Programming note: On this last day of 2020 (barring any surprise extension by government fiat), I'll be back behind the Golden EIB Microphone for three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence In Broadcasting on America's Number One radio show beginning at 12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific. I'll do my best to keep the Attila the Hun chair warm as New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo, and hope you'll want to dial us up either 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.
From America's Number One radio show to America's Number One cable news show - which I'm thrilled to say we were on both Monday and Tuesday: It"s no secret Fox News has had some ratings issues since November 3rd, so I'm glad to have helped end the year decisively for "Tucker Carlson Tonight", because you can't get higher than Number One.
On Wednesday's show I began with a fairly extensive round-up of 2020. You can see my monologue in full here, covering Chairman Xi, Pope Fauci, Emmy-winning Governor Cuomo, the first self-quarantined presidential nominee Biden, a Congressional giveaway for "promotion of democracy" in Cambodia rather than Pennsylvania, and much more. But here's a bit of low-hanging fruit:
Post-monologue, Ned Ryun joined me to mull the curious quiescence of millions of people after months of being forbidden to work or indeed have Gran'ma over for Christmas: You can see that segment here.
Next up was Dr Marc Siegel to discuss the sick and depraved priorities of the Covid vaccine rollout. In Germany, Britain and elsewhere, the priority is to vaccinate those most at risk: the elderly. As Dr Siegel revealed, to my disgust, in America it's not just politicians but 28-year-old political staffers who take priority over the old. I don't know what the side-effects of the vaccine are, but the side-effect of hearing that America's vile political class is vaccinating its entourage before the elderly ought to be mass projectile-vomiting from sea to shining sea. Click below to watch that - and the latest tale of lockdown hypocrisy:
Afterwards City Journal's Christopher Rufo checked in to address the accelerating decrepitude of America's once glittering West Coast cities. You can watch that below (along with Candace Owens weighing in with Tammy Bruce on Hannity):
The man himself then put in an appearance to talk to Governor Abbott about the shifting demographics of Texas:
The bizarre phenomenon of prominent people adopting entirely fake identities is a trend for our times. Raymond Arroyo joined me to address it:
And finally we rounded things out with the Governor of New York's less blood-soaked brother:
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Looking at that Kwanzaa candle holder thing in Kamala's background...it looks suspiciously like a Chanukah menorah, just with 2 less candles.
Do we Jews get to yell cultural appropriation? Or does that only work when white girls wear hoop earrings?
Mark, it will hearten you to know that there's a skating rink at Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth in your home state where families skate freely and sometimes in the evening young men even play a pick up game of hockey. No one bothers them, and the Zamboni driver gives them fair warning before he comes out to smooth the ice.
Please be advised that elizabeth warren is from Oklahoma, not Massachusetts, and that brunette who thinks brown hair makes her Hispanic(whatever her name is, whoever she's married to) is probably from Newton, or Wayland, or Weston, or Lexington. She doesn't represent the rest of Massachusetts.
Everyone in L.A. and San Fran and CA in general should be forced to watch old movies like Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' so they can see how fair their cities used to be before the left took over. For that matter, movies made before 1962 should be a mandatory part of American history education.
Prayers and blessings for increased strength and good health for Kathy Shaidle in 2021. Her 2020 was probably a lot harder than it was for the rest of us on here. Godspeed in your recovery, Kathy! Here's to hearing from you more often in 2021.
"Everyone in L.A. and San Fran and CA in general should be forced to watch old movies like Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' so they can see how fair their cities used to be before the left took over." Exactly, and New York too.
Yes, and New York too! Even old movies like Meet John Doe or My Man Godfrey, that were made about the Great Depression show a cleaner more civilized New York City than the filthy, ungodly, uncivilized mess that it is now.
The snobs are winning. They have gotten so powerful that they hardly need any cover story at all anymore. Perhaps they've overplayed their hand with quite such over-the-top and brutal antics, perhaps not. It is all very demoralizing. I admit I had to fast forward through a couple of the fake identity segments when the frauds were actually being showcased. It made me long for some squeaky chalk. But it is still a new year, a chance to find new strategies to push back. I am still hopeful that Trump will take office this January. One way or another though, I simply do not agree that we must inevitably lose. If we can still laugh at the Left, and if we can still be horrified at the destruction they have caused, then we can still beat them. There is still plenty of room for optimism about the years to come.
"They have gotten so powerful that they hardly need any cover story at all anymore."
And they are so emboldened by the lack of resistance that they are doing it in plain sight.
The optimism is appreciated!
