I knew a young man 60 years ago whose Father fought the Nazis in WWII in Germany. He happened to be of German ancestry, spoke fluent German and was an art expert. In 1945 a desperate German sold him an Albrecht Dürer painting for next to nothing – it’s worth $ millions today.
I have bought many signed first edition books for $25 to $200 and sold them later for thousands: Books by Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell, Hayek, It is pretty easy actually. Buy something of value and then just wait.
Go to Abe Books and look around until you find something you really like, buy it and wait.
I’d be terrified to wrap, transport, even touch them, especially the thin bowl.
My father served in China during WWII and brought back a few artifacts. They were displayed around the house and the family has always considered them to be trinkets with little resale value. He’s been gone since 1991 and my mother since 2012, so they’re all scattered in 4 households now with no sense of being worth much.
Over the weekend Open Thread, I posted developments around Europe’s Muslim immigrant invasion. The vitality of this problem afflicts the the region’s western most island nations, too.
Today, I see a weekend story from the Daily Mail on military intel warning of a Civil War threat emerging in Northern Ireland getting vetted by an Irish observer. He confirms talk of violent chaos from…The New IRA.
Open source data such as opinion from X.com tells us that the New IRA’s political aim is “All Migrants Out!”
Apparently, as many as 90% of invaders to Ireland — the Wokest stronghold in Europe — are arriving through the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland.
According to Derek Dominic, we get a practical window in what these events mean. Apparently, polls show one third of Shin Fein voters support a hard — actively policed — border with Ireland.
The issue Dominic raises is whether or not the old Left-Right divisions (or Republican-IRA aligned versus Unionist [or pro UK]) in Northern Ireland are going to see a new fusion of both ends coming together over the toxic migrant issue: if it does, then a Hard Border enforcing immigration it is!
I think the main importance of “Antiques Roadshow” is to let people know how little most antique items and precious family heirlooms would actually be worth on the open market. With the exception of some items with particular cultural or historical value, it’s usually less than the families believe. (And in many cases, it’s even less than these things would have been worth 10 or 20 years ago, because younger people these days aren’t interested in collecting old things.)
What was the nature of this interesting and apparently “active” fragment of crash debris from the Roswell UFO crash, and what were its composition, and effects?
Linked is an interesting story about this piece of debris and its effects—on the experience of Earl Donohue, the person from the Roswell crash site cleanup crew who secreted it in his boot and walked away with it, stored it his back bedroom, and told no one about it for forty years.
About how this fragment was somehow “aware” of Earl and, Earl felt, was “reading “ him, its effect on the clocks in his house, and on the plants growing in the nearby garden–which grew, not toward the sun, but leaned towards the back bedroom, and the other effects which Earl refused to discuss.
About how one of the two taped interviews Earl gave about the fragment to a UFO researcher was apparently altered–six sections dealing with the other effects of the fragment removed.
About the experienced material scientist who could not determine what this fragment was made of.
How that researcher’s notebook recording that interview with Donohue has somehow “disappeared.”
All this about a fragment which Earl Donohue reportedly “gave back” (to who or what organization we do not know) in the late 1980s, near the end of his life.*
This video ends with the question, how many other people in that apparently large cleanup crew might have also picked up a piece of debri, and taken it home?
P.S. Your either believe that a UFO crashed at Roswell and, thus, this story is likely, or you don’t believe that this crash ever happened and, so, this story is just a “story,” a load of crap.
Take your pick.
“…crash debris…”
IOW, will Christopher Nolan SAVE the West?
“Europe’s Odyssey;
“Both Turkey and Qatar are strong supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and collaborate to finance the construction of mosques in Europe.”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/431499
Key theme;
…[W]e Europeans have not learned much from Homer….
TJ thanks for the summary of Europe’s Muslim Invasion. Here’s some articles in the Irish Times on this topic
Many of them seem to be linked to the Ceuta invasion.
As an aside, the word Ceuta is not an acronym as I thought , but apparently is the name of the city
P.S.S.
