"“It is very similar to how your red states go after welfare cheats,” he told me. Yes, I thought, and so much more effective!"
LOL!
Meanwhile, Hungary apparently has the second-highest per capita Covid death rate. So, you know, that disregard for human life has to be another thing about Hungary that Dreher appreciates. (Reminder: Donnie and the GOP's initial response to the pandemic was to just let people die. Still.)
So Juche is less like what the wokesters call communism and more like the nationalism of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance — strong values, common purpose, and a helping hand when needed..."
Which is actually to say that the PDRK is less like America than the Republican US is like the PDRK, if you know what I mean.
I love how two or three times a year an especially demented and ridiculous Dreher post breaks free from the combined “white Christian/hate readers” ecosystem that is his usual audience, and roams wild on twitter to widespread group derision: like yesterday, when it was The Gay Beavers of Blue’s Clues, LMAO.
By the way, I think all of Dreher’s spewing about “Viktor Orban, uber alles” is just a prelude. He’s revving himself up for the 2022 and 2024 elections back here at home, when he’ll abandon the namby-pamby Just The Tip posture he maintained during the Trump years and get foursquare behind GOP efforts to steal elections on behalf of white conservative Christians. He’ll frame it as a battle against Western decadence.
Maybe but I doubt it. You see, according to Rod, the battle is already lost. The apocalypse happened back in 2015 in Indiana when the Gov. Mike Pence bailed on a state level RFRA that would have allowed discrimination against LGBT folks. No, seriously, he wrote multiple columns explaining this. So no matter who is elected, it at best means a respite for the faithful to prepare. It’s really a stroke of rhetorical genius as it gets neatly around the problem of all end times prophets: what do you do when the end time you have predicted doesn’t come when you predicted it? Rod has simply placed it in the past and presto! we’re in the tribulation, didn’t you notice? This way he can keep peddling the same line no matter who wins — it’s all over, we’re doomed, buy my book!
Yeah, you’re right it’s a pretty sweet gig: “in case you haven’t noticed we are living in the End Times, but …. this could take a while! Buy my new book to learn how to roll with it.”
But part of his idea of “rolling with it” means viciously fighting back politically when the opportunity presents itself.
Damn you to the lowest reaches of hell, Rod Dreher. I just read the FB post below by my youngest son (wish I could post the photo that went with it) and I'm so furious with Dreher and is nasty ilk I have tears in my eyes. Martin wrote,
"This guy stole my heart ten years ago today. I love him so much. Like, it hurts. We have watched and helped each other grow so much in the last decade. I can't imagine my life without Jeremy. I mean, the guy can really rock a dress. Happy Anniversary, Twiggy! I love you!"
I swear to God, I'm a Horticulturist (with a degree and everything) and not once have I ever been to a Garden Party.
A weed party , sure - now and again ( as in '
"I'll hit this now and again at lunch. And again on the way home.") Maybe "Garden Party" is some kind of Crunchy Con code for Weed Party. Most people benefit from that sort of thing but I bet no matter how high he got Rod would still be an insufferable prick.
My goal for the rest of the day is to work the phrase " racialist folderol" into as many conversations as possible. It's quite a challenge!
Dreher suffers from two co-morbidities: he’s eternally gullible, and he has chronic Mediocre White Man Syndrome: he thinks he’s much smarter than he actually is, because a bunch of other guys who ALSO suffer from Mediocre White Man Syndrome have flattered him with that description.
I can't get past the Hungarian friend commiserating with Dreher over the way America's getting taken over by race traitors.
"I asked him what he wanted to do with his career. He said, ‘Destroy white supremacy.’ He is as white as I am! These are the people who will be running America one of these days. "
This reminds me of the time I met an FBI agent and he told me he cut his own son's genitals off so the kid could play lady baseball ("softball") - all to embarrass Donald J. Trump!
I find it hard to fathom how being white could, in any admirable way, reduce someone's desire to stamp-out white supremacy. The only possible ways this would reckon-out properly were if 0.) it were positively immoral ever to do anything that reduced one power, which is pretty much LaVeyan Satanism, or 1.) the firm conviction that white supremacy itself is entirely ideal, that it is in no noticeable manner undeserved.
