Comments on: The broad outlines of the news are tiresomely familiar

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:30:55 +0000

Or how about the Department of “Justice”?

Somehow the constitutional necessity of DOJ wasn’t discovered until…

…

1870!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:28:15 +0000

Oops, I forgot one:

The FBI?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:26:46 +0000

Bryan Caplan says:

Blatant violations of the plain English reading of the Constitution.

Dude, Bryan, my man, I’ve had the same thought so many times that you just wouldn’t believe it.

Women voting? Blacks bearing arms? Taxing wages as income? Land taxes? Free money for everyone—parasitic capitalist, Oriental striver, and worthless gibs recipient alike—except productive whitey, at productive whitey’s expense? Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death on public transit by a hominid with fourteen prior arrests? Divorce “court”? Homosexualism in the streets? The military as a jobs-program-of-last-resort? Paper money? A central-banking system? Male genital mutilation? Google? Sam Altman? Somalians in Minnesota? Men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men? The extension of the U.S. Government into the States via the Commerce Clause? Factory farming? The deliberate extirpation of the American yeoman by the Money Power? Coed schools? Woman doctors? Woman soldiers?? Woman judges???

What the fuck?

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:31:47 +0000

Darwinian evolution just tells us less about human sexuality than I imagined.

So he is trying to reconcile the Official Truth with the Observable Reality. His predictions based on this salad continue to fail. So enigmatic…
It never had a good aftertaste, yet the people who think they are smart keep reinventing “Forbidden fruit and Lethe water power drink”.

https://sinfest.xyz/view.php?date=2011-05-25

Michael van der Riet says:

Caplan isn’t actually a red. He’s just pink all over. It goes with the territory of being a public intellectual.

Or, the purple pill.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:12:30 +0000

To borrow a line from The Mousetrap, Caplan isn’t actually a red. He’s just pink all over. It goes with the territory of being a public intellectual.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:15:55 +0000

“Pampered First Worlders blaming their horrible plight (?) on hapless refugees.”

So Caplan wants to destroy Western Civilization. Has he personally endorsed the Coudenhove-Kalergi Schedule for total destruction of the USA? Is he upset that the devastation is behind schedule?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:45:46 +0000

“I was surprised that Putin tried a full invasion of Ukraine. I thought he would limit himself to annexing de facto independent territory in Donetsk and Luhansk.”

But Russia did not do a full invasion of Ukraine, and it did limit itself to annexation of the Donbas.

Caplan is an idiot, and a typical delusional neocon.

By: McChuck

McChuck — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:22:07 +0000

“Pampered First Worlders blaming their horrible plight (?) on hapless refugees.”

Okay, now I know I can safely ignore anything this buffoon ever has to say.

By: Cthoms

Cthoms — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:16:22 +0000

Pretty sure the Bukele-El Salvador-Prison events would qualify as surprising/unanticipated.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:20:52 +0000

Caplan’s not wrong. News is horrifyingly banal in terms of it’s general themes, almost like a sitcom in terms of it’s pacing and story beats, and the degree of capture experienced by news outlets at the hands of federal bureaucrats has only further poisoned the well. What was once merely aimless has become actively malicious.

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth.” – TJ