On Monday I had the great honor of sitting in for Rush on America's Number One radio show. Aspects of the post-Covid mob frenzy predominated, so we talked about why certain #BlackLivesMatter to the rioters but many more black lives don't. I also discussed the vaporizing of key editors and columnists for accidentally wandering a millimetre off the party line, and the attempt to do the same to J K Rowling. All that plus sundry other topics from Rush's interview with Charlamagne [sic] to CGI sex scenes and the uselessness of America's generals. Click below to listen:
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"The uselessness of America's generals" as Mark put it - if only that were the case as America teeters on the brink of collapse. I just came upon the letter that Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent to his Commanders last week. One of them leaked it to the press of course which was likely Milley's intent. The wording here is more than merely troubling at least to me. I quote "the U.S. armed forces will not allow themselves to be used against non-violent protesters. Every members swears an oath to support and defend the constitution". There is that word once again also used be Ret Gen. Mattis implying that the President is behaving in an unconstitutional manner. Put aside for a moment Gen Milley's gross misrepresentation of Trump's attempt to quell out of control rioting and looting in our cities. This president has survived a soft coup attempt largely fueled by our own government's operatives. He could not survive a hard coup should the military decide that he's in engaging in 'unconstitutional' acts. Perhaps this is just a way to pressure Trump into doing their bidding in the middle east. In any event it's quite without precedent in modern
American history.
It's hard to say what's going on here, maybe only time will tell, RAC. I find it disturbing. But I think the letter shows Milley is trying to be a little cute. He says, "...the US armed forces will not allow themselves to be used against non-violent protesters." He leaves out any wording about rioters, property damaging and looting thugs. I think it's a way to let on he's a good guy but prepared to confront the bad guys. We'll see what happens at the next uncivil uprising.
I noted Mark's 'alive not dead' distinction and it reminded me of the Schrodinger's Cat paradox in quantum physics. There are a number of physicists in the club that can provide a more detailed description but you won't understand any way. I was lucky enough to escape freshman physics and make it in into engineering classes and out of Vietnam.
Where can I buy a package of Smith Bros. Toad Vomit Lozenges? I did a search on Amazon and only came up with hits like Dirty Jobs Down Under with Mike Rowe and an accupressure wrist band for morning sickness.
They are marketed under the Wild Cherry flavor. As we all know, there are no real cherries used in the their production.
You need to get a little more resourceful, Chris. Make your own. As Mark was describing the Toad Vomit lozenges, I was attacking the kitchen cupboards and counters. Behind the cookbooks stacked on the cut glass cake plate, I found a little mousey's nest and it had dragged a couple of Ricola throat lozenges along with some wrappers and other little bits of things. I saw that the industrious little meece had worked magic with the lozenges and there were little lozenge pellets the size of bee bees. It was a miracle! That probably is the cure for the Covid-19 right there under my nose the whole time.
Mark, have you been approached about being a speechwriter for the President? I never thought anyone could top how Trump riffs but I think you could turn up the trash talking content a notch for him.
Is this now in our future?
Phone rings.
Hello?
Hi Ms. Wilson. This is Tiffany from the County Equality Department. Your file appears incomplete. I don't see a statement of support for Black Lives Matter. As you know, President Cortez has ordered everyone to profess their fealty to BLM and to take active steps to advance the cause of equality. Because you haven't filed your statement, you're now in the Level 5 property tax class. After you've filed the paperwork and proven your participation in at least four approved events over the next 60 days, you'll be on track to getting your property tax reduced to Level 4 after one year. And of course you can get all the way down to Level 2 by continuing to be active in support of BLM over the next three years.
MS. WILSON: How do I get to the lowest tax level?
TIFFANY: Oh, you can't. That's reserved only for blacks. Have a nice day.
Yes James and the future arrived two weeks ago. This only issue I take with your post is that blacks too are under fire should they stray from the reservation. Disagree with us and you're not black! Excommunicated from your race. Our Presidential candidate himself says it's so.
Mark, your "rationale for blackface" reminded me that "White Privilege" is merely white supremacy, repackaged.
The second most fanatical fanatic can never aspire to leadership of the mob. Competition for leadership drives the required standard from extreme to absurd.
