NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

Yeah, a completely comprehensive self-own.

You mean people turn out to be who they claim to be?!

should be forced to carry the hiring to term

xpost Funny how it works.

https://twitter.com/NRO/lists/nr-tweets good value right now

looking forward to bret stephens' broadside against pc culture at the atlantic

Now the quest for right wing opinion writers who have not said anything vile in public continues

god I want one of these ridiculous 6 figure sinecures. even the people responsible for hiring them are too fucking lazy to do any real fact checking.

Maybe Williamson should just move to where the jobs are https://t.co/dTPPcO4mv5

— J. Arthur Bloom (@j_arthur_bloom) April 5, 2018

tbf he did last about seven Quinn Nortons

he wasn't even a good writer, holy crap.

Kevin Williamson: hired for his talent, fired for his views. This is chilling.

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 5, 2018

if it's so chilling, maybe try chilling the fuck out.

these liberals should take notice that this is affirmative action failing right before their eyes

So, when does The Atlantic fire the man who wrote this? Or is the magazine's official position one of approval? @JeffreyGoldberghttps://t.co/oifcZMz97o pic.twitter.com/COwmWNDduA

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 5, 2018

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Oh boy

Always good to have one's next column topic determined well in advance.

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) April 5, 2018

Victor Davis Hanson has advice for the Resistance.

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OH GOOD

Ah, The West

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"Waddup, Barnes & Noble. I got a couple boxes of my new book in my trunk. Hit me up if you want some on consignment!"

lmao:

I’ve watched in horrified amazement as the controversy over my friend Kevin Williamson has unfolded. It is a disgrace. Kevin is as gifted a writer as there is in this country. His description of a grocery list could provoke you to think.

That last sentence.

his description of a grocery list could provoke you to think 'why the fuck am i reading this'

You know you want to read Kevin Williamson's self-pity party in the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-twitter-mob-came-for-me-1524234850

And then you know you want to see Noah Rothman from Commentary get dragged for this:

Kevin Williamson holds a terrible mirror up to the liberal intelligentsia: "If you want to know who actually has the power in our society and who is actually marginalized, ask which ideas get you sponsorships from Google and Pepsi and which get you fired." https://t.co/xRrn8EiYtW

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 20, 2018

oh great

first they came for Kevin Williamson and nobody gave a shit and went about their business as usual

These magazine people all have like ridiculous ideas about who is a Serious, Challenging Intellectual

Matt Walsh

These magazine people all have like ridiculous ideas about who is a Serious, Challenging Intellectual

It's very much a self-regarding thing.

everyone who ever said kevin williamson is a good writer even if you disagree with him is an idiot. look at this garbage https://t.co/Pav2g6FV8L pic.twitter.com/menvSO9ukT

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) April 24, 2018

In case anybody wanted to know what the award winning spam sandwich &/or Lisa Dziadulewicz looked likehttps://t.co/v4p3JC3crE pic.twitter.com/gfkZPr6fA7

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 24, 2018

BOYFRIEND: Honey, did you remember to water the plants on the second floor?
ME: WHATEVER THIS IS, THIS VILE STRATAGEM, IT ISN'T JOURNALISM!

— Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) April 24, 2018

Erickson will never change:

Ummmm, no. I think conservatives should avoid normalizing mental health issues. But never accuse @NRO of being hostile to a broad spectrum of voices. They're probably more open than @TheAtlantic these days. https://t.co/ND58NkbG9F

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 9, 2018

obvious assholic tweet but original article is also hilarious/maddening - look at these assholes desperately trying to run away from an issue that was once central to their whole platform, and pretend like it's so settled that even trying to outlaw conversion therapy is merely "performative." see, we're real reasonable folks over here!

that article is as compassionate as NRO gets though

"there exists broad understanding that homosexual people are unavoidable and common"

ha, i was about to highlight that too, caek. what's sad is that this IS as compassionate as NRO gets.

