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CSotD: Silly Consistencies
Matt Wuerker (Politico) illustrates the phrases of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that “a silly consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Emerson inspired inconsistency, recommending that you just “Communicate what you assume now in exhausting phrases, and to-morrow communicate what to-morrow thinks in exhausting phrases once more, although it contradict each factor you stated to-day.”
Effectively, t’is the season of hobgoblins and the period of little statesmen, and, as Wuerker factors out, they’ve been persistently peddling the identical trickle-down nonsense for many years, and, boy, do I want I may share with him that notion within the fourth panel that individuals are catching on.
So far as I can inform, the identical individuals who believed it then consider it now, and the identical individuals who doubted it then proceed to doubt it with the identical probability of turning something round.
Jen Sorensen asks a query that has been on my tongue not too long ago, which is why the MSM retains describing Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin as “centrists” when they’re clearly and clearly aligning themselves with conservatives.
To be honest, you may’t accuse Sinema of a silly consistency, contemplating that she was as soon as head of the Inexperienced Get together in Arizona and made a significant shift as soon as she had entered Congress, examined the bread fastidiously and decided which facet held the butter.
And Manchin has admitted he has no real interest in being in step with the goals and philosophy of the get together whose preliminary follows his title. Apparently, he merely wished to be in energy and to get there, he needed to declare himself a Democrat so he may run towards a Republican.
Or one thing. One other consistency is progressive thinkers attempting to probe the minds of people that don’t use them, however, quite, consider in Mike Tyson, who stated “Everybody has a plan till they get punched within the mouth.”
Which is sports activities, a subject which offers this
Juxtaposition of the Day
Sportphobics will catch up rapidly with the story by studying the strip: Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned beneath stress when racist, misogynistic and homophobic emails surfaced. Not after lengthy consultations and never even after the tip of the season however proper between video games.
He could have jumped, however he was most actually pushed. And people two followers within the sketch usually are not the one people who suspect there are a lot more shoes poised to drop.
A bit of speculative background: The Washington Soccer Crew withheld years of stress to vary its racist nickname from “Redskins,” however folded at a time after they have been beneath authorized stress for his or her barbaric remedy of their cheerleaders, which stopped simply wanting pimping them out to main donors, which inspired different ladies within the group to confront them.
The title change, and the probe that introduced Gruden’s emails to the floor, could have been sparked by the potential for severe monetary losses, and Gruden would be the sacrificial lamb.
However this leaves the query of what would possibly encourage the federal authorities to take motion over Jan. 6, now that they’ve, as Telnaes says, been delivered their lamb?
I believe that if — just like the federal authorities — it have been as much as the NFL to sue itself as an alternative of the ladies of the Washington Redskins being empowered to provoke their very own go well with, Jon Gruden would nonetheless be striding the Raider sidelines.
And the entire thing jogs my memory of one among my favourite Abbie Hoffman quotes, this one about Earth Day: “Certain, I’ll decide up the Dixie Cup. Who the **** is gonna decide up Con Edison?”
Gruden was a Dixie Cup, and we’re acquired greater sources of poisonous air pollution to take care of.
Which doesn’t imply you shouldn’t decide up the Dixie Cup, however perhaps we must cancel the parade till we’ve completed somewhat extra.
Juxtaposition of the Day #2
If I doubt Matt Wuerker’s suggestion that individuals are catching on to the rip-off, this pair backs up my suspicions.
Choose is being sarcastic — fancy a cartoonist doing that — as a result of the Republicans are good sufficient to know that, whereas you will get away with taking pictures individuals on Fifth Avenue, you ought to not announce that you just’re doing it.
Jones, alternatively, merely lays it out: We spent kabillions on protection, excess of anybody else, however the DoD’s loyal congresscritters insist we improve Biden’s proposed finances for issues that go growth, whereas reducing again on issues that will enhance our future.
Notice that the response to China’s new missile isn’t to shift spending from, say, magical non-functioning fighter plane to anti-hypersonic-missile defenses, however to keep up spending on issues we don’t want and a conflict we’re stopped combating, plus add some.
Whereas pacifying the Manchins and Sinemas by reducing off appropriations for issues the individuals who dwell of their district really need.
Juxtaposition of the Day #3
(Scott Stantis – Counterpoint)
“This can be a good little client financial system you’ve acquired right here,” they are saying. “It could be a disgrace if something was to occur to it.”
We’d higher sustain the safety funds, or we’d discover empty cabinets, which, in fact, can be the fault of the shopkeeper and never of the businesses who’re supposed to provide him.
And lord is aware of these empty cabinets wouldn’t merely be a case of outright fraud, of lying propagandists deliberately using years-old shots of store shelves in other countries to promote misinformation about our own economy.
That wouldn’t be sincere.
Arlo & Janis call to mind the outdated bromide about how two international locations with McDonald’s have by no means gone to conflict towards one another.
After all they wouldn’t. It could be dangerous for enterprise.
Thank goodness for our outdated pal, First Dog on the Moon, who has regarded over your complete stinking mess and determined to overlook politics and local weather change and focus, as an alternative, on the gracious sea potato.
And, sometimes, the gorgeous firetail.
He didn’t point out sea cucumbers, and I hope he’ll keep away from them and another creatures that flip themselves inside out.
And let me simply say that I greatly admire how he has explained this momentous decision.
I’d be inconsistent if I didn’t.
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