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The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. – Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 As a follow-up to the post earlier this morning, I offer the following video of a Munk Debate from November 30, 2022 on: …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook (ADDENDUM)
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. - Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 Well, at least a growing portion of "the public" anyway. Far too many stubbornly choose to remain comfortable in the superficial calm …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook
What could go wrong? The tally is in and four unions have failed to accept the terms on the table. That is, four of the twelve unions that must accept the deal brokered a few months back by "President Ferret Face, three Cabinet secretaries from the most hollow credentialed room of buffoons that can be …
I do not pretend that there are not many aspects of the modern social condition that can be read into the set of pictures presented above. No doubt there are grains (or entire strains) of truth in many of them. (Agendas differ and mileage may vary.) But I assure you, the most accurate and most …
Some greatness from Levon Helm: https://youtu.be/w8_jpjQXUyA Yeah. The world ain't what it seems, is it, Gunnie? ... You keep that in mind. The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong. Far too many are cocksure they have got it figured. For two weeks now, most of those demonstrable tools and liars have been …
Continue reading American History and November 22: ‘Still got the shovel.’
CBS News tacitly admits that they wouldn't know journalism even if it bit them in the Dan Rather: "Two years after anyone with a functional brain realized the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% real @CBSNews has finally gotten around to reporting the Hunter Biden laptop is 100% real." Efffing clowns. (Classic Reference to the great …
Humiliations Galore! This story deserves a short review of recent history on the topic. Let us return to those heady days of early January 2021 when over half the nation reflexively became emotionally erect every time they found an opportunity to signal their virtue through the use of that cool, new "insurrection" term. It was …
...The problem now facing liberty is a new form of tyranny, a “social tyranny” exercised by the populace itself over the individual. – Pages 76 That is a portion of one of my favorite passages from On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb. It may be strange that …
“[A] significant and growing portion of the American population [has lost] the virtues required to be functioning members of a free society.” – Charles Murray in Coming Apart (Page 289), 2012 The slightly bastardized (for the selfish purposes of my own agenda) and entirely overused quote above is the most succinct characterization of the state …
Continue reading Midterm Postmortem – Dead Dogma, Brain-Dead Voters, and Plate Tectonics
Just clearing my desk and my mind... ___ ___ ___ A brief follow-up to Sophomoric Demagoguery – So Intellectually Shallow it is Hard Not to Laugh...while I didn't bother to watch or delve into the pathetic twaddle myself, I'm glad to see someone did: “We are at a moment in time rarely seen in politics, …
Continue reading A Few Random Notes Before the Massive Distractions of Mid-Term Election Mania
