Jake

Christian, husband, libertarian divine monarchist, right winger. Aiming at some extra titles.

[Jake @RealityWillWin]

@BobMurphyEcon @StephenM The mean thought I had this morning about a nosy litigious small-town functionary - God loves that functionary

[il campionissimo @EnzerEnzer]

god, yes.
please, yes.
finally.

[Mises Media @mises_media]

Greenspan just died. The institution he ran for 19 years was born in secret. Rothbard traced the Fed's origins from J.P. Morgan's library to Jekyll Island to the Oval Office—naming every banker, every politician, and every economist who made it happen. Free audiobook. https://t.co/n1beotmUMC

[Mises Institute @mises]

Today, Justice Clarence Thomas has two references to Murray Rothbard's Conceived in Liberty in his dissent over birthright citizenship.

Available free at https://t.co/uYpc3ozC5f: https://t.co/DUDE7JrZMB

[Lawrence Lepard, "fix the money, fix the world" @LawrenceLepard]

Really enjoyed speaking with Bob and addressing the Mises Institute audience (Austrian Economists)

[Lawrence Lepard, "fix the money, fix the world" @LawrenceLepard]

Recorded yesterday with the excellent David Lin. Updated projections. @davidlin_TV

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[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

We are allied with unhinged lunatics

[Danny Jones @JonesDanny]

Antiwar author Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) breaks down the stories coming out of Gaza that no one wants to confront.

He says the most disturbing part is not even the bombing:

[Curt Mills @CurtMills]

Where do all these wars come from?

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

I wonder if there was some previous form of social technology that allowed women to stay home due to the biological realities of their gender while still contributing to society in an incredibly meaningful and valuable way

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

This book is incredible and the first time you read it you marvel at how the ancient world was entirely defined by religion and how much things have changed

Then you realize nothing has actually changed and you’ve been handed the keys to understand the world

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

@JoshRainerGold I understand if people don’t like Tucker but has this driven everyone to start hating the Bible?

It’s they’re just discussing the Bible

Maybe people can just read the Bible and stop raging?

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and former State Department official Victoria Nuland were absolutely humiliated and outclassed during a public debate over whether the war against Iran should continue.

Pompeo and Nuland defended U.S. interventionism by labeling Iran a “monster” that threatens global order through missile attacks.

“You do know, Mike, that we started the war?”

“You do know we overthrew the democratically elected government in 1954?”

*The entire crowd starts to applaud.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

If you don’t understand the guillotine as an alter you don’t understand Planned Parenthood today

The world is still a place driven by religion, by spiritual forces

Nothing has changed

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The French Revolution rejected Christ and then built a literal idol to the goddess of reason and installed it in Notre Dame

They subsequently sacrificed a large percentage of their population in a blood sacrifice on that alter

It was not a modern secular revolution

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Disembodied consciousness will be possessed by something

Silicon Valley is rushing to build a vessel to contain forces they do not understand, a modern spin on a tale as ancient as humanity itself

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

Some kook is attacking me from behind a block about my take on the Pulse Nightclub massacre. Here’s what I wrote about it in my book Enough Already:

Omar Mateen, the American-born perpetrator of the horrific Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre of June 2016, explicitly told witnesses he was taking revenge for the continuing U.S. war in Afghanistan, the country of his family’s origin. “When I saw his picture on the news, I thought, of course, he did that,” a co-worker of Mateen told Newsday. “He had bad things to say about everybody—blacks, Jews, gays, a lot of politicians, our soldiers. He had a lot of hate in him. He told me America destroyed Afghanistan.” 

A young woman named Patience Carter, who was shot in the leg by Mateen and held hostage in the bathroom of the club for three hours with the gunman, said, “The motive was very clear to us who are laying in our own blood and other people’s blood, who are injured, who were shot. Everybody who was in that bathroom who survived could hear him talking to 911, saying the reason why he’s doing this is because he wanted America to stop bombing his country.”

In the middle of committing his atrocity—Mateen slaughtered 49 people and wounded 53—he stopped to post on his Facebook page: “You kill innocent women and children by doing us 
airstrikes . . . now taste the Islamic state vengeance.” [errors in original]

The transcript of his call to 911, released much later after all the attention died down, is more explicit. As Mateen declared his loyalty to the leaders of ISIS, he explained his demands:

“[Y]ou have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there? You get what I’m saying? . . . You need to stop the U.S. airstrikes. They need to stop the U.S. airstrikes, okay? . . . 
You have to tell the U.S. government to stop bombing. They are killing too many children, they are killing too many women, okay? . . . I feel the pain of the people getting killed in Syria and Iraq and all over the Muslim [world]. A lot of innocent women and children are getting killed in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan, okay?”

As it turns out, the government lied like the Devil that Mateen was a repressed, closeted homosexual struggling under the tyranny of his fundamentalist religion, causing him to lash out at this 
gay nightclub. His attack had nothing to do with that completely false narrative. Only when the feds attempted to prosecute his wife did the truth come out that Mateen was not gay but had simply picked that nightclub for his massacre from the top of Google’s search results after deciding that Disney World’s security was too tight.

Mateen had chosen to sign on with the agendas of al-Nusra and the Islamic State and attacked a crowded nightclub as a strike against the United States on their behalf. (The cowardly Orlando police waited outside for hours as people bled to death inside the nightclub. After the cops finally breached the wall, they 
opened fire, killing even more innocent people trying to escape. No one was ever held accountable.) In the meantime, millions of people were led to believe that a bin Ladenite terrorist had just massacred 49 people because of how much Muslims hate gay people, and how much this one hated himself. The reality was that he was angry that Obama had built an Islamic caliphate and then started bombing it. Mateen was avenging the innocent people caught in the middle. It is certainly no excuse for killing innocent people, but that makes Mateen’s atrocity his and Obama’s responsibility, not the religion of Islam or Freudian sexual repression.

[Jake @RealityWillWin]

@jackvlloyd Leftwingers are civilizationally, organizationally, and psychologically entropic. Exemplified in this tirade and in all the ineffectual pseudo-religious squawkings of left-'libertarians' whenever anyone does or thinks anything that comports with reality. Crabs in a bucket.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

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