from Nordlinger's goodbye-to-all-that:
Many years ago, I worked in Washington, D.C., around a bunch of Democrats. They were often dismayed by Marion Barry. I delighted in referring to him as “the four-time mayoral nominee of your party.” I would point out that my party had nominated honorable alternatives, but the voters had always picked their nominee, the Democrat. This bothered them (and shame on me for being mischievous).
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436244/exgop-shock-disaffiliation-leaving-gop
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
As I see it, or smell it, an odor now attaches to the GOP, and it will linger long past 2016, no matter what happens on Election Day.
I wonder how he'll write about his re-affiliation with those stinking republicans the instant Trump loses?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
they should just join the Dem party. neocons were dems originally anyway who bolted in the 60s and hillary is obv a national security hawk / advocate of american exceptionalism, plus i don't really believe most of them gaf about abortion (or gay marriage) to begin w/ but were putting it on for the evangelicals. economically i could see how it would be a betrayal of reagan to support the "tax and spend" liberal but ffs there's plenty of evidence over the last few decades that only the dems are responsible stewards of the economy and if they wanted to be a conservative wing of the dem party there's plenty of space there. i actually kinda think john podhoretz is planning to do this - i wonder if he'll make it explicit or if it'll be formalized later on obv a lot depends on what happens to the rep party after the trump era.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah I keep being agog when neocons are like "obviously Secretary Clinton is also unacceptable" b/c they're not gonna get a better excuse than her for returning to the Dem fold. Who do they want, exactly?
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
A proven lack of vagina.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
yet they love thatcher
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
A fair point - though she went out of her way to dull that. The line from the Fey/Poehler sketch about "I didn't want a woman to be president, I wanted to be president, and I happen to be a woman!" fits her far better than Hillary.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
bahaha thatcher had no vagina
xpost
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
Reagan taxed and spent plenty!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
admittedly loose relationship between the historical man + the myth. you know - like jesus!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
"there is no such thing as vagina, only individual labia"
― pacific distances (sciatica), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Most of the posts have been hateful in a dreary way. This comment made me laugh:
edcottingham • 2 hours ago I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP). I had to make an emergency dash into what was formerly called "the men's room" and snatched up a convenient newspaper from a shelf in the hall. Turned out to be a local gay paper. On the front was an article promoting the coming weekend. It featured a crowd photo with one gentlemen front and center and the obvious subject of the photo. He was wearing some kind of kimono-type garment left open in the front to expose nothing else except an athletic supporter. (Not sure if it really was rhinestone-incrusted or that was a later embellishment of my fevered imagination.)
What really most disgusts me about male homosexuality is the public flamboyance and promiscuity. I get it. He was advertising a club where instant, anonymous hook-ups were featured on the menu. You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed. The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene. Not by a long way.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
my fevered imagination
mmhmm
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP)
what an amazing sentence
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
later on he formed additional strong impressions in several airport bathrooms and highway rest stops
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
He clearly is mourning the passing of Borders and its convenient toilets. Let him grieve.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed.
not entirely (clutches pearls, porno mag)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
edcottingham • 2 hours ago I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP). I had to make an emergency dash into what was formerly called "the men's room" and snatched up a convenient newspaper from a shelf in the hall. Turned out to be a local gay paper. On the front was an article promoting the coming weekend. It featured a crowd photo with one gentlemen front and center and the obvious subject of the photo. He was wearing some kind of kimono-type garment left open in the front to expose nothing else except an athletic supporter. (Not sure if it really was rhinestone-incrusted or that was a later embellishment of my fevered imagination.)What really most disgusts me about male homosexuality is the public flamboyance and promiscuity. I get it. He was advertising a club where instant, anonymous hook-ups were featured on the menu. You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed. The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene. Not by a long way.
i get mad
https://moviefilmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/american-beauty-chris-cooper.jpg?w=464&h=198&crop=1
vibes from that post
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene.
http://my.xfinity.com/blogs/tv/files/2015/02/american-beauty.jpg
why can't u gays be less sexy all the time damn im just a humble bigot trying to suppress my sexuality like jesus and thomas jefferson intended
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
from the uncontrollable shitting to the prudery that whole post is a freudian wonderland.
― ryan, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Jonah is upset:
In response to the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling today, the folks at The Daily Show couldn’t help but do a little end zone dance.
Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas! — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2016
I’m old enough to remember when liberals insisted that abortion was an unfortunate, even tragic, necessity. This was the inspiration behind Bill Clinton’s promise to make abortion “safe, legal and rare.”
Now, apparently, abortion is the kind of thing one should do out of spite.
Actually, it’s even worse than that. This tweet is aimed at men — and I don’t mean people who simply identify as men, but actual biologically male from birth men. They are saying — yes, yes, in “jest” — that “Bros” should go out and “knock up” women because that will really stick it to those stupid conservatives in Texas. Not only is the abortion a trivial instrumentality for political payback, so is the woman who has to go through an invasive surgical procedure.