From the statements I have seen–from David Grusch, and Richard Dolan among many other knowledgeable people–the consensus has now swung around to the conviction that a UFO crash did indeed happen at Roswell in 1947–a pivotal event which reportedly started the whole UFO Secrecy/Legacy program rolling, and which some have contended may have even led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, and of the CIA.
Whole bunch of leftists shitheads want wealth taxes. None of them are talking about the constitutional amendment needed to implement them. Either people like Ro Idiot and El-says-a-lot don’t actually know what the constitution says or they are planning something more nefarious.
Snow on Pine:
I don’t know what happened at Roswell, though I’ve taken several runs at it.
Something happened. It was at first reported as a saucer crash, then a weather balloon. Later it was explained as a secret Project Mogul balloon. In the meantime a ton of stories developed about it. Astronaut Gordon Cooper told one as well.
In any event your YouTube link is the only mention I can find of Earl Donahue and Roswell debris on the internet. The link contains this disclaimer:
__________________________________________
Disclaimer: This channel features exploratory interpretations and speculation about unexplained phenomena, presented through investigative-style storytelling rather than established fact. The perspectives and visual representations are dramatized or creatively constructed for storytelling purposes. Some visuals may be generated, enhanced, altered, or reconstructed using automated or generative artificial intelligence tools to create a more immersive viewing experience.
The content presented here should not be considered factual and is intended solely for commentary and entertainment. … Any resemblance to real individuals (living or deceased), actual occurrences, or existing establishments is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
__________________________________________
There is a lot of AI slop out there.
More Unicorn shite from the usual, who is rational about other things, sometimes religion does that.
Re: Roswell debris
As I said the other day, the Roswell debris really existed, the military collected it all, took it somewhere, then mysteriously lost all track of it.
Not only that but in 1995 the GAO did an investigation. Some of the Roswell records have been destroyed, along with any records of why they were destroyed:
______________________________________
(2) although some of the records concerning Roswell activities had been
destroyed, there was no information available regarding when or under
what authority the records were destroyed;
–“Government Records: Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico” https://irp.fas.org/gao/nsi95187.htm
______________________________________
Which doesn’t prove anything about UFOs or a government conspiracy, but it does bother me. If the debris were available that would settle the issue.
That the government somehow lost track of the debris and destroyed some of the paperwork about it is one reason I keep my mind open about Roswell.
At link a small sampling of videos taken on the scene in various locations.
Huxley—Well, I obviously didn’t read all that I should have, did I?
(Hides his head in shame.)
And I am truly sorry about that.
But this does bring up the issue of whether such elaborate, well done, apparently fictionalized stories about UFOs might be part of a deliberate government disinformation campaign to add to the confusion about what is real, and what is not about this subject.
And, with the advent of AIs, I can imagine AIs tasked with creating all sorts of such mischief, just churning ‘em out, in an endless stream.
Snow on Pine:
I’ve been fooled by YouTubes myself.
At this point if I find an interesting YouTube on a channel I don’t know, I always click the “…more” text for disclaimers or mentions of AI.
I find it frightening how many YouTubes are fiction and it’s not always easy to tell.
WINNING!! First De-transition Clinic in America: Texas Turns the Tide on Child Gender Experiments – Video
@ TJ AND Bob Wilson In re the Migrant Crisis in the EU:
In scanning the headlines at the Irish Times (going back to the beginning of 2026), maybe they are just cherry-picking the “antimigrant backlash” stories, but I am reminded of something JFK said (he’s looking better in retrospect, but nonetheless did his part to start the Left-leaning slag heap toward its tipping point).
https://yquotes.com/john-f-kennedy/79699/
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
—
Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962)
John F. Kennedy (First anniversary of the Alliance for Progress)
His speech was meant to encourage South and Middle American governments to make reforms that would improve the lives of their citizens.
What some of them eventually got (with or without improvements being made) was Marxist dictators.
It’s a good maxim though.
Mark Steyn has a similar proverb that also is appropriate to much of the modern world, especially in relation to the immigrant invasion crises.
“If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain issues, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones.”
At the extreme, if you drive all the reasonable people out of the political space, you will indeed have to deal with the unreasonable ones. I used to quote that one a lot in the early days of the constant refrain: “How did we get Donald Trump as President?”
