Heroic column by Sasha Stone—changer extraordinaire—who, when the penny dropped, understood that the current war over TRUTH is a war about the fate of the country—over humanity itself—and so girded her powerful voice, and “pen”, to do battle with the monstrous, hydra-like, unceasing enemy, her former side and affiliation…
…Alas, confoundingly, this assault is all too often mounted—at least at this stage of the game (though some might claim it was always thus)—by Jews, along with other well-meaning, salt-of-the-earth liberals—themselves…(if not always “well-meaning”)…
H/T Powerline blog (for both).
That ballerina has legs that go all the way up to her neck! Wow!
sdferr, thanks much for that masterful repost by Mike Doran.
A lot to digest, certainly, in the tremendous breadth of its analysis along with some quibbles here and there—e.g., perhaps a bit too much psychologizing, no matter how interesting that might be—but what a comprehensive perspective…
(Interestingly though not surprisingly, the the focus on Trump’s prodigious end-game efforts to reign in China has also been recently broached by Lee Smith…)
Nonetheless, while Doran’s warning seems to be scarily convincing, is he right?
IOW, is he correct in warning that the extraordinary perversity of Tucker Carlson and friends, and their—supposed—minions strong enough to ensure that the Democrats will be given another chance to absolutely destroy the USA…?
Just saw an ad, online, where four female rabbis in NYC were explaining why they were going to vote for Mandami and why they were “knocking on doors” encouraging everybody to vote for him.
Obviously , this ad came out during the run-up to the actual election for mayor.
Well, Mandami , in one of his very first policy moves as mayor, just revoked the special police protection provided to synagogues ( a program instituted by the previous mayor because of several attacks on synagogues).
Oh well, I am sure the four female rabbits, if asked, will justify the decision and claim it’s no big deal.
You cannot make this stuff up.
RE: Cuba, Trump in the wake of Maduro’s removal.
Read an article’s headline; “Cuba is Worried.”
IMHO, Cuba will just get oil from Russia or Iran or Turkey or …..? and they will survive.
Also, only the govt of Cuba has guns, and as long as they are willing to shoot however many need to be shot dead to maintain power, the government will survive.
If the Cuban military ‘switches sides,”, then the Cuban govt will be toast, but it’s hard to believe this will occur.
That girl can do it!
@sdferr:Reposting this link to Mike Doran’s “Giant Abroad, Midget at Home”
I read it. It’s blah blah blah. No hard evidence, no numbers: are we talking about 10 people or 10 million or what? Nobody knows what kind of actual support people like Carlson or Owens or Fuentes has or how many votes that support represents. It’s just blah blah blah. It’s the eternal legacy media-style trend/lifestyle reporting, where they try to conjure up mass movements from five people they talked to or wish to promote–“trying to make ‘fetch’ happen”.
We reject this sort of thing when it comes from the NYT or the WaPo and should reject it here too–even if we DIDN’T already have the evidence from a few weeks ago that these people’s online “influence” is largely bots and astroturf.
People may reject whatever they choose. For instance, I reject Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene now, due to their newly (to me) adopted paths, where once I may have paid them little mind in a manner of benign tolerance. Whether JD Vance will choose a similar path to these is yet to be seen (while it remains a possibility I cannot discount). You, meanwhile, go on with yourself. You’ll no doubt be ok.
@sdferr:Whether JD Vance will choose a similar path to these is yet to be seen (while it remains a possibility I cannot discount).
No doubt this is the whole point of the exercise: to try to discredit the most Trump-like Republicans with guilt-by-association games. I don’t think we ought to participate, but as you suggest you do you and I’ll do me.
Vice President Vance can shine by maintaining Pres. Trump’s coalition, though he may not have to be “Trump-like” precisely speaking, in order to achieve that end — as being “Trump-like” in most respects seems to me an near impossibility given Trump’s one-of-one sort of character. But by all means let VP Vance prove himself successful! Yet the present fits and starts may suffice to give choosers pause.
John Tyler, speaking from outside the Jewish community, I’d think the first clue on those rabbis voting for Mamdani is “female.” So now Mamdani has removed protection from NYC synagogues. Great work, ladies.
Because Nick assumes JD is Trump-like? Someone (Nick) is ignoring the fact that JD has not been in politics for more than four (?) years. Trump isn’t a typical politician Nick, or haven’t you noticed.
