NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

sounds like that JMU econ prof’s suggestion that incels be provided sex

guys

guys

Biden's vaccination mandate is unconstitutional!

somebody had to say it. eventually someone says it about every action taken by government, including the income tax. and mccarthy is just the dope for the job.

Andy McCarthy, in favor of torture and indiscriminate bombing when Bush sat on the imperial throne.

Dang, I kinda liked "St. Elmo's Fire."

it has come to my attention that rod dreher is getting divorced and has moved to budapest; no word on whether this experience will prompt another conversion

lmao of course

I hope he writes a novel

I hope he starts a suicide cult.

Why are these people so dramatic?

I think he’s having the time of his life.

I don’t know how he’s fixed for disposable income but being a weird natl conservative on the internet is key to that flow

I heard that these conservatives moving to Hungary for the fascism usual only last a year or so once they realize that, for instance, you get fines for putting the wrong kinds of plants on your balcony.

i miss these guys

was about to post the same

Even Mona Fucking Charen has joined the resistance:

https://www.thebulwark.com/what-country-is-the-wall-street-journal-living-in/

Hahahahaha https://t.co/nRaZhwvxqt

— noah kulwin (@nkulw) January 3, 2023

Minority opinion on here I'm sure but I kinda like French. I think he's wrong about a zillion things of course, but he's super critical of the current evangelical-political movement, and he and his wife have done legit investigative journalism in exposing some religious sexual abusers. I'll take him over Brooks and Douthat, however low that may be setting the bar.

I don't like French but, yeah, he's better than the others; it's just infuriating, though, that the NYT has a ticker-tape parade every time they add yet another conservative to their op-ed section.

Is there even anyone actually good in the NYT columnist rotation? Jamelle Bouie I guess. So tired of almost all of them.

bouie is excellent. michelle goldberg and zeynep tufekci are good.

check out what you're missing in the washington post op-ed section!

https://i.imgur.com/ze02A1i.png

bouie is in his element on tiktok and twitter imo

wrong thread?

lol AOC missed vote 3 and I think I heard her holler "Jeffries!" a few seconds later.

whoops def wrong thread

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-often-do-men-think-about-the-roman-empire/

Apparently, men think about the Roman Empire frequently. This is news to most women, who I’d venture rarely obsess over Marcus Aurelius.

A TikTok video of a woman asking her husband how often he considers the Roman Empire went viral this week. He responded without pause that it was an “everyday thought.” More women are adding to the trend, asking their spouses and boyfriends how much brain space Rome occupies.

So, men: Is this serious? How often do you think about the Roman Empire? There are many reasons to think about Rome — reasons one of my dude-brained colleagues will probably flesh out in the future — but women . . . don’t. Or, at least, we think about it less frequently. Although I’m reminded of Rome often, it doesn’t pop into my head randomly, except in the cases of a few Catholic or architectural queries.

That men and women are different is, it seems for many online, still shocking. To destroy, conquer, and build empires has historically been the stuff of men. While there’s room for sexes to blend their interests, women tend to care more about the social aspects of history and probably identify better with aesthetic traditions (Jane Austen’s romanticism, Renaissance art, qualities of various royal reigns) instead of specific eras.

There’s no cause for social uproar every time we notice another distinction between men and women — isn’t it enough to just admit that we’re different? This week’s viral trend will probably manifest into think pieces over how the Roman Empire came to be a male-exclusive interest, or how more women need history degrees.

The Rome discourse mirrors an office discussion we had the other week, about our favorite films. The men couldn’t narrow down their lists unless they devised categories, and even then, there was painful debate on the merits of each movie’s script, score, and technical quality. Meanwhile, I’ve had the same favorite movie for the past decade, and my girlfriends agree that we choose our favorite films based more on emotional appeal than anything else.