I’m the first to concede that people take offense too easily and that comedians should be given a wide berth. But (a) the joke isn’t funny. And (b) The Daily Show is treated as an organ of “smart liberalism” (admittedly not as much since Jon Stewart left). Their jokes are a peek behind the curtain at how elite liberals view everyone who doesn’t share their worldview. It seems that some now think that terminating a human life is an act of virtue-signaling political protest, like wearing the ribbon du jour or putting a Darwin fish on your car. It’s disgusting.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
Jonah doesn't know what "spite" means
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Has Jonah ever heard a joke before? Is he willing to stipulate that all jokes, even those he or other conservatives make "are a peek behind the curtain at how [the jokester] view[s] everyone"? How about Rusk Limbaugh's jokes? Should they get the same treatment he gave that tweet in order to plumb the true thoughts of conservative elites?
Oh, that's right. He's an ass.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 27 June 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
ugh i can't believe i'm agreeing with a point from one of the incomprehensible alien beings quoted itt but it is a pretty bad joke tbh, not because it's morally outrageous or anything but because it's lazy and predictable.
― riverine (map), Monday, 27 June 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
tbf it wasn't funny
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
no it's a terrible joke
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 June 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
and all the 'smart liberals' i follow also thought it was bad, which is probably why there was an apology
alas, too late for jonah
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
sure it's a terrible joke, but drawing a straight line from one tweet to 'what all liberal elites think about everyone' is an even more terrible piece of logic.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 27 June 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
I guess he's too young to remember "abortion on demand and without apology."
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
does it come with any sides?
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 06:34 (seven years ago) link
i hear bill kristol's candidate has offered some helpful tips about what to do when pulled over by the police
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 July 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437676/what-micah-xavier-johnson-does-and-does-not-tell-us-about-blm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
@JAYNORDLINGER During the Republican primaries, Putin praised Trump, and Trump praised him back. On television, Joe Scarborough pointed out to Trump that Putin kills his political opponents, invades other countries, etc.
Trump said, “He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, you know, unlike what we have in this country.”
Scarborough pressed him: But what about the killing of political opponents?
Trump: “Well, I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe.”
This is the kind of moral equivalence that would make Oberlin poli-sci profs blush.
Just yesterday, the New York Times asked Trump about Turkey and the depredations now going on. He answered, “When the world sees how bad the United States is and we start talking about civil liberties, I don’t think we are a very good messenger.”
Jeane Kirkpatrick was a Democrat when she spoke at the Republican convention of 1984. (She did not change her party registration until after she left the U.N. and the Reagan administration.) She said that her native party had the habit of “blaming America first.”
What would Kirkpatrick do today, when faced with Trump’s GOP or the Obama-Hillary Democratic party? Many of us are now homeless.
May it not last forever …
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KztNIg4cvE
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Trump: “Well, I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe.”...Just yesterday, the New York Times asked Trump about Turkey and the depredations now going on. He answered, “When the world sees how bad the United States is and we start talking about civil liberties, I don’t think we are a very good messenger.”
A graduate of the Morbius/Dennis Perrin school, I see.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
by Jack Fowler July 25, 2016 10:24 AM @jackfowler
At National Review, we’re in the tank — for the truth. And the truth this week is that the Democratic party is set to nominate for president a former Secretary of State who has a legacy that is chilling and dangerous.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 July 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
At National Review, we’re in the tank — for the truth
a weird topic to use the sixth-sense style ending on, but ok
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
thought this bump might be for the revival of discussion of the public option, which was encouraging.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
NRO has the delicate task of slagging off both HRC and The Donald (#NeverTrump #NeverForget), while not seeming to recommend staying home on election day.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
november is a great time of year for a cruise imo
― he mea ole, he kanaka lapuwale (sciatica), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 07:01 (seven years ago) link
^^cueing up the Gilligan's Island theme
― indie fresh (m coleman), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:14 (seven years ago) link
amazing how irrelevant all these guys seem now. trump really has taken the party.
― goole, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
they've been irrelevant since the failure of the Iraq invasion
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
what NRO is reduced to:
Vice President Joe Biden officiated at the wedding of two male White House staffers yesterday, despite belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, which teaches that marriage is a sacrament that can occur only between a man and a woman.
You do not have to be an opponent of gay marriage or even a religious person to see the contradiction in Biden’s actions. By officiating at this ceremony, Biden demonstrated that progressive politics drive his actions more than his religious identification does, as is also evidenced by his support for abortion. This should disturb even people who agree with Biden’s support for same-sex marriage and abortion.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
Strange it doesn't disturb me at all.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
I am disturbed that he still belongs to the Catholic Church
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438620/nro-moving-facebook-comments
NRO is moving from Disqus to Facebook commenting; anonymity-loving commenters lose their shit.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 4 August 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
what does Order66 have to say?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
E11en Klamcoskl · FHS talcherBecause of this change, I will no longer post on NRO. Goodbye.
https://67.media.tumblr.com/e9b19d5bcfe21b8ae5a593f87f3ef52e/tumblr_nnod83EZZq1u96soao1_500.gif
― nomar, Thursday, 4 August 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link