On February 16, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Friday, February 14th, Valentine’s Day 2020…but before we begin, three observations on Lieawatha’s claim a broke girl donated half her liquid cash reserves to indulge this horrid harpy’s unbridled ego and further her blind, boundless ambition:
Since we’re on the subject of unbridled egos, as Tobias Hoonhout records at NRO, The Donald’s been served notice his is writing checks one invaluable individual isn’t willing to cash, as…
“I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases.”
To borrow a phrase from Penn Gillette (meaning no disrespect and apologizing in advance for Penn’s French), President Trump,…
Though Betsy DeVos may be his equal in quality, Bill Barr is without question THE most important member of The Donald’s cabinet, and the best appointment he’s ever made. To term him irreplaceable would not be a stretch.
We know the concept may be alien to both our President and many career politicians, but Barr is a man of principle, and will thus, at some point, choose figurative death before dishonor. And Trump risks forcing Barr’s resignation at his own…and the nation’s…peril, particularly in light of the latest Gallup poll:
First up, we recently had a rather invigorating conversation with Daniel Francis Feeney regarding what we both deem purposefully-ambiguous polling questions concerning whether the country’s headed in the right direction. Absent more detailed information as to which aspect of the country you’re referencing, either answer can be…and generally is…inaccurately interpreted as against The Donald.
After all, is our satisfaction with the country’s direction defined by our support for Trump’s policies or disdain for the nation’s decaying morals and ever-more rapid slouch toward Gomorrah?!? If it’s the former, not just “Yeah”, but “Heck yeah!”; and if the latter, not simply “no”, but “HELL NO!!!”, as evidenced by the following four headlines, presented in no particular order…other than their respective color’s order of appearance on the LGBT flag:
(Seriously, if the guy had only been possessed of the discretion exhibited by most married heterosexuals carrying on adulterous affairs, who would have known?!?)
“George Orwell noted the nervousness of people on the left when confronted by those even further to the left. This nervousness stems from leftists’ fear that they will be taken for impure in their own leftism, that their thought and actions don’t go far enough, that they are, finally, not really on the bus. In America during the 1930s, Communists mocked liberals for their weakness, and liberals worried about not measuring up. Hence the phenomenon of the “fellow traveler,” someone who sympathized with the Communist Party but couldn’t bring himself to join it.
Orwell’s observation remains in play. In the mid-1960s, Stokely Carmichael and other young black militants pushed the American civil-rights movement leftward, and away from its goal of integration. Liberals, unable to face down this left-wing pull toward Black Power, knuckled under. A gloriously successful campaign for equal rights based on conscience and dignitydevolved into an angry, incoherent movement based on guilt and victimhood. The last thing allowed was the concession of progress of any sort in racial matters. Impressive civil-rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and A. Philip Randolph were replaced by such dubious figures as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton(As well as The Obamao!). The movement never recovered.
The same phenomenon appeared in American universities. In faculty meetings everywhere, small groups of the most radical professors were able to get their way through political pressure. Liberals, generally in the majority, were worried (if not terrified) of seeming to be on the wrong side. When they didn’t give in completely, they sought compromises that invariably favored the radicals. Standards and intellectual authority in universities have given way to political correctness and identity politics.
The same scenario is playing out in the Democratic Party. Since nominating George McGovern in 1972, the party has moved progressively leftward. If the Democrats may by now be said to have a center, it cannot hold, as William Butler Yeats has it in his poem “The Second Coming.” Among today’s Democrats, “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
By ceding moral authority to the far left, the Democrats have lost the power to counter bizarre proposals with simple common sense…”
Turning from said Dimocrats to an individual whose party’s increasingly bizarre behavior caused her to regain her wits, courtesy of of G. Trevor and Medium.com, one Karlyn Borysenko relates how…
“Normally when I publish content online, I focus on the world of work. I hope you’ll forgive this brief departure, but I think that those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have an honest conversation about what’s going on.
If you had told me 3 years ago that I would ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed while assuring you that was never going to happen. Heck, if you had told me I would do it 3 months ago, I probably would have done the same thing. So, how did I find myself among 11,000+ Trump supporters in Manchester NH? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting.
You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community, but you’d be wrong. Many knitters are particularly active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role that knitters have played in our culture.(A list undoubtedly as extensive as that of French military triumphs and Italian war heroes.)
As a casual knitter, I never really paid attention to this. I knit as a way to relax and escape the drama of real life, not to further engage with it, but for anyone who is active in the knitting world on Instagram, it became almost impossible to avoid it. It started about a year ago when roving gangs of online social justice warriors started going after anyone who was not lockstep in their ideology.People were bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for such offenses as publishing an article expressing excitement about going on a trip to India, posting a video saying they were leaving IG because they were uncomfortable, and posting a poem asking for kindness. Katherine Jepsen Moore has documented the full stories extensivelyandthe BBC recently covered it as well.
I started paying attention after one man who was attacked got mobbed so badly that he had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to the hospital on suicide watch. There was something that was not right (well, so many things really) and it witnessing the vitriol coming from those who I had aligned myself with politically was a massive wake up call…”
Hey, later is generally better than never.
Though as Tunku Varadarajan details at the WSJ, never is sometimes preferable to the its belated alternative, as is the case with…
Indian nationalists peddle something worse than snake oil.
“India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote this week to Xi Jinping, offering the Chinese leader help in tackling the Wuhan coronavirus. Details of the assistance aren’t public, but Mr. Modi’s offer probably didn’t include supplies for a “treatment” that a senior Hindu fundamentalist advocated recently.
Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, president of the Hindu Mahasabha—a century-old organization that advocates Hindutva (or “Hinduness”)—declared that “consuming cow urine and cow dung will stop the effect of infectious coronavirus.” The swami added that a “person who chants ‘om namah shivay’ and applies cow dung” on his body “will be saved.” The Sanskrit chant is a salutation to Shiva, a Hindu deity.
The cow is revered by many Hindus, who abjure its meat and believe that its byproducts, especially urine, have health-giving qualities.The swami is a prominent figure in hard-line Hindu circles and has an ideological affinity with Mr. Modi. His pronouncement on the coronavirus is the latest in a list of questionable scientific assertions made by Hindu nationalists…”
In other words, Indians are being encouraged to eat sh*t and die! Gandhi must be rolling over in the Ganges…or maybe not.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these strings of memes from G. Trevor…
…Walt Meisen…
…and Balls Cotton…
…along with this instant classic from our sister-in-law Amy:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of a particularly brain-dead Floridian who rivals Joe Biden for both brains and judgement:
“…Gregory Timm, 27, said he noticed the tent set up in a Walmart parking lot in Jacksonville when he went to buy food and cigarettes, according to a less-redacted version of the report released Tuesday. He said he drove to the tent after leaving the store.
The report details what may have motivated Timm’s alleged assault. He told deputies that he “does not like President Trump” and “the other reason was because ‘it’s like someone s******* on your grave,’” the account said.
The six volunteers working in the tent escaped without injury when the van accelerated through it, knocking over tables and chairs. Timm then exited the van, took out his phone and “flipped them off” before driving away, the victims told deputies.
Timm willingly showed deputies video of him speaking to volunteers prior to the incident, and another that abruptly ends before the van strikes the tent, according to the report. Deputies described Timm as “upset” that the video ended before what he called “the good part.”…”
Mr. Timm, someone with your qualifications and dizzying intellect…
Still, we wouldn’t recommend holding out for a management position.
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