
Stephen McIntyre
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You can watch the full video here 👇🏼 youtu.be/Im482k_at1g?si…


I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Russiagate parts in this document. John Brennan was still pushing the Russiagate lies in 2021. 🤦🏻♀️ The Russiagate part is very lengthy and it reviews each time period. “Spring 2016 The Central Intelligence Agency Director at the time, John Brennan, met with Russian intelligence counterparts in March 2016, unaware that the GRU had successfully used a spearfishing attack to acquire 50,000 emails from Clinton Campaign advisor John Podesta’s computer just a week earlier. When this hack was detected and exposed, it did not set off alarm bells because foreign hacks of presidential campaigns were relatively routine. In May, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, disclosed that “foreign intelligence services [were] tracking this election cycle like no other,” including the Russians. On June 14th, the Democratic National Committee announced that Russian hackers had compromised their internal server throughout the past year. The Washington Post’s reporting on the DNC hack concluded that “the breach was traditional espionage.” These were the first signs that Russian interest in the 2016 election cycle would be different and more intense, but they were understood as routine counterintelligence challenges at the time. This was also the first notice to the public on Russian interference. Many policymakers, including National Security Advisor Susan Rice, learned about the cyber-attack through the media rather than through intelligence briefings. The scope of Russian interference would not be recognized until the late summer of 2016 and not fully understood until well after the election.” web.archive.org/web/2025041109…

fair enough. But don't forget that Lyndon Johnson similarly wanted to be remembered for his "Great Society" domestic programs. It's before your time, but, in that respect, LBJ wasn't that much different from Donald J. But LBJ got eaten up by Vietnam War, making unwise decisions because he wasn't prepared to lose any face domestically. Trump's biggest risk is not that he becomes Bush 3.0, but that he becomes another LBJ, losing control of his domestic agenda because of unwise foreign policy decisions.



Hard to think of a strategic as well as national energy policy that is more vindicated, each day, than the French decision to go big into Nuclear power. A French victory that rivals with Austerlitz.


I'm a Smurf. I've been hired to run counter-intelligence operations at Smurf Village. My role is political; I've personally gone up against the evil wizard Gargamel. But once I'm on the inside, I discover that Smurf Village has a relationship with a goat-riding human boy called Peewit. Peewit isn't a Smurf. He's caused a lot of damage with his antics over the years. Why is he even here? I start digging. I pull up Papa Smurf's history with Peewit. Papa Smurf has been collaborating with this kid for years. Protecting him. Making excuses for him. Why? Peewit is reckless. Peewit makes messes. But Papa Smurf keeps letting him back in. The more I dig, the more Peewit I find. He's everywhere. In every file, behind every favor, connected to every mess. A picture forms in my head: if I'm looking for Peewit everywhere and I keep finding Peewit, the only logical conclusion is that Peewit is the one controlling Papa Smurf. Then a prominent Smurf gets assassinated. They say Gargamel's people did it. Case closed, move along. But I get access to the dead Smurf's private messages. And there's Peewit. Right there in the chats. The same Peewit I've been laser-focused on all year. Pressuring him. Making demands. I bring this to Papa Smurf and his inner circle. I bring it with alarm. Papa Smurf looks at me funny. And then — just like that — I'm kicked out of the investigation. No explanation. Just... out. This is the final proof that Peewit is controlling the Smurf Village. I know what I saw. I have to get the truth out there. So I do the unthinkable. I leak the information.










‘Demand destruction has begun’ ft.trib.al/bDJ2Ywm

Absolute bombshell. Jamie Rubin confirms a historic peace deal with Iran was completely within reach. Iran offered to freeze enrichment, but Israel intentionally sabotaged the deal because they want a permanent war, not peace.

One of my favorite things on the internet was @slatestarcodex writing about Cost Disease; basically, how the costs to do anything have basically tripled, completely disconnected from labor costs, material inputs, or inflation. No economists have an explanation for why costs have gone up so much, it seems like some dark force is acting on the US economy so that - while the Europeans can build lavish infrastructure, the US is stuck at 5-6x costs to build literally everything... and this underpins our fundamental debates about everything. The Interstate Bridge is an excellent example. Back when this was killed the 2nd or 3rd time (I forgot which), the *studies* performed to explore the new bridge cost ~$200 Million. I did the back of the napkin math and those studies cost 3x, inflation adjusted, what the original entire bridge cost to build. I think the dark force economists cannot detect is a combination of things, primarily though? Grift. You need to pay off the environmentalists, you need to pay off the labor unions, you need to pay off local interest groups. Those are the grifts that use social concerns as a cover... But the real grift is the Professional Managerial Class. All the various technical entities involved in the production of anything are 3 people who know anything about the subject encased in small to large organizations where 80% of the headcount has nothing to do with the task at hand. It is a baked-in, structural grift that underpins almost the entirety of the American economy. Vast swaths of the white collar economy are basically riding the coattails of a small - eroding - segment of SMEs who do actual work.






How can so many Americans possibly support this regime? You oppose a regime-change war against them even as they do this?








