George Will should stick to writing about baseball. At least, he knows a little bit about that.
About issues regarding the Constitution, he gets a big, fat goose egg.
And wearing glasses and a bow tie does not an intellectual make.
Also, read the comments attached to the essay in WaPo. When I looked at them, there were 7600+. Of those, maybe 2 agreed with Will. The rest of them savaged him.
Geoge FWill's political scribblings are just as awful as his baseball scribblings. Both are dull, reactionary, barely researched, and hackneyed.
That (original) bow-tied fucker should have been dumped into the dustbin of history after it was revealed that he helped that senile racist shithead Reagan with his debate prep with a book stolen from Jimmy Carter's campaign.
There is nothing “pleasurable” about sane people’s alarmism about Trump 2.0. We already saw what happened when he had power, and he was just cutting his teeth then. Trump knows this is his final shot to avoid accountability, hurt his perceived enemies, and condemn the majority of Americans who despise him. People who write articles like this are whitewashing the actual danger we are truly facing. “How bad could he be?” was a common refrain in 2016. We found out, and people asking that question now are part of the problem.
The cat wears those glasses far better. Or, at least the glasses don't make me want to give the cat a wedgie. Giving George Will a wedgie is definitely on my bucket list.
To be fair, all governments have become more authoritarian over the last couple decades. So when you compare any current government to the same government in the eighties, then yes, it is probably going to be more authoritarian.
Not in personality or principles, agreed. But the government hasn't gotten rid of a lot of the power they clawed to themselves in the Reagan era and afterwards, right? So they have more authority and they're trying to keep that and get more of it so they're still authoritarian. That's the sneaky bit about long term trends: Each step is small so we don't complain. But cumulatively it is quite a big step.
I have to explain the concept of power creep to you?
Or do you just not want to do your homework on the laws of your own country?
I'll give you the sources, and you can find out how many of those are repeals, which should make it easy to calculate whether the number of laws is growing or shrinking.
Yeah, I saw that column in my daily WaPo email and read it just to see what nonsense he was spouting, and only got through the first couple of paragraphs before my eyes were rolling so hard they fell out and went under the bed. I tell ya what, it took a goodly while to find those things. Good thing the wife works from home and could help me out. And then it took forever to clean the cat hair off that got stuck to them under there.
RE: the border: I think Thom Hartmann told me this: Mexico has one, ONE place citizens can buy a gun. It takes months for their application to go through, and the worse they can buy is a handgun. Cartels and other (are there "other) drug assholes get their considerable armaments from... us. The U.S., cuz guess how many gun shops are way close to the Southern Border: How the fuck should I know? Lots. Lookitup. Jesus-at-a-gunshow.
TBH, he's been saying these things since 1980 or so. I remember some of the lurid prose he wrote about Tip O'Neill - who admittedly had his issues - but according to Will, he ate babies for breakfast, because he dared to oppose notable syphilitic alzheimer's-laden choad reagan
Thank doG. The odious Reagan did manage to tax SS income and break the annual increase indexing, which still haunts us us and hurts SS recipients today.
Taxing SS. How special. Also tips, unemployment Insurance, and was it not he who fucked over teachers with the "windfall profits" BULLSHIT pertaining to STRS and SSI ? (I'm a teacher, so this is personal). One wonders when the rethugs are going to want to tax insurance payouts when your car or house gets totaled. I mean, isn't that "income"? I fucking hate those fucking fuckwad fuckers.
Maybe Daniel Day Lewis will come out of retirement to play George will in the autobiographical film. "The last of the Whigs". He didn't get the memo that the Republican Party he though he knew is gone.
He thinks anti-anti-Trumpism is some sort of sophisticated political opinion. He genuinely draws equivalencies between Trump and Biden. He actually thinks he's parsing out the situation in a more erudite, knowledgeable way than an anti-Trump conservative like, say, Mona Charen.
What he's really doing, of course, is dithering. He doesn't want to consign himself to irrelevance by opposing Trump prematurely (i.e., before Trump gets crushed once and for all), but he can't pretend that Trump is anything other than a malicious fool. So he minimizes Trump's faults and invents faults for Biden, and thereby convinces himself that once more, he is the smartest, purest judge of events in American journalism.
George Will should stick to writing about baseball. At least, he knows a little bit about that.
About issues regarding the Constitution, he gets a big, fat goose egg.
And wearing glasses and a bow tie does not an intellectual make.
Also, read the comments attached to the essay in WaPo. When I looked at them, there were 7600+. Of those, maybe 2 agreed with Will. The rest of them savaged him.
Geoge FWill's political scribblings are just as awful as his baseball scribblings. Both are dull, reactionary, barely researched, and hackneyed.
That (original) bow-tied fucker should have been dumped into the dustbin of history after it was revealed that he helped that senile racist shithead Reagan with his debate prep with a book stolen from Jimmy Carter's campaign.
