It's been a bit of a grueling schedule for your dilettante host in recent days - last week guest-hosting America's Number One cable news show, this week America's Number One radio show.
As I've mentioned, guest-hosting seems to be a much more controversial occupation than it was around, oh, November 2nd. But I'm pleased to say that my Thanksgiving Eve edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" was the top-rated cable news show of the night, beating out Rachel Maddow, Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper et al:
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I was also the Number Two show in all cable, just 32,000 viewers between some blockbuster Hallmark movie, and the Number Six show in all TV (broadcast and cable). I'll eschew my usual unbecoming King-of-Cable gloatfest, because I have a very dark feeling that the walls are closing in all around.
Nevertheless, on Monday I returned to the Golden EIB Microphone for another three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting on The Rush Limbaugh Show. In the course of the programme we addressed the state of the "presidential election", the bizarre anomalies which delivered Biden's 'victory", and the role of the "loyal opposition" if the Man in the Orthopedic Boot actually gets sworn in in January. Click below to listen:
As to that Mark Steyn Cruise Mr Snerdley and I were talking about, you can find more details about that here.
I'll be back for another three hours in the Attila the Hun chair on Tuesday's show starting at 12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific. You can listen via the iHeart Radio app or on one of over 600 stations across the fruited plain, such as our old friends at WNTK New Hampshire, where you can listen to the full show from anywhere on the planet right here.
For that brave band who enjoy me in vision, I'll be keeping my Wednesday date with "Tucker Carlson Tonight".
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Every YouTube video on Election Day and shortly thereafter has a link to the "numbers" per state, then replaced it with AP called election for Biden.
It is an unavoidable part of use of YouTube now...wonder if they will do the same if a R ever wins again in my lifetime.
It is so hard to weed through all the videos, especially the ones that are done in poorly lit conference rooms and such
But...
There is a large percentage of valid questions brought up by Folks Giuliani brought in,
Professors who have proven Dominion systems have been hacked,
People who come forward driving a trailer full of ballots from NJ to PA and the postal big boss not signing off and demanding trailer is left behind( and it disappears),
People saying 2 am -3 am in PA bags of ballots brought in.
The anomalies and spikes and outliers and graphs need to be used, but actual stories and whistleblowers being listened to and prosecuted if lying or lifted up if their stories are sound ( I think Mark mentioned this on Fush the other day)
Anyway...I don't normally comment...but it is refreshing to see reasonable comments on demanding full analysis and a desire for some real teeth and fight being put into all of the nasty voting tricks whether anyone likes Trump or not.
Are all these lies? Is it plausible? Have the Rs given up?
I have been railing on NRO to actually step up and INVESTIGATE...not just wilt...whether they hate Trump or not is irrelevant..
Breaking, from Ted Cruz: #SCOTUS should hear the emergency appeal on the Pennsylvania election challenge.
"... these are not ordinary times."
Not a rino, a super-rino...heard in rapid succession on radio news at 4:30 that Barr said there is nothing to see here/move along and that super-rino Hogan of MD had called a presser to announce he had just talked with 'p-e B' to tell him nothing is more critical than as state bailout Yeah, close down businesses, don't collect utility payments (and the attached taxes) or mortgages and rents (and the attached property taxes) and the state revenue will experience a precipitous drop -- especially when state workers and teachers continue to collect salaries, benefits, etc. while 'working from home'. Why bother to print more money? Why not just declare that fallen leaves will be the new currency?
"Barr said there is nothing to see here/move along..."
And yet the baseless Mueller investigation ran for 2 years.
PS. Will TC cover the outcome of Barr's "investigation" (his term) into the evidence that TC ignored?
They don't control fallen leaves.
Once again Mark is proven right on Barr and Durham, the Statler & Waldorf of the DoJ.
How does he ever do it? Mark Steyn should reconsider the name of his online site and his club: The Sixth Sense Steyn (and his Merry Club).
MS may have a sixth sense. But empiricism alone was enough to make it clear that Barr was not going to be Trump's wing-man in the Holder mold. Barr is a W guy, always has been -- said that from the start. He's also every bit as much in the 'establishment' as Roberts. (The WP actually carried an article the other day about how good it felt to have establishment back.)
