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FischerKing

Mar 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

1/Straight talk on DeSantis. Why did he completely flip his position in a day on Ukraine? MONEY. He doesn’t have any himself. To run for POTUS he will need many large donors, some of which come from military-industrial complex, connected to neo-cons. His flip is bad sign…

2/Notice also Nikki Haley - who is an empty vessel without any convictions or ideas - immediately jumped on it, went on media and screamed for total Ukrainian victory and tied it to future conflict with China. Heard neocon radio today praising her for ‘leadership’…She wants $$..

3/DeSantis probably has the right instincts on foreign policy and doesn’t want war. But he’s also no foreign policy buff. His thing is woke stuff in Florida. And again he has no MONEY. So someone yanked his chain and said ‘back off the realist foreign policy or you’re done’…

4/Remember something similar happened with Scott Walker in 2015. He was pushed as a great hope, but when he needed to touch immigration to combat Trump, his donors said no. So he just dropped out b/c he would have NO MONEY…

5/The cold reality in this oligarchic society is that only someone of independent wealth and huge balls can challenge the status quo. DeSantis is fantastic governor, but this Ukraine thing shows he doesn’t have the $$ and doesn’t think he can stand up to donors and win…

6/And this is the hard reality none of the Twitter warriors (whom I like and generally agree with) promoting DeSantis can confront, and why bickering is so low IQ. The problem is the system - it’s a structural problem. DeSantis doesn’t have the independence to buck that system.

7/Epilogue. Here is an example of what I meant by the bickering being ‘low IQ.’ Notice also this thread never endorses Trump. It was making a deeper point about the system:

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Being a night owl isn’t about staying up late for whatever reason, to drink or party. It’s about feeling a release of tension, an ease in the dark, that lets you do the work and study that makes you happy. Something about broad daylight creates a pressure to be involved with things, move with the hustle and bustle of people in the streets, when really you need solitude and silence.

I’ve spent my entire life trying to be an early bird, even following Kant’s schedule of waking each day at 5am. But it never took. I still try for pragmatic reasons and have to do it for work etc. But in the middle of the night - that’s when I’m really awake.

Benjamin Franklin was also famous for getting up early, to be productive. But when you read about his life, particularly in later years, this was more an aspiration than a reality. I suspect he was a night owl who fought hard against it. I throw this in given July 4 just passed.

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There is this debate about obesity. People trying to pinpoint the cause. Seed oils. Chemicals. But really it’s just obvious massive overeating, over consumption. People who are very bored, who have little to live for, and seek distraction. Obesity is a disease of abundance.

I think this is obvious, and that the search for conspiratorial causes (which are not always without merit) is also a sign of a lazy society where everyone has what s/he needs and simply doesn’t care very much. It’s a society without any deeper meaning.

Trying to pin 500 lb women on seed oils or plastics or lack of nutrients that can be cured by supplements - this is a grift of course. But it’s also an effort to look away, and to not recognize that we have a fat, lazy society because we have solved so many primal problems.

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Men of true principle - who take their racism seriously - will not go anywhere near this woman. Brown eyes are just a deal breaker…

This woman is also beyond the pale:

So is she - straight outta the gutter:

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1/Let’s do a recipe, haven’t done one in a while. This is a simple Croque Madame, a simple French bistro dish. It’s just a glorified ham and cheese sandwich with a fried egg. But it’s very good, and you can do it at home relatively fast and cheap.

2/this is for 2. Take four pieces of sturdy white bread, spread 2 tbsp of butter total over both sides. Bake at 375 F for about 12 minutes, flipping halfway. Crack 2 eggs and put them in ramekins (any dish is fine of course) and hit with salt and pepper

3/make a mornay sauce. Melt 2 tbsp butter in small saucepan. When melted, add 2 tbsp of flour, combine. Then add in half a cup of heavy cream, half a cup of milk. Mix and boil. Remove from heat, add a cup (4 oz) of Gruyère cheese, salt/pepper, pinch of nutmeg, pinch of cayenne

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1/Ok so let’s do Beef Bourguinion, cash in my promise. This is the finished product served over simple mashed potatoes, garnished with parsley. Directions….

2/what you need. About 3.5 lbs of Chuck roast, cut into chunks and tossed with a tbsp of salt. 2 carrots, 2 onions roughly chopped, handful of thyme and parsley. A head of garlic cloves smashed. Tbsp of tomato paste, 1/2 tsp anchovy paste. 1 lb cremini mushrooms. 2 cups pearl onions

3/you also need half a pound of salt pork cut into chunks. Place those in a roasting pan with the scraps of beef you don’t intend to use. Add in 2 tbsp butter, and roast for 15 minutes at 500 degrees. Then toss in 1/2 cup of flour and mix.

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So when you read academic drivel, where the point often seems more to obscure a lack of clear thinking than to elucidate anything - this is just a lack of talent. And we see it a lot in professors because we have too many professors, and not all of them are going to be good.

And when you're not very good at writing, which means you're not very good at thinking - this is when plagiarizing starts to look attractive. And the very funny part is that if you're not a good thinker in the first place, you plagiarize the wrong people, other bad thinkers.

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