We met the nicest bunch of guys out here in the rural Rocky Mountains. They put on uniforms, drill, do target practice, learn hand-to-hand combat, run around the hills, chase Jews… it’s fun. No, I didn’t tell them, because they did seem awful nice and I didn’t want to spoil their fun.
Anyway, that’s a fitting way to segue into the news today. Although I should mention that it’s Stan Laurel’s birthday. The Music Box is still one of the funniest bits of film ever made.
Speaking of which, I really am losing hope for the new generation.
STILL more useful than their purported assignment.
Florida Man, you never, ever disappoint. And bless the Second Amendment.
Old Guy Music! Not much to say here beyond that this is the guy who basically invented modern electric guitar playing. And the fucker cooks.
I’m guessing they avoided the south and west sides
They wouldn’t want to flaunt their privilege or something.
I’m sure the
gangbangersHonor rollees would give them a warm reception.Yeah, the Parkland students organized the Chicago event. Sure.
Who’s on first?
Drat
Bill the Cat, apparently, which is a little disturbing…
Oh, wait, are we doing the bit? ::clears throat:: “What’s on second?”
I don’t know
Third base.
“Teen sex and drug use at lowest rates in decades, CDC finds”
Low energy losers. Sad!
These kids today, why in my day you were expected to pay a homeless man to buy you beer, drink it at a abandoned strip mine, try to have sex whith a member of the fairer sex in your 500$ POS, then drive said POS home while intoxicated.
Yells at clouds
*Hands Timeloose an onion to tie to his belt*
It was the fashion at the time.
I’ve always questioned these “polls”. How do they adjust for bad data.
I would have never told them the truth.
Video games? Low T? Not enough gym class?
Sounds like you’re saying we’re turning into Japan.
+1 The Vapors.
All of the above.
This is very disappointing. On the other hand, my high school class (1979) is still number one! Yay us!
Yeah, I was ’81. Good times.
Looks like you wouldn’t have hit the zenith without the big kick from we 1978ers.
In fact, one could argue that your example made everything go down from that point forward!
How can this be? TOP men have been on the job for 30+ years, money has been spent and benfits have been held
30+ years? More like 100+ years since the outbreak of progressivism.
“I reached in between my glove box and my console, between my seats, reached down and got my weapon and brandished it for him,” Reardean told WJXT. “He was like, ‘Don’t shoot me.’ I was like, ‘Then get out of here.’”
Hill then jumped into the passenger seat of a woman’s car in a Starbucks drive-thru. Police said the woman got out of her car and grabbed a pistol from her trunk, pointing it at Hill until he ran off-
I’ve never been more proud of my hometown.
From her trunk? seems it would be hard to access.
She may not have had CCW. I’m guessing that’s going to change.
If David Hogg had his way, those two drivers would be dead because they’d have been left defenseless.
this happened in West side, right?
I think the first guy was trying to remember the lyrics to Panama.
I’d like to see our modern youth channel their energies into truly productive and socially beneficial activities, like drinking beer and getting high and fingerbanging themselves silly.
Hey, it worked for OUR generation.
“Hogg, who is taking a gap year before acknowledging that no big name college will admit him and he registers at Eastern Gofuckyourself State Career Center to earn a Certificate of Completion as a Call Center Technician.”
Taking a gap year is a pretty good idea for Hogg. With the connections he as made, and the stances he has taken, he probably can get in to any ivy league or well-known school he wants. Probably will get a free ride out of it. All he needs to do is keep his name in the papers with the right causes next to it and he is golden.
I don’t know, he’s already been rejected from his first choice schools, although those were all Cali schools. Maybe he’d do better with East coast Ivys, but that depends on his new connections actually going to bat for him, instead of binning him like a juice box once he’s no longer useful.
Maybe UCLA declined to take him because they don’t offer a degree in self promotion.
Should try here
Considering his views.
Excellent choice for staging a gun control rally – Chicago. Yeah, see, this is the problem right here – not enough laws.
