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December 16, 2018
SO I’VE BEEN READING LARRY CORREIA & MIKE KUPARI’S DEAD SIX, based on some reader recommendations. I’m about halfway through, and it’s a real page-turner, but wow, a lot of people have been shot already.
OPEN THREAD: Do it on the weekend, and it’ll beeeeee alllllll riiiight. . . .
TRUMP AIDE MILLER SAYS THEY WILL DO ‘WHATEVER IS NECESSARY’ TO BUILD WALL: “‘The Democrat Party has a simple choice, they can either choose to fight for America’s working class or to promote illegal immigration,’ [Stephen] Miller argued. ‘You can’t do both.’”
I’m so old, I can remember when Democrats actually knew that.
“LIVE BY IDENTITY POLITICS, DIE BY IDENTITY POLITICS:”
● Joy Reid’s Racial Test: Democrats ‘Can’t Run Two White Guys’ in 2020.
—NewsBusters, today.
—As spotted by Twitchy, today, who asks, “Quick question for Gillibrand: If the Democrat nominee does end up being Bernie, Beto, Joe or another white guy, is she going to pull her support?”
● And from Friday, “CNN election analyst [Harry Enten] on Dems’ 2020 race: ‘I am not sure it’s the time to nominate a white man.’”
I’m so old, I can remember the two major political parties simply ran the most electable candidate — but then for 21st century left, identity politics is everything.
NARRATOR VOICE: THIS DOESN’T END WELL. Your Failure To Enthuse Is Violence, Apparently.
IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS. Is There Such a Thing as an Authoritarian Voter? Political scientists want to know. They’re not the only ones.
Control-F, “Hillary,” or “Clinton” yields no returns from the article, which derives from a nearly 70-year old study by Marxist Frankford School mainstay Theodor Adorno, one of the stars of Michael Walsh’s brilliant 2015 book, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace. Adorno equated conservatism with fascism, which was a classic Soviet-inspired smear.
In addition to its reliance on Adorno, Hillary’s omission from the article seems rather odd, because over the years, she has said, “We’re going to take things from you on behalf of the common good.” She can’t say if gun ownership is a constitutional right. “When told [in 1993 that HillaryCare] could bankrupt small businesses, Mrs. Clinton sighed, ‘I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America,’” the late Tony Snow wrote in 1999. In 2016, she smiled as she said that, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
Why, there’s been a whole book written about Hillary’s love of, well, Liberal Fascism, for want of a better phrase.
As Daniel Oliver, director of Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco, wrote in 2016, “Progressivism — the proper name for the governing philosophy of those people who used to be called ‘liberals’ — is inherently authoritarian, and its primary products are lamentation, and mourning, and woe.”
All of that being said, shouldn’t the New York Times be in favor of a whole nation full of authoritarian voters? Or is that strictly the province of the “We Are All Socialists Now” Washington Post? Think of how much better the sex will be!
(Classical reference in headline.)
ENTER THE MADMAN: Richard Fernandez: We Need A Bigger World.
STARBUCKS’ NEW BATHROOM POLICY NOT WORKING OUT AS HOPED.
…A half-dozen toilets were locked or barricaded for no clear reason. Others were closed for prolonged “cleaning,” which an insider said was needed after extreme soiling caused by drug-using, incontinent vagrants.
“Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.
“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave. (entrance on West 32nd Street) and at a branch at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane. At 252 W. 31st St., the road to relief was blocked by garbage cans. Furniture and boxes formed a barrier at 61 W. 56th St.
A rope and traffic cones barred the way at 38 Park Row. When a desperate visitor asked if the loo would reopen any time soon, a barista directed him to a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby.
It gets even worse; read the whole thing. Other than pretty much everybody except the ozone layer of Starbucks’ executives, who could have seen this coming?
WE WERE SIDE-BURNED ONCE AND YOUNG: Stumbled across this photo from my first job on Capitol Hill. Back when there were still real journalists covering Congress. Brought back a lot of memories. And a good many Sunday evening chuckles, too.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why are Labour’s leaders so quiet on Europe? Maybe it’s the lure of disaster.
Read the whole thing.
MEDICAL MISTAKES KILL FAR MORE PEOPLE THAN GUNS: ‘Bleed Out’ Shows How Medical Errors Can Have Life-Changing Consequences.
THIS SOUNDS NICE: New for 2019: Wilson Combat Paul Howe Signature Glock.
NO VIRGINIA, SANTA CLAUS IS NOT GENDER NEUTRAL.
WELL, GOOD: CDC says U.S. flu season off to slow start.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while.
INCORRECT PREMISE: Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drives conservatives crazy.
As a purely tactical matter, Republicans would probably be better off keeping Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer as their leading partisan archnemesis, inasmuch as neither of those candidates can deride the GOP as the party of rich old white folks without inspiring at least a little bit of a giggle.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may personify much of what Republicans despise about the distinctively millennial brand of censorious progressivism that currently dominates the Democratic Party, but, if they were smarter, they’d be grateful for that: If this callow dilettante is the best the other side has to offer, then maybe the Republicans — no strangers to callow dilettantism — still have a chance after all.
I have no idea if Kevin Williamson wrote the headline to his article, or if it was written by an editor at the New York Post, but Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t drive conservatives “crazy.” For the starboard-side of the Blogosphere, she’s simply an unending supply of material, in much the same way that Sarah Palin, despite being the only candidate in the fall of 2008 who had executive experience, served for the left.