Posted on 09/07/2021 12:12:32 PM PDT by Twotone
A decade and a half back, the late Christopher Hitchens was talking to the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and brought up my demographic-death-spiral thesis from America Alone. Hitch wanted to know whether, when the PM got together with the Continental bigwigs, it was part of "the European conversation".
Tone replied that it was part of "the subterranean conversation".
By which he meant that nice house-trained EU prime ministers hadn't figured out a way to raise such subjects in public without being damned as racists and becoming electorally unviable, at least anywhere west of the Landstraße, to modify Metternich. They still haven't. Fifteen years on, almost every subject worth talking about remains part of "the subterranean conversation". But once in a while, even for Mr Blair, the subterranean pokes its head above the surface:
Former British P.M. Tony Blair Rips Biden Afghanistan Withdrawal: Gives 'Our Opponents A Belief Our Time Is Over'
Well, our opponents aren't wrong about that, are they? In fact, Tone is still being semi-subterranean about all this: It's not just "our opponents" who belive "our time is over", but a significant percentage of the west's ruling class. For why else would they have gone over to the other side? Our randomly selected Shill of the Day, Joe Biden's jetsetting climate honcho:
John Kerry echoes China's argument that human rights sanctions threaten climate talks
So many global A-listers are "echoing China's argument" these days, don't you find? Fauci and the public health gang, the stars and administrators of those crappy unwatchable corporate sports, Justin Trudeau, Hollywood, the WHO...
It suits China that climate change is the only Big Picture non-subterranean conversation we are permitted to have.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Steyn tellin’ it like it is - as usual.
John Kerry echoes China's argument that human rights sanctions threaten climate talks. So many global A-listers are "echoing China's argument" these days, don't you find? Fauci and the public health gang, the stars and administrators of those crappy unwatchable corporate sports, Justin Trudeau, Hollywood, the WHO... It suits China that climate change is the only Big Picture non-subterranean conversation we are permitted to have.
I wonder what Rumsfeld would say today?
Maybe he really didn’t just die of old age.
I suppose he would be on fox with war monger Graham.
Btt
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