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Gregory Clark is one of just a few authors—with Popper, Ayn Rand and Henry Hazlitt—who completely changed my worldview; in his case, from a complete free-market institutionalist, where I believed that, with the right institutions/incentives (property rights, free markets, low taxation, stable currency, etc.), you should be able to make Singapore out of almost any country, to something much closer to what I call “Grandma’s Theory of the Wealth of Nations”: rich nations are rich because their people are smart and hard-working.
His work is top-notch, completely data-driven—a humongous amount of collected data (his English genealogy contains more than 422,000 people), using simple, justifiable, easy-to-derive (from multiple angles, from economics, genomics, etc.) equations that fit the data (his book on the Malthusian world is one of the most beautiful and elegant bodies of scientific knowledge), ingenious ways to measure things and make the right statistical corrections, etc.—absolutely Nobel-worthy.
(These results are not even controversial in genomics: everybody agrees that polygenic predictors are accurate at predicting cognitive traits, educational attainment, social status etc., and the data is just getting clearer and clearer on this (even though nobody is getting any money for these results, even in genomics—they are mostly side effects of other studies). It's just that they are completely absent from social sciences)
The trouble is that this work is toxic, and everybody knows it means career trouble, so nobody wants to touch it with a six-foot pole.
- Just look at what happens here: he can't get his book, containing some of the highest-quality and most important intellectual work, published by any academic publisher. But also:
- You get canceled and disinvited.
- You can't get funding—nobody wants to fund results suggesting that their work doesn't matter for “changing the world,” and Greg's work shows exactly that; in this book, for example, that policy (whatever you do—welfare state, free education, etc.) doesn't matter for social mobility.
- The incentive structure is such that even when you do publish, on the margin you get much harsher treatment, people look much harder to find mistakes and reasons why they don't have to accept your results, as opposed, for ex., to when you are Acemoglu or Raj Chetty (showing that neighborhood environments heavily dictate long-term financial success), where you can publish flawed and wrong papers, but nobody is trying hard to disprove them b/c they are bringing money and power
etc, etc.
So, can we get some rich (or influential) people to find a ways to fund prime-quality, high-importance but unpopular work like this?
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Not b/c it's necessarily right in every such instance. But b/c we need to know whether it's right.
Gregory Clark’s new book “Have & Have Not” is basically an extended version of his old “For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls” paper, with main graphs below showing simple additive genetics clearly pretty much entirely explain most aspects of status (no reasons for parents, siblings, cousins, etc to all have the same implied genetic association with your status if parental nurture independently matters); given a simple additive genetics model of status, we can then infer how assortative marriage is *on genes* (m) by looking at how elevated intergenerational status inheritance (b) is above 0.5, & multiplying that by 2; this implies people are matching *even more* on phenotypes than m, in order to match *on genes* at m.
The new book is legally free online (pdf posted by author bc wokes wouldn’t publish it, bc it’s about how genes matter, even tho his prior books on this topic were *actually rigorous* & yet also *actually popular,* unlike pretty much all other academic stuff). It includes chapters expanding on this to show that plenty of things we think of as “nurture” are actually still just simple additive genetics, with selection effects. Eg family size, birth order, death shocks, education shocks, wealth shocks, region shocks, & more don’t causally affect outcomes pretty much at all, except in very transitory very direct ways (eg first-born sons to elite families are likely to inherit more, but all that matters to *their* sons as adults are the genes they inherited).
Many interesting tidbits about how eg mothers & fathers pass down status equally to their kids—mother’s extra nurture involvement & father’s extra professional involvement equally don’t matter in any statistical way, just genes, unless they happen to perfectly mimic what it’d look like if just genes mattered—& how this incredible assortativity significantly increases the variance in things like IQ (maritally matching on IQ intuitively leads to more geniuses & retards), & how UK elites had especially elevated fertility until the birth of mass democracy in 1830s-1860s (& how they were killed at literally double the typical rate in WWI), & how emigrants from UK were above average in genetic status but also at least until 1930 immigrants to UK were significantly even above *that* (esp eg Indians & Jews), & how regional divergence in UK is all about selective domestic migration (south is richer bc smarter people moved south, & smart people aren’t actually disadvantaged by birth region), etc.