Mark,
No need guess as to the impact of fewer police. With COVID, police departments have essentially stopped ticketing for traffic offenses. As such, speeding on the streets of cities and towns is frequently 20+ mph over speed limits. I presume many of these speeders are typically law-abiding. The lawless will have a green light to commit more serious crimes.
Oh, you already mentioned the Stalin line. I forgot. Stupid me.
Joseph Stalin's quote—"a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic" is a summary of how Black Lives Don't Matter. George Floyd's death is the tragedy, meanwhile every other black that dies after that by any other type of violence is just a statistic.
Recently talking to my lady love who said, "this all feels so weird to me, like we're not even on the same planet now". I could but agree. Trying to think of something useful or interesting to comment on here and I don't know if I can.
I can quote King Theoden looking out at the Orc army preparing to attack Helm's Deep: "How did it come to this?"
I can quote Jackson Browne in "Running on Empty": "I don't know how to tell you all how crazy this life feels. Look around for the friends I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too. Running on empty...."
Chill Mark,
No one believes the New Jack Times anymore. Its influence is over-rated : it reaches only those who can tolerate such levels of self interest and tokenism.
As with Breitbart and the Guardian , it has the occasional good article thanks to the few genuine reporters yet to be rooted out.
Things are so partisan now , who can you believe ?
You do your thing baby , I'll do mine . One of your few 60's music pieces was on the Doors.
Cheers.
Went on Amazon and saw their ad supporting BLM. It says that they "stand in solidarity with the black community". Since when did BLM becane the defacto representatives to the African American race? They are treating BLM and ANTIFA the same way they believe Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Islamic terrorist groups are somehow the representatives of all Muslims. It amazes me how a nation that is supposed to view all as equal somehow needs representatives for these groups as if they are foreigners to this country. You will never get equality if you have these institutions that only look for the interests of one group.
Everybody and their second cousin once removed seems to be supporting BLM now, Brian. I never went too much for the boycotts but now I'm looking for books elsewhere. I used to get dog supplies there too. Dog meds, going directly to the online pharmacies. Amazon life doesn't matter to me anymore.
How were Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton the faces of the Black Community for so many decades? It's always a mystery how some people claw their way to the top.
I wondered that for a long time, too. Those two phonies always show up, though, don't they? I'm starting to get good at remembering Mark Steyn lines: history is made by those who show up! (Correct me if I goofed).
Great show. Often I feel that I agree as strongly with implicit views as I do with the explicit ones, and sometimes I wish for a little more discussion of the implicit views so that I may become a little more literate about my own views and attitudes. A case in point arose thoughout the course of the show. I'd enjoy an assessment of the place of personal dignity in the judgement which we make about ourselves and others at some point. I'm clear that dignified conduct matters to me a great deal. I despise the crawlers and creeps kneeling and washing feet and generally debasing themselves, and if I were made to behave that way I'd give serious thought to suicide. Yet the entire Democrat representation in the legislature does it, and presumably think to a man that they're admirable. Am I missing something? I know that the pope periodically washes feet, but to be frank I'm not sure what to make of that. I know that there are many believers who set store by the ceremony, of course. I'd love to hear what a better mind than mine has to say about this matter. Certainly I don't believe that my distaste is by any means unique.
S., I, too, can't help but look on these people (I almost want to call them white supremecysts) with disgust when I see them bow to the mob and do the knee thing. Why the special reverence for one man's demise as hundreds of black men and women are murdered in the inner cities on a daily basis? Why not have daily marches and protests to disrupt the cities until the murders stop? Show some guts like Bobby Sands. He deprived himself of food until he died to make his statement. Someone else suggested they get rid of the planned Parenthood in the black neighborhoods if they cared so deeply about black lives. But you know all of this. The kneeling is just a big idiotic show because they want to show solidarity with their idiotic constituents. It's all about not having the will to address the real systemic issue: Democrats have, in effect, abandoned the lower income blacks and have no solutions to today's underlying societal problems.
The ones to pin the blame on keep getting elected, have the job security and the only way they survive politically is to join the chorus of those who believe they're the victims. Point to anything else to distract from the real problem is the safest way to proceed. Deflect, deflect & deflect some more. We have to rise above all this idiocy somehow. Dignity will follow.
