On the third anniversary of the greatest foreign-policy debacle in decades, Cdr Salamander is still righteously angry.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
RFK’s Address
Can be found here.
It’s pretty long. How long did it take him to deliver it?
The Left’s Swift Shift After The RFK Endorsement
They lack a sense of irony:
The acrid scent of panic might have been expected among the limp-wristed, totalitarian faithful. And, in fact, beneath the amusing cologne of anti-Trump bluster, the panic was indeed discernible.
But there was also that trademark smooth-as-a-suppository (as Saul Bellow put it) suaveness, exemplified, for instance, by former Obama strategist David Axelrod.
“Robert F. Kennedy Sr.,” Axelrod posted shortly after the deed was done, “would have been appalled to see his son cut a deal to drop out for [t]he race and endorse Trump.”
Imagine: someone agrees to drop out of a race at the last minute and support a rival candidate! As the commentator Ned Ryan put it in response to Axelrod’s snippy post: “You suddenly seem offended by someone cutting a deal to drop out of the race and endorse someone else.”
The Democrats And The Working Class
The disconnect remains.
I would dispute the phrase “college educated” to describe the people who attended college and who support the Democrats. I’d call them, rather, indoctrinated and credentialed.
Kamala Harris
Creature of the oligarchy. It’s a depressing read.
Climate Models
Understanding the seven major errors of them.
Nicole Shanahan
…has finally wised up to just how evil her (now former) political party is.
MUST WATCH:
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 20, 2024
RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan on how the DNC sabotaged their campaign and forced them to be a spoiler. She was a Democrat.
“They kept us off stages, manipulated polls, sued us in every possible state, and even planted insiders in our campaign.”pic.twitter.com/aNbiktWDfK
Crazy Concept
What student protesters had to defend their positions with logic?
Yes, they should be shamed. And Che teeshirts and posters should be greeted with as much opprobrium as Hitler teeshirts and posters.
Joe Biden’s Political Obituary
Hard to argue with this.
And the accidental president shuffles off the stage.
[Update a while later]
Biden’s speech was a political trainwreck.
We couldn’t sit through it. We watched other things and occasionally switched back to see when it was over, so we could see Gutfeld.
Explaining Russia And Ukraine
This is a little more crude than probably necessary, but it’s pretty much correct.
[Update a while later]
Russia is an empire that needs liberation.
— Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦 (@rshereme) August 19, 2024
Many people don’t realize that russia is still an empire. In fact, russia fits perfectly the definition of an empire: an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority.
1/n pic.twitter.com/rHu9zVSCky
[Update a few minutes later]
Four key Russian railway junctions. It’s a huge vulnerability, and likely part of Ukraine’s plans.