Clark has to put some throat-clearing stuff in there about supporting redistribution for basically Rawlsian reasons but even he clearly states eg that immigrants only matter to the society long term for their genetic value. What an awful own-goal for the UK to let Somalis Mirpuris etc swarm what had been an incredibly high quality population (Clark’s prior work showed how UK spent centuries heavily selecting for & concentrating IQ—some loose reasons to believe their 1800s IQ was maybe ~115 relative to modern definition of 100, like Ashk—& are now undoing it).
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She is standing on the only land border Hamas has. Iran doesn’t have one. Egypt does.
Right now she is on the Philadelphi Corridor, the strip between Gaza and Egypt. Behind her is a tunnel tall enough for two of her, wide enough for a car, lined in cinder block, running into Egypt. The IDF has found more than 200 tunnels in that corridor. Nine of them cross the border.
Hamas used them for years to bring in ammunition and rockets, and stored the weapons there on purpose, betting the IDF wouldn’t strike that close to Egypt.
Iran gets the credit because Iran writes the checks and builds the rockets. Iran has no border with Gaza. The sea was blockaded. The Israeli crossings were screened. What got in came across an Egyptian state border, under it and through the Rafah gate.
Remember Rafah? That same place Kamala Harris told the world she “read the maps”, and the place Biden warned Israel not to enter?
Cairo flooded tunnels when the Sinai jihadists were the threat. Later the gate reopened, Egyptian intelligence took a commission on the trade, and the shafts were still there. Sisi’s son was a senior member of Egypt’s intelligence service who signed the agreement with Sinwar.
Egypt says the tunnels do not exist. She is standing in one.
The same ground is where six hostages were found dead, twenty meters under a child’s room… in Rafah. One of them was an American-Israeli. A family was trying to raise a kid above that shaft. The wall still has Mickey Mouse on it. Hamas dug the tunnel underneath, held them where they could not stand, and starved them. Then they shot them all in the head.
It wasn’t the only house in Rafah with a tunnel under it, because every house in Rafah had a tunnel beneath it. Every single house. And it wasn’t the only one booby-trapped for the troops who came to clear it.
That’s why the corridor isn’t a talking point. The media refused to acknowledge it. World leaders and the UN said it would be genocide. They said it would take Israel months to move the one million people who lived there.
It took Israel just 10 days!
Egypt is not a partner of peace. The peace treaty means nothing to them. Egypt IS the enemy. They are as bad as Iran and Qatar. They have never lived down losing three wars which they started against Israel. They’ve never recovered. They hate us for the humiliation we handed them.
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What if there were calls for widespread protests in support of the 9/11 hijackers, three years after 3,000 Americans were murdered? What if tens of thousands rallied for the Nazis on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz?
No one would need to be told how obscene that was.
Yet here is a flyer for a "citywide protest" at New York's City Hall on October 7, three years to the day after the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. It promises "glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance."
And there are dozens of rallies planned across America and European cities and campuses.
Pick that date, put a masked figure at the center of the poster, and promise victory to "the resistance," and you've told everyone whose side you are on.
What they are celebrating is not hard to reconstruct.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists went house to house in the kibbutzim. They broke into safe rooms and set homes on fire to drive families out. Infants, children, and people in their 80s and 90s were killed in their beds and in their safe rooms. At the Nova festival, they hunted people across open fields for hours, shot those hiding in bomb shelters and under vehicles, raped and mutilated, and took captives.
After 9/11, America said you are either with us or against us. The line seemed clear. You stood for the West and what it represents, or you stood with a nihilistic religious extremism that wanted to replace it with a medieval theocracy.
That line has been blurred by a generation raised on an oppressor/oppressed script, by Gulf money flowing into our universities, and by a media and political class that has decided criticizing the killers, the extremists, the Islamists, is somehow intolerant.
So tomorrow, neighbors, our students, people we work beside, will rally to honor the mass murder of that day.
I'm sorry if this sounds grim. For those of us commemorating the memory of the victims, it is a disgraceful inversion of fact and history.
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Great post, Liz. Instead of posting this on X, you should call your Senator. Senators are the ones who actually WRITE the laws about this.
