Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I was in for Tucker on"Tucker Carlson Tonight" for what was a very bizarre and disturbing Thanksgiving Eve, in which the governors of American states tell you to fuhggedabout family and friends, and then they jet off or go to fancy restaurants. Click below to watch:
For those who prefer me in non-visual formats, I'll be back in a few hours for more traditional Thanksgiving observances - and then later in the day for another episode of our current Tale for Our Time - P G Wodehouse's view of the New York underworld in Psmith, Journalist.
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Mark delivered the best 8 minutes of " talking head " ,5 million fox watchers have seen in 2020.
A riveting , Mark Steyn Show brand performance . We know them well.
Nobody else can come close. WE are all proud of you, you rose to the occasion
Ditto-Wow!
Is Governor Wolf's concern over "an increase in the exchange of the fluids" related in any way to Boy Justin's admonition against "speaking moistly"? And am I the only one hearing strains of Roberta Flack? "Killing me moistly with his song...killing me moistly." I hope so. It'd be a shame if anyone else had that ear worm burrowing into their brain.
If the cops show up at your door to check up on that oversize turkey you bought at the grocery store, throw them off the scent. Tell them you suspect your neighbors are hiding Jews in the attic.
People are rising up! See Canada Free Press piece by Jon Rappoport.
"Rebellion Rising; the people have had enough."
"We're not gonna take it, never did and never will." Pete Townshend
Excellent monologue. I keep circling back to Illinois Judge Michael McHaney's quote in his decision against the lockdowns imposed by Governor Pritzker: "When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled." The Mayor of Denver is only the latest egregious example, but his comment about making the decision to travel to see his family on Thanksgiving coming "from his heart and not his head" is appalling. Every small business in Denver should open immediately and dare the the mayor to shut them down, and if he tries, use his defense
So Mark was allowed to discuss the impending lockdowns, lawlessness, open borders, interminable foreign wars, censorship - and Obama's narcissism - but not the unifying story as to why America is about to go over the cliff.
Good to see conservatives putting the boot into FOX on Twitter. The TCT betrayal makes Chick-fil-A and NASCAR look quite benign.
The shake up may have been not such a terrible thing, Kate. For whatever reasons Tucker wanted to push for the evidence, FOX is about business. They have Polliwog Ryan on the board, the biggest loser the Republicans ever put their faith in. The people will march in lockstep to make sure this election is not stolen to a pawn of the CCP. The next ten days are crucial to make sure we have President Trump sworn in again in a January. Some days I think Trump is all we have fighting for us, and we're all he has fighting for him. But it's not even about him anymore. We are at the precipice of losing everything and we need to hang on and fight some more and not roll over.
"Tucker wanted to push for the evidence."
I'd believe that if he'd raised even the vaguest concerns about the integrity of the election himself, Fran (and asking for the evidence in that context would be entirely reasonable) instead of sticking with the lockstep Murdoch party line from November 3rd. I guess one view is that at least he is being true to conservative values (of the commercial kind).
We've had more honest reporting and analysis in Australia (admittedly, not much) - for example, by the Outsiders. Needless to say, the implications of the election result aren't limited to Americans, even if they're the only ones who are entitled to "vote".
PS. Happy Thanksgiving. I've only listened to the start of Mark's special edition show, but noted the genuine sadness in his voice.
As much as a I admire Tucker's brilliance, Kate, when the s**t hits the fan, each American has to stand up for what he or she believes. If we put all of our faith in opinion makers, brilliant ones at that, we are a lost cause. I appreciate the well wishes from my dearest friend in the club from Oz. You're one great contributor and I rely on your honest input to keep me on the straight and narrow path.
Thank you, Fran... very kind of you!
Wow...thanks to the rest of the Blue states for making Gov. Blackface and my dear Commonwealth look positively sensible! It's almost as if their inability to goad the right into rioting is frustrating them into rabid insanity.
Communique from behind enemy lines to all Clubbers:
May the fork be with you.
Biden will never be President! If somehow he slides his greasy diapered backside into the WH he will get a taste of what We the People's kracken looks like. Long live the USA!
As Yoda says at Thanksgiving dinner, " there is no 'try'; there is only 'eat ' "
Mark,
Great show until the the very end. I find it as believable as Bidens vote totals that proper environmental safeguards couldn't be put in place so that the Pebble mine and salmon couldn't co exist. And as far as the mine covering 3,000 acres that's the size of a postage stamp in Alaska. This thing has the same smell to it as the "dangers" of drilling on the north slope.
As someone said years ago, what would Manhattan look like today if today's environmental rules would have been in place when it was founded.
Happy Thanksgiving! I feel a little blip of optimism today. The SCOTUS ruling, the testimony in PA and the kraken lawsuit. Anyone else?
What? No comment on the tasteful holiday tie and pocket square combo?
PS. Only a narrow 5-4 blip.
Geez, Walt. I'm so embarrassed. I usually do not forget to comment about the most, most, most important things.
