They have learned nothing and they know nothing anymore. It is truly shocking.
How honest are we about our ignorance? How honest do we want to be? In answer to that eternal question, which is—or should be—of particular interest to reporters, the 20-page, 12-essay onslaught of postelection “dispatches” that dominates the latest issue of The New Yorker is one of the most honest pieces of magazine publishing we are likely to ever see. Some of the greatest minds in America have gathered in the pages of the country’s leading weekly to declare how little they understand things now, and how little they care to understand them moving forward.
and,
The New Yorker drew together some of its highest-end chroniclers of the American zeitgeist, who then reveled proudly in their own attachments to in-group biases and cliches. They celebrated a kind of communion with their suffering readership, who found comfort in the certainties these writers gave them. This communion is grounded in ignorance. “I was alarmed by the number of white men who had shown up to vote,” the short story writer Lorrie Moore recalls of her polling place, refusing to interrogate her alarm. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan introduces us to two Trump voters she met while door-knocking for Kamala Harris in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but they turn out to be a racist and a loner, exactly the types of people we needn’t trouble ourselves over.
If, in fact, these people dominate leftist thought and policy in America for the next two generations, the absolute dominance of consevative polkicy and leadership will last beyond my lifetime.
and enjoy this bit of disturbing revelation,
“American Fascist,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s contribution, uses some variation on the word “fascist” 44 times across two and a half pages, along with 15 combined mentions of Hitler, Mussolini, and Putin. One imagines the interior of Snyder’s brain as a scarcely endurable popcorn machine, a rhythm of repetitive hissing and clicking that produces buckets of nearly identical thought kernels. Perhaps silence would be even harder for Snyder to endure.
These people have power and they must be defeated, crushed and damned.
Sitting here waiting impatiently for this 24 lb. turkey to cool down enough to go into the refrigerator. I’m tired.
I’ll just leave this right here. 😀
We lucked out. The insurance inspector (remember how I ranted about his incompetence recently?) had issues with our electrical panels at our Bryan property. He was concerned about them being part of a recall and we’d have to have an electrician sign off on them or have them replaced. I contacted the manufacturer today via e-chat and he cleared it all up. The recall was for units made between 2000 and 2002. Our panels are from 1972. The inspector was 30 years off. But I have documentation from Schneider Electronics that clears it all up, and it didn’t cost us… Read more »
So everywhere I go I’m suddenly seeing this Texas Nue Vodka, big displays, really cheap. They say they are based in Dallas, but the bottle label I looked at said “Brewed in North Carolina.” Is this false advertising ? Have I been scammed even if I didn’t buy any ? Can I file a class action lawsuit ? Shouldn’t the people of Texas sue Nue for hijacking their fine international reputation ?
The only way this all ends is when what was done to Hamas and Hezbollah is done to the Ayatollah Khamenei, the other mullahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). You take them out and those Shiite goat herders will run for the hills.
It is all theater, people.
By the way, all this cease fire talk is complete BS. Hamas is close to being wiped out, but Hezbollah has been decapitated from the top down. The idea any sort of agreement can be struck with them is silly. Who are you going to talk to ? Who in Hezbollah even has any command authority ? Hezbollah is now a disjointed guerrilla operation scattered across Lebanon under direction from various Iranian operatives.
Big bird has been in the oven a while. Little bird goes in Friday for sandwiches next week. When that is all gone, I won’t cook or eat turkey again for a year. If it were up to me, the menu in this house would be strictly beef or fish.
EV Slay
Happy Thanksgiving
I just finished a batch, 1 gallon at 100Proof, right at a 30 day ferment, which is twice normal. Very nice taste. I ran out of wood chips so I am toasting up a fresh batch in the oven right now.
We have taken care of enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner today at a good restaurant that has it on the menu today as well as tomorrow and maybe Friday.
Leisurely dining in a not full restaurant was much appreciated. No screaming small kids there today. The staff agreed that tomorrow is going to be like a zoo. We brought home most of my very generous turkey portion for sandwiches tomorrow. We’re likely to be watching football.
The Western Electric 2A turntable, circa 1926, was created for Vitaphone broadcast and movie sound systems. The rare stereophonic version had a moving coil cartridge, the turntable ran at 33-1/3 RPM. The flutter and wow were far less than any modern turntable. Rumble was -65 dB or better. The angular error of the tonearm is so small that a straight-line tracking arm was not considered necessary. This was accomplished with cast iron parts, ordinary copper wire, common ball bearings, and a 1 horsepower electric motor.
This was found on ACE. My first question is: seeing as how the phone number calling in the threat(s) are known to police; these could be burner phones; how much investigation is there into those making the false threats? This sort of thing is not funny at all and innocent people are going to get killed because of it. There have to be painful consequences!
