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

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

https://i.imgur.com/GolMvyE.jpg

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DogvjwuUUAADzyt.jpg:small

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

Lolz

yo the marbles under the horses is fuckin brilliant

Tariq Ali talks about rolling marbles under horses in Pakistan (I think). A less unhappy tactic involved lines of motorcyclists charging at police lines.

lol

https://thebulwark.com/

Welcome to the #resistance. Now fuck off and die.

Yum!

My stomach has guided me to many different places, and in my gastronomic globe-trotting, I’ve eaten traditional dishes ranging from beef-tongue tramezzini to squid chowder. National cuisines often reflect what a country values and its history, and despite the antiquity of many other nations and the food produced by it, the national cuisine that intrigues me the most is that of the fresh-faced America.

America is an infant compared to the rest of the world that had the benefit of time to design the dishes that would represent them. Our forebears fumbled around with food, integrating the cuisines of their native countries to the degree that they could with what was agriculturally available to them. France may have La Petite Chaise and Paul Bucose and foie gras, but America has the glorious golden arches, and inside this great reliquary are the trans fats and artery-clogging sustenance that defines “great American food.” McDonald’s is arguably more American than apple pie.

Deride Trump all you want, but in that iconic photo of him standing with demonstrative jazz hands underneath Lincoln’s portrait, in front of a dining spread of sterling silver and fine china, in between golden candelabras, is the American National Cuisine: Filet O’Fish, Big Macs, Domino’s, and Whoppers.

Their copyeditors are also furloughed? Bucose?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxxCbNRWoAANp-J.jpg:small

wow, the article is even worse than the headline, great job kevin

oh, cool! Kevin's back!

'Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture' reads the subhead, as if asset forfeiture is not a very real thing which already exists in the usa and is regularly abused to permanently part vulnerable people from their belongings on the flimsiest of pretexts

holy shit that rules

pretty rough out there for rich white folks

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxypSqBWwAAL2K-.jpg:small

it is with a heavy heart that i must report that kevin d williamson is back on his bullshit

The rhetoric of elimination and the politics of resentment attached to it are dangerous and unworthy. “Okay,” wrote one critic, “but what would you do about inequality?”

Good question.

Nothing.

If the rich were radically less rich, the poor and the middle class would, at best, still be where they are. In some ways, they’d almost certainly be worse off: A disproportionate share of U.S. economic growth, wage growth, and employment growth has been driven by a relatively small number of startup companies. As Vivek Wadhwa of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program put it: “Without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy.” Technology startups are driven by venture capital, and venture capital is a rich man’s game. The “PayPal mafia” — the group of young entrepreneurs who got rich from that startup — went on to form Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, SpaceX, Yelp, YouTube, and others. Their investments helped build Facebook, Spotify, Lyft, and Airbnb, among others. Startup-heavy California has 12 percent of the U.S. population but accounts for 16 percent of its job growth and 14.2 percent of its economic output. Nobody wants to hear it, but inequality is part of what makes that happen.

so there you have it, folks - the answer to inequality is STARTUPS for some reason, so stop whining

Democrats are about to embark on the first woke primary, a gantlet of political correctness that will routinely wring abject apologies out of candidates and find fault in even the most sure-footed. The passage of time will be no defense. Nor the best of intentions. Nor anything else.

Any lapses will be interpreted through the most hostile lens, made all the more brutal by the competition of a large field of candidates vying for the approval of a radicalized base. The Democrat nomination battle might as well be fought on the campus of Oberlin College and officiated by the director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

it's a little over dramatic but i'm not so sure that's wrong

the last primary was pretty woke, most attacks on bernie sanders came from an ID politics POV

(all his supporters are white male racist misogynist brocialists)

If it's not wrong it's not bad either