No MinisterWednesday’s Quick Hits
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Another Example of “The Issue is never the issue”
I guess this means that Climate Change as an issue is dead – at least as far as the US Democrat Party is concerned.
https://twitter.com/curtis_yarvin/status/2053339791505129870
And it’s not just the issues that can be dumped into the memory hole, but entire personalities….
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The Person is never the Person
We all know of politicians who change their stripes to match the times and so give them a chance to hang on to power. But even by those standards this guy, Justin Pearson, takes the cake; from Obama-wannabe to cos-playing a 1960’s Black Radical (complete with James Brown dance moves), in just a few years.
https://twitter.com/AmiriKing/status/2053560466278961424
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“Late Stage Capitalism” and “Communist” China
My co-blogger ColinXY may have been aware of this but I wasn’t and I suspect neither is “Bomber” Bradbury, who uses it all the time.
https://twitter.com/ianhowlett/status/2053229266481901671
The term “late stage capitalism” was first used in a 1925 publication by the German social scientist Werner Sombart, according to Wikipedia. So clearly it’s just not an accurate term. You wouldn’t have late stage cancer then live another 101 years.
Somebody needs to tell the Chinese Communists.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2053184400565678122
I’m not as impressed by the cement – all those ghost cities are at the heart of it – but those ship-building figures are extraordinary and they are being used in real trade and commerce.
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Oh Canada
In Canada, a Liberal MP, Nate Erskine-Smith, has lost a nomination race against one Ahsanul Hafiz, a Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises – thanks to all the other Bangladeshi’s who now live there.
https://twitter.com/mario4thenorth/status/2053290685550198920
Those new Canadians just picked their own guy. The man who built the machine is now complaining about the machine.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/2053267469364539744
I’d like to think that owning 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises will mean that Mr Hafiz is in touch with things that affect the lives of ordinary people, or at least more so than Erskine-Smith; taxes, regulation, social welfare, crime…
https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1768700715751317601
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Clueless in LA
I don’t think Republican Spender Pratt will win the LA Mayorilty, the place is too far gone, but he’s certainly scaring all the right people. So much so that they finally produced an attack advertisement (30s).
https://twitter.com/UnrigLA/status/2053217879722713478
If you watched that and thought to yourself – “Hang on, those “threats” sound like great ideas” – then congratulations, you are smarter than the political consultants who put that advertisement together.
Clueless in Chicago
To be fair this woman is getting a clue – unfortunately it required the death of an innocent old man:
A New York woman who refused to cooperate with prosecutors after a mental patient attacked her on the subway weeks before he pushed a retired [76 year old] NYC teacher to his death appears to have some serious regrets.
“Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” the unidentified 23-year-old told the New York Post over the weekend.
Now, however, she is saying, “I regret it 100 percent and feel really bad that a man lost his life.”
Yes, it’s all about FEELZ. My bet is that she’ll still vote Democrat in this years elections. She’s in good company, as I wrote about last year You Can’t Save AWFLs From Themselves.
Or another story that Second City Cop notes in relation to all this.
ABC’s Leah Hope was carjacked and beaten to the point she couldn’t be on the air for six weeks….AND SHE BLAMED THE SYSTEM, not the guy who almost broke her jaw in half.
Except in this the AWFL’s beliefs got another person killed.
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But Getting a Clue in Germany
Frankly I find this astounding and at first assumed it was a AI satire but no, apparently Merz really said this.
https://twitter.com/thematrixb0t/status/2053784743024718300
But They Won’t Follow Argentina
Aside from these hopeful notes of Lefties Learning (plus perhaps their squishy “Centre-Right” uni-partners-in-crime, there also this bright, shining example that things can be turned around.
https://twitter.com/martinvars/status/2052071278886977684
Plus the screaming about the poverty, which the screamers do not link to the annual inflation hitting 211 percent in 2023 because for the previous twenty years the central bank financed their endless deficist after deficit until the peso lost 99 percent of its value against the dollar. Half the country was at or below the poverty line when Milei came to power.
He changed things in ways the Euros (and Britain, and us) simply will not follow – at least until we hit rock bottom:
The fiscal deficit was eliminated for the first time in 16 years. Monthly inflation fell from 25 percent to low single digits. The central bank stopped printing to fund the Treasury. Country risk dropped from over 2,500 basis points to a fraction of that. Argentine sovereign debt, which used to trade like a default option, began behaving like normal emerging market paper.
Critics say poverty rose. It did, briefly, because removing price controls and subsidies revealed the real prices of energy, transport and food that the state had been hiding with debt. Once measured honestly, poverty has been falling fast. Real wages are recovering. Mortgages in pesos are reappearing, something that had not been possible in a generation.
This matters beyond Argentina. It is the clearest live experiment in whether a developed-style economy can be rebuilt by pulling the state out of places it never belonged. Spain, Italy and France should be paying attention. A country does not get poor because it lacks resources. It gets poor because its political class learned to live off printing money and calling it social policy.
Argentina spent 80 years proving that. It is now spending two years proving the opposite.
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