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Point Deer, Make Horse

January 6, 2022 – 10:48 pm

The astonishingly prolific Victor Davis Hanson observes Insurrection Day with a fine essay on just who constitutes the actual threat to the American Way. Read it here. If you are wondering, by the way, what the title of this post refers to, you can read the story of Zhao Gao over at Spandrell’s place, here. […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Politics, Reaction | Comments (6)

The Confusion Of Tongues

March 26, 2022 – 12:35 pm

I’ve referred on several occasions to the old Chinese story about “calling a deer a horse”, which describes the scheming courtier Zhao Gao’s stratagem (this was way back in the third century BC) for testing the loyalty of potential political allies by seeing what lies they would assent to. I first read about this over […]

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Duh!

February 7, 2022 – 3:10 pm

Yes, Justin “Trudeau” is Fidel Castro’s son. This is about as obvious as it could be, and if you are wondering why those in power keep lying about this, I advise you to look up “Point deer, make horse”. If this is actually news to you, read this. (And as current events amply confirm, the […]

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Zhi Lu Wei Ma

May 12, 2020 – 12:06 pm

In a press-conference today Governor Andrew Cuomo twice referred to the current pandemic as “the European virus”. I am old and experienced, and expect nothing but lies and deception from politicians generally, and Democrats in particular, but even by contemporary Blue-Team standards this is stunningly audacious. Everybody — everybody! — knows this thing did not […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Politics | Comments (8)