Remember, You Asked for This by KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON May 3, 2016 10:20 PM I want to leave a note here, because I expect to have many occasions to link back to it in the next several months. Americans and Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.
I will be reminding you all of that, from time to time.
now that's some tasty anger
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
aww
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I want to leave a note here, because I expect to have many occasions to link back to it in the next several months.
ooh better bookmark this then
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
You guys should read Michael Potemra today.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
waht
The more I think about Senator Cruz’s stunning announcement last night that he is suspending his campaign, the more brilliant I think it is. The No. 1 political handicap he had in this campaign is that people thought he was too nakedly ambitious, too laser-focused on his own advancement, as opposed to, e.g., the good of the party. But in one fell swoop last night, he managed to put paid to this idea. He could have stayed in the race and played a backroom guerrilla war for the next couple of months, delegate by delegate. But he looked at the Indiana results . . . and stepped away. In future years – and even later this year, if something cataclysmic happens to Trump and Republicans need another nominee — conservatives, and the GOP, will not remember just the Ted Cruz whose ambitions many of them distrusted earlier in the year. They will also remember the man who showed a hell of a lot of grace in bowing out. Cruz looks pretty good as Cincinnatus at the plow.Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― indie fresh (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Cruz looks pretty good as Demosthenes on a dung heap.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Remember, You Asked for This by KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON May 3, 2016 10:20 PM I want to leave a note here, because I expect to have many occasions to link back to it in the next several months. Americans and Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a failed IT exec who laid off 30,000 workers, a minister who recorded a campaign commercial featuring over 4 dozen separate shots of him playing with his phone, a libertarian who opposes the civil rights act of 1964 while also claiming to be the "greatest defender of minority rights", a guy whose homophobia prompted a campaign to make his last name synonymous with anal froth, a dozen solid conservatives, a new jersey governor reviled by his own constituents, a louisiana governor reviled by his own constituents, a man who believes that joseph built the pyramids - not aliens, as various scientists believe - to store grain and likes to brag about how he almost stabbed a guy, a robo-candidate who has never actually accomplished anything other than drinking water, a privileged scion who helped his brother steal the presidency and then went out of his way to keep a feeding tube in terry schiavo's throat, a 2012 candidate laughingstock whose only adjustment for 2016 was to start wearing glasses, a lesbian hawk from south carolina, and literally the most hated man in america, an ohio governor who wanted to give hip-hop a shot so bought a Roots cd only to be dismayed that the music "was intended to shock and titillate, for no good reason but to shock and titillate", and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
LOL
― indie fresh (m coleman), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
A++ rendition of key's manly prose
lol:
SnakeIz • a few seconds agoThe contest is now between Hillary Clinton vs a Hillary Clinton donor.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
The No. 1 political handicap he had in this campaign is that people thought he was too nakedly ambitious, too laser-focused on his own advancement, as opposed to, e.g., the good of the party LOOKED LIKE A FISH MONSTER
― goole, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
goole! Your boy told NPR this morning that he wouldn't vote for Trump or Clinton, "which creates a real dilemma for some of us."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
wait which one is my boy again?
― goole, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
we await dna evidence
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
"Cruz looks pretty good as Cincinnatus at the plow."
are you fucking serious. cincinnatus was famous because he had absolute power and relinquished it. he didnt take a break for a sec before resuming his ludicrously ambitious desire to become president in spite of not having any actual talent or charisma or a constituency that wants him to be anywhere near power..
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, May 4, 2016
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
"The Innsmouth Look" is also a useful descriptor, if not as popular
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Americans and Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist. You chose him freely. Don't waste your time on me, you're already a voice inside my head. Nobody made you do it.
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
btw Karl yr post is genius, thank you
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
^^^^ this
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 08:33 (eight years ago) link
Also, I find it hard to see this photo
and not imagine a law enforcement officer leaning in and saying, "Come on, sir, you know the terms of your parole preclude you from parking near a school."
― Elvis Santana (stevie), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 08:34 (eight years ago) link
rl lol zach attack
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
by John J. Miller May 10, 2016 6:40 PM
David Bowie’s song “Heroes” made NR’s list of the greatest conservative rock songs almost exactly a decade ago. Now it has inspired the title of NR contributor Robert Dean Lurie’s excellent new ebook, We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie. Lurie makes the wise observation (which never had occurred to me) that the song probably was inspired at least in part by the characters Winston and Julia in George Orwell’s 1984. But that’s just a throwaway observation in a relentlessly smart book about Bowie. Here’s the thesis:
David Bowie, quite simply, was the most radically individualistic popular entertainer we have ever seen. He took individualism to a place where he gave himself nearly complete artistic freedom, while still working within the bounds of taste and beauty. We don’t get Howard Roarks in real life. But we did get David Bowie.
