Decoding Last Night’s Presidential Debate (9-11-24)

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Reports of Harris’s victory are greatly exaggerated, https://statesofexception.substack.com/p/some-rough-thoughts-on-the-debate
06:00 Independents tracked with Donald Trump on the major issues last night, https://x.com/i/bookmarks/all?post_id=1834019780413583437
13:00 Trump vs. Harris AND Moderators in Biased ABC Debate – Special with Jashinsky, Lowry, Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cft5c6mE8k
26:00 Ann Coulter on The Mark Simone Show – (9-11-2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbZPBNrDGw
29:00 Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill was pulled over for driving 60 mph in a construction zone without a seatbelt, https://outsidethebeltway.com/what-if-it-wasnt-tyreek-hill/
39:10 Last night was the last presidential debate on a major TV network, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjVfsv9mAE
48:30 Why don’t we talk about Islamic terrorism and jihad anymore?
51:00 Kip joins to talk about Megyn Kelly’s anger at ABC News
53:00 Step-parents who become step monsters
57:30 Why do people treat me disrespectfully?

59:30 Life lessons from getting punched in the face
1:03:00 Insecurity
1:04:00 Weirdness and isolation
1:04:45 Kip hasn’t felt lonely since 1987
1:16:00 The meaning and history of sports in America
1:22:20 Harris Okene rescue, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/26/i-survived-three-days-in-a-capsized-boat-on-the-ocean-floor-praying-in-my-air-bubble
https://catherineshannon.substack.com/
1:25:00 Thai boys soccer team trapped in a cave, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue
1:30:25 Springfield, Ohio, overrun by Haitian migrants
1:31:00 Trump embarrassment syndrome is a luxury belief for when you don’t have a migrant camp on your front yard
1:33:00 Watch this if you’re tired of feeling angry at the world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c2AzBNcr0w
1:36:50 Study shows why people stay friends with their ex, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIqdrervaw
1:43:00 Greg Gutfeld: ABC News gave Kamala her easiest night since the time Willie Brown ran out of viagra

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Decoding the Presidential Debate (9-10-24)

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 My X bookmarks
05:00 Richard Hanania vs Heather MacDonald on school shootings and race
12:00 Debate update
20:00 Trump seems different since the shooting, https://apple.news/AL2q3Q6w5Rgus9l8SaSoWKA
30:00 Bodycam video shows encounter between Tyreek Hill and Miami-Dade officers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juUqZkF8tE
38:00 Analyzing: Curious Gazelle and Elliott Blatt (‪@elesterb‬ ) discuss Luke Ford, Dooovid, Richard Spencer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juUqZkF8tE
1:00:00 Yossi Klein Halevi Answers 18 Questions on the Iranian Threat, Anti-Zionism, and Israel’s Leadership
1:24:45 Kip joins
1:26:00 Gavin Newsome hates Kamala Harris
1:27:30 Jim Lampley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lampley
1:28:30 Mike Adamle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Adamle
1:35:00 Analyzing the Trump-Harris presidential debate

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Decoding Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin (9-9-24)

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Who is Curtis Yarvin? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug
02:00 Mencius Moldbug, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
03:00 Joseph Bronski critiques the Cathedral, https://www.josephbronski.com/p/was-moldbug-right-about-the-cathedral
04:00 Ed Dutton talks to Curtis Yarvin, https://x.com/BronskiJoseph/status/1833183955509543150
10:40 “What do all these polls mean?” John Ellis of “News Items” joins Hugh to review all the new data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdT1YVUxtNo
15:45 Debate prep
21:00 Trump vs. Harris : Where it Stands on Eve of Debate | Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFcCj3bxek
30:00 NYT: To the World, He Is an Anti-Trafficking Hero. Women Tell a Different Story., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/tim-ballard-sound-of-freedom-sex-trafficking.html
41:00 How to predict human behavior, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w56Ae4mQA-8
46:00 Curious Gazelle and Elliott Blatt discuss Luke Ford, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juUqZkF8tE
48:00 My days cohosting with Kevin Michael Grace
52:20 Luke is comfortable with the uncomfortable
1:21:00 Kip joins to discuss Mencius Moldbug
1:30:00 Pet peeves
1:33:00 Different groups carry their children differently
1:44:00 My relationship with my dad
1:49:00 How haters tell on themselves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fWjBZ3-BCc

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Who Runs America? (9-8-24)

