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

I knew from the ham-scented cargo short emanating from the equivocations.

Apparently Michael Potemra died recently - one of their few writers that I don’t recall ever posting insane bullshit. The commenters hated him, he seemed like a pretty nice guy.

Probably their only poptimist on staff: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/taking-temperature-american-pop/

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LOLry has been wonderful the last week.

lol

Roe is judicially wrought social legislation pretending to the status of constitutional law. It is more adventurous than Miranda and Griswold, other watchwords of judicial activism from its era. It is as much a highhanded attempt to impose a settlement on a hotly contested political question as the abhorrent Dred Scott decision denying the rights of blacks. It is, in short, a travesty that a constitutionalist Supreme Court should excise from its body of work with all due haste.

Roe has been commonly misunderstood since it was handed down in 1973, in part because its supporters have been so determined to obscure its radicalism. It is usually thought that Roe only prohibits bans on abortion in the first trimester, when it effectively forbids them at any time, imposing a pro-abortion regime as sweeping as anywhere in the advanced world.

The confusion arises from the scheme set out in the majority opinion, written by the late Justice Harry Blackmun. In the first trimester, the Court declared, the right to abortion was absolute. In the second, states could regulate it to protect the mother’s health. In the third, states could restrict abortion in theory, but had to allow exceptions to protect the life or health of the mother, defined capaciously in the accompanying case of Doe v. Bolton to include “emotional, psychological, familial” considerations, as well as “the woman’s age.”

Roe struck down 50 state laws and has made it all but impossible to regulate abortion, except in the narrowest circumstances. More to the point, the argument that its particular set of policy preferences is mandated by the Constitution is flatly preposterous.

I'm surprised LOLwry didn't quote Ginsberg.

have to say I am adamantly pro-choice but yeah the legal reasoning behind Roe has always seemed weak/a bit of a head-scratcher to me

Yeah, I'm not against the argument that it's a messy fix that leaves the door open to catastrophic rollbacks.

I'm not sure how you re-litigate this case (a) with this Congress (b) this Court

unsuccessfully!

we'll never get a federal law legalizing abortion, I just don't see the legislative majorities lining up that way. which means this gets back to the states, which means abortion will be legal in CA, NY etc and illegal in huge swathes of the country.

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ah yes, who could forget the main problem with dred scott - that it attempted to settle one of the outstanding legal questions of its day

Always seeing these fucking cheesedicks pretend they wouldn't have 100% supported the Dred Scott decision at the time it was issued makes me so angry I could bite through rebar.

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when you thrust your kids into a deep wet cave you'd better be prepared to deal with consequences, writes mona charen

Abort the mothers, that'll stop them

you never know, you might abort the next elon musk

Stopped clock!

If you want to understand one difference between the 18th & 19th century and the 20th & 21st century, think of it this way: If cable news had existed 200 years ago, there would be very few lawyers on cable news and an enormous number of pastors, ministers and priests.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) July 25, 2018

you should read Kevin Williamson on how Trump and.....FDR are remarkably similar.

pass

And verily do I say....lol

How many NR writers or editors involved in this issue have actually read the Orwell piece this cover quotes, where he argues that socialists should infiltrate and subvert conservative/military influence over the Home Guard to turn it into an instrument of left insurrection? pic.twitter.com/Yzh3RojVm8

— Dan Trombly (@stcolumbia) August 10, 2018

Looking forward to NR's article on why AnComs should actually join the National Guard so they can acquire further access to heavy weapons and turn it into a heavily-armed antifa force during an upcoming period of national crisis.

I hope this is a sign that American conservatives are becoming acquainted with the true importance of the right to bear arms, which is to ensure that the zavkom can properly provision the Red Guards and Kerensky's jailbirds to smash counterrevolutionary elements.

In all seriousness, beyond jokes I could make about NR being new conservative crypto-Trot mag, it's rich to see the mag that ran a denouncement of antifa as a cover story ~15mo ago invoke the legacy of a far more radical (failed) armed antifa project in defense of US gun culture.

As the NRA's increasing pivot to propaganda videos that barely mention guns at all and instead rant about violent antifa protesters and socialism demonstrate, the modern right doesn't actually believe in the sentiment Orwell is articulating here about the armed populace.