Roark is a reference to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, but don’t worry: Lurie has not written a piece of objectivist propaganda. Instead, he has given us a skillful tribute to a wonderful and beguiling entertainer. If you’re one of those conservatives who, like me, thinks we need to be more engaged with pop culture (because “politics is downstream of culture”), then We Can Be Heroes is for you. It’s also just $2.99. Just buy a copy already.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
I HATE IT WHEN THEY EXPLAIN THEIR REFERENCES
― goole, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
the song probably was inspired at least in part
i prefer my critical insights to be couched in cringing prevarications so i'll def check this out
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
this is good http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214729/housing-bears-are-wrong-again-larry-kudlow
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Trending on NR
Let’s Don’t Put On a Show
Obama’s School Bathroom Rule and the 2016
Election Millennials Embrace Socialism, but Do They Know What It Is?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
but Do They Know Its Christmas?
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
And now, yet another attempt to figure out what the kids of today like. Oh dear.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435404/taking-temperature-american-pop
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
one for the link bin
― mookieproof, Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Going for the BIG TIME!
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-31/kristol-eyes-conservative-lawyer-for-independent-presidential-run
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ilF8jpTOQYr0/v1/-1x-1.jpg45th President of the United StatesAssumed officeJanuary 20, 2017
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
cf. "Inbreeding"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
I'll only vote for him if he changes his name to David Freedom
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:44 (eight years ago) link
this joker isn't even going to succeed in siphoning votes away from trump. sad!
― Treeship, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 04:56 (eight years ago) link
kristol should have went with a republican with bipartisan appeal like caitlyn jenner
if this happens you know Trump will seize the hair issue - Bald David French or some shit
― indie fresh (m coleman), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 10:46 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Mrdavidfrench.png
the teeth could be a target too tbh
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 12:47 (eight years ago) link
THis guy is just a face drawn on a balloon, right?
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know curry mustard was his dentifrice of choice.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
lol moodles i was struggling to form a version of that joke yesterday, bravo
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
more French kissing:
Prince died last week, and America overreacted. No, I’m not diminishing Prince’s talent. He was one of pop music’s most gifted songwriters and musicians. As millions shared his more memorable performances, I realized I’d forgotten what a great guitar player and showman he was. He could write hit songs like few others, and he shared his talent freely, “gifting” songs to other artists. In short, he was one of the few pop stars whose fame was fully justified.
But to spend time on the mainstream and left-wing Internet last week — or to listen to some of the web’s more popular podcasts — you would have thought America lost a national hero, and not merely an immensely gifted artist.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
FUCK THIS DUDE IN THE EYE
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:32 (eight years ago) link
by Kathryn Jean Lopez June 6, 2016 3:23 PM @kathrynlopez
The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the Church that Catholic priests and religious sign up to pray as a vocational matter and many others do as well. It brings a holy order to the day. And today it has me thinking about persecuted Christians in the world today.
The Office of Readings has a letter to the Romans from Saint Ignatius of Antioch. He’s a bishop who was ultimately martyred, something he was clearly as ready for as anyone is ever going to be
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Now that David French isn’t running for president and Nancy thanked Politico for free marriage advice here, a few things that have been on my mind about a wonderful, fun, good couple and their continued and varied contributions to our country and our culture … After praying for David and Nancy French — knowing the sudden bombardment they were getting last week — I found myself feeling awful as a column I wrote about their book Home and Away getting linked to in all kinds of commentary about their marriage. It felt like complicity in the bombardment.
You may have seen it in the frenzy. When marriage and infidelity was in the news headlines during another election season, I pointed to their book as a help. People need help. Life is tough. Which is why David and Nancy wrote a book about their experiences when David went off to war and Nancy was keeping the home front together.
And by now you’ve heard the controversial bit: A couple working out some working wisdom about what’s healthy for their marriage. At a time when marriage and family is hurting, focusing on one couple’s figuring it out along the way amidst strains and sacrifices and needs, seemed a good thing. Others have different experiences, but if you’re looking for some experiential guidance, that’s all the Frenches claimed to offer, their testimony. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
poor marriage and family
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
by JAY NORDLINGER June 7, 2016 6:49 AM @JAYNORDLINGER
“I didn’t leave my party; my party left me.” That’s what Reagan always said, about his break with the Democrats in the early 1960s. Reagan was in his early fifties at the time. I grew up hearing this expression. And I grew a little weary of it, frankly: It seemed too pat.
I never thought it would be relevant to my life. Because when you’re younger, I think, you think things are forever. The Republicans were Reaganites (with a few oddballs, mainly in the Northeast); the Democrats were McGovernites (with a few oddballs, who still hadn’t switched to the GOP). That’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Well, the Democrats are still McGovernites. We can call them Obamites now, or Hillaryites. Berners? But the Republican party is now represented by Donald J. Trump. He is the presidential nominee, or will be. And the presidential nominee is the face — the brand, the spirit — of a party. He is synonymous with the party both at home and abroad.
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a man I greatly respect, a cabinet official in the last Republican administration. I said to him, in sort of a shocked tone, “I’ve left the Republican party.” He shot back, “You didn’t leave it — the party left you.” I was relieved and grateful to hear it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
How happy he must feel, that John Ashcroft gave him his blessing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
seems too pat
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
i know right
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link