Theme: Governance

  • IF YOU DISAGREE WITH TRUMP YOU’RE THE PROBLEM —“…If only the U.S. President

    IF YOU DISAGREE WITH TRUMP YOU’RE THE PROBLEM

    —“…If only the U.S. President had the character, courage & grit…”—

    Trump does have the character, courage and grit. He does. He’s just playing a much bigger game in which Ukraine, Russia, and Europe are only a subset of the pieces. Just as Israel Iran and the Saudis are. Just as India and Pakistan are. Just as China and her neighbors are. Just as Mexico and Canada are. Just as the rest of the world’s trade is.
    While the USA created during Bretton Woods the most moral system of world order the world has ever known, it came at the expense of american workers.
    The USA is no longer capable of financing the world system of finance, transport, trade, borders, and human rights. We have not been since the 90s.
    The whole world has been free riding on the USA at the expense of the working and middle classes. And those clases have had enough of this external parasitism as well as enough of parasitism by politically ambitious immigration flooding.
    And Trump is very quickly and dramatically doing what should have been done thirty years ago (If we hadn’t foolishly fired GHW Bush): resetting the world so that those who benefit from order pay for it instead of sacrificing Americans for it.
    That’s the truth.
    If. you’re too simple to understand it, that’s a problem with you.
    Because that’s what’s going on.
    And it’s pay me now this way or pay me later with world wars and reducing the USA to English levels of purchasing power (the equivalent of rural mississippi). ie: relative poverty.

    Put your head back in the hole in the sand and whine some more. Because this has to happen. Or what will happen is so much worse it’s unimaginable.

    Reply addressees: @GriffinCOA1 @krassenstein


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-28 00:37:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916653064020541440

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916632718789718266


    IN REPLY TO:

    @GriffinCOA1

    @krassenstein If only the U.S. President had the character, courage & grit shown by President Zelenskyy.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916632718789718266

  • Agreed. Obvious. They are free riders. They are so used to daddy USA paying for

    Agreed. Obvious. They are free riders. They are so used to daddy USA paying for everything they’ll never put up their own people or cash. We did a PARENTAL disservice by allowing the free ride in europe to continue after 1992.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-27 23:51:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916641374801428816

    Reply addressees: @RodDMartin

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916514572904665571


    IN REPLY TO:

    @RodDMartin

    SEE I TOLD YOU SO. The Europeans were NEVER going to deploy ground troops to Ukraine: that was entirely cheap virtue signaling to score points on Donald Trump. Now they’re saying exactly what Trump said all along. Liars. https://t.co/uEkF898v1g

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916514572904665571

  • I wasn’t ready for it. 😉 It doesn’t surprise me the world isn’t. 😉 That said i

    I wasn’t ready for it. 😉 It doesn’t surprise me the world isn’t. 😉 That said it may take decades or generations for these fundamental shifts to occur and spread through a polity. There is no way for anyone to understand except those of us deeply involved but this is an insight…


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-27 19:06:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916569778581561462

    Reply addressees: @Lord__Sousa

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  • I wasn’t ready for it. 😉 It doesn’t surprise me the world isn’t. 😉 That said i

    I wasn’t ready for it. 😉 It doesn’t surprise me the world isn’t. 😉 That said it may take decades or generations for these fundamental shifts to occur and spread through a polity. There is no way for anyone to understand except those of us deeply involved but this is an insight equal to that of darwin, newton, and aristotle. ;(. It sounds nuts. I know. But it is what it is. :/

    That the universe can be so … simple. Sigh.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-27 19:06:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916569778472566784

  • Voluntary federation vs involuntary empire. So it’s inadvisable to conflate them

    Voluntary federation vs involuntary empire.
    So it’s inadvisable to conflate them. The caucuses are conquered by russia (empire), but poland is a voluntary member of the US alliance of advanced democratic countries.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-26 18:45:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916201904906113389