I wish some Republican mayor would have the guts to have #BlackLivesMatter painted on the street right outside the local Planned Parenthood abortuary.
Agree, F.: folly is not the road to dignity. Nor is lunacy. I do make heavy going sometimes, regularly, often.
There's a thought, S.!
According to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights everyone is entitled to dignity. I've always thought that it is up to an individual to maintain his dignity and it is something that cannot be bestowed. People debasing themselves are not worthy of Liberty. Freedom isn't free.
Thanks, W. Yes, I think that it is the voluntary relinquishing of dignity which I despise. No declaration of rights can save such people from self-abasement. They're like drug-addicts: they don't care who witnesses their abject condition, and they deserve no respect.
I'm happy to advise that they needn't worry too much about ways to thank me for my expressions of awestruck and amazed admiration.
Couple of items ....
1). Citing DDay as a sort of Antifa action can be countered by pointing out that a couple of months later, at the other end of Europe, the spiritual forebears of Antifa were actually standing aside and watching the Nazis destroy the Poles.
2). The Lord of the Rings has an interesting passage just before Frodo and Sam start off up the hill for Cirith Ungol and encounter a statue of one of the ancient kings vandalised and toppled by Antifa/BLM, er .... Orcs, with a red eye painted on.
Then Frodo and Sam notice flowers growing on the statue's toppled head and their reaction is "Oh, look! The king has got a crown again!"...
"They cannot conquer forever!"
Whites know about being the victims of racism if anyone asks us. We've been told to live in shame because of our racist and oppressive past. We've been reminded of that past time and time again by the media, Hollywood, activists, teachers, professors, and communities. We're now being forced to admit to our "white privilege" and kneel and kiss the feet of blacks to show penance. Their plan is to punish white America and to subject us to 400 years of oppression.
America had a draft to send people to Vietnam to fight in a war no one agreed in. Now we have all been drafted by these social justice warriors. If we go AWOL, they will come after us and they will destroy us.
Love your take on Hong Kong. They do it right in Hong Kong in regards to protests. They know that if they burn down Hong Kong, there is no where for themselves to go.
Mark, I missed the first 45 minutes tied up in a little telework that went south on me, wife had a bad day at work in the (canine/feline) medical field and a coworker had a horrible day that made us thank God for ours. I was down in the dumps until I went back and listened to the first 12 minutes or so of the podcast and suddenly all was right and just in the world again. Hope I don't lose my yet-to-be-realized pension if the next Admiral/General asking for feedback at a vaguely woke virtual all-new asks how his profession has been doing at his job the past 75 years...and I tell him what I REALLY think. Hope I can live up to your courage, articulation and discretion in these matters. Renewal coming up next month; will watch to make sure the Visa behaves.
Mark has frequently remarked that the West cedes the most valuable real estate within its cities while it goes to war to "defend" worthless sand and rocks halfway across the globe. Well, now you have Mattis and Powell, who have been gung-ho for so many Middle East adventures, fault Trump for defending the White House and its nearby church from the mob.
Beginning to think the lot of them not fit to carry Eisenhower's...bags.
I can think of no point that better captures the fundamental difference in perspective between the "establishment" conservatives and the conservative base. Yet I have never heard an establishment conservative confronted with this question.
February 1917. Remember that Russian Revolution? Of course not!
We just recall Red October.
What happened in 2/17? Czar quit. Democratic Parliamentary Interim Government installed. Police disbanded and many cops hanged. All prisoners released. This happened in the name of Justice.
Community Policing and summary justice followed, in the turmoil of a mass crime epidemic. Convenient for offing the useful idiots.
Local Soviets were established. Cheka was established. Bolshevik terror was unleashed.
In 1916, 100 years before we Americans voted "None of the Above", the Russians could not have imagined that they were going to unleash such horror.
Now - look at Londonistan, the FBI, the Swamp, WHO, China. The Bushes.
All that we now witness was unimaginable to most of us February 2020.
Yes, Perry. Similar thing happened in France at the end of the 18th century.