The Most Heartbreaking, Infuriating Stories From Trump’s Family Separation Policy. TW: Mother Jones I wonder if MJ has an article listing the most heartbreaking, infuriating stories from England’s DHS service leaving young children to die instead of leaving the country to find treatment elsewhere?
I thought I was redirected to TOS for a moment.
Yeah Shikha had something similar the other day.
So, you aren’t supposed to separate the child from the parent in detention…but if the parent is detained, doesn’t the child have to be detained to keep the family together?
I mean, we can go on. There isn’t a whole lot of sympathy for actual citizens stuck in similar situations. I doubt Mother Jones does much reporting on the parent who loses their child because of some incompetent and/or cruel CPS agent.
A lot of these types would be happy to take your kids at birth and raise them for you. Consistency isn’t their strong point.
Wasn’t that literally one of the links yesterday, where they admitted the only way to reach Utopia was to kidnap everyone’s kids and redistribute them?
Yes.
That’s just for the flyover state plebs.
Their goal is to have the illegals set free in the US where they will never show up for their trial.
How do they adjust for bad data.
I would have never told them the truth.
“Relax, Kid. This information is totally anonymous, and what you tell us will be kept in strictest confidence. We’re here to help you.”
As we hear about the latest data breach from (fill in the blank).com
I didn’t trust anything or anyone when I was 16 except for my friends and family. Well what do you know I’m still like that.
The New Yorker: If You Ask Me: Only Deadpool Can Save Us Now. Yup, this is an actual article.
That bitch paid by the word? I went through paragraphs without any indication that she was even slothfully moving toward a point. I finally gave up reading this tedious diatribe that reads like a bitchy teenager writing about another bitchy teenager.
You knew you were reading the New Yorker, right? “Tedious diatribe” is sort of their specialty.
Nobody asked you, asshole.
“I was saying Boo-urns!”
While teens may be practicing less risky behaviors, their mental health is less promising, the survey showed.
The rate of high school students who felt sad or hopeless rose from 29 percent in 2007 to 32 percent in 2017, according to the findings published in the June 15 issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
“Our young people deserve access to effective primary care and behavioral health services,” Grosso said. “Just as important, they deserve an environment that includes supportive adults, communities without drugs and schools without guns. The health professions, policymakers and society have much work to do.”
Let’s get serious about creating a nation of risk averse, docile drones.
That’s how we became the political and economic powerhouse of the twentieth century, right?
Not that anyone cares but I got a new preamplifier – a Classe Five.
Best part? Old school remote control that turns the volume knob with a motor.
Is the remote wired or wireless?
Wireless – it’s not _that_ old
Alps motorized pot? I have a couple of those in the junk pile waiting for me to have some time to use them.
Dunno. Believe it or not I didn’t crack open the case – uses hex screws and I was too lazy to grab my tool kit before I plugged everything in.
It appears to be well made though. Heavy little beast. This interior pic – looks like a Noble pot? Or an Alps black.
pic not mine – googled it – so this could be the older DR-5
In that pic, looks like an Alps Black beauty (not motorized, though) and an Alps Blue Velvet.
The only Classe stuff I have experience with is my doc’s power amp (which I repaired because he repaired me). Power transformer had failed, which was odd.
Loved motorized pots!
Related, I had a JVC receiver in the 80s that was my first remote controlled receiver. Digital volume, naturally.
But my friends and I were all audiophiles and hated the display. LCD with an orange backlighting and real-time spectrogram. Insanely busy looking.
We nicknamed it “Tokyo at night”.
I had a stereo with one of those knobs. Gave me the scariest movie experience of my life, while watching of the least scary horror movies ever. I was watching The Others on a stormy night in my cabin in the middle of the woods. The volume knob starts to turn down, I grab the remote and turn it back up. Fine for several minutes, then it happens again. This repeats again, I take the batteries out of the remote walk up and turn the volume back up myself. As I turn to walk away the knob turns itself off again. After a stunned moment I turn it back up again. It was fine the rest of the night and never did it again for the years I had that stereo.
Nice.
