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Category Archives: America
The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
01:00 Video: CNN Host Abby Phillip Keeps Shedding Viewers & Attacking Her Guests, w/ Halperin, Spicer, Turrentine12:00 The Death of Mainstream Media, & Why Gavin Newsom Won’t Run | Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ZGcvtsqiM20:00 COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/covid-pandemic-revisionism-books/683954/27:45 Why … Continue reading
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Restoring Quality Of Life
Just under my friendly amiable surface, is a default setting where I instinctively try to do that which maximizes attention. To navigate life without humiliating myself constantly, I have to transcend that default setting into one where I make choices … Continue reading
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Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
01:00 Why Do Elite News Operations Sound So Dumb So Often? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16288613:00 Industrial Policy’s Potential with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykCxs4aFl421:00 Yoram Hazony: The Man Driving the Nationalist Revival on the Right, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1625661:08:00 Industrial Policy for the United States: … Continue reading
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The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
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‘Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election’
I remember when Larry Sabato was not diminished by Trump Derangement Syndrome (99% of his public comments about Trump are negative). Now I read in his new book that Kamala Harris “ran as good a campaign as anyone could have … Continue reading
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Nobody Is Coming (8-10-25)
01:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E‑Personality (2011), https://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2025/08/virtually-you-dangerous-powers-of.html15:00 ‘No one is coming to save you: you are the one you are waiting for’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16266222:00 Michael joins to talk about Richard Nixon, https://x.com/MichaelmvlogStatus, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16265550:00 Status anxiety, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1626551:05:00 My … Continue reading
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When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
01:00 I’m the Peter North of cognitive loads07:10 Speak Like This to Blow Up Your Personal Brand On YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqOigPK-J7E28:00 NYT: Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_PCNgW79E31:20 NYT: Yoram Hazony: The Man Driving the Nationalist Revival … Continue reading
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Trump Uses Allegations Of Anti-Semitism To Protect Whites & Asians From Racial Discrimination
In this deal with Columbia University, it looks like the Trump administration is creating a template for leveraging allegations of anti-semitism to protect asians and whites from racial discrimination from America’s most powerful institutions. ChatGPT says: The Trump-era moves—like the … Continue reading
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How To Spot A Pedo In The Wild (7-27-25)
01:00 Pedos, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16231004:00 Seeing Through the Noise: Why Ordinary People Are Less Gullible Than Elites Think, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16241808:00 All men are incels: the bitter truth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6xYHK3lrnk18:00 Aaron Maté: New Docs Show FBI and NSA Never Believed Trump Worked with Russia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16241220:00 … Continue reading
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Russiagate | The NatCon Squad | Episode 224
Epistemic Inversion and the Russiagate Legacy Stephen Turner’s work on epistemic coercion and expert rule offers a powerful framework for dissecting the lingering influence of Russiagate on elite discourse—especially as examined by The NatCon Squad in Episode 224. 01:10 – … Continue reading
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