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Month: 1 Elul 5781 (August 2021)

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Nationalists Turn Their Lonely Eyes to Hungary by Jonah Goldberg (The Dispatch)
It’s not just a dumb and bad model for the United States. It's an impossible one.
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Rod Dreher not knowing that VDARE is a white nationalist website is about as believable as my hill staffer friend telling me he only learned about QAnon like a month before the election.

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

100%. And they didn’t start because people listened to their concerns and had a conversation about it. They did it because there were penalties for refusing https://t.co/UsLqmGqYtm

— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

There is a world of difference between lawyers representing clients or causes with which you disagree and lawyers who are unethical or incompetent.

The latter deserves disparagement. The former does not. https://t.co/XxhW8ATIPg

— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

I said the following while on with @AliVelshi this morning:

“The GOP base no longer believes democracy can give them the America they want. So they embrace authoritarianism to give them the America they want.”

If you could hear what I hear every day, you’d know it’s true.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Vallarta Mexican Restaurant
Augusta, Georgia

90 °F Partially cloudy

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Pathetic. Take more seriously your role as someone who puts content in front of thousands of people’s eyes. VDARE is poison. pic.twitter.com/APoWbuYjpQ

— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

There was a backlash against both seatbelt mandates and crackdowns on drunk driving. Pre-MADD, drunk driving was broadly treated as hilarious. Dean Martin had a recurring skit where he pretended to drunk drive with a toy steering wheel. Seat belt revanchists were a thing too. https://t.co/TJrv0VOPq5

— Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) August 7, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Until about five minutes ago, critics of illiberalism like Andrew Sullivan championed tolerance and free speech on campus. But here he was yesterday, highlighting this really quite extraordinary piece of statist apologetics in National Review. https://t.co/l9OolqFnq0

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Mouse's Lair
Augusta, Georgia

89 °F Partially cloudy

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

“Okay. All right, now, let's see. Where were we? Oh, yes. In the Pit of Despair.” —returning to my home desk Monday morning after not thinking about work since Friday evening

— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Georgia / South Carolina State Line
North Augusta, SC

92 °F Clear

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Was Trump putting on a show or did he knowingly work to stay in power despite losing reelection?
It was already obviously the latter, but we now have confirmation from two pieces of evidence typically used in trials: contemporaneous notes and sworn testimony from someone involved https://t.co/TH0PHk6eG7

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Hey, remember when Trump insisted in a 2016 presidential primary debate that the US military would follow illegal orders if he gave them? Yeah.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) August 8, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

The last-minute changes stripped out most requirements intended to boost South Dakota students' understanding of Native Americans. https://t.co/AEnXQg9ieR

— Ruth Brown (@RuthBrownNews) August 9, 2021
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 2 minutes to read

#BlogElul Day 1 and #Blogboost day 2: Decide.

Most years, Elul is my favorite time of year, and at the beginning at least I usually have a plan with everything laid out as to how i’ll go through the month. This year I haven’t done that, because of how insane last year turned out to be. As <a href="https://www.adatosystems.com/2021/08/08/blogelul-day-zero/">AdatoSystems</a> puts it: <blockquote>For many of us, myself included, last year was a lot. Too much, in fact. Too much to keep up with. Too much to process. Too much to add one more thing.</blockquote>

And so I ended up at Rosh Hashanah feeling very unprepared.

This year, I’m doing things a bit differently. The only plans are to write these posts, and for everything else I’m leaving planning out of the mix because it usually gets in the way of actually getting anything accomplished.

Well, that, and that whole thing about how we plan and God laughs.

I have a couple of books I’ll dip into, but I definitely don’t plan to regiment much. I think it would probably get in the way.

So for today, i’m just deciding to give this a go, and will let it go where it goes.

State College

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Grace Fellowship
North Augusta, SC

88 °F Clear

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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Teshuvah: Return + Reboot, Day 1 from outorah.org
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read
Tefillah Challenges: Focus on Ashrei, Day 1 from outorah.org
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· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

if only there were other tools people could use to mitigate the surge that abbott could promote or even require. alas. https://t.co/6mfHjAa1TG

— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) August 9, 2021
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