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

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

is max boot running for office

the prose reminds me of Kevin Williamson's. Is it?

speaking of Kev:

The polls at the moment have it Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris, or the nincompoop, the nag, the nut, and the nark. I feel like the Democrats are not really giving Marianne Williamson a fair look.

"nark"?

kev’s working himself up to finally type the n-word

Obviously Marianne is "the Nicks"

uhhhh

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https://bit.ly/2ZiNzSL

wow that's uh

that's the most extraordinary....thing I've read this year

That's something, all right.

P.S. If I have an abortion, I’m agonna name it Kevin.

I barely made it through a third of it. Mostly incomprehensible.

but you like sci-fi~

it didn't seem too far off from the psychotic ramblings I occasionally see taped to telephone poles

but it would take at least 15 telephone poles to display this one

Interesting...

A quarter of the ceiling in my room caved in two winters ago. I did not have a stove, and for three years I had to wash my dishes in the sink of a bathroom barely more presentable than that in a truck stop. I lived next door to the same women’s shelter I had gotten kicked out of. This past winter, I was without power frequently because of how ill-equipped the old housing stock was to deal with multiple tenants. (It was a Victorian era building). After a snowstorm, I went two and a half days without running water, and in December a meth-addled prostitute who lived on a floor above me took an ax to a man’s head.

Until last winter, when the house became really unsafe, I pretty much woke up every day and thanked God that I was there, instead of still married to Kevin, because he was just that mean.

No way she woke up and thanked god everyday