JFK in monolithic and ruthless conspiracy

 

Tony Seruga

@TonySeruga

JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too. The speech everyone’s talking about: Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961. The CIA had just botched the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was livid. He’d been lied to by his own intelligence apparatus. And he walked onto that stage and said something no president has dared say since. “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.” Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy. This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself. And then he said the quiet part out loud: “Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” Sound familiar? Sixty-five years later, Trump drops this video on Truth Social. No commentary needed. The speech does all the work. And within hours, the same media outlets that spent four years calling Trump a conspiracy theorist are suddenly very quiet. Here’s what they don’t want you to connect: - Kennedy was assassinated 2.5 years after this speech - The Warren Commission was a joke — even the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 concluded Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” - The files are STILL classified - Trump has been pushing to release them, but the permanent national security state refuses, instead slow-walking the order The timing isn’t random. This isn’t just history. JFK described a permanent national security state that has only grown more entrenched — one that operates beyond elections, beyond accountability, beyond the reach of voters. Kennedy called it “a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.” That machine didn’t disappear when he died. It got even stronger. Trump reposting this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a signal. The same forces JFK warned about are the same forces that tried to destroy Trump — Russiagate, two impeachments, lawfare, media blackout, assassination attempts. The playbook hasn’t changed. Only the names. And now the sitting president just reminded the country who the real enemy has always been. The speech that scared them then is the speech they’re terrified you’ll watch now.

inventing dragons to slay

 

Teddy - PolyBackTest.com

@Bitcoin_Teddy

Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

https://x.com/Bitcoin_Teddy/status/2077512782430486720?s=20

Economics: the Fable of the Bees, etc.

 

Creative Deduction

@CreativeDeduct

One of the most dangerous ideas in politics is that good intentions create prosperous societies. Bernard Mandeville, in one of the most scandalous and important books in intellectual history, argued almost exactly the opposite. In his 1714 book The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits, Bernard Mandeville told the story of a prosperous beehive where every bee was driven by vanity, greed, luxury and self-interest. The hive flourished with industry, trade, innovation and wealth precisely because of these private vices. Then, one day, the bees suddenly became virtuous and frugal. Demand collapsed, workers lost their jobs, and the once-thriving society descended into poverty and stagnation. Mandeville’s provocative thesis was that what was often thought of as private vices often produce public benefits. Self-interested behaviour - when channelled through markets - creates far more prosperity and social cooperation than deliberate attempts at collective virtue or moral perfection. This insight was revolutionary. It showed that the pursuit of personal gain does not lead to chaos, but to order and abundance. People working to satisfy their own desires end up producing goods and services that benefit others. Greed for profit drives innovation. Vanity fuels demand for quality and beauty. Self-interest, not altruism, powers the division of labour and economic progress. Adam Smith would later refine this idea into the famous “invisible hand”. But Mandeville stated the uncomfortable truth more boldly: a society that tries to suppress self-interest in the name of virtue usually ends up poorer and less civilised. The Fable of the Bees is a powerful defence of commercial society which reminds us that what left-wing moralists condemn as vice is frequently the engine of human flourishing.

Creative Deduction

@CreativeDeduct

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10h

What we're told is waning support for capitalism is really people losing belief that enterprise, skill and discipline will be rewarded in a culture that increasingly vilifies success and personal responsibility.

Creative Deduction

@CreativeDeduct

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Jul 8

I'm so tired of pointing out that yes, capitalism has its issues, but it works; socialism doesn't. Whereas socialism has long, well documented history of abject economic failure with devastating consequences for ordinary people, capitalism has dragged billions of people out of abject poverty. I mean, do we really have to argue about if you'd rather live in countries like the South Korea, US, Denmark and Japan or Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba? The verdict is in: the more you move from socialism towards capitalism, the better life becomes for ordinary people. We all know this. Why do we have to keep discussing it?

Newspeak in Europe

 

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Translated from French

“Democracy is the foundation of our freedom.” This sentence is fascinating. Not because democracy isn’t important. But because today, some political leaders seem to have reversed the meaning of words. Orwell called this Newspeak. The principle is simple: when those in power change the definition of words, they gradually change what people accept as normal. Censorship becomes the “protection of democracy.” Restrictions on certain freedoms become the “defense of liberty.” The centralization of power becomes the “protection of citizens.” Criticism becomes “disinformation.” The more words lose their meaning, the harder it becomes to have an honest debate. Democracy is not a slogan. It is the ability to challenge power, to debate freely, and to change leaders. Orwell wasn’t afraid of words. He was afraid of the day when leaders would no longer hesitate to make them say exactly the opposite of what they mean. 1984 was a warning, not a how-to guide.

Ulf Wiger

@ulf_wiger

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19m

Not just reversing the meaning of words, but the words in sentences. Freedom is the foundation of democracy There, I corrected it.

Rothmus 

@Rothmus

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17h

Europe never recovered from 2008. In 2008 the EU economy was larger than America’s. Today the US produces nearly 50% more than the entire European Union combined with per capita GDP almost double Europe’s average. America chose innovation, energy abundance, and growth. Europe chose regulation, green self-sabotage, and welfare bloat. The gap is now a canyon, and it’s still widening. So don’t Europize America.