I’ve got an Acurus RL11 with a motorized volume, from back when I was pretending that I could discern fine differences in audio quality. It was okay, with the matching A250 amp, but the Acurus CD player was junk. I gave up on it after the second transport failed.
Federalism gone wild: How Republicans seized power in state capitals — and reshaped America. TW: Salon
Maybe because the Republicans aren’t as out of step with the American people on those issues as you liars claim.
The people have spoken at the state level, which is incorrect. Because gerrymandering. I didn’t read the article, but I bet gerrymandering makes it in there.
Counting! 1 gerrymandering, HA HA HAAA! 2 gerrymandering, HA HA HAAA! 3 gerrymandering, HA HA HAAAAA!
I mean, if gerrymandering was really the culprit as they’ve been bitching for like a decade now, then you’d think they’d hold less governorships than state legislatures. But it’s the opposite. Strange.
I don’t suppose Salon looked at Chicago? No evil Rs there. Gerrymandered the hell out of it
Technically, the people have spoken in the states where Republicans have majorities i the state legislatures.
Nuh uh. Gerrymandering. Game. Set. Match. QED.
They even managed to locate a Berkeley scholar to back them up. You can’t argue against that.
Also, saying “America wants this — why don’t these states?” is the same as saying “California voted in wild excess for HIllary , why didn’t she win these states?”
LOL
The people who tell me what a threat to democracy Trump is sure don’t seem to like the results of elections.
Tax policy, eh? They’re still swearing that people are dying to have their taxes raised? Sounds legit.
That picture immediately made me realize that the difference is that the Left are all about activism! and protest! and that’s why these types think the whole country is like that, because the Left is so loud and of course have the entire MSM to themselves. The Right aren’t out there protesting for a return to sanity or to leave them alone, so they don’t think it exists.
And when they do, they’re either racists or astroturf or racist astroturf.
Generically, the author is right. People do want the rich to pay more in taxes, guns kept from bad people, etc. But the problem the author has is that once the people learn about the way things already are or they learn about the solutions the author and her friends want, then the people balk. For example, people want to keep guns away from bad guys but the author’s preferred solution is keep guns away from everybody except the police and the well connected. The people don’t understand why, since they don’t even have a speeding ticket, they shouldn’t be able to get a gun.
Seizures all around.
Chauncey DaVega rivals Amanda Marcotte for the sheer, unbridled idiocy he is able to commit to the printed page
Trump, of course, has enjoyed only the cheesiest and most embarrassing forms of wealth and celebrity for decades, which is why, even in his Brioni suits, he comes across as the owner of an Omaha used-car dealership starring in his own cable ads.
Har dee fucking har.
Just what I need; some haughty self proclaimed New York Jewess making snotty “jokes” about the rubes. If only we all could be so effetely superior.
I don’t disagree with her here, but it only serves to reinforce that the Trump-inspired lunacy is mostly about his gaucheness. Sure, Obama trampled on civil rights all over the place and overreached the powers of his office as casually as most of us make coffee, but didn’t you notice how elegant he was when he did it??
You know who else is from Omaha?
The Simon family, founders of Omaha Steaks?
Marlon Perkins?
::voice over:: “Welcome to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdon. Jim will now castrate this water buffalo with a pen knife.”
Anyone else remember that line from a 70’s era stand-up bit? I thought it was Robin Williams, but a quick search turns up nothing.
Johnny Carson used to do this when Jim Fowler was on.
Is it a biodegrade pen knife ?
If only we all could be so effetely superior.
But, that’s just the rub, isn’t it? I mean I’m being lectured on good taste and sophisticated decorum by an assistant buyer in juniors’ activewear? She’s copping an attitude about the rubes in Omaha when she’s little more than a plane’s flight away from it herself. And that seems to be the common thread amongst these sorts.
The people have spoken, repeatedly.
“But we here at Salon have jammed our fingers deep into our ears, and are lustily shouting ‘Lalalalalalalalalalala I can’t heeeaaar you!!’ for all we’re worth. And we shall continue to do so, because we’re the reality based community.”
