Stephen G. Sanders

Trial Lawyers/Civil prosecutors. We sue drunk drivers. Holding corporate bullies accountable. Semi-truck wrecks. Concussion injuries. Insurance bad faith.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Matthew Dowd: "You can't be saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place."

Bill Maher: "Yes, you can...We don't sh*ot people in this country, and we don't defend it, and we don't mock their death."

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began.

1. His central question is not “what are your rights?” It is “what are you for?”
Eudaimonia — flourishing, not happiness — is the answer: the full realization of what a human being can become. The moment a civilization stops asking this question and starts asking only about rights, equality, and safety, it has already chosen administration over life.

2. Virtue is not a rule you follow. It is a habit you form – through practice, through the right environment, through a community that models and rewards excellence. This is why negative selection is so catastrophic in Aristotelian terms: it doesn’t just promote the wrong people. It corrupts the very mechanism by which virtue is transmitted across generations.

3. Man is a political animal – not in the sense that man should be governed, but that man is constituted by his community. You cannot flourish alone. But the corollary is equally precise: the polis exists for man’s flourishing, not the other way around. The moment the state becomes the end and the citizen becomes the means, you have not just bad government – you have the inversion of the natural order.

4. Aristotle catalogued the corruptions of every form of government: monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes oligarchy, polity becomes mob rule. The pattern in every case is identical – the rulers stop ruling for the common good and start ruling for themselves. This is not a modern insight. It is the oldest political observation in the Western tradition. Every system contains the seed of its own corruption. The question is always: who is it for?

5. Phronesis — practical wisdom — the ability to judge particular situations correctly, without a rulebook. The bureaucratic state destroys phronesis systematically, replacing judgment with procedure, wisdom with compliance, the experienced man with the certified one. This is Aristotle’s explanation for why the credentialed class produces so many wrong decisions with such complete confidence.

6. He identified the middle class as the foundation of the stable republic – the ballast that prevents the ship from capsizing toward oligarchy above or mob rule below. Not as a sociological observation. As a structural necessity. Destroy the middle class and you have not just inequality – you have the preconditions for every tyranny he ever described.

7. The West replaced Aristotle with procedure, utility, and rights. It gained a framework for managing conflict but lost the vocabulary for saying what a good life is. The system can optimize for GDP, equality of outcome, measured safety – but it cannot tell you what you are for. Aristotle could. Every civilization that forgot that question discovered, eventually, that someone else was happy to answer it for them.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Now Plato – the most dangerous philosopher who ever lived.

Aristotle was his student, his corrector, and in the end his antidote. The argument between them is not ancient history. It is the argument the West is currently losing.

1. Plato distrusts the world. Everything visible, tangible, particular — the market, the body, the individual — is mere shadow to him. Reality is the Form, the Ideal, the perfect abstraction accessible only to the philosopher. This is not just a metaphysics. It is a politics. If the real is abstract and only the philosopher can access it, then only the philosopher should rule. The Republic follows necessarily from the theory of Forms. Plato built the first blueprint for technocratic tyranny and called it philosophy.

2. His perfect state is governed by philosopher-kings – selected, trained, and self-perpetuating. They know what is good for you better than you do, because they have access to the Forms and you do not. This is every credentialist institution, every expert class, every central planning committee that ever existed, dressed in a toga and speaking Greek. The technocrat ruling by divine right of competitive examination is a Platonic philosopher-king who has forgotten the philosophy but kept the power.

3. Idealism and absolutism are the intellectual disease of humanity. By avoiding collision with reality, they produce arrogant delusion – and arrogant delusion combined with power produces totalitarianism. This is the precise opposite of what built Western strength: individual freedom, competition, and meritocracy – a system that encourages everyone to create maximum value and gives the greatest room to those who do it best. Instead of a system of obedience to intellectual and physical bullies.

