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To quote Damon Runyon's old Faro player: "I know the game is rigged, but it is the only game in town."
At what point will federal law enforcement officers be given the green light to use deadly force to end this insanity? It's an uncomfortable thing to ask but as long as the thuggish mobs know there is no risk to committing violent criminal acts they have no incentive to stop. The most horrifying story from Portland is about the burning of the courthouse: They didn't just burn it, they then blocked the exits so they weren't just committing vandalism: They were attempting to murder people by burning them alive. What type of sick and evil "person" could actually do something so horrific? These people are cowards who if they knew their would be consequences for living out their Marxist revolutionary fantasy would stop.
Mark,
Your thoughts on Coon Cheese, if you would!
Named for a real life Mr Coon, but our 90% racially white First Nations activists have succeeded in persuading its Canadian owners to drop the name. Because, as they insist, it wasn't really named after the Cooning method. It was just a racist joke.
Mark, I realize this is off topic, but hope my question will reach you anyway, plus members.
My daughter did a search on our corporate name to discover, on page one of Google, that a page announces that I and my corporation contributed $100 against gay marriage. I donated in support of a Christian group advocating the Biblical view that marriage is between a man and a woman and I voted for Proposition 8 which most Californians did too, to deny the term marriage to anyone other than a man and a woman. Our governor then ignored the majority will of the people who voted and unilaterally approved gay marriage in California. That was shocking to me.
It never dawned on me that my contribution would eventually be announced by Google on page one. Does Google announce all donations to groups no matter what the topic, or just donations they disagree with? Is it an attempt to help anyone who might want to attack me and our corporation? Is it legal for them to do this? Are all donations made by everyone singled out this way, no matter what the topic, or are conservatives the only ones who get exposed, and in particular on topics known to trigger violence or great hostility by those on the Left?
Lastly, how can we donate to organizations safely so we don't have to be concerned our donations will wind up on Google's first page (or any page for that matter). I should add that the page then went on to show how many donations the anti-gay marriage groups got and how many donations the pro-gay marriage groups received overall.
This really smacks of political revenge to me in hopes I and my corporation will one day suffer socially or monetarily because of our donation. I wonder how many more conservative donations will be exposed by Google for political revenge.
I am laboring under the question of whether the framework of civilization still exists. Of the triumvirate of Rush guest hosts, Mark, Todd, and Ken, Todd and Ken seem earnestly to believe that "real" America still exists in large numbers and will prevail handily. The "silent majority" still supposedly exists in full possession of their senses, their minds, and their heritage. I'm not sure Mark believes this. I can't figure this out satisfactorily for myself. Others express the positive view as well. Rush quoted Conrad Black on this. Kurt Schlichter, Victor Davis Hanson and other well-known commentators have expressed sentiments along these lines. I sometimes wonder whether Rush's audience constitutes the full number of people who hold fast to the idea of freedom in this country. My problem is that there seem to be innumerable evidences that the framework is almost gone, that many people have no idea who BLM and Antifa really are, that they might be merely harmless groups of people properly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. I wonder whether many people would even consider what these groups stand for as a problem unless they showed up in person and burned their house down, or even then. Out and about I see a majority of people wearing masks preposterously in harmless situations. All are merely hostages to a political narrative in my opinion. They are completely subject to manipulation. People seem hollowed out by education unless they have managed to educate themselves in a substantive way. And where is the church? Aren't these times the perfect opportunity to preach, teach, and illustrate the difference between the teachings of Scripture and what Scripture calls "the world". Does the church even believe that civilization, comprehensively understood, is a goal, if not the goal, of it's ministry in this world? Feel good sentiments don't count with me. How is this doddering frame to be restored? I need encouragement, but I don't know whether to believe it when I hear it. A surprising number of people seem not to believe that civilization as we have known it is actually at the edge of the abyss with the ground rapidly crumbling away.
I have this exact same wonderment. I think that sans welfare there would be a majority of decent, thinking Anglophones around the world but that our majority is being reduced to a useless rump by 'free stuff'. I recall in January being horrified to find that there was wide scale abuse of our $1000 bushfire disaster payment in NSW. When I posted this on a local community group I was howled down as a do-gooder; reason being that all my 'like minded friends' had already claimed it. Rush has mentioned his concerns about the corona payments corrupting the good citizens of the USA in the same manner. A state that hands out welfare corrupts even its most well meaning, conservative citizens into useless statist mendicants. When the money runs out (which it assuredly will and soon) I believe you will see a return to decency. In the meanwhile, hold your torch aloft!