Let me see if I can find out who your Senator is.
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Oh, here it is. Her name is @SenWarren. Contact her, she can actually DO something about this.
Wait, hold on... I am being told she already had her chance five days ago.
On September 30 the Senate voted on the Stop Insider Trading Act, the House-passed bill that stops members of Congress, their spouses, and their kids from buying new individual stocks. Cloture failed 53-47 with every Republican voting yes and every single Democrat voting no, and that includes you, Senator.
So on Wednesday you voted against a congressional stock-trading ban, and on Monday you recorded a video demanding a congressional stock-trading ban. I have had students pull that exact move on me ("I didn't turn it in, Mr. B, but I really wanted to"), and they got a zero too.
Your caucus says the bill was too weak and had a photo ID requirement attached. Chuck Schumer called it "as ineffective as a screen door on a submarine," which, Chuck, is my line, and I would like royalties. Translated into English, your party would rather let Congress keep trading than ask voters for the same ID they show to buy Sudafed. That position is more confused than a chameleon in a bag of Skittles.
FACT CHECK, BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS TO
I checked your number before I said a word (science teacher; we don't take numbers on faith, I save faith for Sunday), and it holds up.
o The Office of Government Ethics filing posted September 22 shows 1,156 transactions in July, 716 sales and 440 purchases, somewhere between $79 million and $270 million total.
o His 2025 annual disclosure listed more than 21,000.
o Bloomberg found his accounts have traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since he came back to office.
o Obama and Biden did not trade individual stocks as president. They held Treasuries, mutual funds, and retirement accounts, and I'll give them that, because I grade the test and not the student.
o Some of the July trades were reported after the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline, and the usual penalty for that is a $200 fee, which Congress wrote for itself.
What the 18-second video leaves out is how those accounts run. The White House says outside firms manage them on models that copy indexes like the Schwab 1000, which is called direct indexing: you own every stock in the index one by one instead of buying one fund, and the computer rebalances and harvests tax losses all day, spitting out hundreds of tickets. Bloomberg counted more than 200 days in 2025 when one of his accounts bought a stock while another account sold the same stock the same day. If that is insider trading, it is the worst insider trading in human history, betting for AND against yourself before lunch. That scheme couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
He does sign the disclosure, though, and he can read his own book after the fact, so it is no blind trust. That is a fair ethics complaint and I'll say it out loud. A computer buying Costco forty times still doesn't show the President traded on secret government information.
Pointing at a Nvidia buy a week before a chip rule and yelling AHA is cum hoc ergo propter hoc, assuming that two things happening at the same time means one caused the other. With 21,000 trades a year, some of them will land next to a headline by pure arithmetic. The broken clock in my classroom is right twice a day and I still had to replace the batteries. I'd grade that logic, Senator, but I don't have a letter below F.
WHO WRITES THE CHECK THE MARKET IS BETTING ON
A stock price is a projection, a guess about how much cash a company will make down the road. For defense contractors, chip makers, drug companies, and solar startups, a huge chunk of that future cash comes from Washington, and Article I, Section 9 says "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Congress writes that law, along with the authorizations, the subsidies, the tax credits, and the multi-year contracts, and committee members see the markup long before the market does. A president can talk a stock up for an afternoon; Congress can hand a company ten years of revenue.
Which brings me to your caucus's favorite stock picker (technically her husband, whose trades she still has to disclose).
o June 2022: Paul Pelosi exercised Nvidia call options worth $1 million to $5 million while the Speaker was moving the CHIPS Act, roughly $53 billion for the semiconductor industry.
o July 26, 2022: he sold 25,000 Nvidia shares, and on July 27 the Senate passed CHIPS. Her office said they don't discuss trades and the sale lost money. Sure, and my students' dogs eat their homework every Tuesday.
o Trackers following the household's disclosures put the strategy around +984% since 2014, against roughly +306% for the S&P 500. That's a tracker estimate and not an audit, but it would make one very lucky man.
o When a ban came up in late 2021, the Speaker said members should be able to participate in the free market.