Well, I made it to the end of that New Yorker “humor” thing. Wow. What a giant flaming bag of of seething, impotent rage. I’m laughing, but not for the reasons the author might wish.
didn’t you notice how elegant he was when he did it??
Those creases!
*fans self with copy of New Republic*
“Some would call this tragedy. Some would call this callousness. Some would call this overblown. I would call it “opportunity.””
So much selective outrage going on. Kids were being separated under Obama too. Granted not as many, but numbers don’t really matter.
I have a US Passport and TSA pre-screen. There is an extremely high probability that I will be arrested if I walk through passport control or an airport security check-point – even though my documents are in-order. Oh, and I will be separated from my children.
But Obama did for the right reasons, not the bigoted, fascist reasons like Trump.
Hmmm. Separate kids or
Separate lives?
I guess the good news is that Trump is no longer hitler.
That’s impossible. I was assured by reputable news outlets like the BBC that this was all right wing lies. There’s no particular threat to whites in South Africa. Everything is fine.
I’m sure our leaders who are all about refugees will be clamoring to open the U.S. to whites from South Africa any moment.
There’s plenty of room in this world for multiple Hitlers.
You gotta keepem separated.
I don’t even have to click that. Damn you.
24 heures du Mans is now in progress.
online?
Uber has more blood on its hands.
Guessing the problem is the cost of the medallion?
https://www1.salary.com/NY/Taxi-Driver-salary.html
The city’s monopoly “guarantee” doesn’t come cheap.
He could always have become an Uber driver…
Hard to feel too sorry for a guy who can’t find another job in this economy. It is tough having no family and no job at that age. My dad lost his job when someone acquired the business he had worked for his whole life around age 50, took a few years and he could only ever get work far below his qualifications, but he did it and raised 3 kids.
So yeah, hard to feel sorry for him.
Shameless self-promotion:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/04/suicide-libertarian-style/
You’ve written a bunch of articles here… lemme see.
I think you’ve got a typo/math error in there boss.
“With that caveat, best quality studies put incidence at around 1% of the population or 12 out of every 100,000 people:
should be something like 120/100,000 not 12, if the incidence is 1%, else the incidence is 0.12%
Looks like I fucked it up too.
0.012% or 1200/100,000.
I would say it is immoral, maybe even unethical if you have minor children/other legal obligations. Otherwise I don’t see the problem people have with it. Maybe I need to read Trashy’s article, but for some reason this doesn’t bother me as much as say, someone torching their own house. Maybe it is because of the fundamental right to self ownership, which is the basis of all other rights. Maybe it is because I’ve been there and know how painful it can be to be that depressed, and thus, can conceive of it being the ‘best choice’ for an individual to make.
Strongly depends on the person, doesn’t it? The world would hardly be worse off without some of the people who currently inhabit it. Rapists, murders, welfare recipients etc.
Haven’t actually written the next episode, but I know the characters and setting, just need to find the right audio to write around.
I’ve spent the last couple of days thinking about the Clinton email IG report. Basically, the FBI investigators took the least aggressive approach they could. No subpoenas, no grand juries. They gave immunity rather quickly. They allowed potential witnesses to assist in the defense of potential defendants. They allowed potential defendants to turn over evidence, on their own time, and after the defendants scrubbed the device of non-investigative related evidence.
Contrast that to how Trump and his associates have been treated. Indicted for crimes which took place years ago, unrelated to the initial investigation, and were already investigated and cleared once. Midnight raids by SWAT of people cooperating with the investigation. Indicted for something not all the investigators thought what happened and then forced to plead guilty by bankrupting them and their family.
So even after taking it easy on Hillary Clinton, the FBI was forced to work hard to come up with a reason not to indict Hillary. Meanwhile, after over a year of hard nose investigation, with a team biased against Trump, they still haven’t publicly found something close to what they started the investigation over.
This is one of the most egregious things about that whole “investigation”. If the feds thought any commoner had anything remotely illegal on their computer (like self-shot nudie pics of a 17½ year old girl) they would kick the fucking door down, absolutely destroy your home in search of any and all electronic devices, then they would have their computer forensics team inspect every single byte while you wait it out in a jail cell.
