Friday Ephemera
“Hey, bear.” // A brief history of beehive hair-dos. // A brief history of horror films. // A brief history of urbanisation and the building of cities, 3700 BC – 2000 AD. // Batteries of yore. // There’s a loud buzzing noise in the garden. // Great questions of our time. // The secret world of foley. // So you know. // Illusions of note. // I’m doing it with my mind. // Casting Marvel’s Avengers, then and now. // Enhance grid 17. // Go deep. // HBO’s Westworld. // What could possibly go wrong? // Ladies and their electronic music. // Cats on amps. // Las Vegas in infrared. // And finally, voyeuristically, some passions are best left unseen.
Update: Much Brexit rumbling in the comments.
M R Tats …
M R Tats
I confess: M R indeed.
There is nothing to discuss- any proposal for such a constitutional arrangement would be anathema to the technocrats who pull the levers within the EU and absolutely antithetical to key EU treaties such as those of Maastricht and Lisbon.
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Actually, that is an excellent example of exactly what I was looking for . . . and definitely not fishing for, had absolutely zero preconceived ideas of responses . . . Well delivered.
And, no, not not being posted as attempted arguments, but simply for the sheer amusement when I spotted ’em:
and then the Telegraph had commented with
and
The idea that the EU is best represented by a sturdy, steady jet plane and that the UK has no parachute is somewhat contrary to the actual state.
The jet should be made up of parts of 27 different plane and be heading at a cliff. Then jumping might look sensible.
fnord
“I take issue with your choice of verb.”
Good point. I should have used scare quotes – ‘educated’. Other options could include ‘instructed’, ‘indoctrinated’, or ‘trained’.
Further to my earlier comment about so-called ‘citizens of the world’ and nations not being hotels, Megan McArdle has more:
Also, Christopher Snowdon:
By all means, rumble on.
Rumble on.
Chester Draws’ point about the Carlson cartoon above is spot-on, because I just cannot for the life of me understand why those on the Left were in favour of the EU, which has been an unmitigated disaster for the PIIGS (especially Greece- massive unemployment, soup kitchens keeping starvation at bay for many and parts of the capital starting to resemble the set of Escape From New York). Replace that aeroplane with a rattly old tramp steamer fatally holed below the waterline and as Chester says, jumping ship looks like the smart thing to do.
Many of the arguments made by the Remain camp were fundamentally anti-democratic; they prefer to have an elite in charge with whom they agree than have a demos in charge with whom they do not…. If it wasn’t already obvious that self-proclaimed liberals hate the working class, it is vividly clear now. The left has claimed for generations that it wants a working class revolution. Now they’ve got one.
Absolutely- my FB feed is full of so-disant Lefties having conniptions. It’s hilarious to behold, especially when one considers that they have just missed the biggest open goal in British political history; unfortunately, because they can’t square the circle of Half-Arsed Internationalism™ being in direct conflict with the genuine interests of the working class, they plumped for HAI™. This forced the “man of principle” to try and make it look like he too thought that the EU was A Terribly Good Thing when for the last 32 years he done everything apart from wear a clothes-peg on his nose at the mere mention of the EU such is his visceral dislike. He failed miserably, mainly because he isn’t actually all that good at the practical side of politics and always looks like he is never more than thirty seconds away from a temper tantrum. It does not seem to have occurred to the droves of SJWs who voted for Corbyn as leader to have paused for thought as to why their Chosen One was so anti-EU (as are their other heroes on the Parliamentary Left- McDonnell and Skinner).
And so the idiotic Left, spearheaded in the media by the likes of Owen Jones and Paul Mason, are pushing the case for a stitch-up between big corporations and governments that would have delighted Mussolini, and the pathologically stupid David Lammy (honestly- I reckon I’ve got shirts with a better IQ than him) is solemnly invoking the supreme and inviolable sovereignty of Parliament to overturn the result of the plebiscite.
There is indeed a revolution going on- it seems to me that society is now becoming divided with mercantilism, free trade and patriotism on one side and neoliberalism*, globalism and “open borders’ advocates on the other, with the Left-leaning globalists failing to realise that they are unwittingly in league with some very nasty people.
*Not my favourite term, but here I use it in the sense of those who would have large corporations perform the functions of government- run the prisons, defence and security issues etc.
Absolutely- my FB feed is full of soi-disant Lefties having conniptions.
It has been quite strange to see a twisted class dynamic play out repeatedly over the weekend, with left-leaning students, generally middle-class, denouncing vast swathes of the working class, including a great many Labour voters, as monstrous, racist, too old, too stupid, unfit to vote, etc. I’ve seen dozens of Arts Council beneficiaries, all middle-class and ostentatiously leftwing, suddenly abandon the pretence that their publicly subsidised art is intended for the poor, or anyone but themselves, and spitting at the proles as unworthy of the franchise. It’s quite extraordinary.
Again, I think it’s rather captured by the young woman with the banner, whose pretensions are somewhat at odds with the sentiments of people who scrape together the cash for a week’s holiday in Spain, or maybe just Scarborough.
Rather prescient, I should say.
Rather prescient, I should say.
Ah! Now it all makes sense. If only the US State Department were that clever. Well, Henry Kissinger was, but he was a bit too obvious about it, and is still reviled for it.
Mr Sixsmith wins cake.
