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Victor Davis Hanson Tells Tucker Carlson Why He Left the National Review (and Was Happy to Leave)
National Review continues running Hanson's syndicated column. Many believe they do this cynically, to suggest that Victor Davis Hanson is still with National Review, when in fact he left them, and for ideological reasons, not financial ones.
The syndicated column, anyone can run that, if they pay the subscription for it. But he's not with them any more. He left that organization. Video at RCP; excerpts from their transcription below.VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:Dave Reaboi had an observation: National Review was founded not to persuade the general citizenry, but to persuade a specific microscopic subset of it: New York City based liberal intellectuals and the monied class generally. And, I would add, as New York City based liberal intellectuals and the monied class moved further and further left -- particularly on issues of culture, including immigration -- National Review moved left to keep within a stone's throw of them. After all, you cannot hope to persuade anyone you are diametrically opposed to on every issue.
As far as your other question, yeah, I lost all those friends. TUCKER CARLSON: Really? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I left the National Review this year after 20 years and I think they were happy to see me leave too. TUCKER CARLSON: Why did you leave National Review? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Because there were certain issues that would pop up occasionally, and I could predict what the answer was going to be. The Covington kids. I just sensed that before we knew anything, people would come and condemn them. Or the Access Hollywood tape-- TUCKER CARLSON: People at National Review condemned the Covington kids? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I think there were certain people in the Republican movement, or establishment, who felt it is their duty to internally police their own, and that's kind of a virtue signal to the left. We are just part of your class, we share the same values as you do, and we keep our crazies. And they are not empirical. You saw it on January 6. We all condemn that baffoonish riot. But within two weeks, I said to myself Ashli Babbitt was shot unarmed and we don't know anything about the policeman, we don't know anything about the report. When a policeman shoots somebody unarmed, there are pictures everywhere. TUCKER CARLSON: No warning, by the way. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: They're having Officer Sicknik lie in state, but I want to know where is the evidence is that he was killed? He wasn't killed, he died of a stroke -- TUCKER CARLSON: National Review wasn't on that? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: No. No. An "armed insurrection." There were no weapons found on the people they arrested. They are not even being charged and tried with dispatch. There are sitting in purgatory. So these issues, I would get angry about, and I would try to convey that anger, but I think ... a lot of them felt it was their duty as Republican establishmentarians to tell the world they didn't approve of Donald Trump's tweets or his crudity. My message was always: But, it's good for the middle class. He's kind of like a Shane or Magnificent Seven or High Noon, he's a gunslinger we hired and we are the townspeople that are impotent and he came in with certain skills. And he started to have success and now we have the luxury of saying we don't like the fact that he has a six-gun. But he has to ride off into the sunset. But they didn't -- there were other issues I think they felt were more important, so I think it was a good parting for both of us. TUCKER CARLSON: What issues did they think were important? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I don't know, I think there's an image that a lot of Republicans have, both in politics and they sort of represent a sober and judicious way of looking at the world, and we are the adults in the room. And it's more about a culture than it is an ideology. The original Republican conservative movement, I thought, was going to go back and look at the Constitution, when Jefferson said it won't work if you pile up everybody in the cities because they will be subject to mass hysteria. Or de Tocqueville, and you look at certain ideas, I thought that's what we were. I thought they would be champions of the middle class, but I don't think they were. I don't think they wanted to be.
When the New York City Liberal Intellectuals and the monied class they are embedded with (and sometimes literally in bed with) decided, for example, that deporting illegal aliens and building a border wall was "racist," National Review changed its views to align with this New York City Liberal Intellectual consensus. National Review now finds itself as the proponent of a brand of watered-down, socially-liberal "conservatism" that is officially Safe for New York City Liberal Intellectuals (TM). This, quite obviously, is not conservatism at all. And thus, their greatly reduced readership and vanishing influence with actual conservatives. But I wish them all good luck in their future careers.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Infidel at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (iorxD)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (kTF2Z)
>It's important to fight illiberalism on the Right. It's entirely futile to try fighting it on the Left.
https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/
1445072980413911044
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at October 05, 2021 02:58 PM (cSs/W)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Roy at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Joe Mama at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (WmGrA)
But I wish them all good luck in their future careers.
Posted by: Ace at 03:56 PM
This too is the story of the Republican Party, minus the wishing them luck.
Posted by: Bete at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (F9322)
I have that in quick hits. I was going to add it here, but i kept it in quick hits because it gives me a reason to use the Cruise Ship emojis.
Posted by: ace at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (XvPQV)
And Chuckles Johnson of LGF is a leftwing asshat.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (ESjRY)
With a vaguely Catholic wash.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (i9ZF7)
Posted by: Infidel at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (iorxD)
Posted by: ace at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (0G13K)
Heeeeeeeeeeere we go!
Aussie "leaders" in Victoria have now directed people in home quarantine they have to use that app that randomly instructs you to take a geo-located selfie within five minutes.
https://bit.ly/3DhW84j
We heard about the app before, now they're demanding Aussies use it.
Posted by: bonhomme
Here's a picture of my balloon knot.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (OCTRt)
Good guy.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 05, 2021 03:01 PM (eZshs)
And how, they couldn't wait to seize on the left wing narrative
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: ace at October 05, 2021 02:59 PM (0G13K)
Carry on, good sir. Ahoy!
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (cSs/W)
So, you know, this might be a bit too much.
Posted by: Lavrentiy Beria at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (fHCeQ)
Posted by: Infidel at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (iorxD)
Posted by: Some Aussie Cop at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (ESjRY)
Conserving the air of felling you're better than everyone else.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:03 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at October 05, 2021 03:03 PM (P7Iz+)
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Strikes me as a reasonable conclusion, but I am not sure about the motivation. I don't think the NR - now or then - wants to persuade anyone in the NY-based liberal/money class. I think they want to find that happy niche where they get to pretend (or maybe actually be) different from those guys, but not so different that they turn into pariahs and get disinvited from all the parties, functions, speaking tours, etc. They *like* being the token "conservatives" in that crowd, and that's what they pursue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:03 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at October 05, 2021 03:03 PM (28CWO)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 05, 2021 03:03 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: f'd at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (Tnijr)
How can we be sure its yours?
Posted by: Some Aussie Cop at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (ESjRY)
My phone has balloon knot recognition technology. They are like fingerprints.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (Y5qcH)
And how, they couldn't wait to seize on the left wing narrative
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:02 PM (CYnTg)
Whatever happened to spittle flecked lunatic Nicholas Frankovich?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (cSyAR)
These are Oligarch lapdogs, neutered, panting, and pissing themselves when they get excited by their true masters.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (XvPQV)
National Review, which I started subscribing to in 1975, was at its core an anti-Communist magazine. When the Eastern Bloc dissolved in 1989-1990, it basically lost its purpose. Like Churchill, it had no great interest in domestic affairs though it nodded its head in the right direction every now and then.
It should have folded 30 years ago.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at October 05, 2021 02:56 PM (wAnMi)
Smarter would be retiring, selling the farm, renting a U-haul and moving east.
Posted by: Roy at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (Ti+Tv)
As much as I might like the museums or the library or the monuments in NYC, it isn't worth it to me to have to experience living on top of people and dealing with streets that smell of piss and people who hate me. Not interested, thanks.
