Negative Space: beltway class
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
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Whenever there’s a crisis, politicians and the media always tell us that if we do what they say, we’ll be all right. This is always a lie. And however often they fail and however many die from their ministrations, their wabbling fingers always return to the mire.
- Is Trump calling the bluff of establishment Republicans?
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By appointing Republicans who have promised to reduce government into the very areas they’ve promised to depower, is Trump calling the establishment’s bluff?
- The January 6 witch-hunt
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If there’s a witch-hunt starting, I’ve decided it’s best to identify as a witch.
- Money Changes Everything: Empowering the vicious
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Barbarism empowers the rich, the powerful, the vicious, the strong. Civilization empowers everyone else. Gun control and centralized economies, darlings of the progressive left, have empowered the vicious since the beginning of time. The beltway crowd prefers no competition from people free to barter, or free to defend themselves.
- Toward a permanent political class
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If politics has become so complicated that only a political class can manage it, then Democracy is dead. Citizens should not be allowed to become politicians, nor should they be allowed to vote for which politicians take office.
- Trump outsmarts establishment again?
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You know, the funny thing is, how lousy most of your lies are. You tell violent lies, you tell dirty lies, you tell scurrilous lies about conservative families. But most of your lies are not very good, are they? Funny that so many smart people can work so hard on lies, and spend all that money on them, and, what do you think it is? It must be the money. It turns everything to crap.
- Who is Trump running against?
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If Trump runs against Biden, he’ll lose, just like he did in 2020: by getting more votes but fewer ballots. It looks like Trump understands that. He’s not running against Biden. He’s running against the Democrats and Republicans who put Biden in power.
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- Diversity and It’s Discontents
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“The reality is less tidy. Empirical and anecdotal data support the idea that the presence here of large numbers of immigrants with few skills has benefits but also costs, which fall most heavily on Americans with no more than a high school education, the group already hit hardest by automation and globalization.”
- DC to celebrate Insurrection Day
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“Uh-oh. People are daring to believe the truth… The media is unhappy over the refusal of people to fall for its lies. Rolling Stone shook with anger when it learned that Trump plans to defend himself against the 91 charges filed against him.”
- Time magazine: Elections are undemocratic
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“Elliott made it clear that Liz represented the Eastern Establishment… From his desk in Washington, Elliott argued that by being a Cheney, Liz owned the congressional seat in perpetuity.”