As I pointed out in an earlier thread, 'More evil has been done by poor logicians, than by evil people intentionally doing evil.'
I can't help but challenge Mark on his logic when he says, that if you can't effect an arrest without killing the arrestee, you are doing it wrong. Oh, let's see; John Dillinger. Shot by police returning fire when Dillinger emerged from a movie theater in Chicago.
Or, to take a more recent example, Derek Chauvin and 4 other Minneapolis policemen chase down a suspect in a stabbing. When he is cornered he pulls out a sawed-off shotgun. All the officers fire on the suspect and he is killed. What did the police do wrong?
Of course, the premise in the George Floyd situation (that he was 'killed') is false. He died of a heart attack. Anyone want to defend this logic: If you can't effect an arrest without the suspect dying of heart attack, you are doing it wrong.
I keep saying that the pace at which this transition proceeds is shocking. People don't realize how quickly social orders can collapse once the process has begun.
Mark, I became a founding member today. You were on fire, and had a great chuckle with your aside about wandering onto the enemy battlefield of the BBC. I heard that interview. The host, and enemy combatant were mesmerized by you...we wish you and of course Rush well.
If there's anything good to come out of this, it's that rank and file Republicans are getting to see exactly what they had with the Bushes, Romneys, McCains, Powells, etc. Oh, and added bonus, we're getting to see what has become of our military leadership.
As the stomach turns....
Will any of the useless grifters who call themselves the Republican Party actually grow a spine and actually fight back and save our country now in it's death throes? I honestly have far more contempt for all of those gutless creeps than the woke sociopaths behind the New Cultural Revolution. In a contest when only one side shows up the result is academic.
The Center is about the worst possible place to be standing when the violence erupts.
You said it, SabreMike, when is our side going to rattle the other side's nerves? When do we get our wishlist checked off as Mark said a few weeks ago. I suspect the new hot civil war is fast approaching. People can only take so much bs in one lifetime.
No. They won't.
Mark Steyn's account of his Hungarian interview reminds me of a story about the second-to-last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Franz Josef, who learnt to pronounce Hungarian, but never actually understood it. One day, he paid a visit to Budapest, where he was due to attend the State Opening of Parliament and also to open a soup-kitchen and, well, you can probably guess what happened next: lots of bemused Hungarians at both venues.
Your story reminds me of another one, from the book 'Nicholas and Alexandra' about Sir George Buchanan, the British ambassador to Russia during the last days of the monarchy in that country. Sir George was an old school diplomat, much beloved by those who knew and worked with him in the Russia. His only handicap was that he could not speak Russian.
"In 1916, however, Buchanan visited Moscow, where he was made an honorary citizen of the city and given a priceless icon and a massive silver loving cup. "In the heart of Russia," wrote R. H. Bruce Lockhart, the British Consul General, who was assisting in Buchanan's visit, "he had to say at least a word or two in Russian. We had carefully rehearsed the ambassador to hold it up and say to the distinguished audience, 'Spasibo' which is the short form of Russian for 'thank you.' Instead, Sir George, in a firm voice, held up the cup and said, 'Za pivo' which means 'for beer.' "
I love a happy ending!
Good one. Probably since Peter the Great's time and the founding of St Petersburg, ignorance of Russian may not have seemed a particular disadvantage, since Peter expected the boyars to live in the city, as a kind of Baltic Versailles, and wasn't keen on letting the rest of the Russian populace in. Much of the aristocracy, including several tsars, could apparently speak very little Russian at all. Early in the Crimean War, Nicholas I boasted that his two best generals, not yet encountered by the British and French near Sevastopol, were Janvier and FĂ©vrier, leading to a macabre cartoon in "Punch," entitled "General FĂ©vrier Turned Traitor," after Nicholas suffered a fatal chill while inspecting troops.
At a certain level among the English aristocracy, in the early nineteenth century, there seems to have been an affectation for speaking French on social occasions, although there is no suggestion that that implied any difficulty with English.
Mark - Around 30 years ago, Irving Kristol remarked about the culture war: They (the left) won, we lost. Has anything happened in the last 30 years to lead anyone to believe that the left's victory has been turned back anywhere? The great Leftist Day of the Rope is coming soon. These people moving out of the cities to escape are out of luck because the leftists are everywhere. They might be buying themselves an extra 4 or 6 weeks, but the pod people are coming.