NRO, august 2016:

Here is the world according to the LGBT Left: Just as there are black and white, there are gay and straight. One’s sexual orientation, like one’s race, is fixed and immutable at birth. The process of “questioning” one’s orientation isn’t a process of deciding but of discovering.

Similarly, when it comes to gender identity, there is “cis” and there is “trans.” A cis person’s gender identity matches the sex they were “assigned” at birth. A trans person — well, a trans person is any one of the fifty-plus other genders on the entirely reputable Facebook spectrum.

This, you see, is science. Anyone who contradicts it — whether relying on ancient, discredited “holy” texts or outdated notions of morality — isn’t just ignorant, but bigoted. And when it comes to bigots, why draw minute moral distinctions? Is there really much difference between a Klan member and a Christian conservative?

i think that last sentence was rhetorical.

(https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/08/liberal-views-sexuality-debunked/)

I had started by going back as far as 2003 for lawrence v. texas era material and hoo boy

The Judeo-Christian model, by contrast, is aspirational, calling on people not to do what they want, but what they should. Admittedly, this path is far easier for some than others, but there has always been some play in the cultural joints. The Left’s response is alluring, but it offers a self-indulgent path down which lies cultural ruin. The LGBT Left is driving us there just as fast as it can depress the gas pedal, but thanks to McHugh and Mayer, we now know they most assuredly are not doing so in the name of “science.”

sorry, back to today's article:

Part one of the compromise will be borne by cultural conservatives and traditionalists. It asks for broad tolerance for the reality that transgender men and women exist, and are entitled to basic human dignity, just like everyone else. This does not mean having to morally endorse behavior many may believe runs contrary to God’s plan for a just and healthy society, but it does imply that acts like ostentatiously calling people by pronouns they don’t want, or belittling their personal struggle, are boorish and petty. It means acknowledging that arbitrary discrimination against transgender people is a cruel bigotry like any other.

But part two of the compromise requires sacrifice on the part of progressives, who are currently overplaying their hand in an effort to strong-arm sweeping social change as a flex of their power. There must be a halt in the use of state authority to impose accommodation of transgenderism in a fashion far more totalitarian than is rationally justified. Transgender people constitute a tiny minority of Americans who, in the vast majority of cases, are explicitly eager to opt into the broad two-gender social order our civilization is based around. Tolerance does not necessitate a purge of any and all public manifestations of the gender binary in the name of extreme exceptions to the rule.

wow, FUCK YOU NRO

"Judeo-Christian" is the fucking worst fake idea

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— David Klion (@DavidKlion) May 8, 2018

No. Normalizing it isn't good, nor what a conservative would do.

— hubris (@Fit_And_Hubris) May 9, 2018

The response didn't take long!

Let me lay down my prediction, here. We are not headed toward some civilized modus vivendi but imminent tragedy. In the future, the current psychological theories and surgical enthusiasms associated with this movement will be regarded with open horror.

The beginning of the end will come when a some poor young man, upon reaching the age of majority, decides to sue the deep-pocketed psychologists, and university hospitals that tried to remake him as female when he was a child according to their enlightened theories about his behavior, destroying the function of his sexual organs, depriving him forever of the chance at fatherhood, and condemning him to a life of yet more surgeries. He will show that in this matter and only this matter did it become accepted to recommend treatments that increase the likelihood of suicide. Do you think the settlement figure will be somewhere in the 9-figures? Lately I’m tempted to guess 10. Imagine the new suggested guidelines from malpractice insurers . . .

Until that day, I’m not going to compromise with this movement, anymore than conservatives should have compromised with the eugenicists and their surgeons.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/transgender-issues-conservatives-should-not-compromise/

conservatives should have compromised with the eugenicists and their surgeons

I lol'd

I mean, conservatives loved eugenics!

so did progressives tbh

it was equal opportunity horseshit

“Depriving [her ] of the chance of fatherhood” lol who gives a shit

you don't understand, it is very very important that we base public policy decisions on nonsensical hypothetical scenarios