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[jakelafort]

Enco,

Chumpsky is top dog charlatan. One Jew hater referred me and i critiqued him. Jew haters love Jew haters who are Jewish. Makes em feel warm and fuzzy. Justified too. Spin cast sophistry and Mehdi aint too bad at it. I listen to Casper the unfriendly blond basket. Algos have her on rewind. She is comical in her vituperative rebuttals and transparent hatred.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

Chumpsky is top dog charlatan. One Jew hater referred me and i critiqued him. Jew haters love Jew haters who are Jewish. Makes em feel warm and fuzzy. Justified too. Spin cast sophistry and Mehdi aint too bad at it. I listen to Casper the unfriendly blond basket. Algos have her on rewind. She is comical in her vituperative rebuttals and transparent hatred.

Glad you referred to Chomsky. That reminded me that I forgot to list Jewish Voice for Peace, Norman Finkelstein, and any number of Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Zionists.

I meant to properly spell her name Ana Kasperian, though she is both a ghoul and a basket-case, so your descriptor is also accurate. The blond reference threw me at first, since there’s so many among Anti-Semites, they could form a Aryan Woman’s Frau Auxillary.

I haven’t searched for people who are indifferent, but Matt Walsh would head the list, since he’s said he just doesn’t care whether Israel exists or not. I guess as long as he gets his Grunge Flannel and Lead-infused Grecian Formula for his Muppet beard, he couldn’t care less.

The next list will have to be Zionists who give Israel a bad name, since they are functionally no different than Israel’s enemies.

The first one that comes to mind is Rev. John Hagee, the one who said that Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment to New Orleans for tolerating LGBTQ’s. Israel and the Lezbrews should’ve told him: “No thanks! We’re good! We’ll just go back to fighting the whole World alone like we always have!”

[jakelafort]

Israelis have excelled in lots of things.

Countering the Jew hating racism is not among those things. In fact just abhorrent. I proferred the explanation some time ago having first read it from an Israeli and having it corroborated a few times since. It is essentially we are not going to defend ourselves to morons. I guess it would be akin to an adult feeling no impetus to defend against baseless accusations of a 7 yr old.

That stance is as it ought to be not as it is. In an ideal world it would be go fuck yourself you pathetic morons. Unfortunately the Islamist/lefty scum alliance has rendered Israel proper a pariah state and jeopardized the lives and mental well being of Jews all over the world. Further it has set back the cause of human rights beyond all comprehension. It has directly resulted in untold suffering and persecution including the political fodder known as Palestinians in Gaza.

I have lots of ideas on how to counter the propaganda but i am nobody and my ideas mean nothing. So yea…Free Palestine, Fuck the Jews, River to sea won’t be kosher till it is Jew free.

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers and Jake:

Well, one good thing has happened: The Regressive Wokester, DSA, Antisemite wing of the Democratic Party of Maine now no longer has a candidate. The beaverpuss totalitarian Graham Platner is dropping out and his supporters have a little egg-on-face to scrape off:

Graham Platner drops Maine Senate bid
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/08/politics/video/graham-platner-drops-maine-senate-bid-digvid-hnk

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbeliever:

No sooner than one Fascist/Communist-friendly politician thug Graham Platner falls, the top dog of Fascist/Communist-friendly politicians, Donald J. Trump, rises up with a scheme to get support:

Trump is using his “Freedom Fuel Network” scheme to propagate the illusion that only his diktat and golden spray-painted Iron fist can provide lower fuel prices.

Never mind that prices are ultimately determined by Supply and Demand. Never mind the supply is lower because of his botching of the war with the Iran and the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU). Donald’s much ballyhooed MOU gave control of the Strait of Hormuz to the Mullahs and IRGC, which controls 20% of the world’s oil supply and ultimately the overall world oil price.

This nation doesn’t need a “No Kings” Rally, it needs a “No Commissars” Rally and a “No Public/Private Partnership” Rally.

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Oh, and Trump originally promised he’d get gas prices to $2.00 a gallon within a year of winning office, so this is “Freedom Fuel Network” is a rip-off even by MAGA standards.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

@Enco – Yes, I found the Commentary article to be a very good read.

Here is another one I read recently. Taken directly from the Irish Times, July 4th. Written by David McWilliams, an Irish economist.

