That’s what I meant in my other post about how the contemporary left in many realms is now what used to be called “conservative.”
Very strange to see, because I came up with a much different version of progressivism.
Politics
Realities
Some of this about conservatives is true, sure, but it is equally accurate to say that if some roving vagrant stabbed Alysa Liu or someone just like her to death on a bus, many, many “progressives” would have more kind words and empathy for the killer than for the young woman murdered.
Especially if the killer were a “person of color.”
We saw that with Iryna Zarutska, who was by any measure the perfect immigrant: productive, refugee from an actual war, not a burden on taxpayers, attractive and bettering herself and our country every day. She was worth a million Decarlos Browns. If idiot clown-ass progressives can’t support that kind of immigrant over a failure of a human like Brown, I got nothing for them.
So Jessica Valenti can rant and rave all she wants about how conservatives want to hold women down (and, to be fair, many of them do!), but she’s one of the people who would be (and has) held people like Decarlos Brown up as an exemplar over someone like Iryna Zarustka.
I guess one thing we can all agree on is that Alysa Liu’s free skate routine is one of the most beautiful things we’ve seen in our lives (certainly it was for me), and that this is one of the best Olympics photos ever taken.
Ineffectual
Obama was a terrible president who screwed up anything he touched — except for making a boatload of money right after he left office. That he excelled at, because it was his real goal anyway.
No Way To
Agreed that slave morality ain’t no way to live. And those groups definitely would do worse things.
Switchboard
A few days ago, I was discussing with my partner that the left has largely become what used to be called “conservative,” especially economically, with the right having taken up in many areas what used to be called “progressive.”
Weird to see, and to experience in a single lifetime. And almost no one else notices it or will admit it if they do happen to catch sight of this heretical idea out of the corner of their eye.
Choices
Time to get busy with the beat-down, I agree. Not sure exactly how this will look but it really is a civilizational issue at this point. Especially for Europe.
Vene
The left does seem to venerate weakness, the pathetic, general loserish-ness and scoundrels of all stripes if they are of the right color or “oppressed.” I cannot understand it but it is evil and dangerous.
ICE Cold
I disagree with the methodology (and hiring practices) of ICE and ICE raids as conducted. However, I very much agree that all illegal immigrants should be deported. That’s just what what any normal country should be doing if it wants to remain an actual nation.
The brunt of enforcement should be directed at employers, traffickers and landlords who don’t check citizenship status.
The rest would then take care of itself.
Buy the G
I’m not in favor of invading Greenland.
However, I’m definitely for buying it. Even if it’s a little forced, in a way. It’s better than China and Russia being de facto in control of the island, which is what’s most likely to occur otherwise.
Hungary for Turkey
Mostly agreed. I think Hungary and Turkey belong somewhere there too.
Self D
In the US, we should probably close the borders for 20-30 years to give time to adjust. Let Canada self-destruct and then help them pick up the pieces (with tons of trade concessions).
The Times
Priorities for the new year:
1) Constrain Russia and China enough to keep them from steamrolling most of Europe and Asia, respectively.
2) Prevent third world Islamic migration from destroying Western Civilization.
3) Reverse the trend in the US of anti-wind, anti-solar and anti-battery sentiment. This antipathy to the inevitable future is more dangerous over the long term than what Trump is doing directly.
Cripes, we have a lot of shit to do. Best get started.
Eps
I don’t care about the Epstein affair overly much. Not because I don’t think it was all evil and wrong. It was. And not because I don’t think any women harmed deserve justice and recompense. They do.
But I think the focus on it is irrelevant for a few reasons. The first is that I just kind of assumed this is what a lot of the elites were up to, so it’s not any sort of surprise. The second is that it’s a deliberate distraction, for both sides. The 24/7 Epstein show shifts focus from substantive and consequential issues that the panjandrums would rather you not pay attention to. This is intentional. The third reason I don’t care much about the whole thing is that there’ll never be any real accountability for what happened. The evidence is just not there in a way that is prosecutable, and likely never will be.
It’s a crime, but it’s normal crime for those types. It matters little to the fate of our nation and the world, which is where we should be placing our attentions now.
Turn Away
The left really dug their own graves with the absurd overreach of the trans movement, and calling anyone who believed that biological sex is real and very nearly perfectly binary1 a “hard right Nazi bigot.”
That turned millions of people away from them, as it should have.
Two Bads Don’t Make
WTF!
Hiring just hit the lowest level since 2009.Only 204,939 hires so far in 2025.
That’s a 58% collapse YoY.
Worse than anything since the financial crisis.The data’s out there… and no one’s ready to admit what it means.
No data = no panic… right?
— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) October 13, 2025
The job market is atrocious now and inflation is rising. That’s going to have some consequences politically and socially.