If they had ANYTHING on Trump they would have used it against him by now to stop his progress.
If he succeeds in North Korea their heads will explode from his foreign as well as domestic achievements.
Le Mans 24 hours Ford onboard Camera
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_oKf-qCIRg
גרויס טיץ
http://archive.is/vcoTm
10, 12, 22(L), 49 and 57 all seem to have bodily proportions far in the right-hand tail of the distribution. 87 is too drunk to give consent. 6 wins the “on the nose” award.
18, 33
24,30
Awesome typo in the title.
21 for wholesome girl-next-door fun.
61 for sex doll prototype.
Yeah, I was wondering if 10 & 12 had a little Photoshop help.
I hope not.
I’d like to introduce #17 to dienda.
The State is your Daddy now, Bitches.
Is that supposed to make some sort of sense? I’m having trouble following the logic.
GMB wonders if you should “ban” father’s day. I wouldn’t be looking for much logic there.
The second sentence doesn’t bear any connection to the first that I can see. Single-parent fathers and same-sex fathers are still fathers. And I don’t know WTF “blended” is supposed to mea– ah fuck, I give up.
Yeah, I almost want to know what blended means, but fuck it, they can keep making up words till the cows come home and I’m not about to kowtow to their fairyland definitions.
I’m going to assume it means cucks though.
There’s 33 genders so…
I wonder if they asked the same question about Mother’s Day last mo…..
I couldn’t continue typing that with a straight face.
There’s no difference between men and women. It’s a social construct.
Well, we can’t ban father’s day without serious consequences for cheaters, can we? 20 years for first time offenders?
I was wondering the same thing, are we going to have morality police ala Saudi arabia?
How do you ‘ban’ a holiday?
I guess it is amazing what sick fucks these people are that they presumably have no problem with that. The problem with oppression isn’t oppression per se, it is who is being oppressed, from their POV.
It’s England – they’ll find a way.
Today in judging people by the color of their skin (and what they have between their legs) rather than the content of their character:
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11027
And? Maybe you can become dean yourself and get a fucking picture on the wall. Oh wait a minute, actual students don’t give a crap about this stuff. Just the woke admins.
1984: the instruction manual.
Why don’t they just ban white males from universities? That will fix it.
Don’t think they aren’t already trying to figure out how to do that.
I have a son who is a junior in high school, and know far too much about this reverse discrimination already.
online?
Si, Ysef. I found a youtube livestream on my roku youtube channel with (yay!) no announcer feed.
The GT guys are going at it hard, considering they’re only about an hour and a half into a twenty four hour race.
Ford has all there cars streamed on YT, I’ll guess there are others as well.
There’s also the U.S. Open live feed, which is nice if you like a hard game of Golf, Shinnicock is a monster this year
http://usopen.com/watch/live.html#!5797893165001
For what, exactly?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/392493-watergate-prosecutor-says-manafort-may-never-again-see-the
What are they even accusing Manafort of? More Stalinist police state tactics.
I think he’s accused of not telling on Trump for colluding with Russia, because it didn’t happen. Ve veel make you talk!
That’s exactly right. They squeezed him to talk about collusion. He didn’t, therefore he needs to be squeezed harder. Denying you’re a witch is exactly what a witch would say.
Powerline does fun on Saturday, today is exceptional
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/the-week-in-pictures-aftermath-edition-2.php
Thank you, Yusuf.
I LOLed at that one for sure, 😉
My favorite of the bunch too!
That one was fantastic.
The one about the 9th circuit is good.
Those are pretty funny.
PSA for those who give a shit: le Mans is on Velocity, if you are among the dozens of American cable and satellite subscribers who receive it.
Now why would my Cable company charge me for a Station I would actually Watch?
They are much happier giving me a bunch of just I don’t want,
Your nightmare fuel for the day.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-meter-long-python-swallows-indonesian-woman-111050649.html
“It was the second python attack on a human in Indonesia since March last year, when a 25-year-old man was swallowed whole by a python in West Sulawesi province.”
