BOOK I WOULD LIKE TO READ: The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. #CommissionEarned
Archive for 2021
December 24, 2021
DO THEY GET CHINESE CONTRIBUTIONS? National group organizes ‘anti-militarist’ training and advocates for war divestment.
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy this Christmas Eve morning chance to chit chat. The regular open thread will still be up tonight.
REMEMBER, “INSURRECTION” IS ONLY BAD IF IT HAPPENS WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE IN POWER: Donor withholds $4.5 million from Chicago school until former terrorist prof. is fired.
RIP, Chris Dickerson. Remembered here by Bill Pearl. Dickerson was the oldest man to win Mr. Olympia, at the age of 43.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Please Stop The Coup Porn.
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, three retired generals, Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba, and Steven Anderson, warn of a supposedly impending coup should Donald Trump be elected in 2024.
The column seemed strangely timed to coincide with a storm of recent Democratic talking points that a re-elected Trump, or even a Republican sweep of the 2022 midterms, would spell a virtual end of democracy.
Ironies abound.
From Election Day in 2020 to Inauguration Day 2021, we were told by the Left that democracy was resilient and rightly rid the nation of Trump.
The hard Left, for one of the rare times in U.S. history, was now in complete control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.
Spiking inflation, supply-chain shortages, near-record gas prices, open borders, the flight from Afghanistan, multi-trillion-dollar deficits, and polarizing racial rhetoric all followed.
In response to these events, Joe Biden’s popularity utterly collapsed. His own cognitive challenges multiplied the unpopularity of his failed policies.
In reaction, the Left again pivoted. It suddenly announced that should it lose congressional power in 2022 or the presidency in 2024, democracy was all but doomed.
Apparently, what changed Democrats’ views was that democracy was working all too well in expressing widespread public disgust . . . with the Left.
Even more ironies followed.
The three retired generals shrilly write of the dangers of insurrection and coups. Yet the FBI found no such insurrection or conspiracy in the buffoonish riot on January 6.
The more they talk about a coup, the more likely one becomes. It’s destructive and deeply irresponsible, but then our political class is destructive and deeply irresponsible.
Related thoughts here.
UPDATE: From the comments
The preference cascade happened in record time, and now it’s becoming IMPLAUSIBLE that Democrats can hold onto power. And that’s the key: implausibility.
If they somehow “miraculously” hang onto power, nobody will believe it. At that point, open civil war is justified. And even if it doesn’t go that far, they’ll still lose power which is the only thing they care about. They then might actually be held accountable.
That’s why they’re becoming increasingly unhinged.
Plus:
Impending coup should Donald Trump be elected in 2024
Since when did we start calling an election a coup?
2016. It happened in 2016. Though not so much “we.”
RIGGGED: More believe in cheating in 2020 election, hit ‘Zuckerbucks.’ “Angered by growing reports that Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg steered vote-generating donations to pro-Biden counties, more voters believe that cheating occurred in the 2020 elections. Shoving aside repeated liberal media dismissals of cheating claims, those who believe it occurred increased from 56% in October to 59% in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll previewed for Secrets.”
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: What Did Alexander Hamilton Mean?
THEY SOUND JUST LIKE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS: Citing ‘Safety’ Concerns, China Tears Down Statue Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre Victims. Where any threat to their messaging is a “safety” concern.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Merry Christmas, My Dear Morning Briefing Friends. “It’s all too easy to get mired in negativity these days. I know that I stoke that on occasion. However, I also preach not getting overwhelmed by negativity. There is a lot of good in the world. Amazing people are all around us. We just have to spend some extra time looking for things that are good.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni And Parents Struggle To Repay.
THIS WEEK HAS BEEN SO COMPLETELY INSANE I DIDN’T EVEN SHARE THE PROMO POST FROM SUNDAY: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also an interesting vignette-writing thing that has launched multiple novels.
ALSO IF THERE WERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE A USEFUL SKILL THAT DOESN’T REQUIRE KNEELING: Kamala Harris To Allies: My Media Coverage Would Be Better If I Were “White and Male”.
Willie Brown owns the country an apology for foisting this idiot on us. I say this from the bottom of my low opinion of him: he could have done better.
HOW LONG TILL POLICE DECIDE THE GAME ISN’T WORTH THE CANDLE? Jury finds Kim Potter guilty on all counts in “Taser taser taser” trial.
WE’RE AMERICANS. WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE BIGGER THAN LIFE IN ALL DIRECTIONS: Lavish.
IT TAKES A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA: Two Dems who support police reform carjacked less than 24 hours apart.
SOME OF US DRINK DIET COKE BECAUSE WE’VE DIABETES, OR ARE PRE=DIABETIC, NOT BECAUSE WE WANT TO P.O. FLIGHT ATTENDANTS: I’m a flight attendant and here’s what your drink order says about you as a person.
On the other hand pissing off crazy people who create their own erroneous system of classifying fellow human beings due to something incidental is a delightful bonus.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Hospital reports new moms over drug tests tripped by poppy seeds: lawsuit.
NO, THIS WASN’T AT THE CNN CHRISTMAS PARTY, WHY DO YOU ASK? Baby uses sign language to say ‘Help’ while on Santa’s lap.
THERE’S A LOT MORE OF IT THAN WE HEAR ABOUT: Pushback against blacklists: Employee resistance force hospitals nationwide to abandon COVID shot mandates.
THE WEIRD SUPER HERO WITH THE BIZARRE NAME IS ON IT: Elon Musk’s Holy War Against Wokeness.
WELL, HE DID PUT TOGETHER THE MOST EXTENSIVE ELECTION FRAUD NETWORK EVER… Joe Biden Wants to Take on Trump in 2024.
YOU COULD HAVE A PERIOD AFTER “LYING”: Associated Press lying about consensus on COVID vaccines for children.