Notes on the Way
Royal pains, puckering for Pete, not so well aged, American Stasi, Joe's debt bomb
I’ve never thought much of King Charles III (as he is now) but I must confess to feelings of sympathy for a guy of my own age who’s saddled with a son and a daughter-in-law as heinous as Harry and Meghan. They seemed determined to make what remains of His Majesty’s life as miserable as can be. This thought crossed my mind as I read of their latest antics: a phony car chase narrative clearly intended to invoke memories of Princess Diana’s untimely death. If the Suffixes (pun intended) thought that they’d garner sympathy thereby—not! Even Whoppi Goldberg, a prize doofus if ever there was one, raised a skeptical eyebrow at the couple’s sad tale of woe. Can’t we invoke the Declaration of Independence to have these royal twits deported…?
Winston Churchill once characterized a colleague in government as “a modest man, with much to be modest about”—which seems like a compliment, until you mull it over. Churchill’s sally came to mind as I perused Wired magazine’s wet French kiss of a profile of that Biden Administration prodigy, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Did you know that bridges and other artifacts of infrastructure “requires only a modest portion of his cognitive powers”? It’s true! Much of his time and attention is taken up with the Iliad, Puritan historiography, and Knausgaard’s Spring— our tax dollars hard at work, as you might say. But here’s a reliable rule of thumb: Anybody in public life who needs the services of such bootlickers as Virginia Heffernan, the author of this piece, has much indeed to be modest about…
Okay, so why is Dianne Feinstein still sitting in the United States Senate? Now I’ll concede that age alone is no disqualification for public office. Though Mitch McConnell, Charles Grassley and Nancy Pelosi are certainly not spring chickens, they still seem capable of doing the job. But Senator Feinstein is clearly, unambiguously, incapable of representing her state. It’s not as if her departure would make a difference, politically speaking. California is a blue state; her replacement would be a Democrat. And leaving politics aside—if that’s possible nowadays—allowing her to continue in office is just cruel. This poor woman is at the end of her life. Whatever time she has left should be passed in dignity and peace—scarce commodities in our nation’s capital.
The Duram report is out, and it confirms what has long been obvious to anyone but Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and the ladies of The View. (What is it with female progressives, incidentally?) The 2016 Clinton campaign colluded with the FBI & etc. to falsely accuse Donald Trump of being a Russian mole. And the response from the Left? Move along, the show’s over, nothing to see here, want some fries with that nothingburger? That’s how the comrades defend “our democracy”: by acquiescing in the politicization of America’s premier law enforcement agency. Yes, I know, Trump’s a bad man. But so were the people who abused their power in an attempt to bring him down.
Progressives are still flogging the truly dumb notion that the Fourteenth Amendment gives our absurd president the power to negate whole sections of the Constitution of the United States and raise the debt ceiling unilaterally. But No Negotiations Joe seems to have blinked. Faced with the undeniable fact that the GOP-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that raises the debt ceiling on condition of various spending reductions, President Biden has decided to cut short his overseas trip to jet home and…negotiate. So after some give and take that leaves both sides with bragging rights, the crisis will be resolved. It’s the kind of bipartisan governance that Biden promised to embrace when he was running for president but abandoned under pressure from the comrades. Better late than never, I guess…
“I must confess to feelings of sympathy for a guy of my own age”
It has nothing to do with his age and everything to do with his gender and race. Your true loves are other white males because you obviously hate women which is why every piece you write demonstrates your obsessive hatred of us.
So many other white males like you want to be kings (who cheat on their wives) in a country without royalty. This is evident in the fact that white male supremacy is the greatest domestic terrorist threat. The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys wanted to be white male kings too, but now they’re in prison.