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| 2020-11-14 |
| [CityJournal] Reality may fail to measure up to cocktail party assumptions, but the chit-chat of the better people rings on, unchanged. During the thirties, in the period when Nazism was rising and the conditions of a second world war coalesced, fashionable opinion in Great Britain regarded Winston Churchill as a crackpot and extremist. He was deplorable. One learns to distrust fashionable opinion. When I was a boy in Washington, D.C., the best people said that Whittaker Chambers was a dreadful fellow—a sinister little fat man with bad teeth, a strange and neurotic ex-Communist, not to be trusted. Ideologically fashionable people have their standard of Not Our Class, Dear. Chambers was N.O.C.D. Alger Hiss, on the other hand, was very much Our Class—slim, urbane, the Fred Astaire of the American establishment. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #5 Extortion Day: How the Democratic Party and its allies used the threat of violence as a campaign tactic "the activist Left’s campaign of violent protest provided a convenient foil for the Biden campaign. Biden adopted the high-minded language of racial justice, promising to combat 'systemic racism,' while benefiting from the implicit threat of violence from far-left shock troops on the ground. It’s the same logic of extortion that any thug would use—vote for us and things will return to normal; vote for Trump and your cities will burn...." |
| Posted by: Alistaire Unailing7576 2020-11-14 15:55 |
| #4 Seen on a neighbor's house and property: Pre-election: no patriotic symbols; a BLM sign on lawn; left-wing university sticker in rear wi dis of his SUV. The only red-white-and-blue to be seen anywhere is a r-w-b bumper sticker with "2020" above a guillotine. Post-election: all of the above plus a gigantic Star-Spangled Banner covering most of his garage. First time I've ever seen the flag flown at that house. Another neighbor, pre-election: BLM etc, plus rainbow-colored slogans re POCs, gays, women, "SCIENCE IS REAL" (wtf??) etc. Post-election: neighbor now walking his little dog who now wears an American flag doggie-sweater. (Gigantic US flag on new flagpole no doubt soon to come.) Yeah, sure, we got your message: Vote against us and we'll trash your city and grease up the guillotine. If we win, you'll obey us and salute when we tell you to. |
| Posted by: Tiny Platypus7946 2020-11-14 14:15 |
| #3 The essence of modern argumentation seems to have devolved into the following: "I'm right, you're wrong, because SHUT UP." |
| Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-14 14:03 |
| #2 There will be no unity under Joe Biden. Events, my good man, events will occur. Some of those events may be severe enough to provoke unity of a very painful kind. Recall when FDR was sworn in 4 March 1933, not a single bank in the USA was open. That was the kind of unity Creepy Joe may be faced with. |
| Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-14 14:02 |
| #1 Not gonna happen. Democrats spent the last four years playing every dirty, dishonest ploy they could imagine trying to get rid of Donald Trump but now they call for unity. There will be no unity under Joe Biden. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-11-14 13:02 |