They're pure evil, that's all I can say. I just got off with my cousin on Staten Island. She says the city is one big urinal. She says she can't believe it but she knows people on the street calling people they all grew up with racists and bigots for supporting Trump. I said, "Welcome to my world." The way the Chinese commies have infiltrated our entire lives from Government to corporations to media to academia and now separating us from our family and neighbors. This is beyond the pale disgusting and Barr has been one of the biggest disappointments to come down the pike since I can remember. You expect evil from the likes of AOC and Harris, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, the Clinton Crime Fam, the Cuomo dunces, de Blahsio, Soros etcetera, You don't expect it from the others. The People need to really rise up and make an offensive now before they come to confiscate our properties and guns.
I think Trump's status as an outsider was the primary reason why he was never accepted. He wasn't part of the political establishment and, therefore, couldn't be trusted or respected, even by those he hired like Barr. I said this in a comment once - I hope they still don't tell kids anyone can grow up to be president, because it's just not true and maybe never has been, at least since the 20th century.
But the contempt and disdain towards him, especially by those in the GOP, is still puzzling to me. Even though Trump can be a difficult personality to deal with - abrasive, boorish, egotistical, and thin-skinned - there must be serious concern on another level which would cause them to consider the extreme leftist Democrats at the helm as preferable.
I read a take by someone who had worked in the Obama White House and he admitted his partisanship, but said he initially was willing to give Trump a chance (even though the Dem party itself certainly did not) as he hoped Trump would listen to advice and learn on the job, and surround himself with good, capable people. Apparently, he didn't do that enough to satisfy either friend or foe.
By making Durham Special Counsel to investigate the investigation into whatever, Barr is re-asserting the DoJ's grip on the presidency.
I surmise that John Roberts and the DoJ are fighting to get Biden into the White House, albeit with his (figurative) balls in their respective jam jars. I'd say one is in each fist right now - Barr the right one, Roberts the left one.
The People are having a rise up at Mac's on Staten Island tomorrow night. Calling on all who are tired of being pushed around to show up and show support. Enough is enough. "Show them our effin' faces" is the call from the ground report.
We cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.
"Puzzling" indeed, AlyM. I remember being reassured of the legendary wisdom of the American People in 2016, when they rejected Billary in Trump's favour. I thought they saw what I saw: an archetypal American who might shake things up a bit. Big, loud, in your face, boorish, tacky and rich, like every American ever spotted on vacation anywhere. About damn time, I thought.
But as it turns out, America was wrong for the first time since Dewey. Thankfully - albeit taking years - the Mainstream Media, [anti-]Social Media, ballot counters and others among their betters had The American People's back, and at least didn't allow the same mistake to be made twice.
Buckle up. It's going to be a long four years (if the new, improved Covid21 doesn't get us in the meantime).
While many of the old tried and true ways of stealing an election have been used..."human assets"... this is a true cyber warfare battle. The Left claims "no evidence" in a physical sense but the ground gained or lost is electronic in nature in order to win a physical position... the Presidency. The flow of battle deals with data transfer and manipulation. Bits and bytes are real weapons. True, the voting machines contain data but easy to erase unlike paper which has to be burned or shredded and emulsified. The voting machine system is not hardened and so foolish to believe safe.
Sorry.. needed to mention the obvious... how does one know they have been attacked and winning or losing? Statistics just like the graph above. Maybe a better analogy... software is the weapon and bits and bytes the ammunition. Hard not to imagine that the strategy to attack has been well-honed in elections both foreign and domestic. So huge that the time constraint must be taken off the table with the Insurrection Act.
Mark,
Where's all the video? A video recording is worth a thousand words! Aren't ballot counting rooms and voting centers video taped? If not, why not? Can't someone watch these and correlate suspicious activities during the ballot dumps? Did any of the whistleblowers or observers ever consider taking out their phones and recording suspicious happenings such as repeat voters, repeat ballot counting or unexpected boxes of ballots being brought in to be counted? Get some video on TV and suddenly people can't ignore it! Forget the lawyers and buy some cameras and teach people to use them next time!
"Did any of the whistleblowers or observers ever consider taking out their phones.."
Yes. There was a guy yesterday, a witness presenting at the AZ session, who recounted doing this. He was thrown out by the DNC woman who was determined to stop him recording the criminality.
If it ever made it to court, the DNC or NeverTrump judge would throw it out as inadmissible - maybe even have him prosecuted for a non-crime, as happens every day.
