Gen X conservative, Orthodox Christian. ‘Benedict Option', 'Live Not By Lies', 'Living In Wonder,' The Free Press, & https://teapaw.org/t.co/LCIoqQvR7f
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What a provincial moron. This guy’s accent is just … Southern. Down South, whites and blacks generally speak in accents pretty close to each other. Guess what: Southern wypipo also eat “soul food,” and don’t consider it racially coded. It’s just what Mammaw cooks.
hey so are we ready to discuss how this guy is using a blaccent and mocking speech patterns of african americans in the south
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The man in the clip is Russ Hudson using his authentic Mississippi Southern twang in Scott Colom's campaign ad, not a blaccent mocking Black speech.
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Rod Dreher retweeted
Looking at this *CBS National News* video about two groups of students arguing about one group making monkey noises, I will agaaaaain note that we are TRAINING people to be weak and fragile to the point of uselessness.
No sane person would spend days upset by this. You simply cannot have adults who hear something like "Catch the BALL, light-skin!" falling down and whimpering instead of doing so.
Weak people will be, and deserve to be, defeated by better ones.
Come ON, @realDonaldTrump, don’t treat this poor man like this!
This is Mark Mikhail.
He’s a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame where he is president of the Maritain Fellows and majoring in biology and theology.
He was arrested by ICE and detained for three nights while traveling back to campus from a visit home in California.
Mark is originally from Egypt. He and his family are “seeking asylum in the U.S. based on persecution of Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt.” He has a valid work permit, according to reports.
Now he is facing removal proceedings.
President Trump recently told Ross Douthat that his immigration enforcement polices might be “too tough.” Perhaps this is an example of that. Why not let Mark’s asylum application play out?
Read an interview with Mark in the Irish Rover, an independet, Catholic, and conservative student paper at a Notre Dame. Link below.
I loved hearing him speak. Foghorn Leghorn!
Senator Howell Heflin, one of the last democratic senators to come from the Deep South, known to his colleagues as “Judge,” announcing he would not seek another term in 1996.
“We need to return to the traditional value of just being neighborly”
Listen to that old southern draw!
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Thanks to @NellieBowles at @thefp for pointing out that the defunded NPR still continues to party like it's 2020. Here's an NPR piece from October. I guess now I'm going to have to get my fat ass off the couch and go to the damn gym, or I'm a commie.
npr.org/2026/10/16/nx-s1-599…
Big thanks to Justice Alito for the shoutout for "The Benedict Option" in his Federalist Society keynote last night. If you haven't read it yet, come on! Alito cited the book in his majority opinion in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru
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HOLY COW I JUST FOUND OUT PART ONE OF THE FILM 'DE GAULLE' IS AVAILABLE TO RENT NOW ON AMAZON PRIME STREAMING!
The rest of my evening is claimed. Vive la France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Old-school AOL user here, with the same email address I first got in 1998. I, for one, don't care if @MattWalshBlog makes fun of us AOL trads. I prefer to think of my email address as steampunk.
The most consistently insufferable and irrelevant neo con accounts on here are now having a full blown tantrum because I made a mild joke about AOL. That’s not even an exaggeration. That’s actually what they’re angry about. Click through the QTs. There isn’t some horrible thing at the end of it that I’m trying to paper over. Literally a joke about AOL, directed at Mark Levin not some random old granny (although maybe he qualifies, admittedly).
Rod Dreher retweeted
Not that it will matter, but below is the full passage in which Houellebecq uses the term "great replacement." @MarkLandler @nytimes @LibrairieRCamus @mhouellebecq
“At first, I was very shocked that this was called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact. I’d not read Renaud Camus. I’d wanted to read him for a long time, because I have a great deal of respect for Emmanuel Carrère and he’s written on several occasions that “it’s really a shame Renaud Camus defends these positions. He’s such a good writer!” Anyway, I eventually read him, and it’s true, Renaud Camus is a good writer, there’s no doubt about it. So, he’s observed a great replacement or, to be more precise, the modification of the ethnic and religious composition of the European population. As a matter of statistics, it’s undeniable. But, contrary to what I believed, there are traces of conspiracy theorizing in him. I was surprised that an obviously intelligent man should put forward the idea that there was a conspiracy orchestrated by what he calls the “Davocrats,” a sort of group emerging from the Davos forum. For me, it’s obvious there’s no conspiracy. Where immigration is concerned, no one controls anything, and that’s the whole problem.”