Scuse the autocorrect -ment. Have to keep standards high in here.
My favorite hobby to get away from politics is competitive shooting. BAM! Right back into politics.
Maybe I should write a novel. It would be about a man who sits watching the birds in the backyard. Not much action but a lot of feeling about the beauty and grace of the creatures. Then a rat comes in to raid the bird feeder...
Mark,
Like Greg, I too enjoyed the Spiderman lyrics, but I really appreciated your Mark's Mailbox segment. While I thoroughly enjoy your commentary on day-to-day events, it's the cultural content that's always my favorite (e.g. A Winter's Tale, All Kinds of Everything, L'Hymne a l'Amour). The news of the day may become irrelevant in a week or two, but works of art never do. They bring joy and can be experienced again and again.
Thanks for your perspective on what's most important and why it's worth defending.
Mark,
Happy to have joined your site. Loved the Spiderman lyrics; more creativity and meaning than any of the movies.
Mark replies:
Thank you, Greg, and glad to have you with us in the Club. As for our Spider-Man rewrite, I woke up with it in my head on Friday morning, so figured, hey, why not?
p.s. After ranting about the politicization of shopping, I want to add my thanks to your words about allowing time for joyful pursuits, even if it's just a few minutes a day. Today, I hopped in the car with my camera, drove away from my stifling city, and explored parts of the state I had never seen before. It was refreshing and invigorating--and not a mask in sight!
I forgot to mention that I had "The Prisoner of Windsor" playing through my speakers as I drove, so I was laughing all the way! Thanks again, Mark.
I have been studiously avoiding buying things made in China, and it hasn't been easy. A few days ago, my teenage daughter asked if I could buy her some new underwear. Being stuck in quarantine, I decided to shop online.
First, I went to Amazon.com, though I am not a fan of putting money in Jeff Bezos' pocket. I searched for "women's underwear made in the USA". A few pairs of panties turned up which had printed in large letters on the backside, "MADE IN THE USA", but which weren't actually made in the USA. Unable to find the country of origin in the description, I went to the question/answer section, where a customer reported that they were, surprise, surprise, made in China.
I then turned to my Brave Browser/Duck Duck Go search engine and found a very helpful article that listed numerous websites that sold women's briefs made in America.
I clicked on several which turned up empty, having apparently been driven out of business. Some shops that are still in existence have stopped making intimates altogether, and have switched to making masks exclusively. Among what was left included undies made of soy and hemp (who knew?); and one store proudly proclaimed it was taking a portion of its profits to support the Seattle "protests".
I'm not sure which is worse: whether I'm buying American or Chinese, I'm giving money to people who hate me!
Jennifer,
These are strange times: here I am writing a woman about underwear......
Last year my wife and I went through the same process and found a "sustainable, organic, made in USA" company (Pact) to buy from. Then a few weeks ago we saw their "Letter from our CEO" with a promise to donate to the ACLU and BLM. So my wife emailed that we would not be buying from them again. I just went on the website and can not find the "letter". Was it removed after complaints from customers? Are they still donating anyway, just not letting anyone know? We'll investigate further. John
John, what did you expect? Organic and sustainable are not-so-coded words for "I'm a moonbat." I prefer good old-fashioned exploitive sweat shops, preferably with child labor. Unfortunately, all those companies generously support Antifa/BLM, too, so it gets kind of difficult. Commando it is.
Jennifer, I use Brave as well. It's saved me countless ads. I avoid Chrome/Google if I can. Until we are able to "decouple" from China it will continue to be difficult to find products manufactured anyplace else, let alone America. I, too, hate putting any of my money into Jeff's pocket...almost as much as putting it into the IRS!
