From Frank Ryan, talking about the Great Blue City Experiment©:
“We will have privatized the freedom to choose while socializing the consequences of the choice.”
Then he talks about the conditions that create said consequences. Read it all.
Me? I say: Screw that “tough love” nonsense. Let the people who voted for the politicians live with the consequences of their folly, with absolutely no hope of any kind of rescue or bailout.
Let Them Sink©.
I saw this headline a couple-three days ago:
What to Expect from Trump’s Summit with Xi
…and I have to say, I think there’s little point in actually meeting with anyone from CommieChina, let alone with this little egomaniacal dictator.
I mean, seriously: whatever Xi says, it’s going to be non-committal at best, but mostly it’s going to be a series of outright lies, or else some promises that he has not the slightest intention of keeping.
So what’s the point? I know: “Jaw-jaw is better than war-war” (W.S. Churchill). Didn’t really achieve much with his predecessor at Munich in 1938, and I have the feeling that were Xi to say that the Spratley Islands are his last territorial demand (cf. our friend Adolf re: the Sudetenland), his promise would have about the same degree of credibility.
Ditto any reassurances from Xi that his regime will stop meddling in our internal politics (i.e. our elections, funding subversive organizations and so on). He might say something acceptable, but will it stop? Of course not.
I don’t have any good ideas about what to do with this asshole regime, other than waiting for Xi and his cronies to overstep — let him invade his Poland, so to speak — and then unleash hell on his ass.
The only problem, however, is that most of our brimstone has been emptied into Iran — not that this is necessarily a Bad Thing, mind you — but it does mean that any threats or bluster coming from Trump would be pointless.
We’re not even capable of waging economic warfare on China, mostly because our Treasury is not only empty, but in debt.
Like I said, I’m all out of ideas. But having some kind of meaningless “summit” is a bad one.
Looks like the old Second Amendment is rolling right along, and not towards a cliff (like under Obama and Biden) either. Here’s a happy event:
A report from CBS News indicated that President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) not to appeal the ruling against suppressor registration secured in August via the Silencer Shop v. ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) lawsuit.
I think that I might have to look seriously at acquiring a tube or two in the near future.
I just need a little downward price adjustment or two…
If you don’t know what the above title refers to, then you obviously weren’t with New Wife and me as we attended a concert of sacred a capella music at the Anglican Church of the Incarnation in Dallas:
…featuring Cambridge University’s incomparable Trinity College Choir.
Some Renaissance composers kicked it off, then a short pipe organ interlude to allow the lads and lassies of the choir a chance to rest their voices and catch their breath, then some “living” composers (none of whom I knew, but whose offerings did not suck), another organ interlude followed by a couple of earlier (dead) composers such as Thomas Tallis, and after one more organic interlude came J.S. Bach’s Komm Jesu, and finally the exquisite Nunc Dimittis of Gustav Holst.
While it was of course choral music, we couldn’t help but hear the leading soprano, who had a voice best described as “operatic”, and the leading male tenor, who with his perfect pitch kept the choir in tune throughout the entire concert.
All White man’s music, performed brilliantly by White teenage kids to an appreciative (and mostly) White audience. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
As New Wife puts it: “Food for the soul”, and indeed it was. We came away well fed, and contented.
I can remain silent no longer.
Oh good grief… there is no such thing as “on accident”.
It’s BY accident, BY accident, BY accident, FFS.
It stings all the more because Stephen is one of the more erudite writers on the Internet, and should know better.
SOTI (X/Twitter):
“35% of media coverage of Lindsay Clancy is negative. 96% of media coverage of Elon Musk is negative. One killed her children and the other exposed government theft. So telling…”
Or, to compare and contrast: Elon Musk makes babies; Lindsay Clancy kills them.
No wonder the Left is on her side, the godless bastards.