Mrs BBB presented me with volume 1, issue 1 of The Hungarian Conservative a couple of weeks ago. It reflected Rod's column pretty well, based on the skim I gave it. The only upside was that she stole it.
What Roy especially nails is Dreher's self-pity. Self-pity is to Dreher as water is to a fish. It's his element. He also reminds me of a character in The Rainmaker (I was in a high school production), the prissy, pain-in-the-ass son Noah, who says, "It isn't easy, being right all the time."
"I like to eat good local food and drink good local wine or beer." - Crunchy Rod, in 2017
I'm not trying to poo-poo a European vacation (they're nice if you can afford them!), but - and hear me out - the USA has some pretty good local food, wine and beer. You just have to visit places besides TGI Friday's. I guess Rod's objection was that in France they don't eat tacos, and in Italy, they don't eat sushi - which is false, like much of Rod's belief system.
I wonder if Rod knows that "to each according to their needs" can be traced back to the Bible
Acts 4:32–35: ³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. ³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, ³⁵ And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
"“It is very similar to how your red states go after welfare cheats,” he told me. Yes, I thought, and so much more effective!"
LOL!
Meanwhile, Hungary apparently has the second-highest per capita Covid death rate. So, you know, that disregard for human life has to be another thing about Hungary that Dreher appreciates. (Reminder: Donnie and the GOP's initial response to the pandemic was to just let people die. Still.)
So Juche is less like what the wokesters call communism and more like the nationalism of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance — strong values, common purpose, and a helping hand when needed..."
Which is actually to say that the PDRK is less like America than the Republican US is like the PDRK, if you know what I mean.
Will that analogy appear in the next SAT?
I love how two or three times a year an especially demented and ridiculous Dreher post breaks free from the combined “white Christian/hate readers” ecosystem that is his usual audience, and roams wild on twitter to widespread group derision: like yesterday, when it was The Gay Beavers of Blue’s Clues, LMAO.
By the way, I think all of Dreher’s spewing about “Viktor Orban, uber alles” is just a prelude. He’s revving himself up for the 2022 and 2024 elections back here at home, when he’ll abandon the namby-pamby Just The Tip posture he maintained during the Trump years and get foursquare behind GOP efforts to steal elections on behalf of white conservative Christians. He’ll frame it as a battle against Western decadence.
Maybe but I doubt it. You see, according to Rod, the battle is already lost. The apocalypse happened back in 2015 in Indiana when the Gov. Mike Pence bailed on a state level RFRA that would have allowed discrimination against LGBT folks. No, seriously, he wrote multiple columns explaining this. So no matter who is elected, it at best means a respite for the faithful to prepare. It’s really a stroke of rhetorical genius as it gets neatly around the problem of all end times prophets: what do you do when the end time you have predicted doesn’t come when you predicted it? Rod has simply placed it in the past and presto! we’re in the tribulation, didn’t you notice? This way he can keep peddling the same line no matter who wins — it’s all over, we’re doomed, buy my book!
Yeah, you’re right it’s a pretty sweet gig: “in case you haven’t noticed we are living in the End Times, but …. this could take a while! Buy my new book to learn how to roll with it.”
But part of his idea of “rolling with it” means viciously fighting back politically when the opportunity presents itself.
I repeat myself, but: I wish I could live in the world the Right think it were.
“As usual I have written many thousands of words about this” — priceless.
Damn you to the lowest reaches of hell, Rod Dreher. I just read the FB post below by my youngest son (wish I could post the photo that went with it) and I'm so furious with Dreher and is nasty ilk I have tears in my eyes. Martin wrote,
"This guy stole my heart ten years ago today. I love him so much. Like, it hurts. We have watched and helped each other grow so much in the last decade. I can't imagine my life without Jeremy. I mean, the guy can really rock a dress. Happy Anniversary, Twiggy! I love you!"
Fuck the fascist bigots —
I swear to God, I'm a Horticulturist (with a degree and everything) and not once have I ever been to a Garden Party.
A weed party , sure - now and again ( as in '
"I'll hit this now and again at lunch. And again on the way home.") Maybe "Garden Party" is some kind of Crunchy Con code for Weed Party. Most people benefit from that sort of thing but I bet no matter how high he got Rod would still be an insufferable prick.
