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Monday, November 17. 2025Monday morning links Climate Study Hints at New Ice Age YET ANOTHER HIGH QUALITY CHINESE IMPORT: Your Dignity Index ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’ - E. Gordon Gee on how the sector got into trouble. Mayor Mamdani: A Victory for Champagne Socialism. The revolution begins not in the factories and ghettos, but among a clique of overly zealous intellectuals. The Limits of American Progressivism - History and the constraints of More college students favor socialism than capitalism, new poll finds The New Racism. The College Kids Who Can’t Do Math. Why Socrates Was Punk Rock. Plus. . . The Latest Political Scam -- "Affordability" -- Is Really Taking Off Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real? The European Union Imposes Draconian Cash Limits and Monitors All Cryptocurrencies: Towards a Supervised Digital Euro Speechcrime - On Britain’s authoritarian turn Trackbacks
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to summarize: People who have never had to pay for their stuff think other people should continue to pay for their stuff.
Speech crime, digital ID, dignity index, credit score... Seriously! We are going to sit quietly and allow the left to do this. Wake up! Your Democrat party has turned communist. The leaders of the EU and most European countries are communist!! Cuba is now being held up as something to emulate. I do not think we, we Americans, have the will or the conviction to stop this trend.
re The Latest Political Scam -- "Affordability" -- Is Really Taking Off
One can readily see the decline in business in the restaurant and hotel trade, airlines and retail. It is real. Inflation and taxes affect the poorest people the most, and they are dropping out of a lot of markets. I think that is why the future of the Democratic party lies with the Mandamis, AOCs, Omars, and Crocketts. The siren song of higher wages by decree, price controls and free stuff will resonate with the ignorant. A large percentage of the electorate has not considered the possibility that these people will actually make things worse. OTOH, prices aren't backing off and I doubt they will. It will make the free stuff crowd all the more attractive to voters. Affordability?
The very short answer is this was by intent. Our jobs went overseas for only one reason, cheap labor. Companies saved a fortune and passed "some" of that to consumers. H1B is the reverse of that but with the same results. Disney didn't replace all their computer staff with Indians because they were smarter they did it because they were cheaper, i.e. would work 80 hours a week for 20 hours pay. Inflation wasn't an accident Biden and the Democrats all became millionaires through illegal means that inevitably lead to inflation. It isn't instant! That is even today we will see negative effects of things the Biden administration implemented 2 years or more ago. All that illegal immigration had an enormous impact on housing costs. All the free money and welfare is still being handed out to some extent and still causes inflation. Inflation is like the dark angel of compound interest because it compounds even after you fix the problems that caused it. Your crappy two bedroom 400 Sq ft apartment costs $2400 a month today because of what Biden's handlers did four years ago even though they fixed or are fixing that problem. It probably won't ever go down and worse if it does it will be because of terrible economic realities that make todays problems look like a Sunday school picnic. The inflation the Democrats gave us during Biden's long sleep will never go away. But cheer up, Nancy Pelosi made hundreds of millions while "Roe burned". Affordability... The Democrat/Socialists created the ACA and only recently, want to mandate more ACA subsidies because it is not affordable. What a surprise. Now many of them are mandating wage increases without the slightest clue that that business will pass on those costs or go out of business. Food deserts, medical care deserts, housing deserts and energy shortages. If it is free or subsidized, it will eventually disappear as mugging the taxpayer for your benefit drives the taxpayer away. But then, a rational socialist/communist does not exist.
Hamas spokes persons lie. This is their job and they are very effective. Not too long ago they claimed that Israel had killed 30,000 children and of course we know that they lie so there is no doubt that number is made up. Shortly after the cease fire that number was raised to 40,000 child deaths in that war. Again totally preposterous propaganda intended to keep the hate going.
Recently and reluctantly the UN confirmed that 500,000 Christians had been killed in Africa by Islamic Jihadists in the last 10 years. I don't know what the real numbers are, it could be less, it could be more. But the point is that for most people in the world, most news outlets and most government the dead Christians killed because a worldwide hate group/terrorist group hates everyone that isn't Muslim is not important while the propaganda of that hate group about who or how many died in a war between Israel and Hamas is news worthy even though they know it is false. re: ...Draconian Cash Limts
This is madness and shows the importance of having serious representatives in the House, because there are some who would propose this here. Europe is on a path that ends in war and genocide. I only hope that we stay out of it the next time. My advice to my children will be "Do not go to Europe to fight for them. They aren't worth it." It's worth repeating that Europe is a museum. We should buy all of their art and bring it here for safekeeping. A year ago the Democrats were willing to go to war to keep the Epstein files locked up. A few months back Trump spoke up and said the Epstein files were not important let's just move on and not let this interfere with the MAGA agenda. And, surprise, the left started making up stories trying to link Trump with Epstein. And why not make up lies since they believed Trump wouldn't release the files. And over a few months it became a loud left wing mantra demanding the files be released. Now the congress will vote to release and the Democrats have been backed into a corner by their own left wing activists. I think Trump pulled of the best political bait and switch ever. The Democrats don't want the files released but they don't dare lock arms and all vote against it. Was this in fact Trump's genius plan all along???
The crippling effect of “woke” on historians
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