The Bull Moose Sheet

“Joining a Twitter mob seizing on a hapless middle manager or an out-of-touch English professor may feel like justice, but it’s just a cheap drip of dopamine lost in an ocean of social media profits.” — Scott Galloway

A New Day: A time for political growth, for the Center must hold.

Returning to this blog after over a year of neglect, I return to a very different world and a nation where the political spectrum has transformed. Never has it been more important for the center to regain control of the American polity, and for our focus to turn toward bettering ourselves and providing for our own. Our job is not to remake the world in our image – it is to become once again that…

Boeing Stock Rises As $60 BIllion Aerospace Industry Bailout Still Eyed | Investor’s Business Daily

Boeing is seeking all $60 billion it requested for the aerospace industry despite saying the company didn’t need a bailout to survive. Boeing stock rose.

Source: Boeing Stock Rises As $60 BIllion Aerospace Industry Bailout Still Eyed | Investor’s Business Daily

It is difficult to overstate the key role Boeing plays in the economy and in the national defense, so I find it hard to begrudge the…

With respect to the threats posed by Iran, it is Trump who has shown surprising vision and Macron and the rest of the Europeans who seem to lack the brainpower to understand that their efforts are strengthening an enemy of the West.

Jonathan Tobin

Source: INSTEX: European Appeasement of Iran Threatens West | National Review

Our Jonathan misses the point: Europe’s appeasement of Iran is wrong, but…

I think Donald Trump would look outstanding in an orange jumpsuit.

Just sayin’…

The true test of the democratic (note the small “d”) process rests primarily on whether the candidates put forward are qualified for the offices they seek.

Any attempt to qualify or disqualify someone on grounds of identity or net worth undermines that process and is antithetical to democracy.

Homelessness is not entirely about homes

Well-intended though it might be, you don’t solve homelessness by building homes.

Homelessness is the symptom, not the cause, and we need to attack the causes with even greater vigor and resources than those with which we address the symptoms.

Trump (to media): “We’ll see what happens with North Korea.”

China (to North Korea): “We’ll see what happens with Trump.”

How to Regain Your Political Sanity: Rule #2

Learn the difference between someone who speaks for unity, and someone who speaks for division. Spend a lot more time listening to the former than to the latter.

Learn the difference between an emotional argument and a rational argument, and why the latter tends to be stronger than the former. Then apply that to every political discussion you hear.

Trump’s Energy Department delays phase out of incandescent lightbulbs – The Washington Post

The Trump administration gave old fashioned, incandescent lightbulbs a holiday gift Friday: a new lease on life.

Source: Trump’s Energy Department delays phase out of incandescent lightbulbs – The Washington Post

This is corporate welfare, pure and simple, and at the cost of a program designed to cut energy use in the home.

Follow the money.

91 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in taxes in 2018 under Trump’s tax law

91 Fortune 500 companies managed to avoid paying taxes in 2018 under the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

Source: 91 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in taxes in 2018 under Trump’s tax law

Corporate welfare.

Throughout its history of international relations, Russia has proven that the longest distance between any two points is the distance between conciliatory statements out of the Kremlin and an actual agreement to which Moscow will confirm. Beware of disinformation: the Russians made it an art form decades ago.

Why Are Young People Turning to Socialism?

This brings me back to fear. The last time the Left had this much pull was during the Great Depression. There are parallels between that time and ours. In some ways the Depression was worse than anything we know now. But in at lest in one way, it seems like things are far worse today.

Source: Why Are Young People Turning to Socialism?

C.R. Wiley over at Paterfamilias makes some superb points…

I also know that I am a privileged middle-aged white guy and I have a giant bull’s-eye on my back. And, in a way, my acute sensitivity to my privilege and my status as a Fat Target keeps me safely tucked away, head down over my keyboard, out of range. When you know they’re out hunting for you and your kind, you tend to keep out of sight.

— Rob Long

Source: What Drag and Blackface Have in Common…