…that the people who most need to read articles like this (I’m not going to pull-quote it; it deserves a quick read) will be the last to actually read it.
Of course, those who have been through the history of the various characters in this blog’s comment section know that while the tendency flowered under Trump, it didn’t start in 2015.
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Awesome example of “damned if you do and damned if don’t”. I also learned a new word – “gorillian”.
I’m starting to wonder if the growing impossibility of rational debate stems from the impossibility of gathering two or more politically opposed parties who have the intellectual flexibility to at least openly consider and imagine they each could be, might be, less correct in whatever sense than their debating partner, and therefore the world might be less like they espouse and more like their debating partner describes. And their debating partner might know something they do not, and some of what their debating partner describes could be worthy of supplanting their current position, if they value rationality and defensible facts. Willingness to at least look through the telescope and be skeptically open to what it shows.
One of the comment threads at Instapundit that referenced this article mentioned that Dubya (and Thatcher) went through the exact same thing (as hinted at by Mitch here). I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see the DemoCommie’s reconciliation with Trump?
I’ve said for years that both Parties have been talking past each other for years. We all use words that can be found in an English dictionary but we subscribe to different definitions of said words.
The phenomenon in this article is worse. It’s a specific symptom of TDS, which is just the current pandemic variant of Living Rent Free in Someone’s Head.
That substack is an awesome article.
I have a FB friend with whom I was close friends back in college – we were both piano majors. On Wednesday 11/9/2016, she posted a couple sentences about how distraught she was that Trump won. I replied “Now you know how my side has felt for the last 8 years”. She launched into a vicious reply insulting Trump and throwing around every possible -ism term that applied and some that didn’t. I switched from DISSENT to IGNORE as by that time, I no longer had the energy necessary to engage. Had it been the early 2000s, I would have responded in kind adding some jabs to her political persuasion. I’m sure she would have unfriended me rather than reply back.
Graboyes pulling the Swift quote was spot on. It is impossible to reason with someone who is 100% emotion. The only choices are ignore, acquiesce, or conquer. I can see things getting worse, and the spot occurrences of physical violence becoming more and more frequent as leftists become braver/more stupid. Eventually more people will get killed – whether that be at the hands of the anomalous leftist Antifa styled nut who decides their stance against Trump supporters outweighs their leftist stance against firearms, or at the hands of someone on the right who decides they are in immediate bodily harm.
As Mitch has repeatedly said, we need a national divorce.
As Mitch has said many times before, we need a national divorce. Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull novels, which outline this very scenario, are excellent.
Oops. That’s what I get for being interrupted while composing a comment.
Make no mistake. These miscreants are being paid to protest, riot and be violent. Again, everything they accuse the right of, they are doing!
It’s all a religion with these bien pensant types. 95 theses/feces on the wall. And it’s why the hate for J.D. Vance is rising so quickly – they view him as an apostate, given he had the golden ticket to Yale Law School and he didn’t turn into a hillbilly Hillary.
I’ve got a good friend, who’s center-left I guess, but votes D almost exclusively but has warmed to Trump and Musk a bit. He does not like the tariffs (of which we can discuss between us rationally) but with the recent market fall he texts, ‘Your boy is pissing me off with these tariffs’ to which I responded, ‘the catalyst to the current market correction may have been the tariffs but it is needed, the 4trillion of monopoly money Biteme and the D’s spent has a lot to do with this and our 36tril debt etc…’ So he’s a bit narrow when it comes to stocks. Look, I am not happy with the nearly 10% drop (although S&P is not that much, yet) and that if you avg the past 3yrs of market we are still ahead of historical averages. But I digress… Just observing how one of my more rational democrat friends currently is. He owns a Tesla too. 😉
I lost faith in the stock market long ago. I believe it’s rigged in favor of the big players (the Gamestop short squeeze merely confirmed my conclusion).
Sure, little guys like us might make a few bucks if we happen to pick the right funds and hang in there for the long ride. We might even beat the rate of inflation, which is better than letting the money sit in checking. But the ups and downs of the market bear no apparent relationship to reality, they look more like insider manipulations than rational responses to changing conditions.
The tariff thing is a great example. Trump announces tariffs. Canada announces tariffs. Trump announces bigger tariffs. Trade war! The markets should tank, right? Except before anybody can call their broker to sell, before the computer programs can execute their stop orders, Canada has already backed down and Trump has delayed implementation. There are no tariffs. There is no trade war. There is no reason to panic. Surely the expert professionals handling the money can see that and tell their clients to hold on. So why is the market affected? I strongly suspect it’s insider manipulation.
It’s a big club and you’re not in it.
I get ya on the Stock Market, but I have been long on it with my 401k for going on 40yrs and I have mostly stuck with S&P type funds. Blackrock was very good to me for years as we had some funds available from them for about 10yrs. I am politically opposed to Blackrock for many reasons but the damn funds performed! The stock market is ’emotional’ in many cases I do agree, but the emotions usually are short-lived and general market forces come back in play.
[T]he stock market [i]s rigged in favor of the big players. I’d have to politely disagree. And unless it’s lost in the mail, I never got my “big players” card and I do just fine. I even cancelled my deal with one of the big players to manage about half of my money (as a test) because it turned out I did better with the other half for nothing. And I generally choose stocks, not funds.
And [t]he tariff thing is a terrible example.
Glad to hear Somebody is making money. Got any tips you would care to share, jdm?
What many people, especially Trump hating anti tariff types, either don’t know or just don’t care, that almost every other country has put tariffs on US products for decades. As far back as 1984, while Lee Iacocca was running Chrysler, he called it out, specifically Japan.
I know first hand that China does it. In 2010, I worked for a global telecom company. We had to get the phones and internet connected in their manufacturing plant in China. We had to ship about $7k worth of equipment to the plant. The tariff (they called it an import fee), was 37%.
Mr Jones, here’s three. First, I have no debt. Second, I own some boring dividend paying stocks that I rarely sell. And three, I own some FL real estate that I financed with some of those boring stocks (for diversification).
Boss, I find myself objecting to the Trump tariffs because they are arbitrary and punitive, really a tool of “negotiation”, rather than a simple revenue tool that can offset reductions in things like income taxes. As such, they’re wreaking havoc in financial markets because everybody knows they’re as solid as lukewarm jello, and there’s no way to plan.
And Trump’s threat of a 200% tariff on imported wine….that makes me see red…
If you want a reasonable tariff, what we need is something like 5-10% duty on everything coming into the country, and then you deal with nations that don’t recognize U.S. IP with something like a 20% tariff on everything. You invite trading partners to do the same and watch the volume and trade–and the difficulty of policing sea lanes–plunge as low value products don’t get imported anymore.
And then you use the revenue to drop the income tax by a corresponding number, and watch previously unemployable Americans gets jobs as the alternatives change between “build at home” and “import”.
Mr Jones, you might enjoy including this in your investment considerations.
https://gab.com/Gr1ml0k/posts/114151406594965071
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