The lack of video is deliberate.
Thanks Perry, as you know, this is frustrating for all and as MS points out, the courts now conceal more than expose.
No kidding Greg.
I'm of the opinion that the end-goal os this sh*t sandwich we're being served up is to force conservatives to "reach for the 2nd", so they can invoke the "white supremacists" angle.
That appears to be the calculation they've made, Perry.
As Mark said, "It's easy to call the charges "baseless" when you're not even addressing them".
Barr is now accusing hundreds of American citizens - election scrutineers and data analysts etc - of committing perjury, correct?
Hi Mark,
I always enjoy your appearances on the EIB network, and was particularly delighted by your taking to task of the Pajama-Boys over at National Review. As someone who was a subscriber nearly 30 years ago when I was in the Air Force, and an almost daily visitor to their website once the internet age came upon us, they've been a terrible disappointment to me over the last few years. Not only with the shabby and cowardly way they treated you, but with other errors too numerous to name, both large and small.
There are a certain segment of republicans (and we all know who they are) who are not only content to be in the minority, but actually prefer it. It occurred to me last night how perfect NR's slogan is for their magazine: "Standing Athwart History, Yelling Stop" (I used to think it sounded pretty cool, actually). Now it conjures nothing more than the image of a feckless traffic cop, holding up a feeble hand in a last ditch attempt to keep the Democrat's 18-wheeler from plowing over him. Imagine how much more effective their magazine would be if their motto was instead: "Pushing Back Against History, Forcing it to Stop".
That's what drives their animus for Trump. Rather than hold up a feeble hand, he made a different gesture: a "follow-me" motion over his right shoulder, and actually dared to lead.
Ah well....I guess when your mission in life is to be a speed-bump, things coming from either direction look threatening. National Review is indeed a "sleeping policeman".
It finally occurs to me that that slogan (no disrespect meant toward Mr. Buckley) never made sense. History has already happened; it can no more obey the command to stop than the dead can be ordered back to life (with notable exceptions). Standing athwart progress (or "progress") yelling stop makes more sense. But I guess the Left has sold the notion that all progress is necessarily good. To update NR's ethos, the image should show a bow-tied Rino pointing down a fork in the road down which Deplorables have fled for their lives, telling the antifa rabble in pursuit, "They went that-a-way."
"This is not the behaviour of a respectable, free society." Exactly.
"International joke" sums it up. But it's depressing to see conservatives go along with the gag, having realised they're dealing not with a swamp, but a sewer.
Criminal activity - and evidence of it.
No FBI investigation.
No media reporting.
Only the Official Lie.
Mark - and Milly - are right: there *must* be an election rerun. If Biden wins fair and square - so be it!
PS. Europeans are protesting lockdowns and mandatory vaccines in large numbers. Where are the pro-democracy rallies in the US?
Would be great if someone showed a video montage of open and crowded schools around the world today.
I am beginning to feel like Michael Caine and the other British (Welsh) soldiers besieged on all sides by the natives in the old film Zulu! First the fantastical unicorn election results in the U.S., then Boris Johnson saying Trump was 'the previous president' and then Trudeau with his Reset fiscal update (not a real budget, oh no) projecting a 381.6 billion deficit and 1.4 billion deficit. Help!
Forgot to wish yesterday Happy St. Andrew's Day to Scottish listeners. Also is patron saint of countries like Greece and Romania.
I enjoyed the caller from South Africa, Ilan (sp?), not least because I had spent some cozy moments this weekend watching the Alfred Dunhill Championship golf tournament from the Leopard Creek Country Club, separated by the Crocodile River from Kruger National Park. Those are not just quaint place names: the broadcast included plenty of crocs, as well as more elephants, zebras, giraffes, hyenas, hippos, water buffalo, than I've seen outside of a David Attenborough production. Even a local species of bald eagle plucked a fish out of the water and sampled it for flavor on live TV. (Only one leopard, though.) Some Florida tournaments may feature a gator or two sunning themselves, but nothing like the menagerie on display this weekend. Far from being a sh*t-hole country (Ilan used a more genteel expression), South Africa looked like heaven on earth. And a SA chappie by the improbable name of (checks spelling) Christiaan Bezuidenhout won, so everyone, two-legged and four, was happy.
