My favorite intellectual. Camille Paglia is the greatest American culture critic of the 20th century. She was calling out the degeneration of higher education and the nihilism of our elite managerial class with absolute precision 30 years ago. Also, the bankruptcy of contemporary feminism and political correctness. Independently reading ‘Sexual Personae’ my final semester as an undergrad was the beginning of my deprogramming as a leftist apparatchik. Her essay “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf” is essential reading if you’re looking for an autopsy of American education… Naturally, she is HATED by the contemporary left. She has recently been trashing the anti-scientific nonsense of modern transgender ideology…
Is it ‘The Camp of the Saints’? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
You only apply critical methodologies to your current enemies, of course: Leftists would never deconstruct their own sacred cows, unless it becomes politically expedient to do so… Lacking any core principles, the only thing that keeps them from being total nihilists is their commitment to their own advantage and advancing a narrow set of ad hoc political positions like unrestricted plunder, abortion on demand and “demystifying” sodomy, as well as an instinctive in-group herd mentality and corresponding aggressive resentment toward outsiders and skeptics of their narrow political objective du jour. Their hypocrisy is total, so don’t expect them to consistently apply their own moral principles. In fact, to a leftist, the only people who should have moral standards applied against them are those who hold moral standards at all. See the fourth rule in Alinky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’. It’s why they are so reflexively contemptuous of anyone advocating law and order. They are lawless reprobates!
I’ve been trying to make sense of this situation, and I like this theory because it answers, much more clearly than the simple “false flag” narrative, the many questions raised by this profound (and admittedly suspicious) intelligence failure. I am unsatisfied with the false flag theory that is currently dominant on this website because: 1.) it aligns with the radical left and their “anti-colonialist” pro-Palestine BDS agenda and 2.) it is inconsistent with Trump’s own loud support of Israel on this issue. I am suspicious of the false flag narrative which tacitly endorses Obama and Biden’s pro-Iran/pro-Hamas agenda and handwaves away the unbelievable barbarism Hamas displayed during this attack, attacking soft civilian targets and seizing innocent hostages. Either we support Trump on this issue and his post-Obama realignment of Middle East policy with strong support of Israel, or we agree with the left and their collective hatred of Israel… I think this explanation is more consistent with what we know about the Deep State and its contempt for Netanyahu and his “far-right” agenda.
The salt! “For any other politician, a mug shot would be the end. For Trump, it's a springboard.” They are helpless to take him down. He refuses to play by the beltway rules and they cannot stand it! Just a butthurt, needlessly verbose way of saying NCSWIC 😂
This is glorious! You know the lefty losers have to be PISSED! All eyes in the U.S. and the world are on this hyped event, and the mugshot is absolutely beautiful. Very high energy! Defiant, rugged, manly! Like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. AND he is back on Twitter. And to make this event even better, Trump is a svelte 215 lbs (2+15=17! Praise KEK!). Oddsmakers had him at 273.5. He is in better shape than me, and I go to the gym four times a week! 😂 Trump truly is the king of all media and the rightful GEOTUS! 2024 begins right now!
The smug is strong in this clip: Are there two more insufferable people on the planet? Such blatant hypocrisy is sickening. Only Democrats can challenge election results, I guess… And Hillary Clinton is the poster child of administrative incompetence and political corruption 🤨
Ewww! This is the coup de grace of any credibility DeSantis ever had. Trump won my admiration the moment he called out GWB’s boondoggle in Iraq, sunk Jeb’s low energy campaign, and pivoted the Republican Party away from a neoconservative MIC foreign policy, all in a single moment of brilliant political theater during the primaries… Trump completely upended the conventional DC beltway political thinking of the Bush years and showed a new, better path forward. DC insiders and power players have never forgiven Trump for calling out their failures and exposing their elitism and incompetence. If DeSantis thinks lionizing the Bushes and returning to their retrograde style of politics is a winning strategy, he’s even more of an idiot than I thought!
The NYT is total left-wing propaganda. Compare the velvet glove reception of this blatantly genocidal song to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”. One is politically incorrect and unacceptable in light of modern circumstances, one must be tolerated despite current circumstances because of its history as a progressive anthem. The hypocrisy is blatant. But this anti-Boer song is no different than “Kill Whitey”, which was always and still very much is an acceptable slogan and policy prescription for leftists… If it weren’t for double standards, the left wouldn’t have any standards at all…
“From Parlor Act to Problematic.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/arts/music/baby-its-cold-outside-history-facts.html
Hilarious! “Of course he said ‘hello’. What was he supposed to do, tell Hunter to hang up the phone when his coked out son said if you don’t play ball, my dad is gonna break your knee caps? That would have been rude!” If this was Trump Jr instead of Hunter, there would have already been public hangings…
I agree. This sort of reactionary, anti-art cultural philistinism is typical of the woke left. The old “lock this piece of cultural history away in a museum where we can put it in proper ‘context’” canard is such a PC reflex I can’t believe I’m hearing it repeated unironically on this board. This sculpture is actually quite based, and is a caricature of exactly the sort of globalist pedovores the Great Awakening is all about exposing. It dates back to a time when European communities were strong and recognized the real enemy. It’s actually amazing it still stands in plain view!