Moving on to the travails of the Democrat Party vs the Socialist Democrats of America, and the nascent rebellion of some of the Inner Circle:
“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
— Stefan Molyneux
In re Stefan Basil Molyneux — (“Not to be confused with Stephen Molyneux.”)
According to Wikipedia, he is ” is an Irish-born Canadian white nationalist [2][3][4][5][6] vlogger and proponent of conspiracy theories, white supremacy, [7][8] scientific racism, and the men’s rights movement. [15] He is the founder of the Freedomain Radio…”
I do note that the primary sources headlined by Wikipedia’s editors (who have long been accused of a leftist bias, and deserve the complaint) include NBC, BBC, NYT, WaPo, the Independent, The Guardian, and so forth.
And, per the SPLC, is “A libertarian internet commentator and alleged cult leader who amplifies “scientific racism,” eugenics and white supremacism to a massive new audience, Stefan Molyneux operates within the racist so-called “alt-right” and pro-Trump ranks.”
He claims the following for himself at freedomain.com: “Stefan Molyneux is the host of the largest and most popular philosophy show online, with over 600 million downloads. He has a Masters in History, writes books, gives speeches and debates on topics such as liberty, politics, economics and parenting.”
He attracted one of my own favorite luminaries, but Peterson will talk to anyone anywhere anytime about anything (or did when he was healthy).
“What is the reason behind the drift of western culture into empty nihilistic materialistic hedonism? Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the complicated nature of cultural division, the reduction of personal responsibility, the danger of not “having meaning” in your life, the nature of ideology, developing a sense of efficacy in the world, suffering as an intrinsic component to human nature, the argument for free will and much more!”
Even after reading the full Wikipedia article, I have no unambiguous information other than that he was born in Ireland, lives in Canada, and has a prominent podcast presence.
As for the “information” about what he supports….
YMMW and caveat emptor and all that stuff.
However, he is not wrong about this:
22. “The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.”
— Stefan Molyneux https://quotefancy.com/stefan-molyneux-quotes
Wild, fun, insane, real. I’ve watched the longer YouTubes.
The owner saw his bulldog playing with a skateboard. The owner got a custom wide board for the bulldog. Now all the dog wants to do is skateboard. He’s stoked!
He’s quite good actually. He can turn, go up and down ramps, take a break to go sniff a human skater’s ankles, then back to the board.
A low center of gravity helps.
The name of that bulldog is George. Other dogs have learned to skateboard, but George is the champ.
I’ve also noticed that people have built wheeled supports for paraplegic dogs, cats and squirrels.
Those animals may not be able to discover the wheel, but they get the hang of wheels quickly and seem to love being able to rocket around with wheeled assistance.
Are young western women waking up to threat posed bi Islamic takeover of our communities? Maybe. What’s interesting is that these are the same demographic supporting The Left
-far Left Greens and Islamism. As we all know, the Ruling Class assertion of racist or Islamophobe is used to shut down voices on this issue.
This is the topic The Cyberpunk Dingo opens up by sharing a couple of brief videos by young women aged 39s to 30. This youngish YouTuber has a huge Aussie accent, handsome Persian looks, and is an ex-Muslim. And because Muslims are “so peaceful,” as he sarcastically writes, he hides his face below his eyes with a serious mask.
To open, he lets a video by an American from X.com speaks her full 6 minutes. It’s gotten a half million views and stirred up many reactions. Then he echoes her complaints because they are the same as on his own YT channel. Such as Muslims dog phobia spreading into takeover of public spaces.
A shorter segment has a young woman in London — apparently some media personality — echo one select concern that she feels. Namely, unsafe around leering or whistling or following immigrant (Muslim) men. Raising fears for her own safety on the street.
This is all a piece of Harvard sociologist’s reluctantly reported findings 20 years ago: that diversity in demographic change kills social trust. And in the West, social trust is a paramount value.
SUBSTANTIAL EXCERPT from The Cyberpunk Dingo’s video description:
“A young American woman has gone viral after stepping outside her usual content to raise concerns about Islam, mass migration, women’s rights and the cultural changes she believes are happening around her. In this video, we examine her arguments, why her message resonated with so many people, and the growing willingness of women to openly discuss subjects once considered politically taboo. We also look at the tension between progressive politics, Islamism and liberal Western values, particularly when it comes to women’s freedom, safety and freedom of expression.”
