Patchito

Rational thinking is the vaccine for the Woke virus.

[Patchito @Patchito]

@r32audia3 @garykoepnick @SECNAV A couple of rules that I find helpful:

1. Never try to rationally explain things to a drunk and belligerent person.

2. Never try to rationally explain things to a Democrat with TDS.

[Patchito @Patchito]

"Oh, I see you haven't expressed in the most profanity laced screeds just how much you hate the evil Orange Man. That must mean you're one of the delusional dumbass bad people who support him. Well fuck you delusional dumbass!

And I, unlike, the evil Orange Man, don't violate any oaths and I don't advocate for his assassination - but I do fully support his impeachment over things I can't even explain to a fifth grader, support him being sent to jail over a loan the loaner is perfectly fine lending, and I don't support assassination, but the Butler shooting was staged by evil Orange Man to help him get elected - but if it wasn't and he was killed, that woulda been great.

BTW, I'm a really good person."

[Patchito @Patchito]

@garykoepnick @SECNAV "Orange Man bad. I don't like Orange Man. I will violate every oath, every norm, every law - even murder him or advocate for his murder - because I don't like his mean tweets. I'm a very good person."

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Please read this

She reveals the propaganda tricks used by woke folk to
create en entirely one sided view of history

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Rep. Gill: It's important to be polite?

Smithsonian Director: Yes

Rep. Gill: The Smithsonian lists politeness as an attribute of white supremacy

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

Bodycam footage has just been released of police visiting an American campus last year following the report of a car theft.

Unfortunately for them, the first person they meet is a cross-dressing student, who throws repeated and aggressive tantrums over his gender identity.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Rubio will likely be the next President.

[SciFiScorpio @SciFiScorpio]

@JustineBateman

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

I am not aligned with any particular political party. But I am aligned with being an American and defending the kind of government we have here that has made this country possible.
The DSA platform is treason.

[John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter]

Good God. She genuinely thinks Fighting the Power is the essence of serious thinking, has never been questioned about it even this far into her career, and is incapable of even understanding what Lee's questions are getting at. She's not deflecting. She really has no idea how ridiculous she sounds.

I became an academic out of being curious about things. Gradually realizing since the 1990s that this kind of person is ordinary in the humanities and social sciences, is routinely given awards and high administrative positions, and is beyond the reach of rational discussion has been one of the most disappointing experiences of my life.

[Liam Out Loud @liam_out_loud]

One of the deepest paradoxes of the social justice movement is that it uses oppression narratives to accrue institutional power, and then, as that power grows, it cannot stop claiming to be a victim.

So we arrive at a strange place, where the people protesting in the name of justice and equality are promoted and celebrated by the bureaucracy, the arts, the media, academia, and the corporations they claim to be fighting.

Many now speculate that the woke movement has run out of steam. I would argue it has solidified.

It is quieter because it is no longer at the gates, but is inside, sitting comfortably within the managerial apparatus of society.

Trump tried to rip DEI up from the roots, and it did not die but shape-shifted instead.

Institutions that once had "diversity and inclusion" teams now have "belonging employee resource groups."

Companies that once promoted a "culture of inclusion" now build a "culture of belonging."

The University of Alberta replaced its office of equity, diversity, and inclusion with an office for access, community, and belonging.

Mentions of DEI in S&P 500 corporate filings have fallen seventy percent since 2022, swapped out for softer words like belonging and inclusive culture. The offices, staff, and mandate remain, and only the letterhead changed.

Meanwhile the same people will scream about fascism and Trumpian authoritarianism while holding a firm grip on nearly every institution in the country.

They will never claim victory, and they will never acknowledge their stranglehold, because their power depends on the revolution never ending.

Orwell saw this clearly when he wrote that one does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, but rather makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Every film is now a vessel for their politics, every major sports league submits to its ritual humiliations, and admissions and elite appointments are weighted by race, gender, and sexuality.

And still the activists must pretend to be the oppressed.

No matter how much you hand over, they will never be satisfied, because equality was never what they were after.

The aim is ideological domination and the centralization of power, and there is no amount of concession that satisfies an aim like that.

A movement like this cannot be killed by banning a word. It has to be refused at every level of society.

Individuals must stop letting the lies pass through them, and the people inside the institutions must stop following the rules of a revolution they never voted for.

Full essay below 👇

[Emrah Erken 🔥🎺 @AtticusJazz]

Karl Popper, der grosse Denker der „Offenen Gesellschaft“ und kompromissloser Kritiker des Marxismus, hat es unmissverständlich gesagt:

«Ich blieb mehrere Jahre lang Sozialist, auch nachdem ich den Marxismus abgelehnt hatte; und wenn es so etwas wie Sozialismus in Verbindung mit individueller Freiheit geben könnte, wäre ich immer noch Sozialist. Denn es gibt nichts Schöneres, als ein bescheidenes, einfaches und freies Leben in einer egalitären Gesellschaft zu führen. Es dauerte einige Zeit, bis ich erkannte, dass dies nur ein schöner Traum ist, dass Freiheit wichtiger ist als Gleichheit, dass der Versuch, Gleichheit zu verwirklichen, die Freiheit gefährdet und dass, wenn die Freiheit verloren geht, es nicht einmal Gleichheit unter den Unfreien geben wird.»

Als jemand, der in Genf Politologie studiert und sich dort intensiv mit Poppers Werk „Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ beschäftigt hat, hat mich besonders seine klare Ablehnung des Marxismus und sein unbedingtes Plädoyer für individuelle Freiheit geprägt.