Of course, not all of SA is man and beast living in landscaped harmony; perhaps very little of it. But according to Ilan, one of the few venal plagues not known to that land is voter fraud. At least not as practiced here in the US so successfully (if installing a frail dementia patient as a puppet president is your idea of success). Yet here in the reprimitivized land of the formerly free, strange doings under cloak of darkness are taken as ordinary and commonplace--because, I suppose, they are. I lamented in response to Tal's own lament last week that election reform as we mean it is a non-starter for Democrats: if it ain't broke--and not to them it ain't--why fix it? You thought installing a frail dementia patient was something, just you wait. That distant rumble you hear is the cavalry of lying dog-faced pony soldiers riding into town, looking for jobs. One of the arguments the courts have used to toss Trump's legal challenges is the delay in calling foul. These machines and this system have been in place and in use since before the primaries, and you're raising objections to them only now? I disagree with their decisions, but concede their point. Everybody, Trump most notably, warned that they would cheat--were cheating. The trick was not to let them get away with it. Short of a miracle, a judicial Hail Mary, they already have. I hope the dogma lives deafeningly within Justice Barrett. Otherwise, the Democrats have opened Pandora's Box, and can't believe the goodies it contains.
My impression from afar is that the US electorate thinks this is "normal" - including the confidence in judges rather than voters to decide elections, as Mark mentioned. I'm as astonished as the Canadian and the South African!
This is the way the Republic ends. Not with a pang but a simper.
I'm afraid you're right, Josh.
I believe in coincidences, just not all of them at once. That the Dems stole the presidency is beyond any reasonable doubt to an impartial observer. But the Dems don't need to persuade impartial observers like me. They need only to persuade partial observers - that is, the millions of people who support the Dems but feel queasy about unfairness. And Georgia gives them a perfect chance to do just that. I have been right since about 2 months before the election, so I'll stick my neck out once more. If I were advising the Dems, I'd tell them to ensure they get one Senate win in Georgia but not both. Sure, that would dampen them for a couple of years, until 2022, but the win would be yuge. Letting the GOP keep one Senate seat would take the wind right out of the sails of all those The Election was Stolen nuts. I can hear the refrain now: "So we can steal elections but chose not to control the Senate? Really?". They would still have Romney, Murkowski, Collins and others to lean on, and could lean on one or another of them at different times so nobody felt they were receiving undue attention. And 2022 is just around the corner. And all those millions of partial-but-decent Dem supporters could breathe a sigh of relief. We shall see soon enough.
With control of House, Senate and White House, why would the left/Dems have a single worry about 2022? By then, they will have so restructured everything -- in large part by further expanding and entrenching their erstwhile bureaucrats ('civil servants' to them), there will be absolutely nothing an election can do to reverse things, i.e. 2022 is irrelevant. With the way all opposition to the left has been/is folding fast, the remnants of the First Amendment that we desperately hold to right now will be gone. No, the Dems will take both Senate seats in Georgia, and that will be it. A complete government takeover of freedom is coming. No optimism here -- started the day with the news that our governor (rino Hogan) had written an op ed pointing out the urgency of keeping the two Senate seats in Georgia. That from a man who voted for his father in 2016, Reagan in 2020 and cannot get the teachers to return to school or contain the fascistic maneuvers of the county executives in the biggest counties in Maryland. No, no optimism here -- just a very, very sad time.
Has anyone ever seen the movie "Seven Days in May"? It's a well-written/directed/acted political thriller from the 60's with a star-studded cast that includes Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Balsam and Fredric March along with Ava Gardner in a token female role. The a screenplay was written by Rod Serling of Twilight Zone fame (I met him on a plane when I was a little girl. "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" anyone?!) and directed by John Frankenheimer who also directed "The Manchurian Candidate".
I would like Kathy Shaidle or Mark to review the movie as it has an interesting premise and also lots of "shenanigans", as Mark would say. It's wasn't just another Cold War movie, as it portrayed the Soviets in a more favorable light by suggesting they were worthy of America's trust.
Lancaster plays the heavy while March is the serious U.S. president with a progressive bent. Of course, the right-wing, Pentagon types are the disloyal goons, while the military protecting the president are steadfast, intelligent, and forward-thinking patriots. But you can easily flip the narrative and see similarities to current events as far conspiracies and coups go. And also maybe something more?