Jim Quinn's Seventh Law of Liberalism says it's different when you're a Democrat, and here's the proof. A Republican's computer rebalancing an index fund is a constitutional crisis, while a Democrat Speaker's household buying chip options as she pushes a chip bill is "free-market participation." They're muddying the water to make it look deep.
In fairness (and my students will tell you I'm annoyingly fair), your own disclosures show funds and real estate, no individual stocks. Your vote is the problem, Senator, along with Ro Khanna, who sponsors trading bans while his household files trade reports by the thousands. A $174,000 salary does not produce those return curves. My freshmen can do that math, and a few of them still count on their fingers.
WHO ACTUALLY KILLED THE BAN
Trump stood at the State of the Union in February and told Congress to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay. The House passed it in July, 232-198, with 13 House Democrats voting for it, and then your side of the Senate killed it. Jim Quinn's Second Law fits like a glove: if you want to know what liberals are up to, watch what they accuse conservatives of doing.
What's next, Senator? Will you complain that troops went unpaid during a shutdown while every member of Congress got paid on time... wait, I was just told that already happened. A private citizen wrote a $130 million check so our soldiers got paid, and you all collected yours because you wrote the law that way. I broke down the whole racket here, including a real stock ban (no individual stocks for members, spouses, or kids, broad funds or a true blind trust only, and ten times the profit as the penalty): nitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2…
If you think that's a one-off, take a tour of the worst restaurant in America: nitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2…
Congress found $53 billion for chip makers, yet the Major Richard Star Act, about $10 billion over ten years so combat-wounded, medically retired veterans stop having their retirement eaten by an offset, still can't get a floor vote after five Congresses of cosponsors saying nice things and doing nothing for 50,000-plus wounded veterans. I wrote that one for my daughter: nitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2…
So what have you actually done for the people this year, Senator, besides vote no and press record? Most of your bills hand out somebody else's money, and handouts build a dependent voting bloc that has to keep re-electing you to keep the checks coming. You are a snollygoster, which is a shrewd, unprincipled politician (look it up).
And since we're on rich people, I keep hearing millionaire senators say "tax the rich" while knowing every loophole, because their colleagues wrote them. Pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe this year, standard deduction only, no itemizing, and then come lecture me about the rich. Until then you're about as useful as a box of white crayons. The history of "tax the rich" starts in 1913, and you're still paying for it: nitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2…
Here's a free offer. Ban individual stock trading for every member of Congress, every spouse, every dependent, AND the President and Vice President, with broad index funds or a real blind trust, and make violators give back the profit plus ten times. I'll sign that petition tonight. You can lead a person to Congress, but you can't make them think, so I'll be over here waiting for you to vote yes on literally anything.
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below with your take. Should the ban cover the President too, or only Congress? Tell me.
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But what do I know, I am only a science teacher who actually read the roll call vote before recording a video about it.
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There are different levels of courage. Edan Alexander is the one you measure the others against.
He grew up in New Jersey. He volunteered for Golani. On October 7 he had stayed at the outpost near Nirim so someone else could go home for Shabbat. At 6:57 in the morning he called his mother and told her she wouldn’t believe what he was seeing. Then he held the post against about thirty gunmen, alone, until they took him.
In the tunnel he was in uniform, and the civilians who were thrown in with him calmed down because a soldier was there. He told them they would get out. He argued, in English, for the Thai workers, because they were not Israelis and Hamas had no reason to keep them. He was the last living American they held. He came home on his feet.
He spent 584 days in the tunnels, no daylight, fighting every day just to stay alive. His mother waited that long for the hug. She got him back in her arms.
Most people would have called that the end of the story. He stood up and said it wasn’t. A month after giving this speech, Edan went back and put on that uniform so he can continue the fight.
His story didn’t end with survival. It continued with service.
That’s a whole different level of courage. They took a boy from New Jersey and buried him under Gaza for a year and a half. He came out and asked for the uniform back. He is a legend. A true lion of Israel.
Credit: @FIDF
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If you're having a hard time understanding what's happening in France right now, just watch this clip from Lioness. It articulates this situation perfectly. We're watching a 50-year war on our institutions, driven by the Red-Green alliance using an army of "useful idiots" to tear down the West from within. THIS IS WHAT THEY ALWAYS DO. France is just showing us what the end of that road looks like.
