bellisarius
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Notice over the last couple of years or so thousands of CEOs have quit or been fired. One wonders about how all of the replacements have turned out to be soft and woke. Too woke and soft to have brought a lot of those companies up in the first place. Wonder how many could have been the subject of "Brownstone operations."![]()
Actually that has crossed my mind re. Roberts.
Actually that has crossed my mind re. Roberts.
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But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
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What rules that remain at The Times are applied with extreme selectivity. If a person’s ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy, they and their work remain unscrutinized. Everyone else lives in fear of the digital thunderdome. Online venom is excused so long as it is directed at the proper targets.
I have been saying that for the longest time.
Conservative judges who get on the SCOTUS
quickly run to the Left to earn the respect
of their 'true' peer group once they
no longer have to worry about
elections and political
appointment...
I think that it is one of the unintended consequences
(Broken Windows) that our Founders may not have
properly anticipated with lifetime appointments.
Additionally, as I just pointed out in the other thread,
that St. Louis couple were huge virtue signalers,
but when the mob came, they were not willing
to live with the result of that which
they helped create/enable.
Like the good political leadership of places like Portland and Seattle,
they should have quietly stepped to the side and let their
children throw their tantrum(s); if you spare the rod
and spoil the child, you throw respect to the wind.
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I'm am imbecile.
I'm am imbecile.
I'm am imbecile.
What keeps running through my mind re. Roberts is that mysterious illness that struck him not too long before the "penalties are really taxes" ruling.
Yes, we know.![]()
I have been saying that for the longest time.
Conservative judges who get on the SCOTUS
quickly run to the Left to earn the respect
of their 'true' peer group once they
no longer have to worry about
elections and political
appointment...
I think that it is one of the unintended consequences
(Broken Windows) that our Founders may not have
properly anticipated with lifetime appointments.
What keeps running through my mind re. Roberts is that mysterious illness that struck him not too long before the "penalties are really taxes" ruling.
^^^Deplorables love conspiracy theories. Perhaps the Maoist libtards infected Roberts with a mysterious illness that caused him change partisan stripes.
The conservative judges you reference do not "run to the Left", but rather run to the judgment of history. This is precisely why they are given lifetime appointments.
In the past, the so-called conservative judges who were appointed to SCOTUS and refused to protect civil rights for partisan reasons have been eviscerated by the judgment of history.
Sky News Australia is controlled by its parent News Corporation. It has a similar editorial stance to Fox in the USA.
So far as the Uighars are concerned it is clearly obvious that they are being mistreated under an army of occupation within their own country.
However, it is difficult to take the moral high ground when ones own country has made significant military incursions into other peoples countries; Afghanistan and Iraq being the obvious examples.
If the issue is controlling China's behavior, Japan makes an interesting contrast. They have not made a lot of noise about tariffs nor have they publicly chastised the Chinese, except to state clearly their displeasure at Chinese expansionism, especially in the South China sea. Instead they have embarked on a massive subsidies/incentives programme to encourage Japanese companies to quit China and re-locate to 'friendly' nations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand Philippines or even Japan.
Xi has expressed a desire to visit Japan and talk Trade and has already complained that Japan is building an economic 'cage.' The Japanese seem to be in no hurry to talk to China but have recently entertained all the other concerned neighbors.
To my mind Japan's approach is smarter than that of the West because it combines diplomatic and trade objectives more effectively. Less talk more action.
And Japan's announcement last week that they are building an advanced fighter aircraft will have the Chinese more than slightly perturbed.
It will be worth keeping an eye on the Japanese and how they handle China.
Sky News Australia is controlled by its parent News Corporation. It has a similar editorial stance to Fox in the USA.
So far as the Uighars are concerned it is clearly obvious that they are being mistreated under an army of occupation within their own country.
However, it is difficult to take the moral high ground when ones own country has made significant military incursions into other peoples countries; Afghanistan and Iraq being the obvious examples.
If the issue is controlling China's behavior, Japan makes an interesting contrast. They have not made a lot of noise about tariffs nor have they publicly chastised the Chinese, except to state clearly their displeasure at Chinese expansionism, especially in the South China sea. Instead they have embarked on a massive subsidies/incentives programme to encourage Japanese companies to quit China and re-locate to 'friendly' nations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand Philippines or even Japan.
Xi has expressed a desire to visit Japan and talk Trade and has already complained that Japan is building an economic 'cage.' The Japanese seem to be in no hurry to talk to China but have recently entertained all the other concerned neighbors.
To my mind Japan's approach is smarter than that of the West because it combines diplomatic and trade objectives more effectively. Less talk more action.
And Japan's announcement last week that they are building an advanced fighter aircraft will have the Chinese more than slightly perturbed.
It will be worth keeping an eye on the Japanese and how they handle China.