I agree with you as to the quality of the film. It's one of the few movies that's actually better than the book. I do note a minor possible error in your post. I'm pretty sure Spock was not in the movie. You might have confused him with Andrew Duggan (Pa in the Walton's pilot, not the series) who played the Exec of Ecomcon. Or maybe Richard Anderson (also in Paths of Glory) as Gen Scott's aide. Or maybe Whit Bissell (also the undertaker in Magnificent Seven) as the smarmy California Senator (is there any other kind?). Final candidate I can think of is Hugh Marlowe (also Patricia Neal's creepy boyfriend in The Day the Earth Stood Still) as the oleaginous TV commentator.,
Hey Aly, you met Rod Serling on a plane? Was he outside on the wing, looking in your window? If he was inside, was he chain smoking?
Ha ha, no, not chain smoking, although you could still do that on planes in those days. He WAS talking to himself though, which was weird. We were sitting behind him and my mother introduced herself and my sister and I to him. He was very nice. My mom told him she was a big fan of the Twilight Zone, at that time long off TV except for reruns. He told us he was working on a new TV series - Night Gallery. In retrospect, he was probably rehearsing his lines or monologue for the show.
Sad and ironic that his trademark cigarette smoking, and the cancer that resulted, is what caused his death at an early age. He was a true genius and hailed from my neck of the woods which I why we probably saw him on the plane that day, which took of from Syracuse airport.
You may be right about Nimoy but he's listed as an actor in the film. Perhaps it was a very small part, as this was several years before Star Trek and might be his first film. I'll have to borrow the dvd from my dad and take another look.
Nimoy WAS in another film that also interests me, the 1970's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" set in San Francisco. He plays a psychiatrist and spouts a lot of psycho-babble popular at the time, the 70's being the "Me Generation" and the beginning of self-help craze.
I think the film might be superior to the classic 1950's version, and it's definitely scarier. I'd also like to see this film reviewed, as it has powerful, universal message about truth, reality, the struggle to survive against unknown enemies. Its enduring appeal lies in its chameleon-like ability to be applied to almost any place, time and circumstance. The fear of being swallowed by a conspiracy which, by necessity, will destroy who you are reflects the helplessness many Americans are feeling right now. As bumper-sticker philosophy helpfully reassures us, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
According to Wikipedia, Nimoy is named as being involved in the production, but nobody can discern his presence in the released version of the film, which may explain why I did not twig to his being in it.
I disagree as to the relative merits of the two versions of Invasion that you cite. Although the remake is by no means bad, I think the original is more scary in a real Twilight Zone manner. The set up is beautifully done and Dana Wynter is just great to look at.
If we go down the trivia route for one more stop (that's the sign post up ahead), a key player in the Invasion remake is one Donald Sutherland. The first time I can recall seeing Sutherland was in an incredibly tense Cold War submarine drama called The Bedford Incident. Sutherland plays a medical technician involved in analyzing garbage that their destroyer pulls up from the ocean. Red cabbage cooked in butter, definitely submarine fare.
Seven Days is a good movie and a nice handbook for how to conduct an old school coup d'etat. Did you catch where one of the strike teams was going to Utah to seize the intercontinental long distance telephone relay station? The key to a successful coup is to control communications so as to deny the opposition any opportunity to rally. The old methods will no longer work. When the Turks initiated their coup in 2016 they did not control the social media over the cellular network and ErdoÄŸan's supporters gathered in large numbers to confront the rebel troops and thwarted the attempt quickly. Now with communications largely controlled by the left wing, especially big tech, a conventional right wing coup could never get off the ground.
Damned fine show Mark, well done.
However I have another important point to make, the hideous forged photo of the grinning soldier preparing to cut the throat of a child holding a lamb while kneeling on an unlikely massive Australian flag.
It's not the propaganda element which Goebbels would have considered heavy handed. It's not the resultant diplomatic spat between a world power and a hopelessly overmatched (in every way) western ally. It's the fact that Twitter and presumably the rest of social media allow this to be posted without even one of their limp-wristed warnings let alone banning it.
No-one seems to know if it was Voltaire or Tacitus who said "if you would know who controls you, see who you cannot criticise" and heaven knows it has been seized upon by anti/Semitic trolls for the past 75 years or so. However it has never rung so true to me than in this instance. Damn you Jack Dorsey, may you rot in the totalitarian hell you have helped to create.
