Why it’s not OK to listen to his music, but still OK to watch Woody Allen movies.
It’s no skin off my nose. I never deliberately listened to any of his music.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Democrat’s Omar Problem
"You can't say 'all lives matter' when we say black lives matter! That's raciss!" — some people
"We can't condemn anti-Semitism without condemning all the 'ism's!" — same people
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 7, 2019
[Afternoon update]
The Democrats’ resolution on anti-Semitism has gone from impotent to totally worthless. I have to confess to going through a lot of popcorn watching the latest racist meltdown of the Left.
[Friday-morning update]
The old Democrat Party is new again:
I think we have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the Congressional Black Caucus–which supported Omar unanimously, as best one can tell from news reports–are in the driver’s seat. Anti-Semitism is now accepted by the Democratic Party.
Nothing new, really. The Klan hated Jews, too.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
“If hating Israel is wrong, we don’t want to be right.”
[Update a few more minutes later]
Anti-Semitism: It’s all the rage.
[Update a few more minutes later]
An inflection point in American history. Plus this.
Over the past couple of decades, the Democrats have been quite deliberately assembling a coalition containing a lot of antisemites. It is thus unsurprising that the party is becoming openly antisemitic.
American Jews have largely identified with the immigrants the Democrats have sought to encourage, seeing them as akin to their ancestors who fled to America. In fact, they’re more like the people those ancestors were fleeing from.
Fascists gonna fascist.
And more links over at Instapundit.
[Update late morning]
Omar and her allies won this battle.
[Update a few minutes later]
The clarity accompanying the takeover of the House by Democrats.
I can viscerally understand the Never Trump motivation, but I have been shaking my head at insanity from former conservatives in thinking that putting the Democrats in charge wouldn’t be diving into the fire from the frying pan.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaaaand (once again) Paul Krugman beclowns himself.
The Most Politically Intolerant Americans
They’re not “the deplorables.” They’re the urban highly “educated” (scare quotes because they aren’t really educated, just credentialed) whites who deplore them. So I guess that’s the real white privilege.
Schools Of Education
They remain a disaster, that should have been abolished long ago.
As a report on education said almost four decades ago, if a foreign power had imposed on the U.S. the educational system we've imposed on ourselves, we would rightly consider it an act of war. https://t.co/rpg0ym3yEh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 6, 2019
BTW, I highly recommend Quillette as a web site in general. Claire and others have a lot of smart, heterodox stuff there.
British Columbia
…has gone transgender nuts. I hope the father wins in the Supreme Court of Canada.
A Civil War
Is America already in one? In many ways, yes. It’s a Cold Civil War (for now), but one regardless.
The Gun-Control Debate
Why the Left won’t win it.
Of course, part of the problem is that, as with climate change, they think there is no room for debate. Neither side does. But one side is right.
Animal Farm
How it’s playing out in the Democrat Party. I wonder if AOC has even read it? Or if she has, if she understood the allegory, or just thought it was a strange story about farm animals?
[Update a while later]
How awful it must be to be a thinking person in a modern “university.”
The Smirking Bias Of The Media
Thoughts on language, from Howie Carr.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The media will help re-elect Trump. Which is ironic, of course.
[Update Monday morning]
Bill Maher will help Trump get re-elected. These people who hate Trump sure seem to be working a lot harder on his re-election than I am.
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[Update a while later]
The Left is dancing on a powder keg. This derangement is a perfect example of Haidt’s thesis that while we understand them perfectly well, they have no idea how we think.
Trump’s CPAC Speech
I listened to some of it, but I really, viscerally hate listening to Trump for long. But Nick Gillespie (!) was impressed:
All in all, it was, in the words of Daniel Dale, the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, “one of the least-hinged speeches Trump has given in a long time.” It was indeed all over the place but like the weirdly wide-ranging and digressive speech in which he declared a national emergency, it was also an absolute tour de force, laying out every major point of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats (abortion, the Second Amendment, and taxes, among other things) while tagging the latter aggressively as socialists who will not only end the private provision of health care but take over the energy sector too. Those charges take on new life in the wake of the announcement of the GND and comments, however short-lived, by Democrats such as Kamala Harris, who at one point recently called for an end to private health care. And over 100 House Democrats have signed on to a plan that would end private health insurance in two years. For all the biting criticism and dark humor in today’s speech, Trump has mostly ditched the “American Carnage” rhetoric that marked his first Inaugural Address, pushing onto liberals and Democrats all the negativity and anger that used to surround him like the dust cloud surrounds Pigpen in the old Peanuts cartoons. “We have people in Congress right now who hate our country,” he said. “We can name every one of them. Sad, very, very sad.”
At moments, he seemed to be workshopping his themes and slogans for 2020. “We believe in the American Dream, not the socialist nightmare,” he averred at one point. “Now you have a president who finally standing up for America.” The future, he said “does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom. I’ve said it before and will say it again: America will never be a socialist country.” That’s a line that may not work forever, but it will almost certainly get the job done in 2020.
As previously noted, the media is going to re-elect Trump. Because they still don’t understand how they got Trump.