Open thread 11/18/21
Better late than never.
I was exhausted yesterday from my trip and forgot to schedule an open thread. So here it is.
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Better late than never.
I was exhausted yesterday from my trip and forgot to schedule an open thread. So here it is.
neo, you’re wonderful!
Second that, AppleBetty.
I’m always amazed that you, and other bloggers, can put up posts day after day. Even when I was much younger I couldn’t see a way to do that. Your thoughts and insights are appreciated by me, for one.
Neo,
You sure have been constant and productive for years and years, thank you.
I was hoping you got back OK. Get some rest. Maybe we will get some good news about Rittenhouse.
Thanks!!
Possibly the best summation of the Clinton/Schiff/Steele scandal I have read so far.
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/17/adam-schiff-and-the-end-of-shame-in-american-politics/
Last week, Douglas Murray was in Missouri. He gave us a preview on his forthcoming book in his talk, Reflections on the Revolution in America.
https://youtu.be/4CR4f559SWk
His speech made simple: Americans must agree on facts, maths, and heroes.
And the radicals would benefit from going ANYWHERE else in the world because it would force them to reflect on the alternatives to America.
Two more arresting observations on the Douglas Murray Q&A (in his talk, linked above). Focus ON THE Basics of schools. If you can’t, life chances are greatly diminished. Fuck their CRT!
Murray makes for some optimism by satirizing the decline of comedy in the US into sermonizing. Dull, uncreative regurgitating of third grade pablum.
But these cultural observations are prefaced by his tribute to T S Elliot who saved Roger Scruton and Murray himself from Spengler’s Death of the West pessimism.
Remarkable, ambitious stuff from our now August outsider, addressing a phenomenon that foreigners don’t want — but something that Peter Boggosian (See his recent interview with Patrick Bet David, Valutainment on YT), that his sources tell him that Russia and China are pushing CRT in the Middle East to toxify US progress on quieting their endemic fractiousness.
Finally, Murray’s thesis is that these movements aimed at greater and more and True “equality” might begin with this critique — but inevitably aim at REVENGE!
A powerfully honest insight. We are dealing with monsters bent on revenge. Which is why the WashPost observed that Trump ended up, in the last election, with more black male votes and more Hispanic votes than before.
Forcing the WashPost to argue against the facts with this humorous lunatic notion that we are seeing the rise of “multi-racial whiteness” by minorities endorsing Trump — the Left thereby denying and dishonestly dodging the obvious fact of their rejection by the very minorities they have Deified and have rationalized “saving.”
Mad Ed Dutton Interviews a West Bank Rabbi. Mucho Back-and-forth Based Hilarity.
You are all hereby commanded to go watch!
https://odysee.com/@JollyHeretic:d/West-Bank-Settler,-Zionist-Rabbi-Judas-Maccabeus-Joins-Us-to-Explore-All-Things-Jewish:3
Here is a link to a form to submit a comment to OSHA re Biden’s vaccination mandate. It takes less than a minute to do.
https://www.afa.net/activism/contact-officials/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f89577%2frespond
Dave Frishberg has died. Best known for penning “I’m Just a Bill” from Schoolhouse Rock, this will always be my favorite of his. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9Sa7wSuzw
A lot can happen in a “minute”!
(Especially if it’s a “magic minute”…)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/19/kevin-mccarthy-blocks-democrats-passing-bidens-soc/
The GOP (or parts of it): saving the country one magic minute at a time….