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Open thread 4/23/21 — 36 Comments

  1. That video is…well, as the Russians say, “slov net” (there are no words). Literally, apparently, if those words don’t accord with what freedom-of-expression-heroine-and-daughter-of-Iron-Curtain-escapee Susan Wojcicki thinks is OK. Because protecting freedom of expression.

    This country needs to be fundamentally transformed, all right. Back to 1960.

  2. What is it about attention seeking hos in California? Bruce Jenner is the best alternative to Emperor Hair Gel?

  3. om: Just think of the Jenner formerly known as Bruce as a Transdemocrat and it will all make California-style sense.

  4. Attention seeking hos can be Republicans or Democrats. Bruce Jenner is the best alternative to Emperor Hair Gel? “Arnald” identified as a Republican too? He was better than Gray Davis all in all, something about a “low bar” comes to mind. Actual California residents may wish to chime in?

  5. om:

    My point was addressing PA Cat’s statement. I included you because I wasn’t sure whether you knew.

    Of course being a Republican is no guarantee of anything. And I very much doubt Jenner could win. But I would wait to hear the platform. Should be interesting, anyway.

  6. And I very much doubt Jenner could win.

    Well it’s Cali … land of fruits and nuts (no offence to the cali commentors) … who knows!

  7. Heard a Federalist Radio podcast last week and Emily Jashinsky (Culture Editor and recent graduate from Georgetown Univ.) commented about Bruce Jenner being in the race to replace Gavin was “interesting” as well.

    Overton window effect. Or just a shiny object. But Bruce is still a Republican, as was Romney. Hard to dodge that bullet in CA?

    Richard Grinell might be a better candidate.

  8. Let me just state one final time for the record that every anti-Trump conservative now up in arms about all this craziness should have THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED permanently tattooed on their foreheads in reverse so they see it every time they look in the mirror.

    Mike

  9. Yep, there are scores of anti-Trump conservatives who hang out here. Effective tactic.

  10. Let me just state one final time for the record that every anti-Trump conservative now up in arms about all this craziness should have THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED permanently tattooed on their foreheads in reverse so they see it every time they look in the mirror.

    Word merchants like David French and Mona Charen lack the integrity to reassess what they’ve advocated for years and the Republican pols hostile to Trump (in office and retired) are the sort who actually despise Republican voters. Regrettably, those pols include the Senate floor leader.

  11. Mirrors don’t work for vampires. Do they work for “anti-Trump conservatives” and “extreme conservatives,” or some of those “conservatives” at NRO?

  12. Beautiful.

    Other news: Podcast w/ Viva Frei, JD Vance and Robert Barnes. They talk about his book, Hillbilly Elegy, and growing up white & poor in middle-America, and Vance’s possible political career at the state level.

  13. Zaphod on April 23, 2021 at 10:44 am

    It took me a minute to catch on to this. The youtube video itself is a piece of slippery PR nonsense promoting the wonderful CEO of Youtube corp. But look at the comments! 117 Likes and 31 thousand Dislikes

    A choice comment:

    Dangerous Rhetoric
    4 days ago
    The Ministry of Truth has awarded The Ministry of Truth an award for being the most truthful ministry. ?

    Jared Price
    3 days ago
    That’s dangerous rhetoric. You got a license for that opinion, comrade?

    Dangerous Rhetoric
    3 days ago
    @Jared Price Shit. I left it at home…

    The country is obviously experiencing a serious leftward lurch. But how much of it is real, and how much is smoke and mirrors? This response makes me think that at least some of it is illusion.

  14. I found this quote among the comments on the YouTube freedom of expression award video. I’ve seen it a few times recently. Definitely how I have felt the past, several months. Seems like I’m not alone.

    “We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.” —Alexander Solschenizyn

    On to a completely different topic; today’s photo of the global climate summit shows our President looking like a complete moron wearing a mask on a virtual summit https://news.yahoo.com/biden-only-world-leader-wear-125603598.html
    had me laughing hysterically. Our country is a complete joke! What’s even more incredible is yahoo news spins the story by listing the other world leaders who are not wearing masks, as if they are being reckless for not wearing masks on a video call.

  15. @Rufus T. Firefly

    Were you wearing a mask while posting this? Am I going to have to report you to the mask police!