I have the feeling that NY intellectuals have a mutual feeling about Alaska, so that's all well and good, I suppose.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: Aussie Police at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (wAjWw)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (r8tC0)
Locking down the country while sending diseased Haitian illegals wherever they want to go? Oh come on that would never happen!
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: St Katherine J. Lopez, Lesbian Celibate, Order of the Untouched Labia at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (Y5qcH)
So how many assholes do you review in a day?
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (okGHj)
That being said, I could easily see WFB being "Never Trump" later in life. Him and his kind just seemed to ache to be accepted by the "cool kids" and thought if they could just fall on the right sword, it would someday pay off.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (Mh8ci)
Especially since I can do them virtually.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Stephen Hayes at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (LW36e)
"Jerkers" in a Bull Semen Factory?
Posted by: Marcus T at October 05, 2021 03:05 PM (VpIIl)
After a month probation period, they give them a rubber glove.
Posted by: Roy at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (LW36e)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (EM7sk)
Depends on if I accidentally go to the Yahoo home page or not.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: JT at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (okGHj)
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Intellectuals in general. There is a yawning chasm of mutual contempt between real people (regardless of class or ideology) and intellectuals.
And yes, I am anti-intellectual when that word is used as a noun. If you're "An Intellectual" - either by self-proclamation or common description - then I have no use for you. Take VDH as an example. He is an extremely intellectual person - well read, well studied, prodigious intellectual output - but he is not An Intellectual. He often goes out of his way to make that clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Lessee, there were 200 at the courthouse. Another 50 at the DMV....
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (ESjRY)
Further reminder that this godless douche popularized "paleosimians" after 9/11.
Anyone else would lose their job for far, far less.
Posted by: trev006 at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (g56gv)
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Sure didn't show into the 80s.
The model doesn't fit the facts. As communism became more and more cool among liberals, they didn't budge. And their pre-Bush views on education were inherently objectionable to those liberals. (They are were I developed my "burn it down" attitude before 1970.)
It's more an expression of anger or frustration than an analysis of what happened.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 05, 2021 03:07 PM (7X3UV)
Well I wish those dung eaters an express elevator to hell, for my part.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (o2MD2)
https://tinyurl.com/3a2wdrft
Basically, he's okay with it as along as it doesn't attempt to "prosecute political speech". Sure, PF.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (5aFbR)
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Only if the person who got shot is black or hispanic or muslim or some other mythically "oppressed" person.
If it's just a white person, the media doesn't give a shit.
White people get shot and killed by cops in the U.S. in much greater numbers than blacks do, but you never hear about those shootings. But when a black person gets shot by a cop, it's 24/7 media coverage, usually hysterical coverage, about how this proves what a raaaaaacist country this is, and how blacks are under attack and being hunted down and shot like dogs, and all the rest of that bullshit.
Blacks bitterly complain about the disparity in media attention in "missing white girl" cases, yet they never complain about the disparate media attention in cop shooting cases.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (k4dH2)
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Ah ha!
Posted by: Braenyard at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (Okeht)
This demented Meat Puppet is so far gone, the lies dribbling out of his mouth so grotesque, the vile poison he and his illegitimate junta are nauseating.
The chuckleheads at National Review need to meet some rough justice for their part in foisting this asshole upon the nation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (7gK4M)
"Jerkers" in a Bull Semen Factory?
Choke up and stroke, fellers, there's a whole half a shift's worth of work left to do!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (pNxlR)
NYC is not that though. I lived there for a couple of years in my 20s and loved it. Would I want to raise kids there? Probably not. You need a ton of money to do that comfortably, like $3M townhome type money. Which is why other than welfare types and recent immigrants willing to live 8 to a room, NYC is for young singles and the absurdly rich.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (28CWO)
Because he cemented the mindeset that a caste of "conservatives" had as their sacred duty to police the movement, keep it polite and respectable-- even at the cost of losing.
Over and over and over.
Posted by: Lrrr at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (jIL4c)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:06 PM (CYnTg)
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I keep the world's greatest dick pic in reserve in case I ever need it:
https://is.gd/p6ymJV
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (+IIqY)
You know, that makes perfect sense and it aligns exactly with how I've seen the old guard Republicans act. They think of them selves as stately, venerable patricians first and seem to be married to the old arguments and old priorities. They are completely incapable of responding to their colleagues across the aisle acting like 1960s radicals rather than the old guard Democrats against which they solidified their little club.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:09 PM (YYlyE)
One wonders why he has no audience anymore.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:09 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:09 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (Vxu+H)
Liberalism is being weekend dad.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (KbCG3)
But, since he did all that stuff we have to renounce it. That much is clear.
Posted by: Overheard at a Park Ave cocktail party at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (dj58i)
These educators and administrators have been brainwashed and enabled since day one of college that they know what is best for our kids. They openly despise the parents. They should be terrified for their lives.
Exciting "you get what you deserve" times ahead.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (CCDfQ)
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Couthness.
That's all it's ever been, an effect to disapprove of the man's style.
These aren't serious people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (LvTSG)
I think it was whatsisface Lowry, senior NRO editor who got in early with a full-on broadside against the Covington kids without waiting for any actual facts to appear. It's like he couldn't fall all over himself fast enough to virtue-signal his left wing buddies.
And to this day, that article is uncorrected and unretracted.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (IN5Dl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (63Dwl)
I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "Trump" in my sleep.
Then one day, I was just walking down the street when I heard a voice behind me say, "Reach for it, mister!" I spun around... and there I was, face to face with a six-year grad student. Well, I just threw my iPad down and walked away.
Little bastard shot me in the ass. So I limped to the nearest club, crawled inside a Courvoisier bottle... and I've been there ever since.
Posted by: The Waco Con at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (o2MD2)
With a vaguely Catholic wash.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:00 PM (i9ZF7)
Someone who has a better memory of WFB than I needs to remind me about this; I don't remember WFB changing his views significantly to make himself more acceptable to the NYC crowd. I remember that he did apologize for his stance on the Civil Rights Bill, but not much else along those lines.
NR outside of WFB, however - including his son Christopher - is another story altogether.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (eNJEy)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (Vxu+H)
Another Russell Brand.
Posted by: Deep State 910 at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (HwtiA)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Madamemayhem
Also, now isn't the best time to be firing people for not getting the jab.
Especially nurses.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (OCTRt)
I really REALLY wish that they would scoop them up and bus them to Washington DC and dump them there and in the suburbs surrounding DC.
Put that wet sticky turd in the pockets it belongs in.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (LW36e)
Oh I can see that bloated fop Jonah getting all screechy and such.
They pushed Derbyshire off when he got too close to the truth.
I always preferred Emmett Tyrell. Not sure whatever happened there.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (4WPW/)
Posted by: jason_farnon at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (25r9f)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (DrKir)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya Variant at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (28CWO)
Just got home so catching up on the day's news so don't know if this has been mentioned but the Green Beret who was arrested by the FBI on a trespassing charge, a trespassing charge, and a gain, a trespassing charge on Jan 6 has been DENIED bail.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Roy at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: pahound at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (M49ee)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 03:08 PM (k4dH2)
Let's not even discuss the NBA or NFL. Poor, poor black folk just trying to make a living and ol' whitey keepin' 'em down.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: Weasel at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (MVjcR)
Doc was talking about why are so many jobs available and businesses desperately trying to hire people. I said government is paying them to stay home. What you subsidise you get more of.
