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- Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:01 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Left must control its hard/progressive cohort
- Replies: 3
- Views: 89
The Left must control its hard/progressive cohort
As my late father always used to say, "everything is always all about WHO gets WHAT". The progressive Left has grown out out of control and society is lapsing into decadence and moral decay at a rate of knots. Those on the centre left have to do something about this , if they want a brand to survive...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Harry and Meghan get a 'chill pill' from the Queen
- Replies: 2
- Views: 63
Harry and Meghan get a 'chill pill' from the Queen
Brendan O'Neill, with his usual laser-vision analysis and wonderful prose, makes a somewhat humorous barb about the 'celebrity couple':
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/2 ... al-family/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/2 ... al-family/
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:14 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In
- Replies: 9
- Views: 226
Re: Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In
This is a salient opinion piece about "Facebook" and the consequences of its corporate behaviour in Australia: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/24/the-casualties-of-facebooks-war-on-australia/ I'm not interested in "Facebook" and never was, since I think it feeds a culture of narcissism. Just r...
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4801
Re: TrumpReich in action
Appalling, absolutely hate-fuelled comments. How do you get to sleep at night with all that hatred on board? It's a serious question. People like you scare the hell out of many of us. Trump has lost the election and the only thing keeping him from total obscurity and irrelevance is people like you. ...
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Roger Scruton; The Classical Tradition Today
- Replies: 0
- Views: 56
Roger Scruton; The Classical Tradition Today
I just found this from the great man, Sir Roger Scruton, and his little audience at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest seems engaged. (He is much missed, having died just over a year ago.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWF7nHFIkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWF7nHFIkk
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: "It's the job,stupid "- GOP staffers' agony
- Replies: 7
- Views: 161
Re: "It's the job,stupid "- GOP staffers' agony
Let's face it, it's not only in politicis that moral compromise is expected from employees - they might end up no better off. But lying and toadying are skills universally appreciated by employers . Undoubtedly in the media, but ruthlessness is one of the main characteristics my son experiences in ...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:53 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In
- Replies: 9
- Views: 226
Re: Facebook’s New Look in Australia: News and Hospitals Out, Aliens Still In
“ High-quality news and analysis is a public good , and that’s why we fund NPR and the ABC ,” said Jim Minifie, an economist with Lateral Economics, a consulting firm that specializes in digital public policy, referring to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation..." This is absolutely risible!! The ...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The illiberal Right
- Replies: 17
- Views: 472
Re: The illiberal Right
" Trumpism "; this has become a convenient whipping boy for vast numbers of people who respect and support globalism, open borders, virtue signalling, social engineering and the repressive PC culture wars. For now it's called "Trump" but henceforth somebody else will take up the cudgels on behalf of...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Re: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
Thanks Joseph. AS P.G. Wodehouse said of a heroine, she had the mentality of a cockroach - and not just any cockroach, but one that had been dropped on its head as a baby. :lol: We've all grown to admire the censorious hatred emanating from the Left, even if it's appropriating the words of a wit an...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Re: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
You think it won't happen to you. Until it does.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/1 ... l-culture/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/1 ... l-culture/
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Blue Lives Matter Is Over
- Replies: 4
- Views: 216
Re: Blue Lives Matter Is Over
Black Looters Matter?
Just one minor point, though. If Black Lives Matter it's a wonder they don't behave as though they really do.
https://quillette.com/2021/02/10/unspea ... n-america/
Just one minor point, though. If Black Lives Matter it's a wonder they don't behave as though they really do.
https://quillette.com/2021/02/10/unspea ... n-america/
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:16 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Re: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
I've never defended Trump, just the people who voted for him . He wasn't my President but I looked on in dismay of 4 years of unbridled hatred and viciousness from his opponents. These actually turned out to be the little people; the same mobs and tribes which vilify people as 'white supremacists', ...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:06 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Re: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
I'm going to keep adding these as the insanity and authoritarianism from the Left continues apace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lafWX8yVfU The mob violence on Capital Hill on January 6 was but a physical manifestation of the lynch mob mentality of rabid progressives who are after everybody who d...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Re: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
Here we go again. More authoritarianism from the Left. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/08/another-woke-purge-at-the-new-york-times/ Bari Weiss, who left the NY Times because she felt crushed by the demand for ideological conformity, has recently tweeted this and it's laser accurate: If a perso...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:02 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
- Replies: 27
- Views: 906
Another inglorious legacy of the loony Left
https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-w ... tch-hunts/
And:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/0 ... d-manners/
They really are a scary cohort for us middle-mannered, centrist individuals.
And:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/0 ... d-manners/
They really are a scary cohort for us middle-mannered, centrist individuals.
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:58 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Renaissance man Dr. Thomas Sowell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Renaissance man Dr. Thomas Sowell
Here's an excellent profile of this unique intellectual, Dr. Thomas Sowell. I have read some of his work - but not nearly enough; something I'll have to remedy. He has had a great influence on the culture, particularly in relation to conservative and economic thought. Professor Steven Pinker also ap...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: (Hard) Left on the run politically the world over
- Replies: 11
- Views: 369
(Hard) Left on the run politically the world over
This well-written and balanced essay supports what I've been saying for a while now; that the Left/hard Left (it's impossible to tell them apart nowadays) has been politically on the run the world over in more recent times. Corbyn got the heave-ho because he was a muddle-headed, ideological academic...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:28 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
- Replies: 10
- Views: 279
Re: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
You mean readers of the NYT. Sentience is the only quality required to complete that, er, task.
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:27 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
- Replies: 10
- Views: 279
Re: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
The Left eats itself. Again. Bari Weiss knows all about it, as does that other unfortunate man who was an editor and who had the temerity to put a GOP interview in the NYT. No dissent from the party line will be tolerated. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/inside-the-new-york-times-firing-of-l...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:22 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
- Replies: 10
- Views: 279
Re: Donald’s Deplorables chatter threats to lawmakers about impeachment
This intellectual really nails it in his brief comments from 1:18 . Bret Weinstein is one of the USA's leading public intellectuals. He describes himself as a 'left leaning libertarian'. Bret (and wife Heather Heying), love your work!! And your superb honesty without the need for low resolution thin...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:06 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Illiberal Left Threatens all our Freedoms
- Replies: 25
- Views: 836
Re: The Illiberal Left Threatens all our Freedoms
The 'perniciousness' of the Right? Could be. But they don't put hand on heart and call themselves the compassionate cohort, full of love, and justice and fairness. And they are generally busy running businesses and paying down debt, rather than fulminating from the side about 'the rich' and anybody ...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Illiberal Left Threatens all our Freedoms
- Replies: 25
- Views: 836
The Illiberal Left Threatens all our Freedoms
(Even serial killer John Wayne Gacy was entitled to the presumption of innocence.) What staggers me about Dershowitz is that he still refers to himself as a "left liberal"!! You won't read anything like this in Pravda (The New York Times) or CNN. This isn't going to end well. It all reminds me of ou...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:39 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The toxic nature of Identitarianism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 489
The toxic nature of Identitarianism
This is a thoughtful essay and very apt for the times. I was left questioning King's assertion that most immigrant groups to the USA had been given grants and other forms of assistance to help them succeed in their new country - but it appears he overlooked many Jews, like the family of Irving Berli...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:10 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Americans Are Officially Giving Up on Democracy
- Replies: 18
- Views: 732
Re: Many Americans Are Officially Giving Up on Democracy
Absolutely priceless!!!!!!!!! 

- Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:58 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Many Americans Are Officially Giving Up on Democracy
- Replies: 18
- Views: 732
Re: Many Americans Are Officially Giving Up on Democracy
1. "A smaller rate of tax"? Two of my sons pay MORE THAN 50% of their income to our government, plus indirect consumption taxes. PAYE taxpayers are totally ripped off in Australia and carry the vast majority of our taxation . (Sooner or later the discussion had to get around to money, though. All th...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:10 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump Is the Republican Party’s Past and Its Future
- Replies: 28
- Views: 808
Re: Trump Is the Republican Party’s Past and Its Future
More measured, intelligent and reasonable commentary from the objective New York Times!! This newspaper is forever playing to the cheap seats in the gallery, with all the aplomb and sophistication of Pravda. Where's that unity thing? We're all desperately looking for it and it's nowhere to be found....
