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Open thread 11/16/2024 — 13 Comments

  1. Well, maybe not dead, but on life support — I fully expect the Leftists crying over the election to continue as Zombie LIVs.

    https://www.racket.news/p/ding-dong-the-cult-is-dead
    Ding, Dong, the Cult is Dead!
    The national mass psychosis is finally dealt a blow, making it safe to be sane again
    Matt Taibbi Nov 10, 2024

    [After posting a tweet by Elie Mystal replying to a groveling white female ally: “Somebody who is in a better head space than me right now come do this person’s emotional labor because I CANNOT RIGHT NOW”]

    There’s no such thing as “emotional labor.” Labor is labor. If you think emotions are labor, you’ve either never had a real job, or you belong to an organization in which expiating guilt to avoid excommunication really is work, like the Catholic Church or MSNBC. The attempt to expand the latter concept to all America hit a speed bump last week, and the faithful have no one left to punish. Early Scientology called their penance ritual “overboarding,” and the seas this weekend are thick with thrashing cancelers. It’s incredible:

    That post has a paywall, but it continues in the same vein.
    I’m beginning to wonder if Matt is ever ashamed of having been a reporter for The Rolling Stone, seeing what the “liberal” ecosphere has turned into.

    It’s very clear that he is very exasperated with his erstwhile colleagues.

  2. Interesting articles on 2 of Trumps picks:

    1) Matt Gaetz would oversee US prisons as AG. He thinks El Salvador’s hardline lockups are a model – looks like Gaetz was impressed by the treatment of prisoners in El Salvador’s prisons. Maybe Gaetz would already think American Prisons are tough enough if he gets convicted of Statutory Rape of that 17 year old woman.

    This is the kind of sh*t that makes me wary of Republicans (Trump included). I’m still watching their backdoor attempt to Federalize the Abortions issue, e.g., Moms Act, Bill – H.R.517, and Project 2025.

    Republicans don’t need to be wasting time on changing the prison system & Federalizing the Abortion issue. Voters did not give Trump a mandate for that kind of BS.
    2) OK – this one lets humble hermit me relax again 🙂 – Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden has a message for critics of Trump’s Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth

    But current and former service members tell DailyMail.com that a shake-up at the top of the Pentagon totem pole is necessary.

    Robert O’Neill, the former Navy SEAL who killed terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011, told DailyMail.com that Hegseth is a ‘fantastic choice.’

    And one main reason why is because he’s never been dragged into the D.C. political ‘swamp.’

    ‘He is a mid-level officer who has been to Afghanistan and Iraq on combat tours, worked with the National Guard in DC and played basketball at Princeton,’ said O’Neill.

    He knows the soldiers and how a team works and really knows how to push himself. He is not part of the good-old-boy network and has never been part of the swamp.

    Current U.S. Navy Commander Robert A. Green Jr. said he’s ‘excited for the fresh approach’ that Hegseth will bring to the position.

    ‘The Joint Force deserves a decision maker who will prioritize constitutional principles over contractor profits,’ he told DailyMail.com.

    There is also a deep bench of recently retired conservative Admirals and Generals who are eager to support and advise. The future looks very bright for the US military under Pete Hegseth.’

    An active duty fighter pilot said he’s most thrilled about Hegseth’s commitment to ‘shrinking the bureaucratic machine down to something much more manageable.’

    The pilot says the ‘overwhelming and cumbersome bureaucracy’ makes his job difficult on a daily basis.

    ‘The Air Force and DoD at large has felt more like a DMV than a warfighting organization and that’s causing a lot of guys in the flying community to end up disillusioned and eager to get out,’ he told DailyMail.com.

    He warned that he’s only cautiously optimistic because of Hegseth’s lack of government prowess.

    ‘I do wonder if he has the political savvy to navigate the labyrinth of the pentagon machine and tame it effectively,’ he continued.

    Am seeing quite a bit of talk about an ‘American President should be able to have his own choice of his Cabinet’ – with most all agreeing that a President should not have to wait “2 years” to get his Cabinet & Admin filled. Honestly, I had never paid much attention to that process, and had no clue it could take months to 2 years!?! This isn’t 1893 when many things moved slow—including the mail & news. It’s 2024 heading into 2025 where A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World and America doesn’t need to be waiting for a President to get his Cabinet filled…Jeez!?!?!

  3. yes, the worse killers in the world, ought not to have nice accomodation, Bukele, has brought peace to El Salvador, that many thought impossible, let us be reminded that the place they wanted to jail trump for thought crime, is it’s one ‘blackhole of iniquity, same with Rikers Island, for the other offense,

    thnakfully LA will be returning to some semblance of sanity after proposition 36, and the new Da Hochman, same with San Francisco and the Strauss heir,
    Gascon really stuck in my craw, because is of my people, but he became just another Soros drone,

  4. Brian E

    Humans are natural born killers with or without tattoos.

    They would be in *MY* cell the moment I entered it – whether it was Anthony (Tony) Esperti or some tattooed El Salva-whatever.

    Not sure if your article mentioned that many cells down there had 80 or so inmates, and they were mixed gangs…gangs that killed each other on the street. I was never into gangs…

    Anyway, voters didn’t give Trump a mandate to play or experiment with America’s prison system…hopefully Trump & Gaetz realize this w/o the voters having to remind them in 2 years…

  5. I recently read an interview by Christopher Rufo with an (anonymous) mid-level Boeing manager. The new CEO is focused on building airplanes and on doing it with quality. His first question for any program or policy is, “Does this help us build airplanes?” Much of what Boeing has been doing in recent years has not helped build quality airplanes.

    That analogous question, for Pete Hegseth, will be, “Does this help us win wars?” He sounds like just the guy to return Defense to its core job, which is to win wars.

  6. Reports have 85 yr old Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei fallen into coma. Soon may the earth be rid of him — and his evil regime.

  7. Interesting point.

    Charlie Kirk tweet:

    For the Trump coalition, the President is pitching a perfect game.

    MAHA gets RFK at HHS

    Libertarians get Tulsi as DNI

    The Base gets Gaetz, Hetseth and Homan

    The peace through projecting strength crowd gets Rubio at State and Stefanick at the UN.

    Promises made, promises kept.

    David Sachs at All in Podcast makes the point it’s a package deal given the coalition that elected him. Trump is trying to have his cabinet reflect the diversity of his coalition. Sachs adds Elon and Vivek to the Libertarian camp and interprets the “peace through projecting strength” as the neocons.

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