Max Boot admits that he never had a real job and he is no longer Conservative. That’s right Max, you were in fact a CONservative ™ (r). You were not, nor were you ever a Conservative as it’s known outside of the I95 corridor. You and yours are the fiction.
In the past I would have been indignant at such attacks and eager to assert my conservative credentials. I spent years writing for conservative publications such as the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Commentary magazine and working as a foreign policy adviser for three Republican presidential campaigns. Being conservative used to be central to my identity. But now, frankly, I don’t give a damn. I prefer to think of myself as a classical liberal, because “conservative” has become practically synonymous with “Trump lackey.”
No, your sick and twisted version of ‘Conservative’ did IN FACT become endless wars for no real American Interest, unfair trade agreements that utterly destroyed the middle-class and our economy, and never really accomplishing anything except furious word-smithing and base-whipping for your own profit that was paid for by Americans.
Do Go have Bill Kristol’s baby.
Don’t the let door hit you in the ass.
Further reading about the end of the scam that is CONservativism ™ (r)
https://www.nysun.com/national/democrats-in-such-a-shambles-that-a-defeat/90204/
indeed.
BWAHAHAAA!!!!
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/american-dreamer-hat
The Never Trumpers area bitter lot, and deny reality. Would they really have preferred Hillary?
Yes they would have , and that is an alternate reality.
Beware of possible incoming…
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/969018092863946752
RIX wrote:
bitter and angry, like a nasty, scorned bitch
doriangrey wrote:
billy mckristolmeth!
😆
coldwarrior wrote:
That is the truth and nothing but 5he truth.
@ coldwarrior:
Heh, and man after your own heart cold…
https://twitter.com/KinigitByDay/status/968364115356999680
Here is a fantastic pic of something I’ve never heard of – a fallstreak hole.
https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/968999406442827776
doriangrey wrote:
Man, I misread that first as “and man after your own cold heart”
About the nevertrumpers – I forget which one of them – opined that middle class whites should be deported and the great unwashed from 3rd worlds should be brought in because they work, aren’t lazy, etc. The merits of the immigrant class which they would never deign to belong to but will hire to clean their houses.
That’s what I’ll remember – not their disdain from Trump, so much, as that is a symptom of petty minds. It’s their contempt for – and fear of- me.
@ eaglesoars:
I remember that too. And I don’t know who it was.
@ eaglesoars:
@ right_wing2:
I believe that was none other than little Billy McKrystalmeth.
@ eaglesoars:
@ right_wing2:
@ doriangrey:
nope, not blly mckristolmeth. but it was published front and center in NRO…kevin williamson.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/03/donald-trump-white-working-class-dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump/
i keep this bookmarked to remind me exactly what the ‘CONservatives ™ (r) think of me and mine.
they day national review died.
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s not the one I was thinking of. What I remember was either Kristol or Brett Stephens. And I’m pretty sure it was Kristol
Kristol
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Weekly Standard editor-at-large Bill Kristol said Tuesday afternoon that the white working class should be replaced by immigrants as they have become “decadent, lazy” and “spoiled.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/08/bill-kristol-says-lazy-white-working-class-should-be-replaced-by-new-americans/
@ eaglesoars:
i could say the same about him, but id be labeled an anti semite or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
Key and Peele
Start your day with a laugh. These guys kill.
@ coldwarrior:
hey, I’ll call him a bad Jew, howzat?
http://www.oann.com/motor-racing-formula-one-testing-hit-by-snow/
glabal warming
I wonder what would happen if a state passed a law explicitly naming all legal adults, no felonies no threat to public safety, as members of the militia.
Sure it’s what the Framers meant but the left will never understand that.
RIX wrote:
a aron! lol
@ right_wing2:
if the left were as constitutional as they claim we would all have m16s and all the ammo we could eat
coldwarrior wrote:
Every weather event proves Global Warming. If you doubt that you are a Denier and will be sent to reeducation.
right_wing2 wrote:
That’s target practice for the left. I remember when one small town in NY had all the gun owners names and addresses printed in the newspaper.
gotta go later
@ eaglesoars:
I remember the too. I believe they were sued over this. I’ll have to check. If not, they should have been.