America, look at the upcoming midterms. From Senate seats to local school boards, the DSA is executing this blueprint step-by-step.
France is what happens when you let them in. We stop them at the ballot box now, or we're next.
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One of the reasons this is super interesting is that you actually see the same playbook used against Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, and Nigel Farage.
Basically an institutional alignment of the blob, NGOs, legal apparatus, media, tech platform censorship came together and did whatever it could to prevent their rise to power.
All three have also been targets of real violence.
Lawfare:
> Brazil’s electoral court barred Bolsonaro from office until 2030 over his attacks on the voting system; criminal cases followed on the January 2023 riots, state gifts, and vaccine records.
> Trump was indicted in multiple jurisdictions while campaigning, with the cases timed across the run-up to the 2024 election
> Farage faces a parliamentary standards probe over an undeclared ÂŁ5 million gift, National Crime Agency interest in related transfers, and a sketchy "Channel 4" sting on foreign donations that was funded by... foreigners. This is based on private info which was, "miraculously" leaked.
Speech and platforms:
> In Brazil, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered removal of Bolsonaro-linked accounts; when X refused, the platform was blocked nationwide in 2024, with Lula’s public backing, and restored only after compliance.
> After Jan 6, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube removed Trump; Apple, Google, and Amazon then cut off Parler. This deprived the leading opposition figure of his largest direct channels in the years before he ran again
> Farage was de-banked by Coutts. They closed his bank accounts citing his Brexit views and Trump association
Russia and scandal framing.
> Trump spent years under the collusion narrative. Blob and media kept pushing the Steele dossier
> Bolsonaro’s circle was tied to “disinformation” and coup inquiries
> Farage has been pressed over a jailed former colleague who took Russian bribes, old Putin remarks, and a Russia Today appearance from ten years ago
Threats to physical security:
> Bolsonaro was stabbed in 2018 during the presidential campaign. A judge later found him not criminally liable because of persistent delusional disorder and ordered indefinite psychiatric detention. He was assessed as still dangerous years later. Bolsonaro has long said he believes others were behind it; investigators did not establish that.
> Trump's had multiple assassination attempts on his life
> Farage had an attempt on his life that was mishandled and initially downplayed by the police. In April 2025 a lit incendiary device was pushed through the letterbox of his home. Officers told him the CCTV had not captured the suspect and closed the case.
> Later, a man charged with the murder of Farage's party spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe would be found to have been the same person that the police later admitted was the suspect was on the footage of the CCTV. The man has now been charged with preparing terror acts against Farage
For both Trump and the Bolsonaro family, it seems that the more the machine blatantly moves against them to suppress the democratic will of the people, the more support for them hardened. Voters could see through it.
Whether the British people recognize the same patterns and tactics are used against Farage remains open.
What we are witnessing in Brazil is the biggest political backfire in modern political history.
Communist tyrants came after Brazil’s Trump, Jair Bolsonaro.
He survived an assassination attempt.
They banned him from running for office.
Then they threw him in jail.
They accused him of attempting a coup after his election was stolen, just like they did here to Trump.
He’s currently serving a 27 year prison sentence.
The response: His wife won a Senate seat. His son Carlos won a Senate seat. His son Renan won a seat in Congress. His son Flávio is ahead of Lula for president of Brazil.
His son could unseat the very tyrant who threw him in jail.
The persecution of Bolsonaro has backfired into a political retribution against those who weaponized Government against the people's will.
You might be able to try to silence a man but you cannot silence a movement.
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"We are no longer training counselors who are able to work with 'the Trump supporter...'"
How did politics overtake the therapy profession? When did activism become more important than mental health? Why is the therapist's agenda more important than client wellbeing?
These are questions the documentary The Corruption of Therapy seeks to answer. Check out the first official trailer and get ready for the full documentary series to be released in 2027.
Participants include @JLeslieElliott @SaveMHUK Dr. Michael Olan and Christine Sefein of @TherapyAntidote @DrChelseaRSmith @ryanwexelblatt Jake Wiskerchen, @SoadTabrizi @Hartz_PhD of @OTI_USA @SystemicTexism @pgarfieldjaeger @DoctorPerin @Dr_Dawn_Irons @Dr_Conte @HideYourKids0 @ConceptualJames @AaronKindsvatt1 @MrsSaraStockton @JamesEsses @docamitay @stellaomalley3 of @genspect @NewMindTherapy
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L'Histoire retient Pol Pot comme le boucher du Cambodge.