Mark: The rebuilding of the Chinese dynastial world domination has been an ongoing effort for centuries, probably predating Chrisiandom. We are only in the latest phase. With regard to Australia, the reality is that Australia's GDP has evolved from agriculture and natural resources to mining and services, and it needs trading partners who need what they have to offer. The US doesn't need Australian goods and services. One consequence of the America first, Canadian/US/Mexico partnership is that other allies may be looking for survival beyond our insipid political election cycle drama. If Trump doesn't win this round, then everything is on the table. Australia is doing nothing different than Trump did with the Chinese trade agreement. Who honestly thought that China was going to switch to being a fair trading partner paying its fair share without strategic retaliation? We effectively drove Australia into China's welcoming arms,albeit with a silken scabbard concealing a razor-edged dagger behind their back. In all of these trade and geopolitical deals, all Western allies must take care of one another. All trade deals must be done with a western civilazation perspective instead of the fractured one we have now. America must lead, but with the narcissistic idiots on Capitol Hill busy navel-gazing whilst holding their moistened index fingers to the wind, we may have already lost.
Australia - like New Zealand - was pole axed by the decision of the UK to enter the EU. This has led to some dreadful strategic decisions over the last half century. Boris is a strong proponent of free trade and enhanced diplomatic (familial) relations between the UK and AUS and (like the Australian Government) he has been made to see sense on Huawei. This was an essential decision to ensure the continuity of Five Eyes. Four of the Queen's Realms and her prodigal great great great great great grandson are the world's bulkwark against tyranny. Have faith in the UK and Australia. Our new generation of leaders is well attuned to the Red Menace. We will be back.
Mark's heartfelt reflection on conservatism - and protecting beauty from those who seek to destroy it - reminded me of another compelling observation he made during an interview many years ago (in "Conversations with History", with Harry Kreisler):
"That little miniature experience [of wandering into a piano bar and hearing a great singer] is at the apex of a whole cultural foundation, and you can't just shear off the pleasures of a thirty-two-bar song from all the big geopolitical issues; they are explicitly connected in that sense."
I would hazard a guess that Joe Strummer had heard Dobbie. Ironically " Police and Thieves in the Street" has quite the relevance today.
Soleed gold mun!
Without a doubt, Mark's best song yet. Bravo!
A lovely poem by Auden, as usualy beautifully read.
But mentioning the fall of Singapore - or anything regarding WWII - reminds one of W H Auden's less-than-heroic part in that struggle. Auden and Christopher Isherwood sailed off to the US in 1939, chucking their 1930s-Marxism overboard on the crossing... Other intellectuals, of left and right, stayed in Blighty and did their bit - but not "Parsnip and Pimpernel", (as Evelyn Waugh christened them).
I'll tell you what brings me joy: Charles Bukeko's Vodacom ad. Brilliant. America hasn't dared depict an African dictator since Forrest Whittaker's unforgettable turn as Idi Amin. (Though James Earl Jones did so, also memorably in the TV series House maybe a few years later, come to think of it.) But South Africa thinks nothing of a fictional Robert Mugabe with personal weathermen and live ringtone musicians at his beck and call. But then, I understand there's a certain hostility between South Africans and Zimbabweans that would make this ad play in Pretoria. I loved it. I'm still chortling.
If we are fortunate enough to keep President Trump for another four years.....then what? He's one of a kind, and the blue states will continue to "do their own thing" and rewrite the Constitution and Federal laws to suit their ideology. We will literally have Red countries under one set of rules, and Blue countries under another, all within what is supposed to be the United States.
Right you are Janet - but I'd go much further. The next four years are going to be hell in America even if Trump prevails in November. These budding Marxists will be more emboldened, far angrier and better funded by orders of magnitude than today. Money from corporate America and every major sports organization in the country is flowing in so rapidly to BLM they can't handle it at present. The republican party spent about 1 billion in the '16 campaign. BLM will soon be a multi billion dollar political entity. This cultural war that we are losing is beginning to look more like an approaching civil war and as always most conservatives have no idea what they are facing today. They will receive one hell of a wake-up call no matter who wins in November.
My thoughts exactly. If it's not a root and branch reform then what use will it be? Trump needs to go berserk on these cretins. Maybe with a guaranteed second term he might get to work.
"The next four years are going to be hell in America even if Trump prevails..."
You're right, R. Win or lose, the "budding Marxists" are dedicated to total destruction.
This is what one of my millennial sons told us; Mom, Dad, eventually you're going to lose this fight. We are just waiting it out until your generation is gone. He and the rest of his generation may be willing to adopt the China style long term plan, but I think BLM, ANTIFA, the media and the Democrats are in a hurry, hence taking advantage of a crisis to speed things up a bit. No, we haven't disowned him! We just didn't realize what the public education system, the Internet and social media has spawned. We laughed and told him that he may be right, but we were going to live as looooong as possible, just out of spite!