Guilt by association games? More like JD being unwilling to make a unequivocal choice.
are we talking about 10 people or 10 million or what? Nobody knows what kind of actual support people like Carlson or Owens or Fuentes has or how many votes that support represents.
That does sound like an important thing to know. Any thoughts on how to go about knowing it?
Max Weber thought he knew. He isn’t laughing now, of course . . . because he’s dead.
I don’t think the criticism of JD Vance is “guilt by association” or going after the most “Trump-like” candidate at all.
If you have someone who lends their platform to give a cream puff interview to a man who is an out-and-proud anti-Semite and a self-avowed fan of both Hitler and Stalin, you can say that the interview was a mistake. It’s not hard. Try this:
“Tucker is and has been my friend. That said, interviewing Nick Fuentes the way that he did was a mistake.”
If Vance had said something like that, there’s no issue. Instead, he launched into a broadside against Tucker’s critics by echoing Kevin Roberts’ screed against “cancellation.” (Criticism is not equal to cancellation.) And if we’re not willing to deny a GOP-leaning platform to the likes of Nick Fuentes, it becomes one heck of a lot more difficult to argue that the right is any better than the left. It sure looks like JD was trying to play both sides of the fence. That’s the root of the criticism.
And, FWIW, I don’t think Vance is Trump like at all. Vance seems to be the representative of the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP that was subsumed into MAGA. I think a lot of those folks thought that Trump was one of them, especially after he picked Vance. Trump’s historic and continuing support for Israel suggest otherwise, as does his Venezuela action this week.
Also, FWIW, I can’t tell for sure if JD is playing things the way he is with Tucker because he’s actually sympathetic to Tucker, or for political purposes. Love him or hate him, it’s never difficult to know where Trump actually stands.
Mike Plaiss – I think it’s safe to say that Vance’s political team has access to more and better polling than we do. It appears that team Vance thinks that the Carlson contingent, at least, is big enough to justify being a squish about Fuentes and Owens.
It is also plausible that Vance is simply acting out his own instincts, in which case we really don’t know anything about the size of the Carlson and Fuentes/Owens supporters.
That’s not quite a way of “knowing,” but it’s a way to make a guess that is a bit more than a shot in the dark.
Kate: So now Mamdani has removed protection from NYC synagogues.
My congregation in Texas hires off-duty sheriff’s deputies for security. Has for many years. Some very familiar faces.
Regarding the video, I can appreciate the grace, elegance and power much better when I see it in slow motion. Just amazing that someone can move through space like that.
Bauxite:
I agree with your assessment of the JD situation.
Roger Simon explores whether Maduro’s arrest was primarily about drugs or if it may have also been about proving the 2020 election was stolen. Hmmm…
@Bauxite:Vance seems to be the representative of the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP that was subsumed into MAGA.
The guy who was mentored by Peter Thiel and Amy Chua and is married to an Indian who was also in Amy Chua’s class along with people like Ronan Farrow and Maggie Goodlander (D-NH 2, married to Jake Sullivan, one of the six in the video telling the military to refuse “illegal” orders), who was given millions of dollars in venture capital to manage for tech billionaires, some of whom later donated many millions to his PAC, seems a very, very unlikely fit for “representative of the Pat Buchanan wing”.
It’s much likelier that he’s as much a part of the corporate–and-government establishment as anyone else in DC, connected by various personal relationships.
This moral panic about the “takeover” of the GOP by assorted nuts is created to make unlikely narratives like Vance leading the Buchananites superficially plausible to people who forgot what happened six months ago (and I suppose who can remember 40 years ago, since I doubt Pat Buchanan means anything to the kind of young people supposedly flocking to Fuentes, Carlson, and Owens). But it’s not based on anything real. It’s based on talk-talk about the online world, not reality.
The people who can and are actually hurting the interests of Israel or American Jews are in the Democratic Party, not online loudmouths retweeted by bots and foreigners.
He’s been in politics for four(?) years now but is part of the DC establishment. Pretty quick study that young man, talk about talkity-talk.
@crasey: Roger Simon explores whether Maduro’s arrest was primarily about drugs or if it may have also been about proving the 2020 election was stolen. Hmmm…
I’ve also got to believe it is a medium-term oil play to safeguard supplies in the Western Hemisphere and as a direct threat to Russia, which needs high oil prices, and China, which needs oil period.