The original French:
« D’abord, j’ai été très choqué qu’on appelle ça une théorie. Ce n’est pas une théorie, c’est un fait. Je n’avais pas lu Renaud Camus. Je voulais le lire depuis longtemps, parce que j’estime Emmanuel Carrère et qu’il a écrit a plusieurs reprises que « c’est vraiment dommage que Renaud Camus défende ces positions, c’est un si bon écrivain ! » Bon, j’ai fini par le lire, et c’est vrai, Renaud Camus est un bon écrivain, ça ne fait pas de doute. Donc, il a constaté un grand remplacement ou, pour être plus précis, la modification de la composition ethnique et religieuse de la population européenne. C’est une évidence statistique. Mais contrairement à ce que je croyais, il y a quelques traces de complotisme en lui. J’ai été surpris qu’un homme à l’évidence intelligent émette l’idée qu’il y aurait un complot orchestré par ce qu’il appelle les « davocrates », une espèce de groupe issu du forum de Davos. Pour moi, il est évident qu’il n’y a aucun complot. En matière d’immigration, personne ne contrôle rien, c’est bien là tout le problème. »
Michel Houellebecq and @renaudcamus in the NYT. A "theory," a "concept," "a racist concept," "a racist concept *by* the writer Renaud Camus," "White Christian Europeans"... It's all so tiresome.
Rod Dreher retweeted
We sent @RodDreher, who, in a past life, worked as a film critic, to watch “Confession,” Ben Shapiro’s screenwriting debut about an interrogation in Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Suffice to say: He loved it.
Read Rod’s full review here: bit.ly/4kLLzQ6
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This numpty holds the same office once held by the great and holy Joseph Ratzinger.
Kardinal Reinhard Marx und Nora Bossong diskutierten bei einem Gespräch in der Katholischen Akademie München – moderiert von Tobias Haberl – die Zukunft der Kirche. Alina Oehler war dabei und berichtet für COMMUNIO.
Auf die Frage, wie er sich die Kirche in München in 50 Jahren vorstelle, antwortete Marx: „Ich hoffe, dass viele sagen: ‚Wir wissen nicht genau, was wir glauben wollen, aber gut, dass ihr da seid!“
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Rod Dreher retweeted
White farmer gives first account of terrifying South Africa raid: 'They put my testicles in bolt cutters, sliced my wife's nipples and said they'd gang-rape her - it's not just about robbing us' trib.al/RoJ69I0
If this is true, then as a conservative who voted straight Republican in the midterms, I nevertheless hope the Democratic Congress gets to the bottom of this, and holds any guilty parties accountable.
Months after a fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump put about $30 million into a nearly bankrupt spa company, the Trump administration awarded that company nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola.
The company made most of its money from airport spas and waxing salons.
It had never worked with Ebola.
It had never worked overseas.
Yet part of the money is for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people this year. The company's CEO said, "I'm not sure we can do it."
This keeps happening. The same Trump-linked fund invested in a drone company, and five months later that company got an Air Force contract worth up to $90 million. A startup linked to Trump Jr. got a $620 million Pentagon loan after a top White House aide stepped in.
Their fund buys in, and federal money follows. Taxpayers foot the bill, and with Ebola, our safety is on the line too.
This is all totally corrupt.
Americans deserve answers under oath, and our conflict of interest and procurement laws must be enforced.
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It is. I wrote about it here:
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Rod Dreher retweeted
At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him.
One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape.
She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened.
The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer.
He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial.
His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal.
He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him.
Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million.
In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen.
It was her.
She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”
Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus.
On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her.
Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money.
In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute.
10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds.
A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?”
It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier.
He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16.
She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back.
What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?
Rod Dreher retweeted
This is one example of the values my parents passed down to me. I thank @cindyhydesmith for her service to our state. It was never personal to me. God bless her.
Scott Colom’s father: In victory you want to not be critical of other people. Cindy Hyde-Smith is a person who's been in service many years, and she's our competitor, but she's not our enemy. Scott's going to be her senator and her neighbor's senator, and he's not going to offer any criticism of her….