4. It started seriously with Plato, reached its apex with Hegel, and today’s Marxisms and deconstructionisms are merely the dishwater left behind. What they all share is the same social profile of origin: blasé, bored boys from wealthy homes, untouched by the pressure of real survival, inventing their idealisms in comfortable detachment from consequences. Unfortunately, detachment from reality impresses many simple minds with intellectual pretensions. They listened. The results were fatal. Millions of corpses.

5. Plato invented the "Noble Lie" – the idea that the ruling class should deceive the population for its own good. He considered it governance. Every ideology that has ever lied systematically to its population was, consciously or not, working from Plato’s manual. Every ministry of propaganda, every content moderation policy removing unauthorized narratives is Plato’s Republic with updated technology.

6. Aristotle walked into Plato’s Academy, studied there for twenty years, and then systematically dismantled everything. Where Plato saw Forms, Aristotle saw particulars. Where Plato trusted the philosopher, Aristotle trusted the middle class. One tradition produces science, common law, and the free market. The other produces utopias – and the violence required to build them. And in the process, two and a half thousand years of sophisticated abstraction buried the most obvious truth available to any living organism: that our purpose is to pass life forward, to create the most flourishing possible next generation. Simple. Obvious. Covered over by millennia of sophisticated raving of Platonists.

7. Every great man-made catastrophe of the modern era has Platonic DNA – the French Revolution’s Republic of Reason, Marxism’s scientific laws of history, Mao’s New Man. Each one began with a Form and required that the imperfect world be forced to conform to it. The pile of bodies is not an accident of implementation. It is what happens when you take Plato seriously enough to act on him. Aristotle’s answer sounds less glamorous: look at what actually exists, work with what human beings actually are, build institutions that survive contact with reality. Sounds less beautiful. It is why we are still here.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the original Woke

He invented it. Every premise of contemporary progressive ideology traces directly back to one man who had never met a "noble savage", never raised a child, and never lived according to a single principle he preached.

1. His foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts. This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought. Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.
Responsibility evaporates. The oppressor is always external. The victim is always pure. This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755.

2. The "Noble Savage" is Rousseau’s Form – his version of Plato’s ideal. The uncorrupted man, untouched by property, competition, and civilization, living in natural harmony. Rousseau had never met one. He invented him from an armchair in Paris, extrapolating from travel accounts of peoples he had never visited. The Noble Savage is not an anthropological observation. He is a political weapon – a club to beat civilization with, wielded by someone living comfortably inside it.

3. The "General Will" is the most dangerous concept in modern political philosophy. Not the actual expressed will of actual people – but the deeper will, the will people would have if they were "properly enlightened". Whoever claims to know it can do anything in its name. Robespierre knew it. Every revolutionary vanguard since has known it. Today’s progressive institutions know it – which is why they can override democratic majorities, suppress dissent, and compel speech, all while insisting they represent the people’s true interests. The General Will is the intellectual license for every tyranny that calls itself a liberation.

4. The chain from Rousseau to today is unbroken. Rousseau to Robespierre and the Terror. Robespierre to Marx, who secularized the General Will into historical necessity. Marx to every "liberation" movement that ended in a gulag. And today: replace civilization with white supremacy, replace the Noble Savage with the marginalized community, replace the General Will with lived experience – and you have the complete operating system of contemporary progressivism. The software is the same.

5. Voltaire, his contemporary and rival, saw him quite clearly: Rousseau made primitivism intellectually respectable. He gave the comfortable classes of every generation a way to signal virtue by denouncing the civilization that produced them, from inside it, without cost. The French Left Bank intellectual denouncing capitalism from a café. The Harvard professor deconstructing Western civilization from a tenured chair. The hedge fund billionaire funding the abolition of meritocracy. All of them are living in Rousseau’s armchair.

6. He sent all five of his illegitimate children to a Paris orphanage. Then wrote Émile – one of the most influential books on education in Western history, a detailed guide on how to raise a virtuous child in harmony with nature. He did not find this contradictory. This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense – this is obłuda (remember the obłuda of communism?👇🏻). The defining structural feature of the ideology he invented: the sermon is inversely proportional to the practice. The performance of virtue replaces the exercise of it. Naming the oppressor substitutes for personal accountability. Rousseau didn’t just invent Woke – he lived it, in every detail, before anyone had the word.

