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| Mark Steyn: Too Stupid to Survive |
| 2019-12-07 |
| h/t Instapundit [SteynOnline] I can no longer remember when I first used the line, but, as I've said many times before, sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive. Back when President Trump was Candidate Trump, he famously proposed a soi-disant "Muslim ban" on entry to the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on". Which was a rationale to which I was rather partial - because a failure to "figure out what the hell is going on" is a big part of why we're where we are a generation after 9/11. Mohammed is now in the Top Ten boys' names in America, which means it will sooner than you think be, as it is in Europe, among the Top Five boys' names, and eventually the Number One. Well, the "Muslim ban" never happened, after being struck down by judges and filleted into meaninglessness by the lawyers of the permanent bureaucracy. But you would think, given the mountain of corpses piled up on 9/11, that at the very minimum Saudi nationals would no longer be being given pilot training in Florida. After all, fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and half of those who flew the planes received their lessons in the Sunshine State. Yet today Americans pick up their papers to read:
Or as The New York Times headlined it:
...The flaw in Trump's "Muslim ban" was its conditionality on us "figuring out what the hell is going on". Actually, what the hell's going on isn't so difficult to figure out. But, as events at Fishmongers' Hall and the Pensacola Naval Air Station both underline, most of the western world would rather do anything than confront honestly "what the hell is going on". |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 It’s ok, my dear that one is easily fixable by attaching he URL to a bit of text as a clickable link. Next time type your bit of text, highlight, then click on that silly icon of a globe sitting on what turns out to be two chain links and not eye glasses. Paste your URL into the box that pops up, then click OK. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-07 19:36 |
| #9 Ouch! Now the link broke the whole website. I apologize. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-07 19:08 |
| #8 Abu Uluque’s link It shows up in my browser, Opera, OK. Sorry if it was a problem for others. It's just a picture of a dodo bird, just for a little humor, nothing all that important. But there's the link. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-07 19:07 |
| #7 Except the idiots are NOT part of the same society as, say, Rantburgers. Excepting Herb. Herb is too stupid to survive. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-12-07 19:03 |
| #6 Abu Uluque, Rantburg. does not seem to like to show images when the URL has a dash or understrike. If you would give that to us as a link those interested could open, that would be lovely. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-07 15:28 |
| #5 Well, Lex, when you put it that way... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-07 12:14 |
| #4 flight training for Soddies = a good idea fracking = a bad idea building up our mortal enemy China = a good idea refusing to let Chicks Wit' Dicks compete against girl athletes = a bad idea inviting 22 million illegal aliens into the country, showering them with benefits and protecting them from law enforcement = a good idea etc |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-07 11:29 |
| #3 If it isn't obvious to everyone in the country by now that flight training for Soddies is a bad idea then we really are too stupid to survive. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-07 11:25 |
| #2 Again, a foundational tenet of leftism: The scorpion, the viper and the black widow all have as much right to be in the crib as the baby. Maybe more. Note that what zman calls Conservatism Inc. totally agrees. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-07 07:34 |
| #1 Nice to know somebody thinks similarly. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-07 05:39 |