Posted on 03/27/2020 6:05:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
When the United States Senate votes unanimously for what President Trump calls the largest spending bill in the history of the planet, I take it as read that it's just the usual bazillion-dollar boondoggle that will merely lead to "North Troy Syndrome" on steroids.
By the way, the $25 million for the Kennedy Center remained in the bill. On the telly, critics of Kennedy Center greasing in a coronavirus emergency bill tend to preface their remarks with "I'm all in favor of the arts but..." Just for the record, the Kennedy Center is nothing to do with "the arts". It produces bland undemanding over-funded pap for DC lobbyists to take their clients to for a night of pseudo-culture. Had it never existed, we would have lost ...what? Leonard Bernstein's Mass? He'd have written it anyway, and would have benefited from a real and less indulgent producer. To hell with the Kennedy Center.
In economic (rather than humanitarian) terms, the main reason to bear the pain is if it's the first step in "decoupling" from China. I have loathed the mainstreaming of the ChiComs ever since it began. Here is what I wrote in The Sunday Telegraph fifteen years ago, certain aspects of which ring pathetically ironic now - like the Washington Post guy sucking up to the Commies about how China "is the best place in the world to be an American journalist": last week Beijing kicked the Post out of the country. Pretending, in the face of all the evidence, that this nation is a normal economic power like Germany or America has been deeply damaging, and may yet (virus-delivered or otherwise) prove fatal....
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
This virus is China’s downfall.
Wish Steyn was on Rush this week.
Me too. I hope he’s not sick.
I hope so.
When this is over there damned well better be a reckoning with China.
It’s way past time to jerk the rug out from underneath those Commie bastards.
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We’d have been those bazillion-dollars ahead to have spent
a little more on Made In America than that cheap stuff from China
He has the Kennedy Center perfectly. Very occasionally, and almost by accident, it produces something of value. Last year on a Thursday night it produced a brilliant performance of Phillip Glass’ Itaipu, a choral price celebrating an heroic hydroelectric project in Brazil. The following Saturday, the same program was repeated without Itaipu, but with a newly composed peice about the Artic instead. It featured a man in a lucite box chipping away on a block of ice accompanied by a piano. It was the emporor’s new clothes, pretentious junk that the Kennedy Center produces time and again. Go ahead, give ‘em another 25 million.
The Royal Nonesuch.
"When European analysts coo about a "Chinese century", all they mean is "Oh, God, please, anything other than a second American century".
Mark eloquently reveals the dream of the US left, including the Democrat Party, establishment Republicans, and the news media.
What's frightening is that half the US population can't understand these people and their designs on America.
What's reassuring is that Donald Trump does, and so does the half of the US population that supports him.
(The) ARTS: Items that individuals educated beyond their intelligence deem to indicate their societal worthiness, so they support them, but with public money, not their own.
They should have turned the Kennedy Center into a Wuhan Virus Morgue or a Soylent Green Facility.
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