January 28, 2025 Day 9 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-28-25) Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Day 9 Of The New Trump Presidency (1-28-25)

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 I underestimated the significance of AI
10:00 The Morning Meeting S4E17 | Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrat Realignment & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYlcwN72IW0
11:40 The Attacks From Left and Right on RFK Jr. and How He Can Win Confirmation, w/ Halperin & Turrentine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fdwhpuVeYE
15:40 Stephen Miller clashes with CNN’s Jake Tapper
18:00 “Colorful life” is the euphemism of 2025
23:20 Ridiculous Attacks By Joy Reid and CNN Pundit Against Trump and Elon, with Halperin and Turrentine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilHiMOD31k
26:45 White House press secretary gave her first press conference today
35:00 Matt Taibbi: All the Top Secret Information Trump Is Releasing & What He Should Declassify Next, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEtJTqJbxI
37:30 Curt Mills: Trump Can Save America or Wage Another War, but He Can’t Do Both. Here’s Why., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-wp7DXO9A
53:30 Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, https://rumble.com/v6ed7m4-episode-4227-command-and-control-live-from-the-wh.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
1:04:20 The Digital Services Act – the wet dream of every censor
1:06:00 Does US intelligence control Wikipedia?
1:08:20 Sam Harris on the LA Fires, Government Incompetency, and Wealth Inequality with Rick Caruso, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MB7hx1vc_I
1:20:40 2WAY TONIGHT 1/28 | Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrats & Today’s Political News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMI00YgsPH4
1:37:00 The destruction of public education post-Covid because federal law protects dangerous kids with protected disabilities
1:40:45 From Worriers to Warriors: The Rise of Women in Science and Society – Cory Clark, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-liIioemFdQ
2:00:20 Musa al-Gharbi on Mechanisms of Censorship in Academia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeeo_IFPy5k
2:06:20 Orthodox Judaism and academia are both highly conformist
2:28:00 X: Detroit rapper Dank DeMoss (489 lbs) was denied a ride using the rideshare app, Lyft because she couldn’t fit in the car…
2:29:20 Incentives to Encourage Illegal Immigrants to Self-Deport, and Dangers of the Job, with Tom Homan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr2sAzN60zM
2:30:20 Megyn Kelly on New York Magazine Trying and Failing to Smear Hot, Young MAGA Fans as “Cruel”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiziq72C5nk
2:33:10 Democrats are suffering from a faith crisis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3plXaLw9o
2:34:00 How long until the American economy recovers?
2:35:45 Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet, https://www.amazon.com/Three-Uses-Knife-Nature-Purpose/dp/037570423X/
2:39:00 Tim Dillon Rants on 911

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Is AI Coming For Your Job? (1-27-25)

Posted on January 27, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 Yes, you’re going to be replaced by AI, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/yes-youre-going-to-be-replaced
23:00 Let the great American debate begin, https://www.thefp.com/p/martin-gurri-the-great-american-debate-begins-again-trump-biden
30:00 2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154845
36:00 LA mayor Karen Bass in trouble, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3plXaLw9o
40:00 Intensity of communal feeling requires a sacrifice of freedom
1:02:00 This Could Be Peak Trump by Stephen Walt, https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/27/this-could-be-peak-trump/
1:06:45 The Inauguration Bishop, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa27hSBlK38
1:08:00 Trump Can’t Escape the Laws of Political Gravity by Eliot A. Cohen, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-cant-escape-laws-political-gravity/681474/
1:16:00 Beware the Weepy Influencers: People crying their hearts out online are selling intimacy—but the emptiest kind. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/mcvulnerability-crying-tiktok-youtube-instagram-influencers/681475/
1:23:00 Is hereditarian research “abhorrent”?, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast-is-the-new-article-by-the
1:18:00 Media’s ICE Hoax, Vance’s Masterclass on CBS, & Trump vs Bass, w/ Steve Bannon & Batya Ungar-Sargon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZ3_RW7NM0
1:36:00 The NFL has rigged games in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Swifties including yesterday’s robbery of the Buffalo Bills
1:37:00 Democratic fundraiser and activist Lindy Li is shifting right, https://x.com/lindyli
1:44:30 Bill Burr’s No-Holds-Barred Take on NFL’s Role in Chiefs’ Refs Favoritism | The Rich Eisen Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBH8Pj3SPdk
1:47:40 Bill Burr says the Bills were robbed because the NFL massages things in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs
1:49:45 Kip is not a fan of Bill Burr
1:50:45 Kip is black-pilled on sports
1:52:00 The Dallas Cowboys will never anything as long as Jerry Jones is their GM
1:56:00 Forget it, Jake. China is Chinatown., https://www.stevesailer.net/p/forget-it-jake-china-is-chinatown
2:01:00 Jerry Springer documentary, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34269065/
2:15:00 The Trauma Code, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28106730/

