Yes, they should have totally learned that this kind of thing results in a humiliating, pathetic defeat in the elections. Oh, wait. . .

People are freaking out all over the place:

I don’t care that Pence got booed at a Broadway musical. I’m not even sure I’d be one of the boo-ers if I was there. But the instincts of our elite press to side with the powerful over the great unwashed masses is frightening.

The “great unwashed masses” are the folks who can afford to pay hundreds of dollars to attend a Broadway musical, of course. Those poor, downtrodden sufferers. I’m sure they’ve gone hungry for months to save up for the show and queued up in the cold, clutching their tattered rags to their bony, emaciated chests.

. . . who needs any enemies?

Mike Pence, the vice president-elect, took a break from planning the next administration on Friday night by attending the popular Broadway show “Hamilton.” Though Pence received a smattering of applause when he arrived, the New York audience mostly greeted the Indiana governor with boos.

The only goal this achieves is ensure the success of the narrative of “the Trump administration didn’t fulfill its promises because it was sabotaged and persecuted by nasty liberals even before the inauguration.” 

In the midst of all the self-righteous virtue-signaling, people don’t even stop to think that the world didn’t end after this election. And the only chance not to keep failing at the following elections is to think first and pout next.

Just imagine what it would look like to you if Tim Kaine came to see a show a week after getting elected only to get booed and lectured about, say, the rights of “the unborn” from the stage.  

In one model, immigration is a right. You need a very strong reason to take it away from anybody, and such decisions should be carefully inspected to make sure no one is losing the right unfairly. It’s like a store: everyone should be allowed to come in and shop and if a manager refused someone entry then they better have a darned good reason.

In another, immigration is a privilege which members of a community extend at their pleasure to other people whom they think would be a good fit for their community. It’s like a home: you can invite your friends to come live with you, but if someone gives you a vague bad feeling or seems like a good person who’s just incompatible with your current lifestyle, you have the right not to invite them and it would be criminal for them to barge in anyway.

It looks like many Clinton supporters believe in the first model, and many Trump supporters in the second model. I think this ties into deeper differences – Clinton supporters are more atomized and individualist, Trump supporters stronger believers in culture and community.

Ok, a very long quote, I apologize. But I’m very shocked by this. I’m a Clinton supporter but not only do I not believe in the first model, I don’t think anybody on the planet does. Because it’s deranged. Has anybody ever met a person who told them they believed this shit? 

But I’m completely atomized and individualist and words culture and community make me want to vomit. So this is supposed to be my approach. But it totally isn’t.

This is not making sense at all.

Taking Canadians to a Midwestern Macy’s is very rewarding. You get to watch people discover that a kinder, gentler world is possible. 

Canadian – and especially Quebecois – clothing stores are very unforgiving. You will be judged, scoffed at and made to understand that the clothing industry will not accommodate your freakish body.

You’ve got to go to pop business lit to get a feel for the nature of the transformation. This is from a book by the founder of LinkedIn:

“The conditions in which entrepreneurs start and grow companies are the conditions we all now live in when fashioning a career,” he wrote. “You never know what’s going to happen next. Information is limited. Resources are tight. Competition is fierce. The world is changing. And the amount of time you spend at any one job is shrinking. This means you need to be adapting all the time. And if you fail to adapt, no one — not your employer, not the government — is going to catch you when you fall.”

It’s all true.

What I don’t get is when people go, “Removing restrictions on fracking will destroy the environment!” It’s the same logic that motivates the endless war on drugs: fight the supply while doing nothing about the demand. And we all know how successful that plan is.

As long as the demand for oil is high, it will be wrestled out of the planet’s entrails. What does it matter where exactly it’s taken? It’s one planet, one environment. At least, when you get it here in the US, you get the added benefit of controlling world affairs. 

My own reaction to the election is as follows. I hoped that the nation-state model could drag out its existence for a while longer. But the kind of knowledge that groups can unconsciously access is greater than what individuals can do. The collective verdict is clearly that national governments are irrelevant and the market-state is on. It’s everybody for themselves, and national politics exists just for fun.

By the next election, it will be way too late to attempt salvaging the nation-state. Even the last sad remnants will be dead and gone. 

At this point, the new world order is being constituted. Whoever saddles it first will own the 21st century like the US owned the 20th.

…The number of tourists has risen by as much as 30 percent every year for the last four years, according to Iceland’s Tourist Board. They brought in revenues of $3.2 billion in 2015, a third of the country’s export earnings. Tourism is the single biggest employer. . .

A poll in October conducted by the national broadcaster RUV reported that 87 percent of Icelanders want the government to raise fees or taxes on tourists.

Dumbasses would rather go hungry than adapt to even just a temporary presence of somebody a bit different. Note that they are in no hurry to create any alternative industries either. It’s just pouting and whining.

I can assure you that hardly any voters in Missouri heard anything about Clinton’s paid family leave and other proposals. Clinton could have run television ads here talking about what she wanted to do for working people. Instead, she ran ads letting us know that Donald Trump ties are made in China.

Liar, liar, pants on fire. This is a dumb lie aimed at the people who sit in their coastal enclaves and would rather have a coronary than actually live in Missouri. I, however, do live here☆ and I had no idea that the ad about ties even existed. 

The ad about paid maternity leave ran a bazillion times. But here’s the problem. People who want that leave were already Dem voters. The ones who voted against Clinton don’t want the leave. They want the kind of life where they’d never need it. 

When Hillary said “I’ll fight for paid family leave”, the people in question heard her say, “I will fight to destroy the only way of life you consider worthwhile.” Also, using “family leave” instead of “maternity” is anathema in these parts.

Not everybody values the same things as you do. Not everybody wants to live the same life. 

People, I know it’s tempting to chalk up the loss to some mistake in the campaign minutiae. But this loss isn’t about that. 60 million people in this country actively don’t want the ideas you offer. 90 million don’t want these ideas passively. If you fixate on “It’s Hillary’s fault”, you’ll keep losing. The Congress has been Republican for years. Governorships have been getting redder and redder. Is that because of Hillary, too?

It’s the messaging that’s the problem, not the wrapper, even though the wrapper is imperfect, too.

☆ My local paper and TV are all from MO.