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Bulwark: Jon Gabriel Is the ‘Worst of the Worst’
In a big change for The Bulwark, Editor-at-Large Charlie Sykes is complaining about conservatives. This time, he’s upset at conservatives criticizing Rep. Liz Cheney for criticizing conservatives because Cheney is more conservative than the conservatives she’s criticizing. It’s all a bit recursive and my brain’s a bit logy from the second Pfizer dose. But if I read correctly, Never Trump wants Cheney to remain in leadership because her voting record is more pro-Trump than Elise Stefanik’s. I think.
After slamming Dan McLaughlin, Eliana Johnson, Byron York, Henry Olsen, Mark Hemingway, and Kurt Schlichter, he finally made the big announcement:
But, this, from Jon Gabriel, may be the worst of the worst. (And it is not a parody.)
“On substance,” he writes, “I agree with Cheney. The election was not stolen and Trump’s Jan. 6 incitement merited impeachment. But all that is history. The GOP’s job today is to stop Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. In that fight — the only fight that matters six months after the election — Cheney is AWOL.”
He then critiques my admittedly brilliant analogy of why it’s better for the party to focus on future goals instead of past grievances.
Of course, we know the real reason Mr. Sykes is upset. It’s not my fault that I’m smarter, funnier, a better writer, more handsome — nay, sexier — than him, not to mention humbler. But I assure him that such a cross is uneasy to bear.
My first job out of high school was splitting the atom. When I entered the Navy, the Cold War was raging; when I left, we had won it. I then graduated summa cum laude, and not just at any university, but Playboy‘s “#1 Party School” Arizona State (i.e., the Stanford of the West).
My life continues to proceed from victory to victory. I host the best podcast ever. I edit the finest website in existence. Even a tossed-off article on a Wyoming congresswoman goes viral. Men fear me and women want to be with me.
But of all my successes, perhaps my favorite is being named “Worst of the Worst” by Charlie Sykes and The Bulwark Dot Com. Risking immodesty, I have added the title to my Twitter bio. Since he follows me, I hope it brightens his day.
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Hey Jon,
Please provide a link to you epic January post:
Gary
Whom.
Many of us changed when we realized that the Bush wing of the party wanted no part of Reaganism. That Sykes, Kristol and Company were, are and will be two-faced dismissive sleight-of-hand artists is not the question. The question is why so many cannot see that?
I have talked about this ad nausium.
You didn’t have to explain the joke to @garyrobbins. It was hilarious! I’ll never hear the XO’s or Rebellion’s name again the same way.
And yet you keep right on doing it.
Nobody is surprised.
Go look again. Gary didn’t get it at first.
Why don’t you look it up yourself?
@kedavis ,Yeah, that’s what I meant. Everyone [who matters] got it. “Chipotle” Har!
Seriously? Slandering Mollie as a pod person is just low. For what? Because she dares defend the president from his lying enemies?
Gosh, would you please help me do that?
After several attempts, I found it. https://ricochet.com/859769/impeach-remove-bar-from-office/#comments This was an epic post.
No.
I did it myself. Here it is: https://ricochet.com/859769/impeach-remove-bar-from-office/
I also did a quick post and reprinted it as the Best Post of the Year. https://ricochet.com/953546/the-best-post-of-the-year/
Congratulations Jon!
I had no idea of Sheila Jackson Lee’s arrogant and demeaning treatment of “the little people” in public.
Chairman of the Board, Bill Kristol? Well, I’m sold.
The Republican Accountability Project is probably endorsed by the Lincoln Project, too.
I wonder if Gary bothered to check who was behind that name, before accepting it. No, actually I don’t wonder. Of course he didn’t.
The Republican Accountability Project is by the same folks who did Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) which is quite distinct from The Lincoln Project (TLP). TLP did ads that excited Democrats and Progressives, but did not move the needle with many Republicans. (On the other hand, TLP did ads that drove Trump crazy, and took him waaaaaaaay off of his game.) RVAT did ads that spoke to Republicans helping to create a permission structure for them to not vote for Trump.
RVAT and TLP are probably as different as Catholics vs. Mormons vs. Mainline Protestants vs. Evangelicals. All Christians but with distinct points of view. Of course, if you a Hindu, all Christians may look the same to you. But rest assured, to use a football analogy, RVAT and TLP are as different as the Offensive Line players and Defensive Line players, which calls for two very, very different personality types.
Gary, you are always endorsing people that are in the orbit of The Bulwark. That type. These guys have either financial interest in the old system, they have beliefs like neocon, or social status issues in the old system. They can’t make money and they are isolated.
I’m not saying everybody that dislikes Trump is wrong, but you need to be more discerning.
Of course I checked them out. After all of the flack about The Lincoln Project (TLP) this fall, long before the election, I stopped giving TLP money, and shifted to Republicans Voters Against Trump (RVAT). As I said earlier, TLP and RVAT are as different as Catholics vs. Mormons vs. Mainline Protestants vs. Evangelicals. All are Christians, but if you are a Hindu, all Christians look the same.
But do all Kristols look the same?
Discerning? Gary is stoked over an “endorsement” from Sheila Jackson Lee. Gary doesn’t do discernment.
As I recall, you were pushing a lot of their ads here on Ricochet.
Because they appealed to you.
I try to move things forward where I think I can. lol
@garyrobbins listen to the opening monologue to this podcast. This is a harsher version of what I have been trying to explain to you, over and over. Maybe you don’t want to be a libertarian but you have to be honest about the history of the GOP and the forces that have brought us to this time.
Few posts on Ricochet are more boring or tedious than those which have been taken over by a self-involved drama-llama intent on milking every possibility out of making himself the center of attention by ignoring every tenet of common sense, refuting every inner voice of his own and those friends with his best interests at heart, all of which should be either ignoring him completely or telling him to “shut up now,” and by mowing over every social cue offered by friends and foes alike–all those who’d like to simply move past the monotony and get back to rational discussion which isn’t regularly hijacked by someone with a one-track mind and nothing new to say.
Even better if he can keep things going by subsequently starting his own series of posts continuing to harp on the matter and air his already widely-known and irrefutable (in his own mind) opinions, and if they can garner further attention and spawn yet another set of posts which can keep alive and continue the attention he craves down the generations as far as the eye can see. “All publicity is good publicity,” he thinks. “And as long as they are talking about me, I must be doing something right. After all, my posts always get lots of comments! Yay, me! Watch, while I do even more!”
Not the first time it’s happened on Ricochet, and I don’t expect it will be the last. I know why the instigators of such posts and comments–and a few agitators, both pro and con–do it. Why regular members continue to fall for, and feed, it when it happens is one of life’s great mysteries. It’s a complete waste of time to try to reason someone out of a position he didn’t reason himself into, and showing up on post after post to name-call and throw opprobrium at a person who’s oblivious to anything one says is the height of futility.
Happy Mother’s Day all. I’m off to visit family, and I’ll check back in later to see if someone’s changed the channel here and on the Member Feed (that’s a television analogy that us old-timers will understand). Let’s hope.
I usually resist, but some gonfalon bubbles of needs must be pricked.