But the media tells me those payments have stopped.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (63Dwl)
Wouldn't be prudent!
Posted by: Gov Abbott at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (ESjRY)
Liberalism is being weekend dad.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (KbCG3)
_________
Her Majesty used to snarl about her ex being Disney Dad while she had all the hard work of raising her daughter alone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (/U27+)
A quibble: You CAN persuade such a person, under strict conditions:
1. You have the same end in view, but differ on methods;
2. You are both willing to agree to objective criteria for evaluating the measures in dispute;
3. You have agreed that neither shall impugn the other's motives.
I'll grant that Left and Right cannot currently meet those conditions.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (z/nZY)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (KbCG3)
Liberalism (leftists) are like the uncle that wants to smoke pot with you and then tries to touch your junk.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
Most of us here were.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (i9ZF7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (63Dwl)
Standing athwart conservatism, yelling "STOP!"
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (IN5Dl)
So condemn anyone who dares to suggest that maybe transgenderism is a mental disorder, or that the 2020 elections weren't entirely on the up and up.
But I guarandamntee you that they all knew about the ones in their midst who were preying on young men, and they said nothing.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (jOcSX)
Posted by: Skip's Phone
You leave Miley alone, she's a wonderful person!!
Yeah, I know you meant General Milley, who is a....leave it a that. Way to go, Brandon.
The funny thing is that Mattis (as SecDef) didn't like Milley and didn't want his a Chairman of the JCS. So Trump decided to spite him and nominate Milley anyways. So Trump kind of screwed the pooch, here.
That was evident last summer when Milley got pissy about appearing with Trump in front of the church across the street from the White House.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (vcOmj)
That is a very bright and accurate observation, and it makes tremendous sense of what they are doing and how they react to things.
And yes, as the left has screamed around the bend with insane rapidity, the ability to reach out to them became more and more difficult, unless you too went around the bend, just a bit more slowly
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (KZzsI)
The weekend dad that also hands out cocaine and invites his grown male friends over to entertain.
*cough*
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:13 PM (i9ZF7)
I've said before that I don't think Buckley would have liked Trump's candidacy, but he sure as hell would have understood how we got Trump.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (jOcSX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (63Dwl)
Blacks bitterly complain about the disparity in media attention in "missing white girl" cases,
So why does a black "power hitter" in the media, say Joy Reid, take up a case of two or three of missing wahmens of color and flog it to death, each and every day?
Because that might involve having to work for a living instead of being a perpetual grievance mongerer who merely has to engage her fat flapping yap to win plaudits from the hollowed out skulls that comprise her audience?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (pNxlR)
And to this day, that article is uncorrected and unretracted.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:11 PM (IN5Dl)
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I remember Nick Frankovich wrote a nasty little moral jihad piece about the Covington boys, but he sort-of apologized. He still has a job there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (EM7sk)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (OCTRt)
Yes. I am in good company!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (o2MD2)
Blacks bitterly complain about the disparity in media attention in "missing white girl" cases,
So why does a black "power hitter" in the media, say Joy Reid, not take up a case or two or three of missing wahmens of color and flog it to death, each and every day, on their show?
Because that might involve having to work for a living instead of being a perpetual grievance mongerer who merely has to engage her fat flapping yap to win plaudits from the hollowed out skulls that comprise her audience?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (pNxlR)
Because that might involve having to work for a living instead of being a perpetual grievance mongerer who merely has to engage her fat flapping yap to win plaudits from the hollowed out skulls that comprise her audience?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (pNxlR)
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Also, it's a 99% chance that the perp would be a black man who definitely didn't vote for Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at October 05, 2021 03:12 PM (z/nZY)
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Yes. It is why I no longer care about policy arguments. If you want to have a policy disagreement that you work out - say "legal immigration {should|should not} be limited by quotas" - then you have to agree on the basics. You have to agree on things like nation-state government, borders as a sovereign requirement, supremacy of the population of citizens in decision-making, etc. If you can't agree on the core basics, then there is no room for a policy argument. You can't argue "there should be strict restrictions on immigration" with someone who rejects the concept of a border.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (RHGPo)
"The McMullin "camp" consists of McMullin, Bill Kristol, their wives, and their wives' f***-stags."
No, don't you remember? The f***-stags voted for Trump. Why would the wives want another small limp d***? They've already got that.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (7X3UV)
I love me some Trump but damn his ego got in the way of some hires. That and his love of experts and credentials.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (CYnTg)
I got ticked off at NR for their "Never Trump" issue back before Trump was the Republican nominee, not because I voted for Trump in the primary (I didn't) but because I thought what if he is the nominee, are you going to back the Democrat?
Hoooooo boy.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (wyw4S)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (DrKir)
1. You have the same end in view, but differ on methods;
2. You are both willing to agree to objective criteria for evaluating the measures in dispute;
3. You have agreed that neither shall impugn the other's motives.
I'll grant that Left and Right cannot currently meet those conditions.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto
It's great that you have a few moments to comment here.
Just saying, I miss "Eternity Road". Really great writing.
Thank you.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:10 PM (KbCG3)
Considering that not one of them can stay married for any decent length of time, that's is quite accurate.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (okGHj)
The thing is that you (or us in general) want to be left alone and don't try to enforce our beliefs down their necks. They on the other can't leave us alone and always want to jam their religion down our throats using the government, academia, and the media.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (68WvR)
Because you'd find out they were most likely killed bu their black boy friends or their black neighbor.
And that is the other complaint of the FNM - that crime stories focus on too many young black men.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (ESjRY)
Political Conservatism is largely a figment of the imagination.
I can't really even think of a single political initiative or policy goal that was conservative in nature that was actually made a reality.
A one time "balancing" of the budget?
Some tax cuts sprinkled about over the last 40 years?
That's pretty much it.
The only administration that had as it's main thrust and goal to do "conservative" things was the last administration.
And we see how that turned out.
The Uniparty said, fuck that shit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (7gK4M)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (flINI)
Because the perpetrators are the wrong race.
I asked before: if the missing girl was black, but her boyfriend was white, would the media have been interested in the case? I think so. If the races were reversed -the girlfriend was white but the boyfriend was black- they would have hushed it up.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (jOcSX)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (oSX/P)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (pNxlR)
There's plenty of media time for what the culture values. Bballers and gangbangers.
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (jOcSX)
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It's important to hush up stories that give people the wrong ideas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
Most of us here were.
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I never understood how he kept any commenters, the way the thin-skinned dick would keep banning people for the slightest offense. I think he banned me after my second comment there. LOL. That was a long time ago.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Braenyard at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (nd/mG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 05, 2021 03:14 PM (EM7sk)
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Yes, his is the screed I remember but I do not remember him apologizing. I thought they just sort of ignored it and went on about their business.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (wyw4S)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (YYlyE)
Welfare reform in the mid-90s.
But then the left got Dennis Hastert to be the top Republican in DC and its all been controlled opposition since then.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (ESjRY)
Pretty much this. Not to mention the elephant in the room would be, mass killings in Democrat run cities.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:17 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One
......
Me too. He's from Fresno I think, along with Nunes.
Posted by: wth at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Because the perpetrators are the wrong race.
