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!)
Very kind of you to say. Of course, easier for me right now as I'm one of my typical "working vacations," and enjoying myself very much, which makes it easy to be cheerful.
I agree with you about Steve, of course; but we are all aware that polls show conservatives and traditionalists to be happier and more content in their lives. Certainly the people I meet in evangelical churches are cheerful in private and public. Perhaps more cheerful in private since November 5.
Oh yes, I don’t think conservatives a dour but intellectuals can be prone to darker moods, whereas few make meme drops a part of their regular scheduled output or laugh so heartily at Babylon Bee headlines. I guess I’m projecting though, I’m perhaps a little prone to darker moods and I appreciate the people who spread light for the rest of us!
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.
Coyote is nuts. Women in these riots are as bad as the men and the men who think they are women. Usually blue or pink haired, they shriek, they spit, the yell venom. Not a good look. And they really haven’t learned anything from the civil rights protests of blacks unless they are learning from Bull Conner.
Indeed, nothing is worse that the screaming harridans of the left. Except maybe that guy with the manbun. His response to that woman wanting to go to work was classic Maynard G. Krebs.
I have long been amazed by those who believe that women are going to be kinder and more compassionate when they are in charge. It’s like they don’t even know us women-folk.
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!)
Very kind of you to say. Of course, easier for me right now as I'm one of my typical "working vacations," and enjoying myself very much, which makes it easy to be cheerful.
I agree with you about Steve, of course; but we are all aware that polls show conservatives and traditionalists to be happier and more content in their lives. Certainly the people I meet in evangelical churches are cheerful in private and public. Perhaps more cheerful in private since November 5.
Oh yes, I don’t think conservatives a dour but intellectuals can be prone to darker moods, whereas few make meme drops a part of their regular scheduled output or laugh so heartily at Babylon Bee headlines. I guess I’m projecting though, I’m perhaps a little prone to darker moods and I appreciate the people who spread light for the rest of us!
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.
Coyote spells out the difference between a protest and a riot. Which paid "community activist" thought it would be a good idea to wave Mexican flags?
Well said.
Coyote is nuts. Women in these riots are as bad as the men and the men who think they are women. Usually blue or pink haired, they shriek, they spit, the yell venom. Not a good look. And they really haven’t learned anything from the civil rights protests of blacks unless they are learning from Bull Conner.
https://x.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1932585313890681027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1932585313890681027%7Ctwgr%5E34e2f9fe965fa04807048e4a2df1e30021a48ca5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Frusty-weiss%2F2025%2F06%2F11%2Fwatch-white-liberals-in-nyc-mock-black-woman-begging-them-to-let-her-get-to-work-and-support-her-kids-n2190330
Women are the clear majority of Hamasniks on campuses, at least of the homegrown ones.
Indeed, nothing is worse that the screaming harridans of the left. Except maybe that guy with the manbun. His response to that woman wanting to go to work was classic Maynard G. Krebs.
"Work?"
I have long been amazed by those who believe that women are going to be kinder and more compassionate when they are in charge. It’s like they don’t even know us women-folk.
Run down that Norwegian street waving a Mexican flag and see how long it takes till you're pelted into submission with lutefisk.
So the good part of the week now starts on Wednesday and continues through Saturday morning.
Did folks catch the debut of Miranda Devine’s new podcast today? She debuts by interviewing—Donald Trump! Linked by PLB earlier.
The "insufferables" meme is a good start, but some must-have additions:
* mainstream media talking heads
* yatch owners
* golfers
* software engineers (yes, I know the irony)
One cannot make a protest when the intention is based on destruction. It’s called a “riot”…
This is why I can’t go on Jeopardy: I just don’t ‘do’ pop culture.
Never heard of Peter Coyote.
But if he taught at Harvard he must be brilliant ( /sarc) in spite of that poorly written post.
I believe he was in a couple of forgettable) movies in the 80(?).
Mostly I just see his name as the narrator on nature videos on PBS (yes, I watch them, but I don’t subscribe—not any more).
Annex Mexico!
No, let Canada and Mexico unite, and we'll accept Alberta if that's what Albertans want.
I dont know Max, if that happens, we’d be surrounded by our enemies…
Oh wait! Too late. Our enemies are already inside our borders.