Thousands of years have passed, and hundreds of empires have burned, only for men and women to remain fundamentally different. Some things never change.

how many ages hence
shall this our lofty scene be acted over
in states unborn, by dudes as yet unknown

been too long

Still got it

Conservative media is the most robust affirmative action program in the world pic.twitter.com/RHtPQhV00r

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) December 6, 2023

singing "imagine there's no country" at the funeral of a country singer smh

https://i.imgur.com/HEtfLKO.png

Now I can't unsee it

missed u boo

Entirely reasonable description of January 6 as an event in which 'many of the...protesters broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot.' Especially so in light of absence of DOJ insurrection charges against anyone involved. https://t.co/FfQfKTjYet

— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 5, 2024

probably need a new thread but that site is full of tired cranks griping about woke

Are you familiar with that old joke from the Eric Andre Show, where the host asks a guest, “Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?” It’s become ironically memetic shorthand for moments when someone expresses an entirely banal or inoffensive opinion. And yet, strangely enough, Fetterman’s position on the Gaza war fits this frame to an almost shockingly perfect degree: It’s both popular among his constituents, and certainly among Americans at large, while also authentically controversial and brave, certainly when compared to where his Democratic peers in the Senate are. I hesitate to speculate about the origins of the seeming change that has come over him, other than guessing that the discipline and strength of character required to recover from a life-altering stroke also suggests a certain willfulness. (To be fair, I do also like my other theory, which is that Chuck Schumer unwittingly leveled him up by stuffing him back into a suit.) Fetterman has clearly demonstrated he is now his own man and also a savvy hand at public relations; I doubt he’s unaware of the political armor his medical situation gives him, and good for him — he’s wearing it straight into battle.

Ah yes that old joke

https://i.imgur.com/ZpRcTsq.jpeg

Thought this would be a revive for NRO staking out its anti-Dolly Parton position. Always a good sign when you're trying to rally the troops against a national treasure with universal appeal.

oh that was the Federalist not NRO

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html

yeah I thought this revival would be about that idiot David French realizing the racist church he joined six years ago is racist.

lmao i hate this entire class of pundit just categorically now, i wish they would all get hobbies like gardening or model ship building

Seems so nostalgic to even talk about NRO anymore, if it ever meant anything it definitely doesn't in 2024. (Ditto NYT columns, I suppose.)

I would expect classic NRO to be losing their shit about the criticism of Alito and Thomas.

Let's check in:

Throw these two items on the growing pile of utterly unconvincing attempts to craft a rationale for Harris’s price-fixing scheme — one that Harris herself has not provided. It’s not that Harris has failed to communicate her proposal effectively. The problem is us and our thick-headed failure to intuit her meaning in ways that reflect favorably on Harris. We’ve really blown this one.

But let’s be charitable. Let’s say that Harris’s well-meaning proposals have been “misconstrued” and “taken out of context.” If only there was some way that Harris could clear up the confusion. Would that she had some way to communicate directly with us from beyond the veil with which her campaign has shrouded her. In the absence of an Ouija board, we’re forced to collect clues and assemble into something resembling a cogent defense of Harris’s discredited policy instincts. But that hasn’t stopped Harris’s defenders in the press from completing her sentence for her. Maybe they are holding a séance without us.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/according-to-the-press-america-has-already-let-kamala-harris-down/

Charles W. Cooke:

So it is with vacuous campaigns of affinity. Politicians who are known for concrete ideas or achievements are often able to weather storms. Politicians whose reputations are built atop fluff and adorned with baubles are not. I think that Kamala Harris may well win the election in November. But, even if she does, she is going to come unstuck before long, because, pace all the press-installed scaffolding that is holding her up at present, she remains a shallow, mediocre, off-putting, unlikeable fool. That ghastly cackle that has temporarily been transmuted into a virtue? It won’t appear that way when things get serious. Her total inability to construct sentences that don’t read like a drunk non-English speaker wrote a fortune cookie using Google Translate? When the stakes are high, it’ll be a liability. The preposterous flip-flopping, which is being sold as healthy pragmatism? It’ll bite when applied to a salient issue on which voters do not want to be dismissed.

Talk about an audience talking to itself.

*cackles ghastily*

It's all normal ad feminam stuff but it's especially funny when deployed on behalf of Trump.

oh they INSIST they've published more anti-Trump garbage than Politico.

wow the comments are hilarious