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Re: Europeans Prepare to Defend Themselves, Or Don’t

MrLynn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:24:01 -0000

Russia is not going to invade the EU. In case you missed it, when Presidents Trump and Putin met in Alaska, they were talking about much more than Ukraine. There is a commercial alliance in the works, maybe even a new Great Power Alliance of the USA, China, Russia, and India (and maybe Japan). The EU will remain a backwater.

There is even a revival of plans for a tunnel under the Bering Strait. Russia is not our enemy.

Re: Beginning of the End?

MrLynn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:03:01 -0000

Good WAG. That's essentially what the President said last night.

Re: Thinking about the Aiken gambit

MrLynn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:50:57 -0000

President Trump says that renewed bombing will kill lots of people. He doesn't want to kill lots of people. Always better to talk.

Re: Beginning of the End?

MrLynn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:22:40 -0000

Trey Yingst got an exclusive from the President in the Situation Room:
https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/2064854010620780824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Re: Another Declaration Podcast: Brad Birzer’s “A Radical Experiment in Liberty”

MrLynn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:35:20 -0000

Will be interesting to see what Birzer has to say about 'Pursuit of Happiness' (I ordered his book).

Re: Another Declaration Podcast: Brad Birzer’s “A Radical Experiment in Liberty”

MrLynn — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:34:15 -0000

I rarely listen to podcasts, but this was a delightful conversation.

Technical point: Your audio level was way lower than your guest's, which made it hard to hear you over my neighbor's noisy mower. Watch the levels!

Loved your quote from Lou Cannon about Reagan's conservatism so much I wrote it down: "Reagan wasn't trying to take us back to the past—he was trying to take us back to the past's way of looking at the future." I think the same could be said of President Trump and his Cabinet, too.

Liked your comment about what we were reading at age 17—I hadn't heard of Ayn Rand, but was well-versed in Tolkien (this was before the college kids heard about him). I had also been reading Korzybski's Science and Sanity. What would that do to your forumula?

Re: Redpelleyed, the himbo

MrLynn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:54:11 -0000

Good point. I've often wondered at the proliferation of ads featuring prescription drugs for obscure maladies.

Re: Redpelleyed, the himbo

MrLynn — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:49:14 -0000

Wrong. A shiny head is the indicator of an empty mind. A hairy head is the indicator of a fertile mind. Inspire the follicles!

Re: GOOD AND HARD, L.A., GOOD AND HARD: https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/2063773710964646083

MrLynn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:51:12 -0000

How long will Californians continue to put up with this crap?

Re: Noble savages revisited

MrLynn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:36:34 -0000

Not familiar with Prof. Lenski (though I had been at UNC Anthropology for a couple of years in the '60s), but it sounds as though he was an exponent of American cultural anthropology from before it descended into a ferment of post-modernist sociology, full of ideological jargon instead of objective ethnology.

Re: Noble savages revisited

MrLynn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:47:50 -0000

Neither movie is going to tell you about native societies, but much about the the script writers' fantasies, bred in 20th-century America.

Most of the time people in 'primitive' societies live like most of us do, growing, foraging, or hunting food, raising children, keeping house, building, cleaning, repairing, visiting, occasionally celebrating, etc. They all have their squabbles; in some cultures the young men may have to prove their mettle by going on raids, and some of these can result in bloody encounters, but these are rare (the forests or fields are not as dangerous as some of our city streets).

A real time film of life there would be about as boring as one in your town.

Re: Norwegian Pride! | Power Line

MrLynn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:35:06 -0000

Great photo. The Vikings had the best-looking ships!

Re: Vance, Starmer, and Western Civilization

MrLynn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:20:53 -0000

Or maybe the weasel—or the snake?

Re: Minnesota’s most wanted

MrLynn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:07:07 -0000

Worth thinking about. . .

Re: On Platner, Fetterman Breaks Ranks

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:16:28 -0000

I very much doubt that most Democrats would admit they "hate America" and "trying to destroy her" (as John says), though it appears so to us.

What then is the dividing line? Is (Illegal) Immigration the sine qua non issue that divides the nation as slavery did in the 19th century? Do most Democrats share the Globalist dream of 'Open Borders'? Do they really want our cities and towns flooded with foreigners who will not assimilate? It is hard to imagine they do.

I don't know the answer. Has the Democrat party simply become the party of innocent children led by the Pied Piper of Collectivist Pipe-Dreams? Or are they so brain-dead that they cannot envision anything beyond their immediate impulses and gratifications, and the banalities of their peers?

Re: A More Optimistic View on Iran

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:47:46 -0000

I have seen reports that the UAE and maybe others have contributed 'boots on the ground' in Iran operations, so I suspect more is brewing than we know of. Makes sense to me, at any rate. But, as the President says, we will see.

Re: A New $250 Bill? | Power Line

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:58:00 -0000

I remember all the things I mentioned, and much more. . .

Re: A New $250 Bill? | Power Line

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:34:21 -0000

Yeah, I'd love the DeSoto.

You know, the French revalued the Franc. When we've started talking about 'billionaires' instead of 'millionaires', maybe it's time.

Re: A New $250 Bill? | Power Line

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:30:01 -0000

I have a bunch of them, from The Apprehensive States of America, featuring various left-wing portraits, including the Kenyan in Arabic headgear. (I think I got them from a financial advisor, the late Nelson Powers—RIP.)

Re: A New $250 Bill? | Power Line

MrLynn — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:22:06 -0000

Rather than "retire the one dollar bill," I would like to see the currency revalued: Make the dollar worth what it was in (say) the 1950s, when a 15-cent hamburger was standard, a Coke was a nickle, a haircut was a dollar, penny candy still existed, gas was 17.9¢ a gallon, and a medium-priced car was maybe $3,000.

I guess to revalue you'd need to print new bills (and coins?), but that could be fun, too.

Re: A More Optimistic View on Iran

MrLynn — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:57:38 -0000

I posted this on the other thread, but it seems relevant here as well:

I don't think President Trump is going to let the current stalemate disintegrate into a paper 'agreement' that retains the status quo ante, i.e. the authority of the IRGC. I suspect there are plans afoot for an integrated Gulf States offensive directed by US Centcom and supported by US/Israel airpower. It will be aimed at IRGC Command and Control centers and remaining military sites and infrastructure. It will also also destroy the bridges and power plants that Mr Trump threatened earlier, to the point where the state of Iran is fragmented and disorganized.

The US Navy will reopen and manage the Strait of Hormuz, and the blockade of Iran will be maintained until civilian Iranians surrender and submit to a US-Gulf States caretaker authority. The ability of the Persians to reconstitute their historical society, free of radical Shi'ism will depend on their willingness to join the Gulf States in a regional alliance.

Is this wishful thinking? Only President Trump knows.

Re: A More Optimistic View on Iran

MrLynn — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:47:02 -0000

Details please? Link?

Re: Waiting for the end | Power Line

MrLynn — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:40:19 -0000

Is this wishful thinking? Only President Trump knows.

Re: Clown Show In Congress

MrLynn — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:34:59 -0000

Not likely; Arabs don't like dogs.

Re: What manner of ceasefire is this?

MrLynn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:16:30 -0000

The 'nuclear dust' is buried beneath the rubble of the underground sites we destroyed last year. Likely it will take a lengthy excavation/mining operation to recover it. No doubt Army Engineers can do it, but the locations have to be secured and the IRGC neutralized beforehand. Can't have angry Iranians lobbing missiles and drones at us.