I asked before: if the missing girl was black, but her boyfriend was white, would the media have been interested in the case? I think so. If the races were reversed -the girlfriend was white but the boyfriend was black- they would have hushed it up.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:16 PM (jOcSX)
Is the missing girl attractive? That's where it starts.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (oSX/P)
Pretty much. She can't get that from her Twitter friends so she doesn't know about it or have any desire to dig and find out. Its not like she could not turn this into an anti-Trump thing.
Also: she does not give a damn about little black girls being missing or dead, not really. That issue doesn't affect her power, money, comfort, or pleasure.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: SMOD at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (RHGPo)
We can take care of that.
Posted by: Hatchet, Axe, and Saw at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (i9ZF7)
That was when they all sold out (for money) and told themselves it was not about overrunning the country with crime, low wages, and elements destructive to our communities. They had to find justification for taking the Chamber of commerce / Silicon Valley / liberal money viewpoint. NRO claimed it was to tamp down the riff raff and racist element. WSJ claimed it was good for the economy. Mostly they all agreed it was racist.
But anyone who spent time in middle class neighborhoods understood it was about crime, jobs, schools, taxes, and services.
But once they accepted that lie, they established who they were, and it was just a discussion about price.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (dj58i)
The $3.5 trillion spending bill has $3 billion for a tree-planting program that increases "tree equity."
Posted by: SMOD
Hatchet, ax and saw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 05, 2021 03:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:19 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: steevy
Doesn't matter. Trump appointed who he was "allowed" to appoint.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:19 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Braenyard at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (HCRRg)
Posted by: wth at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Selma.
Posted by: Deep State 910 at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (HwtiA)
I was pointing out to a friend that horror movies being set in the 'sticks are kind of silly.
He asked why and I pointed out that almost all murders in America happen in the cities.
The biggest danger a bunch of yankee backpackers have in the sticks is dying from exposure. Walk down the wrong street in Chicago though and you'll wish you only had to deal with Jason...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (ESjRY)
That is their moral, ethical framework. They cannot understand ours. They have no frame of reference.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (YglAn)
Yup. Unforced errors.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (IN5Dl)
Cannot be banned if you never posted there.
Blackguy.jpg
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:21 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: steevy
That is actually a very good question. The Liberal - Left runs a shadow government in all the big foundations and think tanks, and a lot of the high level apparatchniks (under the top Name Brand Cabinet people) in any Dem Executive branch come from there.
They're well paid, rested and ready. They all pretty much share the same values. Leftist, Corporatist, Authoritarian.
WE THOUGHT "we" (the Right, Conservatives) were doing something similar with the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute.
Uh....wrong. We were fooled again.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:21 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (QU5/
He's 29, like the rest of us.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:21 PM (jOcSX)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 05, 2021 03:20 PM (ESjRY)
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Idea:
Movie of parallel narratives. Two brothers go on separate vacations at the same time, one to the mountains and the other to Chicago to do some sight-seeing. They both die horribly, but they explore their relationship with each other in their final moments as each lays dying, calling each other and knowing that no help will come in time.
There will be tears.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (+IIqY)
That is what crime movies are for. Having a psycho stalk you where no one can help you or find you is terrifying in a different way than taking a jog in Baltimore at 3am. But you make a good point overall.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (+IIqY)
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Little Green Footballs. Andy Sullivan's (I think) old place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (LvTSG)
THEY want corporatism and unlimited immigration. We wanted unlimited immigration and corporatism.
Come on people, pay attention here!
Posted by: the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (PiwSw)
And you are LISTENING? Ew. Take a shower when you are done.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (okGHj)
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I can think of several political victories, but it's clear some objectives (like securing the border) are lost on purpose.
That problem really could be fixed over night if we really wanted to. You can even go back to Reagan for why it was never addressed and even encouraged.
Big business wanted cheap labor. America as we know it will end over some agribusiness getting to save a nickel on a head of lettuce.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (Mh8ci)
Because you'd find out they were most likely killed bu their black boy friends or their black neighbor.
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Most of the "missing white girl" cases are also whites killed by other whites. Just like a "missing black girl" would almost always be somebody who was killed by another black.
People in these cases typically get killed by people they know -- spouses, boyfriends, friends, neighbors, etc. So they're almost always going to be of the same race, because people tend to hang out with people who are like them.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (LvTSG)
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Ah, okay. Thank you for the definition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (oSX/P)
Me. Of course, I only posted a handful of comments before Chuckie spazzed out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (IN5Dl)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (oSX/P)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (pNxlR)
Simpler, 90% of Black crime victims? The person who did the crime is Black. THEY KNOW THIS.
ergo, they won't talk about ANY crime against a Black, until they KNOW Whitey McWhiteFace did it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (jOcSX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (+IIqY)
Lesbian Girl Friend.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (o2MD2)
This right here.
Some Native American women wanted to showcase their own missing woman when they felt Gabby Petito was getting undue attention. They had their own example at the ready. Reatha May Finkbonner, 30, of Bellingham.
That person was quickly found.
She had been arrested for a felony, released, and they found her drunk, at a casino.
Oops.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (fHCeQ)
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (Mh8ci)
already happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (trdmm)
They're well paid, rested and ready. They all pretty much share the same values. Leftist, Corporatist, Authoritarian.
WE THOUGHT "we" (the Right, Conservatives) were doing something similar with the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute.
Uh....wrong. We were fooled again.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:21 PM (vcOmj)
I was sure Omarosa was going to take care of this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (KbCG3)
What is LGF?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (+IIqY)
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Little Green Footballs, a blog run by Charles Johnson, a raging leftie who became a raging hawk after 9/11 before reverting to raging leftism and banning anyone who disagreed with him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: memin_pinguin
I'm not sure, but I don't think Spartacus was. But he's been dead for 2000 years too. So, there you go.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
***
I made my own "Tankers on the Horizon" t-shirt. I think I still have it somewhere.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (flINI)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (vcOmj)
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Pansy. Death doesn't stop everyone.
Posted by: Rasputin at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (r5BVk)
Posted by: Wild Irish Hose at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (UHVv4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (DrKir)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 05, 2021 03:25 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (YglAn)
Yup. Unforced errors.
Posted by: OregonMuse
I know an elected Republican that got to know Trump and spend some time with him in the WH. Trump really liked him, was an ally of his agenda, etc.
Thought it was odd how much Trump seemed to really want a "friend" while President. In a tragic, sad sort of way.
Trump was just very easily manipulated, a little flattery and he would give you the keys to the kingdom.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:26 PM (Mh8ci)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (YYlyE)
Yeah, we have issues with this up here, too. Seems that most of the Native women who are murdered or go missing turn out to have been abused and/or murdered by their Native husbands, boyfriends, or drug-using buddies.
Makes it a bit of a hard sell in the city.
Also, our astronomical domestic abuse numbers? Not in the city, but in the villages. By Natives on Natives. But they don't say that. They try to make it our problem. Good luck with that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:26 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (/U27+)
I seriously think his raging back to the left was driven in part to a horrible divorce and a desire to get back with his "kin", who he really didn't have major disagreements with aside from the WoT.
Posted by: Thrawn at October 05, 2021 03:26 PM (5aFbR)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (PiwSw)
........
Which Americans is he threatening now?
