Claire B. Needs Help

Claire, I read your latest post carefully, but at the end I’m not quite sure exactly what it is you are going to do, single-handedly if necessary.
The options are limited in a political context. One could go with the current flow and trust in the American people to orient our leadership properly. One could argue vehemently against the current flow, but there’s so much healing necessary for our economy and culture that such a course might be counter productive. One could look backward and analyze what caused the current flow, but what does that produce?
Is it possible that a view of politics that assumes autocracy is always possible and that must be guarded against at all costs is not relevant in America? The examples of autocrats run amok have never been in America. Obama was the closest we ever came to allowing such unbridled power, and the consequent vicious reaction of our society is where we are now. Trump is an expression of the very singularity of the American Idea.
I for one welcome you back. It is important for those in our society who feel unhinged by the abrupt transition in our government to regain their footing and again feel a part of our good country. We are going to need all the help we can muster to re-balance our culture and undo all of the Progressive/fascist damage that has been done over decades of unconstitutional governance. Clear thinking about how we proceed is what we need, not more analysis of who is to blame for our predicament. Of late, the writers at American Greatness and American Thinker have helped me understand the definition of what conservatism has been and what it is morphing into, and that such a redefinition is a positive and necessary transition.
I appreciate Trump for breaking up the fancy party that the dubiously labeled elite have been having at the citizens’ expense. That the party extended into the globalist realm only made the situation more dire for the US. Trump is exploding the status quo and will roll back some of the legal damage, the cultural damage and the personal damage to individual citizens. We, the huge block of our society that has been ignored, demeaned and robbed in broad daylight, have said it’s time for positive change. We have been called various names such as the Silent Majority, the Tea Party, and the deplorables. However we are labeled, we demand sanity for a change. For example, returning to the simple idea that there is no free lunch could drive a stake through the black heart of governmental transfer payments, sucked from the life blood of middle Americans, clothed as “help” for the poor.
One could go on all day about such topics, but the point is that we are headed in a new direction, and, albeit a tad trite, together we are stronger and more capable of building a truly fair and loving society.

Trinity Waters

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Airborne imaging - armament systems integration engineer. Retired. Amateur photographer. RV keeper. Koi keeper. A proud permanent reject of Ricochet.
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46 Responses to Claire B. Needs Help

  1. Xennady says:

    My God. She remains completely unhinged and delusional.

    Someone needs to show her the money used in the US, because apparently she hasn’t noticed that it features portraits of several conquering generals.

    If she has in fact noticed, then she certainly should have been able to figure out that her definition of authoritarian doesn’t match up very well with that of most Americans- and certainly not with that of history.

    Isolationism, protectionism, nativism, authoritarianism, sheer craziness, outright nihilism, opportunism- the usual slurs are all there, and she even added new ones.

    That’s really how the media helped bring about Trump, not the free advertizing- it was the endless nasty slurs from people like her, generally devoted to promoting insane policies that aren’t popular and didn’t work.

    I still recall the occasion when she condemned the men of the West as cowards because there wasn’t a rush to invade Syria to save Aleppo, which inspired me to teeth clenching rage.

    Screw you, you silly, nutty woman. I’m damned tired of having Americans get back to the US in body bags or missing eyes, limbs or faces because the cloud people demand that the United States save the world from itself- even when the world doesn’t want it.

    I know some people around here have a good opinion of her- but I’m not one of them.

  2. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:

    Ricochet’s coddling of Claire Berlinski is one of the reasons I discontinued membership. I was not happy that the token women editor was represented by a euro-lefty with a list of university degrees a mile long, and no children.
    Her current post continues the revelation that the site has no clue what conservative women want to read.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:

      Pencil, I never thought of it like this. There just does not seem to a Conservative voice to moderate things there. I know that is subjective but it does come out in the way things are put and what they consider important.

    • Trinity WatersTrinity Waters says:

      It’s curious to note that the female membership in the Rabble/Recriminators/Happy Warrior Group had in general the most negative take on dear Claire’s latest garment rending sophistry.

    • EThompson says:

      “I was not happy that the token women editor was represented by a euro-lefty with a list of university degrees a mile long, and no children.”

