Comments on: Open thread 9/9/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821564 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:18:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821564 bretton woods could only hold out for a while, the cost of the Great War, on Europe necessitated decolonization, from India and the other colonies, same with Europe’s other territories, the rise of the welfare state, and the mass immigration cannot coexist for long, partitions like India for instance, ignited old hatreds

DeGaulle surrender after Algeria, and his successors like D’Staing empowered the Arab principates, like Husseins Iraq, and
led to the fall of the Shah,,

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821562 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:00:11 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821562 “This year I’ve been thinking a lot about how the western world got so dysfunctional. Here’s my rough, best-guess story…”—
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He ends up by sliding into goldbuggery. Too bad.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821557 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:37:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821557 You know the public backlash has had to be fierce for this to happen.

The leadership at Cracker Barrel has announced the cancellation of their plans to remodel their restaurants.*

Hopefully they will now concentrate on what they should have been concentrating on, and that is improving the quality of their food, and making it both more fresh–not frozen, and actually cooked from scratch, Southern style.

* See https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/09/09/cracker-barrel-folds-to-backlash-again-abandons-restaurant-remodelings-after-nixing-new-logo/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821525 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:40:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821525 Continued…

The following takedown of Tucker Carlson, and the odiousness that he has decided to—currently—stand for and widely disseminate, provides additional dismal evidence of the dire need to examine and implement Mahoney’s hopeful suggestions (see previous comment).

“THE WAR ON WORLD WAR II: Why False Revisionism Must Be Defeated.”—
https://instapundit.com/743439/

…And then there’s this guy….
[Richard Ngo
@RichardMCNgo]

“This year I’ve been thinking a lot about how the western world got so dysfunctional. Here’s my rough, best-guess story…”—
https://instapundit.com/743394/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821522 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:24:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821522 In these astonishingly crazy times, a worthy, erudite and useful blueprint by Daniel J. Mahoney on how to climb back into some kind of societal sanity:

“Restoring the Mind of the Republic”—
https://tomklingenstein.com/restoring-the-mind-of-the-republic/

To be compared and contrasted with this unsympathetic, if symptomatic, character…who just happens to be the president of Princeton University….

“Christopher Eisgruber’s Moronic Inferno”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/christopher-eisgruber-inferno-princeton

H/T Powerline blog (for both).

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821503 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:12:34 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821503 You head it here first:

The Russia-Ukraine war may soon be over….

“Shocking radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US military bounce off UFO over ocean”—
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/shocking-radar-footage-shows-hellfire-missile-fired-by-us-military-directly-hit-ufo-over-ocean/

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821490 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:49:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821490 Hmm.
Guess it’ll have to do…for now….

Meanwhile…

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/09/joe-biden-more-corrupt-than-you-thought.php

Alas poor Joe… likely did NOT wield that poisoned pen…

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821480 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:46:22 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821480 Nope

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821472 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:22:59 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821472 “…splashy”… enough?

“Israel Reportedly Targeted Turkish Arms Transfers In Latest Syria Strike”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-reportedly-targeted-turkish-arms-transfers-latest-syria-strike

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/09/09/open-thread-9-9-2025/#comment-2821464 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:00:20 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143794#comment-2821464 Thoughts of suicide getting ye’ down?

Well then, call the EU suicide hot-line ASAP.
They’ll help you…pronto…free of charge…

And so, Diary of a Mad Continent!
(A Mad World?)

In any event, here’s Diary of a Mad Hausfrau…

“EU Censors German Police Boss’s Chilling 2050 Immigration Nightmare Post”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-censors-german-police-bosss-chilling-2050-immigration-nightmare-post

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