7. The original Woke was woke about a fiction he invented – and spent his life performing outrage about a civilization he depended on and never left. Two and a half centuries later, the performance is the same. The noble savages have been updated. The General Will has new names. The orphanages are metaphorical. But the man who sends his children away and then lectures everyone else on how to raise theirs – that man is everywhere.

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

"There's a reason that people have an issue with vaccines. Not because they just woke up one day and decided they just wanted for fun to take a position that might get them called an antivaxer, a quack, anti-science, get their kids out of school, get them thrown out of their jobs, have them turned against their social circles, have their kids excluded from playdates. Who does that?

When you abandon those people who trusted the system, that's what breeds distrust. I agree. We need to get vaccines out of politics. It should be purely medical. And the only way to do that — end mandates.

By mandating a vaccine, you make it political. By using the argument that a vaccine is safe and effective to take away somebody's civil individual rights, you made the safety and efficacy of that product a legal and a political issue.

And chronic disease, you want to do that, you got to address vaccines. That's the truth. Because if you look at the weight of the current available data, the weight of that science reflects that you better address vaccines if you're going to truly achieve the objectives that MAHA has.

Mandates are the tool of bullies, criminals, and dictators. If a patient refuses a medical product after being conveyed its benefits and risks, then that is called informed consent. They were informed and did not consent. Mandating over this objection is immoral and illiberal." -- @AaronSiriSG

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Carl Jung said:

There is no “healing.”
There is ONLY letting go.

Meditate on that one.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: USA comes back from huge deficit to defeat Belgium 5-4 after receiving four surprise mail-in goals at 3:00am

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Wait, Merriam-Webster’s got jokes?

[Stephen G. Sanders @SandersDotLaw]

@JCRyle Be very careful before criticizing. As Peterson says, “clean your own room first.”

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Said perfectly.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

These are GOOD!! Every single one! 👍🏻

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ThaisEscufon @leparisien Execute them

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

If white Christian men had systematically raped 250,000 brown children for a decade, it would be the biggest scandal of half a century.

But because brown Muslim men did it to white children, the authorities continue covering it up, and media continues refusing to talk about it.

[Stephen G. Sanders @SandersDotLaw]

@atensnut Man colds.

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

Tulsi Gabbard didn't release the Fauci files to get justice. She released them to demoralize you while crowning herself a hero for people too lazy to ask one question. Why now? Why her last day?

Because the cage was already double-locked and she knew it.

Lock one. The statute of limitations on Fauci's cleanest perjury count ran out on May 11. He sat in front of Congress in 2021 and swore the NIH never funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan. That was the case. Rand Paul screamed about the deadline for weeks. Nancy Mace screamed about it. The DOJ sat on its hands and let the clock hit zero. The last window closes in July. It's almost gone too.

Lock two. Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci on his last night in office. So even if the clock hadn't run out, he walks. There was never going to be a trial. Not now, not ever.

Gabbard knows all of this. Her staff knows all of this. She waited until the man was untouchable by two separate failsafes, then strolled out the door and handed you the receipts like she just cracked the case. That's not courage. That's a magician showing you the trick after the show's over and taking a bow.

You're not getting accountability. You're getting a highlight reel. You learn just enough truth to feel something, then watch nothing happen, on purpose. That's the entire function. Outrage with no exit. Knowledge with no remedy. They want you informed and powerless, because a powerless informed population is easier to manage than an ignorant one.

If you're celebrating this, you're one of two things. You don't understand the process, or you're helping run the con. There is no third option.

And anyone who points to this stunt as a reason to back Tulsi for higher office should be disregarded on the spot. Not debated. Disregarded. Falling for the same trick twice is not a personality. It's not a badge. It's a disqualification.

I get that people make mistakes. I get that some of you just woke up. Fine. But the technocracy isn't waiting for you to finish your learning curve. The clock ran out years ago and we cannot keep handing the microphone to people who found the fight yesterday and want a medal for showing up.

