Just now on the show which replaces Rush Limbaugh.
Monday, July 5, 2021
LOL, how does Clay Travis graduate from Vanderbilt Law and say "drug across the finish line" out loud in front of God and everybody?
Joel Kotkin has come around, now calls it what it is: Global fascism
In 2018, Kotkin was still tip-toeing around the obvious, but not anymore:
Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in much of the world . . .
Mussolini, a one-time radical socialist, viewed himself as a “revolutionary” transforming society by turning the state into “the moving centre of economic life”. In Italy and, to a greater extent, Germany, fascism also brought with it, at least initially, an expanded highly populist welfare state much as we see today.
Mussolini’s idea of a an economy controlled from above, with generous benefits but dominated by large business interests, is gradually supplanting the old liberal capitalist model. ...
fascism — in its corporate sense — relies on concentrated economic power to achieve its essential and ideological goals. ...
China, in many aspects the model fascist state of our times, follows Il Duce’s model of cementing the corporate elite into the power structure. ...
But in the battle between the two emergent fascist systems, China possesses powerful advantages. Communist Party cadres at least offer more than a moralising agenda; they can point to the country’s massive reduction of extreme poverty and a huge growth in monthly wages, up almost five-fold since 2006. At a time when the middle class is shrinking in the West, China’s middle class increased enormously from 1980 to 2000, although its growth appears to have slowed in recent years.
Like Mussolini, who linked his regime to that of Ancient Rome, China’s rulers look to Han supremacy and the glories of China’s Imperial past. “The very purpose of the [Chinese Communist] Party in leading the people in revolution and development,” Xi Jinping told party cadres a decade ago, “is to make the people prosperous, the country strong, and [to] rejuvenate the Chinese nation.”
Kotkin recognizes at least that American right-wing libertarianism is part of the problem, not part of the solution:
the consolidation of oligarchic power is supported by massive lobbying operations and dispersals of cash, including to some Right-wing libertarians, who doggedly justify censorship and oligopoly on private property grounds.
Regrettably, however, Kotkin still does not connect this failure of the old liberal order in the West with the failure of the old moral order which gave it birth and on which it depended. This is because Kotkin still sees things in primarily materialistic terms.
Kotkin is oddly politically correct when he denounces possible recourse to nativism, which blinds him to the nativism which is at the heart of Chinese state capitalism and gives it much of its appeal and strength. He calls for "a re-awakening of the spirit of resistance to authority" in the West, not realizing that it was Protestantism which made that even possible in the first place.
The problem of the West is spiritual, and Catholicism will never be able to rise to the occasion of refounding it as long as globo-homo defines Rome. The whole idea is inimical to the notion of founding a nation "for our posterity".
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Friday, July 2, 2021
America continues in decline, undershooting its potential by 13 million full-time jobs
Thursday, July 1, 2021
LOL, Florida ranks 44th for daily new cases of coronavirus: What happened? Is everyone on vacation for five days in a row, or was the counting office in the condo collapse?
You don't go from reporting 1,800 cases a day, day after day, and suddenly have zero for five days in a row.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Batshit crazy Australia goes into lockdown over a coronavirus trickle
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021
June 2021 to date is 2nd rainiest June ever in Grand Rapids, MI, and one of just 23 months since 1892 with 8 inches of rain or more, ranking 14th so far
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
COVID-19 trends in England in the last month are not encouraging despite being one of the top three or four countries in the world for vaccinations
Cases per million are up 560% since May 23.
Hospitalizations are up 64%. As a measure of severity of illness, this increase is damning for authorities everywhere who keep insisting that vaccinations will reduce severity.
Deaths per million, while still puny, are up 175%.
All this with 47% fully vaccinated, 64% with one dose.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Reported STDs Reach All-time High for 6th Consecutive Year
More than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea & syphilis reported in 2019
Climate Update for KGRR: May 2021
Coronavirus deaths in Africa's "ivermectin" states are a fraction of what they are in their counterpart countries Brazil, Peru, and Spain
Monday, June 21, 2021
Let's compare what happened to cases in India after vaccinating just 3.6% of its population against C19 with what happened in the US with just 3.6% vaccinated
TL;dr : The same thing.
India reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 on about June 19th.
India's cases per million metric fell 83% from its May 8th peak to June 18th (from 283.5 to 48.07).
Vaccines had nothing to do with the drop.
The US reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 way back on Feb 12th.
US peak cases per million occurred about a month before that, on about Jan 8th, at 758.56.
On Feb 12th cases per million had fallen to 293.61, or by 61%.
Vaccines had nothing to do with it.
Virus gonna virus.
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