Mark's salute to fall ensemble is lovely.
THERE, are you happy now Mr. Fussspot Editor????
:)
I know in the sci-fi flicks they have cryogenics to keep us in suspended animation and when we come out we're okay. Being told that non-essentials are the reason why we have a second wave is idiotic. Asymptomatic means you don't feel sick or even have a temperature. What's the point of asking if we've been around someone with COVID when we never knew the guy who played the Black Panther even had cancer? We aren't going to be blood testing ourselves as often as a diabetic anytime soon and that would be the most logical way to know if we got it. This is the America that we live in. Enjoy snowflakes, this is what you asked for.
To borrow that famous statement of Julius Caesar ("veni, vidi, vicci"): Mark came, Mark saw and Mark conquered!
Bravo!! The monologue was full of both furry and humor. Simply a classic. "Here's Emmy-Award Winning Senior Care Facilities Manager, Andrew Cuomo" was a particular highlight. Pointing out the idiocy of all these lockdown rules should be required listening for our fellow Americans.
Hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving, Mark!
Furry?!? Darn! I missed the cat segment...
The fluid I exchanged was coffee onto my tablet screen when Mark said, "pumpkin spice Metamucil."
If you want a Thanksgiving pick-me-up read the Gorsuch concurring opinion on last night's Supreme Court slapdown of Cuomo and Roberts. Cheers!
They practically called Cuomo a bigot! If the shoe fits...
Happy Thanksgiving Mark. Watch out for the kinderstasi as you "celebrate" the holiday. In spite of religion being banned these days I thought about that bible verse where it says that, "A man's enemies will be of his own household." You don't say?
If we've learned anything in 2020 it's that the U.S. Constitution is bollocks. Freedom of what? Religion? Assembly? Speech? The true nature of things has been laid bare this year. Hence, I agree with your sentiments re: fear that there won't be a conflict.
Michael Medved has a Prager U video on the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving. The celebration included the 50 or so surviving Pilgrims and about 90...count them ...90 Indian warriors who brought along 5 deer. After the meal...what did the Pilgrims and Indians do....shot rifles. (Another horrendous news item to.the Left). I intend to try and follow that example this year. May we all enjoy what Thanksgiving means and also strive to be well regulated.
History that doesn't fit the left's narrative often finds its way into the recycle bin of education. I wouldn't be shocked if Prager U's days on WokeTube are numbered. I could see them getting a note like the one WokePress sent to Conservative Tree House recently informing CTH that, "It's not us, it's you!"
It's tumblin'down today. Biden 587,000-Trump 3,200 isn't going to fly anywhere. Certainly explains Michelle Obama's post election day face of fear and loathing, They knew it wasn't going to work; but then they'd skated through safely on such thin Russian collusion ice for 4 years. I can't imagine that Biden could take office and sit down with every foreign leader, whose intelligence service having told him/her that Biden was a cartoon president. But did it happen before , 2012? What role would the 1981 "voter intimidation" consent decree that expired in 2018 ( supposedly a retired federal judge came in each election year to sign a renewal)have played in allowing the fraud for all these intervening decades? Of course , Google presents Atlantic and Business Insider as the top of the list explanations for that from 2017, 2018.It won't be surprising to see the media try to reinflate that scary Halloween blow up jack o'lantern in their lament as this fraud is exposed.
Love this, from twitter: "... a legitimate 5-4 SCOTUS majority overturning a policy to give religious worshippers the same rights as Costco shoppers." - Soad Tabrizi
"Emmy THIS, arsehole."
In the words of the late President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Banana, "While you were sleeping, we helped ourselves," to the rest of the show. You were en fuego, Mark. I'm not sure all your guests were expecting your flame-throwing tongue and its combustible utterances at the end of their appearances, particularly Rick Leventhal at your comments on the whole stinking condemned edifice of the justice system in the US--his beat. But hey, guys, Happy Thanksgiving! No hard feelings.
I've been reading Alex Berenson's comments on the ChiCom virus only sporadically, so I was delighted to see he's issued his reports in booklet form. But I was going to be damned if I ordered them from Amazon. I wish he had his own fulfillment service (as you do, autographed and inscribed at the Steyn Store, get your holiday gift orders in early), but B&N had to do. Anyone but Bozos.
A wise man said if Biden won (or thinks he won), things would go south in a hurry. Boy, ain't that the truth. Another truth: never bring a social worker to a knife fight. I would have thought that was self-evident, but sadly not. We are in free-fall. The ride is exhilarating, but the end's a bit abrupt.
On form as always, Josh.
The fact that Americans can "elect" a president with full-blown dementia makes the free-fall even funnier. Did you see his "Palmist" spiel? Talk about a corpse-man!
He'd be disqualified from holding a driver's license, but he's ok to run the country.
I was only able to catch part of the show but thought the segment with Sean Davis was excellent. I'll look forward to watching the rest. Maybe Mark could guest-host the show on a semi-regular basis? He could add segments on music and the arts. I think viewers across the country would be blown away by stuff like 100 years ago today and song of the week.
