HALF-FULL REPORT 02/21/20
We’ll focus on what went on this week of note in the US later. Of far more import is what’s going on in Chicom China.
Google these words – coronavirus collapse communist china – and as of this morning (2/21) you’ll get 539,000 hits. There are predictions galore of the COVID-19 virus precipitating the end of Communist rule in China, along with every conspiracy theory human imagination can devise.
Then there are voices of reasoned caution, like Princeton Professor Rory Truax, observing on Monday (2/17) in The Atlantic that China’s Chernobyl Never Seems to Arise.
At this point, it looks to be increasingly likely that there will be no worldwide pandemic. The world is not in danger here. China, on the other hand, is screwed, and in more ways than one.
THE SIX UNAPPEALING DWARFS LAST NIGHT
Wednesday night's (2/19) Democrat debate in Nevada allowed for a sharp focus on the candidates' personalities. It wasn't pretty.
They were the six unappealing dwarfs — Supercilious, Shrill, Angry, Confused, Smug...and that unpleasant nameless something that is Klobuchar.
This was Elizabeth Warren's debate, for she aggressively dominated the available airtime. As the debate progressed, the other candidates fell silent when she spoke out of instinctive deference. With her hoarse voice and scolding manner, she was every mean old lady that children learn to fear.
RIC GRENNELL AND THE EYE OF SAURON
President Trump appointed Richard “Ric” Grenell to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the surprise appointment begins immediately. Within minutes the media intelligence apparatus displayed apoplexy at the announcement.
All of the right administrative state interests are visibly triggered by the appointment; and it appears this could be a key turning point in President Trump’s push-back against the permanent intelligence apparatus that has targeted his administration for three years.
However, this appointee will now have the full and focused attention of the SSCI and Intelligence Community, the Eye of Sauron.
DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF CRUELTY AND SADISM
"Cruelty is the expression of hate and of the will to power. ... The sadistic traits, the tendency to barbarousness, the impulse to destroy, manifest themselves in a manner that is senseless, brutal, scornful of every cultural achievement. ...As everyone knows by now, the Left is outraged that A.G. Barr has intervened with regard to the prosecutors' absurd sentence recommendation for Roger Stone. Dennis Prager, on his radio program last Friday (2/14), observed that the Left is truly sadistic and cruel. Leftists enjoy destroying those whose views they find unacceptable.
The sadist revels in the fear, the anger, the humiliation of his victim. ... The sadist pictures to himself what is happening in the mind of his object, whose resistance he calls forth and breaks. Only this feeling of himself into the affective life of the object brings him the expected pleasure."
—Wilhelm Stekel, Sadism and Masochism: the Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty (1929)
The Deep State run by Democrats is worse than a swamp; it devours those who presume to buck its system of skullduggery in search of wealth and power.
ORWELLIAN CHINA IS A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD
The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large.
China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in a single generation?
The Chinese technological revolution is overseen by an Orwellian dictatorship.
Which is why, predictably, the Chinese Communist Party has not developed the social, political or cultural infrastructure to ensure that its sophisticated industrial and biological research does not go rogue and become destructive to itself and to the billions of people who are on the importing end of Chinese products and protocols.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY AND THE BATTLE FOR HISTORY
Washington meeting Alexander Hamilton
Yesterday (2/17) was not Presidents Day. If you enter “Presidents Day” into Wikipedia, you will be redirected to the entry for “Washington’s Birthday” – because by federal law, the third Monday is a national holiday in honor of the First President – the “Father of his country” – George Washington.
Not every president, including Millard Fillmore, Woodrow Wilson, or Bill Clinton.
George Washington’s birthday was celebrated yesterday. So consider this thought experiment:
It is 2020 and Washington and close military advisers like Alexander Hamilton return for a 235th-anniversary ride on the eight decisive battlefields where American independence was won, finally at Yorktown in 1781. They would be shocked and disgusted. Here’s why.
JEWISH HUMOR AS THE WAY TO UNDERSTAND DONALD TRUMP
For four years, polling has documented that the president’s strongest support demographic is America’s Orthodox Jews.
The support runs between 70 percent in radical Los Angeles to 90 percent most everywhere else. This has been documented here and here and here and here and here.
Although much of that support stems from a deep affinity with his stands on the whole gamut of traditional American cultural and social issues, an underestimated factor is that community’s natural acquaintance with Borscht Belt humor. Those who “get” that humor know precisely how to understand Trump, what to take seriously, what to brush off, and what deeper messages to take away from his speeches and tweets.
Those who do not get the style and nuance end up completely misunderstanding him and then attacking him for communicating thoughts he never contemplated. Like the Corrupt Journalist Corps.
SHIP OF FOOLS
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/14/20
Welcome to the Valentine’s Day HFR!
Today is for celebrating the love and friendship that bless our lives. A day for feeling an infinite gratitude for having love in our hearts and being fortunate enough to have it returned.
Let’s hope that on this day, Democrats and their media poodles will take a break from their TDS, and have moments of happy fulfillment with friends and those they love. It’s a tragedy – for them as much as for the rest of us – that they will quickly return to their world of hate and rage tomorrow.
You’d think that after the most humiliatingly disastrous week of recent years – last week – they might engage in soul-searching, asking themselves what lessons they need to learn. But of course they didn’t, doubling down on their TDS instead.
THE DANGEROUS DENIAL OF SEX
Transgender ideology can take on a comical character, yet it’s one thing to claim that a man can “identify” as a woman or vice versa. Increasingly we see a dangerous and antiscientific trend toward the outright denial of biological sex.
The argument is that because some people are intersex—they have developmental conditions resulting in ambiguous sex characteristics—the categories male and female exist on a “spectrum,” and are therefore no more than “social constructs.”
If male and female are merely arbitrary groupings, it follows that everyone, regardless of genetics or anatomy should be free to choose to identify as male or female, or to reject sex entirely in favor of a new bespoke “gender identity.”
To characterize this line of reasoning as having no basis in reality would be an egregious understatement. It is false at every conceivable scale of resolution.