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Category Archives: America
Day 3 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-22-25)
01:00 Woke bishop lectures Donald Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-trump.html10:25 Peter Zeihan has been predicting China’s demise for 20 years and he keeps extending the date when this will happen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSVDZGfGIU13:00 Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer clash over January 6, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IvhU6EVR8I19:00 Eighteen Days in … Continue reading
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January 6
I hate that Donald Trump undermined the results of the 2020 election and hence paved the way for the January 6 riot. There is a case to be made that electoral changes made in the run-up to that election gave … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Begins His Second Term (1-20-25)
01:00 Trump inauguration07:00 Ezra Klein: Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?11:00 The changes in vibes — why did they happen?, https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/07/the-changes-in-vibes-why-did-they-happen.html 15:00 Politico: An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something, … Continue reading
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California Democrats See Their Political Ambitions Go Up In Smoke (1-17-25)
01:00 California symbolizes Democratic party governance05:30 LAFD administrators call for chief’s retirement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVJ4_g4VJqI08:20 Fire Department DEI Explained (by a firefighter), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormDCbI37Zo14:00 Female firefighters, https://technium.substack.com/p/firemen-firewomen-and-firefighting20:00 ‘No one can find a rental, it’s insane’: Real estate mogul, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNkr6wJdZA23:10 Housing developer discusses the … Continue reading
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California Burning (1-16-25)
01:00 Real talk vs tv news talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDQLQOl8f004:00 Karine Jean-Pierre was not selected as White House press secretary for her excellence12:00 NYT: We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html15:00 Los Angeles mayor facing growing … Continue reading
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Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25)
01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here’s … Continue reading
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The Dog Who Didn’t Bark – Nobody Argues California Has Great Governance (1-14-25)
01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt014:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality19:00 Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War … Continue reading
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Who By Fire? (1-13-25)
01:00 Judaism’s Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn’t rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyIn Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant designs remained standing amid neighborhoods of … Continue reading
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Decoding LA’s Fires (1-12-25)
05:00 WSJ: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns09:00 Politics Fueled LA’s Fires, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15855510:00 California voters destroyed private home insurance, https://apple.news/AeXdYZP1qSfeNes1AGLzSAg11:00 Fire experts describe how we can reduce these urban blazes, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-los-angeles-blazes-amid-changing-times12:00 Disputes kill people, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHFz5Jj7a021:00 Your Home Can Survive … Continue reading
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LA Surrounded By A Ring Of Fire (1-10-25)
01:00 Variety: Netflix’s ‘American Primeval’ Is a Brutally Violent Western Led by a Compelling Taylor Kitsch, https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/american-primeval-review-netflix-taylor-kitsch-1236267125/04:00 Hugh Hewitt: Anger, Blame, and Accountability, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOh2Ug4KNFg14:00 LAFD run by a lesbian mafia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15853925:08 Political earthquake will come in wake of LA wildfires: … Continue reading
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