George Soros hat seine Stiftung nach genau diesem Werk benannt. Als Student Poppers in London müsste er es eigentlich besser wissen. Manchmal frage ich mich allerdings, ob wir wirklich das gleiche Buch gelesen haben.

Denn was Soros und seine Open Society Foundations fördern – marxistisch inspirierte und woke-linke Projekte, die Gleichheit (Equity) systematisch über individuelle Freiheit stellen, Kritik unterdrücken und kulturelle Identitäten auflösen wollen –, steht in krassem Widerspruch zu Poppers Ideen.

Poppers offene Gesellschaft war zudem niemals ein Freibrief für grenzenlose Zuwanderung aus fremden Kulturen ohne echte Integration. Sie war ein Plädoyer für rationale Kritik, individuelle Freiheit und die Verteidigung liberaler Werte gegen jede Form von Totalitarismus – egal ob von links oder rechts.

Wer Popper wirklich gelesen hat, erkennt schnell: Die heutige instrumentalisierte Version der „Open Society“ durch George Soros ist eine Verkehrung seiner Ideen.

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

"Embracing empathy" has wrecked our country. What is needed as a culture is not the continued promotion of ridiculous 'embracing empathy,' but rather a return to candid truth-telling & rigorous standards of excellence.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

These people are ridiculous.
They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else.
None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country.
She is an infant.
She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known.
Myself, I have a limit to tolerance.
I have a limit to patience.
I know there is a limit to free speech.
If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech.
@FBI @FBIDirectorKash

[Patchito @Patchito]

Ya just can't do it, can you? You can't look at that video and condemn that behavior, because you're allegiance is to a group of people, not a set of principles other than your hatred of white people - and you hate white people. Stop pretending otherwise.

Instead you gaslight and flip the script, condemning those who criticizing the pattern of behavior as being racist.

I don't use the n-word. I was taught when I was young that it was wrong, that we should treat people equally and give all people the benefit of the doubt. Every video like this that I watch (and there are no shortage), and every person like you who calls us racists for noticing, makes it more likely I'll start using that word and stop giving black people the benefit of the doubt.

If white people start using that word more often, remember, you made them that way.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

I can imagine a young person thinking she might be a great athlete. Or a writer of consequence. Or smart in business. Or a doctor and a healer.

But imagine a young person fancying himself the agent of social justice in our time. The avenger of our sins as a society.

Terrifying.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Trump Was Right All Along

Donald Trump’s core claim about trade and industrial policy was simple and unfashionable: trade is a tool of national power, not an end in itself. The last year has gone a long way toward proving him right.

The damage was done when China was accepted into the WTO and then implemented mercantilist trade practices while global technocrats sat idle. The bet was that China’s integration into the rules-based system would liberalize its politics and normalize its economics.

Instead, subsidized overcapacity, managed exchange rates, and aggressive export targeting gutted large parts of U.S. manufacturing and weakened the broader Western industrial base. What elites treated as efficient globalization was, in practice, the offshoring of productive capacity, the hollowing out of industrial regions, and the strategic empowerment of a geopolitical rival.

That insight shaped everything that followed. Trump argued that the era of frictionless globalization was over, that trade deficits and supply-chain dependence mattered, and that national strength would again rest on productive capacity, industrial depth, and control over strategic resources.

Trumps America First strategy, anchored in the Hamilton–Clay tradition, treated tariffs, trade reviews, and infrastructure as instruments of statecraft. That was dismissed as crude protectionism. It now looks like early recognition of the world we’re actually in. Operation Epic Fury made the geopolitical point even more starkly: Pax Americana is dead.

The evidence is now coming not just from Trump’s allies but from the broader political and intellectual class. Even Paul Krugman has conceded that “conditional tariffs” on Chinese cars are “probably going to be necessary” and warned that Europe cannot allow its auto industry to be hollowed out by Chinese overcapacity. When a progressive Nobel laureate starts agreeing with Trump that tariffs and industrial capacity have a legitimate strategic role, the old consensus is gone. The argument now is no longer over first principles, but over how far and how fast to move.

That shift is showing up in North America as well. The Trump administration’s refusal to extend the current trade pact on existing terms codified what Trump’s worldview had already implied: the age of automatic continental trade management is over. The agreement remains in force, but it is now under deliberate strategic review. Trade is being judged less by abstract efficiency and more by whether it strengthens industrial depth, energy security, and continental resilience.
Canada is now being forced to adjust.

The next round of U.S.–Canada trade talks should deepen integration where it already makes strategic sense, energy, critical minerals, power, and industrial inputs—while targeting the old protected zones of the Canadian economy where reciprocity with the United States still does not meaningfully exist: supply‑managed agriculture, softwood lumber, sheltered finance, and telecom. Canada’s dependence on U.S. downstream refining capacity for heavy crude shows how real continental interdependence already is, while its openness to subsidized Chinese EV imports underscores the same danger Krugman identified in Europe: allowing Chinese overcapacity to hollow out domestic industry.

Trump saw that first. He understood before most of the establishment that the global economy was shifting from efficiency to security, from comparative advantage in the abstract to productive capacity in the real world. Now even his critics are conceding the point. The only serious question left is whether governments are prepared to act on what Trump understood long before they did.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

America isn’t exceptional because we’re richer, stronger and powerful- we are richer, stronger and powerful because we are exceptional.

And we are exceptional because of our foundational values that are, in fact, fixed into place.

[Patchito @Patchito]

@cooldaddydino @CollinRugg I was in Huntington yesterday. It was crowded and boisterous, but not violent and destructive.

[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