J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.

Europas ledare har lyckats med ett otroligt geopolitiskt hattrick: Man gjorde sig beroende av Ryssland för energi, Kina för handel och USA för sin säkerhet, och har på något vänster lyckats bli ovän med alla tre samtidigt. Ett rent mästerverk i självskadebeteende.

Followed. Oil and gas bros need to connect and work to get the word out. If you’ve got an O&G business or are running a crew, shut it all down on November 3rd and get your people to the polls. Tell your contractors they they aren’t allowed to bill more than half a day on election day and make sure they know why. If you’re working on a crew, talk to your supervisor about shutting everything down on election day and making sure everybody votes. Yet again, the hard left is targeting our industry. We need to make sure they don’t get their hands on the Railroad Commission. That would be catastrophic.

Hollywood actor makes a SHOCKING admission. #metoo

The entrenched, unelected, careerist bureaucracy in our federal government is so much worse than almost everyone realizes. I wish more conservatives understood this, because then they might stop bitching about what the Trump Admin has been able to accomplish and not accomplish. Given what they are up against, the accomplishments of the Trump Admin over the past almost two years have been nothing short of miraculous.

Did you ever have a 10.5% mortgage rate? I did. First home purchase in 1988. Did you ever experience an AVERAGE rate of inflation over 4 years of almost 10% -- moving between 6.5% and 14%? I did -- the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. I took out $75,000 in student loans from 1982 to 1987. That is the equivalent of borrowing $225,000 from 2021 to 2026. The premise of your post is false.

I’m tweeting this partly because I noticed I’d become somewhat callous over the last year. I was focusing more on undermining taboos, but less on a positive vision for the future. Seems reasonable for people to trust me less because of that. So it’s worth reiterating that my long-term goal is flourishing for all. Indeed, I think of that as the core difference between 20th-century nationalism, and 21st-century national conservatism. The former was about nations competing, often violently. The latter focuses on the idea that the existence of different autonomous, healthy nations is enormously positive-sum. That’s why you see British nationalists supporting Japanese nationalists supporting French nationalists, and why the word “patriot” is used as a compliment across borders. Now, the first step towards that vision absolutely needs to be fixing the West—which requires that Western countries have meaningful borders and honest race relations within those borders. (It’s possible that I, as a wasian immigrant to the US, end up not being able to stay because of this. That would be sad, but not necessarily unjust.) But a healthy West could fix extreme poverty in Africa for a fraction of what we currently throw away down the drain of useless or counterproductive international aid. And it could figure out how to deal with internal ethnic conflicts in far less destructive ways than the protracted cultural civil war we’ve been waging for the last century or more. None of these things are unsolvable problems, especially given our technological knowledge. They are just very difficult to grapple with when you’re stuck with the kinds of cognitive handicaps I discuss in my QT below. So my intention is to think clearly with courage and compassion, and trust that from that stance we’ll be able to figure out much better solutions to our problems.

The cultural elite class treats black lives as sacred when it suits them, but expendable for the sake of upholding taboos. You can’t fix inner-city crime, or poverty in Africa, without being honest about its causes. And so the death tolls, tragically, keep rising.

🔥 Now this is how you field the questiond about the war in Iran. The crowd's response is epic. GOP Senatorial candidate Justin Murphy's response was pure gold. Senator Cory "Spartacus" Booker's face tells the entire story as Democrats have seen no one come Out swinging like this. "Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some a$$...and get this done and get this done right"

Zelfs VN klimaatpanel IPCC bevestigt dat er geen gemeten toename is van dodelijke weerextremen zoals orkanen en overstromingen. Marcel @marcelcrok zet de feiten nog eens rustig op een rij. clintel.nl/misplaatste-angst…

My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign. If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work. I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.

The GOP looks better overall for midterms than they did yesterday. Yesterday, they looked better than they did Monday. This is becoming a daily thing and it reminds me of 2024.

Start with the long game by Doshi and strategy of denial by Colby. Then read Mirans paper. Followed by Apple in China by mcgee, boiling moat by Pottinger and chip wars by miller. Followed by treasury’s war and then king dollar by bluestien and our dollar your problem by rogoff. And then Trade wars are class wars by Pettis as well as Chinas Economy by Kroeber. Finally read freedoms forge. Oh and watch every interview ever done by Bessent, Miran, miller, Pettis, Setser and Navarro. Throw in some Louis Vincent Galve and Brad Setser interviews. Religiously watch the long game podcast by Sullivan, Goodfellows with McMaster, ChinaTalk, pekingology, CFRS and the Asia society.

Good piece in Compact on how Woke 1.0 radicalized the GOP. Conti and Sibarium argue that ‘the GOP has moved so far right [under Trump II] that there may be more daylight between Trump I and Trump II than there was between Obama and Trump I.’ I think this is right. I was a lib back in 2016 and after the shock of Trump winning wore off I didn’t find any of his actual policies that alarming. Under Trump I lib cultural hegemony was still in place and there wasn’t any real threat to the lib agenda that accreted from the 1960s up through Obama. Most of the pre-Trump II bipartisan detentes on everything from affirmative action to LGBTQ favored libs and so in retrospect it’s crazy that libs manically decided to blow those agreements up. (I think ‘wokeness’ may go down as the greatest unforced error in domestic postwar American politics. Libs were getting 95%-98% of what they wanted with abortion being the only issue with any real conservative pushback.) Anyways, libs tried to impose a set of untenable demands via wokeness, conservatives realized they were getting nothing from their concessions, Trump stomped back, the right has pushed an agenda that is actually of its own making, and the rest is history. Just very funny to think that libs had the perfect captive opposition and then got very high on their own supply and for some inexplicable reason just decided to shoot their own face off.

"both parties are exactly the same"

I’m phone banking for GOP candidates in Texas. Speaking to man in his 60s. He cannot stand Paxton. And then he says, “I’ll vote for a morally corrupt person every single time over a commie.” And that tells me the 3rd party ads are working. #txsen

A Dem House majority always sucks, no matter when, no matter who is in office. But - if they get one it will be a narrow one. They will become so radical they will fully purge any remaining blue dogs or logical ones (there are 13 Dems in House districts Trump won). In 2027, more of Trump’s agenda will come to fruition, and it is very possible the economy ignites, and very likely short term price increases go back down for oil, food, etc. The more illegals that leave, the lower rents go. As these good things are happening as a D House majority does unpopular and stupid things like try to remove the president (look how it went for Rs in 1998), and things improve, it will make it far more likely the GOP wins the presidency in 2028 and with more red states set to redistrict and better odds for swing seats, a likely House majority. This is important because 4 or 8 more years of (R) president following up on Trump’s immigration policies/deportations with the budget to do it will be able to send that problem back to the Stone Age. Right now, 2 illegals are leaving on their own for every 1 deported. With a GOP president in office in 2030 and now aware to the census fraud, proper oversight can be granted to that process, which will probably eradicate 15 or more Dem House seats + electoral votes. In 2040, with the same trends present, the Dem party will be relegated to a permanent minority and have to do 30 or more electoral votes better than presently forecasted to win the presidency. Long term outlooks are always the best, and for those of you who will come complain about how the GOP sucks, then maybe start voting in primaries and nominating real candidates. 4% of Salazar’s district even bothered to vote in the primary - self-inflicted errors all around.

To all the MAGA supporters who follow me, I ask you once again. Please use my work to support the Republican Party. Let’s show the world an overwhelming victory and silence the global media!🇯🇵\😁/🇺🇲 ＃FightFightFight