Is this a sign of things to come? So late…so overdue?
Thanks to AesopFan and Bob Wilson for your comments and shared thoughts about this.
On Tuesday, I’ll have more to share about a June debate on Islam as a threat to the West, and a forthcoming debate in London on the same subject, set for the next September 9/11 anniversary.
Now I’m discovering there are YouTubes about teaching your dog to skateboard:
Ah! My detailed reply about Stefan Molyneux got timed out!
He was a leading based voice on the Rightside of the podcast world, before Jordan Peterson usurped that role.
I listened to him frequently for years, but before Covid.
He was demonetised and shrank back from political opining, to a more psychologically based critique of the human condition.
His intellectual roots were Ayn Rand’s neo-Aristotelian philosophy of Objectivism. Therefore, an atheist. But between growing older and becoming a father, and after his study in European intellect history, became a libertarian. Yet he evolved into a based neo-classical liberalism.
His move into evolutionary psychology commentary coincided with, or maybe was motivated by, becoming a father. Parenthood certainly ought to be so salutary!
As for Wiki and the SPLC on Molyneux, they are scare gaslighting anti-right sources of the Morally Superior kind. In general, but also especially to Stefan because of his popularity online.
And YES AesopFan! After 911, Mark Steyn wrote about the dark future where only the US might resist Islamic takeover in his book “America Alone,”
It was a painful look at times besetting us now. I knew it was coming then, but we were then most worried about the Muslim World’s economic disconnectedness, ergo Thomas P. M. Barnett’s “The Pentagon’s New Map” grand strategy to integrate the unconnected world through trade, and thereby prevent radicalisation of the climactic youth cohort within Islam, who are fodder for radical Islam.
The expectation was that the Muslim World’s economic disconnectedness had to solve the inherent religious and Jihad=violence problem by itself. And if the Young Men have work to do, their recruitment into Al Quida Jihadism with growing literacy might be stymied.
We can now see Trump’s decade long efforts with the Abraham Accords as the fruit of Barnett’s Grand Strategy. Only Iran looms to end Middle East conflicts, because the Arab Gulf nations want peace — the benefits are so lucrative, and thus the costs of ending the last global Jihad state worth bearing with through Trump’s war.
But “The Pentagon’s New Map Map” strategy has been buried and forgotten, and the young and stupid joined in the George W Bush and Evil Tony Blair blame game, as has Trump, in part.
Barnett had a fairly sound successor strategy, after the policy of Containment and waiting out the Soviets bore the fruit of collapse by 1992.
The period from the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union was 70+ years. A similar length of time has passed since Red China’s founding in 1949.
Is China vulnerable to a collapse that parallels the Soviet’s fate?
A fresh look at China’s declining future and exploring this historical parallel is chewed over here, “Why China Is The Last USSR” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEqMOAfwp8
Food for thought because we see China facing “the same choices in the same order as the Soviets did.”
My YT algorithm from this link then went to the Strategic and Cold War historian Sarah Paine’s (US Naval War College in Newport) talk, culminating in the same considerations, but rooted in the themes of how Imperialist Soviet Union repeatedly sabotaged the rise of China, in a run up to the later clash of Communist nuclear super-powers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_ycZYH8-s
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I knew a young man 60 years ago whose Father fought the Nazis in WWII in Germany. He happened to be of German ancestry, spoke fluent German and was an art expert. In 1945 a desperate German sold him an Albrecht Dürer painting for next to nothing – it’s worth $ millions today.
Another example:
$50 Million Durer Drawing Bought for $30 at Estate Sale
https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/3116
I have bought many signed first edition books for $25 to $200 and sold them later for thousands: Books by Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell, Hayek, It is pretty easy actually. Buy something of value and then just wait.
Go to Abe Books and look around until you find something you really like, buy it and wait.
I’d be terrified to wrap, transport, even touch them, especially the thin bowl.
