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

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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

https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@penel✧✧✧.gristelf✧✧✧/letter-to-the-editor-of-the-atlantic-jeffrey-goldberg-ceab6adb07ea

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

I see your point.

Even if she did, god was probably just like “you’re welcome, I guess. That place seems like a shithole tho lol”

God was all "yr welcome, just be sure to let everybody know in a 5,000+ word Medium blog post k thx bye"

With an editor that could have been good, without one it was...sort of stunning tbb

And hey kid - post it on some telephone poles

xp

*tbh, new phone problems

I wonder how many times she re-read and edited that before posting.

Fewer than two times. Probably none.

Their favorite bully impressed Bill Maher's audience:

Kevin made a case against majoritarianism that caught Maher off guard: “Like me, you don’t trust big masses of people because they tend to be stupid and easy to scare. All of the best things about our Constitution are the anti-democratic stuff like the Bill of Rights, which is America’s great big list of stuff you idiots don’t get to vote on. If we had put slavery up to a vote in 1860, it’d have won, it’d have won 70 to 30. If we put free speech up to a vote today it’d probably lose.”

Maher derided the idea that free speech equals money, and Kevin calmly shot him down. “I actually don’t think so. . . . That’s like saying, well you have freedom of the press but if you want to have a press, it’s $100 million, well you can’t do that because that’s big money in journalism.” Maher and the crowd seemed a bit stunned by the cogency of that, and Maher moved on to “tribal politics and political correctness.”

more like "audience stupefied by Williamson's stupidity"