When asked “Where are you from?” almost no one would answer “Europe,” because after 50 years of assiduous labour by the eurocrats, Europe remains a continent, not an identity… These sorts of tribal affiliations cause problems, obviously, which is why elites were so eager to tamp them down. Unfortunately, they are also what glues polities together, and makes people willing to sacrifice for them. Trying to build the state without the nation has led to the mess that is the current EU. And to Thursday’s election results.
A few years back, a cluster of effectively independent nations all decided—Unanimously, and kept it that way—that We are the United States . . . As noted by Shelby Foote, and definitely with the comparatively primitive communications methods of the time, the change from that to This is the United States took most of a century and a civil war.
Among today’s very recent headlines . . .
Brexit: UK government shifts to damage control
CNN – 23 minutes ago
Go here to follow CNN’s Brexit coverage live. London (CNN) [Breaking news update at 10:39 ET]. British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “The British government will not be triggering Article 50 at this stage.
Two plus centuries later, the speed in communications and making decisions has certainly changed. Of course, what would also help is to have sorted out all the available options as best as could be sorted out ahead of time before deciding to brave the storm in a skiff made of paper.
—Yes, I’m definitely noting the variables of all the available options as best as could be sorted out ahead of time . . .
—And, noting situations of Oh, right, we’ve seen this before, haven’t we, the comment of the skiff made of paper turns out to have been an entirely attributed quote by John Hancock, not actually of him . . . The reported original, from John Dickinson;
Change a few names around, change a couple of circumstances, and I keep noticing that Oooooh, Yeah . . we’ve seen this before . . . .
But a waaay definite advantage with massively improved communications should rather manage the absolute gulf between the successes of unified Germany and the United States vs the results of the Soviet Union . . . .
Heh. Can’t imagine why this came to mind, or possibly why it might have been posted today . . .
Change a few names around, change a couple of circumstances, and I keep noticing that Oooooh, Yeah . . we’ve seen this before . . . .
If Germans, French, Greeks, Poles, etc. were all expat Brits and English-speakers inhabiting lands that were not crowded with the ghosts of their forefathers, the comparison might be apt.
In other news, you might want to start writing your In Memoriam posts for Milo now.
In other news,
All hands, brace for dissonance.
…and now for something completely different…
Raycissism and organizational groveling at “outrage” at its finest.
Two Persons of Pallor get the shiplkes over “super rayciss” poster at swimming pool.
Racine man faces drug charges for reportedly hiding crack in rear end
Willneal D. Cheeks, 33, of the 1000 block of Grand Ave., appeared in Racine County Circuit Court Wednesday…
The jokes, they write themselves.
At least England didn’t go out on penalties.
Willneal D. Cheeks,
What an evening. A top-notch dinner, the season finale of ‘Thrones and a cracking bum joke.
What an evening.
I don’t think our host watches much football. 🙂
Hal –
Hours after Britons voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, they started Googling “What is the EU?” according to Google Trends.
Isn’t it more likely that this was people too young to have voted, or even the twenty five-odd percent who could’ve voted but didn’t?
wtp –
‘quotes’ from unnamed sources in the pro-EU media.
I see this trend in general in the media when things don’t go their way. It’s quite the tell as to what “their way” actually is.
Further on that here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36634786
The avalanche of race hate has begun!
I note that the picture atop the article appears to be of a genuine National Front protest, which has attracted all of four people.
Sam Duncan –
Actually, although I voted Leave, I tend to agree that a simple majority shouldn’t be enough for major constitutional change.
I agree, although as others have pointed out, major constitutional change has nonetheless been happening to Britain for forty years without a vote having been taken at all.
There’s an article here about how parliament ought to just ignore the referendum: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/stop-brexit-mp-vote-referendum-members-parliament-act-europe?CMP=share_btn_fb
The fellow says: “In Australia, for example, a referendum proposal must pass in each of the six states (this would defeat Brexit, which failed in Scotland and Northern Ireland).” Ah, something I know about! What he fails to mention is that in Australia, referendums are only necessary to modify the constitution – and conversely, constitutional modification can’t take place without a referendum. Perhaps the Brexit referendum wouldn’t have been possible in Australia, or wouldn’t have passed. But it wouldn’t have been necessary either, because most of the powers ratcheted up by the EU over the years would’ve required their own referendum in the first place. In other words, it’s apples and oranges.
“Will anyone join me in sending a petition to Parliament to insist on replaying last night’s match and refusing to accept any result where the winning team scores fewer than 4 goals and is not leading by at least 2 goals at the final whistle? According to the BBC and the Guardian the Icelanders are beginning to regret winning and, had they known the full facts before the match, would have given England a 2-goal start.”
http://www.timworstall.com/2016/06/28/more-more-on-that-football/
To be honest, the left’s reaction to Brexit puts me in mind of nothing so much as a bunch of French aristocrats c. 1789 wondering why the peasants are getting so bolshy all of a sudden. “Hey, all we did is treat them like a bunch of barely-human window-lickers whose concerns didn’t deserve to be taken seriously! What do you mean, they’re angry about it?”
Somewhat related: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/remain-revealed-hateful-prejudices/
Hal, Nice gun analogies. But the bigger guns are 52% and the smaller ones are 48%. No tie there.
a bunch of French aristocrats
Ah, ça ira