My father served in China during WWII and brought back a few artifacts. They were displayed around the house and the family has always considered them to be trinkets with little resale value. He’s been gone since 1991 and my mother since 2012, so they’re all scattered in 4 households now with no sense of being worth much.
Over the weekend Open Thread, I posted developments around Europe’s Muslim immigrant invasion. The vitality of this problem afflicts the the region’s western most island nations, too.
Today, I see a weekend story from the Daily Mail on military intel warning of a Civil War threat emerging in Northern Ireland getting vetted by an Irish observer. He confirms talk of violent chaos from…The New IRA.
Open source data such as opinion from X.com tells us that the New IRA’s political aim is “All Migrants Out!”
Apparently, as many as 90% of invaders to Ireland — the Wokest stronghold in Europe — are arriving through the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland.
According to Derek Dominic, we get a practical window in what these events mean. Apparently, polls show one third of Shin Fein voters support a hard — actively policed — border with Ireland.
The issue Dominic raises is whether or not the old Left-Right divisions (or Republican-IRA aligned versus Unionist [or pro UK]) in Northern Ireland are going to see a new fusion of both ends coming together over the toxic migrant issue: if it does, then a Hard Border enforcing immigration it is!
And thus on practical nuances like this does the alarming headline “All Migrants Out!” (media label for the New IRA) devolve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGU9yfFMDDc
I think the main importance of “Antiques Roadshow” is to let people know how little most antique items and precious family heirlooms would actually be worth on the open market. With the exception of some items with particular cultural or historical value, it’s usually less than the families believe. (And in many cases, it’s even less than these things would have been worth 10 or 20 years ago, because younger people these days aren’t interested in collecting old things.)
What was the nature of this interesting and apparently “active” fragment of crash debris from the Roswell UFO crash, and what were its composition, and effects?
Linked is an interesting story about this piece of debris and its effects—on the experience of Earl Donohue, the person from the Roswell crash site cleanup crew who secreted it in his boot and walked away with it, stored it his back bedroom, and told no one about it for forty years.
About how this fragment was somehow “aware” of Earl and, Earl felt, was “reading “ him, its effect on the clocks in his house, and on the plants growing in the nearby garden–which grew, not toward the sun, but leaned towards the back bedroom, and the other effects which Earl refused to discuss.
About how one of the two taped interviews Earl gave about the fragment to a UFO researcher was apparently altered–six sections dealing with the other effects of the fragment removed.
About the experienced material scientist who could not determine what this fragment was made of.
How that researcher’s notebook recording that interview with Donohue has somehow “disappeared.”
All this about a fragment which Earl Donohue reportedly “gave back” (to who or what organization we do not know) in the late 1980s, near the end of his life.*
This video ends with the question, how many other people in that apparently large cleanup crew might have also picked up a piece of debri, and taken it home?
• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZuVaQ3-BaE
P.S. Your either believe that a UFO crashed at Roswell and, thus, this story is likely, or you don’t believe that this crash ever happened and, so, this story is just a “story,” a load of crap.
Take your pick.
“…crash debris…”
IOW, will Christopher Nolan SAVE the West?
“Europe’s Odyssey;
“Both Turkey and Qatar are strong supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and collaborate to finance the construction of mosques in Europe.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/431499
Key theme;
TJ thanks for the summary of Europe’s Muslim Invasion. Here’s some articles in the Irish Times on this topic
https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/migrant-crisis/
Many of them seem to be linked to the Ceuta invasion.
As an aside, the word Ceuta is not an acronym as I thought , but apparently is the name of the city
P.S.S.
From the statements I have seen–from David Grusch, and Richard Dolan among many other knowledgeable people–the consensus has now swung around to the conviction that a UFO crash did indeed happen at Roswell in 1947–a pivotal event which reportedly started the whole UFO Secrecy/Legacy program rolling, and which some have contended may have even led to the creation of the National Security Act of 1947, and of the CIA.
Whole bunch of leftists shitheads want wealth taxes. None of them are talking about the constitutional amendment needed to implement them. Either people like Ro Idiot and El-says-a-lot don’t actually know what the constitution says or they are planning something more nefarious.