Mais on oublie souvent le paradoxe le plus glaçant de ce dictateur.
Le tyran qui a voulu ramener son pays à l'âge de pierre n'était pas un paysan illettré.
C'était un bourgeois formé dans les universités parisiennes.
En 1975, il prend le pouvoir avec les Khmers rouges et décrète "l'Année Zéro".
Son projet : vider les villes et transformer le Cambodge en un immense camp de travaux forcés agraire.
Le résultat sera le génocide le plus fulgurant de l'Histoire moderne.
En moins de quatre ans, près de deux millions de Cambodgiens sont exterminés. Près d'un quart de la population.
La cruauté du régime tient dans une seule devise, froidement répétée chaque jour aux déportés par les miliciens de l'Angkar.
L'Angkar, c'est "l'Organisation" : l'entité suprême, sans visage et toute-puissante du parti communiste khmer, qui contrôle chaque seconde de la vie des citoyens.
Son mot d'ordre absolu : "Vous garder ne rapporte rien, vous détruire ne coûte rien."
Pour le dictateur, la culture et l'intellectualisme sont des maladies mortelles qu'il faut Ă©radiquer.
Avoir les mains douces est une condamnation à mort. Parler une langue étrangère est un crime capital.
Même le simple fait de porter des lunettes suffit pour être abattu à coups de pioche ou étouffé avec un sac en plastique, car le régime refuse de gaspiller des balles.
Les témoignages des survivants décrivent une déshumanisation absolue.
Le cinéaste Rithy Panh, qui a vu toute sa famille mourir dans les camps de travail, raconte la terreur psychologique : "Pleurer un mort était un acte de rébellion. Si tu montrais ta peine, tu étais exécuté."
Les enfants étaient arrachés à leurs familles et endoctrinés pour devenir les bourreaux de leurs propres parents.
Dans son récit de survie, l'ingénieur Pin Yathay résume l'anéantissement voulu par ce système broyeur : "Nous étions ravalés au rang de bêtes. L'Angkar nous avait volé notre humanité."
Pendant que son peuple crevait dans la boue et la maladie, Pol Pot dirigeait l'extermination depuis le confort de ses résidences.
Mais la véritable insulte à la morale se trouve dans la fin de l'histoire.
Contrairement aux dignitaires nazis, le bourreau du Cambodge n'a jamais répondu de ses crimes devant un tribunal international.
Pol Pot s'est Ă©teint paisiblement dans son lit, libre, en 1998.
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Dans 50 ans, les livres d'histoire diront qu'Elon Musk a gagné une guerre que personne ne savait qu'on était en train de perdre.
Une guerre commencée il y a 100 ans, dans une cellule de prison italienne.
En 1926, Mussolini fait arrêter un intellectuel sarde de 35 ans. Au procès, le procureur aurait dit : « Nous devons empêcher ce cerveau de fonctionner pendant vingt ans. »
Il s'appelait Antonio Gramsci.
Son cerveau n'a jamais cessé de fonctionner. En prison, il a rempli des milliers de pages qui sont devenues l'un des textes politiques les plus influents du XXe siècle. Je pense qu'on est en train de vivre le moment où sa théorie s'effondre.
Laissez-moi vous expliquer.
Gramsci se posait une question simple. Pourquoi la révolution communiste a-t-elle réussi en Russie mais échoué partout en Occident ?
Sa réponse : en Occident, le pouvoir ne tient pas seulement par l'État, la police et l'armée. Il tient par la culture. Par ce que les gens trouvent normal, évident, « de bon sens ». Il appelle ça l'hégémonie culturelle.
Donc, pour prendre le pouvoir, il ne faut pas d'abord prendre le palais. Il faut d'abord prendre les esprits. Les écoles. Les universités. Les journaux. Le théâtre. L'édition. Les tribunaux. C'est la « guerre de position » : une conquête lente, institution par institution. Quand la culture a basculé, la politique suit toute seule.
