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

beautiful

Jonah's out!

https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/last-g-file-national-review/

in celebration of Jonah Goldberg leaving national review, I present to you the paragraph for he deserves to be remembered—written as Katrina breached the levees pic.twitter.com/NkPzg2fcoj

— Elon Green (@elongreen) June 1, 2019

the Socialism issue the Nathan Robinson treatment

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/06/the-best-theyve-got

*gets the

a very satisfying read!

hmmm it’s almost like the right’s best minds are intellectually dishonest charlatans

fair play to the guy who’s just like ‘yeah they’ve got a point’ tho

that guy go on chapo

good ol' Kevin Williamson

speaking of kevin: lmao

last year we had a fake ad for a Kevin Williamson book about how twitter mobs are oppressing conservatives. Now, Kevin Williamson has announced his new book, and it is about... about how twitter mobs are oppressing conservatives. pic.twitter.com/WfX6eSHylE

— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) June 11, 2019

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these people are deranged

I'm not gonna kink-shame, but they don't HAVE to publish it on the website either.

fabulous heel imo

the most recent Maureen Dowd column alluded to Kamela Harris digging her heel into Biden or something

the last 40 years of politics really can just be boiled down to men feeling emasculated and whites feeling dislodged from the top, like literally every single issue can funnel that way

After what happened to @MrAndyNgo today, and the violence he's been documenting, it seems that Antifa rules Portland with the same impunity that the KKK ruled Birmingham in the 1960s. Shame on you, Mayor @tedwheeler. Restore law and order to your city. https://t.co/lQ2HnnPpGI

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) June 29, 2019

looking for my Portland people to detail how Antifa now controls the streets

oh my goddddddddddddddddddddddd

What happens when conservatives try to vote in Portland?

what rod fails to consider is that beating up andy ngo is good and should be encouraged, actually

The people serving the milkshakes were also making them in the square. I am skeptical of the story going around that said they were adding quick-setting concrete mix to the milkshakes. It is possible someone was picking up a single shake, walking off with it, then adding cement mix, but there have been no official confirmations of this. Several people were drinking their shakes.

the 'cement milkshake' thing is a rapidly-proliferating alt-right mantra/meme with no basis in fact AFAICT

concrete is the serum that supercharges antifa supersoldiers

Speaking as an Asian dude if someone actually beat me up because they genuinely thought I was actually Andy Ngo I'd still be mad but I'd also be like "Yeah okay I get it" https://t.co/40HdTLLjQZ

— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) July 2, 2019

all cops are boneheaded

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lol at the recipe for deadly concrete milkshakes including the terrifyingly specific 'chemical additives'

It brings me great sorrow to report that wealthy women who are paid large sums of money to play a game are unhappy with the pay structure for which their union collectively bargained and to which they themselves voluntarily agreed. The foxes have holes, and the birds the air nests; but members of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team are only guaranteed a $100,000 salary to play a game (before bonuses, of course). Let it never be said that ours is a country without tragedy.

The process by which two parties settle a compensation dispute through arbitration and collective bargaining (rather than publicly play-acting as Freedom Riders and disrespecting the country on foreign soil) — “the right way to do it,” if you prefer — has already proven an effective means of improving team pay, if raising team pay is indeed the point.

For a comparable number of “friendlies,” the women’s team compensation leapt from 38 percent to 89 percent of their male counterparts’ with the enactment of the 2017 collective-bargaining agreement, according to the Washington Post. These numbers, which reflect the improvements possible from a simple negation process, are misleading in terms of the disparity between the men and women — the women’s salaries and bonuses are not structured the same as the men’s team, which receives higher bonuses than the women’s team but does not receive a guaranteed salary.

But even this evades the actual point: If the women’s team is unhappy with this arrangement, it is not the fault of the United States, the American flag, Donald Trump, or some distant cabal of sexist white men scheming to stick their thumbs in the face of Megan Rapinoe. It is the fault of both the women’s union representatives and the women themselves for signing an agreement that they were unhappy with. If they didn’t like the terms of the agreement reached by the collective bargaining process, the women’s team was well within its right not to sign it. But, alas, they did sign it. Doesn’t that matter?

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if stupidity and racism are mutually exclusive categories, racism is therefore smart. this is a very exciting innovation at nro https://t.co/fLtJq26W9Z pic.twitter.com/SsgAsKu7DL

— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) July 16, 2019

I'm gonna write a tweet that's gonna tick a lot of people off. Reagan conservatives like me have been called racists -- falsely and maliciously -- all of our lives. So, to many Americans, every charge of racism, no matter how legitimate, rings hollow. Good job, wolf-criers.

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) July 18, 2019

or perhaps it was not so false or malicious...

Look at him. Doesn't Nordlinger look like the Terminator?

I'm ticked off

he was right about thing in that tweet i guess

^one^ thing

it's a trend

Yup. The left wildly over-uses accusations of racism (just ask George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney to take three recent examples). The right underplays racism, denying, excusing, and rationalizing it even when it’s real. https://t.co/LKmKpsrsSr

— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 18, 2019

he left off reagan. there you have it folks. david french thinks ronald reagan was racist.

I was curious about the "music critic" part of Nordlinger's bio. Oof.

The New York Philharmonic opened a concert with a new piece, or rather new enough: it was composed in 2015 and ’16. It is a symphony, the Symphony No. 2 of Thomas Larcher. The work has a nickname, Kenotaph, which is simply German for “cenotaph.” Larcher is an Austrian composer, born in 1963. He wrote this piece with a crisis in mind: the crisis of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean, where they often drown.

"In summation, the New York Philharmonic is a land of contrasts"-quality prose.

tbh I love that last sentence

welp pic.twitter.com/b1OPrtyFGr

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) July 20, 2019

Perfect.

Who do they think they actually speak for at this point? Does an NRO demographic even exist?

Old white men and women over 50 who fantasize about being on campus while free speech wars rage.

uh otm?

Anyone who thinks that the Mueller Report reflects well on Trump either doesn’t know anything about it or has such low standards for Trump that it insults the man — more than his enemies could.

— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) July 25, 2019

Oh, I think I can insult Trump more than that.

#MeToo killed the office romance, see.

The 'office romance' was never worth saving.

i wonder which they'll pick

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1. in what way is that Faustian
2. have these people ever considered the third option of not talking at all