I was recently pointed to a video by Russel Brand [https://youtu.be/mR52Cg__xYM] discussing "who won COVID" for Trump getting contracting and healing back from getting COVID-19. In truth - though I don't strongly recommend taking the time - Brand, for all that what he is saying is filtered through a leftist lens, at least a) understands rhetoric, and b) how much the press is lying. Of course, he considers Trump's rhetoric to be lies, and the "calm, dialectic" stuff (a bit of a misapprehension…
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It's been a while, and I've accumilated a few odds and ends that don't call for a full post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hate is bad. So we are told. Of course, the same people will gladly tell us that "White Lives Don't Matter [http://archive.is/ME10Q]". I know, I know, they'll tell you that it's not "white lives" as in "the lives of white people," but instead "white lives" as in "lives lived as if you were white" -…
...The left would complain he's putting oncologists out of work. At least that used to be a joke. Reality, and Poe's law, of course, have eclipsed us.…
Antifragility First - in an excellent article on Trump as the "leverage" president [http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=15302], The Z Man makes the following observation: > That’s the thing with understanding Trump, something a brilliant observer pointed out three years ago. Trump operates like a famous real estate developer. He is always looking to leverage his assets in order to take advantage of whatever opportunities that may present themselves in the future. In the case of the Kavanaugh hearin…
The Kavanaugh hearings are over, and is now sitting on the supreme court. Cue freakouts by people who bought the media shitstorm. Now, a lot of this has been covered in depth, and I'll link a couple relevant vids below all of this. The carefully constructed story that could not leave her open to perjury. The incident itself which physically sounds like a terrified spin on some horseplay gone wrong - and I personally find the emphasis on how embarrassed she was interesting because I've seen wome…