Just happy I can still speak freely. Lawyer by training, deeply disillusioned with the PMC and its NPCs, Spenglerian fatalism meets constitutional conservatism
@VonburyResearch I appreciate your class and rhetorical charity here, but please allow me to call a spade a spade: Robin Brooks is a midwit sophist who does not argue in good faith and is not impressive in any way
This is comical. The more that Trump tries to Jawbone his way out of the oil crises, the more shorts get trapped. Look at these stats and tell me that a squeeze won't happen the second the market decides they need to reposition long...
USO Short Interest & Squeeze Potential (as of latest data - May 15, 2026)
- Short Interest: 18.73 million shares
- Short % of Float: 138.54% (extremely high)
- Days to Cover: ~2.1 days (based on average daily volume)
$USO has more shares sold short than actually exist in the float. This is a classic setup for a short squeeze if buying pressure increases.
Retail.. you know what to do.
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
There is no point in nibbling around the edges or changing statutes.
The entire concept of disparate impact is unconstitutional and must be repudiated root and branch.
@eugyppius1 And are we wrong? Greenland needs stronger hands. We need Greenland to protect the Arctic approaches to North America. What do you not understand?
@aeberman12@CaptainRoyen That’s psychological projection on your part. There was nothing at all grandiose in the statements about inventories etc that he made. BUT it is quite grandiose of you to imagine that merely getting your attention would gratify him so much
@Z4BTC_ Dude there are very very few lawyers who could command $6k per hour. There were some serious rainmakers at a firm I used to work for and they charged like $2k per hour
@martianwyrdlord Dude I’m not even sure if I can root for them to break the curse at the World Cup. They’re just so detestable now, but I do still love Premier League—perhaps the only source of any international soft power left on that once-proud island
@JackPosobiec Lames Jindsay I presume? It’s still really disappointing to me because he did some really good work making the mechanics of their rhetorical scam clear. But then he really went off the rails with all the “woke right” stuff. I imagine this is just more of the same?
Scott Pelley’s NYT interview is an unintended eulogy for legacy media and a portrait of a man blubbering and seething in denial of his irrelevance. As a cultural document, it’s fascinating.
Speaks to the Cluster B correlation/causation/reflexive relationship with Leftism. Idk how trustworthy Sam Vaknin truly is, but he would always say that “the narcissist cannot accept God. And has a personal religion devoted to self as deity.” In Leftism, the narcissistic false self is expanded to the “gnostic Elect” who “understand the downtrodden/intersectionality/whatever other BS”. I think it’s an underappreciated aspect of why they’re so emotional and resistant to information/reality.
I’m watching the new documentary on Lincoln. Something continues to hit me about early American leaders specifically:
They were all colossal fuck ups early in their lives.
Lincoln, Washington, Grant. The list goes on.
I mean really really massive mistakes.
Yet our youthful nation was set up in such a way that a comeback story was far more permissive than it is today.
That’s why I take such issue with the credentialism class. If they were around back then as they are now, we would never know the names of the greatest leaders in our history.
>Washington starting the French and Indian war.
>Lincoln’s disastrous Congress speech.
>Grant’s drinking.
They would’ve withered away into obscurity. Gate kept from greatness, and the comeback.
It’s time to overthrow the acolytes of credentialism, and the media that supports them.
This is our 250th year, and we need to get some of that defiant and youthful American spirit back.
Otherwise we won’t see 250 more.
Envy has always hated merit because merit produces winners.
Credentialism was the compromise.
>If you cannot outperform the man, disqualify him.
>If you can’t build what he built, question his qualifications.
>If you can’t beat excellence, create a bureaucracy and demand excellence ask permission first.
That is the entire game.
Credentialism is an attempt to replace accomplishment with permission.
- Cuando un tipo de derecha no es cazador y no le gustan las armas, no sale a cazar y no compra armas.
- Cuando un tipo de izquierda no es cazador y no le gustan las armas, pide que sea prohibida la caza y la venta de armas.
- Cuando un tipo de derecha es vegetariano, no come carne.
- Cuando un tipo de izquierda es vegetariano, hace campaña en contra de los alimentos de carne y le gustaría que se prohibiese comer carne.
- Cuando un tipo de derecha es homosexual, hace una vida normal.
- Cuando un un tipo de izquierda es homosexual, hace apología de la homosexualidad, va a las manifestaciones "orgullo gay" y acusa de "homofóbicos" a todos los que no piensan como él.
- Cuando alguien de derecha pierde el trabajo, piensa en cómo salir de la situación y hace todo lo posible por encontrar un nuevo trabajo.
- Cuando alguien de izquierda pierde su trabajo, va a quejarse con el sindicato, gasta hasta el último día y va a todas las manifestaciones y huelgas contra la derecha y en contra de los empresarios.
- Cuando a un tipo de derecha no le gusta un programa de televisión, cambia de canal o apaga el televisor.
- Cuando a un tipo de izquierda no le gusta un programa de televisión, se queja y denuncia en los periódicos, las radios, los canales de televisión, se une a algún partido político de izquierda para promover una causa con el fin del alcanzar el cierre definitivo del canal de televisión que transmite el programa que no le gusta.
- Cuando un tipo de derecha es ateo, no va a la iglesia.
- Cuando uno de izquierda es ateo, se burla y persigue a todos aquellos que creen en Dios, denuncia la escuela o la institución que exponga un crucifijo, protesta contra cualquier signo de identidad religiosa, pide que se expropien los bienes de la iglesia, que se prohíba la semana santa y cada procesión o peregrinación (contra el Islam no hace nada porque no tiene el coraje).
- Cuando un tipo de derecha tiene problemas económicos, busca la manera de trabajar y ganar más dinero o trata de encontrar financiación para pagar sus deudas, y si puede, ahorra.
- Cuando un tipo de izquierda tiene problemas económicos le echa la culpa a la derecha, a los empresarios, a la burguesía, al capitalismo, a los neo conservadores etc., etc., luego se pone en contacto con un sindicato con la esperanza de que luego lo metan en un partido político o donde se pueda.
- Cuando un tipo de derecha lee este escrito, se ríe y si tiene ganas lo envía a sus amigos.
- Cuando un tipo de izquierda lee este escrito, se pone furiozo y trata de fascista y retrógrado a quién lo ha escrito y se lo envió.
Sólo cabría agregar: Un hombre de derecha persigue su propia felicidad; un hombre de izquierda persigue arruinarle la felicidad a los demás.