Trump As A Vehicle For National Liberation (3-1-23)

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Trump and liberation, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/opinion/trump-desantis-2024-campaign.html
05:00 Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leibovich
10:00 What Active-Shooter Trainings Steal From Synagogues, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/jewish-synagogue-anti-semitism-active-shooter-training/673239/
14:00 Author Daniel Torday doesn’t want to hear from you, http://www.danieltorday.com/contact
37:30 Elliott Blatt joins the show
39:20 Inside the Louisville Police Department, where officers are reckoning with what it means to be a cop in a city that doesn’t trust them, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
42:30 The individual’s feelings rarely have wide significance
44:00 WEHT to vigorous social intercourse?
47:45 Employees want as much pay as possible for as little work as possible
53:00 The downsides of empathy
56:00 Sharing realism on Nextdoor
1:06:20 The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of White Victimhood, https://time.com/6259311/dilbert-racism-scott-adams/
1:12:00 Do masks really protect against COVID-19? Meta-analysis authors want to see more evidence, https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/do-masks-really-protect-against-covid-19-meta-analysis-authors-want-see-more-evidence
1:23:30 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE
1:26:00 What’s more important? Form, ritual, rhetoric or reality?
1:28:00 A Man Called Otto, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/
1:29:00 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Day_in_the_Neighborhood
1:34:00 Welsh boy treble Cai Thomas (12y) sings Suo Gan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKw72731L8

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The Thin Blue Line (2-28-23)

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 THE DOUBLE LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/02/john-le-carre-spy-came-in-from-cold-book/673227/
03:00 Codependency, Addiction and Insecure Attachment: What is the Connection?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UOVYx9_wk
12:30 Race based healthcare
19:20 PPP, Andy Warski, Nick Fuentes
21:00 NYT: Inside the Louisville Police Department, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/magazine/louisville-police-department.html
52:20 Mary Eberstadt | How the West Really Lost God, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn-sAWGLyE

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The Stanford Law School Connection To The Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal (2-16-23)

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Luke Ford

03:00 Sam Bankman-Fried
1:05:00 Punishment is a dirty word to liberals
1:30:00 Vengeance is a dirty word to liberal
1:33:00 The liberal delusion of global human rights
1:37:00 The liberal delusion that we have a right to our reputation
1:40:30 How do you plan to market it?
1:47:00 The psychology of 9-11 Truthers
1:48:30 Steven Pinker
1:51:35 Mein Kampf for Rationalists
1:52:10 Mikhaila Peterson
1:53:40 Is Bazball a disgrace? https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sports/what-is-bazball-england-test-cricket-8305181/
2:03:00 Democrats are afraid of anyone questioning their manhood
2:07:00 John Fetterman getting treated for clinical depression
2:13:00 Tupac grew up middle class but had to teach himself to be a thug
2:14:50 Horrifying world of ex-LAPD cops
2:16:20 The Temptations of Carl Schmitt, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt
2:39:00 NPR: Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled, https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020

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Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Luke Ford

From the new book:

* “One of the mysteries we confronted was why Moonves would have unleashed a corporate civil war knowing (as he did) that his predatory sexual past was at great and imminent risk of being publicly revealed.
Of course, the great media moguls—from Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone himself—had never worried about such issues. They were all white men whose power and authority went unquestioned no matter how unbridled their outbursts of temper or insensitive or even bigoted their treatment of women and minorities.”

Where do the authors get the idea that Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Ted Turner, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, and Redstone were never questioned or challenged? Even Hitler and Stalin and Mao got questioned and challenged.

“Their boards of directors, charged with protecting all shareholders, were little more than window dressing for their autocratic control. Sumner boasted that the Viacom board had never defied his wishes.
In their world, sexual indiscretions were as routine as deals cut on the eighteenth tee at the Bel Air Country Club. Though hardly confined to the business of media and entertainment, the notion of the “casting couch”—sex in return for a job or a part—got its name in Hollywood.”

And non-white men are less likely to engage in this behavior? On what basis would you argue that?

“The veteran Hollywood producer and CBS board member Arnold Kopelson seemed baffled by concerns over Moonves’s alleged sexual advances in the workplace. “ We all did that,” he said dismissively.”

If men did not make sexual advances on women, the human race would go extinct. Why would you think that the one place where most people of working age spend most of their time would be exempt from this evolutionary compulsion?

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Liminal Spaces

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Luke Ford

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JJ: Pico Shooting Suspect Has a “History of Antisemitism,” according to Federal Complaint

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Luke Ford

From the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles:

A federal complaint was released on February 17 detailing federal charges against Jaime Tran, 28, who is suspected of being behind both shootings in the Pico-Robertson area on February 15 and 16.

The complaint, filed by Special Agent Cody Bescript, alleges that Tran “intentionally shot Victim-1 at close range as Victim-1 was leaving religious services at a synagogue in Los Angeles, California. Victim-1 was dressed in a manner that visibly identified his Jewish faith, specifically, a black jacket and a head covering. Victim-1 survived, but sustained a gunshot wound to the lower back.

On the next day, according to the complaint, Tran “intentionally shot Victim-2 at close range as Victim-2 was leaving religious services at another synagogue, just one block from where TRAN shot Victim-1 the day before.”

“Like Victim-1, Victim-2 was dressed in clothing that visibly identified his Jewish faith, again a black jacket and a head covering. Victim-2 survived, but sustained a gunshot wound to the bicep.”

Tran has admitted to the shootings in a recorded interview, adding that he searched Yelp for a kosher supermarket. Once he found the market, he chose his victims based on their “head gear.” He also said he was homeless and had been living out of his car for the past 12-14 months; he obtained the guns from an unknown person in Arizona.