I think people need to calm down just a bit. From what I have seen over the last 30 years or so, yes these people want to grab power. However they are amongst the most hopeless, useless bunch of low achievers that have ever tried to do so. It is a huge mistake to equivocate the current riots/chaos with past such incidents as those were individuals and groups of much higher ability and will than these guys. I suspect that as soon as they lose a phone signal and/or a wifi connection, the revolution will be over.
Hoping -and kind of suspecting - you're right. But they all (at least the "friends " I've tried to reason with on AntiFascbook) have that creepy logic that reminds me too much of the looters, moochers and second-handers in Atlas Shrugged. Never appreciated my little 8-1/2 acres of Galt's Gulch as much as the past 3 months.
You reminded me that Mark spoke about a couple of Chinese cities mysteriously shutting down the cell phone service in the fall in Wuhan when the bat virus was likely taking flight from the lab. We should learn from the Chinese. Why didn't authorities here cut the cell signals in areas where the looting and arson was going on then unleash the police and Guards? There may have been an element of surprise this time around that it came on so fast and furious, but next time, nobody can say they didn't see it coming. A good idea for the insurrection round two when it comes?
It's not the neanderthals in the streets that concern me Robert, not even the ones dressing down the mayor of Minneapolis the other day. These people don't have the wit to organize such widespread protests.
What concerns me are the people behind the protests. They're staying out of sight, but they are surely there. Somebody has to be handling all this money that the corporate interests are coughing up. It certainly isn't the goons in the street. The ones you aren't seeing are the people with "higher ability."
I think you're dead right, M.
So strange that you talked of America as one college campus. I too had the feeling we are all being forced into a classroom Politics 101 (or whatever horrible name they give it these days). I thank God I went to university which though in the seventies let people have dissenting opinions in the classroom and you could do an essay defending Robber Barons and not be flunked!
It is so boring listening to radio and tv now because everything is about racism or the corona virus. You can tune in to a programme about cooking or the latest fashions and they will find some black lady to talk about the dreadful life she has led.
And yet find another country that is not African which has so many black people as leaders in so many fields!
There were no dissenting opinions allowed in engineering school. ;-) They even told us stories of bridges oscillating like jump ropes and aluminum British airplanes popping at high altitudes like firecrackers to put the fear of God...or at least Pythagoras and Isaac Newton (and something about Oppenheimer and Fermi wagering over whether the next test would explode the atmosphere...) into us. My Civil War (as seen frequently in Ken Byrne's works and having written several biographies) professor must be spinning in his grave over what they did to Jackson's statue. And then there was that wild-eyed guy that taught History of Napoleon... If we've gotta topple statues, are there any in the EU capital of dear old King Leopold? Just started reading Heart of Darkness again for the umpteenth time. A real barrel of laughs in these dour times.
And Mark mentioned today one of King Leopold's statues was toppled somewhere in Belgium today! See, we can all join in the Afghan Taliban vs Buddhist race to oblivion!
You had a cocktail with Tom Wolfe some years back. Of course, you did. It would be great if his books were not so late twentieth century and spicy. I would love to hear you read one of them.
If the Left paired its Defund the Police policy with greater 2nd Amendment rights (i.e. ANY 2nd Amendment rights,) they could at least claim to be serious about public safety. Actually, they are serious, deadly so. They would (and if permitted will) defund (which is to say disband) the police and p*ss that money away on global warming amelioration (iced tea, in my house) and lobotomies for those who don't respond to brainwashing. What they are not, as you noted on the show today with rising frustration in your voice, is honest. As a former liberal who "walked away", I have to wonder if they ever were. (Was the Great Society meant to end poverty, or to buy black voters for a party which had been violent and hostile to them for more than a century?) Things were this crazy in 1968 too, I think, but the radicals calling for anarchy and riot were called Yippies, not Councilwoman, Mayor, or Prime Minister. "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention," is a Leftist mantra. I'd change "outraged" to "armed", and I bet gun sales and permit applications will back me up.
