KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Is Gretchen Whitmer Satan, Stalin, or Both? “It is almost impossible to imagine that Michigan could have someone worse in charge at this critical time. Whitmer is one of those tedious Democrats in the Trump era who feel that their only job is to publicly spar with the president and make NBC News fall in love with them.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 17, 2020
WELL, GOOD: No, we’re not running out of food. It just looks that way. “Panic buying at supermarkets spiked in the first weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns. But the food supply chain has since adjusted, making further shortages unlikely.”
YES: China Is Bargain Hunting—and Western Security Is at Risk. “Beijing could use the coronavirus-induced economic crisis to go on a buying spree. The U.S. and European governments must restrict the purchasing of distressed companies in sensitive sectors.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Washington Post editor who wrote an entire book asserting Brett Kavanaugh was guilty isn’t so sure about Joe Biden.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: We Have No Idea What Joe Biden Is Muttering About Here. Maybe You Can Help Us Out? “When most politicians speak, audiences have to suspend their disbelief. When it’s Biden speaking they have to suspend their incomprehension.”
A BATTLESWARM BLOG TWOFER: Wuhan Coronavirus Origins Part 2: Timelines of China’s Lies.
AND: China’s Lies Part 3: More Songs About Viral Labs And Propaganda.
CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Beijing Using Red Tape to Slow Export of Critical Medical Supplies to the US. “So what I’m getting here is that it suddenly became much more difficult for a company to get permission to export its own infectious-disease products during a pandemic, and that when permission does finally come, the airplanes required to move them might not.”
IT’S COMPLICATED: Netanyahu rival fails to form government, 4th Israeli election in one year likely. “After three elections in one year, the deadline elapsing increases the chances that Israel will be headed to the polls once again.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Red Pilled America’ Challenges Hulu’s Schlafly Series. “The podcast takes on ‘Mrs. America,’ a potentially one-sided look at the icon.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Hunter Biden Remains on the Board of a Chinese Company That Profited From Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy.
A BILL WHITTLE PODCAST: The Cold War: What We Saw | The Jaws Of Defeat – Episode 11.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The World Health Organization Wants to Restrict Access to Adult Beverages and I May Become Violent. “There are any number of reasons to tell the WHO brain trust what to do with their suggestion, chief among them being that they are a bumbling bunch of idiots who really dropped the ball when the virus began to spread. It’s safe to say that their advice is suspect, especially in matters of life, death, and important quarantine recreation matters.”
JOHN BURTKA: How To Build A New Leadership Class.
The biggest difference between the old aristocratic cultures and our own is how they raise children. And it’s in the home where the hopes of establishing a new, more virtuous leadership class go to die at a very young age. For today’s elites, guilt has replaced obligation as the organizing principle of family life. Instead of seeing society as “a partnership of the dead, the living, and the unborn,” as Edmund Burke aptly put it, they reject the concept of stewardship all together. Nature and tradition are repressive or at least passé, and children are aided by an army of counselors, consultants, and programs in the hope of a lifetime of self-actualization.
In order to justify such a selfish existence, they attempt to atone for the guilt of their privilege by ritual participation in the new religion of identity politics and its accompanying liturgical feasts. The high holy days of the past have been replaced with festivals and parades honoring various marginalized groups or identities. Anxious city managers and corporate boards offer pinches of incense to the new gods by modifying their branding guidelines and official communications to include the symbols of the new liturgical cult. Families themselves display these symbols from in their yards and on their cars. While their sense of guilt will not go away (there is no such thing as forgiveness for oppressors), they can learn to mitigate its effects and come to terms with their own narcissism so long as they pay lip service to the latest trends in social justice.
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