Pro-tip: don’t live in Indonesia.
On the Internet, I’ve seen an Indonesian woman swallow a black python.
Just sayin’
What a horrible way to die
“Amid immigration crackdown, this avocado farmer is struggling to find workers
Even though he pays well above minimum wage, he’s also lost workers to farms that can afford to pay more. The experienced harvesters at Shade’s farm can make up to $400 a day, he says. The rookies start off at minimum wage and then move up to $200 to $300 a day after a few weeks.
Finding workers, especially at peak harvesting season, is a problem many of the nation’s farmers face.
According to the Department of Labor, nearly half of the farm workers in the United States are undocumented immigrants. But decades of inconsistent immigration policies have helped to create a labor shortage — and recent crackdowns at the border are further depleting the already short supply of workers.
Farmers can participate in the H-2A guest farm worker visa program, which provides temporary visas to workers for up to 10 months, then requires them to return home after the season. But the application system is often difficult to navigate. According to a study by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the H-2A process is so grueling, farmers have had to hire lawyers to help. Of those who made it through, 72% of growers said administrative delays caused workers to arrive weeks after the needed date.
Plus, the program is expensive. Farmers must provide workers with housing, transportation to and from their home country and workers’ compensation insurance.
“The H-2A is a difficult process, especially living in this beautiful spot in Southern California,” Shade said, citing the state’s high land values and tough regulations regarding housing. “When you bring in an H-2A employee or employees, you have to provide housing that is up to government specifications. If I were to hit the Lotto … I might be able to purchase an old run down motel and convert it. But that’s the order of magnitude we’re talking about for labor and it’s just not feasible.””
money.cnn.com/2018/06/15/news/economy/california-farmer-workers-immigration/index.html
I would pick Avos for 300-400$ a Day, at least when if were a Younger Person,
/calls Son on Phone……
“he’s also lost workers to farms that can afford to pay more”
You mean the employment market functions based on the laws of supply and demand? Unpossible!
Cut the guy some slack. After a century of market distortion by Big Labor and its union thugs, we’ve had generations raised up in this country unaware of this fact.
Farmers can participate in the H-2A guest farm worker visa program, which provides temporary visas to workers for up to 10 months, then requires them to return home after the season. But the application system is often difficult to navigate. According to a study by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the H-2A process is so grueling, farmers have had to hire lawyers to help. Of those who made it through, 72% of growers said administrative delays caused workers to arrive weeks after the needed date.
Plus, the program is expensive. Farmers must provide workers with housing, transportation to and from their home country and workers’ compensation insurance.
Shocked, I am. It’s almost as if these rules were made onerous intentionally.
Lawyers have to eat, you know.
“Only 2,000?!? Rank amateurs!”
— Every sitting family court judge
Speaking of which, what are all these little bastards supposed to do today?
They do the same thing for smoking plant material and not paying traffic fines.
They do the same thing for smoking plant material and not paying traffic fines.
Do they do it for double-posting?
Lawyers have to eat, you know.
It looks like they’ll have to do without avocado toast.
Regarding the NL adopting the DH: No! Hell, no!
I see the poll is close: 50.87% yes, 49.13% no. But I think the no’s are ahead in the electoral count.
Let’s see. CNN will have Wolf and his beard saying dumb stuff. Fox will have Deucy being douchey. MSNBC will have Mika and Joe fingering each other’s brown star under the desk as they yap. They’re all going up against Nugent on Joe Rogan next week. I fucking love the internet.
Cocksuckers! I just lost my le Mans stream “due to copyright claim”.
I guess I’ll have to watch the Ford channel.
Here the Motul Feed for Le Mans
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kdXLrCHQyU
so, is there a standard engine-format in LMP cars these days? twin-turbo, 5L 8-cylinder? or is it all over the map depending on team
I don’t think so
At least according to Wikipedia, the hybrids can have as big an engine as they can fit in the car, but non-hybrids are limited to 5.5L
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype#LMP1
Sure wish I could stay up all night and watch to the finish.
