The Elite Convergence

Dear Reader (even those otherwise occupied by their doorbell love),

Like Jeffrey Epstein when the new Sears Junior Miss catalog comes out, I don't know where to begin.

About 20 minutes ago (my time), I caught some of Senator Kamala Harris's road show on Morning Joe. If there were a platitude-eating fungus that rapidly reproduced, by the end of the segment, everyone would have died from the crushing weight of the world's largest mushroom.

I don't really take offense at the platitudes, given that we are talking about a politician and also a U.S. senator running for president. What did bug me quite a bit, though, was how she oozed the sense that she was just nailing it. And no, this isn't a sexist thing. I know we're in the phase of the asinine conversation when we're supposed to believe that finding a specific liberal woman annoying or unlikeable proves that you hate all women.

I reject all of this and all attempts to bully me into compliance. I belong to the school that says women are human ...

January 11 2019

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Jonah Goldberg

Dear Reader (even those otherwise occupied by their doorbell love),

Like Jeffrey Epstein when the new Sears Junior Miss catalog comes out, I don't know where to begin.

About 20 minutes ago (my time), I caught some of Senator Kamala Harris's road show on Morning Joe. If there were a platitude-eating fungus that rapidly reproduced, by the end of the segment, everyone would have died from the crushing weight of the world's largest mushroom.

I don't really take offense at the platitudes, given that we are talking about a politician and also a U.S. senator running for president. What did bug me quite a bit, though, was how she oozed the sense that she was just nailing it. And no, this isn't a sexist thing. I know we're in the phase of the asinine conversation when we're supposed to believe that finding a specific liberal woman annoying or unlikeable proves that you hate all women.

I reject all of this and all attempts to bully me into compliance. I belong to the school that says women are human ... Read More

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