Joined November 2022
On vit un moment de bascule civilisationnelle et presque personne ne le nomme correctement. Alors je vais le faire. D'où on vient, où on va, et pourquoi une partie de la PayPal Mafia est en train de changer le monde en bien au sens le plus littéral du terme. D'où on vient. La Seconde Guerre mondiale a enfanté le projet européiste puis globaliste, avec une intention de départ noble : plus jamais ça. Mais ce projet a été gangrené de l'intérieur par une matrice profondément anti-civilisationnelle la dissolution des nations, des cultures, des attachements concrets au profit d'un homme abstrait, interchangeable, gérable depuis un bureau. Et pour faire passer la pilule, il s'est appuyé sur des véhicules idéologiques : un wokisme qui fonctionne comme religion de substitution d'un Occident qui a appris à avoir honte de lui-même. Pas forcément un complot coordonné — plutôt une convergence de forces qui détestent toutes la même chose : la nation libre, enracinée et fière d'elle-même. Le résultat, c'est un demi-siècle de décadence gérée, présentée comme du progrès. Où on en est. Le projet est en train de craquer sous nos yeux, parce qu'il repose sur un mensonge sur la nature humaine. L'homme n'est pas un atome hors-sol. Il veut appartenir, croire, construire, transmettre. Les peuples ne veulent pas disparaître, les cultures ne veulent pas se dissoudre. Le refus qu'on voit monter partout n'est pas une pulsion réactionnaire : c'est un instinct de survie parfaitement sain qui se réveille. Et surtout, il faut dire une chose que le récit dominant occulte : l'Occident n'a jamais été une identité unique et lisse. Il a été une rivalité fertile. Athènes contre Sparte, les cités italiennes, Anglais, Français, Allemands en émulation permanente. C'est de cette compétition, jamais de l'uniformité, que sont sortis la science, le droit, la liberté, l'explosion de richesse la plus spectaculaire de l'histoire humaine. L'Occidental est un animal qui veut croire et qui veut s'étendre. Cette énergie ne meurt jamais quand on la réprime. Elle se retourne vers l'intérieur et devient guerre froide civile, capture bureaucratique, nihilisme. Où on va. Et c'est ici que se joue mon optimisme, qui n'est pas une posture mais une lecture. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire, on peut atteindre un équilibre inédit : des nations fortes, souveraines, enracinées — donc une identité qui tient couplées à un projet d'expansion qui n'est plus à somme nulle. Historiquement, l'expansion occidentale se payait sur le dos d'un autre : ma conquête, ta défaite. L'espace fait sauter cette contrainte. La frontière redevient infinie. On peut réorienter la rivalité fertile de l'Occident vers le haut, vers le dehors, au lieu de la laisser nous dévorer de l'intérieur. La rivalité mimétique désamorcée non par la répression mais par un horizon assez vaste pour tout le monde. C'est ça, l'optimisme défini de Thiel appliqué à une civilisation entière : ne pas gérer un monde fini, mais rouvrir la frontière. Pourquoi la PayPal Mafia. Parce qu'au moment exact où les élites gestionnaires nous expliquaient qu'il fallait décroître, réguler, avoir peur et rationner, une poignée de builders issus de la même matrice a fait le pari inverse. Musk rouvre littéralement la frontière spatiale et redonne à l'Occident une raison de lever les yeux. Thiel a tenu la ligne politiquement quand ça coûtait tout de la tenir, et a compris avant tout le monde que l'ennemi n'était pas la technologie mais la stagnation habillée en vertu. Karp reconstruit le pont brisé entre le génie technique et le destin de la civilisation l'idée que nos meilleurs cerveaux ne sont pas là pour optimiser des apps de partage de photos, mais pour porter un projet qui dépasse le prochain tour de table. Ce ne sont pas des saints, et ce n'est pas la question. Ce sont des builders qui ont la peau dans le jeu, qui créent de la valeur réelle, et qui font le pari de l'expansion contre le pari de la gestion. Voilà pourquoi je persiste et je signe. On a passé cinquante ans à croire qu'être adulte, c'était accepter le déclin avec élégance. C'était faux. La vraie maturité d'une civilisation, c'est de recommencer à construire vers le haut, vers les étoiles, sans renier qui on est. L'Occident n'a pas à s'excuser d'exister. Il a été le phare de l'humanité et il peut le redevenir. Il suffit d'une chose : que les bâtisseurs gagnent, et que les bureaucrates de la peur perdent. Un peuple qui construit vers les étoiles n'a pas le temps de devenir Big Brother.
