Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Like the soul of the tyrant himself, Trump's administration is beset with fear and is full of convulsions and distractions, including on immigration enforcement, reversing last week's pause on deportations

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  All his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles.             ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

TACO Trump chickens out on more than just tariffs, calls off the ICE raids on agriculture, restaurant, and hotel jobs to quell heartland rebellion

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Stephen Miller most hurt. On Wednesday morning, President Trump took a call from Brooke Rollins, his secretary of agriculture, who relayed a...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Mad King Ludwig's soul is in chaos, full of conflicting desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy: Trump now calls for letting Congress spend without limit weeks after touting tax increases on the rich to pay the bills

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 Trump calls for scrapping debt limit  (June 4) Trump pushes Republicans to have rich pay more taxes (May 8) Trump pivots, says GOP should...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The tyrant has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy: Mad King Ludwig says zero tariffs not good enough

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  They're all nuts.   Vietnam's Zero-Tariff Offer 'Means Nothing' Peter Navarro, CNBC
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Normally you institute protectionist policies like tariffs when you already have something to protect, not before

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But our Orwellian Republicans put the cart before the horse. You can't return to something which no longer exists. The net trade deficit...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Mad King Ludwig flies into a rage all because a judge told him Nay Nay

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Ordinarily after successfully pulling off such a deportation coup, which may or may not be legal, you would think Trump would be gloating, b...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Iraq combat vets wondered why National Guard member Pete Hegseth showed up in Iraq in 2005 leading a platoon

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  “I showed up in the 101st Airborne Division, in one of the most storied units in our nation’s history, with a bunch of combat vets who’d...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Why I won't be patronizing Oppenheimer by seeing it: He was a Stalinist and a traitor

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  Daniel J. Flynn, here : As   described in this column   previously, Pavel Sudoplatov, so high-ranking that the Soviets placed him in charg...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Congress went on a spending orgy since 2019 adding $8.77 trillion to the national debt and dimwits blame the Fed for being unable to control inflation

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 Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Blame yourselves. You elected them.   The chief penalty is to be governed by some...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Trump excels at the adulation, insatiable desires, convulsions and distractions

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"He who is the real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servili...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

It's always amusing to see what triggers CNBC liberals, in this case a Johnny Reb hat worn by US Senate hopeful Cindy-Hyde Smith

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Appearances are everything to liberals, who are our time's cave dwellers of Plato's Republic, who have never seen a reenactment of ...
Friday, December 22, 2017

David Frum is not a conservative

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Here : Ideas are not artifacts, especially the kind of collective ideas we know as ideologies. Conservatives in 1964 opposed civil-rig...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

So how does Charlie Sheen withdraw up to $10 million to pay blackmail and not get prosecuted and Speaker Hastert does?

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I'm callin' phony on this story : "Sheen said he's trusted the diagnosis with people he thought he could confide in...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Robert Kaplan either steals from Plato, or is simply ignorant of him

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Here  in "The Loneliness of the Tyrant", where he discourses at length on the psychological predicament of many strongmen past and...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Self-Described Moderate Rep. Justin Amash To Receive Primary Challenge From Conservative

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Grand Rapids businessman Brian Ellis is set to challenge Rep. Justin Amash in the Republican primary as a conservative because of Amash'...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Plato's Gold/Silver Ratio was 12, Founding Fathers' 15. At this hour it is 59.7!

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Socrates Now answer this further question: you say that if one acquires more than the amount one has spent, it is gain? Friend I do not mean...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Tyrant Fears His Own: All His Life Long He Is Beset With Fear

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"He who is the real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servility,...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Is Tim Pawlenty "The Unnatural"?

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There's a certain metaphysical quality to the guy. And we're not talking Platonic philosophy. The New Republic tries to explain, her...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Spreading the Misery Around

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Moreover, as we were saying before, [the tyrant] grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless,...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

A Simple Illustration Of Why Healthcare Is Not A Right

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Because, quite simply, it's a contract. And if the provider doesn't agree to make a contract with you, no healthcare is provided. As...