I don’t know if the stats are true, but I’m hearing that the NRA has signed up something like 500K new members since CNN and Hogg started their smear attacks. Also the companies “boycotting” are starting to feel real blowback.
The MSM and Gun Grabbers don’t get it.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Fed Ex stock went up. There is a message there.
@ RIX:
There was a call for a one-day boycott of Amazon for their support of the NRA today. So I of course have purchased Dana Loesch’s book “Hands Off My Gun” and John Lott’s excellent book on beating back the gun control arguments.
I’m having them shipped to my office so people can have a kiniption fit when they see the covers.
So….if you were planning an Amazon purchase, today’s a good day.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/brutal-murder-elderly-jewish-woman-hurled-off-balcony-screaming-muslim-savage-finally-declared-anti-semitic-crime/
@ GP
Muslim beats and murders a jewish woman in a Paris suburb.
In the article it appears that the local police waited outside while it was in progress waiting for am anti-terrorist
unit. If I read this correctly it sounds like the Broward County Sheriff Dept, nutty rules.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/376630-michael-moore-nra-is-worse-than-isis/
@ WZ
Michael Moore thinks that they NRA is worse than ISIS. I believe that this is what happens when your
obesity is so profound that blubber smothers your brain.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I’m in. I believe that the 16 year old sages from Parkland and their handlers have overreached.
They are now seeing unintended consequences.
I”
I’m out. Headed downtown for a lunch meeting. The sacrifices I make./
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
is there a day when i’m not buying something form them?
RIX wrote:
thanks hogg!
ca-ching!
@ RIX:
This kid Hogg has been the best NRA recruitment tool and gun sales advocate since Obama.
Sad remembrance
Six years ago we lost Andy. A real friend to this blog.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
the peeps who are actually ‘woke’ are the middle class flyovers.
Did anyone watch the series “Waco” on Paramount network? I believe it was based – at least partially – on the memoirs of the FBI negotiator who was there and who the FBI kicked off the site.
I would be curious if anyone else was watching and if so, if they are as angry as I am.
coldwarrior wrote:
Its like… They’re speaking different languages…
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I don’t have to watch to be angry, I remember the incident all to clearly. The first version of events I heard made me sympathetic to the Government, then I read the various court transcripts and realized that the FBI genuinely fucked the Weaver family and committed multiple felonies covering up what they had done.
@ doriangrey:
Oops, sorry, confused “Waco” with “Ruby Ridge”. Yea, Waco was just as bad as “Ruby Ridge” a complete Janet Reno Bill Clinton felony cluster fuck.
@ right_wing2:
That’s a great idea. I’d exclude voting democrats from the militia by rule though. They have no heart for the country.
doriangrey wrote:
It was Ruby Ridge that opened my eyes about the FBI. THEN I went back and gave Waco a 2nd look-see.
@ Deplorable Barbarian:
Watching that and the Leah remind Scientology expose. Both interesting. They could have picked up Koresh anytime but seemed to want to make a big deal out of it.
eaglesoars wrote:
And if you think they’ve changed, just look up what’s going on with the Bundy’s and their ranch, the BLM and the murder of Lavoy Finicum
@ doriangrey:
Okay, good to know that we reached the same conclusion. I, too, believed the government’s version of events because of the so-called “tapes”. and then I saw the documentary “Waco: Rules of Engagement” and came away with a completely different mindset.
ok, just for shits and giggles, assume this is true
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Russia has a new array of nuclear-capable weapons including an intercontinental ballistic missile that renders defense systems “useless,” President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday.
The ICBM has a longer range than any other and can reach almost any target in the world, Putin said in his annual address to lawmakers and political elites.
Other new technologies he highlighted included supersonic missiles and drone submarines that he said cannot be stopped.
