Nobody Asked Me, But...
Laurel Kenner's cabinet of curiosities. In homage to Jimmy Cannon, a newsman who stayed curious
Joe Biden should resign over the shameful debacle in Afghanistan, together with all the members of his cabinet. And he should be tried for war crimes—against his own side.
Resolved: That anyone self-branding as a “progressive” be hooted off the stage.
Didn’t the old-time Progressives want to strengthen the federal government to fight the corruption of state and local legislatures by powerful business interests?
Do not today’s over-the-top progressives want to put government in charge of everything? Is that not a deeply regressive idea?
Are not today’s progressives so completely enamored by having a central government assume more and more power that they are on the verge of pushing the country into the mode of regressive totalitarian systems like Xi’s People’s Republic of China, Stalin’s Soviet Union, the Maoist Cultural Revolution, Hitler’s Germany, the czarist serf system, Europe’s feudal monarchies, and the pharaonic theocracies?
Are not today’s so-called progressives, in contrast to their namesakes, elitists bearing the sigils of expensive universities, sports stardom, Silicon Valley success, Hollywood stardom, NGO funding, diversity-equality-inclusion career paths, legacy media jobs, academic tenure, and social media fortunes? Are they not slumming with lumpen students and thugs? Are they not wholly innocent of economics and indifferent to the sufferings of those less fortunate than themselves who are trying to improve their lot rather than be permanent recipients of a brutally capricious and blatantly incompetent welfare state?
Does anyone dispute that the engine of Washington runs on money? If you do, let me hear from you. Because this is the government that today’s delusional progressives wish to put in charge of everything.
Do you revel in the sheer loveliness of reason? Here’s an article by Fed Governor Chris Waller explaining why there’s no reason at all, despite the fantasies of Elizabeth Warren, for the U.S. government to have its own digital currency.
Black models are having their day in advertising, and it’s about time because they were invisible too long. I learned just how sore a point that was when I went around South Central in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots interviewing black businessmen for a local newspaper. So how about giving Hispanic faces some visibility, too? They are 20% of the population, and they are treated almost universally like dirt. They slave in hot restaurant kitchens, they run the brutalizing landscape machines, they clean the houses. Everyone is so patronizingly grateful for their wonderful Hispanic help, if they notice them at all. So give them face time, but more important, give them respect!
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