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Tuesday, June 3. 2025

Tuesday morning links


The author of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and American Buffalo, David Mamet must be our greatest living playwright.


Red-pilled 


Drones: the newest twist in warfare


America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’


CNN's Buried Lede: New Poll Shows Dems Still Cratering


Marco Rubio Declares War On The Global Censors


Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis


Where have all the Jews gone? Jews are fleeing from cities and nations that were once safe havens.


Germany self-sabotages again

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QUOTE:
Marco Rubio Declares War On The Global Censors
  • Trump has used the organs of government to target private law firms for representing disfavored clients.
  • Trump has used the organs of government to target disfavored private media outlets for their exercise of free speech, initiating regulatory actions, and going so far as to call them "illegal".
  • Trump has used the organs of government to target disfavored private universities, often violating legal process, for their exercise of free speech and association.
  • Trump has used the organs of government to target disfavored legal immigrants for their exercise of free speech.
#1 Zachriel on 2025-06-03 10:11 (Reply)
Possibly true on all counts. Now insert the names Biden, Obama, and Clinton into the same sentences.

We didn't start the fire. Trump is using back the same tactics that were thrown at him, and all Republicans back to Dewey, a moderate who Truman called a fascist. I very much don't like that. I wish it were high road all the time for us. But I am absolutely not going to lose a minute's sleep over it either.
#1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-06-03 12:33 (Reply)
Assistant Village Idiot: Possibly true on all counts.

Be happy to provide support for each claim.

Assistant Village Idiot: Now insert the names Biden, Obama, and Clinton into the same sentences.

Hmm. They don't seem to have strong parallels. Notably, the one example you provide is flawed.

Assistant Village Idiot: Trump is using back the same tactics that were thrown at him, and all Republicans back to Dewey, a moderate who Truman called a fascist.

Truman calling his political opponent a "front man" for fascism is not using 'the organs of government' to attack private speech—even if you rightly argue it was unfair and unwise. It was clearly political speech. You might even go further back to Jefferson who was viciously attacked in pamphlets of fathering a child with his slave.

Assistant Village Idiot: We didn't start the fire.

No, but Trump is an arsonist.
#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-06-03 12:58 (Reply)
Z: a "front man" for fascism is not using 'the organs of government' to attack private speech

In the actual speech, Truman warns of an economic elite that uses fear of foreigners and minorities (such as Catholics, Jews, and Negros) to concentrate political and economic power, and that he saw his opponent as an enabler.
#1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-06-03 13:10 (Reply)
Seems like I've seen this before.
#2 don on 2025-06-03 11:07 (Reply)
Please comment on attorney dismissal & disbarment threats progressive elements have been using since 2020 election . For simply advising the conservative side re: possible legal tactics.

Think Cleta Mitchell long-time, highly regarded attorney at Foley & Lardner. Expelled by her partners, ostensibly for political positions/activities butI have heard from reliable sources that major clients threatened to leave Foley if she remained.
The threat of reduced fees works whether from an antagonistic government or a major client - the coercion works the same.
#3 Louie Miller on 2025-06-03 11:24 (Reply)
Louie Miller: Think Cleta Mitchell long-time, highly regarded attorney at Foley & Lardner. Expelled by her partners, ostensibly for political positions/activities but I have heard from reliable sources that major clients threatened to leave Foley if she remained.

That's private behavior.

Louie Miller: The threat of reduced fees works whether from an antagonistic government or a major client - the coercion works the same.

The distinction is that people have the right to voice their opinions (even if you might argue unfairly), while undue government coercion against free speech is a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
#3.1 Zachriel on 2025-06-03 12:20 (Reply)
The universities are finally getting a taste of the 'Hillsdale' treatment.

There is a difference between protest and riot.

There is a difference between free speech and inciting a riot.
#4 indyjonesouthere on 2025-06-03 11:54 (Reply)
As of 2023, 74% of Brussels' population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%.

Wow!

One would think the immigrants would wield substantial political power, at least in Brussels? Do they? Or do they not bother to vote?

Brussels sounds like it is fast becoming a basket case. Is Brussels a microcosm of Belgium? Is the rest of the nation close behind?

BTW, I believe London is about as heavily populated with foreigners as Brusssels.
#5 feeblemind on 2025-06-03 11:57 (Reply)
feeblemind: As of 2023, 74% of Brussels' population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%.

That compares a city to nations. Cities tend to be centers of immigration. About 35% of the population of Brussels has a foreign background, including from other European countries. About 23% of the population are Muslim.

feeblemind: Brussels sounds like it is fast becoming a basket case.

Brussels is a primary node of the global economic system, an Alpha Global City. Brussels is the center of the Belgian economy, which is highly developed, high income, and with high life expectancy.
#5.1 Zachriel on 2025-06-03 12:47 (Reply)
The obvious outcome for DEI cities is that they are deconstructing due to having very few common cultural traits. The most obvious common cultural trait is grifting which is not affordable even for first world countries. They all slide into multicultural ghettos... not much of a future for 'alpha' cities.

Note the alpha cities in the US that continue their slide into bankruptcy and dysfunction.
#5.2 indyjonesouthere on 2025-06-03 15:53 (Reply)
Justice Kavanaugh to Second Amendment: We're Really Busy Now, Come Back In A Year Or Two

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On December 1, 2020, the Maryland ban on AR-15s was challenged. The plaintiffs lost in the District Court and before the Fourth Circuit. In August 2024, a cert petition was filed in Snope v. Brown. The petition sat in purgatory for nearly a year with fourteen relists.

Today, the Supreme Court finally put the petition out of its misery and denied cert.


SCOTUS continues to drift left.

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/02/justice-kavanaugh-to-second-amendment-were-really-busy-now-come-back-in-a-year-or-two/

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#6 feeblemind on 2025-06-03 12:08 (Reply)
"Drifts." Yes. It seems to happen repeatedly, likely because of the DC company they keep. This is why we need to keep renewing originalism into the pipeline on the other end.
#6.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-06-03 12:37 (Reply)
Re: Mamet. I would call Tom Stoppard our greatest living playwright in English, but Mamet suits me fine. Stoppard also became more conservative the farther along he went.
#7 Assistant Village Idiot on 2025-06-03 12:48 (Reply)
Where have all the Jews gone?

They are fleeing from what the vast majority of them voted for.

If not for Jewish support, it is unlikely Hitler would have ever won office.

As a people, they simply are way too short sighted in spite of 3000 thousand years of history.
#8 LibDis on 2025-06-03 14:57 (Reply)

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