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Tucker Carlson sounds rattled, https://x.com/SethDillon/status/1832596724919021876
07:20 Alan Dershowitz leaves the Democratic Party, https://x.com/FreyjaTarte/status/183216299924463242
13:00 Ben Shapiro & Israel, it is more socially acceptable to be on Israel’s side rather than Russia, https://x.com/OwenShroyer1776/status/1832445348926910912
19:00 Why do progressives like Islam? https://fakenous.substack.com/p/why-do-progressives-like-islam
22:00 When you prank people, you hurt people, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-two-wrap-up-show-with-mark-schiff-and-daniel-lobell/id1732222323?i=1000666184631
26:50 MSM went out of their way to make JD Vance look bad, https://www.youtube.com/live/pa8q1_3CrR0
30:00 Nobody runs America, https://fakenous.substack.com/p/no-one-is-running-society
39:00 Has Kamala Harris Campaign Stalled Out? National Review’s Noah Rothman joins Hugh to discuss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akyuTTyFyG0
43:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157360
49:15 The left’s takeover of mainstream Christianity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJhjWFhAeY
1:01:30 SJJ: Confessions of a former WWII revisionist
1:17:00 Why does the left like Islam
1:19:00 Why are people poor? Lack of education or dysfunction?
1:31:00 Academic Agent has been a gateway to Nazi idiocy
1:54:00 SJJ came to online commentary once his sporting career was going down the tubes
1:56:50 Trump vs. Harris: State of Play, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOpWdipb-ls
1:57:00 Trump & Project 2025
2:06:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157360
2:08:00 The Fund: Rob Copeland on Ray Dalio, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBLcrbtIPA
2:16:00 Every emotion requires a certain alignment of the muscles, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=41127
2:23:00 The rules of war, https://fakenous.substack.com/p/the-rules-of-war-policing-terrorism
2:26:00 Why do 70% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen? https://fakenous.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-is-anti-trump
2:30:00 Media vs DJT, https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1832066639740690457
2:33:00 Yossi Klein Halevi Answers 18 Questions on the Iranian Threat, Anti-Zionism, and Israel’s Leadership, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TDm47oMuU
3:00:00 “97% of converts who divorced in the State of Israel were irreligious” https://seforimblog.com/2024/05/abraham-rosenberg-r-chaim-heller-r-shlomo-zalman-auerbach-on-conversion-abortion-mercy-killings-and-new-pictures-and-videos-of-r-jehiel-jacob-weinberg/
3:35:30 Kip joins
3:38:00 Shmuley Boteach vs Candace Owens

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The Material

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Luke Ford

I love this new novel by Camille Bordas:

* How “rape” used to mean someone being dragged into an alley by a stranger, gagged, beaten up, savagely penetrated, and left for dead behind a trash can. How “rape” had now come to encompass any sexual act performed without obtaining verbal consent. He was okay with that, in principle: words taking on larger meanings, larger responsibilities over time — language was a living entity, it adapted to its speakers. But then it seemed to him that when that happened, other words had to step in to fill the vacuum left by the bigger word’s promotion. He felt there should be a word for what “rape” used to mean. He wondered how women who had been left for dead in alleys felt about it. The new meaning.

* “I still haven’t fucked anyone in the city of Chicago,” Olivia said. “Chicago virgin.”

* “Because our stepfather molested Sally when she was a kid and my mother took a little too long to believe her.”

* “And all this stuff about comedians killing themselves in such high numbers because they’re so sensi tive, because they feel everything so strongly …last I checked, dentists were still killing themselves more than us, and construction workers had the leading suicide rate by profession. Does that mean they’re the better artists? That they should be the ones onstage instead of us?”
“Seriously. What did your stepfather do?”
“Who cares what he does?”
“He still works?”
“Yes. He’s a forester.”
“He molested a child and he’s still allowed around people?”
“It’s not the kind of forest where people go,” Olivia said. “And Sally never pressed charges.”

“That bitch has been getting all the attention,” she said.
“Exactly!” Olivia said. “I mean, right? No one ever asks about me. We’re identical, but my stepfather molested her and not me. How do you think that makes me feel?”

* “Why would I come after you?”
“Because I was mean to you in class the other day.”
Dorothy wasn’t supposed to say things like that. Never question your teaching methods in front of your students was the rule. If you were not proud of how a class had gone, you either forgot about it or found a way to tell yourself the kids had learned something from the fiasco. In that way, teaching was different from performing. The audience shared part of the responsibility.

* “after the constant stress of your twenties, the self – doubt of your thirties, and the anguish of your forties, it’s nice to relax a little bit. It’s like biking down a hill now.”

* his job as a comedian was to grab onto the most horrible of these thoughts and shape them right in order to serve them back to those who’d run away from them. He was in the business of finishing people’s horrible thoughts so they didn’t have to go there themselves.

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