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Trump Proposes Cleaning Out Gaza (1-26-25)

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 WSJ: Trump Says He Wants to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-he-wants-to-clean-out-gaza-send-refugees-to-egypt-and-jordan-d90beccc?mod=hp_lead_pos3
06:00 NYT: The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/technology/trump-immigration-deportation-surveillance.html
50:00 Forget it, Jake. China is Chinatown., https://www.stevesailer.net/p/forget-it-jake-china-is-chinatown
55:00 We trust each other more than we should, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfMlG4pV3Dk
57:00 Brett Boyle, anti-Zionist activist
2:10:00 Zionist antisemitism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism
2:15:00 Curious Gazelle calls out my daily lies, https://x.com/CuriousGazelle/status/1883570059022422121
2:30:00 Domino Effects: Insurance after LA fires, immigration enforcement, sober spirits | Wall Street Week, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4kEYo0214
2:40:00 Musa al-Gharbi on Mechanisms of Censorship in Academia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeeo_IFPy5k
2:55:00 Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation, https://www.amazon.com/Jews-American-Academy-1900-1940-Intellectual/dp/0300049412/
3:03:00 Video: Is Claremont Good for Conservatism?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uryx6FKD2o
3:04:00 NYT: Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across America
Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/us/claremont-institute-trump-conservatives.html
3:05:00 NYT: How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right
They made the intellectual case for Trump. Now they believe the country is in a cultural civil war., https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html
3:18:00 Bill Burr, Billy Corgan (share the same father?) meet for the first time
3:24:00 Janan Ganesh: The revolt against over-management, https://www.ft.com/content/d3a4f5ac-3385-4dfc-9862-0cf264a0645f
3:29:30 Video: How I Got Into West Coast Straussianism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJWsFyv9QY
3:36:00 FT: Left-wing, angry, and fictitious: Fake harassment claim shakes German Greens
https://www.ft.com/content/724de31e-69ce-4807-aae1-1a4564c95c92
3:38:00 The Problem with “Conservative Nationalism”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4u6ZYoCkFQ
3:39:00 Jesse Merriam: Much To Spew About Nothing, https://lawliberty.org/much-to-spew-about-nothing/

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Has Donald Trump Ended The Era Of Hyperpolitics? (1-25-25)

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation, https://www.amazon.com/Jews-American-Academy-1900-1940-Intellectual/dp/0300049412/
10:50 Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer, https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Abuse-Americas-Progressive/dp/B07X5M8RCZ/
16:45 The Era Of Hyperpolitics Is Over, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/magazine/trump-hyperpolitics-resistance.html
19:10 Tim Dillon on Elon’s Salute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa27hSBlK38
27:10 Mayor Karen Bass and Donald Trump clash over returning to burned out homes in LA
33:00 Joe Biden was a failure on the economy, the border and foreign policy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXM3p7jeoU
39:30 Why There Won’t Be a Deportation Apocalypse:
History shows labor markets adapt to strong immigration restrictions by Michael Lind, https://commonplace.org/2025/01/21/why-there-wont-be-a-deportation-apocalypse/
42:00 Drew Holden: You Can’t Overstate The Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Media Coverage Failure:
And you can’t overstate its impact, either. https://drewholden.substack.com/p/you-cant-overstate-the-covid-lab
50:00 Summarizing Trump’s first week in office
1:02:00 Donald Trump doesn’t care about short-term pain
1:03:00 Democrats over-stated the awfulness of January 6
1:15:00 Why there’s no Joe Rogan of the left, https://mattruby.substack.com/p/why-theres-no-joe-rogan-of-the-left
1:17:50 Julie Hartman’s last show as she takes a job with Trump’s education department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh1S5e71ilY
1:23:25 American Populism with Eli Lake, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHTWErMWeao
1:30:30 Did Israel Target Civilians in Gaza? | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Eli Lake & Matthew Cockerill, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aY780mL80E
1:40:00 Leaving Race Realism with Ian Jobling, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FNb7y9zUzk
1:59:00 Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34269065/