Maybe Mark could do a regular segment updating viewers on concerns surrounding the integrity of the US 2020 Election. Great to see him go off-script(?) a couple of times... PA and Nevada!
Twitter now banning the PA state senator who organized the hearing where the Pennsylvania post- midnight 587,000-3200 vote dump was reported ( per Jenna Ellis tweet) by Giuliani. Biden +cartoon president and every foreign leader he deals with is going to know it , IF they manage to bully this through.
Mark, what is this explosion of "signers?". What happened to "closed captioning? Talk about a useless career choice until the MSM threw out a bone.
And Andrew Cuomo is the biggest turkey that will live through this weekend.
There is nary even a short announcement from a pol that is not accompanied by a "signer". The "Wokes" have a list of jobs to replace the manufacturing ones outsourced to China and being a signer is in the top 10. Great business concept would be to start a signer teaching franchise for the coal and fracking states.
The best signer was at the Mandela funeral. Nothing compares.
And where was that "signers" mask?
(Not to be confused with Founding Fathers on the Declaration)
And do signers have to wear gloves?
Grab a copy of the Burton/Hurt DVD of "1984" and watch it tomorrow. Just a reminder of how you are to act under the instructions of Brother Cuomo, Brother Newsom and Sister Grisham. It may be double plus ungood but at least you are not in a nursing how in New York... or maybe you are.
At least we can still import firebrands from Canada to be our modern-day Thomas Paines! Wishing all a Happy Thanksgiving ... as Dennis Prager points out... with gratitude for what we first saw in 1620.
Eat your butterball and scram! Loved the guest hosting, love the guest host! The best part of this Thanksgiving is over for me. I had to drive to El Paso to get my bird this year. Surprised they didn't have them all masked up with instructions for quarantining after crossing state line. Uh oh, I think a deputy just pulled up the driveway. Honey, did you mask the turkey?
Great stuff, F. With you on all scores.
This has become one effed sicko society, right? You finally got to see my twisted Governess, S. A dumber power hungrier woman I never knew. Following the science, oh, fork me!!
The only other competition in her area of eine no expertise are the half ninnies from Oregon and Michigan. The positive cases are skyrocketing, but are the people increasingly dying from this? Hell no. They're dying from hopelessness, arseheels! Thank you murderer effers, stuff your faces with stuffing and I hope it's filled with green slime. May they just rot in their twisted state houses and go down as the nation's worst rule models.
The Rule of 2 in politics: One Party State = Half-wit Governor
Amen, amen, F.
The prophet will surely bless the Lavery jihad. If he knows what's good for him. Which prophet exactly I can't say, but I'm right with you.
Puts me in mind of the Tuchman axiom, W.: power breeds wooden-headedness, and absolute power breeds absolute wooden-headedness.
What is happening now is a Biblical kind of cataclysmic event, S. This is what we're living through now, just an ordinary epic Biblical event. We have no other options left. Chaos must be vanquished once and for all.
Okay, sure enough, F., but for today vanquish the fritters and ribs. Vanquish chaos tomorrow. It's not a job to be undertaken on an empty stomach.
Seriously, yes, there has been a paucity of cheering news just lately, and much hangs on those senate seats far away from both of us. Tense.
Yes, very tense, but I'm hearing snippets of success here and there. I believe Sidney Powell filed a suit in Georgia re Dominion, or about to. There was a hearing in Gettysburg with some Pennsylvanian Patriots presenting their complaints which went well, one from my former home county, Montgomery, where the head of the RNC has not been able to get one iota of data from the Sec. of State since Election Day. Never before happened. The stats are telling. A clean Biden win was impossible, couldn't ever happen.
I look forward to discovering more about Sidney Powell's Georgia suit, F. Clearly around my corner of the world it is under something of a news blackout similar to that enjoyed by Hunter Biden's income and his pappy's involvement in it. Good to know what to be looking for: thanks.
Outstanding opening monologue and great show, Mark! Never have we needed a flash of Steynian wit more than we do now.
I only caught part of Mark's excellent TV guest-hosting, and hoped he'd opine as he did on his recent show, "Express Checkout" - in particular his Mailbox segment (at 30:20). But I'm guessing the TV topics and script had to be carefully pre-approved: I was surprised and pleased he was permitted to refer to *President* Trump!
PS. Any thoughts on the PA State Legislature hearing today? Some pretty serious shenanigans took place before, during and after November 3rd according to several witnesses. Or are these merely "baseless allegations", as reported by the MSM?
Damn... Mark on fire tonight.
Mark . Whether it's subbing for Rush..or Tucker and reading Tales of our Time you're the best
Dear Mark: Congratulations on the special edition tonight, you've never been better, and I mean the video; the expression when they cut back from Gov. Wolf talking about the exchange of fluids should be hung on every refrigerator door in the country of everyone looking to start shedding a few pounds the day after Thanksgiving.So happy Thanksgiving.