I believe sometime last week I may have used the term “grandfather”. I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to any commenters who may have been offended. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
Morning musing after reading and watching (Megyn Kelly, Jesse Waters last night) and also catching up on yesterday’s post on the Democrat’s crazy:
Why do we care that they have gone nuts?? Many conservative pundits seem to daily offer advice to the Ds as to how to get out of their spiral. Why? Why not let them circle the drain?
My thought is that one: I hate seeing friends and relatives go down this mental degradation. Two: maybe I believe that having a opposition party that is sane and patriotic helps keep the party in power in check.
Very mixed feelings on my part. After suffering from liberal arrogance in my last 15 years of work, I’m very happy to see them destroy themselves. I like the revenge factor. But, I think back to the pre LBJ era and wonder if having the country so deeply divided is going to have severe consequences ala what Kurt Schlichter proposes.
Oh Mike, that was a master Trolling. Like it
physicsguy:
Welcome to the Planet of the Apes.
At least they aren’t burning us at the stake anymore. Not in the West anyway.
It is a good question physicsguy, I ask myself that from time to time. Just because they’ve gone crazy and moved way left doesn’t mean they can’t win, with terrible consequences. We may see that in NY. I’d prefer a more rational opposition.
They also were able to deploy a bunch of dummy Starlink satellites from Starship without a hitch. This is significant for them since Starlink has become a significant source of revenue for them, and Starship can deploy 60 of their larger V3 satellites as opposed to Falcon 9 only being able to deploy 20 the smaller V2s.
Excellent economics in the video about building generational wealth. The idea that the kids live at home, instead of rent, while they save up to buy their own place is exactly what we’ve been doing with our 28 y.o. Who’s just submitted his PhD dissertation (in material science, nuclear).
Responsible folk buying their own homes, then also having a second home to rent out, is an excellent slow way towards becoming rich.
Her “language of love is service” likely refers to The 5 Languages of Love.
Nice short video.
I’d like to chat with that nice lady’s daughter in 10 years…or maybe 5.
I’ve got an uneasy feeling about that one.
There’s an easier way to build generational wealth.
Perhaps I was flippant with my “Planet of the Apes” response to physicsguy.
It would be nice if we could talk Democrats down from their craziness. I would love that. Unfortunately, there’s not much danger of conservatives succeeding.
If you’ve ever dealt with someone stuck on crazy, however functional they might be otherwise, you know it’s a long shot.
All you can do is pray and hope they burn through their craziness before they burn everything else down.
History is the story of large groups and nations stuck on crazy.
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” R.A. Heinlein
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” R.A. Heinlein
Geoffrey Britain:
Well, there is the theory that the Greatest Generation created the Boomers in the image of the life denied to the Greatest by the Depression and WW II.
IOW the Greatest spoiled the Boomers.
I pray every morning that we Americans become a more virtuous people, and turn back to God. I also pray for all the American patriots, including President Trump and his teams.
It occurred to me today that maybe I should also pray for the TDS people, that the scales would fall from their eyes, and that they are healed of their hatred.
I see now that huxley beat me to it: All you can do is pray and hope they burn through their craziness before they burn everything else down.
My parents (Greatest Generation), were from New York City and lived at home until they got married (except for when my dad served in WWII). There were no ‘in law” units for them — another bed room in an apartment. They both attended college in NYC.
I grew up in a tiny town in the midwest. The nearest college was about 45 minutes away — but out of state. So beyond our budget. And job opportunities were limited.
I grew up in an agricultural area, so about half the farm kids came home and took over the family farm. And about half of those farms are now gone — killed by government overreach.
When my great-great-grandfather died, he actually owned a fair amount of land in Queens. All of which was taken away from his surviving children (or grandchildren) through eminent domain: To build the Triborough Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge, and Queens Bridge Housing. They didn’t exactly get lots of money for any of it.
Generational “wealth” works in certain areas for certain people under certain conditions.
I feel dumber after watching this.
Mike Plaiss:
Just because they’ve gone crazy and moved way left doesn’t mean they can’t win, with terrible consequences.
———————————————–
I think the preference cascade has already begun, and is snowballing/growing into an avalanche. The 2 keys for me:
-The “tradwife” phenomenon – if the upper-middle-class women are turning, the rest of the progressive cultural mountain will crumble and fall.
-The scorn of young collegiates – and their anger at being coerced to mouth woke pieties. The Left no longer are the cool kids – they are hellacious, nasty, uncool freaks that ruin every good time with their belabored, politicized bullshit. And as post-collegiates they demonstrate what losers they are.
Even here in Israel, the anti-Bibi protests look like a nursing home field trip and the outdoor signage changes markedly outside chi-chi urban enclaves.
The devolution of the Left’s projected cultural and moral authority will happen quickly – remember how rapidly glasnost unraveled the USSR?
Any victories will be confined to urban enclaves, and will the pyrrhic and educational – as Mencken said, giving the fools what they asked for, good and hard.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.”
Being childless, I’m hesitant to weigh in on child-rearing. Still, I find myself hoping that the 12-year-old daughter is given additional responsibility for her apartment every year or so, so that by the time she’s old enough to move out, she’s fully aware of what it takes to maintain her own living space.
My own mother was maniacally clean. Mostly what I took from that as a teenager was what a pain it was. Only years later did I learn what a living space looks like when there’s no one to worry about constant control of skunge in the corners of the floor and mold in the bathroom. Elves don’t come in and remove it while we sleep.
