tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post235544231901315223..comments2024-02-11T14:15:58.105-06:00Comments on The Conservative Kitchen Table: The Mind Of The Leftlady redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-71162970437528903212016-03-24T02:56:11.332-05:002016-03-24T02:56:11.332-05:00Yes, that's the reference.Yes, that's the reference.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-85131880736039178312016-03-24T01:37:01.273-05:002016-03-24T01:37:01.273-05:00This guy kills me, a real Twitter artiste.
Conser...This guy kills me, a real Twitter artiste.<br /><br />Conservative Pundit @DemsRRealRacist Mar 22<br /><br />The challenge of Muslim extremism is real, but we can meet it with humanity, courage, and an omnipresent totalitarian surveillance state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-20579159898717088052016-03-24T01:25:18.239-05:002016-03-24T01:25:18.239-05:00And as someone smart and widely misunderstood poin...And as someone smart and widely misunderstood pointed out to us more than 10 years ago, strangely, Cthulu ONLY swims left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-46251492157305096032016-03-23T19:35:52.503-05:002016-03-23T19:35:52.503-05:00Not wholly owned - not yet.
My father did institu...Not wholly owned - not yet.<br /><br />My father did institutional investing - he managed the equity allocations for several large pension funds. He worked in that industry from the early fifties until his retirement in '99. I still correspond with his proteges in the business, and have a good familiarity the business.<br /><br />In America, post war, large institutional investors (insurance companies, pensions, endowments, mutual funds, etc) were as independent of government control as any in the history of capitalism.<br /><br />I can verify that neither my father nor his firm was USG in any way shape or form.<br /><br />If anything - and yes, I am receptive to arguments about "the Cathedral" and the tentacles of education and culture which bound the public and private sector elites together - it was government that was constrained by institutional capital, not the other way around.<br /><br />That said: yes, institutional capital management is becoming more and more subject to the constraints laid out by the activist industrial complex. And the managers of that capital have themselves bought into the activists narrative - for career safety, if no other reason. (Institutional managers may take risks with your money, but never with their own career - sorry dad, wherever you are, but you know this has always been true).<br /><br />The article I linked is a case in point. Cthulu embraces all.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-78487715646895069602016-03-23T13:06:42.612-05:002016-03-23T13:06:42.612-05:00An institutional investor is just another term for...An institutional investor is just another term for USG and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, verdad?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-32856561311411992262016-03-23T06:47:00.501-05:002016-03-23T06:47:00.501-05:00I'd second that Jourdan.
I've only known ...I'd second that Jourdan.<br /><br />I've only known a couple authentic RDBs, and there's no clear trend I can discern, except that they are more hard core statist than SJW.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-84076146016499777712016-03-23T06:45:14.896-05:002016-03-23T06:45:14.896-05:00You're welcome. ;)
Yeah, it's one thing t...You're welcome. ;)<br /><br />Yeah, it's one thing to read shit like that in <i>Mother Jones</i>. Quite another to read it in <i>Institutional Investor</i>.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-1048454807168486652016-03-23T06:42:11.502-05:002016-03-23T06:42:11.502-05:00Belgium has reaped what they have sown. Still, it&...Belgium has reaped what they have sown. Still, it's a damn shame. <br /><br />At some point, Europe will either completely capitulate to the Caliphate, or they will take up arms and slaughter the invaders (and the idiots who imported them). Either way, it will be ugly. <br /><br />Does anyone see a middle road? Peaceful deportation of millions upon millions of people back to whatever hellhole they were born in? I don't see that being an attainable solution. <br /><br />So we wait for the next terrorist attack. And the next. And the next.lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-82631582507295783342016-03-23T06:33:35.339-05:002016-03-23T06:33:35.339-05:00He's as presidential as Richard Simmons. No wa...He's as presidential as Richard Simmons. No wait, I don't want to insult Richard Simmons...<br /><br />I am viscerally repulsed by his antics in Cuba. He can't exit the stage quickly enough. Begone little man! lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-63321848252135861332016-03-23T06:24:47.998-05:002016-03-23T06:24:47.998-05:00Jourdan, I don't agree with VD on several matt...Jourdan, I don't agree with VD on several matters. However, I staunchly support his fight against the SJW insanity that has infested every aspect of our culture. His battle to reclaim the science fiction/fantasy genre is epic, as well as his leadership in the largely unknown Gamergate War.<br /><br />Psst...I'd love to read a post about the "red-diaper baby" folks you are familiar with, and how they differ from the folks described in the article. *hint hint* :)lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-70493783498425566352016-03-23T06:15:33.754-05:002016-03-23T06:15:33.754-05:00This is the craziest thing I've ever read. EVE...This is the craziest thing I've ever read. EVER.<br /><br />It's neither boring nor dense. It's utterly terrifying that people actually believe this shit. It's more terrifying that they are in positions to enact these psychotic, delusional programs, burning through trillions of dollars while living in a psychotic fantasy-land, and attempting to drag the rest of us into their mental illness. What. The. Fuck. lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-17040213534004351682016-03-22T13:19:34.767-05:002016-03-22T13:19:34.767-05:00Of all the European countries, Belgium deserves it...Of all the European countries, Belgium deserves it the most. They can attack Belgium as much as they want. They've asked for it, they've enabled it, they've provided it material aid; let them reap their harvest.