aka Mencius Moldbug

A guy who contends that our democratic republic is a failed experiment, that the Constitution is garbage, that white people are intellectually superior, and that the United States needs an "accountable monarchy" whatever the hell that means. He's argued that Hitler's invasions were "defensive". He is an intellectual guru to Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel and JD Vance. Yarvin's influence led Vance to say, in 2021:

“So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things. So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved...I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left, and turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program. I think Trump is going to run again in 2024. I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

How is this different from a coup?

I am about 75-80 percent Irish and my favorite Irish Toast to you all:

"May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future."

My symptoms of fever, sneezing and cough are about 90% gone.

I received my 7th covid vaccine on September 29. I think these vaccines dramatically reduced symptoms.

I'd like to thank the federal government and the drug companies that made these vaccines possible.

And thanks HBOT for your prayers.

CSB.

Here we go!

I will get it started.

Trump once again repeated his lie that the US has sent 300 billion dollars to Ukraine, which he claimed is 3x what Europe has.

The truth is the United States has sent approximately 120 billion while Europe has sent roughly 140 billion.

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With Gaetz out of the way…

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What accounts for it? And how has it been able to withstand this fall's avalanche of unhappy political news for the GOP?

Well, Republicans are different from Democrats. How so? Let us count the ways.

• They have more money. 2
• They have more friends. 3
• They are more religious. 4
• They are healthier. 5
• They are more likely to be married. 6
• They like their communities better. 7
• They like their jobs more. 8
• They are more satisfied with their family life. 9
• They like the weather better. 10
• They have fewer financial worries. 11
• They're more likely to see themselves doing better in life than their parents did. 12
• They're more likely to feel that individuals - rather than outside forces - control their own success or failure. 13

2 Republicans have a median annual family income of $64,000; Democrats have a median annual family income of $46,000, according to a February, 2008 Pew survey.

3 Some 31% of Republicans and 26% of Democrats say they have a lot of friends in the community where they live. Also, 15% of Republicans and 26% of Democrats say they don't have many friends, according to an October, 2008 Pew survey.

4 Some 51% of Republicans attend religious services once a week or more; only 30% of Democrats do so, according to a February, 2008 Pew survey.

5 Some 37% of Republicans report their health condition is excellent, only 25% of Democrats say so, according to a February 2008 Pew survey.

6 Some 62% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats are currently married, while 7% of Republicans and 13% of Democrats are currently divorced, according to a February 2008 Pew survey.

7 Some 71% of Republicans rate their communities as "excellent" or "very good"; only 54% of Democrats say the same, according to an Oct ober, 2008 Pew survey.

8 Some 90% of Republicans and 86% of Democrats are completely or mostly satisfied with their job, according to a February 2008 Pew survey.

9 This 4 percentage point difference falls short of statistical significance at the 95% confidence level.

10 Some 77% of Republicans and 62% of Democrats are "very satisfied" with their family life, according to a June 2008 Pew survey.

10 Some 27% of Republicans rate the climate where they live as "excellent" ; only 18% of Democrats think so, according to an October, 2008 Pew survey.

11 For more details, see Page 10.

12 Some 75% of Republicans and 61% of Democrats think that their own standard of living is better than the one their parents had when their parents were the age they are now, according to a February, 2008 Pew survey.

I really hope he upped his game, cause after Briona saw this, it was all downhill.

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George Foreman, a heavyweight boxing champion who returned to the sport to regain his title at the improbable age of 45, and who parlayed his fame and his amiable personality into a multimillion-dollar grill business, died on Friday night in Houston. He was 76.
His family announced the death, in a hospital, on his Instagram account. Roy Foreman, George’s brother, said the cause was not known.
When Foreman returned to the ring after 10 years away, there was skepticism that a fighter of his years could beat anyone younger, much less come back to the top of the game. But in 1994, he shocked the world by beating the undefeated Michael Moorer to reclaim the world title.
Foreman’s career spanned generations: He fought Chuck Wepner in the 1960s, Dwight Muhammad Qawi in the ’80s and Evander Holyfield in the ’90s.
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With his fellow heavyweights Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, Foreman embodied a golden era in the 1970s, when boxing was still a cultural force in America. The three great champions thrilled fans with one classic bout after another. Foreman was the last living member of the trio.

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Go Hawks!

Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US

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Full English transcript of Malhuret’s speech:

Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is slipping, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened.

Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.

This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose higher tariffs on you than on his enemies and will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.

The ‘king of the deal’ is showing what the art of the deal is on his stomach. He thinks he will intimidate China by lying down in front of Putin, but Xi Jinping, seeing such a submissiveness, is probably accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.

Never in history has a US President capitulated to the enemy. Never has any one of them supported an aggressor against an ally … trampled on the US Constitution, issued so many illegal executive orders, dismissed judges who could have prevented him from doing so, dismissed the military senior staff in one fell swoop, weakened all checks and balances, and taken control of social media.

This is not an illiberal drift, it is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy. Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.

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