This Insty thread provoked a lot of interesting commentary, and I don’t say that just because one of my comments got the most likes.
Ok, that IS why.
But also because there’s a right old git named Harcourt who really got people going. He thinks there’s nothing wrong with questioning Geller’s tactics right after she’s been shot at.
Excellent performative of Not Backing Down When Obviously Wrong.
seeing all the back-pats for Ace kinda makes me wanna puke
Except that his essays get it absolutely right, and he’s right in a way he didn’t used to be.
In 2011 he was “embarrassed” by certain members on Team Red. “Embarrassed in front of whom?” I badgered him. “Who’s the audience that makes you feel ashamed to be associated with Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann?”
I’m not so delusional as to think I’m responsible for his shift. But you gotta give the man props for shifting toward principle instead of away from it, for deciding that approval from “the right people” is too high a price to pay if it means abandoning core values.
Most people cannot bear the mockery of the crowd. Most find a way to excuse themselves from sticking to principle when it gets hard.
Ace has done the opposite. How long that holds I don’t know, but so far he’s trending in the right direction, and lots of people read him.
As for whether he’ll ever reconcile with Jeff… who knows?
If the thing he was doing before was to distance himself from the embarrassing conservatives, so to maintain respectability…
…and now he’s denouncing those who want to maintain respectability by distancing themselves from Geller (with whom he’s clashed and does not like), how’s that “the same thing he’s always done?”
If you prefer, here’s Sarah Hoyt saying the same thing about the Respectability Caucus.
I’m not so delusional as to think I’m responsible for his shift. But you gotta give the man props for shifting toward principle instead of away from it, for deciding that approval from “the right people” is too high a price to pay if it means abandoning core values.
Lotta GOPster party before principle types like to polish their conservative bona fides in the run-up to an election year. He’ll be squealing for Jeb like all the other giddy school girl groupies this time next year.
Can anyone guess how the AP will take the news when the Sunni finally break through into Latakia and come to annihilate the Alawites? Heck, for that matter, how will the European nations to which the Alawites flee take it — or will the Alawis idiotically choose Iran?
Is there any easy step for AP to take which can blame the Jews? Reuters, surely, has already worked this out.
Unbelievable. Yes, once I’m gone from the playing field, step in and pick up my message as if it were always yours. Put your finger in the wind and, feeling it blow in a new populist direction, seize the day! We must stand for principles against those in our own caucus who call us “unhelpful” or “fundamentally unserious!” We must make sure our meaning isn’t usurped by those looking to maliciously rewrite it and use it against us! We must fight an elite insider class who cares more about access, parasitic grafting to power brokers, and career trajectory than it does about liberty or the Constitution!
How absolutely novel and worthy of praise. All hail the transgressive OUTLAW!
Fuck the internet, and especially fuck the “right.”
Two things about timing — 1) it’s zeitgeisty, so Hegelian historicism, therefore self-refuting, and 2) timing merely reverts to that so-called pragmatist’s claim — an empty claim in a considered sense — that is to say the sense where men hold themselves responsible for making their own timing. Fearful women and Muslims will think otherwise, the latter saying “if god wills it”, a fundamentally irrational cop-out on its face.
Since it was the right two who died, why should she?
When you do come up with some words, post ’em here: #associatedpressheadlines
oh di, those are priceless!
Good, two less zipperheads to grease.
Levin was playing clips of Brady defiantly unapologetic about winning the Super Bowl. Bastard.
This Insty thread provoked a lot of interesting commentary, and I don’t say that just because one of my comments got the most likes.
Ok, that IS why.
But also because there’s a right old git named Harcourt who really got people going. He thinks there’s nothing wrong with questioning Geller’s tactics right after she’s been shot at.
Excellent performative of Not Backing Down When Obviously Wrong.
seeing all the back-pats for Ace kinda makes me wanna puke
It would be interesting to see how the press would have been playing this if a police officer(s) or attendee(s) had also been killed.
bgbear … a few crocodile tears still ending with “But”
see: writers opposing any award or recognition of murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists.
seeing all the back-pats for Ace kinda makes me wanna puke
Except that his essays get it absolutely right, and he’s right in a way he didn’t used to be.
