Politicians are by nature charlatans, regardless of what party they belong to. Keep living in your fantasy world.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

Dinesh was one of the guys I used to read regularly as a young conservative.

One of the reasons why the Republican party is so messed up...more know who Dinesh is while one of the greatest minds of the last 100 years, Dr Thomas Sowell is still relatively unknown, though finally starting to become more popular thanks to the madness of the far left creating the Intellectual Dark Web.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

I think he was dating Ann Coulter for a while.

I don't know how the universe didn't collapse on itself when that much misery shared one bed. Thank Allah they didn't reproduce.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

One of the reasons why the Republican party is so messed up...more know who Dinesh is while one of the greatest minds of the last 100 years, Dr Thomas Sowell is still relatively unknown, though finally starting to become more popular thanks to the madness of the far left creating the Intellectual Dark Web.

Thomas Sowell is probably the most famous rightwing economist in the US after Milton Friedman.

You don't hear about him much now because he basically retired from public life. He stopped writing his weekly articles over a year ago.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

I think he was dating Ann Coulter for a while.

I don't know how the universe didn't collapse on itself when that much misery shared one bed. Thank Allah they didn't reproduce.

He also went out with Laura Ingraham. According to Cheri Jacobus when Dinesh broke up with her Laura responded by putting his garden house through his mail slot and turning it on to flood his house lol.

 

[spamking]

The View is literally (and by a far margin) more politically and factually coherent than Dinesh's work.

But you didn't plan on actually thinking about the OP or its contained article: you just saw that it was negative about a guy on your team, so you resorted to a laughably childish insult, i.e. "durr hurr you guys are girls!"

You watch "The View"?

Dude.

 

[Trotsky]

You watch "The View"?

Dude.

I've seen clips posted, yes.

I've probably seen more of that View-type show that plays on channel 4 or 5. The Talk, maybe? Idk, it has or had Leah Remini and she was abrasive as hell.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

Thomas Sowell is probably the most famous rightwing economist in the US after Milton Friedman.

You don't hear about him much now because he basically retired from public life. He stopped writing his weekly articles over a year ago.

Milton Friedman is famous amongst Libertarians as is Sowell...we are talking about conservatives here. And Sowell is more famous now than he ever was and is doing in interviews almost weekly with a great many...wait for it...black people actually talking about him now, thanks to Kenye, Candace Owens, the IDW and the #walkaway movement.

 

[Trotsky]

Thomas Sowell is probably the most famous rightwing economist in the US after Milton Friedman.

You don't hear about him much now because he basically retired from public life. He stopped writing his weekly articles over a year ago.

Did you ever get much out of Sowell?

I greatly respect and see legitimate value in Friedman, and I recognize him as a titan of the field.

I've never seen anything from Sowell that was worth the paper it was written on.

 

[luckyshot]

Just watched Death of a Nation last night. Excellent movie. Dinesh does a good job showing the true racist, fascist history of the Democratic party and dispels the myth that the parties ever switched. He did a good job showing how the progressive ideology that democrats employ is what lead to the civil war, the kkk, communism, socialism, Nazism, mass abortions, eugenics, and almost every dark period of modern western history.

He draws a parallel to the 1860s. That was the last time the country was so divided and the democrats refused to accept the results of the election. He shows how a strong, yet hated and maligned, republican president had to save the country from the democratic progressives, racists, and fascists. He argues that Trump, and we the people, must once again save the country from the racist and fascist democrats.

If Lincoln were alive he’d sure as hell slap the shit out of hacks like Dinesh who are exploiting a dumbed down population for profit.

Why don’t you actually read what Lincoln wrote and try to apply it?

I’d recommend starting with the second inaugural address.

Yeah the guy sucks. He also cheated on his wife of 20 years and then divorced her and got remarried to his mistress who also happened to be married.

10/10 solid conservative values. I’m starting to wonder if you are allowed to join the GOP if haven’t had affairs (exceptions made for incels, of course).

 

[PolishHeadlock]

Did you ever get much out of Sowell?

I greatly respect and see legitimate value in Friedman, and I recognize him as a titan of the field.

I've never seen anything from Sowell that was worth the paper it was written on.

Bill Buckley, Sowell and Walter Williams had the biggest influence on me growing up and are probably the main reason I identified as Conservative and registered as a Republican

 

[PolishHeadlock]

Milton Friedman is famous amongst Libertarians as is Sowell...we are talking about conservatives here. And Sowell is more famous now than he ever was and is doing in interviews almost weekly with a great many...wait for it...black people actually talking about him now, thanks to Kenye, Candace Owens, the IDW and the #walkaway movement.

