Showing posts with label libertarian 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarian 2025. Show all posts
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

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... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole yea...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Michigan's Pete Hoekstra, a phony baloney plastic banana good time libertarian free trader, now touts tariffs as Trump's ambassador to Canada which kill jobs in his congressional district

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  In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.   
Monday, November 17, 2025

The period is also marked by the phony utopianism of the libertarian Americanists who exalt the individual and deny that there are any limits

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 In their idealism they are little different than Zohran Mamdani.  ... The United States is undeniably the beacon of hope for the world bec...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Democrat Jay Jones who advocated violence against police and Republicans and their families wants to be Virginia's next attorney general, opposes qualified immunity same as libertarian Justin Amash

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  Jones Allegedly Said In 2020 That 'A Few Police Officers Dying Would Stop Them From Killing Other People' : "... And I said, ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

In education news, the once great Indiana University has turned its back on Western civilization and purged its traditional degree programs because the children of the barbarians don't enroll in them anymore

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 A victory for the mouth breather, Marco Rubio, fellow servant of Mammon.    
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Trump administration fails to intimidate Canada, goes Galt and ends trade talks

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  Trump ends all U.S. trade talks with Canada over digital services tax             ... The first payments from Canada’s digital services ta...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Much of Trump's support comes from people with a libertarian habit of mind which insists that what is politically possible and what is perfect must be enemies of each other

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                        Of course he isn't going  full TACO, just half TACO with a twist. Chinese students in America number under 300...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The White House's Stephen Miller attacks libertarians for opposing the reconciliation bill's immigration enforcement spending

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 ... the White House deputy chief of staff — and chief architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Emmanuel Todd: The Trump "revolution" is a mixture of reason and nihilism headed toward decadence in a nation now missing the strengths of both ethnic cohesion and Protestant faith

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  This is the full text of La révolution Trump by Emmanuel Todd in "From Russia With Love", translated by Arnaud Bertrand: The T...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The Trump administration lives in the libertarian past of Atlas Shrugged, in John Galt's 1957, when US GDP was 40% of world GDP and everybody needed us more than we needed them

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They are as stupid as they are insufferably arrogant.   US GDP as a share of world GDP has been in steady decline since 1960 to just 26% in ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

After 38 years, it's time to junk the bedrock idea undergirding conservative economic philosophy of low taxes because IT'S NOT TRUE

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  AXIOS today, here : A bedrock idea of conservative economic philosophy is [the] idea that low taxes fuel economic growth.   This idea is s...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Meanwhile the main story goes unaddressed, as usual: The Trump administration is a materialist horror show without a soul, whose god is money, which treats our allies as freeloaders

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Everything is reduced to a mere transaction. It is libertarianism writ large.    
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Lindsey Grahamnesty epitomizes everything that's gone wrong with the GOP and America generally: America's interests abroad are purely about money, not at all about freedom

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  John McCain would not be happy with his old friend. McCain was a main agitator for freedom in Ukraine and its alliance with the West. The ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

I for one am looking forward to J. D. Vance defending the First Amendment rights of Jihadist authors

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Nutball worlds in collision: Trumpism defends freedom in Europe with its right hand, stabs it in the back in Ukraine with its left, Biden defended freedom in Ukraine with his right, attacked it in America with his left

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   But The Federalist has its blinders on. Biden baaaaaaad! Trump gooooood! "Let's see if we can find some naive kid to write a sto...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

A libertarian wants you to know that accumulated losses in a war are "not sensible", as if war were ever sensible

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 "Here, let's look at this completely irrational thing and apply some logic to it now that we're down 28 points in the fourth q...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Kinda like a libertarian convention

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  Trump’s tax cuts are ‘stuck in the mud’ as Republicans split over spending    . . . fiscal hawks said they could not support the massive p...

Welcome to end stage libertarianism: The executive branch of the United States does not possess a line-item veto power

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 What Trump is doing will be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, which already ruled the 1996 version of the line item veto unconst...