Snow on Pine:
I don’t know what happened at Roswell, though I’ve taken several runs at it.
Something happened. It was at first reported as a saucer crash, then a weather balloon. Later it was explained as a secret Project Mogul balloon. In the meantime a ton of stories developed about it. Astronaut Gordon Cooper told one as well.
In any event your YouTube link is the only mention I can find of Earl Donahue and Roswell debris on the internet. The link contains this disclaimer:
__________________________________________
Disclaimer: This channel features exploratory interpretations and speculation about unexplained phenomena, presented through investigative-style storytelling rather than established fact. The perspectives and visual representations are dramatized or creatively constructed for storytelling purposes. Some visuals may be generated, enhanced, altered, or reconstructed using automated or generative artificial intelligence tools to create a more immersive viewing experience.
The content presented here should not be considered factual and is intended solely for commentary and entertainment. … Any resemblance to real individuals (living or deceased), actual occurrences, or existing establishments is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
__________________________________________
There is a lot of AI slop out there.
More Unicorn shite from the usual, who is rational about other things, sometimes religion does that.
Re: Roswell debris
As I said the other day, the Roswell debris really existed, the military collected it all, took it somewhere, then mysteriously lost all track of it.
Not only that but in 1995 the GAO did an investigation. Some of the Roswell records have been destroyed, along with any records of why they were destroyed:
______________________________________
(2) although some of the records concerning Roswell activities had been
destroyed, there was no information available regarding when or under
what authority the records were destroyed;
–“Government Records: Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico”
https://irp.fas.org/gao/nsi95187.htm
______________________________________
Which doesn’t prove anything about UFOs or a government conspiracy, but it does bother me. If the debris were available that would settle the issue.
That the government somehow lost track of the debris and destroyed some of the paperwork about it is one reason I keep my mind open about Roswell.
Earlier today — “Powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Manizales, Colombia”: https://x.com/i/status/2086897815976857721
At link a small sampling of videos taken on the scene in various locations.
Huxley—Well, I obviously didn’t read all that I should have, did I?
(Hides his head in shame.)
And I am truly sorry about that.
But this does bring up the issue of whether such elaborate, well done, apparently fictionalized stories about UFOs might be part of a deliberate government disinformation campaign to add to the confusion about what is real, and what is not about this subject.
And, with the advent of AIs, I can imagine AIs tasked with creating all sorts of such mischief, just churning ‘em out, in an endless stream.
Snow on Pine:
I’ve been fooled by YouTubes myself.
At this point if I find an interesting YouTube on a channel I don’t know, I always click the “…more” text for disclaimers or mentions of AI.
I find it frightening how many YouTubes are fiction and it’s not always easy to tell.
WINNING!! First De-transition Clinic in America: Texas Turns the Tide on Child Gender Experiments – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/08/winning-first-detransition-clinic-in.html
@ TJ AND Bob Wilson In re the Migrant Crisis in the EU:
In scanning the headlines at the Irish Times (going back to the beginning of 2026), maybe they are just cherry-picking the “antimigrant backlash” stories, but I am reminded of something JFK said (he’s looking better in retrospect, but nonetheless did his part to start the Left-leaning slag heap toward its tipping point).
https://yquotes.com/john-f-kennedy/79699/
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
—
Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962)
John F. Kennedy (First anniversary of the Alliance for Progress)
His speech was meant to encourage South and Middle American governments to make reforms that would improve the lives of their citizens.
What some of them eventually got (with or without improvements being made) was Marxist dictators.
It’s a good maxim though.
Mark Steyn has a similar proverb that also is appropriate to much of the modern world, especially in relation to the immigrant invasion crises.
“If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain issues, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable ones.”
At the extreme, if you drive all the reasonable people out of the political space, you will indeed have to deal with the unreasonable ones. I used to quote that one a lot in the early days of the constant refrain: “How did we get Donald Trump as President?”
Moving on to the travails of the Democrat Party vs the Socialist Democrats of America, and the nascent rebellion of some of the Inner Circle:
“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
— Stefan Molyneux
I’m sensing a trend in quips here.