Putin’s marathon speech came 17 days before a presidential election in which he is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in power. It was accompanied by video footage showing some of the new weaponry in action as well as simulations on a giant screen.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putin-set-state-union-speech-election-looms-n852211
How does one test a supposedly unstoppable system to be certain it can’t be stopped? Asking for a friend….
eaglesoars wrote:
Do not underestimate Russian technological prowess. If they claim they have it, they probably do not, but you can be damned sure that they have reached the working prototype stage.
A “Unstoppable” system does not have to be 100 percent unstoppable, it just has to be unstoppable 50 percent of the time. With nuclear weapons, 10 percent unstoppable is a good enough benchmark.
darkwords wrote:
that was incredibly eye opening
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup, same here. I’m a bit of an odd ball, in that I do not have implicit trust of Law Enforcement. I have had way to many dealings with them and know that they do not really have any problem breaking the very laws that they are charged with enforcing if they believe it is necessary to enforce the law.
More importantly, I recognize that Law Enforcement Organizations “Enforce” laws, they do not write them, and they do not challenge bad laws. I am no anti-law enforcement, I accept that for any society to be peaceful to any significant degree, it must be a society of laws.
My problem is with who writes the laws, why they write them, and how those laws are enforced. A really great article here basically sums up much of my opinion and bias regarding Law Enforcement.
https://www.caseyresearch.com/rise-praetorian-class/
meanwhile:
Jobless claims plunge to 49-year low…
Incomes Up Most in Five Years…
Manufacturing Expands at Fastest Pace Since ’04…
U.S. factories expanded in February at the fastest rate since May 2004, indicating sustained strength in manufacturing as demand remains solid, figures from the Institute for Supply Management showed Thursday.
howz that ‘economy is going to fail’ go again moron nevertrumpers?
@ coldwarrior:
i sure hope a certain money manager who used to post here didnt put his clients money where his ‘mouth’ was
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/01/president-trump-will-announce-tariffs-at-meeting-thursday.html
EXCELLENT!!!
level the field. let us COMPETE!
here is how it works, china heavily subsidizes and over produces steel and aluminum. most of it substandard. this keeps their slaves employed.
then, they export a bunch of it to mexico, vietnam, etc who then export it here. mexico uses nafta for export of chinese steel to the us. vietnamese aluminum? they dont have a smelter in the whole country, yet we import it from them.
korea then subsidizes and screws us over on pipe and stainless.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-production/u-s-crude-oil-production-hit-record-high-in-november-eia-idUSKCN1GC2PB
perspective:
The Dow and S&P 500 snapped 10-month winning streaks, their longest since 1959.
almost 60 year.
@ coldwarrior:
@ coldwarrior:
It’s all because of Saint Barack.
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@ coldwarrior:
Proof than Trump will destroy the economy!
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@ right_wing2:
@ right_wing2:
indeed!
/
good bye south africa
White farmers in South Africa will have their property seized under a new law backed by Julius Malema, the revolutionary socialist leader of the country’s opposition party who once chillingly declared he was “not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now.”
On Tuesday, the National Assembly of South Africa voted 241-83 in favor amending the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
coldwarrior wrote:
Exactly. Many CONservative prattle on about “Free Trade” never understanding that free trade only works when nobody is putting their thumb on the scale in their own favor. Trump understands this and is working to level the playing field so that “Free Trade” with America is in fact genuine Free Trade.
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve always wondered if Trump’s announcement of the imposition of tariffs did not have as it’s long-term goal the reduction or elimination of tariffs on American goods. Which would be a good thing, no?
@ coldwarrior:
And we haven’t even scratched the 2 trillion (possibly as much as 6 trillion barrels) recoverable barrels of shale oil contained in the Green River Formation.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865651772/Project-proposes-to-unlock-Utah-oil-shale.html
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Anything that allows Americans to compete fairly and on a level playing field with the rest of the world is a good thing. The Marxist infiltrators in America hate that because the simple truth, is that if you give an American company a fair honest shot at competing, the American win’s 85% of the time.
