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Open thread 11/19/22

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A magical place I happened across in Vermont last summer. The sides of the cliffs are high and sheer:

The scene made me think of this Gauguin:

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Open thread 11/19/22 — 37 Comments

  1. Conservatives in need of some optimism – long-game stuff, not 2024 stuff – may be interested in the following essay by Ruth Wisse. 86 years old and brilliant, the future is still what she cares about.

    Unfortunately, it’s in the WSJ today, and thus behind a paywall, but I’ll link anyway because even the first two paragraphs are wonderful.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-salient-student-publication-magazine-college-university-motherhood-feminism-family-matriarchy-editors-women-11668806585

  2. I am watching with amusement Elon Musk’s poll on Twitter on whether to reinstate Trump on the platform. So far, 11.25 million votes, 52.3% in favor of reinstating Trump. This margin, 4.6%, is consistent with the popular vote totals in the recent midterms. I’m guessing that robot accounts on Twitter can’t manage to vote on this. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk says. Since my vote (yes) is checked on the results I can see, I think this means the software will allow each Twitter account to vote only once.

  3. Mike Plaiss:

    Thanks for the link to Ruth Wisse’s editorial in The Wall Street Journal. Definitely worth reading.

    For those who don’t have a subscription, here’s a link to the full text: https://tinyurl.com/2bym99hy

    As a public service(?), I’ll list some sites that can be used for getting around paywalls. Of course, they don’t always work.

    Five Filters https://pdf.fivefilters.org/
    Print Friendly https://www.printfriendly.com/
    12 Foot Ladder https://12ft.io/
    Textify It https://txtify.it/
    Archive Today https://archive.ph/
    Internet Archive Wayback Machine https://archive.org/

  4. Cornflour–

    Many thanks for the link to the full text of Ruth Wisse’s editorial. I hope the Salient flourishes– it’s good to know that not all contemporary college students are indoctrinated dolts.

  5. I have also written to my errant Senator, Thom Tillis, about his support for the “Respect for Marriage” act, which, without the amendment offered by Sen. Mike Lee and others, will put religious and ethical objectors at risk for discrimination and loss of charitable tax status. Refusing the amendment is egregious disrespect for conservatives.

  6. Neo notes on the Vermont site, “A magical place I happened across in Vermont last summer. The sides of the cliffs are high and sheer.”
    I see idiot humans perched on the rocks at the edge of the cliffs. Like baboons.

    As to Kate’s comment, the Tillis (R-NC) bill unamended is not just egregious disrespect for conservatives; it is anti-religious and non-ethical. But it is another symptom of our cultural and moral/ethical decay.

  7. I suppose, if it’s not amended, it will be challenged in court, and ultimately be thrown out. But it would be far better for these “Republican” senators to recognize their constituency and fix it first.

  8. “Please click the link below for Amazon purchases through neo”

    I am seeing no “link below”, and I buy alot of junk from Amazon.

  11. This article is from the perspective of Donbass separatists. They claim that a referendum in 1994, during the time the US and UK led Ukraine to give up the nuclear weapons left from the dissolution of the USSR for a security agreement, The Budapest Memorandum. They claim the 1994 referendum demonstrated the will of the people for a federalized Ukraine with autonomy for the Donbass region.

    “March 27th marked the 25th anniversary of a referendum that everyone is trying to forget. The referendum of 1994 actually separated the Donbass from Ukraine 25 years ago. The initiator of the local referendum in the Donbass on the status of the Russian language and federalization of Ukraine was the organization of the International Movement of Donbass, founded in 1989 by brothers Dmitry and Vladimir Kornilov. As Vladimir Kornilov recalled, “representatives of the Donetsk political forces and organizations, and most importantly, the strike committees of the Donetsk region, which at the time had great power, had long demanded this referendum. The idea of giving Russian the state status, along with the Ukrainian language, the idea of federalization of Ukraine was on everyone’s lips at the time and was being raised not only in Donbass, but in Ukraine as a whole. With these slogans miners went on strikes.” In March 1994, the regional councils of Donetsk and Lugansk regions decided to hold a regional referendum”, writes Ivan Pobedonostsev.

    https://www.donbass-insider.com/2020/05/14/the-donbass-referendum-of-1994-on-which-the-whole-world-turned-a-blind-eye/

    The Budapest Memorandum, was negotiated by US ambassador Donald Blinken. His son Anthony Blinken, is currently Secretary of State.

  12. Sanctions are destroying our economy, a proxy war is leading the United States to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and America is financing a Nazi regime.

    Geoffrey, the word ‘Truth’ does not mean what you fancy it means.

  14. its quite logical, if you consider geography, the donbass is proximate to the steppes, by contrast the crimea might as well be in romania, but Sevastopol one of the Potemkin villages was a major naval base

  16. https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/105/

    https://jonathanturley.org/2022/11/13/erin-go-britain-ireland-considers-enacting-a-bill-criminalizing-the-possession-of-hateful-material/comment-page-1/#comments

    The progenitor of this monstrosity is one Helen McEntee, a legacy pol who is Ireland’s ‘Minister for Justice’. (Can one ask why a senior cabinet post is handed out to a 36 year old no-account? Can one ask why this particular position was handed out to someone who has no license to practice law?).

