Category: QOTD

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From The Divine Sarah:

“Communism is a hot house plant because it originates from intellectual abstraction; because it doesn’t work mathematically; because, contrary to image, its biggest fans are always intellectuals of a certain type; because it can’t survive without leeching off functional systems, and because it can’t survive the free dissemination of information.”

If by “intellectual” she means “of the mind”, then I agree.  But a socio-economic theory that cannot stand up to the most basic of questions is the province of the unutterably foolish, not of actual rational intellectual thought.

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From Frank J. Fleming (another longtime Intarwebz buddy*):

Sadly, he doesn’t do much at IMAO anymore, focusing on fun stuff there while saving his unfair, unbalanced and unmedicated commentary instead for Twatter.

*Back in the day, I even had the T-shirt:

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Gummint, QOTD

From Breitbart:

“The press treats every shutdown like the asteroid about to kill the dinosaurs. It might not sell papers anymore, but it definitely triggers clicks and shares. Markets, by contrast, treat it like what it usually is — a Washington melodrama that doesn’t dent the real economy.”

And the public?  With every shutdown, we learn just how inessential so much of our government is to our day-to-day lives, and how much we need to prune it, drastically.

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Mocking Furriners, QOTD

From Kurt Schlichter:

“Quick, everybody care what a bunch of impotent, fussy foreigners think about us! No, really, we should give a damn that some herring-gobbling fjord jockey is mad about Donald Trump. Yeah, Norwegians totally matter. But not really. No foreigner matters. Not Canadians, not the English, not the Arabs (especially of the nonexistent Palestinian variety), not the Papua/New Guineans. Here’s the reality. Most foreigners are trash. Most people who aren’t Americans suck. And treacherous Americans who presume to leverage the puny outrage of second-rate cultures against ours deserve our contempt and mockery almost as much as the foreigners themselves. They think we’re dumb, New World rubes with too much in the way of guns, calories, and Jesus.

“In contrast, we barely think of them at all.”

And that’s only the beginning of his most excellent rant.  Read it all, and chortle.

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From the DM’s Kennedy:

No one should lose a job – in the media or otherwise – for saying something that offends the government.
But that’s not what happened here.
Kimmel got canceled because he offended the American viewing public en masse. That’s just bad business.

Quite right.  To paraphrase The Godfather:  “It’s not personal:  it’s just business.”

And if your behavior angers customers — in this case, a TV show with already-appalling viewership — expect the hammer.

One might think that the Bud Lite and Cracker Barrel episodes should be enough of a warning signal to these tools.  But they’re lived for so long as a protected species that they doubtless think that the rules don’t apply to them.

Is there some of the old Schadenfreude  that they’re starting to learn differently?