"If we can still laugh at the Left, and if we can still be horrified at the destruction they have caused, then we can still beat them." Well said. We can still beat them. But it will take more courage than the average person can muster.
After years of reading about the double standard ie. celebrities jetting off in private jets while moaning about carbon emissions, Hilaria and Spain, Warren and the Cherokee Nation, Nancy and ice cream, I have come to the conclusion that they may not be as stupid (and may not is important here) as we the riff raff take them for. Perhaps their very organized and persistent form of hypocrisy blends in with an intent to establish an uber class which through continuous practice seeks legitimacy. To be clearer, and to use an analogy - before the French Revolution, French society was based on la noblesse, le clergé et le tiers état. And no one until 1789 felt it necessary to question it. The world was like that, so get used to it. Perhaps these are the lines of thinking that our moneyed and celebrity class wants to impose "we can do it, but you, poor dolts, cannot."
Wait until voter fraud is part of established voting in every precinct in the country. The effete leftists will no longer have to pretend to be one of the proletariat or an aggrieved minority to gain the confidence of the voters.
Excellent (though depressing) comments, Kitty and Diana.
PS. Mentioned previously, this ties in with the (pre-Covid) analysis by Joel Kotkin, outlined in "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism": the Aristocracy and Clergy are - respectively - the (woke) Oligarchy and Clerisy of the administrative state.
That's just my point. And we will have come around to the place we started from - recognition that there is a God-given-but-without-God right to a certain class of people. Talk of vox populi-the people have spoken will be as empty and as ironic as what comes out of communist dictatorships.
Thanks Kate, will note the author. I am always on the lookout for interesting non-fiction material.
You put this as perfectly as possible. I'm not as articulate, but this has been a great concern of mine since I watched acorn workers registering my developmentally disabled adult patients to vote in the 2008 election. No doubt they all voted absentee. No doubt they all voted for the leftist presidential candidate who would have had them all aborted if he had had his druthers. It's like NAZI Germany all over again. All during my youth I wondered how the German people could have been made to allow such atrocities. When my oldest son was 9 he said, "Hitler proved that propaganda works." So much of history proves that: the French revolution, the Rwandan genocide, the communist take over of so many countries and the deaths of millions.
Propaganda works, and the evil seem to always bee 100 steps ahead of the rest of us in monopolizing and disseminating their propaganda.
I wonder if nursing homes are going to start going away as people begin to see the evil work done when nobody can see what's going on. We're seeing a new trend in home designs In our developments. The designs seem to be returning to multi generational living purposes. It was a trend then it went away, now coming back and maybe to stay. My sister voted for Trump in '16. She was forced into a nursing home last May because of mobility issues. She was scheduled for Little Sisters of the Poor but they suddenly closed admission due to two-year renovations they said. I think it wouldn't have happened had she been admitted there but when I spoke to her in October, suddenly she shifted to Biden. They call it the Blue shift but I think there's a Grey shift as well once they get into these god-forsaken facilities. Especially where she is in a state run facility in Southeast Pennsylvania. No activities, PT but once a week. I can tell she's just going away slowly but surely. Delaware County is a Democrat cesspool of corruption now. Never anything to see there.
So Wal-Mart, of all corporations, tweeted that Senator Hawley and those of us who challenge the election were "sore losers." How self defeating have the corporate right proved to be to the rest of the coalition? In the aughts, National Review and like minded writers extolled the virtues of companies like Wal-Mart and those in Silicon Valley as definitive examples of capitalism and conservativism bringing prosperity and prestige to the country. How many articles were written opposing internet sales taxation and the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft?
Yet, here we are, entering 2021 with every major corporation actively supporting the left, including Amazon, whose rise and coming monopoly status owes a great deal to yesterday's conservativism. Deep red Georgia and Texas are now trending as toss ups while California and Arizona, once the deep red states of the 60's and 70's, are irreversibly blue.
I think conservativism itself needs a deep rethink. The corporate right has set up the left to take over institution after institution and state after state, even as its only success has been an obscure tax cut to the richest in our country. Meanwhile cultural and populist conservatives are treated as lepers in our own party.
I think before this coalition can expand it will be necessary to actively party ways with the chamber of commerce types.
"So Wal-Mart, of all corporations, tweeted that Senator Hawley and those of us who challenge the election were "sore losers."
Did Wal-Mart say that when the Dems/ Left were whining about how Trump stole the 2016 election with help from the Russians? That was what the "Resist" movement was about - Trump's electoral triumph was considered illegitimate because of Russian interference.
