After eugenics was taken off the table by the defeat of the Nazis and the Holocaust, the progressives needed to find a way to deal with the ones they considered to be “undesirables,” that is to say, people who aren’t white. They could no longer rely on sterilization and economic discrimination (remember: at the time, this was The Science™!), so they focused on turning them into shock troops and captive, brainwashed voting cattle (as Lyndon Johnson said of black people: "I'll have those n***** voting Democrat for the next hundred years" and, as evil as this was, he’s been right so far). They still did things like medical experimentation when they could get away with it (Tuskegee, etc).
Race has always been an easy wedge for identitarian strategies, and the progressive left took full advantage of it. And I'll be blunt: the opportunity to create this was handed to the progressive left on a silver platter by (mostly) white conservatives, who went along with the Civil Rights Act, abandoned black people, Hispanics, etc. to public school indoctrination and the poisonous welfare state, and then made themselves the enemy with the war on drugs and all of the damage (especially broken families and further reliance on the welfare state) and escalations that resulted from it. As always, it's the evil party vs. the stupid party, and evil has been winning for generations.
And am I the only one who noticed that the progressive left really opened the floodgates on the border and started bussing in a new, highly exploitable, identitarian group right after black people and naturalized Hispanics noticed they were just being used and started rejecting them? Am I the only one who noticed that at the same time, crime – that has largely been committed by these racial groups who have been held down by progressive ideology – has been explicitly allowed to run rampant in major cities? This is not a coincidence.
Race replacement theory is real, but the progressive left isn’t trying to replace white people. Why would they do that? They’ve been winning that race (pun intended). They’re replacing the racial identity groups who are rejecting them and whose exploitability is dropping rapidly. They're getting ready to throw black people and naturalized Hispanics not just to the back of the bus (where the progressives originally had black people), but straight under it. And, sadly, many conservatives will cheer when they do so.
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!