Posted on 05/17/2016 9:17:19 AM PDT by Nachum
What exactly has birthed the Pajama Boy aristocracy our overclass of pretentious, inexperienced, and smug 30-something masters of the universe? Prolonged adolescence? Affluence? The disappearance of physical chores and muscular labor? The collapse of traditional liberal education and the triumph of the therapeutic mindset? Disdain for or ignorance of life outside the BostonNew YorkWashington corridor? Political correctness as a sort of careerist indemnity that allows one to live a sheltered and apartheid existence? The shift in collective values and status from production, agriculture, and manufacturing to government, law, finance, and media? The reinvention of the university as a social-awareness retreat rather than a place to learn? During the showdown over Obamacare, the pro-Obama PAC Organizing for Action put out an ad now known as Pajama Boy. It showcased a young fellow in thick retro-rimmed glasses, wearing black-and-red plaid childrens-style pajamas, and sipping from a mug, with a sort of all-knowing expression on his face. The text urged: Wear pajamas. Drink hot chocolate. Talk about getting health insurance. #GetTalking. Most men in Dayton or Huntsville do not lounge around in the morning in their pajamas, with or without built-in footpads, drinking hot chocolate and scanning health-insurance policies. That our elites either think they do, or think the few that matter do, explains why a nation $20 trillion in debt envisions the battle over transgender restrooms as if it were Pearl Harbor.
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Testing my resilience.
And yet this same publication rejects the Alpha-male doer Trump for the eggheaded theorist Cruz (not that Cruz doesn’t have his place, but come on, he’s not exactly the return to testosterone and muscular effort this country needs right now).
Bkmrk.
Teams of aides with Masters Degrees from Georgetown and the Ivy League, reporting to the Johnathan Grubers of the world, write these 8000 page bills that are never read but are voted into law to control your life.
Huh, and here’s me thinking that’s what happened to NR too. Hopefully they are on the mend.
I will be happy, when we have adults in charge of our government again.
It is painful to watch some people, such as Marie Harf, who seems clearly over her head, in key positions in our government.
It is as if children are in the Obama administration.
It will happen. Trump is getting in.
LOL. Thanks for the laugh....
Trump is going to have to go Scorched Earth firing this crowd in his first six weeks in office.
bttt
Yep.
It’s been my White Privilege to work and pay taxes all my life to support these worthless lazy goofs and all their Dindu welfare recipients. Now I have to support islamo filth that is coming here to destroy America.
Our government is fubar and needs replaced with real Americans that work and believe in America.
During the showdown over Obamacare, the pro-Obama PAC Organizing for Action put out an ad now known as Pajama Boy. It showcased a young fellow in thick retro-rimmed glasses, wearing black-and-red plaid childrens-style pajamas, and sipping from a mug, with a sort of all-knowing expression on his face. The text urged: Wear pajamas. Drink hot chocolate. Talk about getting health insurance. #GetTalking.
You don’t have to look as far as 30’s...the 20-somethings are forming our opinions...or trying to.
Example, one of Fox New’s current favs is Katie Pavlich. She graduated from Univ. of Arizona with a batchelors degree in broadcast journalism in 2010, started editing a website (Townhall.com) and wrote a book about fast and furious and later another one about the left’s war on women. She appears as a “conservative expert” on various shows and channels.
My point is, she’s had no work experience outside of journalism, and while writing a book (even a successful one, which we’re not sure of) is a worthy undertaking, aren’t you supposed to have some life experience that forms the views you express in your books? In her four years of college, Ms. Pavlich probably took the required undergrad history classes, but learning to edit video or write scripts hardly provides a person with a world view that anyone would find interesting.
Yet here we have another field where youth, good looks, and ambition are taken as surrogates for knowing what you’re talking about, and having anything worthwhile to say.
I found this quote from Pajama Boy interesting and quite telling: "...There is no doubt that Michael[Jordan] is a better golfer than I am. Of course, if I was playing twice a day for the last 15 years, then that might not be the case..."
Yes. And according to people like him, our Special Forces, Ranger teams, and front line combat troops can be populated with female recruits, with no adverse effects. Fantasy is as real as reality for people like him.
Just reading that opening paragraph got the juices going. VDH nailing it.
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