Showing posts with label Peggy Noonan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peggy Noonan. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2023

Peggy Noonan sees a lot of inauthenticity out there

 But what else would you expect from a nAtIoN oF iMmIgRaNtS?
 
Peggy is nothing if not the quintessential American who hates everything "stuck in the past", creepy or no. "Someone needs to make it new".
 


Saturday, November 12, 2022

Salena Zito is obviously channeling Peggy Noonan: The women recommend just giving up on secure chain of custody voting

The weaker sex recommends you give in. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

That right there is the whole history of conservatism, from the advent of the Progressive Era 130 years ago until now.

Currently, Democrats are miles ahead of Republicans at targeting specific races and voters. Through mail balloting, they put those voters in the bank early. ... Republicans can complain about the current rules all they want, but what they need to do is wake up and start competing with the Democrats where they are. Otherwise, they're just leaving winnable races on the table.

Florida Republicans certainly have figured it out. In 2018 and 2020, the Democrats went into Election Day with more ballots cast than Republicans in early voting. This year, Florida Republicans flipped that on its head. Republicans in other states should take note.

-- Salena Zito, in her conclusion here

It is rude of Arizona and Nevada to keep the country waiting to know the composition of its Senate. Why, days after the election, don’t we know which party controls the House? Why can’t the late-reporting states get their act together on vote counting? It’s the increase in mail-in ballots? So what? You roll with life and adapt. Florida, which spans two time zones, reports its tallies with professionalism and dispatch. 

-- Peggy Noonan, from her lede here

 

Friday, April 29, 2022

Everyone keeps lying about Putin saying he'll use nukes, the latest being Peggy Noonan of all people

From her irresponsible column, here:

Mr. Putin talks about nuclear weapons a lot. He did it again Wednesday: In a meeting with politicians in St. Petersburg, he said if anyone intervenes in Ukraine and “creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic in nature,” the Russian response will be “lightning fast.” He said: “We have all the tools for this that no one else can boast of having. We won’t boast about it, we’ll use them, if needed.”

He’s talked like this since the invasion. It’s a tactic: He’s trying to scare everybody. That doesn’t mean the threat is empty. 

There are signs the Russians are deliberately creating a historical paper trail, as if to say they warned us. On Monday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the risk of nuclear conflict is “serious” and “should not be underestimated.”

No he doesn't. No he hasn't. And neither has Lavrov. Listen for yourself. It's Peggy who is supplying "the risk of nuclear conflict", not Lavrov. Lavrov is clearly referring to the dangerous increased rhetoric about the possibility of nuclear conflict, which is precisely the hysteria Peggy Noonan is engaging in. The Russians have been very circumspect. They don't actually use the terminology. They're not bluffing. They're beating around the bush to create uncertainty, to keep their enemies off balance.





Putin has never used the phrase "nuclear weapon" in any of these examples which have been reported in the press since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Putin's hypersonic capability is clearly in focus in his statements. He has them and the West does not. He's threatening to use them with conventional warheads against Western targets, which is bad enough. But nuclear warheads? That's what he wants us to think, to create fear. But he's never actually said it.

The nuclear talk is all Western hype, exaggeration, and lying. And Drudge is a major aggregator of such headlines. It's irresponsible and it must stop, because to continue it is to make the unthinkable, thinkable, and then actual.

Try exercising your free speech absolutism then, as your tongue vaporizes inside your mouth. 

Meanwhile Peggy Noonan appears not to have considered that Putin has daughters, to whom he might really want to leave something other than smoking embers.

Hysteria has a way of blinding one to important facts.

NOONAN: Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine!

Moscow warns 'do not underestimate threat of nuclear war'... ^  

Putin test-fires 'Satan' nuclear missile... ^  

Cronies 'flee to bunkers' in sign might turn nuclear... ^ 

UN Warns: Nuclear War 'Within Realm of Possibility'... ^  

Putin actions trigger long-buried fears of nuclear war for generations of Americans... ^ 

Accused of Nuclear 'Terrorism'... ^ 

Putin nuclear threat part of new escalation policy... ^ 

Even Putin's generals look stunned after being ordered to put nuclear forces on 'alert'... Decree that shocked the world... ^ 

PUTIN WARNS HE'LL NUKE WEST ^ 
Nuke-capable missiles loaded onto subs... ^ 
NUKE BOMBER BUZZES UKRAINE... ^ 
POPE NUKE WARNING ^ 
ZELENSKY NUKE WARNING TO WORLD... ^  

CIA Director: Nuke threat not taken 'lightly'... ^
Nuke Fears Stoked With Atomic Weapons Warnings... ^ 

Girds for Nuke Incident... ^

Senators mull unthinkable: Vlad detonating nuke... ^ 

FEAR: More Putin Nuke Threats... ^

Likely More Nuke Threats... ^ 
PUTIN NUKE FEARS GROW ^ 
NUKE CONCERNS RISING ^ 
Nuke threat part of new escalation policy... ^ 
NUKE CRAZY! ^ 
ORDERS NUKE FORCES ON HIGH ALERT ^ 
ORDERS NUKE FORCES ON HIGH ALERT ^ 

PUTIN NUKE WARNING? ^