Quarante ans plus tard, l'activiste allemand Rudi Dutschke en fera un slogan : la longue marche Ă travers les institutions.
Pendant des décennies, on a vécu avec une énigme que personne n'arrivait vraiment à expliquer.
Pourquoi presque tous les artistes sont-ils de gauche ? Les acteurs, les chanteurs, les profs, les journalistes, une bonne partie de la magistrature. Pourquoi un pays pouvait voter à droite élection après élection et voir quand même sa culture parler d'une seule voix ?
On nous répondait : « c'est parce que les gens éduqués sont de gauche. »
Je crois que la réponse est plus simple. Gramsci avait écrit la recette, et elle a été appliquée. Quand tu contrôles qui obtient la subvention, le poste, la bonne critique, le prix, l'invitation sur le plateau, tu contrôles ce qui devient « la culture ».
La mĂŞme Ă©nigme existait Ă l'Ă©chelle du monde.
Pourquoi tant de pays en développement, notamment en Amérique latine, revotaient-ils encore et encore pour des gouvernements socialistes ou de gauche radicale ? Venezuela, Bolivie, Nicaragua, l'Argentine des Kirchner, la Colombie de Petro. L'économie s'effondrait, les cartels prospéraient, le chaos s'installait. Et pourtant le même vote revenait.
Ma conviction : la pauvreté n'était pas un accident du système. C'était un électorat. Et autour, il y avait tout un écosystème d'ONG, de médias « indépendants » et de programmes de « société civile », financé en grande partie par l'argent occidental.
Puis, début 2025, il s'est passé quelque chose que personne n'avait jamais osé faire.
Elon et DOGE ont ouvert les livres de USAID. Une agence quasi intouchable depuis 1961, des dizaines de milliards de dollars par an. La grande majorité des programmes ont été coupés, et l'agence a été absorbée par le Département d'État.
Le robinet a été fermé.
Et regardez ce qui s'est passé depuis.
Bolivie : le MAS perd le pouvoir après presque vingt ans. Équateur : Noboa réélu. Honduras : la droite reprend le pays. Chili : Kast élu. Argentine : Milei remporte largement les élections de mi-mandat.
Et il y a deux jours, le Brésil.
Jair Bolsonaro est inéligible, condamné à 27 ans de prison. La gauche pensait avoir refermé le chapitre. Lula, 80 ans, briguait un quatrième mandat face à un pays qu'on disait acquis.
Dimanche, son fils Flávio est arrivé en tête du premier tour. Plus de 47 % contre près de 45 % pour Lula. Lula lui-même a reconnu un résultat « inattendu ».
Le plus grand pays d'Amérique latine est à un second tour de basculer.
Le plus grand virage à droite du continent depuis des décennies.
Coïncidence ? Je ne crois pas. Quand le financement disparaît, le récit perd ses haut-parleurs.
Il reste un dernier vrai bastion. L'Europe.
Bruxelles finance ses propres réseaux d'ONG, avec une opacité que même la Cour des comptes européenne a pointée. Les grandes fondations comme l'Open Society de Soros. Les entités supranationales qui produisent de la norme sans jamais passer devant un électeur.
C'est la dernière forteresse de l'hégémonie culturelle. Et elle commence à se fissurer.
Je suis convaincu que tout ça va s'effondrer, et plus vite qu'on ne le pense.
Gramsci avait raison sur un point essentiel : la culture précède la politique. Mais il avait oublié que ça marche dans les deux sens. Quand une culture artificielle perd ses perfusions, ce qu'il y a de vrai en dessous remonte à la surface.
Ce qui vient après, je crois que c'est une renaissance. Une culture qui recommence à aimer la beauté, l'ambition, la science, la civilisation qui l'a fait naître.
Et dans les livres d'histoire, on se souviendra que tout a commencé quand un homme a décidé de regarder les comptes.
Il fallait quelqu'un d'assez riche pour ne dépendre de personne, d'assez fou pour s'y attaquer et d'assez libre pour encaisser la haine qui allait suivre.
Merci Elon.
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Germany has twenty years of data on medical transition. The figures that Paul (@chester_fence) from Athena Forum unearthed last week rightly attracted much attention. His deep dive for us raises medical, ethical & legal questions we can no longer ignore.
