27 Comments
4 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

these are some great clips!

Expand full comment
author

Lots of other good content today if you have time to watch the whole thing!

Expand full comment
founding
5 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

Thanks for the clips. Yep, Washington, D.C. , is the richest area of the USA by a wide margin. Mansions everywhere. It is also the leading area for missing children in the USA. Hmmmm.

Daniel McAdams gave a good speech. He's Dr. Paul's right hand man. I'm happy to have him as a friend.

I hope the Royals go all the way. I attended the World Series in KC in both 1980 and 1985. That was a lifetime ago. In '85 that safe call at 1st base still pisses off the StL Cardinal fans.

Expand full comment
founding
6 hrs ago·edited 6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

Holy moley, I'm the first to watch this? Thanks for the distillation. My experiences with people whom I believe were once able to think lead me to believe they would not understand what the fuss is.

Expand full comment
6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

So excited to have Royals in the post season, but they totally need Pasquach back!! He can't come back too soon!

Expand full comment
author

He hit live BP off Will Smith today!

Expand full comment

I know!! He looked good! Its 2 weeks early, so I don't want to get too excited, but maybe he's a fast healer.

Expand full comment
6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

Nice thanks for clipping.

Expand full comment
founding
6 hrs ago·edited 6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

You know, I'm starting to think "journalists doing their job" is like George Washington and the cherry tree, because just as I was gonna write something along the lines of "yeah, they used to..." I stopped short and remembered Walter Duranty and that was 100 years ago.

And during our second Presidential race the papers were going all pee-tape on Jefferson with Dusky Sally, in an era when *everyone* and their sons and nephews were schtupping every lower-status woman they could wrestle the bodice off of, slave or indentured servant or orphan ward.

So maybe we should be rigorously honest. Good journalists have always been rare. The rest serve agendas other than truth, for all sorts of paymasters.

Anyway be sure to take yer vitamins if you're gonna run all over the country like this, doing the job those upper-middle-class twits in our various newspapers of record ain't.

[duplicate deleted]

Expand full comment

the first thing every new political party does is start producing a newspaper

Expand full comment
founding

"The Daily Mendacity"

Expand full comment
author

"Good journalists have always been rare. The rest serve agendas other than truth, for all sorts of paymasters."

If I were for mottos, this might be one of them.

Expand full comment

Blessings for posting all the videos. I attended the Reboot 24 conference which was comprised of libertarian silicon types in San Fran, so it was too tight to go for another dissident adventure.

With respect to journalism, Matt Taibbi says that the movie All the President's Men ruined the profession because instead of riffraff drawn to the profession, it was the posh class. Of course, maybe it was already a posh class a with allegations that Woodward was connected to the CIA. Don't know about that, but I do know Ben Bradlee had ties. I learned this by reading the autobiography of Dovey Roundtree Johnson, an early civil rights attorney. She chronicles her representation of a client, the kind only a mother would miss, who was fingered as the assassin of the mistress of Kennedy. Bradlee swooped by the dead woman's apartment (she happened to be his sister-in-law) to retrieve her diary. A CIA operative showed up as well. Since he knew the operative, he gave it to him. Dovey only learned of this years later. She seemingly pondered why Bradlee didn't tell her of the connection to help save the life of a man on trial. I don't need to ponder.

Expand full comment
founding

It's awfully sad to realize, ain't it?

Expand full comment
author

Better to realize it than not.

Expand full comment
founding

I'd love for someone to put together a compilation from years gone by of all those articles from the NYT and WaPo and The Atlantic etc. etc. etc. saying every variation of "Don't blindly trust what your doctor says" and "Hospital errors kill [ ] thousands of people every year" etc. etc. etc.

It's so strange how they don't do those annual roundups any more.

Expand full comment
author

Right? They talk a lot about that horrific Georgia "abortion" case, but fail to mention that it sure seems a whole lot more like medical malpractice than anything else -- and don't they care about medical malpractice being (IIRC) the #3 cause of death in America?

Expand full comment
founding

The obstetrical malpractice stories used to be so common you could've just used 'em as birth control.

Expand full comment
6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

Thanks-didn’t know about this event. Can’t figure out why the videos you post won’t play on my phone. Maybe it’s the duck duck go browser?

Expand full comment
author

Sounds like some sort of internal block, maybe? Can you see other Substack videos? I'd try Brave browser and see if that works?

Expand full comment

Thanks!

but those ski goggles 🤣🤣🤣

Expand full comment
author

If you liked that, you'll love this:

https://rumble.com/v5gqf8r-witt.html

Expand full comment
6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

Thank you

Expand full comment
author

Glad to put in the legwork here! Hope you guys find it useful!

Expand full comment
6 hrs agoLiked by SimulationCommander

I'm out boozing with friends...but I wanted to say:

LET'S GO ROYALS!!!

Expand full comment
author

It's so funny how I went from 150 "MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF THE DECADE" to 0 "Meh just throw in the hangover lineup and rest the bullpen".

Can't wait for Tuesday!

Expand full comment

Lolol.

Makes you feel like a kid again. That's what I love about baseball.

Expand full comment