34 Replies to “By Their Own Hand”

    1. You mean RINOs, don’t you? The Rhinos, at least the Canadian variety, made much more sense.

      I miss that party…..

      1. Yes, I meant RINOs. Sorry about that. The Rhino Party actually had some useful aspects as compared to pretend conservatives.

      2. Heh
        one provincial election the Rhinos proposed to flatten Rockies to make the road to the ocean flat and straight.
        For lack of other sensible programs of the other parties, I voted the Rhinos.
        It was a given at the time that the PC’s would win, so no damage done.

  1. I have no interest whatsoever in anti-Trump mouth foamers. I suspect their circle jerk is getting smaller and smaller with every Trumpian SUCCESS! WINNING! … like the DEATH of Obamakkare today.

      1. It’s going to the scotus – one with a very different complexion than a few years ago.

        Stare decisis is non existent on this law so if the scotus upholds that the individual mandate is indeed a tax and thus not constitutional Obamacare any universal program that uses fines will not be possible.

        1. “any universal program that uses fines will not be possible.”

          The normal way the federal government intrudes into unconstitutional areas is the purse and not taxation. The US started as a union of 13 independent countries that united for defense and mail. Each state had and still has its own army. Why not just leave each state to its own devices, as intended? Everything not specifically allowed to the federal government belonged to the States or the People. How retarded do Supreme Court judges have to be to read unlimited federal power into such a clear statement?

          Similarly, Canada started as a union of provinces, previously independent under the British crown. Each region is unique and enforcing a one size fits all plan has created a lot of friction.

        2. “one with a very different complexion than a few years ago.”

          Not different enough. The people who made the previous asinine ruling are still there.

          1. What? How? Are Roberts and the other traitors still not in their positions?

            By ‘last’ decision I meant the first one, not the follow-up. My bad.

        3. Some people hate Justice John Roberts.
          But in his brief concerning Obamacare he said the only way he would consider Obamacare to be constitutional, was for the government to make all the American people pay a tax.
          The democrats have fought this idea for years, issuing fines, and only charging those people they think will pay. Many immigrants pay nothing.
          Now that the Shiite has hit the fan they need to blame someone else. Trump for instance. I hope the american people discover the truth and throw some of these cabbages out on their heads..
          wouldn’t it be funny if they had to give everyone their money back?

      1. Then why the fabricated kerfuffle over Kavanaugh? If all the RINO appointees end up swinging from the leftside

  2. No denying that kristol and others at WS were never trumpers. others were not.

    But the cause of the company’s demise has much more to do with bad business management, a stale, aged staff and probably most significantly a dispute with and loss of support from the orgs chief benefactor.

  3. John Podohertz on the founding of the Weakly Substandard,

    “When Bill Kristol and I conceived the magazine at the end of 1994, our purpose was to create a publication that would help guide and keep honest the hard-charging Republican party that had scored its stunning lopsided victory over Bill Clinton’s Democrats. This putative magazine would not cheerlead for Newt Gingrich’s Republicans, but instead represent the best thinking about how to lead the country through a new conservative era. We were criticized for not being part of the team from the get-go.”

    They didn’t want Speaker Newt Gingrich to do conservative things. They still don’t want President Donald Trump to do conservative things. They wanted to talk about being true conservatives, but they never wanted conservatives to accomplish anything.

    https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/murder-weekly-standard/

    NeverTrumper delenda est.

    1. “If you are a Standard subscriber but not yet a COMMENTARY reader…Have I got a deal for you.”

      So JPod is fishing for readers for his own unreadable fish-wrapper aimed at his fellow pseudo-conservative globalist apostates.

      Those who genuinely fear the Lord and keep his Law have better uses for their time and money. Any of the several orthodox Jewish weeklies who endorsed Trump come to mind.

      1. Ass kanadian, religion, if I may call kristianity that, and politics are two different ideologies that do NOT mix. Get that through your stupid skull!!!!

