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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Wayne Dyer: A Biography
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- Louise Hay: A Biography
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- Éric Zemmour: A Biography
- The French New Right: A History
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- Author Philip Gourevitch
- Joseph Telushkin: The Accountant’s Son Who Taught America Judaism
- Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph (2012)
- WP: As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern
- Life as a Haredi Jew
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Is This Going To Make It Harder For Me To Date?
Wannabe Scots actor found guilty of rape for secretly not using condom during sex in ‘stealthing’ conviction first
AN aspiring actor has become the first man in Scotland to be convicted of rape for secretly not using a condom during sex.
The historic case marks the first prosecution in Scotland of “stealthing” – removing or not using a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge.
Campaigners have hailed the verdict as a major “landmark” in tackling the under-reported crime.
Luke Ford, 33, was found guilty on Friday of 18 charges of abusing seven female partners, including raping five of them and the attempted rape of another.
A trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard Ford terrorised the women over a 12-year period targeting them on dating apps before mounting a campaign of abuse.
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Feeling Strong
I told a bachelor friend that he looks like he’s feeling strong.
He replied, “Physically, but that masks a weakness. You and I know it’s the Modern Orthodox man supporting five kids who is strong. I’m just using fitness and whatever talent and packaging I have to help sell myself to have fun and to impress serious people. Men respect fitness. So it helps to rebuild your career.”
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Putting The Con In Conservative (5-14-23)
01:00 WSJ: Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs
12:30 Hispanic Nazis
15:00 Why Are Right-Wing Radio Hosts Still Being Such Jerks About COVID?
32:00 2000 Mules REVIEW – A Dramatic but EMPTY Film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Haq0ak0ZU
51:00 Elliott Blatt joins
55:00 NPR funding
01:00 Living by Andrew Huberman
03:00 Analyzing CNN Townhall with Donald Trump
07:00 The Long Con in Conservatism, https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
29:00 Claire Khaw’s one visit to an Orthodox shul
34:00 Right-wing death squads
37:30 The Flight 93 Election
38:50 The Proud Boys
41:30 The TRS-Proud Boys crossover
48:00 You can’t joke about that
53:00 Trump Townhall analysis
58:00 Feeling like we’re back in 2016
1:12:00 Curtis Yarvin & Vlad Davidzon | Should US help Ukraine?
1:35:00 WSJ: Get ready with me Tiktok
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The Lifestyle
Chuck Johnson wrote April 5 about Bob Lee’s murder: “Lee liked drugs. Lee bought drugs. Lee also liked orgies.”
Johnson was way ahead of the curve on this story.
May 14, 2023, the Wall Street Journal catches up:
Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs
After the Cash App founder died in a stabbing, some were quick to blame San Francisco’s street violence. The truth was more shocking.
SAN FRANCISCO—In certain wealthy tech circles it is known as “The Lifestyle,” an underground party scene featuring recreational drug use and casual sex…
On the afternoon of April 3, a Monday, the partying took a dark turn. According to San Francisco prosecutors, Ms. Momeni’s older brother confronted Mr. Lee about her. Was she taking drugs or doing anything inappropriate, he wanted to know. Hours later the brother, Nima Momeni, stabbed Mr. Lee with a kitchen knife and left him to bleed out in the street, prosecutors alleged. Mr. Momeni, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, is being held without bail…
Libertine though it might seem, the party scene is governed by an unwritten code of conduct, said Devon Meyers, a friend of Mr. Lee who saw him a few days before he died. “There is still an understanding of consent and boundaries,” he said, adding that, if someone gets drunk and handsy, “they get excommunicated very quickly.”
…Mr. Momeni, the accused killer, was known to use drugs himself but wasn’t seen as part of the elite crowd… Acquaintances describe him as aloof and introverted, unlike his wealthy and glamorous sister, and prone to brood on the sidelines at parties….
Friends of Mr. Lee said he told them that he was casually sleeping with Ms. Momeni, 37. Before that, about three years ago, Mr. Lee, 43, was together with a woman that Mr. Momeni, 38, also had dated…
Mr. Lee… took ecstasy, ketamine, cocaine and attended all-night raves all around the world…
Once, a club offered to admit people for only $5 instead of $20 if they went in with no pants. Mr. Lee obliged…
Ms. Kerati, who met Mr. Lee at a private party in Acapulco, said that Mr. Lee had several girlfriends during that time and other women he was sleeping with, but that he was always respectful toward them….
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Conservatism: A Rediscovery
* Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery is a more personal book than its title suggests. As recounted in the fourth section, it tells the story of a sensitive young man who found in traditional religion, scholarly work, and nationalist politics a purpose for his life. Along the way, he married a loving wife, moved to a different land, and sired a goodly brood of children and grandchildren who bring him the comfort of a life well-lived already in middle-age. It is a beautiful story and a worthy example for the younger audience Hazony hopes to reach.
These circumstances are by no means discrediting. Every book is, to some extent, an autobiography of its writer, and Hazony deserves credit for telling his readers explicitly who he is and where he comes from. In addition to their honesty, these statements are consistent with Hazony’s epistemology, which emphasizes the limitation of any human perspective.
