I just could not resist.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448143/donate-national-review-there-no-substitute
This from the guy who told Americans struggling to “Get a U Haul”
Well,Kevin, try getting a gig at a profit making company or get a U Haul.
Screw him. Better off with Takimag.
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Yes, yes we are. Taki, Derb, Vdare, etc.
This is beautiful.
I misread the last part. I thought it said “raving correspondent”.
Oh, you had that right.
What a lousy analogy! Who would be so dumb to correspond National Review to the Salvation Army. Have you ever heard of the Annual Salvation Army Cruise. Are there shelters for battered Conservatives?
I read something similar at R on a TKC post. There was pride in not making money. It was like it was a virtue. I agree with that if you are running a charity with the made driving force being compassion but that was not the house that Buckley built.
What bothers me about the Never Trump movement was that it was so inept. They gave millions of dollars of advertising for someone they were against. It was deer in the headlight type reaction. They became fixated and didn’t move.
I thought being against Trump was honorable but being Never Trump was not. You never say never unless you want to be wrong.
I am all for being principled. I just think principles must be based in reality. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. One has to be for something and not just against something.
That he claims National Review is a conservative institution shows again how worthless that term has become.
Although I give them props for the twice endorsement of Ted Cruz.
I agree the conservative movement has much to consider and think about, but as near as I can tell they only think about expanding the role of government to suit their needs.
The conservative movement has indeed become worthless itself. Ask the question: “What has it conserved?” They can’t even claim guns. THAT was a SCOTUS decision that could have gone either way, and was fought and funded entirely by right wing lawyers.
Williamson was one of the reasons I canceled my subscription after decades. He’s an uninformed jackass that tries to cover his ignorance with snark which fools those who don’t know enough about his topics to know he’s talking out of his fundament most of the time.
I also believe everyone thinks about the bottom line. I think Williamson is late to the courage game. Being against Trump when you felt he had no chance was no courage at all. Go with the MSM is really easy. I respect those like Prager, VDH, and Thomas Sowell who looked at the long game and have battle scars from taking unpopular decisions.
Using sarcasm has its place but when all you have is snark a person is the problem and not the solution.
Not me! I ‘came out’ early even though I have sincere respect for my Florida boys. It’s a different world now after 8 years of destructive policy and I was looking for the toughest, most determined, and resilient candidate.
Funny, isn’t it.
Many people still have questions about Trump. But NO ONE thinks the Never Trumpers are right. Or virtuous. Just noisy. And full of sour grapes.
People resent when they’re wrong and have no appreciation for the learning curve and the facts. That appears to take precedence over all else, including the prosperity and security of our nation.
I am genuinely befuddled by this lack of support for the very principles that have proven to actually work for this country and have saved all Americans from living as do the Somalis.
I’d like to summarize this as an entire generation of spoiled kids, but I can’t! I was a “spoiled kid” but only until I reached the age of 21. I may have been given all the privileges, but I was definitely indoctrinated to achieve personal success and independence.
My entire family (including parents, sibling, aunts, uncles, cousins) are highly competitive people. This is why I relate to Trump.
I was an early “I can accept Trump” along with Cruz and Walker guy. As it played out, I saw the street fighter aspect and realized he , of all the field, could win by playing hardball instead of GOP softball against the knives of the other side.
He is turning out to not be owned by anyone except his voters.
He has a pile of flaws, but given the mess and the opposition and his thin line of trusted supporters, I am amazed he keeps moving forward at all.
Is he great ? Only in determination , which may be the aspect of greatness the job needs right now. Our problems are not complex, they are simple, but I was taught never to confuse simple with easy.
He has my support as the man in the arena. So far, there is blood all around, and the other side is not used to being cut. You win a knife fight by not stopping after you get sliced.
Guttersnipes like the Never Rights are the street weasels in the stands.
“He is turning out to not be owned by anyone except his voters.”
Just waiting for you to post a comment with which I do not wholeheartedly agree.
I thank you for your simpatico views. It is good to post and not get deluged by ankle biters and the coven of moderators .
National Review’s day in the sun is over. There are plenty of alternatives that are better: less politically correct and less sympathetic to GOPe. TakiMag and AmGreatness are better. There’s even some overlap in the contributors.
Payback’s a bitch and her stripper name is Karma. Screw ’em.
do we all have to declare stripper names now? I assumed they would be confidential.
You just need to *have* a stripper name. No need to make it public. As for Payback, I though that stripper’s name was already public information. Didn’t mean to out her.
TKC, you know better than to assume thinks would be confidential. We do have the security camera footage and your credit card information. You should have never tried to make this a business expense.
Why do people not get this? In life hard choices have to be made. You have to decide about saving a life or cutting off a limb. The purists never think they have to make the hard choice. They would rather die.
National Review and Hillary had a lot in common. They couldn’t come up with a positive message. They were against Trump and thinking 4 more years of Hillary was not going be so bad. The trouble was it was going to be decades of Supreme Court decisions and regulation overreach.
People forget that it is the percentage that kills you. You can survive if the percentage is small. An inch of water does not make a flood. There is always losses in business but all it takes is one major mistake to destroy a company.
The National Review was cutting edge at one time. They were the go to place. William F Buckley had a magazine and a TV show. Magazines and TV shows are not where things are now. We have to bring out as Jordan Peterson states huge positive ways to bring in the youth. He says we promote freedom of speech and responsibility. Isn’t that what the founding of America all about?
We have a chance. There is always a market for the good especially after having to live with the bad. The truth has its own megaphone.
“The truth has its own megaphone.”
I like that.
Thanks, I made that up a while back, Doc.
BTW, he looks more like some Hollywood trope of a Middle Eastern villain with every recent photo taken.
The interesting thing to me was that NRO allowed Williamson to make a plea for their puerile little webzine in the first place.
They should have lifted his rock, allowing him to easily scurry back beneath it, at least until their fundraising drive was completed.
But no, there he is, publicly begging for cash.
Hence, I conclude that they’ve given up on all the people Williamson insulted, and hope to recoup by winning new support from people who agree with him.
The rather dire tone makes me hope it isn’t succeeding.
Can failed webzines rent U-hauls?
I hope not. Die, NRO, die.