We now read that Venezuela has larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. However Venezuelan oil is of a poorer grade than Saudi and requires substantially more costs to process. So Venezuela is not going to become Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore, recent Venezuelan governments have allowed their oil infrastructure to seriously degrade so it now requires rebuilding.
Venezuela oil is not a magic bullet for anyone. But as a longer-term investment in the future it’s sound.
Fusion…oughta send a “good-bye to all that”….
– – – – – – –
“…takeover…” is not necessarily the issue.
We’re talking about neutralizing the party. Decommissioning it…though some might prefer “knee-capping”…or “hog-tying…or even “decapitating” (it’s a big tent for metaphors…).
I read that there was a drugs > money > Terrorists in Africa and the Middle East pipeline.
Giant Abroad, Midget at Home Why the Trump coalition is cracking up
I would take exception to the title of the article. Besides being inaccurate, it’s insulting.
The subhead, I think, overstates the divisions in the coalition. As as been stated here, it’s too early to tell what influence Carlson or Fuentes will have on the makeup of MAGA 2.0.
If Trump can pull of this incredibly complicated gambit using Venezuela as the domino to topple dominos around the world, Carlson’s isolationism will be discredited and discarded. And this is happening with the strategic partnership of Israel and could happen with minimal US troops deployed.
Unfortunately, policies that centered around re-building American infrastructure and America’s real wealth have been forced to share the President’s attention from the domestic policy he has championed to the foreign policy arena. And Trump is playing the difficult and intractable problems he inherited boldly. The word around the world is “uncertainty.” No one knows what the President will do next. That is his forte, and it prevents his enemies from action.
If events play out, by removing Maduro, China is thwarted in it’s quest for an oil source and a port to continue sending fentanyl into the US, Iran is on notice their regime could be next if they overplay their hand quelling their people’s anger, which may lead to their fall. Russia loses another ally, and a strong oil play could keep oil prices in the $50+ range which would make Russia’s ability to fund the Ukraine war even harder. Iran and Israel could re-establish relations, which would put pressure on Qatar to back off it’s quiet efforts against Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah would lose their funding. Cuba might fall as a byproduct.
Granted, those are a lot of pieces that need to fall into place.
Trump has recognized that waging economic war can have just as devastating effects as military actions. Oil is king and the key.
Events may make Doran’s article irrelevant as well.
Pray for peace.
@Huxley, agreed. Setting conditions for Venezuelans to make Venezuela great again does everything you describe and more. Venezuela is a proverbial center of gravity in the battle between capitalism and communism. Pressuring the rest of the regime to fold and peacefully return to free elections and self-government is underway.
@Brian E says it better than I did.
Meanwhile @realDonaldTrump has been RPing clips of a purported Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower testifying about Smartmatic and Dominion election rigging capabilities on TruthSocial. I don’t put much stock in these types of claims but if there is anything to them it does put a whole new wrinkle into the Maduro operation and what his willingness to reveal could buy him. He did say in the car the other day he wanted to make a deal…
Color me deeply impressed as well.
Fusion…oughta send a “good-bye to all that”….
Barry Meislin:
That’s the plan, or at least mine.
We still need fossil fuels as a bridge to a nuclear future. I’ll settle for fission and be optimistic for fusion, eventually.
We have plenty of uses for oil as feedstocks. I would rather not use it to boil water to generate electricity.
Just to temper my enthusiasm that actions in Venezuela might trigger the fall of the Islamic regime in Iran.
Many see Trump’s action in Venezuela as an indication that he is willing to heighten American aggression against its enemies, including the Islamic Republic of Iran.
To discuss what to make of the societal upheaval in Iran – and how the historic events in Venezuela play a role here – Dan was joined by Karim Sadjadpour. Karim is an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a recurring guest on this podcast on all things Iran.
Sadjadpour thinks the fall of the Islamic regime is inevitable, but not imminent.
Beautiful! Such grace and strength!
Reposting this link to Mike Doran’s “Giant Abroad, Midget at Home” — (the article is temporarily out from behind the TabletMag paywall, so read it soon, you’ll likely find it interesting): https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/trump-coalition-cracking
Heroic column by Sasha Stone—changer extraordinaire—who, when the penny dropped, understood that the current war over TRUTH is a war about the fate of the country—over humanity itself—and so girded her powerful voice, and “pen”, to do battle with the monstrous, hydra-like, unceasing enemy, her former side and affiliation…
“January 6th and The Real Insurrection;
“Our Virtual Civil War Part Three”—
https://www.sashastone.com/p/january-6th-and-the-real-insurrection
+ Bonus…(another giant)
“Despair Not!
“Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.”—
https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/gvald-jews-dont-despair
…Alas, confoundingly, this assault is all too often mounted—at least at this stage of the game (though some might claim it was always thus)—by Jews, along with other well-meaning, salt-of-the-earth liberals—themselves…(if not always “well-meaning”)…
H/T Powerline blog (for both).
That ballerina has legs that go all the way up to her neck! Wow!
sdferr, thanks much for that masterful repost by Mike Doran.
A lot to digest, certainly, in the tremendous breadth of its analysis along with some quibbles here and there—e.g., perhaps a bit too much psychologizing, no matter how interesting that might be—but what a comprehensive perspective…
(Interestingly though not surprisingly, the the focus on Trump’s prodigious end-game efforts to reign in China has also been recently broached by Lee Smith…)
Nonetheless, while Doran’s warning seems to be scarily convincing, is he right?
IOW, is he correct in warning that the extraordinary perversity of Tucker Carlson and friends, and their—supposed—minions strong enough to ensure that the Democrats will be given another chance to absolutely destroy the USA…?
Just saw an ad, online, where four female rabbis in NYC were explaining why they were going to vote for Mandami and why they were “knocking on doors” encouraging everybody to vote for him.
Obviously , this ad came out during the run-up to the actual election for mayor.
Well, Mandami , in one of his very first policy moves as mayor, just revoked the special police protection provided to synagogues ( a program instituted by the previous mayor because of several attacks on synagogues).
Oh well, I am sure the four female rabbits, if asked, will justify the decision and claim it’s no big deal.
You cannot make this stuff up.
RE: Cuba, Trump in the wake of Maduro’s removal.
Read an article’s headline; “Cuba is Worried.”
IMHO, Cuba will just get oil from Russia or Iran or Turkey or …..? and they will survive.
Also, only the govt of Cuba has guns, and as long as they are willing to shoot however many need to be shot dead to maintain power, the government will survive.
If the Cuban military ‘switches sides,”, then the Cuban govt will be toast, but it’s hard to believe this will occur.
That girl can do it!
@sdferr:Reposting this link to Mike Doran’s “Giant Abroad, Midget at Home”
I read it. It’s blah blah blah. No hard evidence, no numbers: are we talking about 10 people or 10 million or what? Nobody knows what kind of actual support people like Carlson or Owens or Fuentes has or how many votes that support represents. It’s just blah blah blah. It’s the eternal legacy media-style trend/lifestyle reporting, where they try to conjure up mass movements from five people they talked to or wish to promote–“trying to make ‘fetch’ happen”.
Anyone remember the Coffee Party?
We reject this sort of thing when it comes from the NYT or the WaPo and should reject it here too–even if we DIDN’T already have the evidence from a few weeks ago that these people’s online “influence” is largely bots and astroturf.
People may reject whatever they choose. For instance, I reject Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene now, due to their newly (to me) adopted paths, where once I may have paid them little mind in a manner of benign tolerance. Whether JD Vance will choose a similar path to these is yet to be seen (while it remains a possibility I cannot discount). You, meanwhile, go on with yourself. You’ll no doubt be ok.
@sdferr:Whether JD Vance will choose a similar path to these is yet to be seen (while it remains a possibility I cannot discount).
No doubt this is the whole point of the exercise: to try to discredit the most Trump-like Republicans with guilt-by-association games. I don’t think we ought to participate, but as you suggest you do you and I’ll do me.
Vice President Vance can shine by maintaining Pres. Trump’s coalition, though he may not have to be “Trump-like” precisely speaking, in order to achieve that end — as being “Trump-like” in most respects seems to me an near impossibility given Trump’s one-of-one sort of character. But by all means let VP Vance prove himself successful! Yet the present fits and starts may suffice to give choosers pause.
John Tyler, speaking from outside the Jewish community, I’d think the first clue on those rabbis voting for Mamdani is “female.” So now Mamdani has removed protection from NYC synagogues. Great work, ladies.
Because Nick assumes JD is Trump-like? Someone (Nick) is ignoring the fact that JD has not been in politics for more than four (?) years. Trump isn’t a typical politician Nick, or haven’t you noticed.