<br /><br />As for us, the Americas is a BIG place. They can't attack us if they aren't here. I think Trump understands this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-13199612275325343332016-03-22T13:18:05.751-05:002016-03-22T13:18:05.751-05:00One is often at the mercy of host countries when o...One is often at the mercy of host countries when one is doing a state or other diplomatic visit. There are plenty of pictures with Nixon with giant portraits of Mao, for example.<br /><br />Much more worrisome is how the President carries himself. I didn't used to put much stock in the rumors about Barry's sexuality, but, wow, it's getting pretty hard to ignore his prancing around like a lightfoot dancer giddy from the smiles he got from this cute guy who works at Starbucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-27087874328336044462016-03-22T13:16:15.670-05:002016-03-22T13:16:15.670-05:00I agree that it is a type of lefist mind-set. I ju...I agree that it is a type of lefist mind-set. I just don't think it's the "red-diaper baby" type. Folks raised in the CPUSA culture are much more hard-nosed than this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-55469718989653857492016-03-22T03:27:19.464-05:002016-03-22T03:27:19.464-05:00Oh hey looks like Belgium just "absorbed"...Oh hey looks like Belgium just "absorbed" another terrorist attack.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-1988157336109682542016-03-22T02:28:06.779-05:002016-03-22T02:28:06.779-05:00He's livin' the dream.He's livin' the dream. lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-36357747070096012212016-03-21T23:46:20.807-05:002016-03-21T23:46:20.807-05:00Some are out and out communists, some closet commi...<i>Some are out and out communists, some closet commies who claim to be "democratic socialists", and some are intersectionalist SJW who are less interested in class struggle and more interested in special pleading.</i><br /><br />And what, do you suppose, do they make of their President posing for photographs in front of a mural of Che Guevara in Cuba?Fayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709589526901772497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-47204480472321388862016-03-21T21:10:48.085-05:002016-03-21T21:10:48.085-05:00Jourdan, the garden variety leftists I encounter i...Jourdan, the garden variety leftists I encounter in Portland - and there are a lot of them - do fit this profile very well.<br /><br />Some are out and out communists, some closet commies who claim to be "democratic socialists", and some are intersectionalist SJW who are less interested in class struggle and more interested in special pleading.<br /><br />But all believe that rich white people and corporations are holding out on "the people", and the neo-liberal oligarchs are implementing "austerity" purely to be sadistic and cruel.<br /><br />"There's plenty of money. Just need to tax it and spend it".lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-42777685138448164382016-03-21T13:21:08.225-05:002016-03-21T13:21:08.225-05:00I read the linked article yesterday at VD's si...I read the linked article yesterday at VD's site, and I have to say that I don't buy it. As a former radical leftist myself, it appeared to me to be written by what a standard-issue "conservative" thinks a leftist believes. The people written about here are characticures of leftists, not real, existing people.<br /><br />VD is good at a lot of things, and I admire his leadership and the vigor at which he fights. But he has two things working against him: 1) as a former libertarian, he still believes that an aspie-like over-analysis of matters from an economic perspective is determinative, when it clearly, clearly is not; and 2) as a principled expatriate who left the U.S. for political reasons, his life outside the U.S. has been for that length of time where one grows out-of-touch with the nuance of the U.S., a VERY fast-changing entity. <br /><br />In any case, none of the real red-diaper babies (my definition: one or both parents in CPUSA or one of the main Trotskyite parties) I knew very well were anything like this profile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-60055222645944252072016-03-21T07:29:16.641-05:002016-03-21T07:29:16.641-05:00(I apologize as that linked article is long, borin...(I apologize as that linked article is long, boring and dense, feel free to just skim it. No quizzes. But it's abundantly clear that actual classical liberalism and market economics has no friends among the elite anymore).lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-61559449565211573392016-03-21T07:12:38.684-05:002016-03-21T07:12:38.684-05:00lr it's much, much worse than you think, sadly...lr it's much, much worse than you think, sadly.<br /><br />Take a look at <a href="http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/3535562/investors-pensions/welcome-to-the-esg-evolution.html" rel="nofollow">this article from Institutional Investor</a>.<br /><br />The movement to obliterate market economics is being led by the ostensible stewards of those markets themselves. <br /><br />Because commerce is profitable, but graft more so.lewy14https://www.blogger.com/profile/07524380685282662887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-11535503634507390662016-03-21T06:54:54.645-05:002016-03-21T06:54:54.645-05:00Jim Goad is horrified and terrifed.Jim Goad is <a href="http://takimag.com/article/i_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_easily_terrified_jim_goad/print#axzz43XM5sVDZ" rel="nofollow">horrified and terrifed.</a>lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1038409030829512383.post-43899263466785537082016-03-21T05:59:25.822-05:002016-03-21T05:59:25.822-05:00Michael Faraday really nails it with this one. I c...Michael Faraday really nails it with this one. I can feel the BERN from here. :))lady redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618584698591777253noreply@blogger.com