NRO's The Corner: what if an accident of birth had placed Obama in Cuba?

Assuming this is not a troll, I love this comment:

George LeS • 5 hours ago
I talked to too many people to believe that we can win with social conservatism. The fact is that, to most Americans, Mormons, Evangelicals, and we Catholics are creepy. They really fear us. And since they disbelieve in fiscal conservatism, are weary with overseas problems, and don't give a damn about the Constitution, we really have nothing to offer which they want.

From this day forth, we live under a Left tyranny.

K-Lo seen outside closed Sizzler tweeting.

She's babbling:

Kathryn Jean Lopez ‏@kathrynlopez
the culture. that's what i have on my mind this morning. gotta win the culture to win the future.

http://www.editkid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/freaks_randian.jpg

"The culture. The culture. The culture."

Classic single-issue ranting: it's the whole education system, stupid.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332872/times-david-gelernter

PORGIS!

Time’s Up
By David Gelernter
November 7, 2012 8:12 A.M. Comments0

We’ve seen an important (though far from decisive) battle in the slow-motion civil war the nation is undergoing: The blue states want to secede not from America but from Americanism. They reject the American republic of God-fearing individuals in favor of the European ideal, which has only been government by aristocracy: either an aristocracy of birth or, nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls — of post-religious, globalist intellectuals (a.k.a. PORGIs). As I’ve said before — many others have too — you can’t graduate class after class after class of left-indoctrinated ignoramuses without paying the price. Last night was a down payment.

xpost re 'the culture': did y'all see the article the day before election claiming that a vote for Mitt Romney = a vote against the leftist academic tyranny of 'the Frankfurt School narrative'? smdh

isn't "an aristocracy of [...] ruling know-it-alls" just a really polemical way of saying "meritocracy"

is Mitt Romney really "a God-fearing individual"? I don't know the first thing about Mormon God but I always pictured him as p.benevolent

His real god is money.

wow we might have to poll today's corner posts

We’ve seen an important (though far from decisive) battle in the slow-motion civil war the nation is undergoing: The blue states want to secede not from America but from Americanism. They reject the American republic of God-fearing individuals in favor of the European ideal, which has only been government by aristocracy: either an aristocracy of birth or, nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls — of post-religious, globalist intellectuals (a.k.a. PORGIs). As I’ve said before — many others have too — you can’t graduate class after class after class of left-indoctrinated ignoramuses without paying the price. Last night was a down payment.

But we’ve won civil wars and preserved the Union before. We’ll do it again — if we face up to the fact that we need to replace our schools and colleges now; the grace period has lasted a generation, but it’s over. I know we can do it and I’m pretty sure we will do it. Americanism is too strong and brilliant and young to die.

either an aristocracy of birth, or nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls not an aristocracy at all under any sensible definition of the word.

Read one of those columns, and OMG, had no idea "the Obama electorate defeated marriage." Should I tell my wife? Y/N?

The Republican House was reelected after not just touching but fondling the “third rail of American politics.”

what the fuuuuuuuuck

the "most powerful man in the republican party" thinks the future of the right is paul ryan. i think that says it all http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332850/what-just-happened-grover-norquist

This from Maggie is pretty otm:

2. The money guys bought the GOP nomination for a candidate voters didn’t like very much. Romney won by pummeling his opponents with negative ads. He lost the same way because he did not have a five-to-one money advantage over Obama.

(Of course, she's probably still fantasizing about what a great nominee Santorum would've been.)

Hm. The results proved that $$$ helps but only up to a point imo

yup

romney beat his opponents because they were all crazy people who said crazy things and couldn't hold their own on national media for a week

did the super big-money shadow figures accomplish anything?

holy christ I wish you guys could listen to Cuban talk radio this morning

are they freaked out?

the "most powerful man in the republican party" thinks the future of the right is paul ryan. i think that says it all http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/332850/what-just-happened-grover-norquist

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:20 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

Cubans livid over Joe Garcia's victory; Garcia seen as a traitor and appeaser and Fidelist.