Guilt by association games? More like JD being unwilling to make a unequivocal choice.
are we talking about 10 people or 10 million or what? Nobody knows what kind of actual support people like Carlson or Owens or Fuentes has or how many votes that support represents.
That does sound like an important thing to know. Any thoughts on how to go about knowing it?
Max Weber thought he knew. He isn’t laughing now, of course . . . because he’s dead.
I don’t think the criticism of JD Vance is “guilt by association” or going after the most “Trump-like” candidate at all.
If you have someone who lends their platform to give a cream puff interview to a man who is an out-and-proud anti-Semite and a self-avowed fan of both Hitler and Stalin, you can say that the interview was a mistake. It’s not hard. Try this:
“Tucker is and has been my friend. That said, interviewing Nick Fuentes the way that he did was a mistake.”
If Vance had said something like that, there’s no issue. Instead, he launched into a broadside against Tucker’s critics by echoing Kevin Roberts’ screed against “cancellation.” (Criticism is not equal to cancellation.) And if we’re not willing to deny a GOP-leaning platform to the likes of Nick Fuentes, it becomes one heck of a lot more difficult to argue that the right is any better than the left. It sure looks like JD was trying to play both sides of the fence. That’s the root of the criticism.
And, FWIW, I don’t think Vance is Trump like at all. Vance seems to be the representative of the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP that was subsumed into MAGA. I think a lot of those folks thought that Trump was one of them, especially after he picked Vance. Trump’s historic and continuing support for Israel suggest otherwise, as does his Venezuela action this week.
Also, FWIW, I can’t tell for sure if JD is playing things the way he is with Tucker because he’s actually sympathetic to Tucker, or for political purposes. Love him or hate him, it’s never difficult to know where Trump actually stands.
Mike Plaiss – I think it’s safe to say that Vance’s political team has access to more and better polling than we do. It appears that team Vance thinks that the Carlson contingent, at least, is big enough to justify being a squish about Fuentes and Owens.
It is also plausible that Vance is simply acting out his own instincts, in which case we really don’t know anything about the size of the Carlson and Fuentes/Owens supporters.
That’s not quite a way of “knowing,” but it’s a way to make a guess that is a bit more than a shot in the dark.
Kate: So now Mamdani has removed protection from NYC synagogues.
My congregation in Texas hires off-duty sheriff’s deputies for security. Has for many years. Some very familiar faces.
Regarding the video, I can appreciate the grace, elegance and power much better when I see it in slow motion. Just amazing that someone can move through space like that.
Bauxite:
I agree with your assessment of the JD situation.
Roger Simon explores whether Maduro’s arrest was primarily about drugs or if it may have also been about proving the 2020 election was stolen. Hmmm…
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/what-maduro-knows
h/t Instapundit
Plisetskaya rules!
@Bauxite:Vance seems to be the representative of the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP that was subsumed into MAGA.
The guy who was mentored by Peter Thiel and Amy Chua and is married to an Indian who was also in Amy Chua’s class along with people like Ronan Farrow and Maggie Goodlander (D-NH 2, married to Jake Sullivan, one of the six in the video telling the military to refuse “illegal” orders), who was given millions of dollars in venture capital to manage for tech billionaires, some of whom later donated many millions to his PAC, seems a very, very unlikely fit for “representative of the Pat Buchanan wing”.
It’s much likelier that he’s as much a part of the corporate–and-government establishment as anyone else in DC, connected by various personal relationships.
This moral panic about the “takeover” of the GOP by assorted nuts is created to make unlikely narratives like Vance leading the Buchananites superficially plausible to people who forgot what happened six months ago (and I suppose who can remember 40 years ago, since I doubt Pat Buchanan means anything to the kind of young people supposedly flocking to Fuentes, Carlson, and Owens). But it’s not based on anything real. It’s based on talk-talk about the online world, not reality.
The people who can and are actually hurting the interests of Israel or American Jews are in the Democratic Party, not online loudmouths retweeted by bots and foreigners.
He’s been in politics for four(?) years now but is part of the DC establishment. Pretty quick study that young man, talk about talkity-talk.
@crasey: Roger Simon explores whether Maduro’s arrest was primarily about drugs or if it may have also been about proving the 2020 election was stolen. Hmmm…
I’ve also got to believe it is a medium-term oil play to safeguard supplies in the Western Hemisphere and as a direct threat to Russia, which needs high oil prices, and China, which needs oil period.
