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Ivy Day Thoughts

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2024/11/05

If you were to ask an American to name a corrupt country, he would most likely pick one from what we used to call the third world. To a great degree, this is how we now define the term “third … Continue reading →

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Time On The Cross

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2024/11/04

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about the proliferation of rage heads who can only communicate in emotions, a post about how we have become a nation of liars and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb November 01 2024

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2024/11/02

This Week’s Show Contents 02m09s Is the West waking up? 12m48s The Hanns Johst reflex 20m12s America’s can’t-dos 29m11s What’s up with Koreans? 32m12s New Yorkers don’t vote 34m12s Garbagegate 37m09s Trick-or-treat fades 39m23s Signoff: Halloween Hank Direct Download, The … Continue reading →

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Prediction Time

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2024/11/01

Every four years the media tells us that this is the most important election in our lifetimes, maybe in the history of the world. It is always nonsense, of course, but even if it does turn out to be important, … Continue reading →

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The Dunning-Kruger Crisis

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2024/10/31

Much has been written in these parts about the crisis of competence that is creepy up on all aspects of life like the fog. Every day, competent people are aging out and being replaced by people who lack the competence. … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Problem

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2024/10/30

One of the problems the world faces is that the dominant power on the planet has entered a period of incoherence. Joe Biden has come to symbolize the country he allegedly leads in that he is old, frail and not … Continue reading →

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A New American Identity

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2024/10/29

Note: If you are interested in an hour of precise predictions about the upcoming election, then you are in luck. I was on the Coffee and a Mike show and you can listen to the recording of it here. The … Continue reading →

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Interesting Times

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2024/10/28

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about the latest drama in the latest version of the new right, a post about how the Battle of Agincourt helps explain why politician die in office and the Sunday podcast. … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb October 25 2024

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2024/10/26

This Week’s Show Contents Intro How Low Will They Go? A Consequential Endorsement Republics And Empires Certifiable Lunacy Miscellany Signoff Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast Addict, RSS Feed Full Show On Spreaker Full Show On Rumble Full Show On … Continue reading →

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The End Of Things

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2024/10/25

One of the reasons it feels like the wheels are coming off society is that we seem to be at the end of things. By things I mean cycles. These are cultural, intellectual, historical and economic cycles. Some have played … Continue reading →

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The Kazan Catastrophe

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2024/10/24

Back in the ancient times, if you wished to buy product from someone you arrived at their location with money, or they arrived at your location with product. The product was inspected, and the money was inspected. Once both sides … Continue reading →

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The Racial Binary Test

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2024/10/23

There are issues that turn out to be litmus tests which tell us something about how certain people truly think about their politics. Covid, for example, revealed that many people who sounded like skeptics of the current regime were still … Continue reading →

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The Lives Of Others

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2024/10/22

Since most anyone reading this has been alive, there has been a debate in what is called the right in America, about what to do about the right. Going back to the middle of the last century, the debate is … Continue reading →

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American Trotskyites

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2024/10/21

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about the collapse of the entertainment industry, a post about the end of The Grand Tour and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. One of the most remarkable, but woefully … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb October 18 2024

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2024/10/19

This Week’s Show Contents 01m57s Thank you, Columbus! 08m45s Kamala’s Fox interview 18m59s Bring on the triumvirate! 26m15s Skeptical on Kamala’s Glock 28m39s Anarcho-tyranny, U.K. 31m35s Anarcho-tyranny, U.S.A. 34m13s Triggered by Chaucer 35m54s Signoff Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast Addict, … Continue reading →

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After Conservatism

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2024/10/18

The failure of conservatism is one of those things that has been observed many times by many different people, but why it failed is never discussed. The assumption is that conservatism failed because the people in it did not try … Continue reading →

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Dreams Of Purges Past

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2024/10/17

Yesterday, internet activist Christopher Rufo posted on Twitter a long post denouncing, disavowing and anathematizing someone named Chris Brunet. Apparently, Brunet used to work for Rufo or maybe they were friends, but Rufo now finds that old association inconvenient to … Continue reading →

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The Decline Of Pop Music

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2024/10/16

One of the unexpected consequences of the technological revolution is the death of the popular music industry. The sale of physical content has just about disappeared, outside of the vinyl subculture. Even if you count downloads, the gross sales of … Continue reading →

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Democratic Theocracy

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2024/10/15

Iran has been in the news lately and one of the interesting things about the coverage is Western media rarely talks about the president of Iran. In fact, almost all Iran stories skip the president entirely. This is highly unusual … Continue reading →

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Washington Was Right

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2024/10/14

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about the death of grammar, a post about life as a modern serf and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. George Washington famously observed, “The nation which indulges toward another … Continue reading →

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