Category Archives: The Culture

Trump is the new CEO

One of the coolest, most loyal celebrity supporters of President-Elect Trump is Scott Adams, creator-cartoonist of the Dilbert series. Here’s his take on what Trump is up to now:

“Trump is attacking the job like a seasoned CEO, not like a politician. He knows that his entire four-year term will be judged by what happens before it even starts. What he does today will determine how much support and political capital he has for his entire term.

“So what does a Master Persuader do when he needs to create a good first impression to last for years? He looks around for any opportunity that is visible, memorable, newsworthy, true to his brand, and easy to change. Enter Ford. Enter Carrier.”

I only remember one incoming new executive editor who followed this practice in my 35 years in the news biz and he soon tired of it and went back to the old way of doing business. It became what I called the “Great Leap In Place.” The whole newsroom enjoyed the rarified air of change for about a month before coming back down to the old reality. But that was the hypocritical news biz which is now in financial disarray, both because of Internet competition and it’s sold-out-to-the-Democrats misdealing with, yep, the new ceo Trump.

Via Instapundit.

Bob Dylan was never my poet

I sorta liked “A Hard Rain Is A’Gonna Fall,” but otherwise. Folk music was a joke. And the hard rain didn’t really fall. LBJ retired to the ranch. The only people who got really wet were us veterans of his fuckedup war. Howsomeever.

“We are not a folk but a church, and our native music is church music–the Battle Hymn with its quotation of Isaiah 63, for example, or “The Year of Jubilo,” whose hymnal roots I analyzed here. Our popular poetic language is that of our national epic, the King James Bible. We sang the go-to-meeting songs of the Methodists and other Protestant denominations. This informed the spirituals of black slaves who gave us our first original art form. American folk music? Gospel is as close as we get to such a concept.”

The most authentic thing Dylan ever did—besides going electric—was to refuse to go accept his Nobel Prize for Literature. He knew he was a phony.

Read the rest from a practicing Modern Orthodox Jew.

Fear mongering

The anti-Trump poop is getting really deep here in Lefty-land Austin. But this is a new one.

Picked up Mr. B. tonight after his Spanish club meeting. Drove past his favorite burger joint, a local shop called Wally’s. There, on Wally’s digital sign in big green letters: Pray For Our Nation.

Mrs. C. and I did too good a job, I said, meaning our time at the daily with its dominant Democrat reporting narrative and editorial viewpoint. The Democrats of course, are in low dudgeon and high smear as usual when they lose.

But Pray For Our Nation? Preposterous.

Another reason I voted for him

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I enjoyed watching a few of his rallies on YouTube during the campaign. I will be sure to watch these as well. And hope he draws out a few crazy flag burners even if they are pummeled by the faithful. The Democrat lapdog media’s apoplexy will be fun to watch for about three minutes.

UPDATE:  RedState, which I used to think of as conservative, puts the worst possible spin on this, claiming that Trump’s ego is so big he needs the rush of his campaign rallies one more time. The positive spin, of course, is that he draws energy from his supporters, learned a lot about the country in his campaign travels and wants to maintain the fly-over country perspective as he tries to fulfill his promises.

Fake News: Climate Hustle

The master of fake news, the NYTimes, is spinning its sit-down with Trump to look like he’s reversing himself on his criticism of the politics and science of climate change. And the Times’ multiple clones are following, wagging their tails behind them.

“The media spin…can only be described as dishonest. Trump appears to soften stance on climate change & Donald Trump backflips on climate change  & Trump on climate change in major U-turn, says Climate Depot.

“The ‘fake news’ that Trump had somehow moderated or changed his “global warming” views was not supported by the full transcript of the meeting. [Climate change critic] Heartland Institute President Joe Bast had this to say about the full transcript of Trump’s meeting: ‘This is reassuring. The Left wants to drive wedges between Trump and his base by spinning anything he says as ‘retreating from campaign promises.’”

When he does retreat, or seems to, as in letting the Hagzilla off the hook, I’ll jump on that. And I’ll jump on this fake news, too. The usual fakery of the Old Stream Media, lapdogging it up for Democrats like Clinton and Obama, lying up a storm for Republicans of any stripe whatsoever.

Via Drudge

Rule 5: Melania Trump

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The Lady Culture has been kaput for at least a generation. So the notion of a First Lady is nonsensical as well as smacking of monarchy, the very thing the American Republic was supposed to be against. So it’s probably fitting that the wife of our latest president has modeled nude. I prefer this half-clad photo and a few others of her which I’ll post later on. A bit skinny for my taste. But fetching.

How The Democrats Lost The White Working Class

“These voters are Democrats by birth, a tradition carried on from New Deal-Democrat paternity who fundamentally started breaking with their party when they began cutting them loose after flirting with their support during the 2006 midterm elections. It’s been a decade since they offered voters moderate Democratic candidates.

“Since then white, traditional-values, working-class, predominantly male voters have been severed from their party so they could build an urban- and cosmopolitan-centered coalition of minorities, elites and women.”

Which is why the Democrat party today is a smoldering hulk of finger-pointing bitterness: The Media wasn’t loyal enough. The FBI was fascist. Racism. Got to be Racism. Sexism. That’s the ticket. Hahahaha. Losers.

Read It All.