UK interfaith tolerance enabled radical Islam and grooming gangs
βYou know where interfaith is going in Britain? Interfaith is going to tolerance for radical Islam, which is why today, the day after King Charles visited The United States, there was an attack in Golders Green, which is a very heavily Jewish part of London, in which a radical Muslim took out a kitchen knife and just started stabbing people who are wearing Jewish garb. And, of course, we know that Great Britain's interfaith tolerance allowed for gigantic grooming gangs to basically run the place for years on end out of fear that there might be a backlash to open immigration.β
Trump's Iran blockade is crushing the regime economically
βIran's real is trading at an all time low. We are talking about 1.8 to 1,900,000 per dollar. Their economy is basically dead. Operation Economic Fury, there's a case to be made, has been more damaging by far than actual operation whatever it was called. War has imposed a heavy cost on Iran's economy, more than a million people out of work, soaring food prices, a prolonged Internet shutdown that has slammed online business. American officials are betting Iran will soon crack because of the deepening economic crisis.β
βSo first of all, you have to tell her that it's a little slow to start. And you also have to not start that movie at 09:00 at night. I think you really have to start that movie, like, Sunday night at six. That is the best time to do it. Because it's a long movie, and it really starts to pick up momentum after they leave Hobbiton. My wife has become a big Lord of the Rings fans. Yes. Including the actual swords from the movie for small children for Purim. That's right. My six year old owns the the Arwen sword, which is significantly taller than she is.β
Ivy League foreign funding fuels campus antisemitism
βIf you look at the billions of dollars of foreign funding that's flowing into institutions like Harvard, like Penn, like MIT, it is deeply concerning. For example, Ben, the billions of dollars coming from Qatar flowing into many of these universities is propping up Middle Eastern studies departments, which is inherently pro Hamas and anti Semitic. In addition, communist China is the second largest foreign funder into our higher education system. Columbia, for example, I think it's a surprise to many Americans that 40% of the student body at Columbia is foreign, so they're no longer prioritizing American students.β
Britain traded global leadership for cradle-to-grave welfare
βAfter the war, Britain decided that they were gonna give up global leadership in favor of irrelevance and socialism. In 1942, there was something called the Beveridge Report in the middle of World War two. And it was a report arguing essentially for large scale socialism in Great Britain. This is where the phrase cradle to grave welfare state comes from. And after World War two, Britain embraced that in full. And what that meant was, basically, blowing out global leadership in favor of domestic spending and destruction of their domestic economy.β
Britain is a cautionary tale, not a model to follow
βThere are lots of lessons to be learned from Great Britain over the past century. The biggest one is this, don't do what they did. King Charles is currently repping a civilization that no longer exists. He's an empty crown sitting atop a civilization that gave up the ghost a long time ago. There's only one takeaway Americans should have from the king's visit, That if Britain has zigged, we ought to zag.β
Comey indictment risks creating a free speech martyr
βJames Comey being harassed by law enforcement on a sort of schadenfreude level, I ain't losing sleep. James Comey helped initiate the Russiagate investigation that spun up a bajillion conspiracy theories and ruined people's lives. However, are these counts that are being filed against Comey likely to succeed in court? If all the evidence that they end up with after a year is basically what we see right now, that case ain't going nowhere, and it's gonna backfire because it'll look as though the mechanisms of law enforcement are being used for political gain, which is never a good look.β
UAE leaving OPEC means lower oil prices for Americans
βUnited Arab Emirates, which is the third biggest country in OPEC, is now going to exit OPEC. CNBC calls this a major blow to the cartel that coordinates production among the world's largest oil producers. What does that mean for Americans? Well, it probably means lower oil prices. The entire design of OPEC is to artificially ratchet down supply in order to take advantage of demand or to play politics. Undercutting OPEC by leaving OPEC means more freedom for The United States and lower oil prices.β
Israel PR failure stems from decades of Oslo delusion
βIsrael spent years and years and years and years saying that its geopolitical opponents were reasonable and rational, and they can make a deal with them. If you keep saying over and over that actual terrorist groups are reasonable and rational and you can make a deal with them, which is the predicate for Oslo, then it makes it very difficult to tell the truth later, which is that they are terrorist groups who want to kill you. Oslo is a disaster area. It took until basically October 7 to put a final nail in the coffin of the Oslo agreement.β