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

lol

https://thebulwark.com/

Welcome to the #resistance. Now fuck off and die.

Yum!

My stomach has guided me to many different places, and in my gastronomic globe-trotting, I’ve eaten traditional dishes ranging from beef-tongue tramezzini to squid chowder. National cuisines often reflect what a country values and its history, and despite the antiquity of many other nations and the food produced by it, the national cuisine that intrigues me the most is that of the fresh-faced America.

America is an infant compared to the rest of the world that had the benefit of time to design the dishes that would represent them. Our forebears fumbled around with food, integrating the cuisines of their native countries to the degree that they could with what was agriculturally available to them. France may have La Petite Chaise and Paul Bucose and foie gras, but America has the glorious golden arches, and inside this great reliquary are the trans fats and artery-clogging sustenance that defines “great American food.” McDonald’s is arguably more American than apple pie.

Deride Trump all you want, but in that iconic photo of him standing with demonstrative jazz hands underneath Lincoln’s portrait, in front of a dining spread of sterling silver and fine china, in between golden candelabras, is the American National Cuisine: Filet O’Fish, Big Macs, Domino’s, and Whoppers.

Their copyeditors are also furloughed? Bucose?

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wow, the article is even worse than the headline, great job kevin

oh, cool! Kevin's back!

'Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture' reads the subhead, as if asset forfeiture is not a very real thing which already exists in the usa and is regularly abused to permanently part vulnerable people from their belongings on the flimsiest of pretexts

holy shit that rules

pretty rough out there for rich white folks

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it is with a heavy heart that i must report that kevin d williamson is back on his bullshit

The rhetoric of elimination and the politics of resentment attached to it are dangerous and unworthy. “Okay,” wrote one critic, “but what would you do about inequality?”

Good question.

Nothing.

If the rich were radically less rich, the poor and the middle class would, at best, still be where they are. In some ways, they’d almost certainly be worse off: A disproportionate share of U.S. economic growth, wage growth, and employment growth has been driven by a relatively small number of startup companies. As Vivek Wadhwa of Harvard’s Labor and Worklife Program put it: “Without startups, there would be no net job growth in the U.S. economy.” Technology startups are driven by venture capital, and venture capital is a rich man’s game. The “PayPal mafia” — the group of young entrepreneurs who got rich from that startup — went on to form Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, SpaceX, Yelp, YouTube, and others. Their investments helped build Facebook, Spotify, Lyft, and Airbnb, among others. Startup-heavy California has 12 percent of the U.S. population but accounts for 16 percent of its job growth and 14.2 percent of its economic output. Nobody wants to hear it, but inequality is part of what makes that happen.

so there you have it, folks - the answer to inequality is STARTUPS for some reason, so stop whining

Democrats are about to embark on the first woke primary, a gantlet of political correctness that will routinely wring abject apologies out of candidates and find fault in even the most sure-footed. The passage of time will be no defense. Nor the best of intentions. Nor anything else.

Any lapses will be interpreted through the most hostile lens, made all the more brutal by the competition of a large field of candidates vying for the approval of a radicalized base. The Democrat nomination battle might as well be fought on the campus of Oberlin College and officiated by the director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

it's a little over dramatic but i'm not so sure that's wrong

the last primary was pretty woke, most attacks on bernie sanders came from an ID politics POV

(all his supporters are white male racist misogynist brocialists)

If it's not wrong it's not bad either

republicans literally believe equity, diversity, and inclusion are bad things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgxNXtK8Nus

only subtly different from holding the gop nomination battle at NRA headquarters with grover norquist officiating

I find the people who feel compelled to tell me that they don’t like me but like my dogs fascinating. Who are they keeping it real for? Do they walk around feeling like they proved their integrity by telling me that they like my muddy spaniel but don’t like me? pic.twitter.com/WTQ9ouDqxt

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 18, 2019

lot going on there

who is the gif of shooter mcgavin supposed to represent here? jonah?

is he suggesting that he, jonah, identifies with the deeply unpleasant villain of happy gilmore? if so, credit for self-awareness i guess

The state of affairs.