*******
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-first-anniversary-the-alliance-for-progress
Steyn (paywalled, unfortunately, and I can’t find an “open” post of the quote.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3607274/The-lunatic-mainstream-had-better-start-worrying-fast.html
***********
I had to do some research on Molyneux, whose name I did not recognize.
He is a controversial figure to say the least.
That’s what you get when you just search the internet for interesting quotes.
See the next comment for the results.
In re Stefan Basil Molyneux — (“Not to be confused with Stephen Molyneux.”)
According to Wikipedia, he is ” is an Irish-born Canadian white nationalist [2][3][4][5][6] vlogger and proponent of conspiracy theories, white supremacy, [7][8] scientific racism, and the men’s rights movement. [15] He is the founder of the Freedomain Radio…”
I do note that the primary sources headlined by Wikipedia’s editors (who have long been accused of a leftist bias, and deserve the complaint) include NBC, BBC, NYT, WaPo, the Independent, The Guardian, and so forth.
And, per the SPLC, is “A libertarian internet commentator and alleged cult leader who amplifies “scientific racism,” eugenics and white supremacism to a massive new audience, Stefan Molyneux operates within the racist so-called “alt-right” and pro-Trump ranks.”
He claims the following for himself at freedomain.com: “Stefan Molyneux is the host of the largest and most popular philosophy show online, with over 600 million downloads. He has a Masters in History, writes books, gives speeches and debates on topics such as liberty, politics, economics and parenting.”
He attracted one of my own favorite luminaries, but Peterson will talk to anyone anywhere anytime about anything (or did when he was healthy).
“What is the reason behind the drift of western culture into empty nihilistic materialistic hedonism? Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the complicated nature of cultural division, the reduction of personal responsibility, the danger of not “having meaning” in your life, the nature of ideology, developing a sense of efficacy in the world, suffering as an intrinsic component to human nature, the argument for free will and much more!”
Even after reading the full Wikipedia article, I have no unambiguous information other than that he was born in Ireland, lives in Canada, and has a prominent podcast presence.
As for the “information” about what he supports….
YMMW and caveat emptor and all that stuff.
However, he is not wrong about this:
22. “The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.”
— Stefan Molyneux
https://quotefancy.com/stefan-molyneux-quotes
–“Bulldog skateboarding” (35s)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5EYsHpJ1Vk4
In this short you will see a bulldog skateboard!
Wild, fun, insane, real. I’ve watched the longer YouTubes.
The owner saw his bulldog playing with a skateboard. The owner got a custom wide board for the bulldog. Now all the dog wants to do is skateboard. He’s stoked!
He’s quite good actually. He can turn, go up and down ramps, take a break to go sniff a human skater’s ankles, then back to the board.
A low center of gravity helps.
The name of that bulldog is George. Other dogs have learned to skateboard, but George is the champ.
–“Dogs Skateboarding, Awesome Dogs On Skateboards”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpqTV2zE0k
I’ve also noticed that people have built wheeled supports for paraplegic dogs, cats and squirrels.
Those animals may not be able to discover the wheel, but they get the hang of wheels quickly and seem to love being able to rocket around with wheeled assistance.
Are young western women waking up to threat posed bi Islamic takeover of our communities? Maybe. What’s interesting is that these are the same demographic supporting The Left
-far Left Greens and Islamism. As we all know, the Ruling Class assertion of racist or Islamophobe is used to shut down voices on this issue.
This is the topic The Cyberpunk Dingo opens up by sharing a couple of brief videos by young women aged 39s to 30. This youngish YouTuber has a huge Aussie accent, handsome Persian looks, and is an ex-Muslim. And because Muslims are “so peaceful,” as he sarcastically writes, he hides his face below his eyes with a serious mask.
To open, he lets a video by an American from X.com speaks her full 6 minutes. It’s gotten a half million views and stirred up many reactions. Then he echoes her complaints because they are the same as on his own YT channel. Such as Muslims dog phobia spreading into takeover of public spaces.
A shorter segment has a young woman in London — apparently some media personality — echo one select concern that she feels. Namely, unsafe around leering or whistling or following immigrant (Muslim) men. Raising fears for her own safety on the street.
