12.11.21

FRIDAY short TAKES.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or perhaps like a cornucopia of aphorisms.


That is, if there are toys in every store.

1What are you looking at, crab-cakes?  "I’ve had my last bit of crab cocktail until the supply chain straightens out."  Related: "Progressives can deny the existence of inflation or that Joe Biden is causing harm to family budgets with his economic policies all they want. The rest of us continue to make purchases and see with our own eyes the rising prices."

2Precisely.  "Insuring that only legally eligible voters cast a ballot is 'subverting election results' only to those who make a practice of subverting election results."

3Checkmate.  "Unlike LeBron James, I'm not on the payroll of any dictatorship."  Read the whole thing, "Socialism is the religion of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy" is the teaser.

4 I'll drink to that!  “Wine moms won't save us. Need the beer moms.”

5Make that bellicose beer moms!  "But for one day at least, it's nice to see humility imposed on the Imperious Class by voters weary of being sneered at."

6.  Why having a functioning jive detector is important.  "What has happened this past week, I suspect, is that the woke revolution has finally met its match: educated parents."


8.  Why should this administration be any different than any other administration?  "The current federal administration appears determined to set some kind of record for enacting the most stupid policies in the shortest period of time."  Read the whole thing.  "Vaccinating more and more people isn’t a long run exit plan."


10C. J. Polychroniou is the gift that keeps on giving.  "There are, for all intents and purposes, three paths of restructuring the global economic order in order to keep catastrophic climate change at bay: (a) dismantle capitalism; (b) shrink dramatically economic activity; and (c) implement a Global Green New Deal."  The Global Green New Deal is simply the Fifth International.

11Laugh them into oblivion.  "Humor and ridicule are great weapons to defeat the campus totalitarians." Also, "The mission to save academia is too important to be led by the smartest of the smart displaying their wisdom."

12What did I tell you?  "The flexibility to build new things they cannot afford has been proudly maintained."

13Let's go, Brandon.  "Has anyone ever heard of liberal Americans deliberately not pumping oil and gas, but still needing so much more output that they beg the illiberal Saudis and Russians to bail us out?"

14Reality is socially conservative.  "Liberal societies have rules. Those rules, and the values they embody, have been a long and torturous time evolving."

15.   Coalition of the SaneAnd what they want.  "What the American people do not want is a cadre of self-satisfied, self-appointed 'betters' who tell them guilt and innocence are relative, to be determined by the protected identity status of those involved and prosecuted at the whim of the elect."

16Do you ask who is John Galt?  "Fossil fuels provide Americans with the large majority of our energy, and are by far the most efficient source of energy for most uses. But the Democrats don’t like them. Fine: force voters either to go without electricity and gasoline, or pay skyrocketing prices for those commodities. Then run for re-election. After years of meaningless chatter from the Left, it is time to put up or shut up."

17Do you see John Galt in Minnesota?  "That academic debate is kind of beside the point in St. Paul where developers are actively walking away from in-progress projects because of the new ordinance's lack of an explicit exemption for new construction."

18.  A virus doesn't give a flying f**k about your politics.  "[Republican-voting] America has probably built up more natural immunity to COVID — from prior infections — than [Democrat-voting] America, because the hostility to vaccination and social distancing has caused the virus to spread more widely. A buildup in natural immunity may be one reason that the partisan gap in new COVID cases has shrunk recently."

19Sharing the poverty.  "Socialists lucky enough to live in liberal democracies want to disqualify [Cuba or North Korea] as 'not real socialism.' On the contrary: They are what socialism inevitably becomes."


21Exactly.  "The people who should be on trial are the cowardly adults in charge of Kenosha."

22.  And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.  “But what happens if there’s nothing to buy and you got more money? You compete for getting it there. It creates a real problem.”

23Privilege is civilization.  "For, to establish a successful culture or tradition is to establish a system of privileges. Each of us enjoys privileges inherited from ancestors, whether in the form of wealth or knowledge or social standing."

24Guess what's missing from this essay?  "Water policy is rife with scientific complexity, but the legislation and regulations that shape it are hashed out in the political arena."

25Good question.  "Have you noticed that even as the estimates of the COVID vaccines’ efficacy against transmission continues to be revised downward, American health officials continually revise the efficacy of masks upward?"

26Woke croaked.  "The insufferable woke punditry and academic-bureaucratic complex are going to have to find some other high hobby horse to ride."



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