It’s impossible to imagine the world without the dollar.

The American republic is 250 years old today. On this auspicious anniversary, the story of Alexander Hamilton, the birth of the dollar and the emergence of what would become the economic behemoth that is the American republic is worth retelling because the story of America is the story of money.

Once they had figured out the constitutional basis of the United States, the most significant move undertaken by the founding fathers was to create a new currency. The American revolutionaries passed the Coinage Act on April 2nd, 1792, under the direction of Alexander Hamilton, the smartest economic mind of all the rebels.

Romantics like Thomas Jefferson possessed an almost elegiac view of America, where the new republic would be rural and isolated, uncorrupted by money, markets and finance. In contrast, Hamilton, always the modernist, saw a capitalist US, competing with the Europeans in industry, commerce and trade.

As the first treasury secretary of the US, Hamilton had no time for the nostalgic sentimentality of Jefferson, Sam Adams and James Madison. In the early 1790s, he saw that hyperinflation was hijacking the French Revolution, which was morphing from a thoughtful, bourgeois uprising to a murderous, guillotine-fueled, Jacobin blood-fest.

Hamilton knew America needed a sound currency to avoid making the mistake of the French revolutionaries and that is why he anchored the new American financial system to a solid currency via the Coinage Act. The dollar would be tied to silver and this move changed the course of American money and American history. It’s almost impossible to imagine the United States of America without the dollar. Indeed, from the perspective of the 21st century, it’s impossible to imagine the world without the dollar.

Once the dollar was established by Hamilton, the Americans – revealing their love of money and profit so regularly commented on by European visitors – displayed an uncanny ability to form companies and take a risk. This created an economic excitement that enticed Europeans to leave the old world and have a go in the new one. Capital as well as talent flowed into America.

While Europe became engulfed in the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, America, in splendid isolation, with a functioning banking system and a stable currency, got down to the business of making money. A capitalist republic, red in tooth and claw, America of the early 1800s was an economy on steroids.

Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1831: “As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money it will bring in.”

For Europeans, America offered the promise of the self-made man. Like the millions of our own countrymen and women who left Ireland for America, this promise of money must have been unbelievably seductive and Hamilton, himself once a poor migrant, appreciated this.

Hamilton’s own story is the American Dream incarnate. Born on the Caribbean island of Nevis and abandoned by his Scottish trader father, he became an orphan at the age of 11 when his Huguenot mother died. The originally French-speaking Hamilton was supported by local friends, who spotted signs of his early promise, paying for him to go to college in New York. Unlike many of the well-to-do federalists, he had been born poor, but his intellect and bravery on the battlefield (he fought alongside Washington and played a critical role at the Battle of Yorktown) enabled him to climb the heights of American revolutionary power.

After every revolution, there must be a period of stabilization where the gains of the revolution are consolidated and made concrete. The late 1780s in America were the consolidation years. Central to political stability was getting the new constitution ratified and, crucial to monetary stability was the establishment of a credible currency.

Hamilton was at the heart of both campaigns.

Hamilton the fighter re-emerged as Hamilton the orator and writer. He took it upon himself to get the fledgling American constitution ratified by the various states. In 1787, he set about getting the people on the side of the new constitution with a series of articles which would become known as the Federalist Papers. So great was the power of the press in this age of the political pamphlet that Hamilton’s reasoning won over public opinion. In fact, he accomplished that task with such brilliance that a huge boat, the Federal Ship Hamilton, was pulled through the city by delighted New Yorkers in July 1788 and proposals were presented to have New York City renamed Hamiltoniana.

Hamilton understood that talk of human rights and the pursuit of happiness was all very well, but something tangible was required to hold the United States together. Without some binding organizational tool, the republic and its competing states might unravel. Hamilton’s tool would be money. And central to the legitimacy of the new federal republic would be a new currency.

Throughout history, going right back to Alexander the Great, money has symbolized something bigger than mere exchange. Money is political power, and across Alexander’s vast empire, his subjects knew who the boss was when they saw his face on the coins. To this day, money symbolizes the nation, as is the case with sterling, or a greater supranational political project, as with the euro.