No one will ever convince me that Trump didn't win the election. Victory was stolen from him, and all who voted for/supported him, in the dead of night, literally.
Yes - the *corporate* (and pro-China) aspect of conservatism has been a large part of its undoing.
The CCP actually represents crony capitalism - not communism, per se - plus authoritarianism, which is very similar to what's emerging in the US and other "free" societies. The West's version differs from China's in the use of Woke ideology as the battering ram of cultural Marxism.
As Mark says (in the context of what has been wrought by the chamber of commerce types): "China didn't become more like us. We became more like China."
F* Walmart. They're simply the ChiCom's favored U.S. distributor of cheap goods made by Chinese slave labor. I happen to do business with folks in Arkansas, which is traditionally known as a Conservative state (Bill and Hillary Clinton not withstanding). In general, that's true but there are still enough leftists there to make noise and the Walmart people are certainly the most influential leftists in that state. Which brings the following to mind. Leftists are everywhere. Are conservatives everywhere? In normal times I get around quite a bit and the answer is certainly, "No!" That's a problem that conservatives need to correct, and fast.
It's because the left has managed to infiltrate the public schools as well as most media. Get 'em while they're young. That's what the leftist do. They have to indoctrinate our children. They mostly can't be bothered to have any of their own.
I'll tell you why those 28-year old staffers are getting vaccinated; it's the latest version of virtue signaling. "I did my part!"
Fox bringing in Mark as guest host to make ratings soar is like in the old days of pro wrestling when a territory that needed a boost would bring in Andre the Giant to get week's worths of packed arenas.
Professional Wrestling has the integrity to tells us the outcomes are predetermined, unlike the NBA and NFL.
Thank you Mark for your brief Ave atque vale on Professor Walter Williams. I had learned of his death in the couple of waning moments of Rush's show when Ken Matthews hosted December 2nd. I didn't see it called out any where else. Yes truly my favorite guest host sans Steyn. I believe it must be six or more years since he had last filled in on the EIB airwaves. His students must've been richly blessed to learn economics and self governance under his tutelage.
Sigh. As usual, it falls upon me to comment on the most important things. Mark, lovely tie and pocket square combination, I do love the light blue!
That's it. That's the comment.
Also, January 1, 2021 is the opening of P D James' wonderful novel, The Children of Men, which Mark has written about before.
Columns like Mark's "A Baroness on Barrenness" (August 3, 2020), is why I am proud to be a Mark Steyn Club member.
Thanks for all you do.
"Another public notable eager to adopt fraudulent identities..." How about Joe Biden as president?
C'mon, man!
Bull's-eye, D. You're off to a good start!
Mark mentioned on Rush's show today that we need conservatives to run for office and mean it once they get elected. I would love to run as a conservative for even a local or county office. I had a conversation with an acquaintance of mine who is something of a pusher and shover in Republican circles around here and asked him about that. After listening to me explain what my values are and hopes and dreams I have for our community and country he said it's nearly impossible for someone like me to be taken seriously by enough voters, even Republican ones, to even get through the primary. He said that if someone like me even got traction and looking like I might succeed the media, the Republicans and the Democrats would work night and day to trash, smear and drag me through the mud. He said unless I was prepared for the worst to happen to my reputation I shouldn't even try it. I now believe him because that is precisely what happened to Trump over the last 5 years, ever since he descended down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy. And I've seen it done to others in my state who became candidates and campaigned using conservative themes. I don't know if I want to put my family or myself through that. It's asking a lot of someone. I don't think it will ever change.
Time for infiltration of the Democratic Party, Robert. I really don't know how you beat organized cheating and deception of the magnitude we just witnessed with straight-up honest voting and campaigning. This feels more like being made into chopped meat, cured and grilled between two mobs. The Democrat Party mobsters on the one side, who not only surpassed the margin of lawyers with the margin of judges, legislators and Venezuelan dual tabulating-switching machines, and on the other side, the on-the-streets mobs winning the hearts of their elected politicians running the cities in the very loosest sense of the word (now about to be the country) as they burn car lots, loot stores, invade diners spaces and destroy tax payers' monuments and plazas in the name of social justice and successfully putting fear into the hearts of good citizens.
One of my favorite quotes of Mark's this year from a famous British officer in years gone by was, "If it's not necessary to change, it's necessary not to change." He was referring, of course, to those things in our Western Civilization which enabled our governments and citizens to achieve great things. I don't think it could ever refer to the recent deceptions and misdeeds of the clownish (no offense to clowns), thuggish (no offense to thugs) cast (with very few exceptions) of mediocre, spineless derelicts of duty purporting to serve our respective populations today. I believe it's now necessary to change something.
