As I look at what continues to unfold, I believe we have to keep two key words in mind:
1. Rage 2. Celebration
The RW feels a justified Rage at this assassination. Too many on the Left are openly Celebrating the murder of Kirk. Historically, that is an explosive combination. 1/
First, rage is a basic, powerful human emotion. It is appropriate at times. When your side kills one of our leaders in cold blood in front of his wife & children, oh yeah - a period of rage should be expected.
What makes this not an isolated act of violence is the Celebration
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Sep 13 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The biggest lesson of the last 3 days is that there are many millions who think it is not just fine but moral to kill the many millions who think like me
Alrighty then. That's where we're at.
History is replete with examples of what usually comes next. We need to avoid this 1/
"Those evil bastards want to wipe out my tribe? How bout we kill every one of those f*ckers first!"
That's not extreme thinking, it is a natural human process. It's why history consists of almost continuous warfare, and why numerous wars are raging around the world today.
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Sep 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Long X feed this morning, and something I saw over & over again were variations of the post below, Leftist women celebrating the killing of Kirk.
This next point is a little nuanced for Twitter. The RW tends to think of women as loving, gentle mothers & princesses. Not all. 1/
People forget, but the world was a very different place before the globalization that followed the end of Bretton Woods. Markets were protected, exchange rates were fixed, and there were major legal restrictions on the movement of capital between countries.
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Sep 7 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Absent major changes, the coming decades are likely to be very painful for Europe, Canada & Australia. They not only are not world powers, the general populations don't even understand what true power is. They will learn.
The rest of the West exists in a sheltered environment 1/
The day to day existence of the average Euro or Leaf is based upon American hegemony, even while looking down on Americans. They simply can't handle reality.
We now have the rise (again) of competing geopolitical blocs who do understand taking power.
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Aug 27 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
20-30 years ago, for the general public, Dems & Repubs were kind of like intramural sports team opponents. Yeah, we disagreed, but as members of the same tribe.
That is no longer true. Dems have moved so far radically ( and violently) left, that centrism or reasonableness, 1/
are just illusions at this point, that are dangerous for the public at large.
A critical part of the bioleninism that has consumed the Left, is the concept of victim hierarchies. Hierarchy, victimhood, and allowable behaviors, are defined by political hierarchies.
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Aug 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nerds are the source of all knowledge. Tolkien was a language & literature nerd, as the best sci fi authors were all nerd scientists and engineers.
The problem is when a non-nerd attempts to imitate a genuine nerd, and then we get derivative crap from idiots. 1/
Like to paint on paper with a brush? Quite a few nerds needed for that. Like to do it by electric light? Oh man, that takes a lot of nerds.
Like to post digital artwork to the internet for others to view over their phones?
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Aug 3 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Going from over 50% to under 15% of 30 year olds being married homeowners is entirely the result of the liberal philosophy - which also includes almost all modern centrists as well as most conservatives.
The issue is the worship of change with no consideration of consequences 1/
Particularly in the Midwest, as can be seen below, by the 1950s the US had produced something unique - by far the highest standard of living for most of the population that had existed in the history of the world.
Naturally, this wasn't valued. 2/
Jul 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is an example of how human beings can be programmed - including many of the people reading this post.
That this violence is tolerated from a dysfunctional minority is a historical aberration. There are very, very few societies that would tolerate this. Yet, "we" do. 1/
There are 101 different ways that this sort of thing could be stopped altogether. They've all been used in the past - and they work.
What are they? Well, that's the interesting part - you've been programmed in advance to reject every one of them out of hand.
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Jun 23 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
One of the biggest issues facing the US is that the "elite" groupthink / propaganda is so appallingly bad. Case in point, today's WSJ analysis of Iran trying to close the Straits of Hormuz (link follows).
By unanimous consent, the Houthis closing the Red Sea never happened.
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"The saber-rattling has conjured memories of the attacks on oil tankers traded by Iran and Iraq during their conflict in the 1980s. U.S. warships patrolled the region and eventually began escorting some commercial ships, in operations that turned deadly."
Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I'm seeing replies addressing right or wrong in this & related threads. Yes, this is how the justifications are presented, but this can't be seen in isolation.
The adult framing HAS to be how to use limited resources to navigate a difficult world with many challenges. 1/
Because of decades of military, political and economic decisions, the US finds itself wanting to act a global military superpower, but without the defense manufacturing base to back it up.
