This just clicked for me this morning and I've not seen anyone else discuss it yet.
We've been seeing this push from academia for giving consent to children in some incredibly powerful areas of life: sexuality, medical procedures, etc. These are all deeply disturbing in and of themselves. But when you put them all together then it's pretty easy to see that this is a back door (pardon the expression) towards their real goal: ownership of the children.
If you give children the ability to "consent" to almost anything, and then have them for at least 13 years of indoctrination then the parent's ownership of their children becomes completely nominal.
This becomes the paternal version of the fascist economic model, where the capitalists were allowed to "own" the businesses but every meaningful business decision was made by the state. Parents will still "own" their children but be virtually powerless in how they are raised. They will then be blamed for all of the negative outcomes inflicted upon them by the academics that raise them via the government schools that they effectively control.
This better explains their complete meltdown over school choice and homeschooling. Their endgame is within sight and they see their efforts starting to crumble right before their eyes.
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Don’t worry!
His “very smart people” are totally right about things this time when it comes to trade.
There is zero - I repeat, zero - moral difference between the people who pushed for "experimenting" with lockdowns because "we have to do something!" and the people who push for "experimenting" with trade wars because "we have to do something!"
Musk is out.
Musk put himself in a corner where he can't rip into Trump and he has to play nice probably at least through the midterms, but just look at the guy's face and watch him refuse to give a straight answer here. He put a lot on the line with endorsing Trump and starting DOGE, and Trump absolutely stabbed him in the back. Trump's supporters will blame congress, but Trump has very openly and loudly endorsed all of the DOGE-defying moves that congress has made, and has viciously attacked the one congressman (Thomas Massie) who has stood against it.
The reason is simple: Trump cares about trophies. Cutting the budget is not a trophy. DOGE trying to take a chainsaw to government was a trophy, but as soon as DOGE became more of Musk's than Trump's trophy, Trump stopped caring about it because congress offered him a Big, Beautiful Bill as a trophy instead. Just like the FBI offered the opportunity to build a Big, Beautiful new headquarters building for them (Trump loves buildings!). ...
As comedy slowly slides into unfunny wokeness hell, the last comedian standing (assuming he doesn't drop dead first, I mean just look at the guy; he's a trainwreck) will be Doug Stanhope. He closed out his recent special "The Dying of the Last Breed" with this bit on how important it is that we be able to make fun of anything. Because making fun.
Language warning, duh.
Preliminary Q2 numbers for Argentina are in. This is still subject to adjustment but so far their preliminaries have been pretty accurate under the Milei administration.
Slashing spending works. Trump and Bessent are very optimistically projecting economic growth of 3% doing the opposite of what Milei is doing to deliver 7.6% - and climbing!