Under Hamilton’s influence, the founders of the American republic appreciated that the currency would be emblematic of the new country and a new beginning. Because money is tangible, and we use it every day, it serves as a gelling agent for other institutions, such as the tax system, which further bolsters the state. For a nation the size of the American republic, money created an allegiance to the new country in a more mundane and yet powerful way than a constitution. While the constitution may have been the creed, money was America’s sacrament – or you might say, as de Tocqueville was to observe a few years later, that money was the religion of the new republic.

This weekend, when Americans are celebrating the greats like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, don’t forget the greatest of them all, the monetary genius, Alexander Hamilton.

Source image: The Irish Times | Weekend | Saturday, July 4, 2026

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

……and some commentary by me and then edited by AI.

1. Federal assumption of state debts
The federal government took on the Revolutionary War debts of the states. This was politically explosive, but brilliant. It made creditors loyal to the federal government rather than just to individual states. In plain English: Hamilton tied the moneyed interests of the country to the survival of the Union.

2. Creation of a national bank
The First Bank of the United States helped stabilize public credit, manage government funds, issue banknotes, and support commerce. Jefferson hated it because he saw it as centralizing and quasi-monarchical. Hamilton saw it as necessary plumbing for a modern economy.

3. Establishing public credit
Hamilton wanted the U.S. to pay its debts properly, not wriggle out of them. This sounds boring, but it was foundational. A young country that pays its debts can borrow again. A country that defaults becomes a beggar with a flag.

4. A national currency and financial system
The dollar itself was authorized under the Coinage Act of 1792, but Hamilton’s influence was central. He wanted a rational, decimal-based monetary system — dollars, dimes, cents — rather than the mess of pounds, shillings, foreign coins, state paper, and barter-like confusion that existed before.

The clever bit was this: Hamilton used finance to create political unity.

He did not merely ask Americans to “feel” like one nation. He helped build a system where they had to operate like one nation. Shared debt, shared currency, shared credit, shared taxation, shared banking — these were the steel rods inside the concrete of the republic.

Jefferson and Madison feared this would create a financial aristocracy. They were not entirely wrong. Hamilton’s system favored merchants, creditors, bondholders, and commercial development. But Hamilton’s reply would probably have been: yes, and that is how you turn a fragile agrarian confederation into a serious state.

Hamilton looked at the young United States and basically said: “You can have all the liberty poetry you like, but without credit, currency, and revenue, you are not a country. You are a committee with debts.”

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Speaking of Irish publications, are they suffering from another famine over there? They’ve got to be bad off to take dietary advice from Bobby Brainworm and The Great and Wonderous Dr. Oz:

RFK Jr’s diet may help lower risk for dementia, study shows
Story by Eleanor Tolbert • 3mo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rfk-jr-s-diet-may-help-lower-risk-for-dementia-study-shows/ar-AA1Z4i4r?cvid=6a5006221c704a9ab80f0b97692e0d49&ei=77

Welp, ya can’t die from dementia if you have a heart attack and don’t live long enough to get dementia!

🧠🤔🫀

When I’ve made hospital visits, the last of my concerns was a healthy diet. My particular hospital has an excellent food service not only for patients, but for staff and even visitors wanting a good variety comparable to buffet restaurants like Golden Coral.

Nope, what what U.S. health care needs are greater numbers of competing facilities, which State “Certificate Of Need” laws impede, Hospital food service would naturally improve with competition.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

One of my clients is a large Dublin hospital. If I do have to travel to site, I aim to be there during lunch hour. A very good quality meal for $5 (staff canteen).

As for the Irish Star, do not be fooled by the humble tabloid layout, the celebrity-adjacent headlines, or the general impression that the editorial meeting takes place inside a chipper at 1:40 a.m. This is not mere journalism. This is civilization final flowering.

Where lesser newspapers waste time on policy, economics, geopolitics, or the collapse of public reason, The Irish Star courageously asks the questions Plato was too timid to face. For example: what does it mean for the American vice president to swear in front of children and then blame his gun-toting, F-bomb-dropping grandmother? This is not clickbait. This is anthropology.

The article stands as a towering monument to the human condition. Vance curses. Children exist. A grandmother is invoked. Somewhere in the distance, Medicaid fraud is mentioned, briefly, like a minor administrative inconvenience interrupting the Homeric saga of inherited profanity.

