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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note #195,742 — Government needs to remember — it’s the narrative, stupid — Peta Credlin
When Ted Kennedy was asked why he was running for President in the democrat primaries against incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980, the response was one very long, embarrassing, cringe and squirm inducing silence. He had nothing to say. It was this incident displaying a lack of preparedness to answer the most basic of questions that betrayed a Kennedy dynastic, entitlement mindset that killed off and blew up his candidacy. In other words he was running because he was running. It was a family expectation. Ditto Clinton.
Logic: It wins the debate every time — It’s all Greek to a warmist — Quadrant
Short and sweet and nails the logic or lack thereof, of the climate catastrophists It's all Greek to a warmist
Random Note #189,682 — Agility And Innovation Or Inertia and Torpor
To quote Ronald Reagan, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Who Are Wise, Who Not? — Victor Davis Hanson
For now, Donald Trump has proved that the animal cunning necessary to survive in the jungle of Manhattan real estate — duplicitous and venal politicians, all-powerful unions, incompetent and vindictive regulators, fair-weather bankers and investors, and dozens of special-interest crusaders — trumps the definition of traditional political wisdom: finding a young hip graduate from the right school with the right résumé to hire the right people to run the right sort of campaign.
Democracy trumps the victim generation: Janet Albrechtsen — The Australian
Make America great again? The starting point ought to be making America tough again. And we could aim to do the same in Australia. A few hundred years ago, colonial pioneers forged a new home in a daunting but beautiful country. Less than 100 years ago, postwar migrants sought out a new and free country, laboured through a Depression to build lives for their families. A few generations ago, resilient young men went to war to fight against Nazi Germany. Now, a pampered generation of men and women, many of whom don’t have much regard for democracy, seek out therapy for themselves and their children when an election result doesn’t go their way. Few things mark the worst of modernity as clearly as this rush among highly educated professionals to be victims of a democratic election on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — About The Misery Industries
Bingo!!!! Now where have I heard these sentiments before? Noel Pearson has nailed it again (“Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery”, 22/11). Like all industries, the grievance industry needs an ongoing market in order to thrive. ... The ABC, the human rights...
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses
America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton: Brendan O’Neill — Reason.com
We have now reached peak insanity. This is one hell of a blistering broadside. The cult of Clinton is approaching, if it hasn’t already arrived at 1978, Jonestown and Kool Aid dimensions. “…As with all saints and prophets, all human manifestations of light itself, the problem is never with them, but with us. We mortals are not worthy of Hillary. “Hillary didn’t fail us, we failed her,” asserted a writer for the Guardian. The press, and by extension the rest of us, “crucified her,” claimed someone at Bustle. We always do that to messiahs, assholes that we are…”
Ship of fools who cry for open borders — Piers Akerman, Sunday Telegraph
Ian Rintoul, the most quoted RAC (Refugee Action Coalition) figure, was according to Margot O’Neill’s book 2009 book Blind Conscience, a founding member of the International Socialist Organisation in the 1970s, and left it in 2013 to become a founding member of Solidarity. The ISO boasted on its website that it wanted to smash the capitalist system and Rintoul didn’t rule out using force to do so. O’Neill wrote: “He’s the personification of the ageing revolutionary, still dreaming of a workers’ paradise.”
Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. — George Will — Washington Post
Remember the mindless. automaton like Eloi in H G Wells Time Machine? “…The compound of childishness and condescension radiating from campuses is a reminder to normal Americans of the decay of protected classes — in this case, tenured faculty and cosseted students. Institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry. Which must have something to do with the tone and substance of the presidential election, which took the nation’s temperature…”