Winning Time
It's not even the dog days of summer, but the Dog Years of Trump 2 roll on
I’ve joked before that things happen so fast in the second Trump Administration that it needs to be measured in dog years, and doesn’t the Trump-Musk breakup seem like it happened two years ago?
It helps to have a completely incompetent opposition party to work with. To paraphrase Will Rogers, it’s no trouble succeeding as President Trump when you have hordes of TDS sufferers working for you for free. No sooner do the media say, “The rioting is no big deal in LA; it’s just a few people in a tiny area,” than Mayor Wide Mouth Bass declares a curfew faster than you can say “Bad Opinion Poll.”
How bad is it? It’s so bad that the clearest voice on the subject is a radical Hollywood actor, Peter Coyote. (Coyote was one of the radical leaders of the “Diggers” in Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, and hasn’t shed much of his radicalism with age.)
It’s almost enough to make you think the rioters are all on Stephen Miller’s payroll. If I had more skill at social media disinformation and mischief, I might promote the idea just for grins and giggles.
Chaser—the ever reliable Jonathan Chait:
What would liberal journalists do without studies?
Even more incompetence: the LA riots are eclipsing the latest publicity stunt of Greta the Disgruntled. Which leads into our Wednesday memes:
You just know this is going to happen:
Annnnd it looks like Musk got his Snickers:
Finally, I’m still hanging out with loyal readers in Norway (see—I can even troll myself!):
Coming tomorrow—another Max Cossack classic!
I’m always struck by how friendly your demeanour is in every photo and in your jovial spirit on the 3 Whiskey Happy Hour and how that carries on to a conservatism that marries Reaganism and the intellectual acuity & principles of Claremont conservatism while being comfortably Pro Trump.
I’m told by many Trump skeptics that to be a supporter is to subdue all one’s values and believe in defeatist ideas of America at home and abroad in an ultimately miserable outlook based on resentment, fear, and retribution. Yet you defy all of that, disagreeing where you do and being skeptical where appropriate, and being the epitome in all ways of a Happy Warrior.
You’re not the only one but you’re one of the most insightful and erudite. Thank you for providing a positive example where many insisted none could exist, and being magnanimous and lighthearted to boot!
Happy Hump Day from the (🤞) 51st State (I kid, though I do hope one day to gain a visa and eventually citizenship, just without losing my grandfather’s homeland!)
At least one of Peter Coyote's suggestions will go unfulfilled. It is true that in the sixties relatively sane organizers of "peace" demonstrations worked hard to keep them safe and peaceful.
Doing that is an idea outlawed among current "protest" organizers. They consider it immoral to object to or interfere with the violence of any of the people who come there with them. Not only is this cowardly belief itself shameless and immoral, but it is self-destructive. They deserve to pay whatever political or legal price they pay for it.