09:00 Trump Shooting Conspiracies, Multiple Shooters DEBUNKED, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRKpMxtW6A
17:00 Single bullet theory for JFK assassination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory
25:00 Michael Kochin on Gaza War 12 October 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JTNM3IgjY
36:00 Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston, and Kamala Harris triple team JD Vance | Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV8wJOZHkE8
42:00 N.S. Lyons | The Parallel Path to Political Power, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJFp1Yv2Oo
45:20 Mike Benz on NATO & censorship, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qKrWGTWXU
54:00 Conservatives more likely to believe that past bad behavior is likely to predict future bad behavior, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/evolutionary-theories-of-female-gossip
56:30 Theodor Adorno would have called the police, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKFL6dEQlP4
1:14:30 Robert Barnes (Deep State Tried To Kill Trump: Conspiracy Theory Or Fact?), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp4KvbRlD0Q
1:17:20 Each and Every Security Failure Leading to Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump, with Mike Baker, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALfKuzR0Ew
1:20:00 Abigail Shrier on the Dark Side of “America First” Republicans, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ98cANs7Ks
1:22:20 Donald Trump Shooting: Bodycam Confirms Snipers Spotted Gunman Before Assassination Attempt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwAD5-XWOw
1:26:20 Investigating Donald Trump’s Would-Be Assassin’s Motive, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezJXmWJYqc
1:27:30 Kip joins
1:29:00 Kip regrets the 50-pounds of marijuana he smoked
1:36:00 Seventh-Day Adventism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church
1:38:00 Ellen G. White, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_G._White
1:44:00 La Cienega Heights Was Known As Corning-Cadillac When It Was Dominated By The Playboy Gangster Crips, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145230
1:46:00 Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries in La Cienega Heights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145237
It’s amusing to see all the media and Democratic party rhetoric about how Donald Trump presents this epic threat to democracy. This will be the last time ever have a chance to vote in the United States! This indicates how out of touch the MSM and elites are because nobody in the real world in America believes that democracy is on the ballot. People will vote based on their habits and inclinations, community, race, sex, vibes, profession, and economy.
The idea that democracy is on the ballot doesn’t resonate with anyone in the real world. You have to live in an incredibly abstract world to believe that democracy is on the ballot, that you can change your sex, that there aren’t significant group differences, that IQ doesn’t matter, that you don’t need to punish criminals.
The smarter a person, the more likely they are to earn, innovate, create, contribute to the tax base, and have below average tendencies to commit crime. This doesn’t stop at any level of IQ. The smarter the person, the more likely they are to enjoy living in an abstract world. This comes with many benefits to society, but also some dangers. Only a person living in an abstract world believes in communism.
I live in a largely abstract world. I am not married. I don’t have kids. I spend my time exploring ideas, reading books, writing essays, creating livestreams and sometimes I get out of touch with the reality of having a family.
So I get to spend a great deal of my time as I wish, and I wish to spend it in an abstract world. I read a lot of books, reading a lot of essays.
Think about the concerns that you have. I would assume that you’re most concerned about your family, your friends, your career, your education, your hobbies, and your interests, your religion, your volunteer opportunities, your safety in your community.
Men living in an abstract world create symphonies, art, science fiction, video games. There’s nothing wrong with living in an abstract world, but it does predispose you to getting out of touch with reality, and one example of this is believing that democracy is on the ballot in 2024.
The Democratic party is increasingly the party of the managerial elite who go to the right schools and practice careful critical discourse. Carefully choosing your words is often good, but it also comes with downsides. For example, for the past six years, Joe Biden at times has shown senility. There’s no nice word for senility so the elite doesn’t use it. As soon as you say “senile,” you show that you are uneducated and bigoted. Words that you can’t say you increasingly don’t think.
“Retard” is not a nice word but there’s no nice alternative. Retarded is the best metaphor for parts of life. If you excise the word from your vocabulary, you lose touch with reality.
The more prestigious your position in life, the more you are expected to practice careful critical discourse. So as a price for this exacting discipline, our elites get out of touched with retardation and senility, which is all around us. “Cognitive decline” is not a normal way of speaking. It’s stilted. Hygienic.
People on the right have their own blind spots. For example, they think Kamala Harris is ridiculous. Well, she has at least a 40% chance of becoming the next president of the United States. With their kneejerk distrust of expertise, many conservatives are blinded to the reality that sometimes expertise matters, and the experts have superior insights to those of ordinary people.
Adrian Vermeule writes on Substack July 24, 2024:
A brief conjecture to explain a phenomenon much on display in American politics in recent days: why do liberals in groups display a greater susceptibility to conformism, hive-mind politics, and rapid but near-unanimous changes of position than non-liberals do? I won’t pause to establish the fact of this phenomenon — it seems to me undeniable — but merely take it as true for the sake of argument (and I refer the reader to Ryszard Legutko’s excellent discussion of the phenomenon in “The Demon in Democracy.”)
My conjecture about the basic cause of the phenomenon is that the liberal, as such, has no transcendent criterion for establishing political truth, but relies on social proof as the fundamental criterion of truth. What everyone (at least everyone in the liberal’s space of reference) believes to be true, is true. The notorious liberal appeal to being on “the right side of History” is just social proof set in a time frame: it amounts to an appeal to and prediction about what almost everyone will believe tomorrow. Hence the liberal is peculiarly susceptible to intellectual conformism, sudden belief cascades, and other herd-like phenomena, all the while imagining himself as especially evidence-based, open-minded and enlightened. Hence we see liberals, and their dependent minor intellectuals and journalists, suddenly and vehemently deny today what they affirmed yesterday, or the reverse, without any apparent sense of contradiction.
Politically, this is both a source of tremendous power and tremendous weakness. There is power in the sudden stampede of the herd all in one direction, creating an irresistible mass. But where there is some reality constraint on belief — if for example the herd is heading towards a cliff — then the results can be disastrous. Only the end result can tell us which case currently obtains.