Dave, the early years. Oh and that’s my Redbone, smooching with the Beagle. 😉
About 1995, Squawk on his way home, tryna to make it back for Thanksgiving! 😉
Lovely Daughter has informed me that come Monday, they’ll be saying good-bye to Ollie, their long-lived, long-loved dog. I’ve noticed over my infrequent visits during the past year that he hasn’t been as peppy as he used to be, and I knew this day was coming, but still…. It will be strange to have only one dog greet me enthusiastically at the door when I visit. I wonder how the girls are going to take it. They visit Aggie Beau’s family for Thanksgiving, and they are taking Ollie with them to take care of him as best they can until… Read more »
I’m here. Just on the road.
This never gets old. So much better than hands up. Or kneeling.
Ahead of one of the most highly anticipated college football matchups of the year, the Texas A&M Aggies have been forced to abandon one of its most long lasting traditions due to a ban.Texas A&M is set to revive its dormant rivalry with Texas – one of the most bitter rivalries in all of college football – after the Longhorns moved to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) this season.With that move, Texas and Texas A&M are set to play each other for the first time in 13 years when UT travels to College Station. But one of the Aggies’ oldest, most… Read more »
After immigration, Mr. C. dissects some info on red vs. blue state economic woes, pointing to the commercial (non-)market in various cities; and the growth in population between red and blue states. You know the story, and there’s charts involved, so – moving on: Resistance 2.0 is taking shape: The “pillars of the next Trump resistance,” the party’s last, best hope, are the democrat governors and mayors, along with their state attorneys general and various blue interest groups.But they face a Los Angeles skyscraper-sized problem. Back in 2016, when Trump’s first term began, Democrats were coming off eight years of flourishing under… Read more »
Immigration – and the reduction thereof at both north and south borders – is the next topic at the C&C. It seems that the tariff threats wadded enough panties that leaders of both neighbors are suddenly concerned about the tidal wave of poverty that’s been transversing the borders: In an address yesterday to Canada’s House of Commons, the Canadian president begged lawmakers not to “panic” and tried to reassure them saying, “the idea of going to war with the United States isn’t what anyone wants.” There was a good reason Canadian ministers were panicky as women on the verge of… Read more »
And this just wisses me off: While stealing credit for Trump’s peace deal in the Middle East, Biden and his neocons are also busily trying to make the Proxy War even harder to end. The New York Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Biden makes last-ditch ask of Congress for $24 billion to help Ukraine.” Senator Mike Lee immediately tweeted that Biden’s new package, which the Times argued would actually fund the U.S. military-industrial complex, should actually be dead on arrival: [Mike Lee tweet]It was an especially tone-deaf move, unlikely to pass, and probably intended more to give Democrats a way to blame Republicans for… Read more »
Then, there’s the Israel-Hezzie cease-fire (if it holds): This peace deal is just between Israel and Hezbollah; Hamas declined to join, and so the war in Gaza continues for now.You might think that social media would be churning over Israel’s controversially strong response to the barbaric attacks by Gaza’s authoritarian government, Hamas, and the war’s distressing effect on displaced Gazan civilians. But instead, the weight of social media discussion revolved around which president should get the credit for the cease-fire: the shadow who is Joe Biden —who rushed to take credit— or the shadow cast by incoming President-Elect Trump? Frankly, I think it’s that huge shadow thing.… Read more »
First off, another Trump pick ruffling the appropriate feathers: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as head of the NIH: It’s an out-of-the-park home run….Remember the insanity of the summer of 2021, as the jab mandates began to take shape, and as mask mania continued slowly climbing toward its grotesque summit. Somebody in the resistance sent me Jay’s cell number, … he was a senior professor of health economics and epidemiology at Stanford, one of the most prestigious universities in the world./snipTo his everlasting credit, Jay immediately agreed to help. Not only that, he refused to take any payment for his time. After… Read more »
Charlie Kirk on X.
Here’s a couple big swamp turkeys fer ya.
https://nkytribune.com/2024/11/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-u-s-senate-leader-but-take-over-two-key-chairmanships/
Time for the C&C before I begin more serious stuff: Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, the quintessentially American holiday of giving thanks for our blessings. And we have been blessed, in heaping measure, far beyond anything we deserved and farther beyond what we’d even allowed ourselves to hope for. Today’s pre-holiday roundup includes: Trump makes his best, most deliciously ironic nomination yet; Biden tries to snake more billions to help Ukraine defends its borders; Trump Effect snaps Mexico into line within hours from Trump tweet; Canada, hit hardest, promises to help secure northern border; and… Read more »
Kroger wasn’t nearly as crowded as I thought it’d be. They were out of lettuce, but I should have enough to give Hubby a salad tomorrow, plus I still have some malabar spinach in the garden to stretch it a bit if necessary. I found everything I needed, so I’m going to attempt to make the carnivore faux mashed potatoes with gravy tomorrow. I found some ribeye steaks on sale, so they are now vacuum packed in my freezer. And I bought Hubby a pint of ice cream so he’ll have dessert tomorrow. I’m thinking I’m going to make myself… Read more »
Dessert:
Where is Shannon? Oh wait he’s working.
