{"id":11670,"date":"2020-08-08T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:05:20","slug":"the-zman-looks-on-the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/08\/the-zman-looks-on-the-bright-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The ZMan Looks on the Bright Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ZMan is one of my favorite evil thinkers and he has the greatest radio voice on the Dissident Right.\u00a0 In fact I call his mellifluous Friday podcast the Voice of Saruman because like that hypnotic wizard he can beguile even the pure of heart if they don&#8217;t\u00a0 spit on the ground three times and make the devil&#8217;s horns at the computer speaker before he speaks.<\/p>\n<p>But this week his podcast is positively upbeat!\u00a0 Now granted it was an effort and he couched all the good news in caveats and conditionals but give the devil his due.\u00a0 He had words of praise for President Trump&#8217;s efforts to rein in legal immigration and he had a bunch of other good news too.\u00a0 And he also had sensible things to say to the dissidents about pessimism and its deleterious effects.\u00a0 This is advice that anyone on the Right should hear.\u00a0 All in all an excellent podcast indeed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hT4Zz1Ckb5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=21047\">Happy Happy Fun Time<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Happy Happy Fun Time&#8221; &#8212; The Z Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=21047&#038;embed=true#?secret=hT4Zz1Ckb5\" data-secret=\"hT4Zz1Ckb5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ZMan is one of my favorite evil thinkers and he has the greatest radio voice on the Dissident Right.\u00a0 In fact I call his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,237],"tags":[1185,343,16,886],"class_list":["post-11670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","tag-morale","tag-thezman-com","tag-trump","tag-zman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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