In 2011 he was “embarrassed” by certain members on Team Red. “Embarrassed in front of whom?” I badgered him. “Who’s the audience that makes you feel ashamed to be associated with Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann?”
I’m not so delusional as to think I’m responsible for his shift. But you gotta give the man props for shifting toward principle instead of away from it, for deciding that approval from “the right people” is too high a price to pay if it means abandoning core values.
Most people cannot bear the mockery of the crowd. Most find a way to excuse themselves from sticking to principle when it gets hard.
Ace has done the opposite. How long that holds I don’t know, but so far he’s trending in the right direction, and lots of people read him.
As for whether he’ll ever reconcile with Jeff… who knows?
oh bullshit. he hasn’t changed, he’s just doing the same thing he’s always done with a new and currenty veneer. don'[t be a sap.
If the thing he was doing before was to distance himself from the embarrassing conservatives, so to maintain respectability…
…and now he’s denouncing those who want to maintain respectability by distancing themselves from Geller (with whom he’s clashed and does not like), how’s that “the same thing he’s always done?”
If you prefer, here’s Sarah Hoyt saying the same thing about the Respectability Caucus.
yep, bobbing on an ocean of approval is so way different than ever
what a joke
If Ace follows through all the way to and past the next election, I might start believing he’s sincere.
Maybe.
You’re right: seeing whether he returns to YEAH BUT THEN YOU’RE ELECTING HILLARY is a better test.
Lotta GOPster party before principle types like to polish their conservative bona fides in the run-up to an election year. He’ll be squealing for Jeb like all the other giddy school girl groupies this time next year.
Mostly out of panic at the thought of a President Hillary (kind of like how we ended up with McCain in 2008).
Panic: the 8th and deadliest of the Deadly Sins.
>Panic: the 8th and deadliest of the Deadly Sins.<
hillarity dead pol trolling. viva little Debbies
Can anyone guess how the AP will take the news when the Sunni finally break through into Latakia and come to annihilate the Alawites? Heck, for that matter, how will the European nations to which the Alawites flee take it — or will the Alawis idiotically choose Iran?
Is there any easy step for AP to take which can blame the Jews? Reuters, surely, has already worked this out.
Of course there’s an easy step for blaming the Jews. After all, the Soviets blamed the Nazis for the Katyn Forest Massacre until 1990.
It’s called lying, and we know it’s in AP’s toolbox.
heh.
So they’ll just lean on their conserved tools, like the good reactionaries they are, rather than seek novel ones. Stands to reason McG.
Unbelievable. Yes, once I’m gone from the playing field, step in and pick up my message as if it were always yours. Put your finger in the wind and, feeling it blow in a new populist direction, seize the day! We must stand for principles against those in our own caucus who call us “unhelpful” or “fundamentally unserious!” We must make sure our meaning isn’t usurped by those looking to maliciously rewrite it and use it against us! We must fight an elite insider class who cares more about access, parasitic grafting to power brokers, and career trajectory than it does about liberty or the Constitution!
How absolutely novel and worthy of praise. All hail the transgressive OUTLAW!
Fuck the internet, and especially fuck the “right.”
Ah, well, how does it go? A prophet is never respected in his home town? Something like that.
It’s enough to give a prophet a bad attitude for sure…
It’s all about the timing. There’s no glory in being a premature anti-establishmentarian.
Two things about timing — 1) it’s zeitgeisty, so Hegelian historicism, therefore self-refuting, and 2) timing merely reverts to that so-called pragmatist’s claim — an empty claim in a considered sense — that is to say the sense where men hold themselves responsible for making their own timing. Fearful women and Muslims will think otherwise, the latter saying “if god wills it”, a fundamentally irrational cop-out on its face.
Look…we all know Ace is a pussy and…well, actually…that’s about it.
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