Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Ponerology

  • Why Would Cheney Endorse Harris?

    A plausible explanation. Here is their plan. Under two minutes. Endorsed by Elon Musk.  Not their plan, mind you, but the video exposé thereof. Watch it!

  • 9/11: 23 Years Later

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  • Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Textbook Case

    Liz Cheney's Endorsement of Kamala Harris.  Under nine minutes. Transcript provided. This well-fed matron embodies TDS to a T.  For a 'conservative' to endorse Harris-Walz is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you will permit me a bit of wit, what we have here is RINO-ectomy. UPDATE 9/8/24 To compound the…

  • Putin Joins Liz Cheney and David French in Endorsing Kamala

    Given what he's about, Putin's support for the silly goose makes perfect sense; given what she's supposed to be about, Cheney's make no sense at all but accords perfectly with her terminal TDS. The Trumpianly deranged are a strange bunch.  The syndrome is not easy to understand. The pathology is on display in these articles:…

  • How Civil Wars End

    Another fascinating article. But who has time for all this reading? "Forever reading, never read."  Wer schreibt, der bleibt. He who writes, remains. 

  • Slouching Toward Totalitarianism

    Can Trump save us? Klingenstein: Is our regime totalitarian, emerging or otherwise? What makes it so? How far along are we? Can we fight back? Ellmers: I think the essay that Ted Richards and I wrote for your website, and the several excellent responses that you published, cover this pretty well.  Klingenstein: How much can Trump fix it? Ellmers: Very hard…

  • Trotsky’s (Misplaced) Faith in Man

    On 20 August 1940, 84 years ago today, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico City where an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day. Yet another proof of how the Left eats its own. The last days of Lev…

  • Victor Davis Hanson on Tim Walz

    13 hours ago. About 22 minutes long. Penetrating analysis of the recent rollercoaster of events, and excellent advice for Trump if he can rein in his ego sufficiently to take it and act on it. More: The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip No one voted for the Biden-Harris ticket to borrow trillions…

  • Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”

    Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…

  • Dem-Fems for Kamala

    Miranda Devine: As polls show America’s young men are lurching rightward at a rapid pace, the Democratic brand has finally evolved into the party of scolding shrews, nagging Karens and “preachy females,” as Dem dinosaur James Carville calls them. Its image is tied to a type of unserious, self-involved, neurotic, dogmatic Dem-fem who insists on telling…

  • Past-Directed Gaslighting

    An egregious example of present-directed gaslighting of the American people by the regime and the regime media is their dismissal of the numerous videos depicting Joe Biden's physical decrepitude as 'cheap/deep fakes.'  What then are we to call the lie being currently spread by the regime and its shills that Kamala Harris was never the…

  • Death by DEI

    Politicians are especially in danger, although we are all  at risk.  Christopher Rufo: To say it plainly: there is no need for women in a president’s security detail. The Secret Service is an elite institution that can funnel down a large number of candidates to select the few who will protect the president. The best…

  • Sunday Morning Sermon: Stay Calm

    Stay calm. Take some deep breaths. Be careful what you say. Quietly prepare. If you are a Democrat, ask yourself whether Joe Biden's open-border policy might have something to do with a breakdown in civil order, and who will profit from such a breakdown. Rod Dreher's take.  Victor Davis Hanson on Assassination Porn and the…

  • Chicago under Democrat ‘Control’

    Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born in Chicago   I was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneI was born in Chicago in nineteen and forty oneWell my father told meSon you had better get a gun. True then, truer now.  And you still be ridin' with Biden? How stupid can you be? How self-destructive? How willfully…

  • David Brooks Interviews Steve Bannon

    This is an important interview. I will add a few comments at the end.   Excerpts: You said something I’ve got to ask you about, that Trump’s a moderate. In what areas is the MAGA movement farther right than Trump? BANNON: I think farther right on radical cuts of spending, No. 1. I think we’re much…