Lord Conrad Black, biographer and historian, joins Ed to discuss his recently-published The Political and Strategic History of the World, Volume I. Lord Black discusses with Ed contemporary politics and the moment in history we inhabit. Ed and Lord Black also talk about the subject of the book: history from antiquity to the time of Caesar.
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9 Responses
Lord Conrad Black, mediocre businessman, ex-jailbird, demagogue, and pretend-intellectual*
DDOK, rarely a kind word to say,
Never a balanced view to display
Submerged in acrimonious negativity
An intelligence aborted by hostility.
Howard Nelson, the fuzzy-headed old guy
Was asleep when he was taught Article One, Section Nine
Completely oblivious to Habeas Corpus,
His kind swallow tall tales others can smell as bogus
“You’re unkind to demagogues!” he indignantly states,
“You’re supposed to pet jackals, and kiss rattlesnakes!”
To Howard, the dummy, and his demand I be nice
I say, hugging cacti is foolish advice.
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“In the four years since, Fox viewers had become even more accustomed to flattery and less willing to hear news that challenged their expectations. Instead of understanding his narrow win in 2016 as the upset it was, they were told forecasters were going to be wrong again. Me serving up green beans to viewers who had been spoon-fed ice cream sundaes for years came as a terrible shock to their systems.”
Thank you for the additional evidence supporting some of the implications in my doggerel.
Don’t drive when you’re hallucinating; you might run into the truth. Blessings.
Thank you for the additional evidence supporting some of the implications in my doggerel.
Don’t drive when you’re hallucinating; you might run into the truth. Blessings.
KOOLAID WARNING:
Commenter “Koolaid” above is a self-confessed paid government troll and well-known peddler of misinformation and deranged conspiracy theories on these pages. He specializes in nastiness, is possessed of a visceral hatred for Conrad Black and suffers from chronic TDS.
Regular readers are used to navigating their way around Koolaid’s droppings in the same way one avoids dog excrement on the sidewalks of a good neighbourhood. “Koolaid” has nothing to offer: reason, logic and decency are beyond him; his language is crude, the repetition mind-numbing and the propaganda he pushes patently transparent.
Ah, it’s my good friend Arthur C
He’s on French leave from some Facility
Why, sure, my friend, I’m a government troll
And you most certainly are not a Koolaid-drunk goofball 🙂
@Howard Nelson … as you can see from the “Koolaid” droppings above, it is futile attempting to engage seriously with this entity. The aim of “Koolaid” (not always manned by the same individual) is simply to disrupt and propagandize, utilizing the 4 ‘D’s of Disinformation. You should be aware that the internet today is largely curated by governments. All the major social media platforms & many website comments sections are infested with rats’ nests of perverted little government censors & trolls like “Koolaid” who get cheap thrills abusing & spying on the citizenry.
These entities operate in essentially the same way that troll farms in China & in Russia under the Putin regime have been doing for decades. Their purpose is to discredit dissenting entities & individuals on the one hand and to propagandize current state narratives on the other. In the US, these state-sponsored operations complement the now captured mainstream “whore media”. A key player in all this is CISA, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. You can read more background here.
The orchestrators of this project to control the internet are paranoid crypto fascists, often with military & intelligence backgrounds. But the foot soldiers like “Koolaid” are generally in it for the money and while they will faithfully execute whatever orders come down from their masters with dog-like obedience they have zero principles: on a moral compass they are on a par with a pedophile pimp’s assistant; so engaging them is pointless! One can however be charitable: you cannot hold the choice of people like “Koolaid” to choose a career as a parasite on the body politic against them. If one is limited in the brain cell department & without any marketable skills then copying & pasting the a handful of propaganda snips beats working as a garbage collector; you get to work indoors sitting behind a screen which provides you with a great sense of achievement; & these days you even get a simple AI tool to compose doggerel & make you look smart 🙂
But for aspirant trolls, the real beauty of it all is that you get a job for life, paid for by the US taxpayer, complete with pension. All you need to do is lick the right boots at the right time.
Just to quell any concerns interested readers may have: it is now entirely legal for an elected US administration to use spy agencies to censor and discredit perceived political opponents who are US citizens. Doing so is necessary to preserve “our democracy“. And why we’re all urged to fight to protect it.
Arthur, my friend, you are incredibly dense
If you think your missives make a smidgen of sense
You’re just another fanatic, the signs are all there
You spout ignorance, absurd tales, and hot air 🙂