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 - …
This Weekend in the Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ Saga
The thick, meaty, stinky skid mark that starts at the Chief Justice's favorite robe and stains the entire Judicial Branch - excepting two noteworthy dissenters - just keeps getting thicker, meatier, and stinkier. The Easter Weekend edition begins like this: Supreme Court Halts Deportations Under the Alien Enemies Act The Supreme Court temporarily halted the …
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Evolution of Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ – The ‘Slowly, then all at once’ Edition
The enduring stench of the GWB administration - one "conservative" Chief Justice John Roberts - has reliably offered up the all-too-occasional stink bomb into the atmosphere of American Politics since (at least) 2012. In that sense, the demise of any carefully crafted illusion of intellectualism can be seen over the great portion of his tenure …
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Trump’s March Back from the Edge of the Abyss – ‘I can make this march, and I will make the corrupted system howl!’
Back in July of 2015, when I was still active on the long-lost and dearly missed diary page at RedState, I posted an entry titled 'On Considering a Deliberate March into the Abyss'...the post is sadly long lost to the ether but I have my copy. At that point I was a former republican (Never …
The Spotlight on Chief Justice ‘Skid Mark’ Intensifies
With that title reference to last Friday's post, I will take this post to add to the historical timeline markers of this story as Powerline directed us to Senator Kennedy in his typical form this week: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1906948011667698146 Mr. Hinderaker wraps up that post with this: Our country is undergoing a constitutional crisis. That crisis was …
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‘Signalgate’ – A Nothingburger of a Scandal but…
I have waited five days since marking this link and still have not found anything about this shallow attempt to cultivate yet another silly narrative against President Trump that interested me more than the term introduced to me here: The Signal chat thing is a gut check for alleged cons. Nothing significant was revealed. Worst …
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COVID + 5 Years – From ‘a crisis that cannot be looked upon too seriously’ to ‘…sifting out the truth from the mass of exaggerations…’
Looking back five years to when the 'pandemic' came crashing down on all of us seems to be a popular thing to do these days. I guess I will join the fun. Fortunately, almost two years ago, I took a look back from that vantage point at my own mindset at the time as documented …
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