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I'm Gonna Tell My Grandkids...

 

 ...this was Gen Z and Gen Alpha influencers discovering the remnants of the pre-YouTube, Haloscan Liberal blogosphere.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 942: What Is Effective Protest (No Kings Edition), Or "The Maccabean Revolt And All That"

“"I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid." -- Harlan Ellison.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 941: Uh Oh, The Media's Building Lifeboats (Again)!

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw.

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 940: We Are All Antifa's Girlfriend

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring." -- Nelson Algren

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Tom Nichols Puts On His Tone Police Girdle And Goes To Work On...

...Kamala Harris?

I am convinced there is a hitherto undocumented organ in the body of every professional, opinion-having Conservative.  Think of it as a kind of overactive ideological bladder that fills up with bile every few days.   And irrespective of what atrocities Trump has committed on any given day, to relieve the agony of their OIB, every 24 to 48 hours they absolutely must find a Democrat to piss on.

Sometimes these vitriolic micturitions are swaddled in Both Sides Do It diapers, and frequently -- like our example today -- the proximate cause of the outburst is so stupid and trivial that it leaves readers scratching their heads, wondering, "Really?  Someone actually got paid to be mad about that?" 

But the cause isn't the point.  Every 24 to 48 hours, these desperate souls must find some Democrat somewhere on which to unleash their pent-up bile, and as the corrosive acid of their creed begins to burn and sting, the "cause" they will use as cover for their splenetic opinion becomes less and less important.

And so, today, this.  From The Atlantic:

Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.

By Tom Nichols

...Actually, the Mother of All Obscenities might be the one that includes mother, and if you haven’t heard it lately, former Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris would be happy to refresh your memory. Addressing a gathering in Los Angeles a few days ago, Harris delivered her verdict on the current Trump administration: “These motherfuckers are crazy.”...

Nichols goes on to namecheck others, and ultimately relieves himself of the balance of his bile into a big, Both Sides Do It diaper.  

The Democrats have some true public-swearing champs, but President Donald Trump and the wannabe tough guys who surround him are no slouches in the profanity competition.

But he had to start his laundry list of disapproval with Harris.

Because that is his nature. 

Also, for the record, Nichols knows nothing about what constitutes "cool".

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"Both Sides Do It" Remains...

...the last refuge of the worst people.  

Mona Charen has always been terrible.  She's wired to loathe Liberals: her entire career was built on carping and sneering at Democrats.  Exhibit A:  The three books she wrote before finally getting around to writing one in 2023 about the state of the GOP.

"Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First."  From the infamous Regnery publishing, who publish swine like Ann Coulter, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Josh Hawley, David Horowitz and Michelle Malkin.

"Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us)."  From Sentinel, the dedicated conservative imprint within the Penguin Group.  They publish the likes of Amy Coney Barrett, Peggy Noonan, Mike Lee, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, and Rod Dreher

"Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch With Science, Love and Common Sense." Crown publishing, which publishes a cross section of different writers. 

Her 2023 book consists of a bunch of her columns pasted together into book-form, and don't worry kids, there is still plenty of bitching and moaning about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  For example, this is the header and lead paragraph of Chapter 4 -- 

The Challenge for Republicans

Nov. 9, 2016

My feelings this morning are so radically mixed that my brain resembles a Cuisinart. I cannot help but be glad that Hillary Clinton was defeated. I am shaking my head in amazement about the Senate, and accordingly about the Supreme Court...

-- and you will find nuggets like this buried here, there and everywhere -- 

President Barack Obama seeded his own speech with patriotic grace notes, and though he recoils from Donald Trump, his horror at Trump's style seemingly blinds him to their similarities. On substance, they are more alike than not...

-- but taken together the columns tell the tale of a cold war relic who should have been decommissioned decades ago slowing coming to the realization that something had gone drastically wrong with her party, and her scrambling to find someone to blame other than people like her.  

Charen is the sort of unbendingly commie-hatin', Reagan-revering Conservative who would have rather gone to Republican Valhalla with Bill Clinton's blood on her teeth than live to see (but of course never, ever admit) that the dirty, hippy Left had been right about the Right all along.  

And so as Trump and his cadre of Republican ghouls and grifters finally and irrevocably bury every trace of her Party of Personal Responsibly, the best Charen can manage is to watch it all from the clammy, petty safety of the Both Sides Do It bunker.  

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA

“All right, then, I'll go to Hell!" -- Huckleberry Finn

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