I have no idea where you're getting the idea that he's more famous now.

And Friedman's notoriety is not limited to Libertarians. He might be the most famous economist in recent world history after Keyens.

 

[Trotsky]

Bill Buckley, Sowell and Walter Williams had the biggest influence on me growing up and are probably the main reason I identified as Conservative and registered as a Republican

I'm not familiar with Walter Williams, but I hold Buckley in esteem (though certainly not to the degree of Friedman) and think he was a worthwhile figure for the conservative movement.

Are there any areas of economics or public policy where you felt Sowell was particularly insightful? For the life of me, everything I've seen from the man is dressed up platitude, and his political commentary is terribly dishonest and self-serving.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

I have no idea where you're getting the idea that he's more famous now.

And Friedman's notoriety is not limited to Libertarians. He might be the most famous economist in recent world history after Keyens.

Well lets see now...

After Buckley left Firing Line, Sowell made next to no television appearances for nearly 10 years and even Firing Line had limited visibility and was one of the few shows that would ever have him on. However over the last 5 years, all of his old interviews have been put online, he has been interviewed everywhere, Fox News learned about him and have him on regularly, he is being interviewed by someone, every single week, he is being spoken about and used to finally start to wake black America and his named is tossed around by those very people on social media, constantly.

So yeah...the momeny Kenye West started talking about him to his 20+ million twitter followers, Sowell became far more famous as it can be debated that 20 million knew who he was before it, and those tweets alone, is having a massive ripple effect.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

I'm not familiar with Walter Williams, but I hold Buckley in esteem (though certainly not to the degree of Friedman) and think he was a worthwhile figure for the conservative movement.

Are there any areas of economics or public policy where you felt Sowell was particularly insightful? For the life of me, everything I've seen from the man is dressed up platitude, and his political commentary is terribly dishonest and self-serving.

I don't think you get much from him that you wouldn't have gotten from Friedman when it comes to economics but he was very active and his articles and books were very readable, they aren't dry.

I thought these essays were interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals

His writings on the unintended consequences of school busing during desegregation (particularly Dunbar High School in DC) are interesting along with the impact of Affirmative Action on black colleges.

He and along with John McWhorter pushed me away from supporting Affirmative Action, or if there is going to be Affirmative Action policies it should be based on wealth/Class as opposed to race.

He's also the main reason I don't support minimum wage as it acts as a barrier to unskilled labor. If it comes down to fact that we need something for income inequality I'd rather go with Friedman's Negative Income tax or UBI.

 

[EradiatedHaggis]

Are there any areas of economics or public policy where you felt Sowell was particularly insightful? For the life of me, everything I've seen from the man is dressed up platitude, and his political commentary is terribly dishonest and self-serving.

Umm, here...9 hours of it in the link below. Anyone that thinks Sowell is using platitudes, is dishonest or self-serving is basically a clueless person with a bias that either never gave him a chance or never bothered to actually investigate what he says and instead choose to go with something that sounded better, that is also not investigated.

Go on and try to find a single person that actually refuted him DIRECTLY. A lot of people talk bad about Sowell, but next to no one has ever actually used a quote of his to do it. And its from the same people that have been giving him death threats for almost 50 years and calling him things only a real racist would say...yet they call themselves friends of black people.

 

[n...not crazy]

Do you keep broken clocks around because they're right twice a day?

Considering that most people are right zero times a day, I'll keep tuning into Dinesh. I'm a sucker for logical arguments, and on most days he brings them.

Everyone is an asshole sometimes. I've yet to find the perfect political specimen, suitable for worship...

 

[Higus]

Considering that most people are right zero times a day, I'll keep tuning into Dinesh. I'm a sucker for logical arguments, and on most days he brings them.

Everyone is an asshole sometimes. I've yet to find the perfect political specimen, suitable for worship...

I don't know what you think is a logical argument from him, but given the amount of bullshit and dishonesty from him, the logical thing would be to ignore him all together to avoid polluting your mind with garbage in disguise of information.

 

[Wingslaught]

Oh really? Tell us more, because that sounds like complete bull.

Read the article. D'Souza also claims his legal team subpoenaed his FBI record and it is he was identified as an Obama critic which is pretty damning, imo.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

he's the in much better shape conservative Michael Moore pretty much