We already lost three years to this exact play. Theater, delay, applause, nothing. I am not losing three more.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Why is the left so arrogant?

Because they put their trust in a global elite. Not directly, but through the media and the universities the elite manipulate.

My dad always said it the other way around: privilege comes with responsibility. But responsibility is hard. Responsibility requires knowledge.

And in a world growing more complex and unpredictable by the year, understanding what’s happening around you takes more and more of it.

Twenty years ago you could walk through Manhattan around noon on a Sunday and watch half the city reading the Times. The thing was massive, but a fast, educated reader could come away with a decent picture of the whole world in a few hours.

Then two things happened.

Craigslist gutted newspaper revenue, and DEI mandates swapped great reporters for morally indignant j-school hacks. The quality and accuracy of information cratered.

At the same time, the internet roared to life and the world got radically more interconnected overnight.

So the elite grew less informed exactly as complexity exploded.

To cope, they borrowed a trick from NASA. There aren’t enough hours in the day to be the best rocket scientist and the best navigator and the best flight surgeon all at once. So mission control compartmentalized. The best person in each silo got a desk. Thruster problem? Everyone turns to the engine expert. Someone’s hurt? Everyone turns to the flight surgeon. The rocket guy never had to learn a thing about medicine.

The elite copied the model. They switched their brains off for anything outside their lane. Everyone specialized inside their own bubble.

But compartmentalization runs on trust. Put one bad actor in mission control, and the moment everyone turns to him, bad things happen.

To guard against that, they doubled down on credentialism. They learned to trust only the experts minted by certain colleges and blessed by certain think tanks.

And the bad actors had a field day. Fraud, disinformation, theft, all of it could happen inside a silo, unseen. And it did.

Then came a mission control director who told them not to worry. Everything was fine. They didn’t know what was going on, but he did, and he was smarter than all of them. He said so, right there in the meetings.

Everyone loves a brilliant, competent boss, especially a charismatic one who seems kind, because it means they no longer have to worry. He’s got it handled. Just trust him.

And trust Obama they did.

But he had nothing handled except his own aura. And he let Marxist actors run loose inside the silos that mattered, education and HR chief among them.

The right was skeptical, so they kept reading, kept hunting for alternative sources, kept trying to make sense of the complexity themselves. Nobody cracked it completely. But they started seeing the big red anomaly lights blinking across the dashboard.

So the smart people on the right kept building broad knowledge while the left stayed siloed. Ten years passed, and the left’s elite fell far, far behind.

They’re starting to see that Obama was a fool. But they’re stuck. You can’t cram ten years of missed homework into a few months. And they’re rich and powerful and have no interest in going back to school.

They have two options. Admit they were wrong and put in months, maybe years, of hard work to take responsibility for their actions. Or keep acting like sheep. If the rewards weren’t there, some might choose the work.

But the system is so riddled with fraud, so many hollowed-out silos kept on life support, that there’s more than enough money sloshing around the NGOs to fund their posh lives.

They have the privilege with none of the responsibility. It’s a comfortable place to sit. They don’t want to change.

But holding that position requires one thing: they have to believe their mission control director has it all under control and is smarter than anyone on the right.

The bottom line is the have to be arrogant. Or the whole house of cards comes down.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

I’m sick to my freaking stomach reading Tulsi Gabbard’s declassified bombshells. They laid out the entire treasonous plot: weaponizing the Zelensky phone call to impeach Trump, with Rudy Giuliani squarely in their crosshairs next.

This wasn’t politics—it was a straight-up coup by corrupt deep state actors to overthrow the will of the American people.

These people belong in prison for this shit. Deeply disturbing and downright terrifying.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Only four times in NBA history has a player led the league in scoring, won the MVP, led the playoffs in scoring, won playoff MVP, and was 1st Team All-Defensive.

Career leaderboard:

Michael Jordan, 4
Everyone else who ever lived, 0