Posted by: wth at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: steevy
Doesn't matter. Trump appointed who he was "allowed" to appoint.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:19 PM (OCTRt)
Yeah, just look at what they did to Gen. Flynn. Look what they did to Bannon. Look at all the Trump supporters who were suddenly under indictment or going to Jail.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (oHd/0)
So I never got banned.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (cSyAR)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (flINI)
Yeah that was a classic, but not comparable to "Empty Beach', or "Bicycle Spokes on Sand".
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (o2MD2)
That person was quickly found.
She had been arrested for a felony, released, and they found her drunk, at a casino.
Oops.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (YYlyE)
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"This perpetuates the totally untrue stereotype that American Indians are drunks. Smother it with a pillow. Now, invent a story about how Republicans are cousin humping rednecks that shoot black gay men for meth."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (DrKir)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:15 PM (YglAn)
Yup. Unforced errors.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, at October 05, 2021 03:20
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Or forced errors from insiders? Outsider gets into the Oval Ofc and his advisors are giving him bad advice. Who can you trust?
Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (ju2Fy)
Posted by: Kilgore Trout at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (LilNs)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (PiwSw)
Hank Aaron > Joyless Reid
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM (okGHj)
Posted by: steevy
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I'm just thinking who will be there to appoint when/if Trump wins again or even DeSantis. The elites have made it impossible to now appoint anybody but members of own family. Who else could you trust. Trump is now left with a handful of people who have not sold him out.
On the other hand, it might be more profitable and just to appoint random members of the public, as advocated by the founder of National Review.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 05, 2021 03:28 PM (4cXAQ)
Posted by: wth at October 05, 2021 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Yeah, just look at what they did to Gen. Flynn. Look what they did to Bannon. Look at all the Trump supporters who were suddenly under indictment or going to Jail.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:27 PM -
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The swamp knows who is and isn't it's own.
Posted by: irright at October 05, 2021 03:28 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:22 PM (+IIqY)
It is a rapidly shrinking little website that is owned by Emperor Charles The First.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 05, 2021 03:28 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:26 PM (Mh8ci)
The sad part is, look how hard everyone turned on him to cash in. Omarosa, Scaramucci (sp?)...
His allegiance to Rudy during the post-election period makes sense in this prism.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (KbCG3)
It is a very sad fact of life, yeah. But there are an AWFUL lot of Indian women who have vanished in that area and its something that has been basically ignored, particularly by the press. At least some of them are victims of murder.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (KZzsI)
NR started going sour after Buckley died. It's like these little NY fruits were just waiting for him to be underground so they could let it all hang out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (oSX/P)
Posted by: Romeo13
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But Trump played a very big role in what happened to all of these people.
Trump didn't even have the decency to hand some pardons on the way out, unless it was some rapper that Kushner convinced him would be important.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (Mh8ci)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Riding his bike with the seat off and the seat post extended.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: The Clot Shot protecting cadavers from COVID since 2019 at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (KnJdm)
I recall reading that the director of "Attack the Blick" got a lot of flak for setting his horror movie in the UK version of the projects (racism or somesuch). It's a fun movie and they show the kids as not being entorely bad or good.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (bDqIh)
Prior to here I spent my time at *hangs head in shame* NRO. Didn't comment there much but signed up to comment right away when they started with comments because I wanted to welcome back Mark Steyn, who had been away for almost a year due to illness.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (wyw4S)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: irright at October 05, 2021 03:28 PM (SchQD)
"Does he bear the mark? Did you see it on him?"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (XvPQV)
So I never got banned.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy
You lurk, therefore, you are. Someone who lurks, fulltime.
We're all depending on you!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Capital Eff at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (5tb3b)
https://is.gd/T9RWwm
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (+IIqY)
How long have the Democrats been bitching about the rich and all the corporations not "paying their fair share?" Why are college costs so high nowadays? Why didn't the hundreds of billions of dollars the Dept of Education gave to schools every year for decades produce high school kids who are ready for the 21st Century?
It's all a racket.
Posted by: Gref at October 05, 2021 03:30 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Thrawn at October 05, 2021 03:26 PM (5aFbR)
there was also a mercenary/revenge aspect. Early on, he thought he was going to be a Heavy Hitter at Salem Media or Townhall (forget which, it was all fluid in the early days) But, everyone he dealt with figured out fast that he was a big jerk and froze him out. A few days later, he flopped from pretending he was Right Wing to being a hard core leftie again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (trdmm)
Every column is basically: "Hey, Jeff [Goldberg], you know what would look good at your next Atlantic symposium, well, not to put too fine a point on it, ME."
Posted by: Match Checksout at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (dYe5S)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (oSX/P)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (CYnTg)
Believe it or not I got an email from someone writing for the NYT magazine about my blog and internet commenting, but she could tell from the tone of my voice and answers that I wasn't exactly enthused to work with her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (KZzsI)
Don't even get me started on them running off John Derbyshire and present-day race relations.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (PzEuz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:24 PM (/U27+)
When he banned me I was a little surprised. My comment was a political point and a mild criticism of Charles The Great's stance on the issue.
Five minutes later I was banned, and my first thought was, "Dude...you have some issues!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Salem iirc.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (csEWM)
I think he liked just having the gift idea in place without much thought.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Paul in Texas at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (kYyDC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (LvTSG)
He thought you valued it- so he got it for you. That is gift enough.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (csEWM)
Speaking of perfect teeth....
https://tinyurl.com/yvn4zfw4
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (VbtgJ)
I remember that Derbyshire piece. I did not agree with it in its entirety but I understood it and thought firing him was wrong.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (XvPQV)
Goose turds.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (Q9lwr)
https://tinyurl.com/yvn4zfw4
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (o2MD2)
Leggy!
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: DaveA at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (HmZuC)
Posted by: bluebell
I used to read NR Online all the time 18-20 years ago. I e-mailed John Derbyshire a couple of times about aspects of a column he wrote, and he always replied. I think he was a really good guy, and look what they did to him.
I e-mailed Jonah Goldberg a couple of times about a column, and never heard squat back from him. He's a puny little whining quim.
I flushed NRO after they came out AGAINST steel tariffs (Asian factories and others dumping cheap steel) because it directly affected two of my relatives. I thought they were being pointy-headed assholes...and... I was right.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Match Checksout at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (dYe5S)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (KZzsI)
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Old and busted: "Would you like to superspread that meal?"
New hotness: "$20, same as in town."
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (bbNp6)
Five minutes later I was banned, and my first thought was, "Dude...you have some issues!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I made some quip about Sashimi and Malachi.(Obola's crotch fruit)
Excuse me? 8 years of shit against the Bush girls is ok?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (OCTRt)
I give my parents a subscription to the Epoch Times every year, and my kids a AAA subscription.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (i9ZF7)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:32 PM (LvTSG)
He thought you valued it- so he got it for you. That is gift enough.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:33 PM (csEWM)
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He also said outright a couple of years ago that it was nice to not have to think about that particular gift. I mean, I haven't done more than flip through one since the election, and even then it was cursory glances at regular features.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (CYnTg)
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*goes to sit next to steevy*
Although I always preferred Geraghty to Goldberg. But Mark Steyn was my absolute fave.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (wyw4S)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (HmZuC)
I thought of him as a Cruise missile we shot at DC.
