Storm und Frum

A tweetstorm’s tweetstorm from David Frum:

Slicing away one’s memory lobes an excellent basis for decision-making, so sure (he said with heavy sarcasm). [A Fresh Start for Trump!]

Let’s have a fresh start and forget that the president-elect owes his victory in large part to aid by a hostile foreign intelligence agency

Let’s have a fresh start and pretend that the president-elect didn’t alert allies and enemies that America may ignore its NATO pledges

Let’s have a fresh start and forget that the president-elect remains committed to a religious test for the rights of citizenship

Let’s have a fresh start and never mind that the president elect is a confessed serial sexual assailant

Let’s have a fresh start and who cares that the new administration is already developing fraternal ties to fascist parties in Europe

Let’s have a fresh start and believe that it doesn’t matter that the president-elect owes hundreds of millions to the Bank of China

Let’s have a fresh start, because who is bothered that black, brown, & Muslim fellow citizens have been demeaned and feel terrified?

Let’s have a fresh start, and hope that pro-Trump trolls will cease bullying women into silencing themselves on social media

Let’s have a fresh start, because it will take time to learn how the president-elect has prostituted his office for personal gain

Let’s have a fresh start, because 70 year old men afflicted by narcissistic personality disorder often suddenly become better people

Lets have a fresh start, because it’s only fair play to give would-be kleptocrats a 6-month head start before we act to stop them

Let’s have a fresh start, because Trump’s contemptuous assumption of media gullibility is fully justified.

Here’s an idea: Democrats demand $100 billion in new tax revenue for every Democratic vote Boehner needs to pass this thing or we kill the hostage (e.g. ‘Merica).

Oh, and did we seem to have concluded an agreement just then? Sorry. We also want a Progressive Taxation amendment to the Constitution.

It had never occurred to me that Atlas Shrugged was actually about the dire need in this country for high speed rail.

John Hodgman tweets all things Ayn Rand.
Rest assured, John, based on the trailer, they’ve converted the Taggart Transcontinental into a massive freight train operation. Though I do seem to recall seeing a bullet train zip by, presumably it was built with government stimulus funds atop cheap and reliable Rearden metal.
Cognitive dissonance alert: It seems likely that observant Objectivists can only reach Galt’s Gulch by taking the Obama Express! What to do? What to do? Help us, Jeebus.
Rand’s prescription in this instance most likely involves quasi-consensual rough sex. So you know.