Showing posts with label Communism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communism. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2025

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Lobbyists fingerprints on the Big Beautiful Bill. Oh what a tangled web we weave.

- Is this what happened to the Epstein client list? Part of me thinks I'm being played by a psyops where the media can memory hole an assassination attempt on Trump but suddenly the list not being released is a big deal.

- From the archives: Profile of David Goggins.

- Jonathan Turley on America's useful idiots. He's not wrong.

Friday, December 08, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes you may enjoy.

"I will disengage from any conversation as soon as I detect the other person is WILLFULLY trying to 'misunderstand' me. Energy vampires." - Zuby

 "For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many in the West, it is still a living lion." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"Courage takes practice. It's a skill you have to develop." - Tim Ferriss

Friday, April 14, 2023

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"That which is against communism is for humanity." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"There are just two rules of governance in a free society. Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Optimism might not make you successful, but pessimism will ensure you don't succeed." - Shane Parrish

"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." - Jerzy Gregorek

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Life, like architecture, is a verb. If designed well, it works, its beautiful, and it needs no directions. It needs maintenance." - Matthew McConaughey

 "You want to be free, but accountable." - Naval Ravikant

"That which is against communism is for humanity." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"There are just two rules of governance in a free society. Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself." - P.J. O'Rourke

Friday, December 03, 2021

Why China's Elite Tread a Perilous Path

Wealth, power and fame are no defense against the arbitrary power of the Communist party. "In China, the rich, famous and powerful are all vulnerable to disgrace, disappearance, or worse."

A nightmare version of tall poppy syndrome. They start with the rich, famous, and powerful but how long before any sort of self-improvement is viewed as a threat to the Party?

Saturday, November 27, 2021