We now read that Venezuela has larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. However Venezuelan oil is of a poorer grade than Saudi and requires substantially more costs to process. So Venezuela is not going to become Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore, recent Venezuelan governments have allowed their oil infrastructure to seriously degrade so it now requires rebuilding.
Venezuela oil is not a magic bullet for anyone. But as a longer-term investment in the future it’s sound.
Fusion…oughta send a “good-bye to all that”….
– – – – – – –
“…takeover…” is not necessarily the issue.
We’re talking about neutralizing the party. Decommissioning it…though some might prefer “knee-capping”…or “hog-tying…or even “decapitating” (it’s a big tent for metaphors…).
I read that there was a drugs > money > Terrorists in Africa and the Middle East pipeline.
Giant Abroad, Midget at Home
Why the Trump coalition is cracking up
I would take exception to the title of the article. Besides being inaccurate, it’s insulting.
The subhead, I think, overstates the divisions in the coalition. As as been stated here, it’s too early to tell what influence Carlson or Fuentes will have on the makeup of MAGA 2.0.
If Trump can pull of this incredibly complicated gambit using Venezuela as the domino to topple dominos around the world, Carlson’s isolationism will be discredited and discarded. And this is happening with the strategic partnership of Israel and could happen with minimal US troops deployed.
Unfortunately, policies that centered around re-building American infrastructure and America’s real wealth have been forced to share the President’s attention from the domestic policy he has championed to the foreign policy arena. And Trump is playing the difficult and intractable problems he inherited boldly. The word around the world is “uncertainty.” No one knows what the President will do next. That is his forte, and it prevents his enemies from action.
If events play out, by removing Maduro, China is thwarted in it’s quest for an oil source and a port to continue sending fentanyl into the US, Iran is on notice their regime could be next if they overplay their hand quelling their people’s anger, which may lead to their fall. Russia loses another ally, and a strong oil play could keep oil prices in the $50+ range which would make Russia’s ability to fund the Ukraine war even harder. Iran and Israel could re-establish relations, which would put pressure on Qatar to back off it’s quiet efforts against Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah would lose their funding. Cuba might fall as a byproduct.
Granted, those are a lot of pieces that need to fall into place.
Trump has recognized that waging economic war can have just as devastating effects as military actions. Oil is king and the key.
Events may make Doran’s article irrelevant as well.
Pray for peace.
@Huxley, agreed. Setting conditions for Venezuelans to make Venezuela great again does everything you describe and more. Venezuela is a proverbial center of gravity in the battle between capitalism and communism. Pressuring the rest of the regime to fold and peacefully return to free elections and self-government is underway.
@Brian E says it better than I did.
Meanwhile @realDonaldTrump has been RPing clips of a purported Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower testifying about Smartmatic and Dominion election rigging capabilities on TruthSocial. I don’t put much stock in these types of claims but if there is anything to them it does put a whole new wrinkle into the Maduro operation and what his willingness to reveal could buy him. He did say in the car the other day he wanted to make a deal…
Color me deeply impressed as well.
Fusion…oughta send a “good-bye to all that”….
Barry Meislin:
That’s the plan, or at least mine.
We still need fossil fuels as a bridge to a nuclear future. I’ll settle for fission and be optimistic for fusion, eventually.
We have plenty of uses for oil as feedstocks. I would rather not use it to boil water to generate electricity.
Just to temper my enthusiasm that actions in Venezuela might trigger the fall of the Islamic regime in Iran.
Many see Trump’s action in Venezuela as an indication that he is willing to heighten American aggression against its enemies, including the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Sadjadpour thinks the fall of the Islamic regime is inevitable, but not imminent.
After Venezuela, is Iran Next? – with Karim Sadjadpour
Call Me Back Podcast- with Dan Senor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8jPl4wWQRQ
Re: Victor Davis Hanson
Seems to be back and on the job!
–“Victor Davis Hanson: January 6, Five Years Later—Were We Played?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1DjtnYhM8
Welcome back, Victor!
huxley:
I listened to a minute or two of the Hanson podcast, and my impression is that it was made prior to his surgery.
Nick Shirley Video – We Exposed Tim Walz Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme | Sit Down Interview
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/01/nick-shirley-video-we-exposed-tim-walz.html