They just had much better damage control than I thought they would.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (oHd/0)
I am guessing that was interviewer pose, asking questions in order to get to an answer, not because he was unaware of it.
Although who knows. I get a strong whiff of shyster from Tucker. A man playing a role.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (PzEuz)
I never understood why Florence King stayed around as long as she did.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:35 PM (LvTSG)
Well, you could get him to pay for your platinum membership to AOS!
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (oHd/0)
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (iDcra)
NR was always something that you read because they had authors you liked. Florence King, VDH, Derbyshire -occasionally- I got the feeling I would have major issues with the dude in person and that is the reason I quit reading him. Not about the 'racism' but his earlier comments on the Terry Schiavo case.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (ONvIw)
Boogernuggets in space
Boogernuggets are totally green
And they've got a really cute face
Posted by: theme from the hit sitcom The Boogernuggets at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (oHd/0)
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I don't think he wants the equivalent of ANOTHER mortgage payment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:29 PM (XvPQV)
Goose turds.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (Q9lwr)
Boogers are funnier
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (ONvIw)
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (iDcra)
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I'm getting verklempt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (LvTSG)
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (iDcra)
QED
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (KnJdm)
Good guy.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 05, 2021 03:01 PM (eZshs)
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I think that is the whole point of VDH being grounded and able to see clearly. He lives out there in normal land while everyone else at NR lives in DC. Victor knows what is going on and how ordinary people still work and feel while the others never did.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise that Trump or DeSantis would have nobody in DC to appoint to work for him. Appoint from the regions.
DC should not be a permanent home for anybody, there should be complete change of inhabitants at least every four years if not every two. Nobody should be buying property there.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (4cXAQ)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:34 PM (vcOmj)
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I emailed him too, about some of his math puzzles! He always responded and we sometimes went back and forth. I liked his writing.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (wyw4S)
Just like the definition of 'Conservative' has been changed by the MSM...
So has the definition of Liberal. Liberals USED to believe in Freedom... now they are Socialists.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (oHd/0)
There's a lot going on aside from "brown woman, don't care." You also have an often insular group, a very complex interaction of federal state and tribal laws/rules, the trickiness of dealing with people who don't trust LEOs, as well as a nasty shithole of a federal agency called the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Those guys make the TSA look like an army of Sherlock Holmeses crossed with a doting mother.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (YYlyE)
Hanson does not provide any insight in this interview into what makes the NR crowd tick. The pseudonymous Neo-Neocon, who is personally acquainted with Wm. Kristol, had to admit some years back that what was motivating him was to her a puzzle she could not solve. The description he offers sounds like Dan McLaughlin ("Baseball Crank"), but not Ramesh Ponnuru.
He's too polite to point something else out about the NR crowd, the Bulwark, the Dispatch, Ross Douthat &c. They're now financially dependent on liberal patrons. I don't think that was the case 10 years ago. (You could say George Will and David Frum are, but these two are too wealthy to be bought).
Posted by: Art Deco at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (1BrBu)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 05, 2021 03:36 PM (2JVJo)
She was strange, and in her own way a big believer in tradition.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (csEWM)
D. Keith Mano
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (i9ZF7)
who wasn't banned at lgf
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:18 PM (oSX/P)
Me. Of course, I only posted a handful of comments before Chuckie spazzed out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:23 PM (IN5Dl)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (y7DUB)
Back in the early 90s I had a sub but I soon discovered that I was not reading any of the pieces. I let it lapse because it was pointless. NRO was pretty good for a while, because it was quick hits I could read while doing something else. But even their best stuff was derivative. Goldberg would do a nice summation of other people's best bits in a week, but why get it second hand? Plus he didn't give them credit, as is is wont.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (KZzsI)
Lotta people say that. Even if he is playing a role at least he advances the ball down the field
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (ONvIw)
Doesn't count. To claim the prize you need to have pissed the fat little cum guzzler off.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (HmZuC)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 03:37 PM (y7DUB)
I went there once to see what all the hubbub here was about and to check if it was a real blog.
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (KnJdm)
VDH is the intellectual equivalent of a .400 hitter. And NR's editors couldn't get along with him. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Nemo at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (vcOmj)
***
Like the sad Bar Fly decades past her prime sitting alone at the end of the bar...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (flINI)
VDH is a Farmer. The ONLY Farmers I've met who are Liberal? Are the Greenies who do it for a couple of years before they go bankrupt.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (oHd/0)
VDH is one of the only public figures in America who shouldn't be thrown in a glass grinder feet first.
Hearing that fat dullard Williamson savaging him in the Atlantic was surreal. It's like hearing Gilbert Gottfried say "Rodney Dangerfield is a lousy comic."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 05, 2021 03:40 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (flINI)
NR can be had for cheap drinks.
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:40 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 05, 2021 03:40 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: margie hailey at October 05, 2021 03:40 PM (zQYCi)
I'm guessing he's about as much fun to his extended family as dysentery is to an orgy.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:41 PM (PzEuz)
(Derbyshire)
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:41 PM (wyw4S)
Yeah well their distrust and even hate of feds, law enforcement, and government is well-learned and justified. They've been crapped on for three centuries by people claiming to be there to help them.
But hey, you throw money at em and they'll fill out ballots for you just the same.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:41 PM (KZzsI)
I think like all tv hosts, there's an element of entertainment, and he consciously entertains.
However, it's been interesting how lately he's been pulling stories from the some of the most hated areas of the non-progressive web and making them hot topics, such as the color revolution and J6 stuff w/Darren beattie an Julie Kelly, the CRT stuff with Christopher Rufo, as well as interviews with people like Curis Yarvin and Rose McGowan. He's exposing his audience to a lot of ideas and stories that would be otherwise completely unknown to them.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 03:41 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: memin_pinguin at October 05, 2021 03:41 PM (oSX/P)
@byHeatherLong
President Biden's claim that his spending plan "costs zero dollars" gets 2 Pinocchios from The Washington Post fact checker
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I guess we're suffering from a Pinocchio shortage.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 05, 2021 03:42 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 05, 2021 03:42 PM (flINI)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 05, 2021 03:04 PM (Y5qcH)
My husband once had to sit through a briefing on security measures against terrorism, and how retinal scanning was going to be introduced for high-security areas. Unfortunately, the lady giving the talk had a foreign accent, and "retinal" came out more like "rectal". This led to Dean coming up with lots of hilarious scenarios of trapping terrorists in a men's room stall, where a huge bright light would emerge from below the suspect as he sat, and a voice would chant soporifically, "Please insert paper in auto feeder." No two are alike, after all.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (nrTzw)
What's for dinner tonight?
I'm thinking - Broasted Chicken. From an authorized Broasted Chicken outlet. None of that fake shit for me.
Sometimes, you have to leave politics behind and concentrate on what's going to make you happy in the few hours.
Posted by: jwest at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (/BlEx)
Posted by: steevy at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (CYnTg)
*ponders*
Yeah. Not entirely wrong.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (oHd/0)
If you mean tyrants then I concur... hey wait a minute.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (iDcra)
Yeah he's useful, whatever his true nature or what he means to accomplish.
VDH is a Farmer. The ONLY Farmers I've met who are Liberal? Are the Greenies who do it for a couple of years before they go bankrupt.
