Speak First and Lose

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https://people.com/health/joe-rogan-responds-to-backlash-against-his-vaccine-comments-im-a-moron/

“I’m not a respected source of information even for me. But I at least try to be honest about what I’m saying.”

I suggest that this fits into the political arena as the “Theory of Everything”. Except the honesty part.

Source: Britannica.

I have come across the phrase “social democracy” a number of times lately. I assumed that I understood it, but just to check my own assumptions I looked it up this morning.

From the source:

“Social democracy, [a] political ideology that originally advocated a peaceful evolutionary transition of society from capitalism to socialism using established political processes.”

I stand corrected. I thought “social democracy” was an empty ostentation. After all, democracy itself is a social behavior. Now I know that social democracy is a revolutionary strategy.

Source: National Review.

Two paragraphs in the source stand out:

Take government spending on infrastructure, which the president touted last night as a source of major future growth and jobs. It is one thing to assume a major return on investment; it is quite another to find such a return when looking at what happens in practice. A recent review of the literature in this NBER paper by economist Gilles Duranton of Wharton University et al. finds “little compelling evidence about transportation infrastructure creating economic growth.”

Looking at spending on highway construction in the Great Recession stimulus bill, economist Valerie A. Ramey, arguably one of the top scholars on this issue, concluded that “there is scant empirical evidence that infrastructure investment, or public investment in general, has a short-run stimulus effect. There are more papers that find negative effects on employment than positive effects on employment.”

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Just hear former press Sect Hogan Gidley describe the MSM as ‘Joe Biden’s bidet, cleaning up his crap on a daily basis.’

You almost have to be British to insult a group that well.

Everyone in this picture has been vaccinated for months. They work together every day.

Yet they are wearing masks and socially distancing like they fear for their lives. Why would we expect people to get vaccinated if there is no return to normalcy for those who do?

This is the absolute worst example to set for Americans, living in fear forever, even after being vaccinated.

Source: Imprimis.

We had a post a while back that challenged Tidewater Forum readers to explain Critical Race Theory. The challenge, I think, was based on the assumption that critics of CRT don’t know what it is, and wouldn’t criticize it if they did. The instant essay is as good a response to the original post as one can imagine, albeit a late one.

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Hillary Clinton Hanged at GITMO

I would have thought this would be a bigger story. Surprised we didn’t hear about this.

The optics were bad, the rhetoric was pedestrian, the message disturbing.

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Source: Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

My personal experience — having lived in Virginia for more than half a century — is that outright racism that once was common now is almost non-existant. A new report by political scientist Eric Kaufmann of the Manhattan Institute appears to support the observation.

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