"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s."
Incredible reporting here from @awinston
https://t.co/c3idn2JSVT
I must go down to the sea again, the loneliness & sky.
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
And the wheels kick & the winds roar and the white sails shaking.
And the grey mist on the seas face & the gray dawn breaking.
I remember that from seventh grade English. Circa 1975. My English teacher was old school, on the edge of retirement. I appreciate him much more now than then.
I also knew how to diagram sentences.
When sharing a video of 280 pound squats, I mentioned I maintain a mostly meat keto style diet and train fasted. I viewer commented I wasn't optimizing something.
Showing up for every session will help optimization. But no one is optimizing if the little voice inside your head isn't saying "lift more weight." It's the voice that determines success far more than anything else.
What the Push to Transition Children Is Really About.
Whatever you think of trans adults – whether you see it as a real identity or as a mental illness – this is not about them. It is about a playbook aimed at children, part of something larger: creating chaos, and people deeply hurt – the two things the left thrives on.
1. Manufacture the grievance. Take a confused teenager – and almost every teenager is confused – and tell him the problem is not adolescence, anxiety or loneliness. He was born in the wrong body, and the world around him is the oppressor.
2. Commit him through sacrifice. Offer an irreversible step: puberty blockers, hormones, surgery. Once someone has paid a price that cannot be undone, doubt becomes unbearable. Defending the cause becomes defending his own life.
3. Use him twice. First as a soldier, carrying a grievance against the whole world and an urge to destroy it. Then as one of the oppressed the movement claims to protect, which makes every critic look like an aggressor.
Reality has started to answer. In 2024, after England's Cass Review, the UK has banned puberty blockers for under-18s outside clinical research. Scotland paused them, and Sweden and Finland had already pulled back.
And watch what happens to those who turn back – the detransitioners. Instead of support, they often meet silence or hostility from the movement that claimed to protect them. That is the tell: the movement protects the oppressed only as long as they stay useful.
Children are not raw material for a political movement. But this one is aimed at destroying Civilization, so it doesn’t care.
It says a lot about the state of the American food system that making companies tell consumers what they're actually eating could lose them $14 billion a year.
Yes, SS is excellent.
In the 80s I bought a bench & weight set from Sears. It was a Joe Weider systems and came with the Joe Weider Triple Progressive system manual. I would highly recommend this for anyone under 35 (maybe 45.) It had a fantastic training method for full body, with different movements for each session.
At this point, I stick the the Big Five. And front squats.
We went 15 straight years without a single instance of graffiti on the sacred WTC 9/11 Memorial, and then the communist politicians AOC and Mamdani laughed their asses off at the memorial and the very next month commies are desecrating it for the first time.
Probably nothing.
I warned you they would destroy your history. They do not love your country. They do not share your values. Communists are not normal. They are not democrats. They're not liberals. They are spiteful malcontents who revile beauty and dignity and liberty and all the things that made America the greatest and most dominant civilization in the universe.
My schedule has slowed down for the next month (November).
If anyone out there with a podcast or YouTube channel wants to have me on to talk about books, let me know :)
TYVM
I am a different Man, and a better Man.
My entire perspective on what is food and what is not food has shifted dramatically.
"Flipping a switch" is exact. I had to flip a switch 40+ years ago to quit my 2 pack/day cigarette addiction & a similar switch to quit my "not food" addiction.
WIth weight training I'm far stronger than I was in my 20s or 30s.