Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Ponerology

  • Kamala, Crime, and California Proposition 36

    Leftists have an astonishingly casual attitude toward criminal behavior, so Kamala's recent behavior is entirely in character.  Here: 47 Minus 36 Equals Kamala "I am not going to talk about the vote on that. Because honestly it’s the Sunday before the election and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around…

  • If Trump Wins, the Left is Prepared to Intensify the War

    Yesterday's Substack entry ended as follows: Whatever the outcome on 5 November, the war will continue, intensify, and become increasingly ‘existential.’ That is to say: it will become less verbal, less cultural, [i.e., less like a mere culture war'] hotter, and more like a real war. The conflict unto death in which we are currently…

  • Kamala the Joyful is a Serial, Brazen Liar

    She's got 'em all beat now: Bill, Hillary, Barack, and Joey.  I now hand off to  VDH who provides plenty of evidence of her deep-seated mendacity.  His article opens: In the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has been trying to revive her stagnant campaign by smearing Trump as being Hitlerian and a fascist.…

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Destructive Dems

    New, improved, updated.  Top o' the Stack.  A call to action. Get off your lazy butts and do something for the great Republic that has made it possible for you to live a good life. What are you, an ingrate? Do you have children, grandchildren? Don't you want them to have a good life?  Are…

  • Ready for Rage?

    Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Should Trump win, do you think our political enemies will accept the result, acquiesce in a peaceful transfer of power, and resolve to work harder next time? Expect a post-election temper tantrum: Democrats have warned the country that Trump is a “danger to democracy,” a fascist,…

  • Auschwitz Survivor: Trump’s not Hitler, but a Mensch

    Here: Jerry Wartski, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, says that Kamala Harris comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler is "the worst thing I have ever heard in 75 years living in the United States." "I know President Trump and he would never say this, and Kamala Harris knows this," he told the New York Post. “Adolf…

  • Elon Musk: If Trump loses, 2024 will be our last election

    Here. The title claim begins at 3:05. His explanation of the claim is cogent, and I fear he is right. 'Interesting' times, these. Who could be bored? UPDATE 10/28:  Elon at the Trump MSG rally.

  • Bumper Stickers and Yard Signs

    As November 5th approaches, I am seeing a lot of them, especially yard signs. I myself prefer to 'go gray' inasmuch as such signage will reliably trigger emotions, but never persuade anyone to change his position.  Suppose you have good relations with your neighbor across the street. You share some interests, but have never talked…

  • Kamala the Destroyer

    Tom Klingenstein understands what's going on: Republicans criticize Kamala Harris for refusing to reveal her agenda, but, as Frank Cannon points out, she already has. Her agenda is the agenda of her vice-presidential pick, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota — someone Harris “ loves,” as she said recently. Unlike Kamala, Walz’s agenda and his beliefs…

  • Kamala the Plagiarist

    She follows in the footsteps of Joe and Jill Biden, Claudine Gay, and so many others. Christopher Rufo exposes her.   At the beginning of Harris’s political career, in the run-up to her campaign to serve as California’s attorney general, she and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton published a small volume, entitled Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s…

  • Moral Community and Civil War

    Substack latest.  An exchange with Malcolm Pollack.

  • More Proof that Our Political Enemies are . . .

    . . . indeed political enemies.  Jonathan Turley is solid and sane: This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man — no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an “a**hole” in an awards ceremony. Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support…

  • Kamala and Moria/Witzelsucht

    Joe Biden, suffering from dementia, was finally and 'democratically' kicked to the curb only to be replaced with Kamala Harris who may be suffering from her own neuropsychiatric malady, moria. How else explain her giddiness,  uncontrolled childish euphoria, inappropriate laughter, inability to be serious about matters of grave importance, hyper-joyous inanity, and the like? This…

  • John Kerry on the First Amendment and ‘Disinformation’

    Unbelievable. And you say we are not in a war? More proof that the Republic is hanging by a thread: Megyn Kelly on Kamala Harris. UPDATE 9/30 It's war for sure. Sasha Stone. Elon Musk. Victor Davis Hanson. Matt Taibi. Which side are you on?

  • Hillary Fuming

    The sad cow is one poor loser. Interviewed by Maddow in under four minutes.  The political equivalent of a stool sample. Sad, as the Orange Man would say.