Garcia last seen leaping from building to building, a veritable Fidelist on the roof

alfred, do you think the results in florida indicate a waning of cuban influence on broader hispanic community in that state?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo3f93gQXs

well, part of the trouble is that Univision bought the all-powerful AM station Radio Mambi, and guess who is the most powerful person in Univision (it rhymes with "Schmamos). Callers accusing the octogenarian anti-Communist hosts appeasers for not criticizing "their paymasters" (direct translation)

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

― Citizen Ship (some dude), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:57 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i just read this post while "between me and you" played on the radio

I loves you, PORGI (DJP)

You East-coasters get up too early, otherwise that is EXACTLY what my DN would be right now.

Kevin Williamson, author of the essay claiming that conservatives did more for civil rights than libs:

There is not much in this to comfort conservatives. The lessons of Ohio are that Barack Obama is a skillful demagogue, that the ancients were wise to number envy among the deadly sins, and that offering Americans a check is a more fruitful political strategy than offering them the opportunity to take control of and responsibility for their own lives. This is what Oakeshott had in mind when he wrote that liberty was something that many people simply are not equipped to “enjoy as an opportunity rather than suffer as a burden.”

aaaahahaha DJP's DN

and man, these people. So, "Obama won because he offered people the denial of their own subjectivity, that bastard, and speaking of which those people are not equipped to handle liberty."

"hmmm people seem to be getting tired of Ja Rule. ok it's your turn, Cadillac Tah, you're the future of rap now!"

loooooool

David Gelernter seems to have an excellent grasp of invective. Substance, not so much.

Jonah reduced to (mis)quoting Burke.

aaaahahaha DJP's DN

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazing DN

*bows*

This one, written the day before the election, is sort of awesome to read the day after. I mean...

A vote for Romney tomorrow is a vote against all that. It’s not just a vote for president; it’s a vote in favor of reformation of the media and the universities, hotbeds of propaganda and indoctrination, often subsidized by the government, and both in the thrall and in the service of the Frankfurt School “narrative,” of which Barack Obama so clearly approves. It’s a vote for the restoration of standards — the Left calls it “repression” — in our popular culture, for the acknowledgment of the role of religion in public life, for the rollback of the federal leviathan and its constant intrusions into the lives of American citizens.

It’s not enough for the GOP to win tomorrow. It needs to win big, a win so convincing that even the Left won’t be able to explain it away. The definition of victory in war is not a 50.1 percent majority that allows the other side to keep fighting — it’s the battleship Missouri, on whose deck the losing side signs articles of capitulation. The modern Left — the unholy spawn of ’30s gangland and ’60s academic Marxism — must be forced to its knees in surrender.

(I see Bernard Snowy mentioned it above. Anyway, guaranteed lols.)

http://i.imgur.com/f12Hj.gif?1

30s gangland~!

"Crush Them" is the maddest of the mad. I wonder how he's feeling today.

haha I love some of the "Crush Them" commenters

hoosierjim • 2 days ago

This was better in the original German.

Fun teeth-gnashing across all the comment threads today:

cavecanem • 15 hours ago

Conservatism has lost.
The America loved and defended by conservatives is over.
The great experiment is failed.

vetes cavecanem • 15 hours ago

I hate that I agree with this. It's just that there's no other way to interpret this. By any logical and realistic measure the past four years were a disaster economically. And that disaster was rewarded today. There is no coming back.

Collinsdad cavecanem • 14 hours ago

Naw the American people failed. Liberalism is failing but something for nothing is so very appealing to those who are perishing. Conservatism has always succeeded. America is now unworthy of it.

Conservatism has always succeeded. America is now unworthy of it.

Gonna take all their Burke and Hayek and hole up in Colorado Springs until we beg them to come back to us.

Like the Germans circa 1930s - they've voted for their own demise. And only when the fit hits the shan will some of them finally wake up and I'll get the satisfaction of telling them "I told you so."

This country deserves to be wrecked.

America will now become a failed fascist state, much like greece, except there will be no one to bail us out

What's going on in Greece will look like a spring festival compared to what's coming our way.

Due to the results tonight, my wife and I had to decide that we will not start a family. It will be just us two from here on out. This country is over.

This was another Phiippi, and once again, a republic has died.

Now, there is no hope for America, and the World.

The voters have spoken, God help us and this country. This is the end as American as we have known it.

America blew it.

Get ready for Armageddon.

Where is John Galt?

Other than that I think they're taking it pretty well.