This is all a piece of Harvard sociologist’s reluctantly reported findings 20 years ago: that diversity in demographic change kills social trust. And in the West, social trust is a paramount value.
“Young Western Women Are FINALLY Openly Speaking About Islam…And Muslims Are FURIOUS!” — posted Monday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMjUDvh2Ks
SUBSTANTIAL EXCERPT from The Cyberpunk Dingo’s video description:
“A young American woman has gone viral after stepping outside her usual content to raise concerns about Islam, mass migration, women’s rights and the cultural changes she believes are happening around her. In this video, we examine her arguments, why her message resonated with so many people, and the growing willingness of women to openly discuss subjects once considered politically taboo. We also look at the tension between progressive politics, Islamism and liberal Western values, particularly when it comes to women’s freedom, safety and freedom of expression.”
Is this a sign of things to come? So late…so overdue?
Thanks to AesopFan and Bob Wilson for your comments and shared thoughts about this.
On Tuesday, I’ll have more to share about a June debate on Islam as a threat to the West, and a forthcoming debate in London on the same subject, set for the next September 9/11 anniversary.
Now I’m discovering there are YouTubes about teaching your dog to skateboard:
–“Can a 9 week old Bulldog Skate?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfHcP9WLXzE
O brave new world!
Ah! My detailed reply about Stefan Molyneux got timed out!
He was a leading based voice on the Rightside of the podcast world, before Jordan Peterson usurped that role.
I listened to him frequently for years, but before Covid.
He was demonetised and shrank back from political opining, to a more psychologically based critique of the human condition.
His intellectual roots were Ayn Rand’s neo-Aristotelian philosophy of Objectivism. Therefore, an atheist. But between growing older and becoming a father, and after his study in European intellect history, became a libertarian. Yet he evolved into a based neo-classical liberalism.
His move into evolutionary psychology commentary coincided with, or maybe was motivated by, becoming a father. Parenthood certainly ought to be so salutary!
As for Wiki and the SPLC on Molyneux, they are scare gaslighting anti-right sources of the Morally Superior kind. In general, but also especially to Stefan because of his popularity online.
And YES AesopFan! After 911, Mark Steyn wrote about the dark future where only the US might resist Islamic takeover in his book “America Alone,”
It was a painful look at times besetting us now. I knew it was coming then, but we were then most worried about the Muslim World’s economic disconnectedness, ergo Thomas P. M. Barnett’s “The Pentagon’s New Map” grand strategy to integrate the unconnected world through trade, and thereby prevent radicalisation of the climactic youth cohort within Islam, who are fodder for radical Islam.
The expectation was that the Muslim World’s economic disconnectedness had to solve the inherent religious and Jihad=violence problem by itself. And if the Young Men have work to do, their recruitment into Al Quida Jihadism with growing literacy might be stymied.
We can now see Trump’s decade long efforts with the Abraham Accords as the fruit of Barnett’s Grand Strategy. Only Iran looms to end Middle East conflicts, because the Arab Gulf nations want peace — the benefits are so lucrative, and thus the costs of ending the last global Jihad state worth bearing with through Trump’s war.
But “The Pentagon’s New Map Map” strategy has been buried and forgotten, and the young and stupid joined in the George W Bush and Evil Tony Blair blame game, as has Trump, in part.
Barnett had a fairly sound successor strategy, after the policy of Containment and waiting out the Soviets bore the fruit of collapse by 1992.
The period from the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union was 70+ years. A similar length of time has passed since Red China’s founding in 1949.
Is China vulnerable to a collapse that parallels the Soviet’s fate?
A fresh look at China’s declining future and exploring this historical parallel is chewed over here, “Why China Is The Last USSR” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGEqMOAfwp8
Food for thought because we see China facing “the same choices in the same order as the Soviets did.”
My YT algorithm from this link then went to the Strategic and Cold War historian Sarah Paine’s (US Naval War College in Newport) talk, culminating in the same considerations, but rooted in the themes of how Imperialist Soviet Union repeatedly sabotaged the rise of China, in a run up to the later clash of Communist nuclear super-powers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_ycZYH8-s