As noted in the recent WSJ editorial: "Yet economic warfare [- wine has now joined beef, barley, coal and timber among the Australian exports that China's Communist Party is threatening to quash as part of its intimidation campaign against Canberra -] is a greater threat than taunts from China's "wolf-warrior" diplomats. China has more than 50 times Australia's population and accounts for nearly 40% of its exports. With tariffs and trade harassment, Beijing wants to signal that it can inflict economic ruin if Australia doesn't bend the knee on issues like Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Huawei."
Mark's old friend, Alexander Downer, has suddenly gone all China-hawk (after accusing everyone of paranoia during his time as a Huawei board member) regarding the proposed D10 - or "Democratic 10", with Australia, India and South Korea along with the current G7 countries - to counter China.
PS. "Damn you Jack Dorsey, may you rot in the totalitarian hell you have helped to create." Indeed.
I pledge neither my life nor my sacred honor, but a fair bit of my fortune to make up for any losses on wine exports to China. (I already buy Israeli wine when I can.) I seem to recall a tasty Cab/Shiraz blend from Penfolds, Bin 389 iirc. That and Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay should clear me out in no time.
Much appreciated, Josh. Good choices. We probably can't let you join the D10 until further notice though (with the US not being a democracy).
PS. At this time of year (Christmas + summer) it's hard to beat sparkling Shiraz.
Taiwan is next on China's menu.
We were supposed to be a republic. You never want direct democracy. We'll see. Can't believe I lived long enough to see the end of my country.
It's all that Chinese cuisine. An hour later and they're hungry again.
Mark and Rush both speak the uncomfortable truth with incredible ease and eloquence like those that signed the Declaration of Independence or built and preserved a free nation.
While many elected Republican politicians, hosts on TV, news reporters and other Americans tremble at the thought of speaking the full truth or even mentioning the possibility of election fraud in these contentious times.
Free countries cease to be free and soon self destruct when the people in the latter category become the majority.
"While many elected Republican politicians, hosts on TV, news reporters and other Americans tremble at the thought of speaking the full truth..."
#WrongSideOfHistory
This is very odd. There's something that should be here that we aren't seeing. Allow me to provide it:
U.S. elections
The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden. This makes it official and there's no need to read, hear, or see whatever appears above.
Robust safeguards insure the integrity of elections and results in which Democrats win while failing miserably when Republicans win.
(Note to staff: the above should be permanently affixed directly below the article.)
Mark often comments on the proclivity of political parties to herd: offer distinctions without a difference. To sell my "My father was a mailman" rather than policy differences. Trump refuses to play that game.
Likewise, the news networks would much prefer to sell their on-air personalities rather than differences in content.
What both miss is the option all salesmen are taught: when the choice is something or nothing, human beings often choose nothing. I predict a consumer strike from conservatives/Republicans: voter turnout to crash. The Georgia Senate runoff will see a low voter turnout unless there is good news for Trump, and soon.
The pervasive decline in viewership for TV is the thunder of apathy crashing down. Conservatives are finding nothing the much more satisfying choice. Another prediction? The NBA will be our first scalp, and soon.
The Cable News Rankings are as rigged and unreliable as a Dem Fox pollster's poll of President Trump. sarc/
Given Mark's proven on air talents and wit, I have no doubt his #1 ranking is legitimate. Chris Cuomo's bottom feeding ranking at #10 is also undoubtedly accurate and well deserved.
Mark's complimentary words about Rush's efforts to help Trump win over the past few months (in a previous column) are touching and true. Rush's determination, perseverance and sustained involvement in his country's future despite his battle with cancer are extraordinary. May Mark continue to guest host for this great man and patriot for many years to come.
If you aren't aware of the type of people we are dealing with when it comes to woke blokes: When Rush announced his diagnosis I penned a message expressing my best wishes to the great man, specifically citing him standing by Mark against you know who. Several "friends" instantly unfriended me and one chided me for "liking a racist". How big a failure of a human being does one have to be to act in such a way?
They probably weren't your friends anyway.
There are two things going on now that are clear as the light of day. That Joe Biden didn't actually win the election (and that he is clearly not all there) and that these Covid lockdowns are a crime against humanity. A lot of people know this, a lot of people are trying to do something about it, a lot of money is changing hands and yet we seem to be stuck with Biden and stuck with the new (f&cking) normal, the re-set, bigger builder better bugger all, tyranny. What has to happen for these two things NOT to be de facto?
