Category: Political Matters
Tuesday Supplement, 12/5/17
Tuesday, 12/5/17
Monday, 12/4/17
“La mère de Jésus est dans l’émerveillement et le silence de la joie, aux pieds de l’enfant de Noël. Elle est dans le silence du consentement, celui que résume cette phrase e exceptionnelle : «Je suis la servante du Seigneur, qu’il m’advienne selon ta parole»” #LaForceDuSilence pic.twitter.com/pyX7RY2dmF
— Cardinal R. Sarah (@Card_R_Sarah) December 3, 2017
Okay, I suppose. If you insist:
“The Mother of Jesus is lost in wonder and the silence of joy at the feet of the Child on Christmas. She remains in the silence of consent, the kind that is summed up in this remarkable sentence : «I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word»” pic.twitter.com/NMG3JIJeHu
— Cardinal R. Sarah (@Card_R_Sarah) December 3, 2017
Garbage take. Alabama could play Iowa 100 times and never lose, much less by 30+ points. Those Big 10 rankings are bogus. Put those teams in the SEC West and watch them fail. https://t.co/rUzgvRgs93
— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 3, 2017
Ohio State has 2 top 10 wins. Alabama zero.
Ohio State has 3 top 15 wins. Alabama zero.
Ohio State won a division & conference title. Alabama zero.
Ohio State only team in top 10 nationally in total offense & defense.
Alabama has no resume.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) December 3, 2017
Caveat: David French is a skillful lawyer and an excellent pundit. So far as I know, his opinions on football rank right up there with some random guy sitting next to you at a bar.
When immanent politics become an ultimate concern, every political defeat is an existential threat. https://t.co/LY00JcRCxB
— Adrian Vermeule (@avermeule) December 3, 2017
If you wake up in the morning lost in an ominous pit of despair over a tax reform bill, the tax reform bill isn’t the problem
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 2, 2017
You tried to put people in prison for pimping for running a webpage with advertisements you didn’t like. https://t.co/TXdvjm593k
— 18 Popehat 1001 (@Popehat) December 3, 2017
Don’t forget the FCC is voting later this month to kill important rules that keep the internet free and open to all Americans. We must actively work to stop them from ending #NetNeutrality.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 3, 2017
I love all these liberal theologians who think the Bible is clear on tax policy, but not on marriage, transgenderism, homosexuality, or abortion.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 2, 2017
Maybe if we actually had federalism, we’d all feel less compelled to inflict the worst people from our states on each other.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 3, 2017
The president is upset that the case his coalition repeatedly misrepresented was decided based on what happened rather than the false narrative they spread to gin up xenophobia for political advantage. https://t.co/rqb5E6pt94
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) December 3, 2017
Baby Boomers: “The Church needs to listen to the young people!”
Young people: “We want tradition, chant, incense, orthodox preaching, & sound doctrine.”
Boomers: “You hear that!? They want guitar masses!”
— ♱ (@0canom) November 28, 2017
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I would a thousand times rather have dinner with secular liberals of a certain temperament than with a group of religious conservatives who agreed with me about most things, but who have no sense of humor or irony.
Saturday, 12/2/17
Post-acquittal special edition
I was disinclined to comment on the acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the death of Kathryn Steinle, although Rod Dreher was prophetic: it sent our President—who has demagogued this case for two years—into a tweeting frenzy.
I did not follow this story. I generally respect verdicts unless I sit through an entire trial myself.
But Fox news, from which I expect something a couple of clicks better than Donald Trump’s trolling tweets, hosted an ignoramus or demagogue, one @DavidWohl, a Monday-morning quarterback, to whom @loweringthebar responded perfectly:
It was excluded for precisely the reason he thinks it should’ve been admitted. https://t.co/8TmT1Zxc9d
— Lowering the Bar (@loweringthebar) December 1, 2017
.@DavidWohl on the not guilty Kate Steinle verdict: “Look at what the evidence was. I mean, this is a guy who was deported five times, a seven time felon. How the prosecutor didn’t manage to get some of that into evidence it is stunning.” pic.twitter.com/NGZOmnHmAN
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2017
UPDATES:
I should have scrolled more of my Twitter feed before posting.
this is the stupidest thing i’ve ever read and i’ve read many of tucker carlson’s other tweets https://t.co/DOMJvBu41Q
— Sigh Hersh (@Ugarles) December 1, 2017
Illegal immigrants are being given better treatment and special privileges because they are here illegally. It is hard to imagine that an American citizen would have been acquitted of charges in the Steinle case #Tucker @FoxNews
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 1, 2017
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I am angry at San Francisco for their sanctuary city policy. I am not angry about the jury’s verdict because I didn’t see the trial. https://t.co/hNJ4ixtknW
— Patterico (@Patterico) December 1, 2017
I am disappointed and angry at the not guilty verdict for Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien who had several felony convictions & was deported from the US five times. Justice must be served for Kate Steinle. https://t.co/IxiL9WCU50
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 1, 2017
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Exhibit number infinity as to why it’s so great to have an ace former prosecutor on the NR team. https://t.co/AxAsNjRFcj
— David French (@DavidAFrench) December 1, 2017
It is a federal felony, up to 10 yrs’ imprisonment, to be an illegal alien in possession of firearm (18 USC secs.922(g), 924). DOJ should indict Zarate if haven’t already. Sentence consecutive to today’s state gun conviction could keep him in prison 13 yrs or so.
— Andrew C. McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) December 1, 2017
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Quit attacking the jury system, you gormless spray-tanned hyena. https://t.co/fpfb0skFEV
— Lane (@HaygoodLaw) December 1, 2017
A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2017
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)
