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by Daren Jonescu · Published November 25, 2024
Headline: “Republicans lash out at claims that Trump intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard is ‘compromised.’” The LA Times reports that “Republicans” (two of them, to be precise) are “lashing out” against a couple of Democrats, and in particular U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, who have described Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence as “compromised,” based on her long history of blatantly pro-Putin comments...
Yesterday, I wrote in my U.S. Election Day post that I was pleased to have the opportunity to set aside the thunderous climax of the flatulent election coverage (Republican tribe version), in favor of enjoying lunch and some reading time with a young friend here in Korea, a philosophic student of mine, who had offered to bring salad and doughnuts to my office....
A vainglorious megalomaniac with the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is fighting a war of aggression intended to break the will and splinter the unity of the West once and for all. The most populous country on the planet, with the largest military and third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, has used the world’s economic opportunism to pay for the development of...
They do not all say the same things, using the same catchphrases, because they are part of a grand conspiracy, but rather because none of them has either the independence of thought or the facility of speech to form and express a non-conforming opinion, or to give serious consideration to an idea that has not already been predigested for him. As for the...
In less than two weeks’ time, The United States of America will vote for one of the two alternative methods of losing World War III. A vote for the Democratic Party as it now exists is a vote for engaging in the fight but then, when the priorities of economic totalitarianism at home and global progressive activism abroad rise to the forefront of...
In about three weeks, the United States of America — a formerly awe-inspiring name which now has about as much real world resonance as “the British Crown” — will elect its next president. As has been the case for a number of elections, the mainstream options fall into the “Could it get any worse?” category, while the non-mainstream options, such as they are...
by Daren Jonescu · Published September 18, 2024 · Last modified September 21, 2024
Howard Stern is a deeply unfunny man who has parlayed amorality into a form of media immortality by creating a niche, the “shock jock,” in which unfunny people can pass themselves off as humorists merely by being willing to say what semi-civilized people would have the decency not to say in public. He is thereby peculiarly responsible for vulgarizing the taste and gutterizing...
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have debated. Everything about that last sentence is absurd. Kamala Harris is an ill-informed fool and tool of the Democratic Party establishment. Donald Trump is a full-blown ignoramus about political matters whose only area of legitimate knowledge, if one may call it that, is salesmanship, albeit mainly in the snake oil sense of the word. A debate, in...
In a little over two months, the identity of the next President of the United States will be determined. I choose my words carefully. I say that the identity of the next president will be determined, not that it will be revealed. To be fair, there is a vague sense, which may be more a factor of one man’s marketing genius than of...
A few notes on the Democratic National Convention, a political event I would be even less likely to watch than a Republican National Convention. At least this year’s RNC (of which I watched a total of about one minute) involved some intrigue concerning how the party was going to frame itself so as to hold the wide range of voters it needs in...
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