2000 kids separated in a month and a half. The article makes it sound like there are 2000 in custody. How long is their average stay? Will some intrepid reporter even think to ask the question?
The Domino Theory lives.
Decades from now, we may look back at the first weeks of June 2018 as a turning point in world history: the end of the liberal order.
At a summit in Canada, the president of the United States rejected associating the country with “the rules-based international order” that America had built after World War II, and threatened the country’s closest allies with a trade war. He insulted the Canadian prime minister, and then, just a few days later, lavished praise on Kim Jong-un, the world’s most repressive dictator. Without consulting America’s allies in the region, he even reiterated his desire to withdraw American troops from South Korea.
Such reckless disregard for the security concerns of America’s allies, hostility to mutually beneficial trade and willful isolation of the United States is unprecedented. Yet this is the foreign policy of the Trump administration.
————
Now imagine the longer term. China is already demonstrating that not only will it not play by the rules of the American-led order, but it also intends to write and enforce new rules. Absent American opposition, it will continue to force smaller, weaker states in East Asia into submission and expand its control over sea traffic. It will use technology to monitor, restrain and penalize critics worldwide. A Chinese-led world order would be one of privileges rather than rights, power rather than law, tribute rather than alliance.
That’s a very costly peace — if it even succeeds at sustaining peace. More likely, if the United States does not sustain the order, a rising power will eventually force it to defend its interests or succumb. That is what happened in every power transition except the one between Britain and the United States — an exception born of their democratic similarities, and one unlikely to be repeated with the United States and China.
Mr. Trump’s attack on the liberal world order is not just about the price America pays for it. He seems bent on destroying the friendships and respect that bind America and its allies. If he succeeds, America will be seen as — and may even become — no different from Russia and China, and countries will have no reason to assist America’s efforts rather than theirs.
Muh precious liberal world order is in dire jeopardy from Public Enemy Number One. That Trump, is there nothing he can’t wreck?
There’s some jabber in there about he ruination of institutions and the destruction of the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism and democracy, with no mention of the active efforts of the academic community in the American sphere to undermine those same things. I’d say Trump is no more a threat to democracy than the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government.
*and no less
“He insulted the Canadian prime minister”
I mean, how could you not? What, is anyone supposed to take that guy seriously?
“Such reckless disregard for the security concerns of America’s allies, hostility to mutually beneficial trade and willful isolation of the United States is unprecedented. Yet this is the foreign policy of the Trump administration.”
Most of Western Europe has not been our allies for a long time. Trending hard leftward, not our friends.
“ruination of institutions and the destruction of the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism and democracy”
So is that referring to Britain, Germany, or France? Or all three?
Ahuh, what ‘rule’ says we need to keep our soldiers there?
Does the author realize we’re not the vassal state of South Korea?
I’m all for pulling our troops out of everywhere, if we can also get Kim to somehow ensure peace as well, that is great. What we do with our own soldiers is no one’s business but ours.
Just one change tot he subject of that sentence and it sounds like I’m talking about our supposed allies. Fuck them.
China was already doing that before Trump became President. How is that his fault?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the answer. But TRUMP!!!!
The US having any say at all in anything is dependent on it being an economic powerhouse with the most advanced Army in the world.
Absent that nobody will give a shit what anyone in the country thinks. The only way to lose that is to continue making poor trade deals that hurt our economy, inviting immigrants that vote for freebies from the GDP, and blowing our military budget on pointless wars.
In short, telling a good portion of the world to quit treating us like a piggy bank is the only way to maintain what he calls the “liberal” order.
Speaking of the ongoing assault on Truth, Justice and the American Way…
Also in the NYT: a whiny petulant screed by some editorial cartoonist who got fired from (ragequit?) his paper in Pennsylvania because all his cartoons were about Trump and the evil degeneracy of Trump’s America. He can’t believe those fucking capitalist bastards who own the paper and sign his paychecks should be allowed to decide what sort of content gets printed. They muzzled him because he was speaking truth to power!
Not fair!