My goal for the rest of the day is to work the phrase " racialist folderol" into as many conversations as possible. It's quite a challenge!
Monty Python’s “Mr Hilter”: “I am not a racialist. BUT... und this is a big But...”
I gave him my baby to kiss and he bit it on the head.
I am not a racialist. BUT... und this is a big But
I like big buts and I can not lie, those other suckers can't deny
Der Schnifter's uniform was in fact tailored to try to de-emphasise his big 'But'—it was real boss.
The only garden party I have a strong sense of is fictional https://youtu.be/DWZlNJqTNcE
[Herb Alpert elbows his way to the front]
https://youtu.be/1o6tz1H8W8Q
Ew
Bob Dylan was effusive in his praise for Mr. Nelson, who covered frequently covered his songs.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLccO-6P2_EoERZgtKCTeQ64TDiw56ML2h
I really enjoy the way he does them.
Amazing! Thanks. (I liked the Garden Party song too.)
"Jardin des Fascistes"
Have you ever reminisced with your old friends in the vicinity of a garden?
"She had me there." LOL
This is eerily similar to an actual Dreher column. Roy, sometimes I worry that you read too much of his stuff for your own good.
Counterpoint: this is maybe the first one I read and thought, "Nah. Not enough white people."
I'm glad you keep reading this dingbat so I don't have to.
I don’t know if Dreher is the Rod of Iron, but the Rod of Irony he’ll never be. Who else could be so enamored of Hungary Hungary Hitlers?
I just keep thinking of him as a cautionary tale of Grown Up Rod Flanders.
Dreher suffers from two co-morbidities: he’s eternally gullible, and he has chronic Mediocre White Man Syndrome: he thinks he’s much smarter than he actually is, because a bunch of other guys who ALSO suffer from Mediocre White Man Syndrome have flattered him with that description.
I'm stealing Hungary Hungary Hitlers
Juast as long as they're _Austrian_ Hungarians.
I can't get past the Hungarian friend commiserating with Dreher over the way America's getting taken over by race traitors.
"I asked him what he wanted to do with his career. He said, ‘Destroy white supremacy.’ He is as white as I am! These are the people who will be running America one of these days. "
Doesn't get much more explicit than that.
Making Shit Up ---> Making Shit Up But With A Budapest Dateline
This reminds me of the time I met an FBI agent and he told me he cut his own son's genitals off so the kid could play lady baseball ("softball") - all to embarrass Donald J. Trump!
So he did not stomp and crush the genitals, as John Yoo requested?
I find it hard to fathom how being white could, in any admirable way, reduce someone's desire to stamp-out white supremacy. The only possible ways this would reckon-out properly were if 0.) it were positively immoral ever to do anything that reduced one power, which is pretty much LaVeyan Satanism, or 1.) the firm conviction that white supremacy itself is entirely ideal, that it is in no noticeable manner undeserved.
I'll guess both, but mostly the second.
s/one power/one's power/1
Mrs BBB presented me with volume 1, issue 1 of The Hungarian Conservative a couple of weeks ago. It reflected Rod's column pretty well, based on the skim I gave it. The only upside was that she stole it.
What Roy especially nails is Dreher's self-pity. Self-pity is to Dreher as water is to a fish. It's his element. He also reminds me of a character in The Rainmaker (I was in a high school production), the prissy, pain-in-the-ass son Noah, who says, "It isn't easy, being right all the time."
The honkies are the true victims. Open your eyes.
"I like to eat good local food and drink good local wine or beer." - Crunchy Rod, in 2017
I'm not trying to poo-poo a European vacation (they're nice if you can afford them!), but - and hear me out - the USA has some pretty good local food, wine and beer. You just have to visit places besides TGI Friday's. I guess Rod's objection was that in France they don't eat tacos, and in Italy, they don't eat sushi - which is false, like much of Rod's belief system.
For some reason, I'm hearing an old advertising jingle, perhaps slightly corrupted: "How do you handle a Hungary man? The man handlers!".
For reference: https://youtu.be/UB61fgsCZGU?t=8
I wonder if Rod knows that "to each according to their needs" can be traced back to the Bible
Acts 4:32–35: ³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. ³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. ³⁴ Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, ³⁵ And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
'That taxi driver said to me "Sir, it really upsets us to see what's happening to America.'
Fixed.