All is looking up in poli-world for Republicans. There are a few stragglers -- men in island caves who haven't yet heard that the war is over and that a new one has begun -- the fools at NRO and Simon and St. Croix over at TOP come to mind. But they too shall pass.
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Republicans had their revolution -- when will Democrats?
Are they making little uniforms out of conch shells and coconut fronds?
@EBL: a question about cow sex came up in the Noonan thread. I think Troop called for an expert.
It's funny how the dark clouds can pass without any storm at all.
chickelit said...
Republicans had their revolution -- when will Democrats?
When someone conquers their fear of death.
For those who think we're not in November mode, consider the new name for Fauxcahontas, Goofy Warren.
I think this qualifies as a shot across the bow.
@Haz: Yes, our Simon. He's pretty upset about Trump.
He engaged me on Twitter earlier this week (after no comms for longer than a year) regarding Trump. His tweets were nearly incoherent. Yow.
If that is true we should have some compassion for him. I wish him the best because we all know he had a difficult time. I hope he and his family find peace.
Trump makes a lot of people crazy.
The funny thing is they call you crazy for supporting him. But then they attack and dos and stalk you all to prove how terrible Trump really is. The National Review is going to close down because of it. Glenn Beck is losing his media empire because of it. I think Paul Ryan might even lose the speaker of the House because of his unreasonable attitude.
It is really amazing when you think about it.
It is really amazing when you think about it.
I have a hypothesis about it which I shall reveal in due time. I am a trained scientist and am still in the data gathering stage.
Trooper York said...
If that is true we should have some compassion for him.
Yes, I agree. Simon's a Brit. I love most Brits, especially immigrant ones. I learned this from my mother.
@Haz: I'm making tentative plans to return to WI in early August. Will you be around? I would love to meet up somewhere between Madison and Walkershau.
It's been so long and such a trying task getting this guild into precise shape. Loyal constitutionalists, except when they're not. Tremendous fiduciary fidelity, except when they're not. Staunch protectors of national borders, except when they're not. And presume to lord over all conservatives, represent them or not, even in the house of representatives. Where they are shown to represent themselves to their largest corporate donors for work as their private agents in government. Such is Paul Ryan carried forward on tea party values strength and votes and who flicks instantly to unpopular ideas regarding fiscal responsibility and responsible border protection.
If you are to govern as a goddamn libertarian then run as one or out out out out out.
Nothing against libertarians. I am one. But Ryan was advanced by tea party voters and he knows it. Now he presumes to instruct us. But not on the high value of caving to opposition about national debt and not about being the sole nation that decides the world must not have borders. Note Kerry: Get used to a world without borders. Apparently America really is first.
If you want to dissolve the border between Mexico, that must work both ways. It cannot work one way. Will not work one way. We must have have access to all their jobs, all of their property as they have access to ours. All their licenses available to us. Our politics blended. English required an all legal documents all throughout Mexico. Democrats, liberals, libertarians all have deeply held plans for openness and free movement of trade and free movement of labor, deeply held, that they obsess their utopia while ignoring the world as is, ignoring the path to get there. They want to skip steps. Do everything unilaterally and expect nations to follow instead of advantage themselves to the steps you've taken. It doesn't matter to them if the entire middle class disappears in America so long as middle class is built up in China and India and especially nearby Mexico. It's fine for them, as it's fine with Milton Freidman in the theoretical sense when thinking globally and not nationally. They set conflicting aims of openness and competitiveness and expect the governed to sort it all out on their own. Disagree? Have a problem? Hater, racist, misogynist, nativist, isolationist, sexist, white supremacist, in Trump's case, buffoon, clown, narcissist, loon, liar, adolescent.
The rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth is spectacular. I was counting on more fire and brimstone, explosions, gunshots and bloodshed. There's still hope for that.
I can feel it rising and it doesn't climax and that's frustrating. It is a storm created by psychic energy. A real storm. This is a psychic storm if ever there is. Ever since I read that in Jane Roberts The Seth Material I read all those books along time ago, kid stuff, actually, but this idea is in the first one right off the bat. They're newlywed and suffering a huge storm in New York that flooded everything. Rained for days. Lots of damage. They just contacted Seth via Ouija board and they asked him about the storm. Seth's answer is the people of New York created it. They needed the storm to blow through and tear up everything. Psychically, they needed to refocus and rebuild. So together they brought on the storm. That's how Seth explains things throughout all the books. What a crackpot. No wonder those books never caught on. However, this political storm really does fit that pattern Seth described. That was a long time ago. During infancy it seems. Teens. Still, after all that the idea stuck and it works to understanding this.
I always liked that song, I mean, who doesn't want the Lord to come by an comfort those in need, right? Sadly it has become a cliche, so I probably shouldn't like it. Is that PP&M doing that version? Did the Lord comfort the children who were raped by whichever one of the P's was doing the raping?
How did she get that marvelous vibrato in her voice? As suggested by someone, was it karate chops to the larynx?
Ryan needs to grow his beard out to ZZ Top length. Maybe like the duck boys. John Brown, even. Learn how to shoot clays. Keep his eye on the target. Take over an armory. Take his sons with him. You know, get some skin in the game.
My next door neighbors 60 years ago were a British woman who was married to an American GI. My brother, who was much meaner than I, called her "war bride". Funny thing is, she is still alive, while all the others have died. She is still as precious and dear and funny as she always was, too. Her mother, who was probably born during the reign of Queen Victoria, was another treat. Fun to be around, kind, and she actually liked children. I enjoyed the time I spent over at their house.
But that's not what I was here to talk about, nope, what I meant to say was - if those folk singers, and yes, I did survive the great folk scare, were any more earnest they would have to be played by Jim Varney, may he rest in peace.
@chick - Probably yes to being around; definitely yes to meet-up.
Trooper York said...
Trump makes a lot of people crazy.
The funny thing is they call you crazy for supporting him. But then they attack and dos and stalk you all to prove how terrible Trump really is. The National Review is going to close down because of it. Glenn Beck is losing his media empire because of it. I think Paul Ryan might even lose the speaker of the House because of his unreasonable attitude.
It is really amazing when you think about it.
I've been saying something similar and you are exactly right.
Erickson, maybe Reynolds, maybe Rush and Levin, a lot of people are going down once the dust settles.
They don't get it. They (the national review crowd etc) are not in the majority, nor are they leading the idea parade anymore. They just don't get it and are throwing a giant toddler temper tantrum about being less important than they think they should be.
Hubby and I were talking about it this morning.
If I were in a group of people...lets say 10 friends, who previously all agreed on various topics and we were in harmony and things changed, how would I react. Suddenly, I am made aware that 8 of the 10 people do not agree with me. We are diametrically on opposite sides of the issue. It would seem sudden, but in reality it is a gradual shift of which I was unaware.
What to do? First of all, ponder: Why did I not notice the shift? How did this happen that we are so far apart?
Should I consider that if I am not in the majority, that perhaps there is a real valid reason.
OR...should I call the other 8 people in the group names, make fun of them and insist...nay DEMAND that I am the correct one and they are the stupid Trumpkins. Insist that they follow MY preferences.
Do I try to reason with my previously in agreement friends?
OR...do I get up in a huff and go off in a corner, mubling to myself that I am the smartest rightest person in the room and they are a bunch of deluded morons.
Yeah. That last one is a great way to bring everyone back together.
When you are outnumbered, you might actually want to consider why.
The shot of the couple on the beach with the setting sun: paradise.
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