Yes and no. They are largely right leaning patriots but when it comes to certain issues they turn into the most raving socialist that has ever lived (like conservatives who go on social security). Ask a farmer about subsidies and they turn into Karl Marx.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (KZzsI)
Concerning VDB and NR, that reminds me of an old story told about the Chicago Cubs in the 1920s. In those days, they were really good, and they were managed by Joe McCarthy, who later managed the great Yankees teams in the late '20s and '30s.
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Joe McCarthy also had to manage notable boozer Hack Wilson. One day he called Hack into his office. He got a glass of water and put a worm in it, which promptly swam about. Then he put a worm in a glass of whiskey, where it promptly died. "So what can you conclude from this?" McCarthy asked. Wilson replied, "If I drink enough I won't get worms."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (o2MD2)
The entire conservative establishment that had been built over several generations is now essentially running plays for the Left.
I know much of it was a grift, but I have to admit I almost miss the "blue pill" Dubya era when we felt like we had our own army.
Something needs to be built back in its place, we're so disorganized, it just feels like there's a few Twitter handles basically in charge of modern conservatism.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (Mh8ci)
Yes and no. They are largely right leaning patriots but when it comes to certain issues they turn into the most raving socialist that has ever lived (like conservatives who go on social security). Ask a farmer about subsidies and they turn into Karl Marx.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (KZzsI)
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It should be mentioned that Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses in 2016 after having explicitly promised to end ethanol subsidies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Beartooth at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (68WvR)
He'd show a news-gathered picture of a car that had been blown up somewhere in the middle east. It would be surrounded by people who had whipped themselves into a frenzy, rubbed the deceased blood and entrails on themselves, and were fanatically waving their arms, dancing, yelling, etc.
The AP written headline would be something like, "Local Afghans Inspect the Damage Following Car Bombing".
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:45 PM (YYlyE)
It's always the same, control.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:45 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (PzEuz)
I thought giving Derb the bum's rush was a rum go, but then I noticed that it was Jonah Goldberg who was applauding the loudest. I think that was when I first began to be disillusioned with NRO.
Because Derbyshire wasn't saying anything wrong. He was just quoting facts. But it was something that the NRO editors wanted to hear.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:45 PM (IN5Dl)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 03:46 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 05, 2021 03:39 PM (oHd/0)
So he knows a thing or two cos he's seen a thing or two?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 05, 2021 03:46 PM (dfRN6)
So has the definition of Liberal. Liberals USED to believe in Freedom... now they are Socialists.
Posted by: Romeo13
Hence, my nic.
I honestly have no idea what "Conservative" is supposed to mean sometimes, as we get bamboozled CONSTANTLY by shitty politicians who are supposedly conservative.
1) The Constitution. It's real and magnificent. Read it, use it, apply it always.
2) keep the Federal budget balanced, or close to it. We are a train wreck now, because spending is madly insane. It will ruin the country, sooner than you think. Oops, that already happened!
3) Read the 10th Amendment....AGAIN. IT has as much weight as any of the other parts of the Bill of Rights. But it is studiously ignored because it gets in the way of the corporatist oligarchy that has been foisted on all of us.
4) What we do policy-wise is up to the President and Congress, that's what they are elected to do. If I disagree with policy...well, there's the next election to try and fix that.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:46 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (KZzsI)
Because Derbyshire wasn't saying anything wrong. He was just quoting facts. But it was something that the NRO editors wanted to hear.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:45 PM (IN5Dl)
He made the unforgiveable sin of being more popular that Jonah Donut Fucker.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:31 PM (PzEuz)
I thought giving Derb the bum's rush was a rum go, but then I noticed that it was Jonah Goldberg who was applauding the loudest. I think that was when I first began to be disillusioned with NRO.
Because Derbyshire wasn't saying anything wrong. He was just quoting facts. But it was something that the NRO editors wanted to hear.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:45 PM (IN5Dl)
Their treatment of Derb was one shoe dropping for me. When it was clear they weren't going to fight against gay marriage, that was the other shoe. Left NRO, NR, The Corner...all of it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (XvPQV)
What lead to the HQ was a long forgotten comment on Dave Barry's blog back when he was live blogging the TV show 24.
Posted by: Beartooth
I got the Ace of Spades HQ confused with Flopping Aces. Read both for awhile. FA was once in a while post while AoSHQ was hourly. That was around 2007 sometime.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (o2MD2)
They do? I thought it was mainly upper class white progressives who whined about sports mascots.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (IN5Dl)
Posted by: abbynormal at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (Xpj5t)
Because Derbyshire wasn't saying anything wrong. He was just quoting facts. But it was something that the NRO editors wanted to hear.
Posted by: OregonMuse,
Not to be pedantic, but Derb was parodying some blacktivist's screed about teaching his kids to avoid cops and whites. It was a clear and obvious parody, but mocking his Betters wasn't allow by the boot-licks and beltway courtesans of NRO.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (1t5dY)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Insomniac at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (/bNwY)
the cross" article, but the Internet is forever:
https://bit.ly/2AQFzPp
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (Agr8U)
****
Hey, let's not gloss over all of those photos of the beach and ocean he took all the time that had all of the artistic value of the back of a cereal box.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (PzEuz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Wasn't it something though like "in 30 years, I promise an end to farm subsidies!" It was some date in the future past even 2 terms as President.
Almost like some CA politician promising all electric cars and making a law when they're comfortably out of office.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (Mh8ci)
This may be the best explanation of Trump and the NeverTrumper dynamics I've ever read.
Except it's a bit like the rich town folk shoo-off Shane half-way thru the movie and elect Jack Palance as mayor and he spends the rest of the movie burning down the town and sniffing their daughter's hair.
VDH sees clearly, he does.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (Xo5lP)
@MrAndyNgo 4h
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (1t5dY)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (2JoB8)
The entire conservative establishment that had been built over several generations is now essentially running plays for the Left.
I know much of it was a grift, but I have to admit I almost miss the "blue pill" Dubya era when we felt like we had our own army.
Something needs to be built back in its place, we're so disorganized, it just feels like there's a few Twitter handles basically in charge of modern conservatism.
Posted by: Blago at October 05, 2021 03:44 PM (Mh8ci)
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O'Sullivan's Law taken to it's final conclusion, sadly and suicidally for the country and for those of us who loved it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (bbNp6)
When that started to wear off and they started being shunned for having Bad Thoughts, a bunch of people like Ed Morrissey who were brilliant writers began to turn stupid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: abbynormal at October 05, 2021 03:48 PM (Xpj5t)
It's very WASPy when you think about it.
I wonder if that is the root of their antipathy of Trump... kind of like Caesar or FDR- he is a traitor to his class. (I do not necessarily agree on FDR on that point, just he is often seen to be that.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (Agr8U)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 05, 2021 03:47 PM (XvPQV)
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I remember reading the paen to gay marriage (I think it was by Jason Whatshiscan who was some sort of editor who didn't regularly write for them) and noticing the accompanying pictures of cherubs and thinking WHAT THE HELL.
Posted by: bluebell at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (wyw4S)
Posted by: Skip
Anyone who thinks the $3.5T spending bill will cost zero, is a dumb as they think you are.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (ZZK0E)
Don't forget climate change.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (csEWM)
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (1t5dY)
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Huh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: CN at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (xopIz)
It's an investment. Everyone knows investments always break even or something.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (Tr9jL)
@MrAndyNgo 4h
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
They start with first degree murder but, before you know it, they're exceeding the speed limit and jaywalking.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: jwest at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (/BlEx)
**ponders**
I know what would make me happy. I also know there's no chance at all of my getting it.
