Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

At last we can have sequels to everything. Of course you realize that with perfect CGI Trump will haunt progressives forever. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/afm-james-dean-reborn-cgi-vietnam-war-action-drama-1252703?__twitter_impression=true

One of the reasons why ABC’s suppression of the Epstein story has had such surprising impact, at a time when Deplorables should have been jaded by media scandal, is because it mocks the pose of virtue it constantly strikes. A congregation may forgive sin in their shepherd but not blatant hypocrisy. The two political sides …

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“We would never kill a story about Bill Clinton.” ABC News https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776482189/abc-news-defends-its-epstein-coverage-after-leaked-video-of-anchor

More than 11,000 experts sign an emergency declaration warning there are too many people. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/scientists-call-for-population-control-in-mass-climate-alarm

I like the scene where Charlton Heston rides up the beach and reads the inscription on the ruined Statue of Liberty and shouts “Epstein didn’t kill himself. Epstein didn’t kill himself.”

Democrats should be horrified that socialism has become a bad word, even if the voters are not yet ready for it. Progress is all about grooming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/warrens-climb-in-the-polls-should-horrify-democrats/2019/11/04/429f4032-ff4d-11e9-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html#click=https://t.co/ivFantALof

Not just Lincoln Steffens. Even ordinary conservatives used ro believe they were fighting a rear guard action against Progress. Suddenly the vision of the 20th century catastrophically collapsed but what is it we see? The progressive future, like a Hillary candidacy, is more impressive in the buildup than the arrival.

Polls show Hillary beating Trump without even trying. It’s fascinating to consider whether she’s a bigger threat to Trump or the Democratic left, like one of those armored giants from the dawn of time released from an icy prison to menace the puny endeavors of men. https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-beat-trump-2020-poll-warren-biden-sanders-1469570?amp=1&fbclid=IwAR3Y55GIYNmscha7EkzeKK5FgO6N_LV3DpJXe9hnBRoJHazDEUkXJ4pHsuA&__twitter_impression=true

But at least they’re part of the Paris climate agreement. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plastic-pollution-china-sea-waste-rivers-yangtze-pearl-environment-a9176286.html

America is not yet ready for her. The voters are never worthy of politicians. https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2019/11/05/how-kamala-harris-went-from-female-obama-to-fifth-place-229901?__twitter_impression=true

Mark Zuckerberg “should pay a price” for what he is doing to democracy, Hillary Clinton has said, as she expressed doubts about whether free and fair elections were even possible in the wake of Facebook’s decision to not factcheck political advertising. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/04/hillary-clinton-mark-zuckerberg-pay-price-damage-democracy

Who might that Democratic candidate capable of winning in the EC be? https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/468956-hillary-clinton-urges-democrats-to-pick-a-candidate-who-can-win-the

Warren, like Trump, is a “populist”. What have the elites done to deserve this? This means that apart from Biden there is no champion for the Restoration, unless Hillary comes back in. Politics is now firmly in the post-something era. “Change has come to America” and the Left searches for its continuation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-wall-street.html#click=https://t.co/kEe2CReAXu

But not exactly in the way Obama thought. He was on one Arc of History but history was on a different trajectory. Average politicians think they can control the future. The slightly more talented simply seek to understand and survive it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6181477

“it looks like a campaign and it sounds like a campaign but it isn’t a campaign” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/04/the-stakes-are-enormous-is-hillary-clinton-set-for-a-white-house-run

Obama expressed particular frustration with young people on college campuses who think the best way to enact change is “to be as judgmental as possible about other people.” https://reason.com/2019/10/30/barack-obama-woke-scolds-campus-activism/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Did someone predict this? https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/turkey-may-have-stepped-its-own-endless-war-syria-kurds-erdogan-trump

“look for the losers, especially the ones who want to think they are winners because they hang on to important positions.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-how-the-kgb-knew-youd-be-a-traitor-an-exclusive-look-at-its-recruitment-manual?ref=home

Spying on the sleeping is like tainting children’s ice cream. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/11/02/google-to-buy-fitbit-for-21-billion-what-about-privacy-concerns/amp/

California’s “status as the vanguard of environmental policy seemed at the very least diminished.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/climate-change-california-fires-trump.html