Open thread 5/23/2025
I don’t usually care much for covers of Leonard Cohen songs – I much prefer his own renditions. But this is excellent:
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
I don’t usually care much for covers of Leonard Cohen songs – I much prefer his own renditions. But this is excellent:
Google’s Veo 3 and Flow are going to have a big impact on video production. I predict advertising will be the first industry impacted in a major way, but animators and independent film makers should also be early adopters.
I’m not sure how the existing, media production unions hold together with this change. How does one shout “scab” on a virtual picket line?
Excerpt of this at hotair today:
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/16/trump-and-the-welcome-demise-of-the-neocon-catholic-pontificate/
Interesting nuance.
Apparently the pope, if these choices are indicative of such, is taking the catholic church in a more traditional direction. He appointed a man the
Conservative faithful of that city admire. His family is from vietnam and that is salient because they fled the communist regime by fishing boat. A fishing boat is one of the images of his crest. Multiple references there. His family were legitimate refugees.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/pope_leo_xiv_picks_his_first_bishops_and_for_san_diego_he_picked_a_winner.html
Your IQ goes down one point every time you utter the term ‘neocon’.
Yes neocon doesnt really fit corporatist mercantilist in some ways
Now there is a certain syncretiam between say the federalist and heritage foundation that leans to statism even though the evil project 2025 is not it (sarc) there are certain institutional precepts that seem set in stone immune from review
Why is it only thomas and alito like the other blues brother scalia have a clue
Hudson Inst., “Trump and the Gulf” (54 mins): https://www.youtube.com/live/ZDvxrZTthhA
https://open.substack.com/pub/newsfromuncibal/p/the-tyranny-of-solidarity?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur
Yes its a nice cover
Yes neocon doesnt really fit corporatist mercantilist in some ways
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It’s just a cuss word used by people who could not find their balls with both hands. Catholics were not notably prominent figures in any of the three Republican administrations in office from 1981 to 2009. Robert George, whom he mentions by name, is an academician employed by Princeton who is steeped in natural law thinking. His interventions in topical questions concern social policy; he does not say much on other subjects. Richard John Neuhaus was a disaffected leftist who actually was a member of the Committee for the Free World. Fr. Neuhaus has been dead for 16 years. Anyone familiar with his writings from the period running from 1982 to 2009 knows that neither foreign relations nor immigration were topics on which he spilled much ink in that era. Michael Novak might be another example of a Catholic who associated with the Kristol and Podhoretz families. He died eight years ago; in his last years, he was not an antagonist of Trump. (Neither was Norman Podhoretz, while we’re at it). There’s Deal Hudson, but he hasn’t said much in public fora in the last 20 years. Austin Ruse is laser focused on shizzy things done by intergovernmental agencies. (Neither Hudson nor Ruse had any peculiar association with the letterhead organizations in question). It’s all a crude fantasy of his.
To quote Joe Scarborough from March 2024–
“And F you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. if it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it”
In a brazen effort to gaslight people and to rewrite history, slimy Jake Tapper and Joe Scarborough are trying to convince people that the reason that they defended Biden’s mental acuity, and didn’t report on Biden’s obvious and deepening dementia, was because the Biden Administration “pulled the wool over their eyes,” convincing them that Biden’s dementia–which would have been glaringly obvious to the average observer after talking to or observing Biden operate for a few minutes–was nonexistent.*
You just can’t despise these Biden apologists and gas lighters enough.
They have no shame.
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/jake-tapper-implies-he-joe-scarborough-were-targeted/
MAHA kicks off:
“RFK Jr. Drops Bombshell ‘MAHA’ Report Outlining ‘Existential Public Health Crisis’ And What To Do About It”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/maha-report-corporate-capture-and-revolving-door
…Though I have a feeling that because of the administration’s no doubt racist crusade against junk food and sugary drinks that Pritzker and Nadler (and all those other humungous rascals) are going to try to impeach RFK and DJT ASAP…