My suggestion would be to check on your local secretary of state's website and or county auditor. At least in my area, they publish a candidates guide for things like getting on the ballot, etc. Depending on the office you're running for, you'll need to know the signature requirements you need, the deadlines, where and when to file. Good luck!
Self-vet, and be scrupulously thorough. The slightest off-color prank, misdeed, remark, *thought!* that you have ever committed, be prepared to defend or explain or weather scrutiny thereof, but preferably preface your candidacy with a statement that gets it out there and hopefully even draws parallels to similar sins committed by the ruling class. There are ~74,000,000 FRUSTRATED people in this country who are yearning for a friend in government. If DJT, the most hated and ridiculed man in the USA is also 2020's most admired man, their power to destroy is waning. Best wishes to you, you will be in the prayers of many, many Americans! In fact, I would say you already are.
Thank you for the encouragement. I'll think about it. I'm someone who is more than willing to engage anyone and debate issues. But I recoil when it descends into name calling and labeling when the debate doesn't go the way my opponent wants it to. You know how it goes. Anyway, one thing I think is important to note about DJT and his performance in the 2020 election...he picked up significant percentages of black and Hispanic votes compared to 2016. I'm not surprised. Those are the two segments of our population that have been harmed the most by illegal immigration because of what it has done to wages for low-skilled and unskilled labor and DJT is the ONLY public figure who has tried to do something about it. Democrats lay claim to being the advocates for these segments but their policies have caused untold pain and loss instead. Part of the anger we witnessed this summer stems from that. The victims of illegal immigration do not have a future to look forward to so they don't care if anyone else does either. I think if we see a movement to turn the uniparty system on its head, it will come from those corners of society. Their backs are against the wall. They have nothing to lose.
Conservatives must defend being humanly flawed - and apologise for so-called "misdeeds" (as adjudged by the left) - while the ruling class lies and gets away with corruption and criminality in plain sight.
At the top, it's not surprising that only one person (among tens of millions) is up to the job; what's truly impressive is that he has prevailed for so long.
Strange to see an employee of Fox News dismissing another corporation for its contempt for its fans.
Gives you a hint how Fox people (off-camera) rationalize the diaspora of their viewers - a passing plague like Co-Vid?
I doubt it; when Tucker's lead-in Martha, and the other bubbleheads (Martha and the Bubbleheads, I had their album in high school) start reassuring, on inauguration day, that Biden is not senile he's, uh, cute, a new canyon floor will loom.
Mark replies:
I am not an employee of Fox News. And get back to me when Fox has hosts taking a knee and pissing on the flag and national anthem.
I'd love to see a Mark Steyn-inspired mass exodus from Twitter, YouTube, Facebook! The immediate and decisive reaction to Fox is so encouraging to me. It's trickier to disengage from those arrogant bastiges but I do hope for it.
If Mark and President Trump and every other conservative left twitter and you tube and moved to parler and Bit Chute it would decrease you tube considerably and put twitter out of business. The leftists twits on twitter would be talking to themselves, (all ten of them), and that guy who looks homeless who runs twitter could live up to his looks and go move under a bridge somewhere.
Hard to see anything happy in this coming year. We have one party that can riot, loot, bully, censor, be racist, and even murder without impunity while we just clutch our pearls and curl up in the fetal position hoping that this is all just a nightmare and we will all wake up from this soon. The left's and the establishments greatest asset in all of this wasn't the Wu Flu, it wasn't the mob, it wasn't big tech, it wasn't Hollywood, it wasn't academia, it wasn't illegal immigration, and it wasn't even the fake news. We were their biggest ally. We gave them what they wanted by being the good children that we are. We stood out of their way and let them take what they want and give it to whomever they want. Our inaction was their greatest asset. They knew we would do nothing and they dared us to do something. We played it safe and now we will lose our nation. I know that in spite of the bravado that Pence has shown, I don't trust him either. He'll fall in line with Mitch and all the others. There will be no fight. There will be no next time. Clearly, what has happened over the past four years isn't enough to get anyone mad. So I congratulate everyone who did nothing. You got what you wanted and you'll get what you deserve.
