Free therapy anyone?
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Live feed, without commentary, from Israel.
Stream: 2023-10-08
Stream: 2023-10-07
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Chris Moritz and Tucker Carlson on “Trans, Inc.”
“Follow the money….” Thanks to the Daily Caller Shorts YouTube channel, which is re-posting Tucker Carlson’s interviews which can otherwise only be viewed on 𝕏 (and hence not embedded, downloaded, or watched with the YouTube video features such as skip forward/back and set resolution and speed).
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Lara Trump covers Tom Petty’s 1989 song “I Won’t Back Down”—badly—and gets cancelled on a Times Square billboard.
Lara also alleged that she had paid for a billboard in New York City’s Times Square to promote the new song through a media company called Clear Channel.
But she said she was told by the agency just hours before it was meant to go live that they didn’t want to run it with her full moniker because ‘the Trump name is a problem,’ which Lara slammed as ‘discriminatory’ and ‘insulting.’
Lara Trump is a Trump-by-marriage: she is married to Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump. She is a former producer of the U.S. television show Inside Edition and Fox News contributor.
Here is her cover of “I Won’t Back Down”.
This is the Tom Petty original.
Yes, that’s Ringo Starr on the drums in the music video, although he didn’t play on the recording. There’s also some guy named George Harrison, who was in the song, doing vocals.
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AI operator is the clostest woke mob gets to intelligence.
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Her attempt to imitate Petty’s voice sounds like an old granny in the old west. She should have sung it straight up.
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Interesting. Here the link comes up as 403 Forbidden. Can’t even access jpost.com
But I can follow on TwiXter.
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Salem, MA is known to be a scary place. Especially if you’re an innocent woman and someone thinks you’re a witch.
There were scary lines of low-brow tourists, scary traffic, scary police, scary tow trucks, and scary prices. The scariest of it all was this advertisement on the street:
Religious and liberal and sex and LGBT+ and for children anyone? Nonetheless, there was a scary crowd around the tower, with the banner rising above the town inhabited by the descendants of the woman-hanging mobs:
I’m reminded of this brilliant decade-old article:
[…]we see how the witch-hunter can invert the reality of power and presents himself as the underdog, fighting back against the gigantic and all-encompassing conspiracy of witches. This fantasy is expertly constructed and appears quite real to the casual observer.
The primary technique is to present the natural order of human society, which the revolution has in fact totally overthrown—an order in which the young respect the old, the inexperienced follow the accomplished, and dogs obey their owners—as the existing order. The professional witch-hunter, who is in fact a petty bureaucrat, a tool of power and a bully for hire, appears to himself as a sort of daring rebel against the great conspiracy. Moreover, because this natural order both used to exist, and is always striving to spring up against Horace’s pitchfork, it can be portrayed as the ruling order with great fictional nuance and detail—even after a half-century plus of permanent revolution.
Beware of the witch hunter.
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jpost has appeared to have suffered intermittent cyberattacks of one or more forms over the weekend:
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Thanks for your further investigation!
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McCarthy is sounding like a Presidential candidate:
https://youtu.be/8qNpHr_UoGo
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Here is Balaji Srinivasan of The Network State with a mega 𝕏 post on why “re-shoring” and “bringing supply chains back to the US” are a lot harder to do than the glib words of politicians suggest.
The core thing you’re getting wrong is that you can’t do high-tech without a reliable source of medium-tech and low-tech.
And the US outsourced all of that to China over 45 years, but now thinks it can rebuild a million factories and retool its entire economy faster than China can copy technologies and sell Treasuries.
That’s not realistic. All the talk about “bringing supply chains back to the US” treats a supply chain as if it’s something you can order off Amazon for $50B. But just look at the TSMC Arizona disaster [1] — it’s clear from that why things don’t get built in America. This supposed chip Manhattan Project is predictably snarled in labor disputes and visa delays.
Bringing supply chains home is more like saying “change America’s entire business model, and either put tens of millions of people back into low-paying factories OR build millions of low-cost robots to replace expensive in-person employees.”
However, you can’t even take the option of millions of low-cost robots without a reliable supply of steel. And of rare earth elements, and of screws, bolts, and nuts. But China controls much of that.
As a concrete example, Raytheon — a defense contractor! — admits that it can’t build without China. [2] That means the US military itself is made in China. And you can’t fight your factory.
I mean, one just has to be realistic. China has geared their entire society for mass production for 45 years even as the US has gone in the other direction. It’s decades to turn this around.
And you might not even be able to turn it around without the dollar going away as the reserve currency. Because the most profitable export for the US now is just dollars. Why make anything when you can print everything? That’s contributed to deindustrialization.
Problem is, dedollarization can happen at a much faster speed than deindustrialization. Remember, China already has WeChat/Alipay/digital yuan, India has IndiaStack, and the Internet has Bitcoin and crypto. All of those are already superior to DC’s antiquated payment tech like ACH. The only thing the dollar tech stack has going for it is incumbency — no one would pick it from first principles today.
So, that is why all the comparative advantage logic breaks down. The US is pursuing trade war and decoupling with China — not comparative advantage.
But it’s much easier for China to replace the US than for the US to replace China. Because it’s much easier for China to copy technology and advocate the use of its own currency than for the US to build millions of factories and change its entire economy.
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Turns out the ancestors of Native Americans pretty much wiped out the previous Native Americans.
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