David Serene

Lawyer at The Serene Law Firm; lead guitar and vocalist for hire.

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

All this talk about Jason Arday, but people still don’t realise what DEI has done. One, it has destroyed millions of lives (they’re all white men, so no one cares). Two, it has destroyed entire industries and even art forms, potentially forever.

There’s no sign that literature, for example, is coming back from the assault of DEI, and the related ideological impositions upon content, sensitivity readers, and general idiocy.

Older authors like Ian McEwan or Don DeLillo still publish, but they are like the last Elvish kings whose ilk will never be seen again.

Obviously it’s similar across all the arts, not to mention the many fields where DEI puts people in actual danger, like policing.

You may think Jason Arday is a joke, and it is funny to a degree (no pun intended), but DEI is synonymous with the collapse of the West.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@MaughanDuncan @AnneErickson I was going to say that!

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Democracy is a check on power. Immigration creates an override to that check, so long as immigrants are dependent on handouts from one party, and citizenship requirements for voting are effectively suspended.

It’s an attack on our consent, effectively the rāpe of the Republic.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@latinedisce The worst is not “sequences of words that make grammatical sense but have no connection to the real world.” It’s sequences of words that make no grammatical sense AND have no connection to the real world.

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

Senator John Fetterman responds to El-Sayed attacking his appearance, calling him an "ogre on a pike."

"I never worked out in male modeling. Call me Senator Shrek. Whatever! This guy is really the Pontiac Platner!"

"And now he's running to be the head of our emerging pro-Hamas wing here in the party!"

"Some of the things that he's done or said are unacceptable to me."

"I'm not really sure what I've really done or voted for that has offended the little guy so much."

"These same people like Bernie Sanders...created that Platner disaster!"

"He has no regrets...? Supporting an accused racist...a guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest...roughed up his ex girlfriends."

"There's a level of arrogance and they believe they feel like they have some weird mandate!"

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Mayor Mamdani’s NYC is out here doxxing property owners for the new pied-à-terre tax.

They floated $5 million. It’s actually $1 million.

The list is already a disaster — co-ops don’t fit, half the places don’t qualify, and they’re bracing for a flood of exemption requests they clearly didn’t plan for.

Publishing names and addresses of people with nice homes… in a city where a healthcare CEO just got executed in the street.

This is the guy running the financial capital of the West.
Clueless and reckless.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Scott Galloway is a perfect example of perhaps the most pernicious people in society: the stupid-smart person.

Educated beyond his intelligence. Smart enough vocabulary to justify his ego and smugness, but too stupid to understand basic realities of communists.

Smart people internalize history and make good decisions. They also know the dangers of hubris. Stupid people don't know enough to even opine on the issues in the first place, so their stupidity isn't a threat. But the stupid-smart person can teach at NYU, he can build a big successful business, he can even give a good TED Talk, but he's not smart enough to see the limits of his own capacities...so he asserts himself in society with an outsized level of confidence. Sadly, he's articulate enough to fool lots of people into elevating his stupid ideas...and that's the problem.

People listen to the stupid-smart guys, like him. Then they're genuinely baffled when there's a Kalashnikov pointed at their head as they're staring at a cinder block wall behind the politburo headquarters. In a functional society, this clown would be a pariah. I have precisely zero empathy for his plight in NYC. He endorsed it. Now he can eat it, good and hard.

[David Serene @dcserene]

One of two things is true: Either Fauci’s autopen pardon is invalid, or he has opened himself up to multiple counts of contempt of Congress.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@nytimes Excellent. Good job, ICE. Keep it up.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The NYC grocery store thing is just crazy, it really is a brush with communism. If you sell 30% below market rates by subsidizing with tax revenues - you will make it impossible for existing stores to compete. Grocery stores operate at razor thin margins. The logic is to drive them out - it’s like a predatory pricing scheme to gain a monopoly. The end goal has to be to put the mayor of NYC in charge of the food supply. That cannot end well.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Those of us bitterly opposed to communism fall into two different groups.

A) Those who argue that it must be abandoned because it has show us that it doesn’t work.

B) Those of us that are so bitterly opposed to collectivism applied to dissenting individuals that we are relieved that it *cannot* work. A happy accident. Those who don’t care if it *could* be made to work: we’d continue to fight it. Working or not working is irrelevant. It’s just bad. Period. The end.

If Communism could actually be shown to deliver stable high levels of growth and innovation, broadly distributed, with low inequality,
I believe I would still fight it to my dying breath.

My opposition to communism has little to nothing to do with the fact that it doesn’t work as an economic system. So, it’s merely a relief that it doesn’t work. A convenience for its opposition.

Communism and collectivism are intrinsically soul killing for people who are hyper-individualistic . So let’s stop hiding behind the fact that they don’t work as economic or governance systems.

Some of us who aren’t the biggest fans of naked capitalism red of tooth and claw, hate communism not because we think capitalism is intrinsically fair. It isn’t. We oppose it because communism hunts the individual.

For us, It’s not communism vs capitalism. That is a businessman’s argument. Instead, it’s communism vs individualism for me. Show me a system that fights harder to let a dissenting individual thrive more than brutal market capitalism (which also barely works), and I am all ears.

Not everything is a market after all.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@onlyskypace 150. No paper required.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@AnneErickson Can't reduce it to one, but here are some greats that I was fortunate enough to have seen: Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Eric Clapton, Martin Barre, Frank Zappa, Dave Pack, Kim Simmonds, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@thedarshakrana Here it is again, the sad old “God of the gaps” theory. They claim science hasn’t figured something out yet, therefore God. As science fills in the gaps, their God contracts accordingly. Really pathetic.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@rumiiihere @grok Wouldn’t that be a contradiction in terms?

[Lena Kotré @KotreLena]

Die LGBT-Szene muss uns, die AfD, nicht mögen und wir müssen auch keine Freunde werden. Doch wir sind der einzige Garant für ihre Sicherheit.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@JonathanTurley Pretty obvious what he's doing. He's signalling to the DSA/ Communist wing of the party that he's one of them.

[David Serene @dcserene]

@yura_burstgirl Great Bucc-ee’s shirt! Welcome to Texas and the USA!

[Sir Francis Watts @Francis_Watts]

Dear Republicans.

Please bring this up. 10 years ago, "open boarders" was a Koch brothers concept, according to Bernie Sanders; today is an important platform of the DSA.

Please get Bernie Sanders to explain his change in position, or get him to admit he completely sold out.
https://t.co/wfmReOjgzm

[David Serene @dcserene]

@ScottPresler Don't worry, Scott, we see no resemblance.