Well, Sunshine, I do feel your pain. I fluctuate between Mother Theresa's (and apparently Brian from MN's) opinion: we get the leaders we deserve. I'm more ashamed of our culture than our complacency. But if our complacency is all we have to overcome, then perhaps we needed to be pushed to this extreme to get angry enough to act. Maybe we needed to get to the point of losing it all, in order to risk everything to take it back. And maybe that's just wishful thinking. I really don't know what to think.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but what did you do? All of us listen to Mark and then make our comments on here, but as an exhausted nurse the best I've been able to conjure up is being enough of a big mouth about what's going on that I've ostracized myself from most of my extended family and many who once called me friend. I'm at a loss as to what else is available. Please give me some realistic ideas.
What I did or didn't do doesn't really matter now does it? Some things aren't in my control. What I'm asking the experts here in Clubland is "What do we do?" I haven't been given any answer. I throw out ideas but they get shot down. Four years we've been told to worry and now that it's happened we're told to just forget about it? America started with a bang and now it'll end with a whimper. I know there are solutions, I just don't think anyone has the guts to do them. I see the McCloskey's and what did our side do? Hardly anything and that's not me saying it but Jesse Watters. We show shame when our side does something. Where is our pride? I don't want to argue since there is no point in it. Nothing that I say here will change anything. I come here with my frustrations waiting, hoping someone would have an answer and all I get is either they agree with my frustrations or I get a response like from you. So I guess you can have this argument then. You win, America loses.
I hope so too.
Non stop pressure in million MAGA marches and demonstrations across America. That is the peaceful route. The other some guy in Nashville did and I don't think anyone will want that but if that guy proves something then it's that there are those on our side that will do such things. Be warned.
"Our inaction was their greatest asset." I can't argue with that. I often wonder what I could've or should've done differenly in 2020 to help my team win. I have many ideas but the sad truth of it is this. I have two kids struggling through their early teenage years having to deal with repeated lockdowns and remote schooling. They live with their mom, a dyed in the wool liberal feminist who did a 180 on me in terms of her personality about a decade into our marriage. I make a good living which is necessary due to the high cost of living in my northeast state (where I live to be close to my children) and the level of child support payments ordered by the court. Most of the people I work with, and the clients that I serve, are leftists who support Biden, BLM, diversity programs, anti-racism initiatives, LGBTQ+ and every other leftist imperative. Anything I do in favor of my beliefs that gets noticed severely jeopardizes my career, which in turn severely jeopardizes my ability to make a life for myself and support my children. It's basically this. Damned if I do and damned if I don't. Happy New Year!
I win America loses? Either I'm not good at expressing myself, or you missed my point. What I gathered from your post above is that you're bitter that there wasn't greater conservative opposition to what the left is doing, that our lack of opposition is why the left has succeeded. My response was to ask you for ideas. I have some, but as I pointed out above, I have no means to enact them because my area of expertise is nursing. America is in bigger trouble than just voter fraud and leftist control of the media and education. America is deep in debt and the covid response is destroying the middle class. When the Great Depression occurred the vast majority of Americans had been raised going to church and going to schools that taught patriotism to the greatest nation in history. Now we're the brokest nation in history and there are a lot of small minded people running things who think they should be in charge of everyone else's life. When the dollar is no longer the reserve currency our money will become worthless. Then our economy will collapse. When no one can pay for anything the toilet paper shortage at the beginning of this year will be looked upon with nostalgia. When money is worthless infrastructure collapses. There will be no money to pay for our military, police, fire departments. Big cities will be the worst places to be. We all had better pray for some good ideas to keep President Trump in office or life is going to get dicey in the next four years.
Other areas that have been taken over by the left can be worked on if anyone knows how. venmo and paypal are controlled by leftist who lock you out if they don't like your politics. If anyone on here knows how to create an alternative to venmo and paypal I wish they would do it. Parler is the alternative to twitter. Bit Chute is a good alternative to you tube. Getting away from what the left controls and finding alternatives takes away a lot of their power. If you have kids read them book published before the 1960s. Make sure they learn the ten commandments. Teach them to love America. That's a start.
I live in the north east, too. It's rotten with leftist, but there are a lot of conservatives here too. You have to look for them. Where I go to church everyone voted for President Trump.
I'm very sorry to hear about your ex wife. That's rough! If you stay close to your kids and try to teach them good values it's a huge help. My younger kids went to a parochial school taught by Benedictine nuns and brothers for grade school. Seventh through tenth grade they went to a conservative Catholic high school. My daughter went to the local high school halfway through her junior year and was horrified by the number of girls who had already had sex, many had had abortions too, how many of them were taking drugs and getting drunk daily. My youngest son went to a vocational school for the last two years of High School It was the best thing for him. I wish I had sent my middle son there. They watched Band of Brothers during history class. The teachers were conservative and patriotic.