There is nothing “pleasurable” about sane people’s alarmism about Trump 2.0. We already saw what happened when he had power, and he was just cutting his teeth then. Trump knows this is his final shot to avoid accountability, hurt his perceived enemies, and condemn the majority of Americans who despise him. People who write articles like this are whitewashing the actual danger we are truly facing. “How bad could he be?” was a common refrain in 2016. We found out, and people asking that question now are part of the problem.
The cat wears those glasses far better. Or, at least the glasses don't make me want to give the cat a wedgie. Giving George Will a wedgie is definitely on my bucket list.
George Will is a fossil of himself.
To be fair, all governments have become more authoritarian over the last couple decades. So when you compare any current government to the same government in the eighties, then yes, it is probably going to be more authoritarian.
Biden is not more authoritarian than Reagan
Guarantee that.
Not in personality or principles, agreed. But the government hasn't gotten rid of a lot of the power they clawed to themselves in the Reagan era and afterwards, right? So they have more authority and they're trying to keep that and get more of it so they're still authoritarian. That's the sneaky bit about long term trends: Each step is small so we don't complain. But cumulatively it is quite a big step.
What the hell are you talking about? Give examples or give up this argument.
I have to explain the concept of power creep to you?
Or do you just not want to do your homework on the laws of your own country?
I'll give you the sources, and you can find out how many of those are repeals, which should make it easy to calculate whether the number of laws is growing or shrinking.
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsllink.html
https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-statutes-at-large/about-this-collection/
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/STATUTE/
Yeah, I saw that column in my daily WaPo email and read it just to see what nonsense he was spouting, and only got through the first couple of paragraphs before my eyes were rolling so hard they fell out and went under the bed. I tell ya what, it took a goodly while to find those things. Good thing the wife works from home and could help me out. And then it took forever to clean the cat hair off that got stuck to them under there.
Gah! My eyes itch sympathetically :/
Ta, Dok. How does Will get paid to write?
Per false comparison.
RE: the border: I think Thom Hartmann told me this: Mexico has one, ONE place citizens can buy a gun. It takes months for their application to go through, and the worse they can buy is a handgun. Cartels and other (are there "other) drug assholes get their considerable armaments from... us. The U.S., cuz guess how many gun shops are way close to the Southern Border: How the fuck should I know? Lots. Lookitup. Jesus-at-a-gunshow.
So you wonder what is really wrong with George Will...who I thought had been put in a home...
TLDR; George Will: how I learned to stop worrying and love fascism.
TBH, he's been saying these things since 1980 or so. I remember some of the lurid prose he wrote about Tip O'Neill - who admittedly had his issues - but according to Will, he ate babies for breakfast, because he dared to oppose notable syphilitic alzheimer's-laden choad reagan
Meanwhile, Tip got a deal with Ronnie to keep social security solvent.
Thank doG. The odious Reagan did manage to tax SS income and break the annual increase indexing, which still haunts us us and hurts SS recipients today.
Taxing SS. How special. Also tips, unemployment Insurance, and was it not he who fucked over teachers with the "windfall profits" BULLSHIT pertaining to STRS and SSI ? (I'm a teacher, so this is personal). One wonders when the rethugs are going to want to tax insurance payouts when your car or house gets totaled. I mean, isn't that "income"? I fucking hate those fucking fuckwad fuckers.
Yeah, kind of a shitty trade-off. Reagan was a jackass in the original package.
He was every southern cletus senator’s wet dream, bc he could say awful things and idiots believed he was wise.
I mourned when he was elected and I was oh so correct.
Maybe Daniel Day Lewis will come out of retirement to play George will in the autobiographical film. "The last of the Whigs". He didn't get the memo that the Republican Party he though he knew is gone.
MEERICK GARLAND NEVER EVEN GOT A HEARING. YES, I DO MEAN TO BE SCREAMING.
George Will is living proof that tying one's bowtie too tight leads to long-term brain damage.
There was a brain to damage?
George will is a Trump-loving idiot.
My God. The man is a complete idiot.
He thinks anti-anti-Trumpism is some sort of sophisticated political opinion. He genuinely draws equivalencies between Trump and Biden. He actually thinks he's parsing out the situation in a more erudite, knowledgeable way than an anti-Trump conservative like, say, Mona Charen.
What he's really doing, of course, is dithering. He doesn't want to consign himself to irrelevance by opposing Trump prematurely (i.e., before Trump gets crushed once and for all), but he can't pretend that Trump is anything other than a malicious fool. So he minimizes Trump's faults and invents faults for Biden, and thereby convinces himself that once more, he is the smartest, purest judge of events in American journalism.
What a complete and utter ass.
God forbid someone tar Will with the label "Premature Antifascist."
Looks bad on the old resume, and the boys at the Club will talk, doncha' know.
"God forbid someone tar Will." Boom! Bam! Done! End of story! Also, "God" who?
George Will should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Along with his boy Trump.