George Rebane
Government inevitably corrupts and/or badly screws up the projects it initiates in the public sphere. This thesis has been a common RR thread for years and forms a basic tenet of Rebane Doctrine. The 9jun24 WSJ has a short and succinct column, ‘Your Government at Work’ by Andy Kessler that summarizes this ongoing process of ineptitude. And, of course, our government is not the only one charged; it is a common trait of all large bureaucracies operating without proper incentives and feedback.
Women’s basketball phenom Caitlin Clark didn’t make our Olympic team, it turns out, because she wasn’t diverse enough – i.e. white, straight, European, and all that. The given bullshit reason was the claim that her fame would disrupt the historical somnolence with which women’s basketball has been received in the Olympics. And all this in the face of multiple efforts to promote a more broad and enthusiastic reception of the sport’s distaff participation. So now the public pushback has caused the sport’s political hacks to instate Clark as a first alternate in the event one of the twelve chosen can’t play. Can you imagine the mentality of the jerks who made the decision to exclude her in the first place? (more here)
[11jun24 update] Pelosi pleads pretermission about J6 security preparations for the Capitol. Finally, the former Speaker admits that a mass protest with unknown consequences was long anticipated at the Capitol by both the DHS and the FBI for the Senate’s 6jan21 electoral vote certification. Neither agency issued a timely intelligence report on this, and “Congressional leaders, including Pelosi, chose not to deploy the National Guard early over concerns of ‘optics’ amid 2020’s Black Lives Matter riots, according to a 2022 GOP report.” Meanwhile, everyone including then President Trump got blamed for the Capitol breach, even though he was perfectly in his rights to encourage his supporters to protest the certification – there is no evidence that he directed the demonstrators to enter the building or do anything illegal. (more here)
[12jun24 update] ‘Sports Should Unify, Not Divide Us’ writes Clay Travis in a compelling piece featured in the recent issue of Imprimis (here). He again illustrates the deep evil that the woke Democrats have unleashed on the land – in this version another piece of established western culture targeted for destruction to achieve their dissolution of America. And it boggles my mind to realize that these people walk and live among us as they do their dirty work while we remain ignorant and/or indifferent about the impact of their labors.
[13jun24 update] Ignorance on parade. In a recent Union Jo Ann pointed out the asymmetric street level responses of the Left vs Right when addressing public policies they don’t like. As evidence abounds, the Left likes to riot, burn things down, and in general favor violence instead of more peaceful means. Local leftwing worthy Daryl Grigsby writes in today’s Union (here) that my sweetie is totally wrong in her observation. His cutting response alleges equity in that conservatives are “silent as election workers are harassed and threatened, promote divisive language, and see anyone seeking basic human dignity as Marxists.” And, of course, J6 “was an attempt to burn down democracy”. His intellectual coup de grace was citing the 1921 Tulsa massacre when white Jim Crow Democrats “burned down 1400 black homes and businesses, murdered over 300 African-Americans, destroyed the black business district, …” Reaching back over a century and then missing the politics of his own white racist forebears is the best counter he can offer? Point, set, match!
[20jun24 update] Democracy on the block. The Democrat sleazebags continue telling their know-nothing constituents that Trump and the Republicans will kill democracy in America if they get elected. Meanwhile it's the progressives who now actively thwart democracy wherever they find it. Check this that just came out of Sacramento.
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