Luke Ford

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-gaza-ai-video-israel-hamas-war
https://www.reuters.com/legal/straight-womans-reverse-discrimination-case-goes-us-supreme-court-2025-02-26/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/25/ohio-discrimination-marlean-ames-supreme-court/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-hear-straight-womans-discrimination-case-could-reshape-employment-law
https://www.thefp.com/p/christopher-caldwell-dei-trump-executive-order
Christopher Caldwell writes:

Now Trump has done what Reagan would not. His repeal came via three executive orders, two issued on Inauguration Day. The first overturned dozens of Biden decrees, including the “Advancing Racial Equity” executive order signed in the first hours of his presidency in 2021. The second ended all initiatives, offices, contracts, and employees connected to DEI, which Trump referred to as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.”
The decisive blow came the following day. In an order called “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” Trump repealed a variety of executive orders, including 11246, and explicitly barred the OFCCP from enforcing affirmative action. And his Office of Personnel Management followed through on the previous day’s business, ordering that all DEI federal employees be sent home, all DEI federal contracts be terminated, and all efforts to pursue federal DEI programs under another name be rooted out.
RIP affirmative action.
But that is only part of the story. A curious element of Trump’s third executive order is its invocation of the president’s “solemn duty” to enforce “longstanding Federal civil-rights laws,” mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is not a concession. It’s a threat.
While the Civil Rights Act mentioned “affirmative action” it attached no specific meaning to the term, and the law was resolutely color-blind. Affirmative action programs, with their differing treatment of races, are in tension with it. DEI programs, many of which scapegoat white people, are even more so. It is Trump’s assertion that DEI programs “violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws.” Trump is doing more than reforming the public sector. He is signaling to the private sector that certain kinds of programs are liable to prosecution, even asking each federal agency to name up to nine large private-sector organizations that might be engaged in discrimination.

01:00 FA: The World Trump Wants, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-trump-wants-michael-kimmage
17:00 The Deep State, rogue intelligence officers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwDDj-9UtY0
25:00 NYT: The Election Just Ended and We Already Have a New Michael Wolff Book
In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/books/review/all-or-nothing-michael-wolff.html
29:00 Where’s the coverage of Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles nor any process stories?
32:15 What’s the future of MSNBC?
34:45 FDR’s attempt at DOGE
37:45 Jesse Waters
44:00 Politico: Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
50:00 Whither MSNBC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5q5sj8CsLs
52:00 Perhaps most egregious liberal media bias is to hire left-wing people who hate Trump to cover the news media
1:01:00 WP: Weight-loss drugs aren’t just slimming waists. They’re shifting the economy., https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/23/ozempic-wegovy-change-life-spending/
1:13:00 WP: Her claim of anti-straight bias could upend discrimination law
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could unleash a wave of workplace bias claims by Whites, men and people who are straight., https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/25/ohio-discrimination-marlean-ames-supreme-court/
1:23:00 Hollywood gay mafia, https://www.lukeford.net/essays/contents/homo_mafia.htm
1:32:30 Trump’s Wrecking Ball, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ahz6GfcCfI

01:00 Yes, Zelensky is a dictator
08:00 Putin & Russia are formidable, zelensky and ukraine are not.
11:00 Constitutional Dictatorship – Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies (1948), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159048
51:00 Trump Fealty, Ukraine, and Crowd Size, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnjiplDIxc
54:15 Jesse Waters
1:08:00 Meghan McCain’s Happy Hour S1E2 | The Latest in Politics & Pop Culture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgnCbfSzAvM
1:11:30 Joy Reid out at MSNBC
1:18:00 Part of the reason that the MSM protected Biden is that they despised Kamala Harris
1:33:00 Australia’s low quality food
1:35:00 DTG: Chris Langan: The Smartest Person in the World with a 200 IQ!, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/chris-langan-the-smartest-person-in-the-world-with-a-200-iq

David Rudenstine, Benjamin Cardozo law professor, wrote in 2013:

* If it is controlled too tightly the democratic state may succumb to the threat and thus disappear. The challenge is to thread the eye of this narrow needle to ensure that the democratic state survives the crisis without sacrificing its democracy.

Rossiter argues that the demands of dictatorship find its “rationale” in three basic facts. One, the complex system of an ordinary democratic government is “essentially designed to function under normal, peaceful conditions, and is often unequal to the exigencies of a great national crisis.”36 Two, during a national crisis, which Rossiter defines as during a time of war, rebellion or economic depression, the government will become stronger to overcome the peril and the people will have fewer rights.37 Three, the empowered crisis government, “which in some instances might become an outright dictatorship,”38 must have “no other purposes than the preservation of the independence of the state,
the maintenance of the existing constitutional order, and the defense of the political and social liberties of the people.”39 Rossiter states without reservation or hesitancy that the dictatorial regime may “act arbitrarily and even dictatorially in the swift adoption of measures designed to save the state and its people from the destructive effects of the particular crisis.”

* Rossiter thought that the emergence of the Atomic Age meant that going forward the United States must always remain a powerful military power, that there would be no significant difference between a time of peace and a time of war, and that the defense and survival of the United States required a presidency that possessed power greater in scope and character than the power possessed by prior presidents.