r_ephemeral

only for whites

America’s most-Christian demographic group votes for Ds at like a 90-10 clip

that’s… actually too kind to the “theology” of Republican whites

this is a very fun episode. for content’s sake, Pat’s gonna have to go for no. 6

“All the False Claims: Republican Foreign Policy in the 21st Century”

hmm, not a Generation X cover, it seems like

Nat Turner, John Brown

they need us to do them a favor though

Mr. Erdoğan wants to lead the Islamic world and believes himself to be the guardian of Islam, a kind of modern-day Ottoman sultan. This explains why Turkey has been a bad partner for NATO when it comes to Iran. Ankara in 2012 reportedly divulged to Iran the identities of up to 10 Iranian citizens who were spying for Israel and gathering information on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. Danny Yatom, a former chief of Israel’s Mossad, described this incident as a major blow against Western agencies trying to gather intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S.-led Delta Force raid in 2015 on the compound housing Islamic State’s chief financial officer, Abu Sayyaf, found undeniable links between the terrorist group and Turkish officials. At the time, ISIS was earning millions of dollars a month selling oil on black markets. Turkey has also used the Syrian refugee crisis to extract concessions from the European Union. Examples include the 2016 EU-Turkey deal, under which the EU has agreed to provide €6 billion in aid to Turkey in exchange for Ankara’s commitment to stop irregular migration into the bloc, and the 2020 border crisis, in which Mr. Erdoğan announced that Turkey would no longer prevent refugees from entering Europe, an act the Greek government labeled “extortion diplomacy.” Should NATO continue its relationship with Turkey? What should its role be in the Middle East after the Iranian regime falls? When considering these questions, the U.S. shouldn’t forget that Turkey opposes U.S. foreign policy and is a headache for its allies.

Frankly this is a pathetic and also strangely short article but it says something about how deeply neurotic and ill the American intelligentsia is that it can even be published by WSJ

that’s the key point here—he may well not be anything like irredeemable, but that doesn’t mean he’d be a sound candidate or senator. the Discourse often skips over than point

Anton: "Though Field never spells it out, it’s clear enough what she thinks should come next. Anyone associated with Trump, Trumpism, populism, nationalism, immigration restriction, opposition to DEI or racial preferences, anyone in favor of a more robust presence of religion in American life or anything even glancingly resembling the pre-sexual revolution family—these people and their ideas must be absolutely excluded from any influence on, or participation in, American public life. " Field: Liberals must "cultivate a hardened by steadfast toleration for worldviews that we find incomprehensible, deeply offensive, or dangerous."

The reason Field "never spells out" her plan to exile Trumpists from public life forever is because she explicitly says the opposite.

“US to subsidize China solar power facilities”

"I respect Bernie Sanders because he's an open socialist, and you know that he's a communist so you know what you're getting. Rand Paul's a freaking snake. And I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did. And I told him that to his face."

This is what Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul a couple weeks ago.

Anyway, guess who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee

Vince McMahon reaction meme Panel 1 text: Markwayne Mullin Panel 2 text: reportedly fingered Panel 3 text: nostrils of colleagues and their spouses Panel 4 (laser eyes) text: during visit to Israel

oh baby

Also public opinion on Israel is moving quickly. Like, a lot of incumbent Democrats are going to get surprised by it.

kids these days are turning to flashy newfangled entertainment (“Cheers”) and forgetting about the classics (“M*A*S*H”)

the debate between people who apply ethical beliefs to our politics vs. those who instead rely on the easy moral relativism of tribalism

is Michele Tafoya up to anything

Years ago, Brad DeLong explained that this derived from the elder Bush’s habit of mocking hard-line anticommunists for calling on the U.S. to “unleash” Chiang Kai-shek on the mainland. He added: But George H. W. Bush’s sons–even the smart one, Jeb–never got the joke. They, you see, didn’t know enough about world history or even the history of the Republican Party to know who Chiang Kaishek was, or what “Unleash Chiang!” meant. Hence Jeb Bush’s explanation that twentieth-century Chinese nationalist, socialist, general, and dictator Chiang Kaishek was a “mystical warrior… who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.” This is a good example of how a tradition can be reinvented when its original meaning ceases to be useful. It is a bit amusing to see Rubio, who has been cultivating a reputation as one of the new foreign policy hard-liners in the Senate, on the receiving end of a Bush family tradition grounded in the elder Bush’s dislike for the anticommunist hard-liners of his day.

still more detail on this, from Brad DeLong via Daniel Larison: www.theamericanconservative.com/rubio-and-un...

the Whitewater of its time

posting

Showing me this in 2003 would have killed me stone dead. Simply incredible how much has changed.

Larry Bartels made this point awhile back, about the Great Depression

www.washingtonpost.com/business/eco...

Rapture sign -- Holding up well after 14 years... (11 June 2006) I have driven by this sign nearly every day since it went up sometime during the summer of 1992. For a sign that 'should' have only been needed a few months, it has remarkable stayin...

Oct. 1992, it turns out: www.flickr.com/photos/marcn...

that picture was taken in NH in 2006! those guys really spared no expense in their handbill printing

Another big reason obsessive poll-sniffing is silly: “Public opinion” on most issues quite literally does not exist. It is an ephemeral artifact of the process of polling itself. Ask again a day later with slightly different wording & the numbers change radically.

as a practical matter, the pluralism-believers have to maintain high grades, publish papers, and receive teaching awards, which are all superfluous for the DEI Republicans

in suburban Boston, some group put up mini posters about the imminent rapture, giving a specific date (I believe October 1987). they were very high-quality—you could see them on traffic signal control boxes well into the ‘90s

current US leadership trapped in an eternal present, unable to see beyond the next meme they want to post

“political correctness,” The Atlantic style

the construction of smooth, false narratives—that’s the sort of thing that gets you lifetime pundit tenure

How a (Mostly) Fake Campus Controversy Illustrates the Media’s Outrage Economy The now-famous bánh mì protests at Oberlin were mostly invented by the media. The interesting part is why.

on the exceedingly rare occasions that centrist pundits cite specific examples, they’re either targeting scattered, powerless, outlier students, or simply making things up nymag.com/intelligence...