A tough old Albertan Cowboy told his grandson if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning.
The grandson did this religiously, and lived to the age of 93.
When he died he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren… and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.
Gonna hafta read the OC topic later. I just finished the rosary stuff and am going to brave the grocery store this morning. I saw a recipe last night for carnivore mashed potatoes and I need to get a few ingredients.
I’ve mentioned this study and the refusal of NYT and Bloomberg to publish at the last minute. Someone at the NYT leaked the decision was made out of fear the snowflake newsroom with go on strike. Pathetic. An NCRI researcher told National Review, “Unfortunately, both publications jumped on the story enthusiastically only for it to be inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels. This has never happened to the NCRI in its 5-year history.”An editor for Bloomberg News’s team meant to “elevate issues of race, gender, diversity, and fairness,” Anna Kitanaka, told NCRI that the story would not be published.… Read more »
So Diana sent me a friend request and had this to say;
I’m thinking that there is more to this than she’s saying. 😀
BSue and I are doing our traditional Thanksgiving day drive. We will have our Thanksgiving feast at Kellys Diner La Margue. BSue will have the Turkey dinner with all the fixens. Me? Either chicken fried steak or shrimp dinner. Good stuff right there.
Thanksgiving dinner done right
Netanyahu responds (harshly) to the ICC arrest warrant.
Quick take: Go pound sand you anti-Semitic slime-balls.
As someone who for 70 years could fall asleep effortlessly, but now suffers a lot insomnia, this sounds worth trying.
The Alpha Bridge Method
Shoulda mentioned before.
Those of you who use lots of fresh herbs for your turkey should go out front of HEB and buy the plants. You’ll spend a lot less and get a lot more than with those sprigs in the produce section.
You’ll wind up with a plant that’ll make more and more and more after. For free.
I’m ready.
This is neat; A 1948 Craftsman 2 Man Chainsaw. 103 CC, not sure about the HP but it cost $405 new, that’d be $5305 in today’s dollars!
Last call run to the grocery store.
Another battle won that deserves celebration. Slay the Modernists trying to dehumanize our history and environment. Before (left) and after (right) of the interior of Notre Dame.Modernists lost this battle, so instead of a glass spire and partially destroyed vaultings everything was reconstructed as it was. Architects, for example, made sure that the former Medieval assymetrics in the central vaulting with the oculus (which was there due to lack of precision tools) became recosntructed exactly as it was before.The walls and windows have been cleaned of centuries of grime and a new adjustable lighting system has been installed rendering the… Read more »
Oh, Emily Compagno is on Fox this morning, can you say legs? 😀
About the O.C. piece. It seems to me that after the election the left went into;
1) Denial, say it ain’t so!
2) Modest self reflection, like really, it couldn’t be us, could it?.
3) Then back to Nope, not us we’re good but we still can’t understand how 77 million IDIOTS voted for Trump.
Which brings us back to this;
~SIGH~
Drain the SwampLarry P. ArnnPresident, Hillsdale College
This guy has a pretty good handle on what is and what should be. RTWDT
Heh
Speaking of destruction…the implosion of the feminine ideal and role in modern Western civilization has been shocking to me. Obvious to any serious thinker now is the fact political feminism, like modern liberalism, has always held and nurtured the seeds of its own demolition.
If a society regularly murders its own babies and sells their innocent body parts to laboratories, it will eventually lead to this and worse.
Keep Brain-Dead Women Alive and Use Them as Surrogate Mothers
This evil idea first appeared out of Norway 10 months ago. The articles I’ve found about it are all behind paywalls.
re: O/C: These people are mentally and emotionally DAMAGED, they need to be institutionalized with the hope of introducing sound thought processes. Most probably can not be salvaged. I have had more than enough of these people and I loathe the destruction they have wrought on our country and the world.
The first thing to do to heal the crazy person is to get them to admit that their ideas are flawed and their thought processes are flawed. Trying to deal with someone on an intellectual basis before this is a fool’s errand.
This is probably been known but I did not know Taylor Sheridan’s Landman is the TV version of a podcast called Boomtown. I’ll have to give it a listen.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/press-room/landman-official-trailer/