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Replying to @LeaderJohnThune
Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.
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So blessed to live in Florida😎where @GovRonDeSantis & our legislature are fiscally responsible, in stark contrast to California's $12B (& growing) budget deficit and a proposed billionaire tax of 5%. Thanks @EpochTimes for publishing my @EpochOpinion with @mdryall 🔗⬇️
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Tonight in Toronto as children try to sleep, antisemites are harassing a Jewish neighborhood. Police were called and said that there was nothing they could do about it. No one can say that 'this isn't Canada', because after 2 years of hate, this is exactly what Canada has become. @oliviachow @TPSMyronDemkiw @TeamKerzner @MarkJCarney
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🔴 Reportedly Pounak, Tehran, now. I'm asking every major account to please amplify optimistic messages and news, as a counterbalance to only doomsday casualty news. People are out and fighting for their lives. Don't scare them into going home.
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NO ROOM AT THE INN! @HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?
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Replying to @SenatorSlotkin
Hello Senator Slotkin, I've been waiting for your take on Venezuela. When it comes to regime change, few institutions have a longer and more educational record of failure than the CIA, so your opposition is as reassuring as Jim Cramer's stock picks. Congratulations on reciting the roll call of countries your own institutions helped ruin. Treating that history as a rhetorical shield doesn't grant you credibility, it just advertises a refusal to learn from it. Now let me explain why Venezuela does not belong in your grab bag of "long-term engagements." Most of the countries you list were a result of a worldview that any non-democracy is a threat to the stability of the post-Cold War world order. 🔹 Iraq: My book documents how your side eagerly supported the operations, until Iraq turned into a quagmire, and then instead of taking responsibility, the global liberal order threw America under the bus and blamed a lack of "multilateralism." 🔹 Somalia: The United Nations 1993 resolution lists the goal of the Somalian intervention as "recreating a Somali State based on democratic governance and rehabilitating the country's economy and infrastructure." 🔹 Syria: Obama himself celebrated Syria's "peaceful transition to democracy" in the Arab Spring and we all know how that turned out. Beyond that, the common thread is: you imposed pro-Western views on a non-Western world. You haven't learned from that, because you are still doing that in virtually every country in the world - except over the decades, your meaning of "Western" has morphed to something like "Communism." The "long-term engagement" framing is a dodge. You've never been afraid of long-term engagements. See: all your chest-beating about Ukraine. The real question is far darker: if you believe in democracy, why aren't you celebrating the removal of a dictator from the single easiest country on earth to transition back to it? Venezuela is not Somalia. It has borders, institutions, a literate population, a unified national identity, and a recent democratic memory. Trump just demonstrated how little force was required to remove a narco-state that survived only on inertia. You are one of these people who idolize democracy, chant "threat to democracy" like it is a holy hymn, who buy into Open Society ideals. And yet, when an actual dictator is removed, your response is anger. Why? Because at some point, Venezuelan people became expendable in service of a larger abstraction you call "stability" of the liberal democratic order. Maduro's Venezuela was useful. It was predictable. It gave BRICS a foothold in the hemisphere, kept drug flows legible and quantifiable, and weakened an increasingly inconvenient United States. It made the region easier to model, easier to manage, easier to explain in policy memos. In short, Maduro made the whole world more legible to you. A free Venezuela introduces uncertainty. It restores agency to people who were supposed to remain variables. So now we get lectures about "international law," tantrums from NGOs, and sudden concern for norms that were never extended to the people living under a narco-dictatorship. We understand the objection. It just isn't the one you say out loud.
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Great rant. I think many are starting to feel this way. You go girl!
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Very key corporate governance reform in public markets. Thanks @CFGfoundation for citing my work w/ @mdryall on double dilution of ownership
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“Universities are like⛴️supertankers moving through the ocean: there is enormous momentum behind their present direction, whichever way that might be.” Thanks @NYPost for spotlighting my @ManhattanInst brief w/ @mdryall on fixing #highered @faubusiness tinyurl.com/55k7tf8m
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