Author: Jim

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Fake News

mark @markantro catches CNN staging a fake Muslim protest against terror. Hat tip Heartiste. Everyone in the reactosphere has posted this already, and I am posting it last, but I will give you a text summary of the video. CNN positions the cameras pointing at a fake memorial of to those killed by terrorism, which …

party politics

The permanent trump crisis

At a gut level, the Cathedral feels the Trump presidency to be illegal, unconstitutional, and improper. They simply know it is illegal, unconstitutional and improper, but cannot come up with any intelligible or coherent explanation of why – or rather any explanation that they can say out loud. All the standard rules that you or …

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When the rot set in

Eighteenth century view was that women were sex crazy and needed to be kept under tight control or else in their feverish sexual lust they would destroy the family, and because state, society, and the church rested on the family, if you let women loose, everything would fall apart. Nineteenth century view was that women …

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Moldbug model of communism

The Moldbug account of communism, simplified, is that the that the Soviets were Democrat agents, a proxy force for the blue empire of the consulates against the red empire of the bases, and they were collapsed when they started to break free of the Democrats. Simplified even further: “America is a communist country”. Of course …

economics

Trumpcare passes the house

Still has to pass the Senate, but already the Democrats are terrified. The essential and important feature of Trumpcare is that it “denies insurance to millions of Americans”. In other words, when you seek medical care, when those who pay for and operate our system of medical care seek medical care, they will not find …

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Trump probably on track

When Trump says one thing to us, and another thing to his enemies, we should not necessarily assume he is lying to us and telling the truth to his enemies. One very promising sign is that he invited Duterte, who is on the State Department death list, to the White House, which would imply that …

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The Trump Aesthetic

Ideas are more powerful than guns, and fashion is more powerful than ideas. Ever since Beau Brummel successfully snubbed the Regent, the Puritan aesthetic has been politically dominant. It has been the high status aesthetic, beloved by our rulers, most notoriously loved by city planners and university regents. Trump has been challenging that aesthetic. What …