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Donald Trump & The Great Man Theory Of History (1-24-25)

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics, https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-big-tech-takeover-of-american-politics
11:00 Comedian Adam Carolla Talks About the Los Angeles Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MEr441LKs
20:00 Last Boys at the Beginning of History – Thymos comes to the capital by Mana Afsari, https://thepointmag.com/politics/last-boys-at-the-beginning-of-history/
30:40 LAFD: “Design For Disaster” – The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration | 1962, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnC1WW95XE
34:00 Ross Douthat: How the liberal cathedral cracked up, https://www.nytimes.com/column/ross-douthat
45:00 NYP: Jerry Springer Show’ producer claims he acted as ‘pimp’ for iconic host, dismisses new Netflix doc: ‘Whitewash’, https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/entertainment/jerry-springer-show-producer-claims-he-acted-as-pimp-for-host/
55:00 Jerry Springer despoiled my precious Kendra Jade
1:02:30 Vanity Fair on Democratic Party infighting, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-democratic-partys-epic-hangover
1:05:00 How a Dose of MDMA Transformed a White Supremacist, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist
1:10:40 How POLITICO suppressed Biden stories, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3XiIKD910
1:13:00 Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7t_CoA7WqU
1:16:00 Trump’s Comeback (full documentary) | FRONTLINE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbdLehKFQY
1:25:00 Rumblings About Barack and Michelle Obama Divorce (and Jennifer Aniston) Getting Louder, w/ Ruthless, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdge3FAat7o
1:33:00 Kamala Harris & Doug Emhoff having troubles, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14306237/kamala-harris-blames-doug-emhoff-political-setbacks-marriage-turmoil.html
1:35:50 MAGA mad at Bank of America for debanking conservatives
1:38:00 Climate change caused our recent disasters in LA fires?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158727
1:40:00 Trump’s Anti DEI Blitz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158736
1:44:00 Silicon Valley anecdote about a company crafting a memo for employees on George Floyd

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Trump’s Anti DEI Blitz

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

* It’s kind of funny how rarely the mainstream media mentions that affirmative action touches every aspect of American life. During the 50+ years that I’ve been following the news, that fact only comes up in the press about once a decade when there is a Supreme Court case about college admissions quotas. The rest of the time, it’s kept awfully quiet.
* For the last 55 years, the Establishment had more or less tacitly agreed that the 14th Amendment’s most famous mandate would be quietly suspended for the duration.
The duration of what, however, was never quite specified.
Two generations into the affirmative action emergency, the public seems ready for a change.
The breaking point of popular patience arrived during the Racial Reckoning of this decade as people had their faces rubbed in the openly racist hatred espoused by DEI apparatchiks.
* It almost seems at present as if The Establishment going insane at the end of May 2020 was the cause of their downfall four and a half years later.

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How POLITICO suppressed Biden stories

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

Jim Geraghty writes:

We always knew that large swaths of the mainstream media were going to treat Joe Biden with kid gloves for much of his presidency. Part of this was the usual preference for Democrats over Republicans. A lot of this was the widespread belief among media elites that Donald Trump’s first term had been an unparalleled catastrophe, and Biden needed all the boosting he could get to keep Trump from coming back. And perhaps a bit of this was a naïve belief that Biden really was the kindly ice-cream-eating grandfather that his team wanted America to see.
Forgive the long except from our old friend Isaac Schorr, writing at Mediaite, but the whole exchange just gets more revelatory as it goes on.
“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,” he observed.
“But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too,” jumped in Palmeri.
“Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”
“Yeah, I mean, I had a hard time — you know I wrote some pretty serious reporting on Hunter Biden, which actually ended up getting him prosecuted — the story on the gun” replied Palmeri, delving into her own trouble to publish stories that could hurt the elder Biden’s political prospects.
On March 25, 2021, Palmeri and her colleague, Ben Schreckinger, wrote a story with the headline, “Sources: Secret Service inserted itself into case of Hunter Biden’s gun.” (That story is now behind a paywall.) On September 14, 2023 — nearly two-and-a-half years later — the U.S. Department of Justice charged the president’s son with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer, and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. He was convicted on all three charges on June 11, 2024. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on December 12, 2024, but after emphatically promising for more than a year that he would not pardon his son, on December 1, President Biden pardoned his son for all crimes committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, announced it via a brief written statement, took no questions, and then flew to Angola.
Back to the Caputo and Palmeri conversation:
. . . I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah it had, it had to be like much, it had to be 100% nailed down. I had everything, you know, the police reports, every, like, you know, I’m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story,” reflected Palmeri. “It was the beginning of his administration, it was a honeymoon period — you know what I mean?”
“Since we’re spilling tea about our former employer, I still have a copy of the story on my external hard drive. In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden’s gave to me the tax lien — the oppo research — the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma,” recalled Caputo. “And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, ‘The former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail.’”
“That story was killed by the editors, and they gave no explanation for that either,” he said. “So that general experience, you know, obviously the public doesn’t know about those things, but as a reporter having witnessed the way in which the two candidates-”“We just get called, like, ‘the terrible mainstream media.’ It’s like you don’t understand the process there,” interjected Palmeri.
“Well, you also don’t understand the dumb decisions of cowardly editors that are made above us,” agreed Caputo.
For what it’s worth, Politico called the accounts of Caputo and Palmeri “a case of false memory.” The fact that they both remembered editors at Politico either refusing to run or dragging their feet on running stories critical of the Biden family makes it hard to believe this was misremembered or an isolated case.

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Climate Disasters?

Posted on January 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

There’s not much evidence that the climate disasters the news media talks about are human-caused climate change disasters.

Here are some highlights from a recent X post:

❌ Hurricanes have 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 in frequency since at least 1980.
❌ Major hurricanes show 𝒏𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅 since at least 1980.
❌ Wildfires have 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 in frequency over the last two decades globally. So has burn area.
✅ Wildfires have 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 such as the western U.S., but this is largely due to increased human ignitions in conjunction with poor city planning and forest management practices.
⚠️ Reductions in fire risk must focus on addressing the root problems. CO₂ emission reduction will not be very helpful, especially in the short term.
✅ Heatwaves have 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 in frequency, intensity and duration since 1950 at a global scale, and are projected to increase through 2100. However, these trends are not yet observed everywhere (e.g., eastern North America and in parts of South America).
⚠️ Future increases in heatwave occurrence may be partially offset by reduced atmospheric blocking highs that cause them due to Arctic amplification. This may also negate increases in duration, but it’s still a highly debated matter.
❌ Cold waves have 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 since 1950 virtually everywhere and those trends are projected to continue throughout the remainder of the 21st century.

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Rumblings About Barack and Michelle Obama Divorce (and Jennifer Aniston) Getting Louder

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Luke Ford

Daily Mail today:

Inside former VP Kamala Harris marriage turmoil as Doug Emhoff’s scandals are blamed for losing presidency
Kamala Harris was all smiles and affection for her ‘beloved’ second gentleman Doug Emhoff in the immediate aftermath of her crushing presidential election defeat.
But now that President Donald Trump has been sworn into office, for sore loser Harris, it is now all about the blame game, and her target has flipped to her ‘dead weight’ husband.
And as she weighs her political future – maybe a 2026 run for Governor of California or another try for the nation’s top job two years later – she has to consider whether Emhoff is an asset or a liability.

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The Left Is Losing The War Of Ideas (1-23-25)

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 WP: Johnson aide advised against Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/cassidy-hutchinson-lawmakers-texts/
02:00 Cassidy Hutchinson’s Tight Young Sexual Allure Trapped Republicans, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158711
34:00 Should You Go To Law School?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3KSPNkNBc
54:30 Trump’s New Social Contract with America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAWVMPQWv_g
1:19:00 The Trump Immigration Fire Hose, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsyznL0XlQ
1:38:00 La Cienega Heights Was Known As Corning-Cadillac When It Was Dominated By The Playboy Gangster Crips, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145230
1:39:00 Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries in La Cienega Heights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145237
2:00:00 What Must Happen to Avoid Having a Fire Tragedy like this in California Again, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varqS7P5NYY
2:11:00 Mark Halperin on Trump’s First 100 Days, Democrats & Today’s Political News , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7t_CoA7WqU
2:20:00 Pete Hegseth nomination for SecDef

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