      She lost my respect with all of the above credentials mentioned and no fiscal means of supporting of herself; she admitted that her father is still footing the bills and I believe she is forty-something?

      Geez, that just sooo isn’t acceptable in my hood.

  3. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    I don’t know that she needs help as much as she needs to be exposed.

    As the definition of conservative. I can think of no more amorphous term that has been prostituted to various ends so as to become meaningless.

  4. Xennady says:

    “Ricochet’s coddling of Claire Berlinski is one of the reasons I discontinued membership.”

    Me too. I remember reading many of her posts in stunned amazement that anyone would actually believe what she was writing.

    But she does. She does.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:

      Claire made people angry because she got to do things which others would get in trouble for. It was like “The CoC are for the little people.”

      • Vald the MisspellerVald the Misspeller says:

        I always thought the CoC was a bit of a mummers farce anyway, mostly a secret list of forbidden words arbitrarily invoked and a vague aspiration that ‘if we all play nice, and don’t run with scissors, and eat our vegetables’ why then … then, we can have a smart, civil conversation somewhere out there on the ‘center right’. One of the editors — or, maybe one of the moderators — said it should be like an amiable chat over coffee. I remember responding that it was less like a coffee klatch and more like a mad tea party where the March Hare and Mad Hatter got extra plates to throw.

      • Whiskey SamWhiskey Sam says:

        Once the membership got large enough that it was no longer self-policing and required actual moderation, the CoC became nothing but a failsafe to give them a reason to redact or ban someone, never something that was consistently enforced let alone rationally.

  5. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    What Claire really needs is fewer cats and more batteries.

  6. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:

    I should amend my comment – I did try to read her foreign policy articles, she has a lot of knowledge on Europe & the Middle east that I certainly don’t have, and of course she lived there so she knew it indepth. The book about Europe she’s working on sounds interesting. It was her US policy articles that always seemed breezily out of joint.
    I wouldn’t have minded at all if all the editors there were men. But when the lone female editor is cast as someone with whom so few women on the site identify, the tone-deafness kind of sticks out.

    • EThompson says:

      With all due respect, I did read her book on Margaret Thatcher. Because I’m a voracious reader with a particular appetite for historical biographies, I’ve read a lot on Churchill and Thatcher. With absolutely no intent to “pile on” (because I know how unpleasant that feels), her biography on MT was superficial and lacking in relevant analysis. What distressed me the most was she didn’t particularly like the subject of the book.

      That’s when she lost me.

  7. DevereauxDevereaux says:

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  8. DevereauxDevereaux says:

    ?Who is Claire B and why should I care. From the above descriptions, she’s a mope.

    • Trinity WatersTrinity Waters says:

      I posted this because there are several folks here who successfully escaped Ricochet. She is a mope.

      • Xennady says:

        Thanks for posting it, otherwise I would have been deprived of the chance to marvel at her latest pile of silly.

  9. billybilly says:

    It is such a shame, I used to enjoy reading her.

  10. Xennady says:

    Well, I used to like her stuff about Turkey.

    I recall one piece where she had some guy donating blood on some religious holiday. I don’t know what holiday, nor do I care, but it was the same one that had Iraqis cutting themselves open, because spilling blood was required, because crazy.

    I thought fine, Turks are civilized people just like me, which was what I already believed.

    Alas, more recently, during that failed coup attempt, I read of a mob dragging someone out of a tank and killing them.

    Guess I was wrong about the Turks, wasn’t I?

    And that’s the problem. People like Claire spend their time hand-wringing about those awful populists in Western countries, who have the temerity to vote for the wrong people, while they are astonishingly oblivious to the endless savagery in just about single muslim country everywhere, all the time.

    Even in our supposed NATO ally, Turkey. She especially should know better, having been chased out of there by that.

    But no, Trump’s the problem, it’s Trump. CRAZY.

    She needs a WHOLE LOT of batteries. Keep them coming, too.

  11. TKC1101TKC1101 says:

    I used to wonder about how that site was run as a business and did a bit of research. It had all the aspects of a hobby business run by amateurs.

