Another conservative “intellectual” admits that he is bitterly disappointed that the wallet inspector did not, despite assurances, return his wallet and candidly regrets his recent essay The West Must Let the Wallet Inspector Do His Job - ThreadSky

dorianlynskey.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Another conservative “intellectual” admits that he is bitterly disappointed that the wallet inspector did not, despite assurances, return his wallet and candidly regrets his recent essay The West Must Let the Wallet Inspector Do His Job

Reposted from Bram De Ridder

Almost too good this.

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jamesnsmith.bsky.social•2 days ago

Niall has a strong track record as a judge of character. Many years ago he said that punk rock inspired him to support Margaret Thatcher. #idiot

louise275.bsky.social•2 days ago

So weird. Even I know that JD Vance has always taken this position, as has Trump in his own 'art of the deal' way. The only surprise here is how much they, and Alan Rusk, are Putin's mouthpieces.

fernmonkey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ah yes, the Finding Out Stage.

davidpaintstuff.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's a bit late for them to be having second thoughts.

dorianlynskey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never too late

licksy.bsky.social•2 days ago

His use of “The West” is already redundant. Just *slow hand clap*…

leetaylorbythesea.bsky.social•2 days ago

So many right wing commentators are consistently stupid

smkali.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly, after 8 years of pundits digging in about how great Brexit was, I’m very relieved if anyone admits they made a mistake

dorianlynskey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Better than not but we can still roll our eyes about it

bramderidder.bsky.social•2 days ago

The best part is that the wallet inspector is now running around town with the latest essay of the intellectual, shouting "this is garbage", so the intellectual is now happily offering a second wallet to inspect.

toxicavenge.bsky.social•2 days ago

It occurred to me that this could be like the moment in Joseph McCarthy's trial when he goes too far without realising it. Which I learned about on the Origin Story podcast.

ropenfold.bsky.social•2 days ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

amcreamer.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s been concerning watching Niall Ferguson’s Trump washing, esp given his influence. He let himself get seduced by Trump in a sorry way with those trips to Florida. He hasn’t done the job of holding power to account, or even noticing there was a coup on. Hope he uses his platform to redeem himself

dorianlynskey.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think he got seduced by the woke-bashing and ignored the massive foreign policy divide. Culture wars dissolve people’s brains

amcreamer.bsky.social•2 days ago

I can see that. Still, it’s Niall Ferguson - who should have known better

I hope he uses his considerable platform to start a public critique of Trump. Given his status as a influential conservative historian, he could have a useful role to play if he has the courage

philipdowner.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’ll have to run it all past that nice Mr Murdoch who just hired him to write epochal monthly columns for The Times.

korgill.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ferguson. Now Honorary President for Life of ‘The Useful Idiot’s Useful Idiots’ club.

adamskii.bsky.social•2 days ago

Begs the question why on earth should we listen to a historian who is apparently blind to history’s most basic lessons…

pauljunhyuk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Man who voted for Face Eating Empires is upset that Empires do in fact Eat Faces as a rule and will start on his shortly.

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