"What has to happen for these two things NOT to be de facto?" -- Information would have to flow freely. That includes information about the backgrounds/doings (including cognitive status) of those seeking political office and information from scientists (epidemiologists, etc.) who are not on the state-approved list of 'experts' cited at every turn (i.e. Dr. F). The censorship has been going on for a long time, but the level today is extraordinary. Couple the censorship with the outright distortions and it's just overwhelming. A few weeks before the election, the WP ran a story typical of its tried-and-true method of papering over troubling things for their guy B. It was about his deferments (had one more than T) and his ultimate medical exemption (for high-school asthma attack)...The WP actually glorified B for managing to get deferments and yet not take part in the anti-war movement. (Here's a hot tip: We won't be 'stuck with' B for long -- it will soon be H.)
We're not stuck. We'll never forget.
I believe I recall reading a quote by you from your grandmother about where to look for a helping hand. We could all do with that now.
That would be three things, Laura, but I'm not disagreeing with you.
1. Hold a new election
2. Defy "rules" in the same way those who impose them do. (And stop mass testing by not getting tested.)
And push back against the rise of technocratic oligarchs/ woke globalists/ China. Not easy!
I'm considering the Biden stuff one ugly thing with two parts :)
Yes. My wise Bubbie of blessed memory.
We need a lot of everyone doing what they can, with their very own hands.
Sounds good to me.
Julian Assange is still a political prisoner in the UK. Tommy Robinson is again subject to lawfare in the UK. Here in the USA we are like GOP observers on election night, told to shut up and stay 25 feet away, or sent home because the counters are sleepy.
Dangerous times.
Justice, justice, shall you pursue." – Deuteronomy 16.18-21.9
Bravo Mark Steyn! We are in a battle of Biblical Proportions . Why all "conservative" outlets haven't made this call is beyond me. I see a realignment of listenership after these fateful months. (If there is a functioning First Amendment )
May you and Rush go from strength to strength!
We are playing the Dem game - trying to prove our case. Waste of time.
Biden/Harris lost, and must have their loss fed to them. It will happen, but the stink of GOP collusion is pervasive.
Ballot or bullet: if the judicial branch of government does not do the job of the DoJ and correct this travesty, we will have violence. Americans are not genetically pre-disposed towards debate in times like these.
The lights are going out, as a club member commented.
Perry:
Reading at Conservative Treehouse, I've swallowed years of elderly conservatives prattling about the Second Amendment, and making big promises. The time for action seems well past, like their prime years.
The rioters of Black Lives Matter are not black, but they are young. Mark often points out the muslims of Europe are a minority, but they are the young. The future is inexorably theirs. All the chesterfield Rambos of the conservative "movement" better start moving.
Immediately after the "election", Dennis Prager was somber and really didn't want to have any further interaction with members of the Left/Democrats. Their divergent mindset now is inscrutable. However, realizing now that a very very large number of them would disenfranchise half the country through theft, intimidation and, if need be, physical injury to get their way is both disheartening and sobering. There will be no Missouri Compromise and little common ground to put the brakes on. So be it.
Listened live today - fantastic show, especially on short notice! - and just read through the Vote Pattern Analysis. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark! It's one thing to hear the numbers, it's another to see them plotted out
The idea of a Deer Apocalypse seems amusing now, but what happens when the dastardly deer work out that the bloke with the nuclear buttons has an IQ in single figures and only one functioning foot?
So Renaissance Man Aric Thompson is both presidential campaign photographer for Kamala Harris and the Dominion Voting representative in Fulton County. Well, at least we know he never needs to say "Cheese," since Harris wears the same transparently fake smirk at all times. Isn't there something a bit Crowdstrike-y about his involvement in the Dominion case?
If you're in the IT business, you don't tend to want to draw attention to failures in your technology. Trumpeting a server crash is a strange way to encourage new business. Politically, however, this crash is remarkably well timed. Dominion defies the court, on a decidedly shaky premise, but then has a meltdown, which can be fixed only by a conveniently located political activist. What's the betting that, thankfully, he is able to resuscitate the server, but at the tragic loss of all data relevant to the election?
