Fascinating & smart & spooky
Chris Abraham
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Never a wimp President is made
The reason “thug,” “gangster,” “king,” and “fascist” so often bounce off Trump is that those words are meant as moral indictments, but they arrive wearing jackboots, a crown, and a soundtrack. They do not paint him as helpless. They paint him as a man who can terrify enemies and …
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Trump gets called a thug, king, fascist, gangster, and half the country hears boss music. Meanwhile Dukakis got eaten by a tank helmet, Kerry by windsurfing and Swift Boat, Dean by a scream, Jeb by “low energy.” In American politics, monster beats wimp almost every time.
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Stop calling Trump tough!
Calling Trump a “thug,” “king,” “gangster,” or even “fascist” is supposed to be disqualifying, but in practice it often does the opposite. Those words are loaded with moral judgment, but they’re also saturated with imagery of power. They evoke dominance, control, fearlessness, …
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Calling Trump a “thug,” “king,” or “fascist” doesn’t weaken him—it frames him as powerful. Those are dominance-coded labels, not insults. In politics, weakness is what kills candidates. If you want to undercut him, you have to make him look small, not strong.
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Performative religion is not a dictator-only move. It appears wherever power wants legitimacy. The right does it, Democrats do it, church hierarchies do it. The real question is not who panders with faith, but whether people can still tell the difference between belief and theater.
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Everyone exploits church and religion.
Performative religion isn’t unique to strongmen. It shows up anywhere power and legitimacy intersect. Popes, archbishops, presidents, revolutionaries, party machines, campaign operatives, all of them are tempted to wrap themselves in moral language to stabilize power. American …
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Capitalism isn't a bug but a feature of Marxist evolution
Even Karl Marx—and yes, Ludwig von Mises makes a similar point from the opposite side—recognized that capitalism isn’t some optional detour but the necessary engine that develops the productive forces socialism depends on. Marx’s own framework (historical materialism) treats …
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Even Karl Marx—and yes, Ludwig von Mises makes a similar point from the opposite side—recognized that capitalism isn’t some optional detour but the necessary engine that develops the productive forces socialism depends on. Marx’s own framework (historical materialism) treats capitalism as a stage you must pass through before anything like socialism or communism is even structurally possible. So if someone is stuck denouncing capitalism while living entirely inside it, they’re not resisting the process—they’re stalled within it. In that sense, capitalism isn’t a bug in the system; it’s the system doing exactly what Marx said it would do. Complaining about it without advancing beyond it just proves the point. davisvanguard.org/2026/04/c…
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Some people say they love everyone. Usually they mean people like them, and people they can feel noble for loving. I enjoyed Starfleet Academy, but the “pearls before swine” response to its cancellation gives the game away. youtube.com/watch
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Currently rereading: State of Fear by Michael Crichton 📚
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Such a lovely show. Reminder: everyone has all these feeling when they’re dating or starting romances, this is just a much more honest portrayal.
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The New York Times ate crow today 🐦⬛
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Fascinating… What do you think?
The Rise of the Sewing Circle Christian youtube.com/watch
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The New York Time does not know what NATO means. That is extremely humiliating and shameful. Fact checkers my ass.
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I would be psyched if everybody who felt that way moved to Europe. It would be giving normie Americans what they want: getting insufferable europhiles like me TF out of America. Let them live out their génération perdue fantasy! www.wsj.com/us-news/a…
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Fascinating
Britain is on the edge of civil war, argues Kings College Professor Dr David Betz youtube.com/watch
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Mises' takedown of Marx
However one may turn the matter, one cannot discover any reason why an ideological distortion of truth should be more useful to the bourgeoisie than a correct theory. pca.st/episode/b…
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Damning. Sorry, Duke; sorry, Academia. You’re cowards and wimps.
By opposing justice and throwing aside the facts of hard science, the Duke faculty and administration damaged all of higher education during the infamous lacrosse hoax. pca.st/episode/4…
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43 hours of The Brothers Karamazov to follow.
