Maggie's Farm

VDH: When normality became abnormal

The Republican Party’s prior role was to slow down the inevitable trajectory to European socialism, the end of American exceptionalism, and homogenized globalized culture. Losing nobly in national elections was one way of keeping one’s dignity, weepy wounded-fawn style, while the progressive historical arc kept bending to our collective future. Rolling one’s eyes on Sunday talk shows as a progressive outlined the next unhinged agenda was proof of tough resistance.

Like it or not, now lines are drawn. Trump so unhinged the Left that it finally tore off its occasional veneer of moderation, and showed us what progressives had in store for America...

Re the Russia hoax

 With Justice Department investigators’ noses to the ground, it should be just a matter of time before they identify Brennan conclusively as fabricator-in-chief of the Russiagate story. Evidence, real evidence in this case, abounds, since the Brennan-Comey-Clapper gang of three were sure Hillary Clinton would become president. Consequently, they did not perform due diligence to hide their tracks...

Inside a container ship

A snip of Joe Rogan interviewing Naval Ravikant. Interesting.

The entire interview below:

 Besides everything else interesting about Ambrose's Band of Brothers is the explanations of how much detailed planning went into the invasion.

Piers has a bunch of stupid questions, but Trump handles it all very well. 

Australian government pays Al Gore $320k to conduct climate training as rare snowfall hits

 Will The Democratic Candidates Ever Notice That The Climate Change Thing Is Over?

Althouse: "This is one of my longtime issues — the hypocrisy of those who purport to care deeply about carbon footprints yet enthusiastically imprint their feet all over the world and encourage (and even pressure) others to do the same."

In my deeply considered view, all of the global whatever you call it is either virtue signalling or power politics. It's all bullsh-t. If one more person tells me "I recycle for the planet" I will just laugh. And maybe ask them what they are doing for other planets.

We have posted several of his flying videos. Quite an accomplished young fellow, Matt is. He looks about 12 years old.

Thanks for the tip, reader. 

This is a bit dated, but darn interesting.

How we live, some of the time, or too much of the time. Via Scott Adams

Decides spontaneously to shake hands will every graduating cadet, for 90 minutes. His enthusiasm increases as it goes on. Well, he is only 72 years old.

If you judge people by their mistakes, you will hate everybody.

Scott Adams, who adds that the way people handle their mistakes is the important piece