American workers are the most productive workers on earth, this is why the Marxist have done everything in their power to cripple American manufacturing.
@ doriangrey:
Yep.
And we need a little inflation and higher interest rates. This gives the fed leverage in either direction. It barely has that now. The tap has to work in both directions.
I was scared to death that we were going to have deflation under O.
@ coldwarrior:
atlanta fed is estimating Q1 gdp at 3.5%…
salt…grains….but perfect.
coldwarrior wrote:
If that’s in response to the tariff announcement, I don’t see how that’s NOT a stupid response. In general, I’m not a fan of tariffs because IMO they’re misapplied. But not in this case.
eaglesoars wrote:
down market more to do with interest rate hikes that might be coming than with steel tarrifss. imo.
ive been reading/watching the market press today, they are not telling the whole story.
steel / aluminum like food and water is a national security issue.
coldwarrior wrote:
ya think?
precisely on the nat’l sec issue. These people are not accustomed to thinking in those terms.
eaglesoars wrote:
i dont expect finance guys and lawyers to think along those lines.
gotta build guns and tanks and planes and rockets and…
for that you need metal. good quality metal from a secure source.
Just back from a birthday party on the Aussie Gold Coast and off to ‘the beach-house’ after breakfast. Pissing down rain here in Auckland but just 80 minutes south the sun is out and the fish are biting.
🙂
Chat next week folks.
@ Aussie Infidel:
pissing down rain here and its 50f going to 28.
;(
coldwarrior wrote:
Kiwis just had to tear down a high rise built with Chinese steel. It was below spec and rubbish. The worm is beginning to turn!
🙂
The Aussies are ‘outing ‘ the Chinese agent networks that have infiltrated Oz. Mostly in skewed trade deals and in academic where the Chinese have been buying academic access and subverting the system from within. Another turning worm.
You can tell when you’re succeeding. The Chinese beginning to threaten and bully.
Wrong !
That just pisses Aussies off
@ coldwarrior:
i’m sure the chinese will be glad to sell us ‘special quality for export’ m-16’s, and jet engines, and such.
coldwarrior wrote:
No golf for you today mate !
🙂
Later Cold.
The beach awaits
Aussie Infidel wrote:
true, then they run away.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
bastard.
😉
@ coldwarrior:
It’s been a few years but Cessna sold a small ‘light sport’ aircraft called the Skycatcher I think. It was made in China, then put together here. It didn’t go over very well because of cost and performance issues. I wonder what the quality was like.
@ right_wing2:
hmmm…never heard of it. private aviation got way too expensive under clinton. i gave up shortly thereafter.
jaguar just unveiled their first all electric car. what could go wrong?
LUCAS! THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!
nucor ceo on bloomberg just shot down the panel…increased steel costs add $130 per car
big effing deal, wall street is having a tantrum.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Great news! I wonder if it could have happened if Trump hadn’t started to give political cover. I’m not trying to blow the U.S. horn, it’s an honest political question.
Have a great day at the beach! You’ve got a lovely place.
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
Larry O’Conner is just about having a wake on his radio show today. As much as I miss Andy, I think of his loss as one of three – Andy, Christopher Hitchens and, believe it or not, Robert Novak
eaglesoars wrote:
now THERE is a power trio!
so sayeth they of salt lake city. and soy boy ryan.
Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, said the tariffs would be expected from a “leftist administration.” He didn’t mention that Republican President George W. Bush imposed steel tariffs.
@ coldwarrior:
what I wouldn’t give to watch Hitchens dine at leisure on Bill Kristol
coldwarrior wrote:
like what? It’s a given that China will cheat so why play nice?
eaglesoars wrote:
BWAHAHAAAA!!!!
every year around chirstmas time i go to university of Pittsburgh and a have a beer in the bar where he would hang out. i do miss the friday post-lecture piss-up. i am blessed to have called him a friend.
Ahhh, beer and pub grub.
Life is good!