    Reply addressees: @DavidAcostaJua1 @LudwigNverMises @DRolandAnderson

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916200890136170657


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DavidAcostaJua1

    @LudwigNverMises @DRolandAnderson @curtdoolittle Sorry, but the US is effectively an empire; criticizing its foreign policy is valid in almost any direction and from almost any angle.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916200890136170657

  • JUDGEMENT: ANGLO VS JEWISH LIBERTARIANISM IMO Jewish Libertarianism (economic li

    JUDGEMENT: ANGLO VS JEWISH LIBERTARIANISM

    IMO

    Jewish Libertarianism (economic libertinism) > Mises-Rothbard-Hoppe reduction of all social science to statements of property (demonstrated interests) as a system of commensurability across the spectrum of human behavior. The failure is the anti-statism which effectively makes commons impossible to produce, yet the west defeated it’s competitors by its ability to produce commons especially that of high trust.

    Anglo Classical Liberalism (Hayekian Libertarianism) > In addition to a fully empirical system of government: natural law, common law, concurrent legislation, and the division of powers, hayekians produced what was missing from economic thought: full accounting of all capital upon which all people in all polities depend: formal and informal. (My contribution is informational, and genetic capital.) This allowed the formation of high trust commons where the libettinism of jewish libertarianism incentivized low trust commons – and particularly the conversion of public common capital to private capital which is the reason for the long standing prosecution of jews in every society they inhabit.

    My work unites these two thereby reforming classical liberalism (rule of law libertarianism), as a science of cooperation applied to institutional formation.

    Reply addressees: @DRolandAnderson @DavidAcostaJua1 @LudwigNverMises


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-26 18:38:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916200268469022720

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916197496654860625


    IN REPLY TO:

    @DRolandAnderson

    I agree. @curtdoolittle incorporates a lot of the same thinkers as Libertarians into his approach. And what I’m coming to think of as “Zoomer Libertarianism” is why I pay attention to @LudwigNverMises.

    I also believe that Strauss-Howe Generational Theory offers some good lessons for Libertarians. I don’t think Libertarians are “wrong,” but I think the approach is counter-cyclical, in that a 4th Turning is characterized by a low supply of order and a high demand for order.

    Winter is a bad time to plant crops.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916197496654860625

  • RT @LukeWeinhagen: @curtdoolittle Democracy today operates as a the at scale exp

    RT @LukeWeinhagen: @curtdoolittle Democracy today operates as a the at scale expression of the belief people don’t want the responsibility…


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-26 18:26:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1916197319692980258

  • You can’t reject the need to organize at scale – you can only suppress ‘criminal

    You can’t reject the need to organize at scale – you can only suppress ‘criminality’ (parasitism and predation) as scale produces anonymity and invisibility.

    We can’t do without a decision network to coordinate behavior.

    Stagnation is death.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-26 01:41:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1915944295431082360

    Reply addressees: @slenchy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1915928383092937027

  • (Ruminations) It appears that democracy encourages overemphasis of the political

    (Ruminations)
    It appears that democracy encourages overemphasis of the political. That Communism overemphasizes authority. That religion overemphasizes mysticism. But it also appears that That Monarchy emphasizes the social – because it is an extension of the family and tribe.…


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-25 22:50:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1915901370118640053

  • (Ruminations) It appears that democracy encourages overemphasis of the political

    (Ruminations)
    It appears that democracy encourages overemphasis of the political. That Communism overemphasizes authority. That religion overemphasizes mysticism. But it also appears that That Monarchy emphasizes the social – because it is an extension of the family and tribe.
    Given the stresses of exposure to political competition, we would all I assume prefer apolitical lives, because we lacked political agency and therefore political competition with one another. At least that’s my observation out there in the rest of the world.
    Most people, the vast majority, of whom I am certainly not a member, would prefer some form of serfdom. Where their lives – as is more true in Europe – are heavily bounded by authorities who take responsibility for the world at scale. Ensure our welfare is never at risk. And our efforts, if we wish to expend them, are dedicated to the pursuit of surpluses – meaning ‘desires’ not needs.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-04-25 22:50:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1915901369988616192