What’s that?
You say that you missed Pt. I?
Well…it wasn’t labeled as such, but that’s what it was about.
Strange Bedfellows.
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That original post was titled Beto O’Rourke-When The National Review and WAPO SIMULTANEOUSLY Attack You…
And the following line was “You’ve gotta know you’re on the right track!!!
The National Review and WAPO…on first glance, a dyed-in-the-wool William Buckley-style conservative rag and the so-called “liberal” Washingtoon Poist heartily agreeing with each other..
But of course, they are just two of the many faces of the Permanent Government, and as soon as someone comes along who threatens to upset the PermaGov applecart, there they are.
Wanking as hard as they can, and thick as thieves.
And I do mean “thieves.”
It’s plain as day.
Read on.
So…I’m perusing the headlines tonight and what do I see?
The National Review and…this time…the NY Times agreeing on another movement that threatens the stranglehold that the two current parties and their owners have on the “elected” Federal Government.
The National Review first:
Followed by a scary, scary picture!!!
Elizabeth Warren persisting to talk sense.. (If you missed it…she wants to get rid of the Electoral College.)
I yawned…same old same old National Review.
And a little later, this one caught my eye:
From the NY Times:
Oh.
Here it is again!!!
Written by the unfortunately named Ross Douthat.
Is that short for “Doubt Hat” or “Doubt That?” I’ve never really been able to figure that out.
Maybe Charles Dickens…the greatest “namer” in all of English literature with the possible exception of Terry Southern…is still alive and kicking?
I hope so.
Anyway…
I am sure that the “Strange Bedfellows” meme will continue to be alive and kicking until the last anti-neocentrist political outlier is media-marched off of the stage of current history.
If of course this time is not different from 2016 and all of the other, previous presidential U.S. Elections, where being only a couple of inches further left (or right) than the Chosen Ones was grounds for massive non-personing efforts from the bought-and-sold media.
They’ll keep bedfellowing, and I’ll keep pointing it out.
Bet on it.
“Left?”
“Right?”
Phhhhhfffft!!!
Later…
AG
P.S. [Update]-I just ran across another version of the “Strange Bedfellows” meme, this time by the reliably neocentrist Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal.
As with the Washingtoon Post, I refuse to give these Wall Street Journal thieves any more money than they have already stolen, so I could only copy the teaser. But…with Noonan, the teaser is more than enough. She doesn’t hide her alliances, she revels in them.
Congress’s Mean Girls Are Trump’s Offspring
Omar and Ocasio-Cortez equate roughness with authenticity. So does the man they despise.
By Peggy Noonan – March 21, 2019 7:11 p.m. ET
We’re in a time of absorbed but subtle and not fully noticed shifts. Old-time liberals and conservatives seem to understand each other more deeply, more generously than they did in the past: In some new way they see the other’s basic political decency. On the other hand the parties they’ve been aligned with offer constant confusion and…
Thar she blows!!!
“Old-time liberals and conservatives” do not “seem to understand each other more deeply” these days, they have simply been forced into publicizing their long-time alliances by pressures from the Trumpist right and the New Dem left.
May this situation continue until the scales have been ripped from the U.S. electorate’s eyes!!!
P.P.S. Yeah, right, Peggy!!!
Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t learn their “roughness” from Trump!!!
They learned it on the hard streets of America. Women of color. Minority women. A hijab-wearing Muslim woman, in Omar’s case, one that spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a child. It was get rough or get lost.
Trump?
The most difficult task he has ever had to do was to learn how to effectively (and no doubt criminally) use the silver spoon that was shoved up his ass at birth.
Give me a break!!!