I got into an argument with a random person on X (where I lately spend too much of my time, I regret to admit) after having the audacity to “partly agree” with Glenn Greenwald’s take on the awful murder of Charlie Kirk. I did point out in my reply that Greenwald’s equating the Right and Left doesn’t quite pass muster — but the word “partly” set off my hot-headed interlocutor regardless.
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My Case For Trump
A while back, some anonymous troll on X attempted to “roast” me for writing on January 7, 2021 that “Donald Trump has every right to be bitter and resentful.” He lifted a screenshot with those words from this piece and argued that, therefore, “your opinion has no value.” It’s a peculiar person indeed who distills this single sentence from a 1,200-word article absolutely scathing Trump for his actions the day before. Bad actors will never cease cherry-picking their way through our writings.
Continue readingLet’s Cut Spending And Start Paying Down Our Debt
You know we live in wretched times when during the entirety of the current presidential election cycle our national debt, which is after all approaching 36 trillion dollars as of this writing, gets nary a mention from the two candidates vying for the job. The media, too, seem wholly disinterested.
Continue readingThe “Manchurian” Candidate
I dislike imprecise analogies. But there’s something profoundly disturbing about the Kamala Harris presidential candidacy.
Continue readingAbout Cats, Dogs, Ducks, and Haitians
Trump clearly underperformed in this week’s debate, a view already expressed by yours truly on X during the event. That said, one topic in particular stood out as the sole exception, and that’s the issue of Trump accusing Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio of eating the locals’ pets there.
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It’s time to revive this blog again after three years of inactivity. A lot has happened, and I’d wager much of it already predicted, or at least hinted at, right here. Riots in the United Kingdom, Israel’s own ‘9/11’ on 10/7, the contemptible antisemitic protests throughout much of the West in 10/7’s wake, the implosion of the Biden presidency and resurrection of Donald Trump, and too much to mention. Where will I even start?
I’ll be posting more shortly.
The Anti-Antifa Handbook (Review of Andy Ngo’s “Unmasked”)
Reading about Antifa, its modi operandi, its motives, and its insidious influences on our Western societies has been a long-time pre-occupation of yours truly. Growing up in Western Europe there was never any shortage of developments surrounding this topic. But, notwithstanding its dangers back there and then, Antifa’s European activities at the time couldn’t hold a candle to what happened in the United States in 2020.
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Let’s get the following three disclaimers out of the way.
#1: Yours truly would have crawled over broken glass to vote for Donald Trump in November twenty-five times had the law permitted it. If the clock could be dialed back two months, I’d do it all over again, and the barrel of a gun on my temple couldn’t persuade me to vote for Joe Biden instead.
Continue readingTrumpism Was Not Defeated. But Can It Recover?
This much is clear: Progressives expecting a blue landslide on Tuesday have been proven utterly wrong. With the count still ongoing five days later, it’s looking like 48% of voters backed President Trump’s re-election bid.
Continue readingNo, Trump Won’t Bring About Authoritarianism — But Biden Might
An existential angst has taken hold of America. It’s come in the form of a realization that our constitutional republic may be slipping through our fingers. This anxiety seems to be the one point of bipartisan agreement in our otherwise hopelessly divided body politic. But when it comes to assigning blame for the erosion of our institutions, conservatives and progressives revert right back to pointing fingers at one another.
Continue readingA Return To Normalcy Requires the Re-election of President Trump
Justice Ginsburg’s unfortunately timed death serves as another depressing reminder how despicably polarized our body politic has become. In a period of just four hours it became obvious that few, if any, are even concerned with the Justice’s legacy anymore. Instead, the focus was immediately shifted to the seat she left vacant on the Supreme Court, with Senate leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer each digging in their heels over the question whether the nomination and confirmation of her replacement should take place before or after the election.
Continue readingA Tale of Two Narratives: Review of “White Fragility”
Yours truly finished reading two books last week, each of which rather instructive in its own way. The first is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume The Gulag Archipelago. In this world-famous, monumental work published in 1973, the author offers a horrifying look into life in the Soviet prison camps. Contrary to popular opinion at the time, Solzhenitsyn traced the gulags‘ origins all the way back to Lenin and argued that they were inherent to the Soviet political system. This came as a shock to gullible Western intellectuals who excused the existence of the camps as a mere deviation under Stalin.
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The Free Dutchman 