        1. Oh, I know that.

          If there is no God, it’s left to the politicians who win the bidding for the services of the big men with guns and tanks and atomic bombs to determine what’s right and wrong.

          How would you say that’s working out, NME?

          1. “If there is no God, it’s left to the politicians who win the bidding for the services of the big men with guns and tanks and atomic bombs to determine what’s right and wrong.”

            Actually it’s left up to intellectuals like me. And it’s working out pretty well: the world is more peaceful and free than anytime before.

    2. There’s a difference between conservative ideology and politics.

      I’ve read many well written articles in the WS and Commentary as well.

      Few politicians are driven by reason or logic. Most are in it for personal gain. Public service died in 1945.

  4. I became a conservative, in Canada, way back during the 1980’s. Back then, there were very few true conservative organizations here. My first nurturing reads were the Sun newspapers, the National Citizens Coalition, and Commentary magazine. Later I would read the National Interest magazine. The last two magazines were then edited by Norman Podhoritz and Irving Kristol, the respective fathers of John and Bill. I cannot speak to the two sons who ran the Weekly Standard, but Norman Podhoritz and Iirving Kristol were my main guides into conservative thinking. Norman Podhoritz, for example, was an inportant pro-Israel and anti-Islam writer, long before it was fashionable.

    Why Bill Kristol and his WS had declared war on Donald Trump is a mystery to me. This is why the WS folded. One of Trump’s strengths — outside of speaking a tough, attack conservatism — is his ability to organize conservative, grassroots rallies. This has always been a weak spot with conservatives, and the Republican party, before Trump. While I support many strands of conservatism, including neoconservative thinking, the many different kinds of conservatism could do well learning from Trump’s grassroots work. — David Murrell in Fredericton

    1. “One of Trump’s strengths — outside of speaking a tough, attack conservatism — is his ability to organize conservative, grassroots rallies.”

      And then getting his ass caved in during subsequent midterms. D+40

      WS for all its flaws is against racism and economic illiteracy. That’s a large part of why they and sensible people hate Trump.

      1. hay unDork, and Trump just cashed in Obungles care, by stealth.

        You calling yerself intellectual is the comic comment of the day. I know tree stumps that are intellectual…..hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

  5. Yes they were the makers of their own demise.
    They were of course vastly superior to the people that were supposed to read and follow their high minded ideas of nothingness wrapped up in meaningless sophistry.

    Sometimes, for no reason, you get the feeling that things go as they should and by the nature of things eliminate the chaff.
    Eventually this will happen to the socialist, fascists and other such ‘ists.
    The only sad thing about it that in the meantime there will be a lot, meaning a whole lot of destruction of normal in favor of malevolence.

    1. Hopefully you are right. I probably will not see this, unless it happens soon, as I am getting a little long in the tooth. However I hope that my children and grandchildren are spared living through the hell on earth that my grandparents and their siblings lived through.

      Kristol et al probably are unable to see what is behind the yellow vests either. They could not see Trump’s yellow vest.

      1. Sometimes one thinks that there should be reeducation camps for the superior legends in their own mind to bring them down to something resembling reality.
        Methinks that these people sit all day, every day, now in smokeless rooms, shooting the sheet and reinforce each other of their greatness, then they come out once in a while and the rest of the population should give respect and awe.
        While they do have better information than people that have real jobs, they don’t seem to know what to think of it, so they talk and write stupid. They use the sophisticated words to impress those that they think are so much inferior.
        In appearance it looks like they don’t see past the end of their noses.

  6. It never failed to amaze me how -bad- that magazine got. For a rag that called itself capitalist and conservative, you would think they’d know that yelling at their customers and calling them stupid is not the right way to make money.

  7. what a bunch of dummies.
    all they had to do was put a call in to the PMO and voila !!! millions in subsidies !!! (the precedent has been set after all)
    (oh shyt. I hope I didnt give them ideas . . . . )

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