RIP. I’d have a lot to say, but for now, de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
[Update while later]
I’m watching the Packers/Vikings game (rooting for Green Bay to get the division championship for the Lions), but Ed Driscoll has a lot of links.
[Monday-morning update]
The under- and over-appreciated Jimmy Carter.
And there is no love lost from Sarah Hoyt.
[Update a while later]
He was a terrible president, and a worse former president.
Another is the cover up of the Biden crime family, about which half the country remains ignorant.
It’s ignorant, ostentatious support of anti-Semitism and terrorism, by people who don’t know the name of either the river, or the sea.
Why we rebelled against our cousins across the pond.
An interesting history:
By the 1500s, England's murder rate was lower than the murder rate in modern-day Africa 🏴
— Sam Bidwell (@sam_bidwell) December 23, 2024
And by the 20th century, Britain was one of the least violent societies on Earth – but why was this the case?
A 🧵 on the history of how England crushed crime pic.twitter.com/uripa0j2Eu
Kash Patel is going to try to clean up the FBI.
Good luck.
Maybe it’s a new world, politically.
[Update a few minutes later]
Congress Proposes New Law Banning Anyone From Reading Spending Bill Until It's Passed https://t.co/zuL1kRxSoN pic.twitter.com/bWFVfXIcGt
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 19, 2024
[Update a while later]
This seems somewhat related: Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment.
I said the day after the election that I had a great feeling of relief, and this sort of explains it. It’s almost like when Saruman’s spell over Théoden was broken.
I hadn’t been aware of the degree of anti-Semitism in the Emerald Isle. It makes me less inclined to want to revisit it.
Someone asked AI how the Great Pyramids were builtpic.twitter.com/iFbUTyG5Hb
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 16, 2024
Miranda Devine says good riddance. I would have told Trump not to appoint him at the time.