There is hope for your kids. God bless you with good success!
Happy New Year! Last year was the Year of the Rat for the Chinese (though it is supposed to be a sign of prosperity).
February 12, 2021 is the Lunar New Year and the start of the Year of the Ox in the Chinese 12 year zodiac.
Good observation. I guess it was prosperous for the rats in the CCP and those essential businesses that smoked the little competitors. Very heartbreaking every which way we look at it. Bonne Année, Nicola!
I'm all in favor of our politicians and their imperial retinues being vaccinated against Wuhan Bat Virus ahead of the proles.
Wuhan, Ebola, Rabies, Dengue, Grift, Distemper, Ringworm, Heartworm, leptospirosis, Swine flu, Chicken flu, - whatever lurks in the swamp is a danger that they bravely face for us, so they should get vaccinated against everything. Daily. Twice at weekends. On Live TV.
Anyone else keen to get it deserves a medal - The Order of Fauci, With Oak Leaves.
I agree!
Mark,
I'm amazed at your ability to be everywhere and congratulations on your successful ratings with Tucker and Rush! Thank you, and your team, for taking on so much when needed while at the same time continuing to create quality content for your club members. Happy new year and best wishes.
Agree Greg. It is amazing.
I left a comment at Laura's Links about Jonathan Pollard's emigration to Israel, Mark, but you remind me of how different cases of consorting with spies are handled differently in media and the organs (offal, mostly) of justice. Take Eric Swalwell (please!), who exchanged...pillow talk (keeping it clean for the young 'uns, the "Steyn babies", as it were) with Fang Fang, the Contessa Dracula of the CCP. I believe the New York Times still hasn't seen fit to report on the story of her infiltration into the heart and bedroom of a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (And his infiltration of her, if you receive my meaning.) Rep Swalwell serves--still serves!--on the Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research (STAR) Subcommittee, while also chairing the Intelligence Modernization and Readiness (INMAR) Subcommittee. The stories he could tell! Did tell, you can be sure, to the receptive Ms. Fang, who, you can also be sure, reported all to her handlers back in the Forbidden City. In a world of even a trace of decency, he would have resigned, or been suspended pending a full investigation of his potential crimes, purposeful or accidental. But in this world, China's world, as you note, Speaker Pelosi has his back. His heart, however, will always belong to She (sometimes spelled Xi).
Steyn in for Rush! Happy New Year all!! Those first 4 words don't make me as happy as they once did, for obvious reasons, but I'm happy nevertheless.
One question I have for Mark, re: Tucker. I've listened to quite a few Tucker speeches and interviews in the past year. He quite correctly tears into the elites today, saying they are responsible for most of the bad things that have happened for the last many years, even laying the election of Trump at their feet (though he doesn't say that was terrible). I think he's certainly right about this.
However, his solution seems to be, find better elites. My own preference would be to end the rule by elites. Live free or die, as a certain granite state says....
Am I reading Tucker's opinion correctly, Mark? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Happy New Year to all fellow Steyn Clubbers!
It's 04:23 on 1 January here on the Sunshine coast right now, and another beautiful day begins. Best wishes for the new year to all in the MSC.
Thanks for the sunny preview, Segnes. Gray and dull in Boston, MA, but you do give us hope!
Finishing coffee. Choosing between mango and watermelon for breakfast, J. Best wishes!
Happy New Year to you too! God bless and protect you and yours in 2021!
Happy New Year Segnes and Josh! I live near Boston. We should have a Mark Steyn gathering in the area. Maybe there are more deplorables like us lurking around here.
What about a smoothie with both and a splash of coconut pineapple vodka to start the New Year off right? More of the vodka, less of the other good stuff.
Awaiting the Golden EIB microphone to fire up....and it's no surprise that you kept Tucker's show at the #1 spot! That was made even more important by seeing Maddow and Tapper (last) below your show. I can't get enough of the spy who shagged me...
Yes, some folks have decided to go elsewhere but I won't be one of them. There are still many on both Fox and Fox Business that I enjoy watching. My problem is with the network owners, not the reporters.
Looking forward to your sage advice and insight again in the new year.
"I can't get enough of the spy who shagged me..." I knew what you meant, Janet, but I did do a double take. True about the network owners not the reporting staff and show hosts. Happy New Year! In normal times I would say, next year has to better than this year, but I'm getting more pessimistic by the day. January 6th is big!
LOL, Fran....you may interpret it any way you'd like!