And if they win the Senate against all odds? Well, then all bets are
off. The administration will get no one confirmed. Not a judge, not a
secretary, not a Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Interpretive Dance
at the Department of Commerce. No one.They would rather burn
this country down than allow it to prosper without them in charge. Why?
Because the only thing that matters to them is their power. The only
thing that matters to them is their position. That, and crushing you
under their heels. They enjoy that.
This is a wide ranging and thought provoking conversation between Jordan
Peterson & Douglas Murray on IQ, Politics and the Left.
What’s At Stake On Tuesday
The bulwark against the evil isms practiced as a matter of course by
the Left in America is the nationalism that is on the ballot on Tuesday.
In the America that Donald Trump and the Republican party seek to
conserve – thus the name “conservatives” – the “collective” is all Americans without regard to blood, race, sex or level of economic or other achievement.Collectivism
– along with the undoing of due process and individual rights which are
its hallmarks – divide people and pit them one against the other and
the others against the all. Nationalism unites people as that nation’s culture, language and more cross all blood, gender and class lines.“White
privilege” and “Black lives matter” are racist concepts – just as
“toxic masculinity” and “all women must be believed” are sexist
ideas – that, while not part of the socialist “economic” model are the
inevitable results of the socialist ideology because collectivism based
on blood, ethnicity, gender and class is the antithesis of truth,
justice and, yes, the American way.
The Dems are Mad as Hell
Lost Orson Welles Film Is No Masterpiece | National Review
The Other Side of the Wind is an early mockumentary about an
aging Welles-like filmmaker (John Huston) who, prodded by a Peter
Bogdanovich–like critic-turned-filmmaker (Peter Bogdanovich), struggles
to complete an arty sex movie called The Other Side of the Wind
that builds up to a moment when a nude woman silently marches across a
barren landscape to attack a giant penis with scissors. It’s a spoof of
neo-realist filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni and groovy Flower
Power cinema like Blow-Up.Wind, like everything Welles did, contains enough
inspiration and beauty to provide fodder for a film-school paper, but
like (almost) everything he did it’s undisciplined to the point of
exasperation, beset by so-so sound quality, amateurish lighting, ragged
editing, and wooden acting, all in the service of a script as flabby as
its auteur.
You’d be better off watching instead the movie about the movie: They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (the
title refers to one of Welles’s mordant self-observations) explores the
relentless, almost purposeful squandering of talent that is the Welles
tragedy. The documentary, directed by Morgan Neville, shows how Welles
was a sort of anti-Kubrick, a visionary bursting with ideas who couldn’t
keep the big picture in his mind. “The greatest things in movies are
divine accidents,” Welles used to say. Kubrick might not entirely
disagree.
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How The Caravan Could Lead To A U.S. Refugee Crisis Like Europe’s
It’s therefore not inconceivable that a caravan of a few thousand
migrants could quickly swell into hundreds of thousands or even millions
if poverty alone is an adequate justification to settle in the United
States. Can and should the United States absorb an innumerable amount of
migrants primarily seeking economic mobility?The EU, particularly Germany, considered migrants a much-needed
reinvigorating economic and multicultural force, yet today an estimated 80 percent of Syrian refugees in the EU are unemployed and integrating migrants and refugees remains an agonizing issue for cities and regions across the continent.While President Trump might be artificially enlarging the scope of
the current caravan, it’s also worth remembering that many European
leaders claimed their refugee crisis was insignificant before it
escalated within a few months. The left’s inability or unwillingness to
foresee a potential crisis is perhaps more troubling than a populist’s
occasional overstatement.
How The Caravan Could Lead To A U.S. Refugee Crisis Like Europe’s
Tomorrow the RINOs Will Take Their Revenge | National Review
What The Press Isn’t Telling You About Pre-Existing Conditions
The left seemingly only cares about covering people once they develop
pre-existing conditions. Their political messaging has done nothing for
the millions of people who want to buy insurance before they develop a pre-existing condition, but have been priced out of the marketplace.In fact, by getting politicians of both parties to claim that they
want to cover people with pre-existing conditions, this campaign may
actually encourage more healthy people to drop their insurance, thinking
they can easily buy coverage if they do develop a costly condition.
For individuals with pre-existing conditions, there are several—and, in my view, better—alternatives to both the status quo and the status quo ante
that preceded Obamacare. But we will never have a chance to have that
conversation if few will examine the very real trade-offs the law has
created. Based on the past few months, neither the left nor the media
appear interested in doing so.
What The Press Isn’t Telling You About Pre-Existing Conditions
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