The title above is one of the two key quotes from the last couple of days that I want to use to mark this point in the Grand Summer Charade of 2025. This one comes (via Instapundit) form here: Civil Unrest, Inc. - How America Learned to Spot Manufactured Mayhem What we're witnessing isn't protest; …
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CBO – Whores Yesterday, Whores Today, and Whores Tomorrow
It seems like it was just early last month that I was reacting to yet another load of condescending twaddle from those still trying to play the "GOPe as fiscally conservative" scam on us once again. And, as is typical with this hustle, that required poking yet again at the political whores over at the …
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The Tapper Test – Instant Proof that Intellectual Un-Seriousness Persists
I have no interest in self-serving spin to rewrite blatant journalistic malpractice via a book and full-court media blitz. The truth that really matters about four-plus years of media denial of the obvious insufficiencies of Joe Biden's mental acuity can be easily summed up in just over a dozen easy-to-read words: "Corporate media didn’t miss …
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‘Skid Mark’ Roberts and His Powder Keg -The Veneer of Normalcy Cannot Hide the Crisis Under the Surface much Longer (UPDATED)
I must admit up front that I stole that wonderful "veneer of normalcy" line from a commenter under this Instapundit post: At this point the TROs are basically an automatic judicial veto on all new policy, and then the courts of appeals decide whether the judicial veto should be suspended. Whatever form of government that …
The Purchase of a Little ‘Process’
In the world fostered over the last decade or two by Jim Comey and his ilk, we have all learned that the process is the punishment. I think it is safe to say that, by his social media activity this week, the disgraced former FBI Director has earned himself more than just a little bit …
Revisiting Exhibit C (January 10, 2021)
This is intended to be a sister post to the one earlier today - Revisiting Exhibit B (January 10, 2021). That one was meant as a reminder of how aggressive the apparatchiks of budding American totalitarianism were in the hours following J6...when it was assumed that Trump was politically dead and his base would dutifully …
Revisiting Exhibit B (January 10, 2021)
Way back in mid-2020 - when Intellectual Unseriousness took full control of narrative cultivation on a nationwide basis for a period - I started a series of posts over at Ricochet titled Midnight in the Republic. Unfortunately, all are safely hidden from me now along with all my posts from a dozen years of membership, …
So Began the Black Years… – The South Africa Edition?
Victor Serge and The Case of Comrade Tulayev come to mind once again...as prompted today by Instapundit: 90% of farms seized from the Boers by the Bantu commies are lying derelict. Nobody told the Bantus that farms require hard work, so they didn't bother. This was a catastrophe for the farm animals, most of which …
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Daydreaming Away a Lazy Wednesday Evening in May
The key observation of the day according to me is (via Instapundit): We have the hardest working President in US history and the laziest Republican Congress in US history. Something has to give. https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1922629141414756588 I would be lying if I said there wasn't a part of me that hopes the "one big, beautiful bill" fails …
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State of the Internal Opposition – Historical Marker on or about 100 Days into Trump 2.0
One of the advantages of being permanently banned from the member side of the legacy site is that I now read things that get posted on the Main Feed on a more regular basis. (It may surprise you just how little any of that interested me - and many others among the active types - …
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