More and more these days I am reminded of a very useful quote from a former White House intern: “If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to answer.” — Monica Lewinsky …
Exceptionalism Discarded – ‘The system is running on inertia, not legitimacy.’
In relation to the topic of previous rantings on this site, the linked passage below is too good - "accurate" is a far better term - to not document here. While the specific topic of the aptly named author is "journalism" (the media), much of the sentiment applies equally well across broad swaths of industry …
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The Real Economy Must Be Under There Somewhere – Vol. II
Since last addressed here last March, the extent of the fake economy has been exposed to be orders of magnitude beyond what most Americans can yet comprehend. Some less than exuberant enthusiasm from back then: Eventually, history will identify the many faces of shame who perpetuated this charade…from the woke to the heavily credentialed yet still worthless to the just …
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Musings on the End Game Coming via Minneapolis – The ‘Be Careful What You Ask for” Edition (UPDATED AGAIN)
The general theme here was addressed not so long ago in the ‘…there can only be one rule. I didn’t want this to be the rule, but they overruled us. So they can choke on their new rule…’ post back in November. Of course, the whole point of existing under the anti-intellectual cover provided by …
The Fake Recession Gambit of 1991…Back in the Playbook for 2026?
I do enjoy it when actual smart people travel down the same paths I have. Before going into today's example, a quick review of the story as I told it in late 2021 about the recession of 1991. (Apologies, I no longer have access to the links I used to refresh my memory of those …
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Your Government has been in the Deliberate Fraud Business Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009…Nick Shirly just showed you how it all works.
A brave citizen journalist has been all over the sane internet this weekend: One kid with an iPhone vs thousands of corporate uninterested paid journalists. Incredible. "Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. …
‘The Lost Generation’ – Testimony on the Pollution of Broader Talent and Technical Competence Pipelines …or… More than a Decade of Unnatural Selection is going to Impact American Society for Many Decades to Come.
I have written on this topic on many occasions. A few examples: Conspicuous Diversity – The Pathway Toward Corporate Fragility, Eventual Collapse, and a Broader Societal Dark Age (November 24, 2022) The Natural Progression of Potemkin Diversity (October 4, 2024) The Natural Progression of Potemkin Diversity – The ‘Unnatural Selection Toward Shallowness, Mediocrity, and Societal …
‘His Reckoning’ – Monica Smiles…?
My Saturday morning news round-up after the legally required dump of the Epstein files late yesterday brought the following quote to mind: “If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to …
On American History’s Greatest Buffoon – ‘A wan vision of failure’
As noted in the final hours of the presidential administration that operated in his name: That [Biden] was always going to be a pathetically bad president was never in doubt. ... The Office of the President of the United States has never been smaller than it is today. Coming up on eleven months later now, …
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‘…there can only be one rule. I didn’t want this to be the rule, but they overruled us. So they can choke on their new rule…’
The history of the last decade and a half or so, as seen very clearly from this keyboard in real-time but when finally compiled for later generations from the perspective of time and evidence only revealed after the fact, should document the passage through four key phases: (1) the Progressive surge under Obama that fully …
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