Perhaps I can get out of work early enough to drink.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (OCTRt)
They don't have to believe it, they know everyone will flack for them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (csEWM)
White girls with MRS degrees do, though. They feel all the outrage that actual "victims" they invent fail to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
Thanks to CBD (and the lardass on the ottoman) I got unbanned
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:53 PM (o2MD2)
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (1t5dY)
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Huh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (+IIqY)
Ever hit a cone? It makes a loud sound and sometimes it gets stuck in your wheel well. Of course gang bangers aren't going to hit cones in their low-riders with 23" rims.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 05, 2021 03:53 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (KZzsI)
Thanks to CBD (and the lardass on the ottoman) I got unbanned
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 05, 2021 03:53 PM (o2MD2)
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I think CBD almost banned me once because I accidentally copied and pasted the whole thread twice.
In the same day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (LvTSG)
biden the illegitimate cocksucker will be greeted with lots of "Let's Go Brandon" "cheers" in Michigan. Check it out:
https://youtu.be/vuOYD-neo90
Posted by: S'oothsay'er at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (JOgHK)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
John Derbyshire's wife is ethnic Chinese. His kids are biracial. I don't think he was ever "racist". The column in question brings up a whole set of assumptions that a LOT of people think but don't say out loud. I have a fair number of African American friends. They are all different. Some I trust more than others.
I also have know AA folks I wouldn't trust at all.
My son is married to an African American woman. My beloved grandson is mixed race.
I think a lot of African Americans are broadly misunderstood by White folks. I don't say that to be hostile, just I can get along with most people if they don't threaten me. I've been more "threatened" by White people (some I knew!) than by Black people. But as a white man, it can be a little itchy moving through a group of "young" black men, late at night.
Some years ago, I was at a function in Downtown Detroit, that was predominantly Black. Felt perfectly safe.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 05, 2021 03:38 PM (i9ZF7)
I remember him! Also their movie critic John Simon, what hated literally *every* movie except for one or two obscure subtitled European films.
Guys used to write to the NR editor saying you should really think about hiring a critic who actually likes movies...
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (IN5Dl)
In the same day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, with a brand new work computer at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (LvTSG)
Sure. 'Accidently'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at October 05, 2021 03:50 PM (Agr8U)
You could practically smell the billionaire jism on Nordlinger's face reading his Davos articles. He gave the term suck up a whole new meaning.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (68WvR)
@MrAndyNgo 4h
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
They start with first degree murder but, before you know it, they're exceeding the speed limit and jaywalking.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 05, 2021 03:52 PM (d9FiS)
And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling traffic cones!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 05, 2021 03:55 PM (KbCG3)
Did I not tell you that public schools are Madrasas, now, or what?
And the Mullahs and Imams at the FBI/DOJ are protecting their Madrasas.
Posted by: S'oothsay'er at October 05, 2021 03:55 PM (JOgHK)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (Lit6A)
the cross" article, but the Internet is forever:
Let's not forget that their own Chad Felix Greene (unironically) wrote a serious "case for conservatives to embrace thansgenders" piece, and IIRC, Greene is trans.
I mean, even Andrew freakin' Sullivan has come out stronger and more reasoned than NR re: stopping trans activism.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (bDqIh)
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I would like these people to actually name one thing in the bill. And then explain why it has to be lumped in with everything else.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Beartooth at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (68WvR)
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FIFY
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (+IIqY)
Posted by: flounder at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (KnJdm)
Portland city council member & BLM activist @JoAnnPDX
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 05, 2021 03:49 PM (1t5dY)
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Huh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 05, 2021 03:51 PM (+IIqY)
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I would think it would be just the opposite - slowing down cars would allow the perp to get a good aim goin'.
Posted by: washrivergal at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (lVNNH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 05, 2021 03:56 PM (csEWM)
Posted by: Beartooth
Yes, he is a rather repulsive arrogant elitist suck up.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at October 05, 2021 03:57 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: irright at October 05, 2021 03:57 PM (SchQD)
https://youtu.be/vuOYD-neo90
Posted by: S'oothsay'er at October 05, 2021 03:54 PM (JOgHK)
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But 81 million votes.
Posted by: I got nothin' at October 05, 2021 03:57 PM (jPtGI)
It depends. I mean there are groups of white dudes I would be super nervous about being with, like meth dealing hicks from the hollars or the Lincoln Man Boy Love Association. Meanwhile, I went to a party full of guys from Sierra Leone (legal immigrants) and the only thing that frightened me was the excessively hot food.
You think Mexican food is hot. You think Thai food is hot. Then there's Africa hot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (KZzsI)
Like, how do these dipshits think this works? The Mint prints a coin. Then what, do they walk across the street and hand it to Chuck Schumer? Ok, then what? Do we go to the local check cashing store to get change?
Posted by: Tim Riggins at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (ZZK0E)
It wasn't that long ago that National Review had some rigor in their journalism.
When they got rid of the Derb, I stopped with them and saw how they weren't really what I thought they were.
Then Goldturd the Bloated did his part to destroy their credibility...
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (4WPW/)
Posted by: lowandslow at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (4thlk)
Makes you wonder if biden-the-surrendering-invalid-dictator is in a "room" set up with props like he had for his fake "booster shot," or he just fucked up (again).
https://youtu.be/SObPY5sDSPY
Posted by: S'oothsay'er at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (JOgHK)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at October 05, 2021 03:58 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:59 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Skip at October 05, 2021 03:59 PM (2JoB8)
Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom. Tom Maguire at Just One Minute and of course, Ace.
Does anyone remember who did the sock puppet comic strip about Glenn Greenwald?
Posted by: jwest at October 05, 2021 04:00 PM (/BlEx)
Posted by: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow at October 05, 2021 04:00 PM (KX4VP)
has proposed installing more traffic cones in response to the city's record shootings and homicides. She says it may lessen likelihood of deadly shootings if drivers are slowed down.
Forgot to say "Not The Bee."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 05, 2021 04:01 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: S'oothsay'er at October 05, 2021 04:01 PM (JOgHK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 05, 2021 03:43 PM (KZzsI)
My wife's cousin's husband, a very successful Iowa farmer (helping him with chores was a breeze because he was so well organized), was very matter of fact about farmers playing the subsidy system.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 04:09 PM (y7DUB)
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You obviously don't read National Review. None of this is true. I read NR and Ace daily. On all the topics you just listed, my guess NR actually agrees with your position in principle, if not in the particulars.
Posted by: Lucas at October 05, 2021 04:10 PM (snY0J)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at October 05, 2021 04:11 PM (y7DUB)
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Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 05, 2021 04:52 PM (JzDjf)
We didn't get here because Trump made Mean Tweets, or because the GOPe wants cocktail party invites; they fucking sellouts and traitors, and many of them have ALWAYS been sellouts and traitors.
It's always hard for people to admit they were conned; we got conned. You see his reluctance in the "we condemn the riot, but.." Bullshit. The only thing wrong with that riot is that the venue and timing was a setup. He's desperately hanging onto a bunch of schoolhouse rock civics nonsense and refusing to address reality.
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