01:00 Europeans & Democrats resigned to working with Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdhN85KS88
28:00 Death of DEI
34:00 Who can influence Donald Trump? Not many people, perhaps Susie Wiles, Elon Musk, Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump in certain spheres
38:00 Israel has run the table the past four months
47:00 Yoav Gallant is an American sock puppet
54:00 Reason magazine fancies itself as a bunch of free thinkers but it is conformist on race, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOJ0z1gbWI
56:00 Martin Gurri voted for Trump, https://www.thefp.com/p/martin-gurri-voting-for-trump-not-kamala
57:00 Sam Harris is not a blank slatist
58:00 Trump’s counter-cultural revolution, https://www.thefp.com/p/martin-gurri-our-countercultural-revolution
1:02:00 I don’t claim to be an expert on anything
1:06:50 Trump’s new coalition
1:10:00 Hezbollah suffers ‘most significant’ setback in its history, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ-I5ue0tnA
1:15:00 Kamala Harris’ Video Remarks to Supporters, the Nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to Head the Nation…, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_BmRay8o60
1:39:00 Getting Over the Election with Adam Grant, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TEOG–4-c
1:57:00 Ricardo notes that he can’t type into YT that it is the high status thing to support WWIII
2:08:00 Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1982181281
2:11:00 Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, https://www.amazon.com/Ringmaster-Vince-McMahon-Unmaking-America/dp/1982169443
2:21:30 Donald Trump is acting like Elon Musk and doing big bold things, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmC-GVMSPU0
2:47:30 How Donald Trump can make the federal government more efficient, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4lxJKj0I0
2:51:30 Kip joins – ever feel like another high school hot shot?
3:07:00 The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia’s History, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Distance:_How_Distance_Shaped_Australia%27s_History
3:12:00 Madness is contagious
3:13:00 2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154845
3:23:00 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species
3:40:00 My bookmarks on X
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