National Politics
I came across a quotation from Nassim Taleb’s book, Antifragile, suggesting that the more immediate your focus (e.g., hourly versus annually), the greater the noise-to-signal ratio. That is, the effects from moment to moment are more likely to result from random or unrelated factors, while longer-term trends are more likely to reflect genuine changes. The advice…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about who benefits (and who doesn’t) from recent items in the news.
… but it’ll require a turn away from progressives’ insistence that everything must be politics. This clip of Eric Weinstein and Nicole Shanahan discussing the “mind control at scale” we’re seeing at the national level is worth the four minutes of your time. It’s not only that our system has been coopted by the gaslighters,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review recent political talk in Rhode Island.
It’s amazing how quickly things are moving. Watching the news media conspire with the Democrat Party literally to deny facts about Kamala Harris and disappear them from the Internet makes Martin Gurri’s two-week-old musings on the Joe Biden coverup look tame: With Biden, the establishment was presented with a difficult challenge: It was reality itself…
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the areas in which state and national Democrats are able to succeed.
John DePetro and Justin Katz trace the political ripples of a rapidly declining Biden.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the perilous position of the country and state.
For many, Joe Biden’s debate performance exposed a frightening reality and posed a dreadful question for the decision-makers of his party.
This is a belated acknowledgment that Ben Shapiro is exactly right about the Jerry-Springer-esque catfight in Congress last month: If we don’t like what we’re seeing in Washington, D.C., the only durable solution is to ensure it isn’t representative. But just like the brawls on that famous gawker show, untangling ourselves from this mess is…