You Americans may have The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other dreary institutions burdened by fact-checking departments and editors who own dictionaries. But here in Ireland, we have achieved something purer: journalism as pub conversation, lightly stapled to a Getty image.

The Irish Star does not merely report the news. It takes the news, removes any unnecessary dignity, rolls it in glitter, and serves it to the public with the confidence of a man explaining quantum mechanics after six pints. It is, in short, an intellectual colossus.

Future historians will not ask where we were when democracy trembled. They will ask whether we clicked the headline about JD Vance’s grandmother swearing. And we will stand proud!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

My Spidey-Sense detects a /sarcasm tag needs adding to your paen to The Isish Star.
🕷️😁

Well here in the States, we have the plain un-national, universal tabloid The Star, plus The National Inquirer and The Weekly World News. The latter was probably the source for Trump’s recent UFO/ET files.

👽👾🛸

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Here is the other article I referred to but forgot to link:

RFK Jr., Dr. Oz unveil ‘Make hospital food healthier’ pledge
Story by Anthony Thompson, USA TODAY • 1d
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/healthy-cooking-and-eating/rfk-jr-dr-oz-unveil-make-hospital-food-healthier-pledge/ar-AA27vpXO

Notice they’re not concerned with the people put in the hospital by anti-vax policies and people who may become hospitalized because of conditions that could be prevented or healed if it wasn’t for anti-rdna policies

More Red Herring aquaculture from MAHA’s Masters.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The U.S. Constitution was wisely set up to require currency based in Gold and Silver, since it meant the Government couldn’t debase the currency by creating a supply of money greater than the supply of the precious metals. It both limited Government spending and made the currency have stronger purchasing power for private citizen’s commerce. Both paper Greenbacks and Crypto would be much less problematic if their algorithm ran like this.

The U.S. Constitution also wisely standardized weights and measure, to encourage confidence in exchange. It also encouraged commerce between States by having exclusive Federal Jurisdiction over interstate commerce, by requiring good faith and credit in contracts between States and by forbidding State laws invalidating the obligations of contracts.

It also encouraged development of intellectual property in creative works and invention by setting up the Office of Patents and Trademark.

Now for the required, measured, nuanced critique:

What the U.S. Constitution could have done to make our political economy better is to explicitly address abolition of slavery early on and require that all dealings with indigenous peoples be by voluntary treaty and commercial contract.

This would have spared all the blood and treasure and human potential wasted in The Civil War and all the wars of “Manifest Destiny.” It also would have rendered stillborn all our present Wokeist/”identity politics” crap.

Former slaves could be in on the reindeer games and/or (their choice) adventure vacation in Humanity’s Mother Continent and settle scores with their former Kings and former Jihadi brokers. Indigenous peoples could have been beloved suppliers and concierge tour guides to the bounties of the larger Continent.

Inventor Eli Whitney and others could have sped things along by making not just cotton ginning mechanized, but by making the whole agricultural planting, irrigation, cultivation, and harvesting process mechanized.

This would have also helped bridged the senseless divide between rural agriculture and urban industry, since city slickers enjoy farm products too and country folk would produce more with less toil and less loss with the products of science and industry.

The real worker’s struggle would not be with industry magnates but with Nature itself, to find how fast to automate more dangerous drudge work and increase safe, clean mind work.

Maybe in an alternative history, the Montgolfier Brothers and the Wright Brothers could have been the first Steampunk private space entrepreneurs!

A man can dream, can’t he? And dreams could still come true yet if we hold on to what’s best of our past and ditch the rest!

[jakelafort]

Sorry Enco,

I know you are of the opinion Loony Tunes is the bomb and singularly didactic.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

That was da bomb too and a great addendum to my takes on the U.S. Constitution.

If Joe Pesci’s character survived the mean streets of the Nineties, he could have been a super monetized content provider side by side with the Yootz of TikTok (more Pesci lingo from My Cousin Vinny.

And a good thing it is that the U.S. Constitution can be changed…provided the ideals of Preamble are the guide.

I doubt the U.S. Constitution would survive if Woke Left and Woke Right got a hold of it in a Constitutional Convention. Mark Levin needs to tread lightly in his proposals here.

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