Certainly standing athwart something or other

Standing athwart a urinal

what an insightful anecdote that definitely really happened:


Forgive me for repeating this story, but it’s a useful one: I have a relative who thinks of himself as a conservative. When I told him eleven years ago that I was coming to work for National Review, which I had been reading since I was a teenager, his response came in the form of this question: “Is that the one with that ol’ boy from New York who talks like a queer?” That’s what a pretty-well-representative septuagenarian Republican voter knew about William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008.

It stands to reason that Buckley should have socked himself in the face

my gramps told everyone in 1961 'no, that lad is just a femme-positive-cis-het-male, like most of that magazine's staff, probly due to early, but luckily limited, soy-exposure.' alt right has such deep roots

lol

Jonah Goldberg is not just looking for a fight. He’s hoping for a “big, internal, honking fight” to revive the Republican Party, and to fuel the high-profile new media outlet he announced last month with Steve Hayes, a former editor-in-chief of the Review’s long-time rival, The Weekly Standard, to form a new conservative media company.

Goldberg’s venture is notable in part because he’s in it, one of the few sought-out, reasonable voices in media today. But it’s also worth watching because of Goldberg’s vow to break through the siloes much of journalism now finds itself in. The new outlet, he says, will steer away from fan service when it launches this summer. “So much news we see, the audience already agrees with what they’re reading, and they want to be right,” he says. Goldberg plans to challenge the groupthink that he sees accompany “across the ideological spectrum” with “breaking political and cultural firestorms,” like the Covington kids or the Kavanaugh hearings. “If a tulip bulb mania were to break out, we want to be the place that explains both why it’s happening and why you shouldn’t sell your house to buy more tulips.”

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/jonah-goldberg-national-review-steve-hayes.php

can't wait!!!!

'pssst... hey buddy, wanna cut through the groupthink?'

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never, ever gets old

Every time I see that picture I think about how humid and sticky that plasticy car seat fabric must be and how many fast food bags he had to clear out of the way to make a seat for you.

and when he finally starts the car the empty water bottle and Dr. Pepper cans roll from under the seat against your feet.

i am being attacked on this board and if i had mod powers i would ban everyone

There are those who believe that Trump is fit for office, in mind and character, and those who do not. That has always been the case. It has never changed. And I guess never will. To a degree, the Mueller report is like a Rorschach test.

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) April 18, 2019

In conclusion, Trump is a land of contrasts.

AGAINST
RORSCHACH TESTS

he is vaguely rorschach blot-shaped

*hurm*

Lord help me, I'm looking at what National Review had to say about the Voting Rights Act this morning. pic.twitter.com/HRzhEDNmG9

— David Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) April 23, 2019

Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company with Steve Hayes, who was editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard when its owner shut it down in December.

Details: Goldberg and Hayes tell me they plan a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company that will begin with newsletters as soon as this summer, then add a website in September, and perhaps ultimately a print magazine.

Hayes, the likely CEO, and Goldberg, likely the editor-in-chief, are the founders.

Hayes tells me about the startup, which doesn’t have a name now: "We believe there’s a great appetite on the center-right for an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis."

Hayes and Goldberg are seeking investors.

i too am seeking investors

word on the street is that the center-right is where it's at right now, tons of people in that category, looking for some honest news

the cool thing about seeking investors is if you find the right ones you don't have to seek any readers

^^bingo

aka The Buckley Dictum

here's an exclusive peek at jonah's new hq

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We're going to start with a personalized license late, then add a billboard in September, then maybe some skywriting in the future.

"Whaddup, homies. I'm coolin' it behind the Walmart in Alexandria. Hit me up if u want an assignment."

Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company

I coulda sworn this happened already. How many of these no-constituency outlets do they really fuckin need