Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Ponerology

  • Trump’s Win

    It was a double: the  bond was sizably reduced, and Trump's Net Worth Doubles. The joke is now on you, Joey B, and a stinging rebuke as been delivered unto Letitia James and her lawfare scum. But there is more justice to come.

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Jubilant over Trump’s Win, Let Us not Forget the Colorado Baker

    You and I are more like the baker than like The Donald. Rod Dreher: Jack Phillips is the Colorado cake baker who is constantly hauled in and out of court by lawsuits, and by actions by state officials, against him for refusing to bake specialized cakes that offend his conscience. In 2018, one of the…

  • Dreher on Carlson

    The former comments on the latter's recent speech.  Dreher: It is so very, very, very difficult to wake up people to what is happening, what has been happening, and what is probably going to happen. I have experienced in my personal life how the Everything’s Fine™ mentality can destroy everything, and I see it everywhere in our…

  • Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Remark

    Outdoing themselves in hyper-ventilatory TDS-fueled rage, Joe Scarborough and the rest of the mendacious insanos at MSDNC (aka MSNBC) and at other lamestream media outlets have seized upon Trump's bloodbath remark as if to illustrate Ayn Rand's point about context-dropping. Although I am no fan of Rand or her acolyte Peikoff as you can readily…

  • Tucker Carlson on What is to be Done

    We have been discussing how to proceed against our anti-civilizational political enemies. This essay by Carlson is not all that good, but it is worth a quick read-through. His points about truth and death are spot on. Nicole Gelinas in Regressives explains how a healthy progressivism transmogrified into regressivism rendering Gotham the shithole it now…

  • 2024: The Last Year of the Republic?

    A New York friend of mine writes, When I settled in Jackson Heights after leaving Mom's Bronx nest almost a half-century ago, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Great architecture, uncongested sidewalks, a police presence, and elderly ladies taking a stroll in the early evening were among the first things that struck…

  • The Charlottesville Lie

    The only sure way to stop a leftist from lying would be by stopping him from talking. The Biden administration is one of the most, or the most, mendacious in our history. Copycat that he is, Biden saw the Clintons and Obama get away with it and resolved to go them one better. A brazen…

  • Reading Now: Alex Marlow, Breaking Biden

    Subtitle: "Exposing the hidden forces and secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration." (Threshold, 2023).  Excerpt: Intellectually, Republicans understand that to have a nation, you need a border.  [. . .] But the establishment isn't going to solve a problem if the solution is going to cost them a lot of…

  • Kathy Hochul, Leftist Idiot

    Head over to Malcolm Pollack's place for some sensible commentary. Meat quote: Political thinkers from Hobbes to Schmitt have understood that the fundamental principle that legitimizes the power of the State is the reciprocal obligation of obedience and protection. We cede to the State the awesome power of coercion by threat of violence, and in…

  • Sam Francis on Anarcho-Tyranny

    From a 1994 Chronicles article: This condition, which in some of my columns I have called “anarcho-tyranny,” is essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites: the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that…

  • Is Trump a Threat to Democracy?

    He most certainly is if 'democracy,' as per the woke Orwellian switcheroo — to give it a name — refers to plutocracy, rule by the wealthy. The plutocratic elites of the present time, unlike those of yesteryear,  are woke open-borders globalists with no commitment to their countries of origin. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are…