And isn't this Crowdstrike, all over again? The FBI never got to verify Crowdstrike's claims of Russian hacking, because the politically connected Crowdstrike had already supposedly checked the hardware and Crowdstrike, as all three people who had ever heard of it could attest, was the world's leading expert in analysis of hacking attacks by Slavic entities on IT equipment sensitive to the Democrats (because of course).
Watson: "Holmes, Lestrade has examined the evidence and found that the body with two bullet wounds in the back of the head is an obvious suicide. That Lestrade fellow knows his stuff, Holmes."
Holmes: "Quite right, Watson. I think we are finished here. In fact, I am giving up the art of detection altogether. I have accepted an offer of employment with Dominion Voting."
Has anyone figured out if Major the dog is a Republican?
If he's neutered -yes.
John: You win.
A gloatfest would be fun, but the walls are closing in, and your competition is pretty stinky.
Mark,
I am sure it has been said before and more eloquently, but I don't feel like I am living in the USA anymore. I also feel that the likes of the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Europe and the other western civilization countries are no longer that. That is, all of the above, including the USA are no longer part of Western Civilization. And once they're gone, it's over. Unless there is an argument, and it may come to that someday. Unfortunately.
Spent the afternoon, after our most charming and exhausted undocumented host left for parts unknown (hopefully a warm cave away from all the malicious trolls), becoming thoroughly despondent listening to Rich Baris and Robert Barnes (indie pollster and his associate friend, a lawyer who has been trying to help the Trump campaign in GA. What they were saying, for prob over 2+ hours was really no different from what you have said, if we boil it all down, that the voters who came out in landslide numbers see this election stolen, their GOP rank and file stand by and do nothing, inert and typically catatonic, if the voters are expected to accept another Paul Ryan-type anywhere, for anything, then they are sadly mistaken - biggest diff is that you say it with a panache that is painfully astute, historically founded and globally attuned. No Nikki Haley. No Mittens (sorry, no Pierre Delecto) and prob no GOP ... not sure what my party will be, by 2022, but I know I have the most literate and insightful commentators in the world, you just have to be the most sophisticated and for that I am more grateful than ever. I appreciate Baris, he has integrity, he does, but you give me hope. Your commentaries make me understand, across the centuries 'we' have had hurdles before and we have them now. Time to buck up! Thank you Mark for everything you do!
The story of the orthopedic boot ought to get a lot more scrutiny. Did one reporter ask whether the CT scan was limited to Biden's foot. He's 78. And he fell. Did they do a brain scan? We have been told that he will need assistance walking for some weeks...most people wearing a boot do not require such assistance. Meanwhile, reporters were kept away from the medical facility. And yet, one 'reporter' has just posted a glowing piece online about the transparency of the Biden campaign in releasing information about the hairline fractures. Of course, the press just gobbles and regurgitates what the campaign tells them. The when did it happen, how did he fall, what did they scan, did they do a brain scan, etc. etc. questions are never asked and never will be. The medical event -- whatever happened -- exemplifies what has been, is and will be the way the press covers B/H.
One dare not look too closely. On one hand, we have President Trump whose pace in rallies and electioneering makes the Energizer Bunny look like...Joe Biden. Then we have Joe Biden ... I'm sorry but a blown aneurysm and two brain surgeries can leave one with a few too many marbles short as age takes its normal toll. He is a fragile China Doll (literally). We are all living in a make-believe world scripted by his retinue. This is Woodtrow Wilson all over again.
Scrutinise all you like, D. Speaking for myself, I'm keeping a good distance between myself and anything to do with Mr Biden's legs. A brain scan would probably have revealed nothing. Nothing whatever. Hairline fractures sound kinky to me, too. Anyway, I'm having no part of it. Unless of course I can chip in to give him an orthopedic boot. You pick the spot.
Mark my words: the fractured ankle will be the excuse for the fatal pulmonary embolism that occurs the day after the Electoral College.
Woodrow Wilson again? I guess we should have been asking Jill Biden what HER policies and intentions are.
Since Biden generally has his foot in his mouth, they could probably do a simultaneous CT scan of his foot and brain.
There is no role for a loyal opposition when elections can be brazenly stolen without consequence. America is done at that point. The only remaining options are submit or fight. America doesn't appear to have the stomach for the latter
Submit or Fight
JOIN OR DIE.