james22

This explains a lot.

It that what was honored? You'll not get to Year Zero arguing that.

You don't believe Saudis know the Gulf (and the Gulf War) as something different than how Western newspapers, media outlets, and Wikipedia refer to it?? Liberation of Kuwait (Arabic: تحرير الكويت) (taḥrīr al-kuwayt) is the term used by Kuwait and most of the coalition's Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. And again, how does renaming the Gulf of Mexico and the Persian Gulf compare to the Biden administration's renaming of many hundreds of sites? And the Left's tearing down of statues?

Einhorn mentioned this in an interview today. Greenlight also started shorting, or betting against, "consumer companies that cater to liberal tastes," it said in a note. It didn't specify which companies it shorted. Surveys show Democrats as more pessimistic than Republicans and likely to spend less, and the Trump administration is cutting jobs in areas like scientific research, government contracting and the civil service that are disproportionately held by Democrats, Greenlight said. https://archive.ph/ESmwL#selection-955.0-967.267 I'm not a fan of the Economist, but it's an interesting read. Why do MAGA companies seem to outperform? Maybe they eschew virtue-signalling. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/05/13/why-the-maga-economy-is-thriving

Don't overthink it. Spekulatius has it right, course correct based on actions (not hopes).

An 'Only Trump could do this' move. https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/05/14/trump-shocks-the-world-again-n4939759 https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/13/trump-giving-the-new-syrian-boss-rope-to-hang-himself-withor-not-n3802743

+35% YTD

Anyone remember the Left's insistence on renaming everything? Tearing down statues?

Lived in Saudi and the region for 20 years. Never heard it referred to as anything but the Arabian Gulf. The US is only respecting that. But I appreciate why an Xerxes would prefer the historical name.

Are Arabs as stupid?

The move follows a formal request by US Senator Tom Cotton, who called on the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to suspend intelligence cooperation with Germany. Citing what he described as the misuse of intelligence tools for political targeting, Cotton emphasized that actions such as monitoring, infiltration, and surveillance of opposition parties are reminiscent of authoritarian regimes, not democratic allies. https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-halts-afd-far-right-label-amid-us-pressure-surveillance-row Alice Weidel, co-chair of the AfD, said American pressure was behind the BfV’s withdrawal of its designation label on the AfD. In addition, Joachim Steinhöfel, a lawyer defending freedom of speech . . . noted that U.S. influence was vital. “We also have to thank the Americans for exerting massive pressure,” he added. https://rmx.news/article/a-complete-surrender-us-pressure-may-have-forced-germany-to-drop-surveillance-on-right-wing-afd-party/

That's not to deny the poor optics of it or the implied reciprocal debt (unconscious or not), but it can be taken as evidence Trump's a businessman, not a politician (for better or, in this case, worse).

Now try imagining Trump as a transactional businessman who thinks of accepting the offered gift as only an opportunity to taken advantage of, rather than as a criminal enriching himself. (Projection much?)

Zero point zero. That's the number of voters who'll change their mind because of this transaction. Rage away.

No. When Europeans first began to explore the globe, their greatest surprise was not the existence of the Western hemisphere, but the extent of their own technological superiority over the rest of the world. Not only were the proud Mayan, Aztec, and Inca nations helpless in the face of European intruders, so were the fabled civilizations of the East. China, India, and the nations of Islam were backward by comparison with sixteenth-century Europe. How had this happened? Why was it that although many civilizations had pursued alchemy, it led to chemistry only in Europe? Why was it that Europeans were for centuries the only people who possessed eyeglasses, chimneys, reliable clocks, heavy cavalry, or a system of music notation? How had nations that had arisen from barbarism and the rubble of fallen Rome so greatly surpassed the rest of the world? https://www.aei.org/articles/a-civil-religion/

Nope and nope: Christian theology was essential for the rise of science [and the West]. . . . The “Enlightenment” was conceived initially as a propaganda ploy by militant atheists who attempted to claim credit for the rise of science. https://www.baylorisr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/stark_falseconflict-1.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Glory-God-Monotheism-Reformations-Witch-Hunts-ebook/dp/B00R3M704M https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Reason-Christianity-Freedom-Capitalism/dp/0812972333 https://www.amazon.com/How-West-Won-Neglected-Modernity/dp/161017139X/

To be fair, it's easier as a conservative: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” https://tucson.com/opinion/national/charles-krauthammer-conservatives-can-agree-that-liberals-are-stupid/article_88c69db5-56a8-5515-9140-2304c5dbec93.html I wouldn't expect anyone believing I'm evil to just shrug it off.

I've said before that I'd rather not know investor's politics here, because it makes me question their judgement. But you're right, it's not bad judgement or poor pattern recognition, it's guided by something entirely else. So I'll not let differences in politics influence my take on anyone's investment advice. Real communism has never been tried! LOL

So you agree we should discriminate, great. What are some of the criteria we should use?

“Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession—a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it.” https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/05/07/western-canada-puts-the-rest-of-canada-on-notice-n4939566 Maybe Trump dissed Trudeau specifically to cause the liberals to win, leading to a breakup. Then we get the oil, gas, and grain-producing provinces and the remnant-Canada gets angry Frenchmen. https://instapundit.com/718474/ Should Alberta Become the 51st State? https://www.rodmartin.org/p/should-alberta-become-the-51st-state Canadians?

More than at any other time in New York’s history, parent money shapes our culture. https://archive.ph/OAUG1#selection-1641.612-1645.21 https://archive.ph/rBTkC

The Christian response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion? Those Crusades? Funny example.