Indeed.
some guy is on Brett saying when Bush imposed tariffs producers said they had to lay off 200k workers. They may have SAID that, I don’t recall, but if so they lied. As for retaliation from the EU ag sector – bring it.
coldwarrior wrote:
https://twitter.com/OscarWildeGrey/status/969310016510423040
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/35d79b5bde4ca8199b0de40bd650e3ff048a9eb409590467d23ae53470c5072e.jpg
Because of the issues with NICS reporting? Nope.
Because the military exchanges sell guns and ammo to servicemembers for personal use.
lobo91 wrote:
this gives me a headache.
coldwarrior wrote:
You must understand, he has ultimate consciousness./
Deplorable Barbarian wrote:
I know that it is forbidden to criticize this kid, but he is an insufferable little a hole.
@ RIX:
he got me just a bit closer to putting the addition on the house! thanks hogg!
lobo91 wrote:
and she covers the Pentagon. I wonder if she has any idea what they actually do over there
@ eaglesoars:
Gee…you know why the Exchange Service started selling guns and ammo a few years ago?
Because there’s a demand for them! Just like any other product they sell.
Even if their prices are identical to what a store off post has, there’s no sales tax.
the girl shot a new personal best in practice today a 268
back at Christmas she shot her way onto the team with a 230
and she got an A on her trig test
and she had sushi for dinner
so yeah, good day
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/28/wapo-senate-dems-torpedoing-gun-bill/
coldwarrior wrote:
So, given all that good news, why the bloodbath in the stock market this week? Something doesn’t make sense.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh. my. goodness. A British electric car. Dependent on Lucas electrics.
/doomed from the get-go
doriangrey wrote:
You mean the Clintons did more for the Chinese than just selling out our missile technologies?
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m pretty much gun-controlled out. I’m tired of the lies and distortions from the gun grabbers, the constant barrage of gun control stories from the press, and the little smarmy paid twit David Hogg. I’m taking time off from various blogs because of the incessant nonsense from the left.
rain of lead wrote:
Well, except for that bait for dinner thing
lobo91 wrote:
I thought sales taxes were imposed a few yrs ago. I’m pretty sure I paid them when my sister and I went to the PX at Ft Belvoir a couple summers ago
AZfederalist wrote:
um, Lucas electrics?
coldwarrior wrote:
At least he served a purpose.
eaglesoars wrote:
If you have to ask, you probably really do not want to know.
@ eaglesoars:
worst car parts company in the history of the world
AZfederalist wrote:
I used to feel that way as well until I discovered wassabi
AZfederalist wrote:
I did a guest post here a few years back on the situation. Yea, the Clinton’s sold out anyone to anyone for the right price. In this particular case, MolyCorp was the single largest producer of rare earth metals on earth, they not only produced the most rare earth metals, but the highest quality as well.
The Chinese discovered that they had a very large quantity of rare earth metals that they could exploit, the problem was, they could not compete with the quality being produced by MolyCorp. So… a few well placed bribes to the Clinton’s… and Bob was MolyCorps uncle by way of the EPA stepping in and shutting MolyCorp down.
The US No longer produces Rare Earth Metals in any strategically significant quantity.
rain of lead wrote:
http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm
rain of lead wrote:
thanks, cuz I never heard of it
@ doriangrey:
let smoke out of your wires? whatever………
doriangrey wrote:
it might be nice if somebody dug that up and reposted it. I don’t remember it (which is not a reflection on your post, my memory sucketh)
bedtime nite
eaglesoars wrote:
nite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RXf0E_Vuw
eaglesoars wrote:
Had a 1988 British Sterling automobile. Cool ads, fun car to drive, when it drove. Unholy alliance between Austin Rover for the carriage works, Lexus for the power train, with Lucas electronics. There was always something wrong with that car. When you’d fix it, something else would go wrong. Contrary to my desire to drive a vehicle until it just won’t repair anymore, we got rid of this piece o’ crap after a short 4 years. The stack of repair orders was over an inch thick.