Farewell, Jarrett regency. "Biden’s presidency had been a sham from its very first day, a project managed by a group of advisers rather than an actual president, and that cabal couldn’t fire anyone who might reveal the secret." We can't run him. "I just was at a meeting with him with several other senators and he couldn’t even function" It is all an inglorious coda to five decades in public office. Speaking of inglorious codas, "Joe Biden's advisory opinion that he thinks the Equal Rights Amendment ratified is empty, vain, given to the winds."
No kidding. "The world will not end on January 20." The squandering of the peace dividend might have. "We had started electing cool presidents after the Cold War ended, when it suddenly felt as if the stakes of the American presidency were much less consequential—less nuclear. Cool never ages well."
The time for cool has passed. "Donald Trump is glaring because he means bidness. His bidness is to shift the paradigm on the mendaciously sanctimonious managerial class of the USA, of which The New York Times is the principal mouthpiece." Has nearly 40 years of unserious presidents been enough?
America is done being guilted into accepting the crazy. The hysterics increased in direct proportion to the poverty of the charges. Go figure. "Young men don’t like being ruled over by neurotic — and sometimes psychotic — women."
CRISIS + BIPARTISAN = STUPID. "Whenever there's a crisis and a bipartisan push to DO SOMETHING, the odds are about six out of five that the SOMETHING will turn out to be too big, too expensive, and corrosive to liberty." With the rent-seekers cleaning up.
Reality dawns on the Woke. "Despite living nowhere near working-class black and brown people, this do-gooder somehow knew he spoke for them. 'What happens if your social experiment of abolishing the police ends badly? What happens if it causes an outbreak of gun violence, gang violence, and youth violence? You lead an ivory-towered existence in a wealthy white neighborhood whereas my constituents, poor people of color, will be forced to live with the consequences of your social engineering. Is that truly progressive—to have white progressive luxury beliefs whose costs are primarily borne by people of color?'" Somewhere George Wallace is nodding.
The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. Lady McBiden.
3. Reflexive ignorance. "Many Americans never stopped being patriotic, but their patriotism was viewed as a mark of ignorance by the coastal elites and the academy."
4. Let's be on Team Normal. "It was not normal to alienate voters. It was not normal to obsess over race and gender. Identity politics doesn’t work."
5. Fire your government employees. "Since DEI was essentially a program to promote incompetence, these employees represent a monumental cargo of dead-weight."
6. CNN books Salena Zito. “You’re the only reporter that got it right.”
7. Experts don't know what they're talking about. "It’s time to consider the possibility that all too many of the very smart, very earnest, and very well-compensated people who take it upon themselves to interpret the signs of our times have been radically misinformed."
8. Complex adaptive systems, doing what they darn well please. "Much of the periodization of American electoral history was an attempt to force order onto a political history that was largely chaotic." Spontaneous order tends to rule the day.
9. Markets fail. Use markets. "Markets work imperfectly and so do governments. Moreover, the imperfections of government, due to bad incentives, poor information, and poor incentives to get information, are typically much worse than the incentives of for-profit providers."
10. Make station wagons legal again. "People suffered for nearly 20 years driving those early model Priuses for nothing."
11. Otherwise known as malaise. "America was headed for the sort of crony-capitalist bureaucratic-governance stagnation that afflicts Europe."
12. Democrat operatives with bylines. "Reporters are now fully visible as willing dupes in one of the greatest corruption scandals in the history of this country."
13. The soft bigotry of low expectations. “As a culture, whiteness is toxic in society and in education. More specifically, in society, whiteness presents through norms including—but not limited to—perfectionism, a sense of urgency, individualism, and objectivity.” As opposed to good enough, whenever, whoever, whatever?
15. The negation of a negative is not necessarily a positive. "The American public has bought what Trump is selling."
16. Reality is socially conservative. "If you have to normalize behavior, then it’s not normal to begin with."
17. By their fruits. "A toxic combination of progressive ideology and political incompetence has cost thousands of Angelenos their properties and belongings – and in some cases, their lives."
18. California dreaming, on such a winter's day. "This world of The Beach Boys, The Parent Trap, avant-garde architects, physicists, novelists, of soft Southern California light was once here. Now it’s gone, and it will never come back."
20. Luxury maladies. "You don’t have ADHD – you’re just annoying."
21. She's a hockey mom. "Is Carrie Underwood a Republican or Democrat?" Shut up and let the lady sing.
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