tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post5946576326489013612..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Megan McArdle's Theory Of TrumpismSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-45985221339845215322016-10-11T14:26:34.238-05:002016-10-11T14:26:34.238-05:00The Second Addendum is perfect. I hope McMegan ac...The Second Addendum is perfect. I hope McMegan acknowledges the fact of it some day -- and I think she might! She's too impressed with herself to realize she's going to look hilarious when she writes a highly cantilevered rationalization for why it's okay when conservatives do the exact thing that liberals would be tyrants for doing.<br /><br />Of course, one thing she'll never do is admit if/when polite society rejects her, and she finds a new home in one of the pro-segregation outfits around town, that she'll go there bereft, in tears. Because if this anti-elite elite ever lost the approval of the elites, she'd cry for a year. Need for their approval may be THE driving force in her life -- a visceral, intensely felt part of who she is, without which she would have to redefine herself comprehensively. (Or at least, that's my impression, but I defer to you, as perhaps the nation's top McArdle dissector -- thanks for writing these!)grometnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-38078933526479988532016-10-08T02:30:45.103-05:002016-10-08T02:30:45.103-05:00she read the 3 body problem and didn't get tha...she read the 3 body problem and didn't get that china was authoritarian and not liberal? sending intellectuals to their deaths is not progressiveianmorrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-6778273219887845432016-10-07T15:06:16.201-05:002016-10-07T15:06:16.201-05:00for a party that constantly decries affirmative ac...for a party that constantly decries affirmative action, there are certainly a awful lot of their pundits whose very existence can be laid to no other possibility. for what are legacy positions if not a form of affirmative action? in a true meritocracy these people would be working those 3 or 4 jobs that W found so edifying and 'murikin.chrome agnomenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05981749915952364094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43650416037267689152016-10-07T09:47:59.930-05:002016-10-07T09:47:59.930-05:00Thank you very much. This one was especially hard ...Thank you very much. This one was especially hard because I wanted to have exact quotes and that meant listening to her every word four or five times. I should at least listen to the second half to see if there's anything especially good in it, such as McArdle begging future Supreme Court Justice Al Franken to not jail her for thought crimes.<br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-71167998459053793462016-10-06T23:56:07.768-05:002016-10-06T23:56:07.768-05:00Again and again I am amazed at your ability to rea...Again and again I am amazed at your ability to read or listen to Megan McArdle. Shallow does not adequately describe her thinking. It is more like the residue left after something shallow has evaporated. All this palaver about race and gay marriage and Trump, when the simple truth is that racists and homophobes are enraged that some people see what they are and deplore it.<br /><br />Keep up the good work. I couldn't bear to do it myself and I appreciate you for sticking with it.Dr.BDHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-84229821403219302752016-10-06T21:00:24.067-05:002016-10-06T21:00:24.067-05:00Maybe they are, but our elite aren't very comp...Maybe they are, but our elite aren't very competent. They'll mess it up royally.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-58224387848140035862016-10-06T18:45:33.692-05:002016-10-06T18:45:33.692-05:00I've been thinking about Trump University toda...I've been thinking about Trump University today.<br /><br />It was a clear fraud, possibly criminal.<br /><br />NOBODY would hire this scammer for any job in their company.<br /><br />Yet they want us to hire him as president of the United States.<br /><br />The more I think why, the more I worry that they're out to split the country into overlords and underlings. Very, very, gloomy.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.com