Rubber Stamp

Eric Swalwell was the frontrunner for California governor on Thursday. By Friday night, his campaign chair had resigned, his fundraising page was dead, Adam Schiff was pretending they'd never met, and Nancy Pelosi was speaking about him in the past tense. The man went from "party standard-bearer" to "we don't know who this guy is" faster than a Snapchat message disappearing from his phone. The official story is that multiple women came forward with serious allegations and the party responded swiftly. Which, sure, okay. Except "swiftly" undersells it. Because the demon-rat party's reaction looked like detonating a controlled demolition they'd already wired. Every endorsement pulled in the same news cycle. Every statement using the same language. Every union, every ally, every surrogate, all reading from the same script that apparently materialized from thin air on a Friday afternoon. You know what's funny? When Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of the same thing, the entire Democratic apparatus spent months explaining why believing women is more nuanced than it sounds. Biden stayed in. Won the nomination. Won the presidency. Why? Because Biden was an useful idiot. Swalwell was not useful. Swalwell was a problem. Eight Democrats splitting the vote in California's top-two primary means two Republicans could lock Democrats out of the general. Steve Hilton is polling at 22%. The math was bad. Swalwel was told to leave. He said no. And then, by extraordinary coincidence, every institutional support system in his political life collapsed simultaneously. Yup. Totally coincidental. They did this to Bernie in 2016. They did it to Crockett in Texas, so I don't buy the 'Swalwell is a white dude' argument either. Since the blue party does not have voters, it must rely on a plan. And if you happen to be standing where the plan needs to go, they will move you. The allegations might be true. They might not be. It doesn't matter! The point is the party didn't wait to find out because the point was never the allegations. The point was power...

So, a couple of the boys have been texting me: “Why the hell would Trump drop the Hormuz blockade bomb on a Sunday? It’ll send oil screaming past $120, maybe $130 if the algos really panic. Makes zero sense if you actually want cheaper barrels.” But it makes perfect sense. Beautiful, even. See, Tokyo and Hong Kong are already humming by the time the East Coast is still nursing its coffee. Those futures pits—Dow, S&P, the whole equity complex, plus Brent and WTI on the screens—never really sleep. You’ve got fourteen, fifteen hours of runway before the New York bell. Plenty of time for the right hands to lean in: long the indices in Hong Kong, short the crude in Tokyo, riding the fear wave as the blockade tweet lights up every terminal from Singapore to Sydney. Then, right on cue, before the U.S. opens, comes the pivot. Something about “there’s regime change in Tehran,” “we can do business,” “Talks were Good,” the usual art-of-the-deal baloney. Markets whip around like they’ve been Tasered. Oil gives back the spike, stocks rip higher. The boys in Asia unwind clean, pocket the spread. A few hundred million, maybe more, conjured out of thin air on the back of one perfectly timed Sunday morning post. Not bad for a morning’s work. The Street’s been running these kinds of games for decades: information, timing, leverage. Just never quite so… presidential!!

Jesus drove a Honda:

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An open flame and a frying pan Jesus Christ

I remember listening to the late David Graeber deliver a guest lecture at Cambridge and prattle on about how many traditional cultures are “anarchist” and actively refuse to develop hierarchical political institutions. The truth about the non-Western world and the Third World in particular is that it serves as a blank canvas for the projections of Western intellectuals who refuse to accept the evidence that their political dreams—communism, anarchism, matriarchy—simply don’t work, never have worked and never will. The existence of 80,000 tiny polities in pre-colonial Africa says nothing about the native “political philosophy” of Africa, and everything about its Stone Age technology and complete lack of development in any direction whatsoever. It’s easy to be an “anarchist” when all you’ve got to fight over is a few tubers and some bushmeat.

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Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

I still can't wrap my head around how the term "racist" is now used to describe: >Not wanting open borders >Being able to understand statistics >Wanting to stop crime >Believing fraud is bad >Supporting voter ID Am I missing anything else?

population has grown ~9x in 200yrs, while poverty trends to 0 people act as though capitalism is a zero sum game, but it’s actually the only system that creates positive sum outcomes the average person today is far richer than most kings in days past

Capitalism is not supposed to create some perfect utopia because it is based on reality and human nature. While attempting to build a utopia, Communism creates hell on earth because it based on denying reality and reprogramming humanity.

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Matt Walsh: "As a society, we have two choices. Either we inflict severe, merciless suffering on violent criminals, or we allow severe, merciless suffering to be inflicted on the innocent. One group or the other will endure brutality and violence."

Chemistry Teacher: Did you know that protons have mass? Student: I didn't even know they were catholic. Chemistry Teacher:

Under the City of Cape Town kuyabekwa Bahlali🤣😅

The fertility rate of US liberal White women aged 25–35 is 0.51 children. White liberalism is now a death cult whose value proposition is: “Amuse yourself to death.” Optimize for harm reduction long enough, and you end up optimizing for nonexistence—the only state without pain

It's crazy to me how Robin Hood is now popularized as "stealing from the rich to give to the poor" (Socialist messaging) In reality, Robin Hood stole back the taxes that a cruel leader unjustly levied against the population (Anti-socialist messaging)

A second great reason not to leave you laptop unattended 😂

This is what I’ve learned over the past few days on X: A woman cannot consent to sex with a man who: * is taller or bigger than her * has more money than her * is smarter than her * is more than a few years older than her (even if she is over 18) * has ever treated her poorly * has any kind of economic relationship to her These conditions create power imbalances that make consent impossible They imply physical, economic, or mental coercion that remove a woman’s ability to choose sex freely and willingly Got it