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Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I'm seeing a lot of silly talk about the US strikes on Iran's nuclear program. This isn't a one off, it didn't start or end here.
What matters is the global chess board over the next 5-10+ years, and whether a third front has been opened that will consume US strength. 1/
As I've written about in numerous threads, the US has some fantastic weapons that were only made in moderate numbers, and that it cannot currently manufacture at scale or quickly. If the US uses up too many of them too quickly, such as interceptor missiles, then the US loses.
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Jun 20 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
US national security in the medium-term is being dealt a devastating blow as a result of the political inability to say "no" to Israel.
As discussed in the thread below, and updated in today's WSJ (link later), Israel is running out of missiles, and the US doesn't have enough 1/
From today's WSJ: "U.S. Races to Defend Israel as It Burns Through Missile Interceptors"
"Short supplies of high-end defenses could lead to rationing as Iranian attacks continue"
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Jun 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The news from Israel is so good that it contradicts itself. Israel has total air superiority, and has devastated Iranian launcher capabilities. Also, Israel is intercepting 90% of Iranian missiles.
But - too many missile are getting through for both statements to be true. 1/
If Israel has devastated Iranian launchers then Iran isn't launching 100s of missiles daily - so a lot more than 10% are getting through.
If only 10% are getting through, then Iran must still have hundreds of active launchers, so Israel hasn't destroyed them.
Which is true?
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Jun 18 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Reality beats the Narrative, and that is true even during the hyperventilating propaganda of a new Mideast war. As I've been writing about for years, the reality is the US doesn't have enough missiles.
Per the WSJ (video link later), Israel is running out of Arrow 3 missiles.
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Israel uses a four part layered antimissile missile defense, and the Arrow 3s are the "crown jewels" of their system, the interceptors for long-range ballistic missiles.
As covered in the video, the Israelis claim to have shot down about 90% of the 370 Iranian missiles shot.
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Jun 13 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
As war in the Middle East heats up, with potential near term involvement for US forces, the biggest 2nd order effect in US history may be on the way.
The unified nationalist, patriotic US is gone - it's been murdered. Instead we have an extraordinarily powerful 5th column. 1/
Yes, there are likely thousands of explosive drone prepositioned near US military bases - it would be surprising if there weren't.
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Jun 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"You may not be interested in civil war, but civil war is interested in you."
This is obviously insurrection, but it is also - effectively - the policy of the Democratic party. The LA & CA police are *allowing* this violence to occur, as they did in the "Summer of Floyd". 1/
Terrorist assaulting federal offices and facilities should have obviously been shot dead on the spot.
Instead, they are effectively enabled by the Dems, as this extraordinary level of violence is treated as a legitimate form of protest.
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Jun 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Zelensky knew about this when meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, as he knew about the drone airfield strikes in Siberia. For the record, Ukraine never, every had the slightest real interest in a ceasefire.
Choice made. By Ukraine. The US was not part of this. 1/
Two nations, that are not the US, are fighting it out. Their business. Ukraine has been losing on the battlefield, and has made the choice of asymmetrical warfare. They are going to try to hurt Russia as bad as they possibly can. Valid strategy, their choice.
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Jun 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Speaking of European delusions, Macron just gave a speech in Asia (WSJ link following), in which he appealed to Asian nations to ally with Europe in order to achieve "strategic autonomy" from the US.
This is an extreme case of the difference between Narrative & Reality. 1/
The Reality is that nations such as Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines face growing military threats from a rapidly militarizing China - right now.
Reality is that Europe can't defend itself, and has ZERO ability to project effective military power in Asia.
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Jun 2 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Starmer claiming that the UK will build 12 new nuclear subs needs to be evaluated using one of my favorite themes, which is the Narrative vs Reality. This applies to European militarization in general.
The Narrative is awesome, but the physical Reality is likely to be vapor. 1/
The Narrative is the official version of the Truth. It is what the average person is told is reality, and it is spread by the govt, academia, business & all media. There is no dissent allowed, and average citizens disagreeing with the Narrative can lead to imprisonment.
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Jun 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Repeat after me... this is a proxy war. As has been admitted by numerous US & European politicians, "our" side is using Ukrainian soldiers & Western weapons to damage Russia militarily.
What "our" proxy just did, was to unleash a Pearl Harbor event on Russia's nuclear bombers 1/