Tran has a history of antisemitism, the complaint alleges, citing an instance in which a former classmate of Tran’s, simply known as M.N.H., received multiple antisemitic phone calls and texts from Tran from August-November 2022. Tran had been expelled from dental school in 2018. Some of the antisemitic text messages from Tran highlighted in the complaint include:

“F–king Jew. Piece of shit Jew. F— YOU JEW. JEWBAG JEWBAGEL JEW.”
“Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew. Someone is going to kill you, Jew.”
“F—ing b—- Jew. Your mom is a slutty whore, your sister is a man, and your dad sucks dick for a living. Burn in an oven chamber you b—- Jew.”

The last text included a picture of a gas chamber, per the complaint.

Tran sent multiple emails to former classmates blaming vaccine mandates and lockdowns on “Iranian Jews” and referred to “Persian Jews” as being “primitive” and “narrow minded” who “scrap nickel and dimes” and “never donate to any charities.”

Additionally, Tran sent multiple emails to former classmates toward the end of 2022 blaming COVID-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns on “Iranian Jews” and referred to “Persian Jews” as being “primitive” and “narrow minded” who “scrap nickel and dimes” and “never donate to any charities.” “Going forward, I hope you all spread the word to your loved ones about the origins of COVID,” he wrote in one email. “I tagged the Iranian Jew, such as [M.N.H.], and his associates in this email so you could ask them about it. I also hope they quit putting tabs on me to the Jewish community and creeping on all of my socials.”

In another email Tran accused the “Persian/Iranian Jew of the Class of 2020” of fabricating COVID-19 and basing it on an “anesthesia incident that I had with” a couple of former classmates. He also sent a picture of a flyer stating, “EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE COVID AGENDA IS JEWISH.”

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Breaking News: Second Jewish Man Shot In Pico-Robertson (2-16-23)

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:30 Two Jewish men shot in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson in two days, prompting more security for synagogues, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-16/extra-security-added-for-synagogues-after-two-jewish-men-shot-in-pico-robertson-in-two-days
03:00 Second Jewish man shot by a white guy, https://jewishjournal.com/news/356181/second-jewish-man-shot-in-pico/
06:00 Twitter thread on shootings, https://twitter.com/thislouis/status/1626287969870184448
08:00 Chinese balloon freakout, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/opinion/spy-balloon-china-fear.html
38:00 Salman Rushdie won’t be stopped, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/salman-rushdie-recovery-victory-city
48:00 The Temptations of Carl Schmitt, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt
1:13:10 Who are the Playboy Gangster Crips? The story of one of West Los Angeles most dangerous crip gang., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDetTC3z2Ac
1:15:00 La Cienega Heights Was Known As Corning-Cadillac When It Was Dominated By The Playboy Gangster Crips, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145230
1:21:00 Dooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid
1:31:20 Comic Ari Shaffir, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Shaffir
1:54:00 Dooovid’s brother converted to Christianity
2:00:00 How many Jews will go to shul this Shabbos after the shootings? Normally you’ll have 10,000 Orthodox Jews walking to shul on Shabbos in 90035
2:28:30 Jim Bowden vs. Adam Green 20230126 Unedited Crucible debate, https://odysee.com/@DeadSolidPerfect:5/Jim-Bowden-vs.-Adam-Green-20230126-Unedited-Crucible-debate:5

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The Racist Idea That Destroyed American Education (2-15-23)

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 CL: TIKI TORCHER KILLS HIMSELF AFTER DRUGS BUST, https://neokrat.blogspot.com/2023/02/death-by-spencer-tiki-torcher-kills.html
37:00 Elliott Blatt joins
38:00 Different groups have different gifts
38:45 What if Luke had an AM talk show?
41:00 Bumpers for a Luke Ford Show

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Talmudic Secrets For A Love That Works (2-14-23)

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 The happy couples I know are super competent
03:00 LAT: Mysterious flying objects are turning up daily. Why experts don’t think aliens sent them, https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-02-14/three-mysterious-objects-were-shot-out-of-the-sky-in-three-days-why-experts-dont-think-aliens-sent-them
12:00 Richard Spencer tried to elevate the AR, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/the-dialectic-of-populism
18:45 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus/id1651876897?i=1000596707945
27:45 Biking Doctor Murdered by Driver Ranting About “White Privilege”, https://www.unz.com/isteve/biking-doctor-murdered-by-driving-ranting-about-white-privilege/
37:00 Illegals get flooded, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-14/planada-california-january-storms-rain-flooding-recovery
39:30 A Historian of the Future: Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ww4ofe0v70
52:00 The Temptations of Carl Schmitt, https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt

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Gen Z Tries Hookup Culture, America Risks WWIII In Ukraine (2-9-23)

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Gen Z hookup culture, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gen-z-my-adventure-with-generation-threesome-and-its-favourite-dating-app-fl7pzrhlg
07:00 India thrashes Australia in day one of test cricket series
10:00 That Chinese balloon analyzed by Hoover Institution: https://www.youtube.com/@HooverInstitution
44:00 Thucydides Trap, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap
1:08:00 Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147010
1:18:30 Anti-Tradition & Authority: A Survey of Ponderables, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIoVYFPyCKs
1:24:00 WSJ: A Hero of Midway Finally Got His Due, https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hero-of-midway-finally-got-his-due-world-war-ii-japan-code-breakers-joseph-rochefort-pacific-radio-traffic-bait-11675959644?mod=opinion_lead_pos10
1:28:00 New York: The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects, https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html

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