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Probably driving 1-12 kids
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To all of you who kindly did this, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
God, in His ineffable wisdom, willed otherwise.
I will be away for a while. Be not-terribly-gruesome to each other.
The thing is, Diocletian's final iconoclasm of the republic wasn't a sudden thing even if it seems that way to us now. American cynicism about its governing class has been on the rise for somewhere around 100 years. A republican citizenry must believe in virtue or it's all over.
Voters have had enough of what I can only call Trump’s Third World vibe. His territorial claims on neighbours and his petty insistence on renaming lakes and oceans, his obsession with building monstrous triumphal arches, his refusal to understand the difference between the Nobel Prize Committee and the Norwegian state (“a shithouse country”), his demands that political opponents be locked up; and, now, his overt electoral bribery, his offer to send a $5,000 cheque to every American if the Republicans hold Congress.
Nowhere is the Third Worldery more visible than in the way the president’s coterie has grown rich in office. The gifts from foreign governments, the digital currency racket – these would, until an eye-blink ago, have been unthinkable in the US. A handy test of whether you are in a tinpot autocracy is that the richest people are not entrepreneurs but presidential cronies.
Paywall down.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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‘It seems that Muslimness has become almost like a racial identity, that it’s evidence of being a marginalized group.’
I think one thing that’s true, that many people have noticed, is that new immigrant groups are making a play at casting themselves racially and eliding their identities with black Americans to be able to make demands based on claims of prejudice and oppression even if there’s near zero supporting historicity and the people making the demands tend to be privileged elites.
Me on Democrats and the racialization of Islam:
"You have people like Zohran and Abdul who are very openly and outwardly Muslim, but it’s interesting the way their Muslimness is represented. When you think about Zohran, we don’t actually know a lot about the content of his faith or how practising he is or what he actually believes. It seems that Muslimness has become almost like a racial identity, that it’s evidence of being a marginalized group. It's no longer a theological category. And I know that frustrates some people, but Zohran is so popular and so successful that people are largely okay with that trade-off.
I think Abdul is interesting because he is definitely quite practising, and we know that Islam has been an important part of his life. But again, it doesn’t come out really fully. And I think there’s a lot of reticence for even these openly Muslim candidates to talk about the content of their faith, especially when it comes to social issues.
Abdul has had major opportunities to say things on trans athletes in women’s sports. He went on Fox News and was asked a question about that, but he punted. Democrats are so careful about not offending constituencies that even when they might have socially conservative values, they don’t actually express them. And I think there’s a real bind there. Like, can you be a fully fledged member in good standing of the Democratic Party and sound off conservative notes on LGBTQ issues? And it’s not clear that you really can."
Better ones:
1. Talk to your spouse.
2. Communicate with your spouse.
3. Don't communicate with anyone the way you do your spouse.
4. Keep the touching to the spouse only.
5. Have kids. Then have more. Have lots of what causes them.
Underrated Marriage hacks:
•No hot nannies.
•Keep location sharing on.
•Know each other's passwords.
•No opposite-sex jujitsu coaches.
•No opposite-sex personal trainers.
•Ignore your kids once a week & do date nights.
• No private DMs or solo lunches with the opposite sex.
•Spouse gets veto power on close friends and plans.
Keep God in the center, pray together, laugh together & choose each other daily.
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#RIP Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and X Men ...
On 12-4-1997, after getting a @PressClubDC coffee mug, he was asked, "Just from a purely logical point of view, why is it that a Captain whose name is Jean-Luc Picard have a perfect English accent?"
Patrick Stewart answer here:
If this was true, wild horses on crack couldn't drag this out of me.
Dax Shepard says wife, Kristen Bell has never kissed him the way she kissed Adam Brody on 'Nobody Wants This', saying he rewound the scene five times and that's when he knew the show would be a hit.
"When they kissed for the first time, we screamed [...] [My friend's] like, 'Oh my God, has she ever kissed you like that?' I'm like, 'No, I don't think I've ever been kissed like that.' We rewound it. We watched it like five times, and that was when I was like, 'Oh yeah, this thing's going to be a fucking juggernaut'"
(🎥: YouTube/'Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard')
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Fired General Admits to Leaks; DOJ Announces Investigation redstate.com/streiff/2026/10…
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Only online is refusing to vote in a race between awful people on both sides a decision to vote. It’s a reminder of how many hyperonline people don’t really live in the real world.
This omits "dad of twelve who either wears blue jeans and t-shirts or blue jeans and a sports coat because he has no interest in anything else and isn't rich."
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I'd add this is also the reason the GOP never has to be coherent -the nature of the Democrats makes them inherently unstable, which means the GOP can suck wildly and still get back into office whenever some corporate interest finds itself on the wrong side of a vote buying deal.
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The Democratic Party is the party of patronage and wholesale vote buying -and has been since Aaron Burr. I think PEG is right that their electoral organization is paradoxical -they win by buying votes, but that eats the resources they need to govern.
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Ezra keeps going on about this idea of finding a "vision of the Good" for liberalism. Very conservative concern!
He says that the main criticism of Abundance is that it was all about getting people more stuff and that it lacks a vision of the Good.
And, fair enough, I don't disagree with that. I think that's a perennial problem of liberalism, and I don't think Klein would disagree with that either. And maybe he's right that empirically it was the main critique from people who engaged with the book.
But, again, my critique is that Democrats now and in any plausible foreseeable future cannot embrace the many good ideas in his book because their explicit, fundamental strategy is to turn their party, and eventually America, into an ethnic patronage machine, and that's incompatible with the sort of supply-side policies he likes. I would like to see him engage *that* critique.
The philosophical critique is in some ways too easy.
I second this emotion
I have a bet with @canonlawyered that we can get five new paid pillar subscriptions today. Curmudgeon that he is, he thinks we can't.
Prove him wrong here:
pillarcatholic.com/subscribe
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I have a bet with @canonlawyered that we can get five new paid pillar subscriptions today. Curmudgeon that he is, he thinks we can't.
Prove him wrong here:
pillarcatholic.com/subscribe
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NEW UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: I spent several months investigating a nationwide network of advocacy organizations and medical providers helping families continue medically transitioning their children in defiance of state laws.
My investigation centers on Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE), an LGBT advocacy nonprofit that connects families with cooperating medical providers across the country. CSE has distributed over $1 million in travel grants to more than 1,200 families, plus another $1 million to partner organizations, including funding for medical appointments.
With CSE's knowledge, providers in its referral network told me the ways that they circumvent state restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors.
Some discussed using alternative diagnosis codes, such as “endocrine disorder,” to facilitate prescriptions or insurance coverage. Others described mailing medications directly to families' homes or sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states where these interventions are banned.
Providers also discussed conducting virtual appointments with patients in those states. Others required patients to cross state lines for telehealth but did not appear to have a reliable method for verifying their physical location.
My primary undercover scenario involved an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee who had only recently begun identifying as nonbinary, with no long history of gender-related distress. The providers I shared this scenario with seemed eager to treat her. Many indicated that puberty blockers could be prescribed after an initial evaluation lasting just one to several hours.
My investigation uncovered practices that may violate state and federal laws and pose medical risks to children living hundreds or thousands of miles from their treating physicians.
Read my full @CityJournal investigation: city-journal.org/article/ped…
