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Benjy Compson's avatar

Respectfully Jaywalker…What’s in the name “‘Royal’ ‘Commission’”…To think Australia still has the former, as the last time I remember the latter having produced anything beneficial combating anti semitism in the mist is…well, I cannot remember. But, to the village Idiwitt, there is always punching Nazis to make them feel the error of their ways…sorry, much as that may offend you, I doubt anyone on the commission would put their sacred lives on the line if someone with a funny name where being attacked. Talk is cheap when confrontation with actual anti semites is the remedy, not commissioners.

This I should like to believe, as wishful thinking is hard to come by nowadays, but not today, not tomorrow, but one day the President of the United States glad handling with the likes of mass murderers, war criminals and the worlds biggest concentration camp commanders Putin, Xi and Un will go down in far more historical disgrace than anything every prior administration has wrought…The Don King Trumps administration is now like a bloody combo of Versailles Treaty turned into a Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact, straight outta The Eagles Nest…I mean Mar a Lago (When Heat Miser finally gets back in bed with the Devil O.M.G. is South Park not comic genius], there be a royal commission ordering the playboy mansion be burned to the ground and the wasteland salted over).

No disrespect, but I should like to say to Ben Shapiro’s comfortably smug face - “If Jesus is God, I would not want to be you, when you will little boy who cries wolf at every liberal tears and laughs out loud at The Don’s horrible schtick…Slinging bull shitte for a misspent life…all for your dual loyalties…Self interest is always in one’s self interest, but virtuous it so often is not”. One does not need a law degree to tell right from wrong…as, to our civilizations great contempt, so many a man of letters spin wrong into it is all right. Shame on the Daily Wire.

Did you know Ben Shapiros favorite copy of the Holy Bible has Trumps name embroidered in fools gold …on the front cover!

Bobby Cox…may he rest in peace…at least his antics were for all fun and games…and winning…at a ball park. What’s being built behind the Orangeman makes me think a disloyal commission needs to be formed to oppose this monster, I mean monster…but I applaud this “dumb person” getting the biggest POSPOTUS goat…so we see what a shameless sociopath he is in the flesh…and how good a commissions, I mean how bad we need to make sure young skulls full of mush need to learn the emperor’s does not have any love in his heart, just pure evil.

Humpty Dumbty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumbty had a great fall..and when I found out he was the Orangeman, I picked up the pieces and…Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my dark soul cleansing Jay, I mean being a beautiful soul. Onward and Upward. Peace through superior mental firepower.

Mary Bailey's avatar

“The Right needs to recover a proper sense of patriotism.” “The Right needs to recover a proper sense of manliness." The Right needs recover proper sense. Period. (Hah! How's that for tying two segments together, eh?)

Also, how could you leave out listing the greatest American comedians with Jewish birth names? Moses Harry Horwitz, Louis Feinberg, Samuel Horwitz, and Jerome Lester Horwitz (aka The Three Stooges)?

Daniel Stevens's avatar

I read this,don't recall who wrote it. You know what else needs to be recovered--left and right?

A sense of shame. So much garbage and filth coming from so many mouths,it's almost suffocating.

For the love of God,show some basic decency!,decorum,respect,restraint!

George Bascom's avatar

Thanks for leavening the depressing news (Ukraine v Russia, golden Trump statues, etc.); with a potpourri of statistics on baseball manager’s ejections (which I can’t wait to share with my morning coffee group), Jewish name changes throughout showbiz history and the postop nurse’s quip in the “Barnes and Noble recovery room”😂; as well as the beautiful Kodaks from Copenhagen and Gotham. Well worth the price of my paid subscription.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Thank you so much, George.

TP's avatar

I always thought Bobby Cox was much older than his actual age.

Donald Ashman's avatar

We live in an incredible time.

Is it possible, that within my lifetime, we shall see the fall & subsequent resurrection of Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and Russia?

Is it possible, we shall know lasting peace in the Middle East?

I am sixty-three, I doubt I will make it to eighty, so I am particularly hopeful it happens relatively soon.

I think often of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. To me, they were -and shall always be- “strong men”.

Putin and Trump don’t compare in terms of character, determination, and the willingness to expend political capital to advance that in which they believed.

Royal Commissions are a fascinating beast. A number of participants submit all sorts of data, studies, and recommendations, the panel moves across the Country holding hearings and accepting submissions, and then the Commission publishes its findings.

I wish Canada would initiate more Royal Commissions.

Great essay, Jay; a joy to consume and ponder.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Thank you so much.

CynthiaW's avatar

“He’s the strongest leader of your and I’s time. Period.”

Some people remember nothing about pronoun cases except that, in elementary school, they were told to say, "Billy and I went to the store," not, "Billy and me [or me and Billy] went to the store."

Pronouns aside, I think that Markwayne and I live, philosophically, in different time zones.