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Am I a Cuck?
Toby and James in happier, more COVID-casual times
My good friend James Delingpole and I have had a few disagreements over the last couple of weeks on London Calling. In my current Spectator column I talk about the dynamics of our “special relationship:
‘You’re a cuck, Tobes, an absolute cuck.’ My friend James Delingpole was furious. ‘Honestly, I thought I could depend on you of all people, but you’ve surrendered, just like every other right-wing commentator I know. I can’t begin to describe how disappointing this is. I would have expected it from some — Dan Hannan, Jonah Goldberg, the editors of the National Review — all bloody cucks, the lot of them. But not you, Tobes. I’m alone in the foxhole.’
This outburst would have been hard to listen to under normal circumstances, but it occurred on air during our weekly podcast on Ricochet. Needless to say, we were discussing the presidential election and James is 100 percent convinced that Donald Trump was the victim of a massive electoral fraud. He’s reached the final stage of the five stages of grief — and I’m not talking about Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s stages, but those of die-hard Trumpers: denial, anger, paranoia, grievance and incandescent rage.
Read the rest at The Spectator USA.
Published in General, Journalism
Well there was cheating and it seems like it all goes one way. Was there enough cheating to throw the electoral college though?
I have to say, if James were an American I would probably have stopped listening to him a long time ago. He manages to swaddle his nastiness in humor in a way that’s so irreducibly British it’s hard to describe.
So I think the implication here is that if the term is being applied to that set of entities, all of whom have been champions of conservative thought, then the term essentially has no meaning. It’s the same way we respond, typically, when someone on the Left throws around the racist canard. National Review has called balls and strikes on Trump and to label them as “shysters” shows the degree to which many in the Trumpist movement are completely incapable of tolerating any dissent from orthodoxy.
Toby,
London Calling is far and away my favorite podcast precisely because of the banter between you and James. It appeared to me, initially, that it was merely a familiarization between good friends similar to how almost all guys will refer to each other as a-holes, s-heads, and so forth. But recently it’s taken on a harder tone and I don’t appreciate it coming from James that way especially after all the work you have done, and are continuing to do, with your website and the Free Speech Union. I think James would be far better served by channeling some of his apparent “energy” into doing something productive instead calling you names on the podcast.
I was just making a comparison, not accusing National Review or anyone else of being shysters.
Being a bad person does not become a good thing just because you’ve joined with other bad people.
And being a person with silly ideas is not a good thing because of associating with other people who also have silly ideas.
If someone told me I was in good company because I thought the same as Jonah Goldberg etc, I would not be pleased.
Yes.
To be a cuck or a schmuck, that is the question.
@TobyYoung, if you notice this tag, you are not a cuck so much as uninformed.
Please check https://ricochet.com/822533/keeping-track-of-election-fraud/# and take note of those claims still standing which have numbers.
Take special note of the claims still standing that have survived some level of confirmation, fact-checking, or critical scrutiny.
The latter claims are enough to flip two swing states with illegal votes for Biden.
Altogether (including the numbers from Mr. Strensrom in Pennsylvania), these claims involve illegal votes exceeding the Biden victory in five swing states.
(And these numbers do not involve any centralized conspiracy or anything electronic. Just old-fashioned voting when you’re not supposed to, stuffing ballot-boxes, mailing fake votes, etc. Very traditional stuff.)
Zaf,
This brings up the perennial question. “Better to be obscene than absurd or better to be absurd than obscene.”
Regards,
Jim
Not if you use lip balm and a breath mint.
sorry I asked – add that to the dictionary of the – well – you fill in the rest……
Only on Tuesdays.
Sorry to have to define it. It’s creepy when some of these foul slang terms enter common usage.
Recap / JAG S01 E12 “The Brotherhood”
Interesting. I spelled it wrong too.
Obscurd?
Zaf,
Tut tut Zaf. You can’t riggle out of a duality that easily. After all, “How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?”
Regards,
Jim
Except one can be absurd and obscene at the same time. It is not a duality. (But it might be a choice.)