Australia needn't worry...if Biden is elected he'll be happy to restore China's favor towards America while making another bundle..for himself and his son.
Mark "Socrates" Steyn. Damn the hemlock full speed ahead.
Cry a little cry is a lovely song which is going straight onto my iPhone!
Great show, loved hearing the poem, haven't read Auden for ages. I was interested in the comments regarding the 'smooth' transfer of power from Britain to the USA after WWII and the implication that it won't go so smoothly next time, once that friendly looking fellow President Xi has his way. I agree with the latter viewpoint but not completely with the former. Power wound up being transferred to the US because Britain, in one of the most ruinous and inexplicable acts ever seen in history, got involved in WWI against their own interests ,sacrificed a generation of young men, and went broke.
The USA, always an opponent and/or rival of Britain, then grabbed its chance to become the top nation. They set about limiting the power and scope of the Royal Navy by treaty in 1922, leading inexorably to the demise of Britain's crucial dominance of the seas. Ironically, the fear of Germany eclipsing the Royal Navy was one reason Britain went to war in 1914 but it ended up being the USA that finished the RN, not Kaiser Bill. Britain then defaulted on its WWI loan to the USA in 1934 and so when things were dire in Europe in 1939/40 the USA, with complete justification, demanded that British coffers be emptied before Congress would okay (narrowly) the Lend-Lease agreement. Convoys of ships containing paper securities and piles of gold, including Spanish doubloons brought home on the Golden Hind, were sent to Canada and then on to the US as payment. Peter Hitchens has written a great book on this subject called 'The Phoney Victory' which is well worth a read. The Bretton Woods conference in 1944, in which Britain was gutted courtesy of the American representative Harry Dexter White (a Soviet informer) was also quite a key moment in the 'peaceful' transfer of power from the Lion to the Eagle.
I wonder what it will look like when the Dragon officially takes charge?
When I was in high school, Harry Dexter White was held up as a great American. Forgive me, I was way more interested in girls than history. Later, as I read and studied history, I realized how bad FDR was.
Excellent post Veronica. My father won a medal awarded by the USSR because he took part in the Russian Convoys, supplying vital war supplies to Russia to Archangel and Murmansk in horrific arctic conditions and constantly attacked by U-Boats and the Luftwaffe and described by Churchill as " the worst journey in the world". Justifiably so given the loss of Royal Naval and British Merchant Naval life. The interesting point here is that Britain didn't present a cheque to the USSR for these services rendered. The USA had no scruples about presenting such a cheque to the UK in respect of WWII. Finally paid off in 2007 I believe or thereabouts.
Canada also got paid... so not just the USA. There was a little "payback" when the loose security of the British allowed Soviet spies into the Manhattan Project. How can we forget the pool game in which to losing British gave the Soviets a jet engine (for their MiG 15 design) and allowed the Soviets a tour of the manucaturing center where a sticky gum shoed soviet agent picked up metal turnings for the appropriate metalurgy.
The Royasl Navy was in no way able to maintain itself even if the US had forgotten all loans (which were at times deferred at reduced rates). The loss of the colonial outposts and the major costs of defending the world in two wars were fatal to the Empire.
I do remember the transfer of critical designs and tech breakthroughs the British "traded" for help....but as with radar... the designs were brought to full power as only the industiral might of the USA coulds do.
Don't worry I was taught a lot of history at school that I began to doubt as I got older too. On FDR, it would be interesting to know just to what extent the Federal Govt under him and also under his successor, Truman, was successfully infiltrated by Soviet spies, informants, fellow travellers etc. We know about Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Mrs Rosenberg's brother David Greenglass, Earl Browder, the spies at Los Alamos etc. Many of the people later revealed as spies were products of elite universities, just like the Cambridge Spies in Britain. I know that, on paper, the West won the Cold War but to what extent had its institutions and social fabric already been fatally undermined by decades of what in Australian politics they call 'white anting' which is being consumed from the inside? Perhaps many of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those fifth columnists are the ones currently trying to destroy Portland? Something to ponder.