    When I found out Claire was hired because she was a close friend of one of the original investors , it all came clear. It would always be a hobby unless it was sold or folded.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:

      TKC, I think you are too optimistic. (Yes, I just wrote that.) It looks more like a vanity project to me. Usually people who have a hobby know there stuff. Somehow it is being subsidized so it is not facing market forces. The customers aren’t that important when that is the case.

  12. DevereauxDevereaux says:

    I was at Rico a LONG time ago. Nothing you guys have said makes me interested in going back – for a look, for a trial, for shits and grins, because it’s Sunday, etc.

    I have had the sense from Fred Cole that the place has gone full-on loser, and some of your comments seem to support that concept. I liked DocJay and will still send him an e-mail now and then. He is being beaten down by “modern medicine”, as are most of us. When the drive is just to make money most of the “older” docs get ticked.

  13. DevereauxDevereaux says:

    And there’s always Nanda. What a gem!

  14. Xennady says:

    Wait, what? That place had investors? As in people who put down money expecting to get it back and make a return, like they were buying shares in a mutual fund or something?

    Bwahahaha. I always figured it was a hobby business, because it was plainly run as such. Otherwise, why the hell would they put up with the endless stupid glitches that made their website function so badly.

    I never got member alerts until after I was banned, briefly, without any warning. Then, when I was allowed back, I discovered that I had a couple private messages that I’d never seen, because…

    Why? Why, website, why?

    I blame the hobby nature of that supposed business. My hobby is drinking beer and watching youtube videos. I don’t really care if I don’t get around to working on my hobby every day, either. I’ve got better things to do most days, much like Rob Long and Peter Robinson and… you get the idea.

    And I thought it a travesty to read that the clunky website had obliterated posts John Walker was attempting to make.

    You’ve got John Walker- yep, the real honest-to-goodness John Walker- writing for you, but you don’t care enough about that to make sure that what he has to say actually shows up on your site.

    Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

    My guess- the site will fold.

    • drlorentzdrlorentz says:

      “Wait, what? That place had investors? As in people who put down money expecting to get it back and make a return, like they were buying shares in a mutual fund or something?”

      This cracked me up. Yes, sadly, they do have investors.

    • drlorentzdrlorentz says:

      And, by the way, John Walker was only made a contributor after years on the site, whereas Claire…

      Forget it.

  15. MLHMLH says:

    What the hell, Trinity? I thought the idea was to not be Ricochet.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:

      As long as they can quote us I think it is okay.

      I don’t like picking on people but when people have no trouble writing bad things about others they need to be open to criticism. If we dish it out we need to take it.

  16. drlorentzdrlorentz says:

    “She lost my respect with all of the above credentials mentioned and no fiscal means of supporting of herself; she admitted that her father is still footing the bills and I believe she is forty-something?

    Geez, that just sooo isn’t acceptable in my hood.”

    Excellent point, ET. Especially so because I’d had the same thoughts. :)

    Claire is use GoFundMe or similar to raise money to support her work on a book, tapping a lot of Ricochetti. This is pathetic. She’s supposedly such a great writer but cannot support herself. It’s a cold, cruel world, ain’t it?

    • EThompson says:

      *** “It’s a cold, cruel world, ain’t it?”

      In America, only if you choose to make it so.

  17. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    Y’all are really just coming to this realization?

    Ricochet was Peter and Rob’s hobby. Claire has pictures of them with each other and/or some farm animals and running the place was outsourced to a blue ape.

    That they made it this far is testimony to the members and extraordinary luck.

  18. AdministratorAdministrator says:

    Just read the subject of discussion.
    TL;DR, you think we can get Hypatia, Curt North, Kozak? I recall all of them fondly. Like Hypatia, I left the site after a dust-up with CB YEARS ago, and came back when CB was gone. Then she came back.
    In my defense, I would say I left this time after a dust-up with *everybody*. Heh.
    Anyway, I see that the haters are still hatin’, and the nevers are still nothin’, and I don’t miss it. It was always about the community.

    • JJJJ says:

      It has been a year since my membership lapsed, and I don’t miss it either.

    • TKC1101TKC1101 says:

      More posts, more comments , more fun. They will come.