  16. I think someone here already referenced this, but if you haven’t read it, this piece on “Trump’s America” by John Nolte is well worth 5 minutes of your time: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/12/nolte-rural-trump-voters-already-live-in-the-safe-tolerant-utopia-leftists-claim-to-want/

    Life in Rural America (which is where Republican Trump voters live and govern), is clean, safe and racially tolerant. Most places in America where life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, violent, and plagued with racial hate and race riots, are cities that are almost exclusively populated by and governed by Democrats. Outside of these Democrat-run cities, America is peaceful, safe, clean, and racially tolerant.

    What’s more, if you remove these Democrat-run cities from our national statistics, you will find an America that is overwhelmingly peaceful, safe, clean, and racially tolerant.

    Nevertheless, Democrats and their fake-media allies still blame Republicans for all of their problems.

    According to them, it is Republicans who are responsible for racism, pollution, and gun violence — even though, out here where we all live, our air, water, and streets are safe and clean… We all own guns, but where we live there is no gun violence crisis… We are all supposed to be racists and responsible for all the hate crimes, but out here where we all live, there is no hate crime crisis…

  17. jack,

    I choose to exercise my fifth amendment constitutional right to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against myself.

    But between you, me, and the social media STASI; I was not wearing a mask. When in a building that requires masks I wear a very porous, black, cloth mask that I haven’t washed in months. It’s about as useful as wearing a sieve*.

    *In other words, as useful as what everyone else is wearing. However, the fact that I had COVID and recovered means I’m about as likely to transmit it to someone as the tens of millions of vaccinated Americans (including President, Vice President and Senator Joseph Biden) who are also walking around in masks. But thank goodness he exercised extreme caution and did not risk transmitting it to Angela Merkel across the White House’s internet connection.

  18. https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/pour-un-retour-de-lhonneur-de-nos-gouvernants-20-generaux-appellent-macron-a-defendre-le-patriotisme/

    This is incredible. The leadership of the French Armed Forces has written an open letter to the French political establishment telling them to start behaving like honorable, responsible, decent adults, or else.

    Run it through Google Translate. It’s beautiful.

    Not quite in the style of the Perfumed Princes of the Potomac.

  19. wow … let me summarize what i got out of it.

    The nation of France is in peril. If you politicians won’t fix … we in the military will!

  20. @jack:

    Yup. That’s pretty much what they said.

    Interesting they mention favourably the Yellow Vests and their protests. These have been censored and memory-holed by the media but apparently are still on-going.

  21. Interesting theory Re the Ashli Babbit Shooter:

    https://gab.com/TheZBlog/posts/106116018655467216

    Now it could be wrong.

    Regardless, it’s an interesting rhetorical wedge / pressure point to try to get the shooter dragged out into the daylight and named.

    And that, Dear People, is yet another reason why I humbly suggest that you read commentators and websites on the Real Right which many of you may have understandable aversions to or have been carefully inoculated against during your long and far from dominant ideology free edumacations. You don’t have to like or agree with everything… but this shouldn’t be difficult. Every day we unavoidably must consume woke media which we find repugnant and disagreeable — and yet still from time to time we learn valuable stuff from it.

  22. On the Climate Summit to Stop the Existential Threat to the Planet.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/joe_bidens_climate_summit_attracts__200_youtube_viewers.html
    And most of them left before Czar John gave his closing speech.
    Because he really is this stupid.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/john_kerry_reports_for_duty_in_war_on_carbon_dioxide.html
    ‘Net zero is not enough. We need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.’
    But the world is going to end any day now, or in less than 12 years, anyway.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/earth_days_legacy_of_failed_apocalyptic_predictions.html
    Lists the Top 50 losers.

    We only have 10 years to go (published January 2019).
    Make the most of your time.
    If the Democrat’s keep Joe viable for 2 years, then Kamala’s 2nd term will wind up right on the dot with the rolling up of the Heavenly Scrolls.
    I wonder if their Ultimate Boss knows something we don’t?

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address

  23. Open thread? Ok, here’s a thought which popped into my head this morning:

    Let’s quit using the term, “narrative”, when referring to the omissions, distortions and outright lies that the Democrat party politicians and their media branch spew in trying to con the country into their control.

    Let’s use the term that has traditionally been used by the left, historical and accurate.

    It’s the “party line”.

    Substitute “party line”every time you hear “narrative”, and see how well it fits.

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