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For his spying on Trump?
Wouldn’t surprise me.
That “lickspittle” Ted Cruz led the charge to bring social media to account before their censorship of conservative expression worsened. Now Apple, Google, and Amazon have all moved to limit free speech.
Republicans have a week to put something on the President’s desk before it will get a lot harder to ensure voters hear what they have to say.
“The important thing about France and England is not that they have Roman remains. They are Roman remains. … Britain was directly Roman for fully four hundred years; longer than she has been Protestant, and very much longer than she has been industrial.” —Chesterton
Republicans won’t do a damn thing … and I’m still irritated that Trump didn’t make good on his repeated threats to declassify documents that he said would incriminate Demo-rats, DoJ, FBI, et al.
I see none of that. VDH is just upset at people breaking stuff as it undermines republican virtue.
But Trump did very little to restrain government growth.
Maybe we can have an anti-purge policy generally? They seem kind of rough.
Does he assume that the people doing it were actually Trump supporters?
I don’t know why though I noticed Jame’s silence. What’s going on?
Don’t miss the latest Powerline podcast. It’s a really excellent discussion of everything that is going on.
https://ricochet.com/podcast/powerline/the-three-whisky-happy-hour-open-mic-edition/
The reaction to the January 6 riots reveals some interesting psychology.
Mr. Long hates Trump. He believes the cause of the riots is Trump.
The media hate free speech. The line form WaPo & other elite media is that the riots are the result of unregulated speech on the internet.
Race obsessed groups like teachers unions believe the root cause of the riot was white supremacism.
Most interesting of all, #nevertrumper David French thinks the January 6 riot was led by a wicked army of Christians.
So what’s with Capitol police inviting “rioters” in on the other side of the building?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/01/08/the-most-definitive-video-yet-of-capitol-police-letting-the-protesters-in-n1325022
The Japanese term is 窓際族 (mado-giwa-zoku)–and it’s still real. It applies primarily to middle-aged employees who, according to seniority principles, ought to be promoted but aren’t. Typically, they accept their fate.
McConnell is a tool of the CCP because his wife’s business and their wealth is completely dependent on the Chinese commies.
Not really interesting when you consider David French has been slandering white evangelicals for more than four years. This is normal for him. For four years he’s made white evangelicals his scapegoat. He retweeted a Critical Race Theory advocate who called it evidence of Christian Nationalism. But it’s unsurprising from David French. He’s a racist bigot and a pharisee. He casually adopts the leftist media view that this was incitement and an insurrection.
Right now he’s applauding Twitter’s actions. Because he’s not much for free speech, unless it’s Drag Queen Story Hour at your publicly funded library.
And don’t get me started on Jonah who is now pushing conspiracy theories that President Trump knew about the bombs, and was briefed about the threats.
These people have lost their minds. They’re going to get the President assassinated. They’re inciting it.
Have lost all respect for McCarthy I previously had. Just what crazy thing is Trump about to do before he leaves office!
McCarthy has to know the election was stolen, but he accepts it for what reason?
Born a few days after the death of FDR, I remember a few more presidents than does Rob Long, and I cannot say that I genuinely admire more than two, perhaps three. Designating any as “the worst president in our lifetime” strikes me as meaningless and silly.
The entire “election season” has gone from infuriating to ghastly, sickening. Since January 6th, I have come to see it all as not unlike a nihilistic movie on Netflix that I should never have watched. I was looking forward to the first Ricochet Podcast of the year, telling myself that I would listen with an open mind to whatever comments Rob Long had to make about DT. Instead, I was shocked at his rant–and disappointed in the lack of push-back from his comrades.
For more than four years, the left has demonized the Orange Man. Does he have serious character flaws? Of course. Has he been his own worst enemy and, in the process, turned what could have been an honorable defeat into a disaster for the conservative cause? Yes. But the left does not hate him because of his demagoguery, because of his self-absorption. It hates him because he has stood in the way of its agenda. He said no to illegal immigration, to abortion, to cozy deals with totalitarians, and to pseudo-environmentalism. He said yes to Israel–and to a Supreme Court that does not treat the Constitution as a Ouija board.
I have no patience with conspiracy theories. I think that, under the circumstances, it is no wonder, however dismaying it may be, that an intellectual and moral mediocrity such as Joseph Biden will soon be president. Donald Trump should now enjoy his remaining years in Florida, with a large picture of an alligator on the wall to remind him of what can happen to those who try to drain the swamp. What Rob Long is calling for is surrender to the left-wing narrative, and for that the creatures of that swamp will not say thank-you.
“…Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground. His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity. Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up. “‘Comrades,’ he said quietly, ‘do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!’ he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. ‘Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year. Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball. “Animal Hero, Second Class,” and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice. A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!'”
Well heck. If we are going to give a link to other podcasts, I suggest that you listen to The Bulwark podcast also and come to your own conclusion.
https://podcast.thebulwark.com/tim-miller-on-days-of-rage
I assume that you are not aware that McConnell’s wife was born in Taiwan, not China. An inconvenient fact.
Just to be clear, I thought the powerline podcast was pretty wide ranging with viewpoints and data for conservatives. My intent was not to offer up a bunch of evidence to win an argument. John Hinderaker was on it.
It sounds to me like Peter Schweizer has the McConnell family and her in-laws highly busted on being beholden to China. Personally, I find it very disturbing. You can probably find the interview on Breitbart’s SoundCloud.
The “Or Else…” can be pretty big.
The Democrats campaigned against Herbert Hoover for decades after he lost reelection. They will campaign against Donald Trump for even longer.
Nah. McConnell is a Useful Idiot, like many in politics.
Didn’t he publish a book claiming he was playing “The Long Game”? Give him credit for getting Trump’s judge nominations confirmed, but what did he accomplish of significance before Trump showed up? I’m not claiming that he didn’t accomplish anything, just that I don’t remember much.
There was nothing more important than getting rid of the ACA. They had eight years and three months to think about it. Think of all of those unanimous votes to get rid of it.
McConnell is in favor of perpetuating government. Not much else. So he’s extremely well-versed in how to perpetuate government, and does an excellent job here (e.g. judge nominations). But I would bank that on most policy issues, he is staff-run. That makes perfect sense, because someone who likes government believes that leaders should allow their “experts” to tell them what to do, no matter how wrong it seems to that leader. Unlike DeSantis, who when faced with the COVID panic, clearly did his own homework to understand the issue personally. And that is why his state is doing so well. If you don’t do your homework, you are going to be a Useful Idiot to someone.
Until, of course, they had a President who not only would not veto it, but who would sign it enthusiastically. McConnell, like most RINOs and NTs, is just a lying sack of used food.
As much as I would like to believe that formulation, I just don’t. Look, overwhelming majority of the people out there, probably weren’t violent and didn’t have any intent to (or in actuality) break the law. But those that did, they were still part of the same overall group. Maybe there was some lefty infiltration, but I think we delude ourselves if we hide behind a false flag conspiracy here.
Trump voters and Trump fans come in all types of stripes. There is an iconoclastic, furious, and ill led segment who are in it for the iconoclasm and the tearing down of the system. They think Lin Wood and Sidney Powel are going to reveal the real conspiracy any minute now. They’re the Louis Mensche (sp?) of the pro-Trump world, waiting ont he marshall of the supreme court to end the bad dream of November.
I think it will only hurt us to ignore that.