Trump’s Realistic Worldview Makes Him Hard To Fool (2-20-25)

02:00 Is The Gaza War About To Turn Into The West Bank War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxYgmz2uCk
15:00 What were [Gonzalo Lira aka] Coach Red Pill’s contributions from Ukraine that made it worth risking his life?
20:00 How can Taiwan defend itself against China, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMgzm_9K50
23:00 Jesse Waters
35:00 Is DT our first pessimist president? https://www.ft.com/content/a3b6e6c1-831f-45bc-8565-81193ce07f5a
1:09:30 Hugh Hewitt: President Trump’s EO “Ensuring Accountability For All Agencies” is a very big deal
1:14:00 Charles Lipson: Democrats built America’s over-mighty presidency. Now Trump is bending it to his will, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/02/20/democrats-america-over-mighty-presidency-trump-bend-it/
1:26:00 Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwq_WKBpYJQ
1:32:00 Charles Lipson: Trump’s presidency is an ink-blot test for America – Democrats see a dictator. Republicans see a strong leader fulfilling his promises. https://thespectator.com/topic/trumps-presidency-is-an-ink-blot-test-for-america/

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Is Egypt About To Invade Israel? I Thought The US Bribed Egypt To Not Fight Israel? (2-20-25)

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AXIOS: Trump’s mega-MAGA month transforms America (2-20-25)

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Ukraine Dindu Nuffin (2-19-25)

01:00 Ukraine dindu nuffin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine
04:30 DEI and flight risk
16:00 NYT: Ukrainians, Stunned by Trump’s Comments, Fear They Can No Longer Trust U.S., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/ukrainians-trump-voices.html
22:00 Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella Turnaturi, https://www.amazon.com/Betrayals-Unpredictability-Relations-Gabriella-Turnaturi/dp/0226817032
30:00 NYT: A U.S. Betrayal Is Surreal for Europeans, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/opinion/trump-munich-security-conference.html
38:30 Megyn Kelly on What’s Really Happening with Trump vs. Zelensky and How the Ukraine War Could End, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1j1EiPLb0
41:30 Should Democrats keep going after Musk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkmeLRXgWCw
46:30 Analyzing the Sean Hannity interview of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyXdEmb4FM0
48:20 Trump’s communication genius
1:06:40 How Pete Hegseth and the Trump Administration are Fixing the Military, w/ Calacanis and Palihapitiya, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWsnT-lIPnw
1:12:00 Here’s the Truth About Trump’s DOJ Dropping Charges Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, w/ Taibbi and Kirn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmu3Fc9BX1A&ab_channel=MegynKelly

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Why Is DOGE America’s Number One News Story?

Christopher Caldwell wrote Jan. 27, 2025:

Trump is not simply eliminating the affirmative-action enforcement machinery. He is throwing it into reverse.

So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump’s second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed affirmative action by executive order. That is astonishing.

For half a century, affirmative action has been the federal government’s principal instrument for carrying out desegregation, the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history. After the 1970s it was adapted to liberation movements, from feminism to gay rights. Supreme Court justices anguished over the way its call for special consideration of minorities might clash with the letter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred racial discrimination. Over the past decade affirmative action became the hammer of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, which grew so unpopular that it has now brought affirmative action (and much else) down with it.

Trump’s decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century—more significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid. How can people be talking about anything else? Yet major news outlets treat Trump’s bold move as a detail of personnel management: “Distress and Fury as Trump Upends Federal Jobs,” headlined The New York Times.

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