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🇺🇸 Robert E. Lee. Edgar Allan Poe. Walt Whitman. Lafayette’s farewell tour collected a unique set of names.
In Alexandria, on October 16, 1824, about 2,000 militia marched Lafayette down King Street. Seventeen-year-old Robert E. Lee was in that column. He already had his West Point appointment.
In Richmond, 15-year-old Edgar Allan Poe turned out as a lieutenant in the Junior Morgan Riflemen, the honor guard picked for the visit. For the occasion the boys were allowed to draw arms from the state armory. A month later he co-signed a letter to the governor asking to keep them. His first surviving letter.
In Baltimore, Lafayette personally asked for Poe’s grandfather, David Poe Sr. During the war he had given Lafayette $500 to help the troops, and his wife had cut 500 pairs of pantaloons for them too. Lafayette never forgot. He was informed David had died, and visited the widow the next day.
On July 4, 1825, at a library groundbreaking in Brooklyn, Lafayette picked up a 6-year-old, carried him, and kissed him on the cheek. The boy was Walt Whitman. He never forgot it.
He also sat with Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. Jefferson wept when they embraced.
He went to Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon. He went down into the vault alone, and came out in tears. Then he took his son, Georges, and his secretary in with him.
Forty years earlier Washington had written that he did not expect to see him again. He was right.
In 1824, the last surviving general of the Revolution came back to America, and the entire country stopped for a year to thank him.
Marquis de Lafayette was 67 years old. Nearly half a century earlier, he had crossed an ocean to fight for American independence, bled for it and poured his own fortune into it.
Now President Monroe and Congress invited him back as "the Nation's Guest."
He planned to visit the original 13 states and stay a few months. Instead he stayed 13 months and visited all 24 states, traveling more than 6,000 miles.
Everywhere he went, America turned out in droves to show their appreciation. When he landed in New York, 80,000 people turned out, two-thirds of the entire city.
In Boston, crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands lined the streets. Towns built triumphal arches. Church bells rang. Artillery roared.
Parents named their children, their towns, and their streets after him. The young country was caught up in "Lafayette Mania."
When he finally left in September 1825, he said goodbye at the White House:
"God bless the American people, each of their states, and the federal government. Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart; such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat."
He had crossed an ocean as a boy to fight for a country that wasn't his. He left it an old man, beloved by every corner of it.
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Muy bueno esto de Chico. Explica el proceso endogámico que fabrica los "consensos" que despuĂ©s repiten los dĂ©biles mentales como los actores y cantantes, o los hijosderemilp*tas como los polĂticos.
Escuchen👇🏼
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Last month, we informed the Supreme Court about Stephen Rosenthal's, Johanna Olson-Kennedy's, Diane Ehrensaft's and Asaf Orr, Esq.'s laser-focused goal of "trans'ing" kids even if it means ignoring the opposition of the child's parent. Parents will never forgive or forget those who harmed their children. Everyday we get one step closer in seeing these monsters destroyed, like all of the bodies they destroyed. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
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Update: A Portland, Ore. teen suspected of being a member of the "764" terror cult has been charged with domestic terrorism after a bioterrorism attack occurred at Benson High School—the school I went to.
On Sept. 8, an unnamed teen mixed dangerous chemicals in the cafeteria, causing severe injuries to himself and prompting a mass evacuation.
The 15-year-old has been charged at the state level with domestic terrorism, 12 counts of attempted m—rder and more.
The FBI has been assisting in the investigation. It found references to the "764" cult on devices belonging to the teen. The international p—dophile cult grooms and recruits youths into killing animals, making s—xual content and killing others. I recently reported on the decades-long sentencing of one of the cult's leaders, who is trans. There are members of this cult all over the world, and they've groomed multiple youths into carrying out m—rder-s—icides. ngocomment.com/p/trans-leade…
A trans leader of a Satanic child gr—ming cult in the "764" terror network has been sentenced to federal prison.
Kyle Spitze tortured his victims, spread child s—x content & forced them to participate in gruesome occult blood rituals. Read my new report: ngocomment.com/p/trans-leade…