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:35 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage
- Replies: 12
- Views: 500
Re: The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage
Thanks for posting this fascinating article. It presents very grim view of Kuyper's Reformed faith (I studied him in my theology degree), but in the US that seems justified because they have distorted him significantly. It was one of the great insights of the 16th century Reformation that God is co...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Schwarzenegger calls out TrumpReich
- Replies: 15
- Views: 667
Re: Schwarzenegger calls out TrumpReich
EPIC HYPOCRISY from the Left continues apace: this same cohort which puts hand on heart and calls itself "compassionate". It's easy to do, I suppose, when you regard half the voting population as dumb renegades and 'deplorables' from 'fly-over country', beneath contempt. Toxic masculinity, white pr...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:44 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump’s Legacy: Voters Who Reject Democracy and Any Politics but Their Own
- Replies: 10
- Views: 483
Re: Trump’s Legacy: Voters Who Reject Democracy and Any Politics but Their Own
You have been comprehensively indoctrinated by the New York Times, for surely propaganda and indoctrination are the only games in town with that dubious outfit. It has turned into a quite dangerous arm of the Left and its cancel culture. New York itself reminds me of those Italian city states - unco...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1337
Re: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
We see again the real Right. What, the ones that Belle says are never violent, it's only the left? Conservatives didn't burn streets, set buildings alight, trash peoples' businesses. NO violence is acceptable , but it's hugely hypocritical for those who've previously turned a blind eye now to be 'c...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:19 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1337
Re: Pro-Trump Protesters to Gather Amid Fears of Violence
Oh, this is absolutely rich. A party and its supporters which refused to accept 'loser consent' for 4 long years, attempting impeachment, humiliating a Supreme Court candidate in front of the whole world (Kavanaugh), tearing up a State of the Union address (in front of the whole world) and then enab...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:49 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: What's Wrong with the Modern Left
- Replies: 17
- Views: 787
What's Wrong with the Modern Left
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did written by Edie Wyatt ("Quillette" online journal) I am not naturally conservative, and I do not exhibit the required antagonism toward men to qualify me as a decent feminist. But in the area of sex, rape, and paedophilia, I am unable to separate my po...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:39 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump's weekend sedition while COVID rages
- Replies: 5
- Views: 294
Re: Trump's weekend sedition while COVID rages
Another insightful, intelligent, non-mainstream piece which demonstrates the importance of avoiding groupthink:
https://quillette.com/2021/01/03/return ... new-right/
Wide reading strongly recommended.
https://quillette.com/2021/01/03/return ... new-right/
Wide reading strongly recommended.
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Andrew Sullivan Book Review
- Replies: 10
- Views: 572
Re: Andrew Sullivan Book Review
Here's an alternate, intelligent and perceptive exploration of a world view the very OPPOSITE of conservatism; the politics of hatred, so beloved of the Left. There's no need for condescension about conservatives when you read this; the truth becomes self-evident and most awake and intelligent peopl...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America, the Zombie nation
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2611
Re: America, the Zombie nation
Quick; run and hide. This African American professor talks about 'the enemy without and the enemy within'. No wonder it cost Prof. Lowry his co-called friendships; nobody hates quite like the Left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5G2Y6LMpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5G2Y6LMpE
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: America, the Zombie nation
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2611
Re: America, the Zombie nation
From the NYT today: "The New York Young Republican Club held its annual gala. Images posted on Twitter showed attendees gathered inside, close together and wearing no masks." These people should be in jail. Yes, put everybody in jail - but defund the police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8FfZTg...
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:53 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: TrumpReich in action
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4801
Re: TrumpReich in action
Still obsessed with Trump more than a month after he lost the unlosable election !! Some things never change do they!! It's sad to see such hatred and talk about the Third Reich - tired old cliches and tropes which are meaningless. Please demonstrate how Trump rushed people into the showers and kil...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:51 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Prosecuting Trump Is a Very Bad Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1737
Re: Why Prosecuting Trump Is a Very Bad Idea
This is the most intelligent assessment I've read in a long time - and I've read a lot!!
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/0 ... l-live-on/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/0 ... l-live-on/
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:14 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Why Prosecuting Trump Is a Very Bad Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1737
Re: Why Prosecuting Trump Is a Very Bad Idea
Still on the hatred, aye. I thought that would have been quelled by the election of Dems. Nobody does hatred quite like the Left, though. And the Democrats have learned nothing from 4 years out of power; reverting to the same old tics and behaviours which saw them unseated in 2016. Identitarianism o...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: How Can We Trust This G.O.P. in Power Again?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 510
Re: How Can We Trust This G.O.P. in Power Again?
