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  • The Coup is Complete

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    Our YouTube pundits still think the great question of our time is, Does Donald Trump know Putin is using him? But I think it’s clear that Donald Trump is a willing errand boy for the entities who purchased his presidency and continue to enrich him. In other words, the worst has already happened. The coup is complete.

    Yet we continue to hope. Therefore, it’s important to think in detail about what this means. The evidence suggests that the United States has been sold to the highest bidder.… Read the rest

  • I Wish This Was Just Paranoia

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    I Wish This Was Paranoia

    I wish this was just paranoia, but it’s real. It seems to me the current political environment is calculated to stomp all over everything we stand for. It is eery how well-aimed certain activities appear to be in this regard. But the most disorienting thing about it is that Trump has no legal authority and yet, like a bad penny, he remains at the head of our country.

    The Problem With Donald Trump and His Crowd

    Trump’s so-called authority is based on acting like he has a right to it.… Read the rest

  • Project 2025, Opus Dei & the Mormons?

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    I’ve been re-reading an article from my files about the Mormon Mafia and the JFK assassination by John F. Sweeney. I haven’t written about Sweeney’s paper and I don’t intend to write about it today. It is quite damning and I don’t want more trouble in my life than I’ve already had. Another reason I haven’t written about it is the hundreds of JFK assassination theories that already exist. No, instead this article is about a book cited by Sweeney, The Cleansing of America1 by Willard Cleon Skousen.… Read the rest

  • A Problem With the Progressive Conversation

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    There is a problem with the progressive conversation. Progressives have apparently forgotten everything that has happened since the 2016 election. Maybe that’s why they keep trying to help the Democratic Party. They started doing this while the Biden administration was still in control and they continued through the Harris campaign. Now they’re scratching their heads over what they see as Democratic incompetence in dealing with Trump. This is very frustrating.

    Progressives are ignoring certain facts, which I list below.… Read the rest

  • The Most Important Skill for 2025 is Ignoring Trump

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    Since 2015, we’ve had good reasons for our continued participation in this one-sided conversation. I say one-sided because progressives have been the only ones actually carrying on a conversation. I believe Trump and his cronies, among others, function as a distraction and an elaborate insult to voters. Therefore, I argue that the most important skill of 2025 is ignoring Trump.

    The reason we put our hope in a conversation in the first place was the belief that America’s foreign policy had proven to be a failure and that our leaders would see the error of their ways.… Read the rest

  • Modern Israel is Anti-West

    Modern Israel is Anti-West

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    In this article, I hope to correct the way progressives think about modern Israel. I think much of our secular sympathy for Jewish people comes from the fact that the Nazi regime hated them and persecuted them. In retrospect, we had that in common with the Jews: the Nazis hated the West as well. But Israel has more in common with war-time Germany than it does with the West. Modern Israel is anti-West. In short, progressives seem stuck on the political contradictions of Israel.… Read the rest

  • Rick Wilson Blames Progressives for 2024

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    Rick Wilson’s interview with Harry Litman is just one example of the wrong-headed analyses of Kamala Harris’s loss that have been making the rounds since the 2024 election. For the most part, Rick Wilson blames progressives for 2024. At 21:42 in the video, Litman asks Wilson what the focus should be for rebuilding the Democratic Party. Wilson answers:

    Stop looking over your left shoulder at the progressives because what have they proven to you this year? They don’t f**king care if you win or lose.

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  • A Progressive View of the 2024 Election

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    This article is a progressive view of the 2024 election. This is just the way I see it. It’s the result of watching the electoral process very closely since 2015, but I could be wrong on any point. It’s value to me is that it refutes many of the strategic mistakes I see in the political conversation. I think the following factors are important for decision-making in 2024. What do you think?

    • The political establishment is able to stop the progressive agenda in its tracks.
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  • Trump: If Jesus Were to Count The Votes

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    Back in 2022, Jair Bolsonaro claimed that only God could oust him. He probably didn’t realize he was challenging God. Certainly he didn’t plan to make a public demonstration of God’s indifference. He was trying to influence voters. In retrospect, he played the lottery with God and lost. Donald Trump recently made a similar claim. Trump claimed that if Jesus were to count the votes, he, Donald Trump, would win California.

    “If Jesus Christ came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK?”

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  • Irrationality as a Weapon Against the Enlightenment

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    I have previously criticized the Enlightenment, but now I think it may have been too easy to find fault. I was asking whether our present reality has benefitted from the Enlightenment’s promises. Now it’s time to compare Enlightenment thought to competing systems. In this article we will consider the Enlightenment from the point of view of the fascists. Probably the most disturbing revelation in Kevin Coogan’s book is the fact that fascists have purposely used irrationality as a weapon against the Enlightenment.… Read the rest