* Despite his admiration for the Anglo-American past, the core of Hazony’s conservatism is a form of Zionism built around an interpretation of the Hebrew Bible as the primary guide to modern politics. He even quotes with apparent approval a private remark by Irving Kristol that only Christians should be able to vote in a Christian nation on the same principle that only Jews should be allowed to vote in Israel.
* I would not mention the personal circumstances that produced this book if Hazony did not introduce them himself. But it is hard to resist the feeling that there is something odd about Americans, whether Christians or Jews, taking lessons from a writer who decided that America is not only the wrong place for him and his posterity but has also been on the wrong track for the majority of its past. The result here is difficult to reconcile with Hazony’s own defense of nationalism, which insists that different countries have different histories, resources, and needs, which cannot be reduced to broad ideological categories. Conservatism: A Rediscovery is a contribution to the rediscovery of certain forgotten American resources and prospects, but the search cannot stop there.
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Clap For Myself
From the 2012 book How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk:
Five minutes after the mother left, it became obvious that little Jonathan needed to head for the bathroom. When the teacher urged him to go, he mumbled unhappily, “Can’t.”
She asked, “Why not?”
“’Cause my Mommy isn’t here,” Jonathan explained. “She claps for me when I finish.”
The teacher thought for a moment. “Jonathan, you can go to the bathroom and then clap for yourself.”
Jonathan looked wide-eyed.
The teacher led him to the bathroom and waited. After a few minutes, from behind the closed door she heard the sound of applause.
Later that day the mother called her to say that the first words out of Jonathan’s mouth when he came home were “Mommy, I can clap for myself. I don’t need you anymore!”
“Would you believe it,” the teacher exclaimed to me, “The mother said she was actually depressed about this.”
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What A Time For A Town Hall! Trump Goes On CNN! (5-10-23)
02:00 Rich Lowry: Trump can’t lose, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/10/trump-legal-scandals-2024-00096198?cid=apn
04:45 Tucker’s back, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/hes-back-but-not-for-long
17:00 The online world can supplement or substitute for real life
18:30 Step 3, Part 2, with Allen Berger and Mary Gordon, https://youtu.be/ROGX_Jhv_FU?t=311
24:30 Step 4, Part 1, with Allen Berger, Thom Rutledge, and Mary Gordon, https://youtu.be/nGLNw1GmAGY?t=189
33:20 Step 4, Part 4, with Allen Berger and Thom Rutledge, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbM3jtA1ceM
34:30 Elliott Blatt joins
35:00 A course in miracles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles
36:50 Ethan Ralph gets clean
42:00 Elliott’s rules for life
49:00 Dooovid joins
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Tucker Teams Up With Elon (5-9-23)
01:00 Axios: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach, https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/tucker-carlson-fox-news-letter-fraud
04:00 BP: TUCKER RETURNS: New Show On TWITTER As He SUES Fox News
09:00 Megyn Kelly: Leaked Tucker and DeSantis Videos
16:50 Dooovid joins
34:00 My Rules For Life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147702
1:13:30 The Making of a Murderer: Thoughts on the Hispanic Nazis, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/the-making-of-a-murderer
1:45:00 What is mentally disturbed?
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My Rules For Life (5-8-23)
01:00 My Rules For Life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147702
22:30 Colin Liddell joins
25:30 WHO’S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: ANDY NOWICKI, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/whos-who-in-dissident-right-andy-nowicki.html
30:00 Nick Fuentes
33:00 Milo
35:00 JASON KESSLER GRACEFULLY BOWS OUT OF METAPOLITICS AFTER WIGNATS FAIL TO BUY HIM A COMPUTER, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/04/kessler-gracefully-bows-out.html
38:00 Steven Crowder
40:00 Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News
42:00 Nick Fuentes
43:45 JF Gariepy
44:25 Richard Spencer
49:00 Republican presidential primary
52:00 Democratic presidential primary
54:00 PM Rishi Sunak and British politics
57:00 Coach Red Pill arrested in Ukraine, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/05/ukrainian-hair-police-arrest-foreigner.html
58:00 Ukraine war
1:02:30 China & Taiwan
1:05:00 Dennis Healy (Labor politician), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Healey
1:10:40 Chuck Johnson
1:06:00 On Epistemic Black Holes. How Self-Sealing Belief Systems Develop and Evolve, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147788
1:26:00 Megyn Kelly Reveals What’s Happening Behind-the-Scenes in War Between Fox News and Tucker Carlson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4oZLwjx18&ab_channel=MegynKelly
1:30:00 Epistemic Sabotage, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147766
1:37:00 The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147752
1:43:20 How to succeed in punditry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vav-uo-S0UY
1:46:50 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss Chuck Johnson, https://twitter.com/JohnsonThought1
1:48:00 Richard Spencer
1:50:00 Mark Brahmin
1:51:30 Politics as a substitute drug
1:56:00 Richard Spencer on right wing death squads, https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1655391944166764544
1:59:00 Dooovid joins
2:11:00 Can converts and half-Jews rise in the Jewish community?