Faced with a modern left antifascist street movement that is far less violent than the left of Orwell's day, let alone their 70s-90s UK successors, the right unsurprisingly sides w/cops enforcing order & wannabe Freikorps auxiliaries. Not surprising, but own your own viewpoint.

Anyway elsewhere in this issue you can read Jonah Goldberg talk about how leftists are stupid for approaching cultural touchstones with an attitude to just confirm their priors regardless of the author's intended message. pic.twitter.com/L1m5xUqtDj

— Dan Trombly (@stcolumbia) August 10, 2018

lol the (failed) co-opting by the right of orwell is a treasure

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DeSantis' "monkey up" phrase was not racist and that's that.

Well.

But I’m going to make a confession. Truth be told, the way I covered this issue in 2015 and much of 2016 shed more heat than light. Here’s what I did. I looked at the riots in Ferguson, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Charlotte, the extremism of the formal Black Lives Matter organization (which referred to convicted cop-killers as “brothers” and “mama” and said its explicit goal was to “disrupt the western-prescribed nuclear family structure”), and the continued use of debunked claims, including “hands up, don’t shoot,” and I focused on these excesses largely to the exclusion of everything else.

Yes, I used all the proper “to be sure” language — there are some racist cops, not every shooting is justified, etc. — but my work in its totality minimized the vital quest for individual justice, the evidence that does exist of systematic racial bias, and I failed to seriously consider the very real problems that contribute to the sheer number of police killings in the U.S.

To put it bluntly, when I look back at my older writings, I see them as contributing more to a particular partisan narrative than to a tough, clear-eyed search for truth.

gaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Nearly every woman past puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her. (This is, needless to say, wrong.) My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a “survivor,” she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and for cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.

When my wife was a waitress in her mid teens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone, and continued going about her job. That’s empowerment.

In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don’t believe her story. Aside from too many missing details — most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago — few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.

Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee — no matter how exemplary a life he has led — is accused of sexual misconduct . . . from when he was in elementary school.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-accusations-should-be-ignored/

Their stuff in the last 48 hours is back to peak batshit!

omg what a string of horrible arguments one after the other

Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17

i for one applaud this bold approach to dismantling the juvenile justice system, because committing a crime at age 17 or younger truly tells you nothing about the adult the offender will become

yeah i won't be holding my breath for that NRO piece

lol guess we can add "opportunity to pad the membership of the club rape victims don't belong to" to "the article is about fdr" on the list of circumstances that will abruptly convince nro japanese internment was a nazi-level injustice

oh i skimmed too fast, never mind

Full fucking meltdown, like the end of The Two Towers

Like this thing

Uh oh

"That means that, at the time of the alleged incident(s), she was between 18 and 20-years-old at the least, and that Kavanaugh and Judge were between 16 and 18 at the most. Why was she, an adult, attending high-school parties with minors?"

this is the material they're working with, and it's the accusers who are grasping at straws? amazing.

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omg

lmao nro has a better take on amazon than deblasio pic.twitter.com/CpjAUj8X0c

— jordan (@JordanUhl) November 13, 2018

Matt Dillon in Something About Mary is just brilliant.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) December 2, 2018

my god

"I’m no doctor" . . . no, lucianne goldberg's son, you're not

I just... how are these ppl even real

like climate change!

Fun thred

Interesting article by Kevin Williamson in National Review on street conflicts in Portland. A couple of things struck my eye. First this passage, which reads awfully like an expression of sympathy for the British Union of Fascists? https://t.co/1EvaFiltyv pic.twitter.com/bXVj5pLVpP

— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) December 28, 2018

The Twitter thread a few days ago was...gross.

stealth correction followed by official correction followed by retraction. well done everyone

So the National Review says that a student was disciplined just for asking a girl out on a date. That would be a great example of Title IX overreach. But it's not what happened.

Let's summarize what happened. First, he kept asking her out and attending her dance classes. /1 pic.twitter.com/dDN3mX24Po

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) December 28, 2018

Yup:

whoops https://t.co/29UzcZ6oKx pic.twitter.com/7tdweednBx

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 28, 2018