Happy Election Day to our American readers. I'll be doing a bit of morning-after post-mortem with Bill Keeler on Rush affiliate 950 WIBX Utica tomorrow, Wednesday, just after 7.30am, and then a little after 8am with Dave Allen on another Rush affiliate 570 WSYR in Syracuse - and hopefully slipping in a bit of a plug for my forthcoming tour of those parts with Dennis Miller.
Meanwhile, if you missed our livestream Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay. Simply click above and settle back for an hour of my answers to questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet. On this week's show we anticipated a few blue waves and red waves - or blue trickles and red trickles - and also discussed some of the larger geopolitical issues including nationalism, the Trump wall, free speech, identity politics and more - with a side-helping of the transphobia of waxologists, just to address the really critical questions.
Thank you for all your thoughts on the various subjects raised. If I didn't answer your question, we'll be doing one of our video editions of Mark's Mailbox in a couple of days and I'll try to get to the missed queries then.
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See you on the radio with Bill and Dave bright and early tomorrow.
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Somewhere near the end, the monologue transmogrified to an Austin Powers mooovie!
Mark: Now that we have BOTH "Nancy with the Laughing Face" Pelosi and "Sing Along with Mitch" McConnell running our two branches of Congress, will they end the Civil War (as Hillary promised they would) and make beautiful music together -- or will they return to the Gangsta Rap they been runnin' down on us?
Never thought I'd say this but the GOP probably need to look to Lindsay "Thug Life" Graham for guidance on how to stiffen their spines a bit.
Hirsute Genitalia was my favorite wrestler growing up.
Now that the Democrats have taken the House, Trump has my permission to tell them to go pound sand every time they deliver a subpoena to him.
Your introduction to the Clubland Q&A mentioned names long unheard from the the very distant past. The pre-WWII years found me at age 3 playing on the floor of my parents' Home in a tiny village on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Impossible as it may seem, I clearly recall the 'News' commentator from WSYR Syracuse ( the only radio station providing reliable reception on the big Philco console AM radio) whose improbable name was Vadeboncour ( how could I remember such a thing?) commenting on the Sino-
Japanese War. The overmatched Nationalist Forces were attempting to slow the advance of the Imperial Japanese Army and were suffering 1000s if not 10s of 1000s casualties in each encounter. The advance, I was to learn later ended in the 'Rape of Nanking ' which ,at the time , was considered the greatest mass murder of the modern era.
"... with a side-helping of the transphobia of waxologists, just to address the really critical questions."
(A modified re-posting of a late Q&A comment): In a previous Q&A this year, Mark referred to the "mighty forests of British Columbia" (re the hirsuitism of the transwoman whose depilatory rights were infringed by transphobic waxologists). The reference rang a distant bell...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLqHkAorjMk
Is this song still ok? Could it be "reclaimed" and embraced by the Canadian transgender movement? The specific mention of "the lavatory" is so prescient!
Hey Mark,
If you're looking for names of guests you could twist the arm of to come on the next cruise, then if the ship sails from Florida, you might try to get Rush for a day or so. For a back up plan, how about your good bud Bo Snerdley?
Whoever invented political terminology should be drawn and quoted by a cartoonist like Bill Leak, but, getting down to the brass tacks of metallurgical metaphors, ya gotcher blue wave on one side, and your red wave coming in from another side, and they're going to cancel each other, mostly, and what's left will combine to body slam the country into the sand. Since no one knows anything anymore, this'll require Donaldus Magnus to call for an ambulance and work the bullhorn for the crowd of onlookers for the next two years, defining not nationalism, but nationhood; pile-driving new foundations into bedrock.
Being a metallurgist, I love metallurgical metaphors! Keep em coming! Also, to use the correct engineering lingo, I am a wet one, not a hot one.
I was never much of a Dan Rather fan, but election night was always fun; the later it got, the punchier he got. My favorite: "This race is as tight as the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford." Someone with a lot more time than me has collected them all here: https://www.thoughtco.com/funny-dan-ratherisms-4067687