They really don't seem to appreciate where their food comes from, how they're going to get there when they've broken their city and the political persuasion - and fervor for the 2nd Amendment - of the people they'll have to bargain with when they get there.
What a frustrating time. But it's been educational.
In the past few months, I've learned that a lifetime of learning and studying, being able to outscore most on any test, means I'm a science denier. I've learned that a lifetime of treating all people the same way, with kindness, understanding and generosity, means I'm racist sexist homophobic and a bigot.
I'd like to suggest that Mark's next book is titled "Me Alone". Maybe a subtitle like "how living a simple life of treating people well and learning about many things can show you that you are the worst."
God damn, we live in an awful time. Not the worst, we're not being asked to storm beaches in the face of machine guns, nor send our children, but it's end times in a different way.
F. A. Hayek referred to Socialism as atavistic in his book The Fatal Conceit (The Errors or Socialism). I had no idea how correct that assessment was. Were he here now I think he'd even be shocked at how correct he'd been. There is something very primitive about these BLM and Antifa types. It also dovetails well with Hayek's theory that basic culture is something that occupies the space between instinct and reason. The basic culture is what seems to be missing in a lot of these kids. It goes well beyond the wacky ideas. They don't even seem capable of clearly articulating what exactly their beliefs are aside from that things need to be smashed and authority needs to go away.
I disagree, this is not an awful time. Have a little bit more faith in yourself and other people of character and strength. We are all being tested but this bunch of rioting babies doesn't worry me in the slightest. Yes, I know that I am in Australia but so what. You can find a bunch of useless idiots like this now in most countries. I would suggest though, that if you live in a major Democrat-run city that you should carefully consider your situation though and make your plans accordingly. It certainly represents the end of the world as we know it but on the upside, we are all reading Steyn.
Or a more upbeat "Welcome to the Club".
Stock market is often a leading indicator and currently concurs the rioting babies, Dr. Fauxxi and Governor / PM (as your citizenship may suit) blackface are indeed a bunch of useless (and relatively powerless if nonetheless destructive) idiots. ...the double x double entendre was a typo of serendipity.
Yes and no, Robert. We may look back on this time and wonder what that was all about. But America (and other countries as well) is very touchy about race--and I don't mean just black people. Look at all the whites prostrating themselves in penance for their "privilege". We do some strange things out of white guilt, not least elect Barack Obama as our president. Whatever you may think of his qualities ("light-skinned...with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one", according to Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid; "articulate and bright and clean", per Vice President Biden) his resume was paper thin. We thought his bowing to Saudi sheikhs and disemboweling American health care were among his worst offenses in office, and we might have survived them. They are nothing to his preemptive coup against his duly elected successor. We are in the midst of a civil war Obama started. America survived a previous civil war--except for the 620,000, two percent of the population, who didn't. We do some weird sh*t over race (like disbanding the police), and sometimes people get hurt.
PS: "White silence = white violence" the signs read. Well, you can't shut me up!
Thanks for your kind thoughts and concern. But please understand, my post was entirely sarcastic. I don't think those things of myself, nor do I have that little faith in my fellow man. I believe strongly in the system created by the Founders. And I think one of the greatest ironies of our time is that those who claim the mantle of the common man are in fact those who most want to rule him.
I live in a region where the city is run by awful Democrats, has been for pretty much all of my life, will be for the rest of my life, but those of us in suburbia are not subject to their rule, and likely won't be for the rest of my life.
I will say, I'm envious of you living down under, but that's just because I want to play some of your golf courses and enjoy a beer with friends down there. :-)
Brilliant observations and post, Josh.
Another great show, I'm so happy when millions get to hear Mark.
The rant late 2nd hour was terrific.
Loved the morloch wrapped in eloi reference.
Yes (fist and bicep check)! Love those rants! Just when you think it's time to throw in the towel, Mark's rants help get you fired up all over again.
GREAT. Your comments during this show ranks with the greatest writings and speeches of modern Western civilization. Thank you so much.
Your June 8th, 2020 standing in for Rush Limbaugh show was magnificent. I hope it is published in its entirety. Sincerely, it ranks with the greatest writings and speeches in the history of modern Western civilization.