The MalaCast

I watched President Trump's announcement. It was a little dull, quite a bit longer than it should have been (1 hr!), but it was good enough. He's the man to beat for the 2024 Republican nomination.

Note:  A prior version of this show was released on the morning of Friday 11/18.  I wasn't happy with the post-production effects meant to boost President Trump's words, so I remastered the file and am much happier with it now.

“You will feel very free once you realize there are worse things than being called a bigot. –Eva Kurilova

I discuss deer strikes.

I don't see how Republicans can often win elections without using the public purse to buy lots and lots of voters the way Democrats do.

I believe the nation was doomed the minute "general welfare" was construed to mean payments from government funds to individual Americans.

Wiser than the libertarian "The lesser of two evils is still evil" is Aristotle's "The lesser of two evils is more desirable."

This election may have done enough to impede or even cancel Biden's legislative agenda, but it was not the glorious reproach many of us wanted. But why? (spoiler I dunno)

“If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause, because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that it will triumph.” -TS Elliott

Mark Kelly and Blake Masters faced of weeks ago in what is now, according to PredictIt, the closest senate race in the country.

I tuned in to find out what happened; Here are highlights.

Joe Biden has given a disgraceful speech in which he implicates his political opponents in crimes they did not commit nor plan nor even encourage in order to gain more power.

As his own vitality and even cognizance wanes, his lust for power at the expense of truth waxes.

I give my reaction to the October 14'th debate between Walker and Warnock in Georgia.

Warnock:  Professorial, evasive, polished.

Walker:  Real, likeable, folksy.

No wonder Warnock is struggling in recent polling!

John Fetterman and Doctor Oz had their first and only debate.

Several journalists said Fetterman was pretty much fine, but it turns out they were liars. He's worse than almost anyone expected, including me. It's the worst debate performance I've ever seen; I feel sorry for the man and hope he loses and quietly recuperates, surrounded by loved ones, far away from power.

Few phrases cause me to question your manhood more than, “I identify as a man.”

Joe Biden can no longer grasp the basic facts related to his job. He believes student debt was forgiven via a law which he signed; in reality, it was an executive order. One needn't be too imaginative to see how the most powerful man in the world's departure from reality could cost us dearly.

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.” -Chesterton

History can tell you lots of things. But what it can't, or has never told me at least, is what it FELT like. I try to imagine the mood in the aftermath of the Revolution, when anything was possible, or in the runup to the Civil War, when nothing was. I strongly suspect the latter more closely resembles the present mood.

I met JD Vance and three things stuck out to me.

Like all hysterics, Rob Reiner is deluded in a second way; He does not know he is one, forgetting his own REPETITIVE history.

“Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.” -Walter Williams

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” ― Aristotle

Chris Kyle was murdered by a man who he knew was insane.

Joe Rogan wants to talk about cat-identifying students receiving litter boxes. If it's true, this is the kind of story that bores me. Why? It lets a lot of people off the hook.

“It is in these silent and receptive moments that the soul of man is sometimes visited by an awareness of what holds the world together.” –Josef Pieper