Hi Ian, thanks for the compliment! Britain did pay off its WWII debt to the USA, and to Canada, in early 2007. I believe something like 50 instalments had been sent since about 1950 and the amount eventually paid was roughly double that which was originally loaned. As for WWI debt, I believe George Osborne (ugh) essentially 'refinanced' that debt in around 2015 so it still exists, just in a different form. The US Govt has never written it off,
I don't remember the part about the U.S. forcing the UK to sign the 1922 Naval Treaty, but if we did, we did you a a big favor. In the arms race that was about to happen, the Royal Navy would have built the wrong ships and bankrupted the country. Woodrow Wilson was planning for 50 battleships and you would have kept pace. Of course, what was needed for WWII were aircraft carriers and destroyers.
Second, the U.S. Government alphabet agencies were riddled with refugees "fleeing the Czar" and their children. Not all were Soviet agents but they certainly were useful idiots. We still have them today.
As to the war debt, in those quaint times they actually thought money was real. We knew that the British people were too proud to accept charity, so we let you pay it off over time.
"[I]n those quaint times they actually thought money was real": hilarious, W. Enjoyed the other cracks, too.
Sorry for the late reply because as an amateur WWII historian I was enormously impressed by your post. Quite a brilliant piece of journalism not usually encountered on web-site entries. I plan on checking out 'The Phony Victory' once I wrap up B. Crick's great biography of George Orwell. Not quite the man I've always believed, both good and bad.
This was good bird's eye view Mark gifted to us today: we must be the defenders of beauty against the mob of the ugly.
I tried to find some time today to do something just as he suggested. I keep a little poetry book beside the sewing machine, "On Wings of Song," and when I get all thumbs and want to start swearing at the red, red bobbin going flying and bouncing all over the tiles, or the thread refusing to slip in the little bobbin hole or the needle jamming down under the plate, I can pick it up and open to any page and there I will certainly find a sweet bird poem; and since sometimes there's nobody around to hear me read but the turtle doves, Bad bird orange canary and Miss Audrey the Society Finch, I just read aloud to them. Today I opened to an anonymously composed poem about a cuckoo bird, The Cuckoo Song. The audience went wild and I was able to have a little communion with them while they offered their critique. It seemed quite apropos for the times and for where my head's been lately.
Great, great show: many thanks.
Not least among the factors of its greatness for me was the quotation from Auden. My own efforts to get excerpts from Auden published on these boards are not always successful, but the treatment provided by the boss-man do the poet so much more justice than I possibly could. One doesn't have to subscribe to either Auden's political convictions or his sexual bent to recognise that much of his poetry touches on lasting contemporary predicaments. Now as then, fantastic grow the evening-gowns, especially in Hollywood, where the temple prostitutes sleep.
But that was just the cherry atop the real treat. I was most delighted by the People's Republic coming in for a turn at the gratings. Speaking for myself, I don't know whether it was in China that the coronavirus evolved from the means of a common cold to a lethal 'flu (or whatever anyone might deem it politically correct to call the damned thing) and frankly I don't much care. Nor do I think that the West's idiotic response to what admittedly seems to be a bona fide epidemic can with any confidence be ascribed to Chinese deceit or Chinese incompetence. My position is that the real threat presented to the West by the People's Republic should at this point in time be making the 'flu circus look like the merest garden game and will in the future exact a price which will make even New York's gross mishandling of the current epidemic seem positively frugal. On the other hand, if the 'flu is useful to the boss-man in making folk aware of the threat posed by China to the West, then I'm all for exploiting it - and he wielded the scourge with dazzling brilliance in this show. I'm laughing still.
I do like a bit of blood-sport, it emerges. Thanks again.
I'm glad Mark reiterated his very sincere point about China's criminal actions, whereby America's main geostrategic opponent is killing Americans (and others). And you're right, S: there's much worse in store.
It was only a few months ago - remember? - that there were demands for reparations, based on the serious breach of international obligations by China. Black Lives don't matter to the CCP, but they're a helpful diversion.
As for what Kung 'flu is called, it's been successfully rebranded as the "Trump Virus", ahead of the election. (Mark - as always - is right about the choice between China Lied and Trump Lied.)
Yes indeed, K. I was just casting about for words to endorse your reply to RAC, too: dangerous times, indeed, and much depends on how they are handled.
Hi S.