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I believe sometime last week I may have used the term “grandfather”. I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to any commenters who may have been offended. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
Morning musing after reading and watching (Megyn Kelly, Jesse Waters last night) and also catching up on yesterday’s post on the Democrat’s crazy:
Why do we care that they have gone nuts?? Many conservative pundits seem to daily offer advice to the Ds as to how to get out of their spiral. Why? Why not let them circle the drain?
My thought is that one: I hate seeing friends and relatives go down this mental degradation. Two: maybe I believe that having a opposition party that is sane and patriotic helps keep the party in power in check.
Very mixed feelings on my part. After suffering from liberal arrogance in my last 15 years of work, I’m very happy to see them destroy themselves. I like the revenge factor. But, I think back to the pre LBJ era and wonder if having the country so deeply divided is going to have severe consequences ala what Kurt Schlichter proposes.
Oh Mike, that was a master Trolling. Like it
physicsguy:
Welcome to the Planet of the Apes.
At least they aren’t burning us at the stake anymore. Not in the West anyway.
It is a good question physicsguy, I ask myself that from time to time. Just because they’ve gone crazy and moved way left doesn’t mean they can’t win, with terrible consequences. We may see that in NY. I’d prefer a more rational opposition.
SpaceX’s giant Starship had a successful launch and splashdown (finally) yesterday. Up until yesterday, they hadn’t been able to achieve a safe splashdown of the second stage (the actual Starship vehicle) in the Indian Ocean, with the past 3 attempts ending in Starship blowing up during reentry.
They also were able to deploy a bunch of dummy Starlink satellites from Starship without a hitch. This is significant for them since Starlink has become a significant source of revenue for them, and Starship can deploy 60 of their larger V3 satellites as opposed to Falcon 9 only being able to deploy 20 the smaller V2s.
Excellent economics in the video about building generational wealth. The idea that the kids live at home, instead of rent, while they save up to buy their own place is exactly what we’ve been doing with our 28 y.o. Who’s just submitted his PhD dissertation (in material science, nuclear).
Responsible folk buying their own homes, then also having a second home to rent out, is an excellent slow way towards becoming rich.
Her “language of love is service” likely refers to The 5 Languages of Love.
Nice short video.
I’d like to chat with that nice lady’s daughter in 10 years…or maybe 5.
I’ve got an uneasy feeling about that one.
There’s an easier way to build generational wealth.
Perhaps I was flippant with my “Planet of the Apes” response to physicsguy.
It would be nice if we could talk Democrats down from their craziness. I would love that. Unfortunately, there’s not much danger of conservatives succeeding.
If you’ve ever dealt with someone stuck on crazy, however functional they might be otherwise, you know it’s a long shot.
All you can do is pray and hope they burn through their craziness before they burn everything else down.
History is the story of large groups and nations stuck on crazy.
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” R.A. Heinlein
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” R.A. Heinlein
Geoffrey Britain:
Well, there is the theory that the Greatest Generation created the Boomers in the image of the life denied to the Greatest by the Depression and WW II.
IOW the Greatest spoiled the Boomers.
I pray every morning that we Americans become a more virtuous people, and turn back to God. I also pray for all the American patriots, including President Trump and his teams.
It occurred to me today that maybe I should also pray for the TDS people, that the scales would fall from their eyes, and that they are healed of their hatred.
I see now that huxley beat me to it: All you can do is pray and hope they burn through their craziness before they burn everything else down.
My parents (Greatest Generation), were from New York City and lived at home until they got married (except for when my dad served in WWII). There were no ‘in law” units for them — another bed room in an apartment. They both attended college in NYC.
I grew up in a tiny town in the midwest. The nearest college was about 45 minutes away — but out of state. So beyond our budget. And job opportunities were limited.
I grew up in an agricultural area, so about half the farm kids came home and took over the family farm. And about half of those farms are now gone — killed by government overreach.
When my great-great-grandfather died, he actually owned a fair amount of land in Queens. All of which was taken away from his surviving children (or grandchildren) through eminent domain: To build the Triborough Bridge, the Queensborough Bridge, and Queens Bridge Housing. They didn’t exactly get lots of money for any of it.
Generational “wealth” works in certain areas for certain people under certain conditions.
I feel dumber after watching this.
Mike Plaiss:
Just because they’ve gone crazy and moved way left doesn’t mean they can’t win, with terrible consequences.
———————————————–
I think the preference cascade has already begun, and is snowballing/growing into an avalanche. The 2 keys for me:
-The “tradwife” phenomenon – if the upper-middle-class women are turning, the rest of the progressive cultural mountain will crumble and fall.
-The scorn of young collegiates – and their anger at being coerced to mouth woke pieties. The Left no longer are the cool kids – they are hellacious, nasty, uncool freaks that ruin every good time with their belabored, politicized bullshit. And as post-collegiates they demonstrate what losers they are.
Even here in Israel, the anti-Bibi protests look like a nursing home field trip and the outdoor signage changes markedly outside chi-chi urban enclaves.
The devolution of the Left’s projected cultural and moral authority will happen quickly – remember how rapidly glasnost unraveled the USSR?
Any victories will be confined to urban enclaves, and will the pyrrhic and educational – as Mencken said, giving the fools what they asked for, good and hard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.”
Being childless, I’m hesitant to weigh in on child-rearing. Still, I find myself hoping that the 12-year-old daughter is given additional responsibility for her apartment every year or so, so that by the time she’s old enough to move out, she’s fully aware of what it takes to maintain her own living space.
My own mother was maniacally clean. Mostly what I took from that as a teenager was what a pain it was. Only years later did I learn what a living space looks like when there’s no one to worry about constant control of skunge in the corners of the floor and mold in the bathroom. Elves don’t come in and remove it while we sleep.