Bret Stephens
Why Edmund Burke Still Matters
'...If Burke lacked Thomas Jefferson’s clarity and idealism, he never suffered from his hypocrisy....'
This, like so much else Stephens utters, is patently false in several directions.
This, like so much else Stephens utters, is patently false in several directions.
Stephens, an activist like those DK derides, also prefers to emphasize Jefferson's hypocrisy, but only for this rhetorical moment, baby!
Activist muckraking hypocrite calling out activist political hypocrite.
I too prefer to emphasize Jefferson's hypocrisy, but am not an activist, certainly not a Stephens. Much more a Burke.
I am even a little a Johnson myself:
Here is Johnson calling out Jefferson, as he certainly also would Stephens, given the chance.
Activist muckraking hypocrite calling out activist political hypocrite.
I too prefer to emphasize Jefferson's hypocrisy, but am not an activist, certainly not a Stephens. Much more a Burke.
I am even a little a Johnson myself:
Here is Johnson calling out Jefferson, as he certainly also would Stephens, given the chance.
Monday, February 11, 2019
DK, On the Fourth of July, excerpt:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
Today, as we observe the 244th anniversary of the signature of the Declaration of Independence, a substantial body of activist Americans prefers to emphasize the hypocrisy, as they understand it, of these words.
HEIGHTH OF HYPOCRISY NYT CRY WOLF TROT OUT BURKE TO ENROBE THEIR PAST TRANSGRESSIONS
Bret Stephens cynical op ed, will live in infamy now, with Washington and Jefferson statues going the way of Southern white leaders they had proudly and gladly applauded trashing so very recently.
HE EVEN MAKES IT SEEM TO HIS GULLLIBLE READERS THAT IT IS THE RIGHT THAT IS DOING MORE POPULIST TEARING DOWN NOW, AND THAT THE POPULIST LEFT WHICH THE NYT HAS CCAREFULLY NURTURED HAS BARELY STARTED TEARING ANYTHING DOWN ANYWHERE: '...the tear-it-all-down populism that has swept so much of the right in the past five years and the tear-it-all-down progressivism that threatens to sweep the left....'
I don't put the right in the same category as the left re globalist populist tear downs.
The left is way ahead ideologically, especially under nyt globalization theory, where no nation state, according to NYT ideology, should be left standing in the end.
See for example Krugman's Green New Deal remarks in a recent interview. That is really Piketty global populist socialism, not nationalism.
See my recent post on the first part of Piketty's new book Capitalism and Ideology. He spells it out very clearly.
HE EVEN MAKES IT SEEM TO HIS GULLLIBLE READERS THAT IT IS THE RIGHT THAT IS DOING MORE POPULIST TEARING DOWN NOW, AND THAT THE POPULIST LEFT WHICH THE NYT HAS CCAREFULLY NURTURED HAS BARELY STARTED TEARING ANYTHING DOWN ANYWHERE: '...the tear-it-all-down populism that has swept so much of the right in the past five years and the tear-it-all-down progressivism that threatens to sweep the left....'
I don't put the right in the same category as the left re globalist populist tear downs.
The left is way ahead ideologically, especially under nyt globalization theory, where no nation state, according to NYT ideology, should be left standing in the end.
See for example Krugman's Green New Deal remarks in a recent interview. That is really Piketty global populist socialism, not nationalism.
See my recent post on the first part of Piketty's new book Capitalism and Ideology. He spells it out very clearly.
Shame, shame and a pox on all the liberal Jews in your house for wantonly throwing American negroes under the racism bus headed your way. Better to have whites and negroes fight it out to the death you all said to yourselves.
Blaming the right, more than themselves, but feeling proud to publish shit like The 1619 Project, certainly partly responsible for this reign of terror, now widening out, on monuments and historic buildings, everywhere in the world.
Shame on you, shame on you.
Even to utter Burke's name, now, incredibly embarrassing and wantonly impudent thing to do.
This post is dedicated to J C D Clark, sine quibus non sum.
Friday, August 7, 2020
LET'S GET WARM AND PERSONAL WITH BRET STEPHENS SO CALLED CONSERVATIVE BIO
Where is his alma mater? LSE, BABY!
Not a hotbed of conservatism.
Bret Stephens is a faux conservative.
Further, if you win a Pulitzer Prize, you are already a known fucking liberal, not a conservative. Give me a faker break.
He was, for some time, Editor-In-Chief of the
THE JERUSALEM POST. He looks, at that point, like Breitbart material.
His real heritage name is Ehrlich, descended from Jews from Moldava. Wikipedia.
Anyway, I could go on about fakers like him until I was the color purple. Why bother.
He trots out Burke. So what? Like a negro trotting out Jefferson, then pissing on his statue.
It does not pass the smell test. When you see anything by Bret Stephens ever again, ask yourself, can it possibly pass a smell test?
Trust me, the answer will be NO.
These disgruntled negroes need to hit the Holy Land, especially places like Jerusalem, hard!
Knock down those bitching temples and holy places of these dang racist Jewish or Islamic or Christian slave driving white bitches!
Spray paint 1619 all over Mecca!
Then move on to Delhi! great place to tear down old monuments of lame Hindu slave drivers!
Lisa Lerer probably knows Bret Stephens from their Jerusalem days.
Not a hotbed of conservatism.
Bret Stephens is a faux conservative.
Further, if you win a Pulitzer Prize, you are already a known fucking liberal, not a conservative. Give me a faker break.
He was, for some time, Editor-In-Chief of the
THE JERUSALEM POST. He looks, at that point, like Breitbart material.
His real heritage name is Ehrlich, descended from Jews from Moldava. Wikipedia.
Anyway, I could go on about fakers like him until I was the color purple. Why bother.
He trots out Burke. So what? Like a negro trotting out Jefferson, then pissing on his statue.
It does not pass the smell test. When you see anything by Bret Stephens ever again, ask yourself, can it possibly pass a smell test?
Trust me, the answer will be NO.
These disgruntled negroes need to hit the Holy Land, especially places like Jerusalem, hard!
Knock down those bitching temples and holy places of these dang racist Jewish or Islamic or Christian slave driving white bitches!
Spray paint 1619 all over Mecca!
Then move on to Delhi! great place to tear down old monuments of lame Hindu slave drivers!
Lisa Lerer probably knows Bret Stephens from their Jerusalem days.
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