What is WRONG with them is what is WRONG with your society. The left loves the blame game; loves victimhood and grievance. It's the porridge to their Goldilocks: a movable feast. But they're none too flash on self-awareness and understanding. They've mastered the art of projection; starting divisive...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: After Trump Leaves the White House, Should he be Prosecuted for his Crimes?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: After Trump Leaves the White House, Should he be Prosecuted for his Crimes?
The hatred and the Trump Derangement Syndrome continues. Note: this is a huge turn-off for voters going forward . There will be a backlash because this is really directed towards the people who voted for Trump. He'll be flushed out of the White House but what's going to happen about the 're-educatio...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:05 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Sore loser Trump choked like a dog — no different than a golfer that misses a putt on the 18th hole
- Replies: 6
- Views: 560
Re: Sore loser Trump choked like a dog — no different than a golfer that misses a putt on the 18th hole
Congratulations to those Democrat supporters for their victory. Let's hope the hatred stops being spewed here now. Hope springs eternal. Trump is a sore loser but he's merely emulating what HRC did 4 years ago. Covid-19 undid Donald Trump; his cavalier attitude towards the pandemic cost him, big tim...
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:40 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The War on Truth Reaches Its Climax
- Replies: 8
- Views: 781
Re: The War on Truth Reaches Its Climax
I'm pleased Mr Krugman describes himself as an Opinion Columnist as he himself continues the 'war on truth'. I have no views on what he's talking about, (I personally don't give a excrement about anything Trump does) but this type of specious drivel is a good example of what the media have become. ...
- Wed Nov 04, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Is the US really a democracy?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1404
Re: Is the US really a democracy?
I seldom take The Guardian seriously because it's always a glass half empty approach and fuelled by resentment and grievance. America is a democracy even though we might say it's a convoluted, flawed type of system with their electoral college system and now the dodgy postal votes regime. We have si...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:59 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: NYT Editorial Board scorns Trump as a ‘racist demagogue’
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1642
Re: NYT Editorial Board scorns Trump as a ‘racist demagogue’
And yet.....this nails it. Pretty well-balanced comments and a LOT of people relate to them:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... _2020.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video ... _2020.html
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:23 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Fox News Would Not Exist Today if........
- Replies: 10
- Views: 799
Re: Fox News Would Not Exist Today if........
Fox is the single alternative to wall-to-wall hard Left politics in the mainstream media. I do understand why the Left want it gone, of course, but that would be anti-democratic. Say what??!! Occasionally I listen to get some balance from all the others, droning on and on and on about the same issue...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:19 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: SOMETHING THE LEFT WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1160
SOMETHING THE LEFT WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND
Wildly, madly, the West is destroying itself Suicidal Covid ‘public health’ policies and the Marxist Trojan horse of BLM zealotry are products of our perilous complacency. We may be tempting an implosion on a historical scale.By LIONEL SHRIVER The widespread COVID-19 lockdowns and the increasingly ...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Trump Hid His First Positive Covid-19 Test Result on Thursday While Awaiting a Second Test Result.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1538
Re: Trump Hid His First Positive Covid-19 Test Result on Thursday While Awaiting a Second Test Result.
We note that the New York Times and its fellow travellers are out in force with the biblical metaphors and the baseball bats. Tolerance and compassion in typical abundance (somebody is trying to fool somebody else.) These comments from Brendan O'Neill really nail the issues with characteristic intel...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Right-wing mag says US needs Biden
- Replies: 9
- Views: 835
Re: Right-wing mag says US needs Biden
It is unsurprising to read a diversity of opinion in a conservative publication. That's because their readers are not afraid of alternative opinions or fear being bludgeoned by baseball bats for deviating from the orthodoxies, as is the case with the Left. And they don't have vicious junkyard dogs f...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:00 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Yesterday's Debate Stand Back and Stand By
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1789
Re: Yesterday's Debate Stand Back and Stand By
Biden was no better than Trump ; "shut up man", "a clown" etc. The whole thing was an absolute disgrace and indicative of the descent from civility of the USA. The centre left now dominated by extremists (also around the world, and this is keeping the Left out of politics). You egg the people on by...