If not Chinese deceit or incompetence, what then? A regime that "disappears" anyone that speaks other than the approved party line would have no problem with a virus that could harm their opponents on the world stage. The fact that the West has business interests that are colluding with a country that has a flourishing slave-labor market would indicate that lying about the release of (however it happened) a virus would be trivial, and probably have no downside. Just my opinion.
Right with you, A.: meant only to convey that they cannot in my opinion be blamed for the West's idiotic response to the epidemic, as opposed to the spread of it to the West. Since I share your suspicion of that regime, I don't doubt that the Chinese must be pretty happy with the result.
You're always so pithy, K., and unvaryingly kind about my odd views. It occurs to me that there is something I'd want to expand on a little in this conversation with you. I hate to use terms which the lefties and other sensitivity merchants have appropriated, but I'm about to. I don't think this 'flu epidemic poses an existential threat to the West: the West will in all likelihood, all else being equal, continue to exist after it has passed. China however does pose an existential threat to the West, in my humble opinion. I can find no way to read Chairman Xi's Zhongguo meng that does not suggest that its accomplishment will mark the end of the West as we know it. Now that *is* an existential threat, and as I see it it's made pretty explicit and altogether unequivocal. As you put it, "there's much worse to come".
As I indicated, if it takes the cover of doing something about stuff like the coronavirus to do something about it, I'm all for it. I do wish that the West weren't so damned complacent about the real threat, though. That complacency troubles me even more than China's declared intentions. Something is misfiring quite seriously in the West's collective cognition. For sure the Democrats' fixation with global warming and blaming every coronavirus death on President Trump are evidence of that, but the crucial case will surely prove to be economic dependence on China and tolerance of its expansionism. To invoke another appropriated term, with all the attendant risks, there is another historical holocaust in the offing, and for the life of me I do not understand why people look at me with expressions which Gogol's idiot would have recognised when I say so.
I don't imagine that there's any point of dispute between us in that matter: just wanted to get my thoughts fully into words, I suppose. If you're still reading, thanks for bearing with me.
Post scriptum: there is no existential threat to America's black peoples: never has been, even when, long, long ago, their forebears were slaves. There are existential threats, though, and it rather clouds the conversation when the term is used where it does not apply.
"Idiot"? I meant "madman". I'm hopeless. I didn't have Dostoevsky's character in mind at all, 'though Nietzsche's might have beckoned, but he was on an entirely different tack. (I should give it up and stick with Biggles. Now there was a plucky chap who never let either womenkind or the possibility that Britannia might ever waive the rules distract him...!)
The thing about having other interests besides politics and mentioning sports hit home for me, but for all the wrong reasons. My hobby is watching and traveling to sporting events and meeting with my group of friends. The Xingles robbed me of that (and claimed the life of one of my friends who lived in NYC. He had a 104 fever and called for an ambulance that never showed up. Days later another of my friends went to check on him and found him dead). Now the leftist fanatics are robbing me of the pleasure of being able to watch sports by shoving their vapid and idiotic politics down my throat nonstop to the point where I just can't watch it anymore because it just gets me upset. I want to escape from politics but these creeps are hellbent on making everything political so that I can't escape.
Mike I agree with you as I have the same hobby. There's one major league sport left that's not caved into the SJW's and that's the NHL. The playoffs start August 1. Also with the name Sabre Mike you may already have a team
Oh, I remember "Endlessly" by Brook Benton. My father loved Beethoven and Brook Benton. He bought Brook's Golden Hits album when I was a kid and I listened to it "endlessly" and memorized all the songs. Wonderful memories.
Imagine living in Scotland. They have gone completely bonkers. Masks in shops etc. Months after the Bat flu went through.
Then Boris copied them.
Mark, gave up. Then Trump wears a mask?
They are next to useless and worse spread it.
I was one of these people who would of voted for Trump because he wasnt Clinton. I would vote for him now because he is not Biden.
He has been a big twat with bat flu I think.
I like a man who doesn't mince his words, R.
I do think Trump is good with everything else except bat flu. He should of done what Sweden did. I do wonder how Cuomo managed the demise of 3 times as many people as Sweden proportionately. He couldnt of been worse if he tried.
I also realised twat means something different in the US. Just means stupid here, we used to say it as kids to say you are stupid.
You make yourself entirely clear, R. Heartily agree as to the performance of the estimable Mr Cuomo, but I gather that a considerable number of New Yorkers don't.