  17. Art Deco:
    Ireland was converted to Chritianity around 800 AD by St Patrick. It was a universally Catholic nation once freed from the UK.
    But several years ago its constitution was amended to allow abortion on demand, regardless of fetal age. Secular materialism is its new religion.
    As to McEntee, that is just another example of Ireland’s self-degredation.

  18. they went in hard for the lockdowns as dave cullen pointed out, despite it had little function, the legislature is also pro immigration, forcing native irish to surrender their property to the invaders,

    otoh, alberta has shown some refreshing signs of sanity

  20. Art:

    When it comes to Ukraine and Roosia Geoffrey gave up on truth a long time ago.

    Why Geoffrey chooses to carry the water for Vlad and Roosia is willful blindness to the evil of his parton.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mh17-crash-judges-to-rule-on-shooting-down-of-plane-over-ukraine-dttp6x7k9?amp

    Two killed in Poland by an errant Ukrainian SAM. 270 killed by Roosian proxies by an intentional SAM, supplied by Roosia.

    Preach on Geoffrey. Ukraine is a “Nazi” regime? Check your meds.

  21. Interesting information on how California Republicans used ballot harvesting to win House seats in 2022.

    “They put drop boxes in churches, gun shops and the like.”

    Once again Dr. Steve Turley, describes how rural voters are untapped source of ballots ready to be harvested.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8IDg185cg

  22. Girkin is one of those who thinks this expedition was too poorly equipped, he’s a savage with a bloody record going back to bosnia in the 90s, an admirer of the white Russian rebels, even the other leaders of the DPR found him intolerable, he gives good copy though,

  24. Neo, was your magical place somewhere near South Woodstock, VT? Back in high school I went once to a beautiful swimming hole somewhere around there, with clear water and cliffs and pools and waterfalls, just off a quiet back road that I wish I could remember how we found. Pure summer enchantment, like a story of a swimming hole. So long ago, but I’ve never forgotten.

  25. That photo looks like it could be Warren Falls. Rt 100 just north of Granville. There is a big parking lot there now, unfortunately. Did you stop at Green Mountain Glass Works in Granville? Michael Egan is an interesting guy and he’ll chat with you as he is crafting a piece. I have acquired a few of his works over the years.

  27. Fascinating interview with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, (MIT researchers for five decades) on her peer-reviewed paper published this summer:
    “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The Role of G-quadruplexes, Exosomes and MicroRNAs,” Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and Drs. Peter McCullough, Greg Nigh and Anthony Kyriakopoulos

    Explains how the COVID shots suppress our innate immune function, and how they may cause neurological diseases, as well as auto immune disorders and clots. Mice study explains sudden deaths months after myocarditis.

    Much of what is going on is likely applicable to other post viral syndromes.
    Also explains why near infra red treatment may save us from dementia!

    Understandable at 1>5 x if you have a science background.
    (And even with mine, I am rewinding frequently, and plan to listen again.)

    Will only be available three days, as a work around with youTube

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/11/20/microrna-covid-vaccine.aspx?ui=bf743dbd850f6d1916918cb0ab1f8d582871f2d67e92afc4cfc5ba6045399c91&sd=20220128&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20221120&cid=DM1290169&bid=1649576358

  28. Since Pfizer really didn’t want us to know about any of this until the year 2096, is it morally appropriate (or legally acceptable, if “Biden” gets “his” way) for information such as this to be publicized?

  30. Related (Covid):
    ‘Top epidemiologist wants pandemic emergency powers ended, insurer death data released;
    ‘ We haven’t had science the whole time, we’ve only had all these theories masquerading as science,” Dr. Harvey Risch says.’—
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/sattop-epidemiologist-wants-pandemic-emergency-powers-ended-insurer

    Not even sure those “recommendations/ideas/suggestions/desperate Hail Mary’s”—whatever you want to call ’em—-should be dignified with the word “theories”…
    (More like political/manipulative/power-seeking “strategies”…)

  32. Visualize harvesting ballots like a John Deere.

    Don Surber has changed his tune and thinks Trump has a legitimate chance in ’24 by adopting the Dems’ ballot centric tactics. One can expect said Dems to ramp up fraud operations and slow counts to unprecedented extremes in a clown show to end all clown shows.

  36. For more Sunday comedy this time from an evangelical Christian “leader.”

    Evangelical figures who previously supported Donald Trump are backing off now that he’s announced his third bid for the presidency.

    “Donald Trump can’t save America,” Mike Evans told The Washington Post. “He can’t even save himself.”

    For an evangelical Christian leader to say Donald Trump can’t save himself is to repeat the basic concept of “grace” and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for sinners, which includes even Mike Evans.

    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/11/20/evangelical-leaders-who-endorsed-trump-in-2016-now-say-they-wont-support-him-in-

  37. A question for Mike Evans? Would you support Donald Trump if he could save himself? The “can’t even save himself” is disqualifying for a presidential candidate, eh, Mike.

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