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We’re not short on takes about the search (or whatever you wanna call it) at Mar-a-Lago this week; but one can’t ever get enough of people who know what they’re talking about when it comes to something as big as this!
Ricochet’s old friend Andy McCarthy joins to provide just that kinda commentary. He gives some essential vocab clarifications; lays out the charges he believes the Justice Department is actually seeking; and ponders how and when the ethos of the agency went awry – and how he thinks it could be brought back.
Also, Peter recounts how he felt right at home on the range. Plus he and James chat about the shows they “have to” watch and the stuff they can live without.
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Sorry I had the year wrong – but it was released after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I can’t find the quotes online, but there’s a scene at the very end of the movie, with Ryan and Ramius talking in the sail of the submarine while going up river where they say something along the lines of “This incident is going to cause a lot of changes in Moscow” and Ramius says something about “a little revolution now and then is a good thing”.
I seriously believe there’s little difference between Nikki Haley and the sort of do-nothing “Republicans” that the GOPe is always shoving at us.
Which reminds me of the Aesop’s fable about “King Log and King Stork” …
I’ll take a “do-nothing Republican” over a “do-something Democrat” any time.
“What difference at this point does it make?”
I didn’t hear him say that. In fact, I heard a lot of criticism of what took place. Maybe I was listening to a different podcast…
And point to anyone else who knows any more than he does.
Would “do-nothing” be better than “do-bad?”
The issue isn’t now or the podcast, the issue is later. Andy has made a habit of reverting to a sort of “all is well” each time something like this has happened.
It may “stick” this time, but if it does, it will be a first for him.
Trump, Garland (maybe), others actually involved in the situation…
They do nothing while Democrats yank us leftward. They do nothing when they should be fighting for us.
No difference.
It would be absurd to insist that, for example, not cutting taxes is the same as increasing taxes.
Or that a pacifist is the same as an attacker (even if a pacifist is not much use when you’re attacked).
King Log vs. King Stork.
But according to the left, not INCREASING spending is CUTTING spending.
Remember, leftists rarely believe their own arguments.
They are utilitarians in ethics: they will make whatever argument they think will work for them, before a particular audience at a particular moment; and then they will walk down the block and make a different and contradictory argument, before a different audience at a different moment.
William Hurrell Mallock describes a real-life example of this that he witnessed, in his 1907 A Critical Examination of Socialism. He followed a socialist agitator from an appearance before a middle-class audience, to one before a working-class audience.
You may be right about leftist leadership. But I’ve become convinced – due to cases such as my benighted mother – that much of their “base” ends up actually believing these things.
Exactly! In Mallock’s example, above, a different version of leftism is presented to each group, precisely designed to be persuasive for members of each group.
Middle-class leftists would be told that, under socialism, freedom of speech and the press would be strictly observed. Leftist workers would be told they would control their factories. Peasant leftists would be promised the land.
The agitator represents the “upstream” leftists, who know they’re lying. “Downstream” leftists are the rank-and-file consumers/disseminaters of the lies, which they believe.