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Mr. Hail - - Habermas.

Agreed. Very good ood man. If not I'd be hurt badly with the 20+ books I've read by him - - many repeatedly over the decaddes.

Genius too - this kind of man.
I met him and sat - as the only journalist - with a friend of mine - philosopher Thomas Rentsch - through a two day conference of Frankfurt University on religion and reason - - for some thirty high-ranking philosophers from all over the world in a half-lit villa! - - - - He spoke free for hours - the guests were in awe - - -all of them. India, Utah, Japan... A spot was reserved for each one of them to formulate their ideas...

As is the case with such minds, they have their limitations and idiosyncracies (he saw fascists were there clearly weren't) - - unless they are the perfectly wise man too - - as Goethe was. - That Habermas wasn't. But an incredibly productive writer he was. - Good for the centuries to come.

He cut through Kants utterly complex Critique of Pure Reason and boiled it dow3n to a few clear ideas. - As did his colleague Friedrich Kambartel, btw. - - -see Kambartel's english wiki-page - - very good!

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-- Death of Habermas --

Mr Kief: Your views on the legacy of Juergen Habermas?

My own thoughts, with no claim to deep thoughftulness: I find myself unable to avoid liking Habermas.

I see in him a lot of the best of Western Mankind, which made us lead the world through most eras of civilizational history, and which we did just fine with before the presence of hostile in the body-politic made things difficult. It's not his fault that Habermas was a product of a specific time that led him to take some (IMO) incorrect positions on some things or "fell in with the wrong crowd" (Frankfurt School).

But I/we know that you, Mr Kief, are more knowledgeable on Habermas than the rest of us, so if you've written any retrospectives on the great man, please link or copy-paste or something.

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Will Steve Sailer defend Tucker?

So far he's been silent on his Substack blog on the Trump government accusing Tucker of treason and threatening to arrest him.

MTG is vigorously defending Tucker and slamming Trump as an Israel puppet.

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@Hail

"The CIA has been spying on everything Tucker does. They claims he was in contact with Iranians. Trump would like to knock off a troublesome Iran War opposing voice by dumping Tucker in a prison cell until at least the time of the planned Iran Mission Accomplished parade."

Apparently Carlson met with Trump in the White House a few days before the unprovoked attack. I have seen speculation that the administration used Carlson as a back channel to the Iranian regime thinking it would lead the Iranians to think that Trump had backed off the idea of attacking. If so, they used Carlson as a decoy without his knowledge. It would add insult to injury (or injury to injury) to then idict him on FARA violations.

However, if they do, I have no doubt but that the slavering Trump sycophants at FOX News will instantly turn on their old collegue, Carlson.

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Mr Smith: That graphic is lifted from social media.

The man is being mocked widely for his policy to puppetize the USA for Israel; for his Permanent War for Israel policy.

I'm not sure how much the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner is in the cultural memory to those too young to remember 2003, but Trump has brought it back.

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Apropos Mr. Hail about rumors of Tucker Carlson arrest - -

These below - are no rumors - - Peter Brimelow is threatened with severe economical damage for him and his family - - for editing V-Dare - - -

https://www.peterbrimelow.com/p/will-ny-state-judge-sabrina-b-kraus?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3663946&post_id=190688077&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzQ3NDI0OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTkwNjg4MDc3LCJpYXQiOjE3NzMyOTIwNTMsImV4cCI6MTc3NTg4NDA1MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2NjM5NDYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.yWCwgUTK7Y_8XiV4nU_95Kp6FbuxHGkvf4c0GY-cx0Y&r=aej7t&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=deref-gmx.net&utm_medium=email

PS: Afternoon, Mr. Hail,

I like your Blumf graphic.

𝑇𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑠𝑜𝑛...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY8QC0xp2Vc

Cheers! ☮️

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Reports coming out that the Trump government has accused Tucker Carlson of treason over the Iran War.

Tucker may be arrested in coming days.

The CIA has been spying on everything Tucker does. They claims he was in contact with Iranians. Trump would like to knock off a troublesome Iran War opposing voice by dumping Tucker in a prison cell until at least the time of the planned Iran Mission Accomplished parade.

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Trump wins Iran war:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/blumpf-mission-accomplished-2026-1.png

PS: Good morning, everyone!

https://i.ibb.co/0VM5kc40/six-fingered-man.jpg
https://tinyurl.com/mrbkzsxx

Happy Sunday! ☮️

PS: Greetings, Dieter!

𝐼'𝑚 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑚𝑏 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠...
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛...

I'm sorry to hear that, Dieter.
I too hope you have a speedy recovery.

𝐸𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔!
I will. It was nice out there this evening. Mrs. Smith and I sat on the porch for a little while with the kitties. We're all eagerly awaiting spring. (It's right around the corner!)

I hope you feel better soon.
Cheers! ☮️

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"None of these Israel-First tough-talkers are morally serious people with rational, stability-oriented objectives. They are like teenagers playing a computer game, and are clearly running on the fumes of their own egos, around their fat narcissistic leader."

Well said, Mr. Hail.

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"I gotta say, whoever Ron Unz promotes is someone who I don’t have so much trust in - Ron Unz is a terrible judge of character - it’s almost as if whoever he likes should be automatically disregarded. However, I have heard of both the guys elsewhere."

Unz seems almost indifferent to the people to whom he gives a soapbox. Sometimes he even puts them up on his site, gives them a forum, and then insults them as blockheads. He actually never had much of anything good to say about Steve Sailer.

That said, I don't think that Mearsheimer is any kind of crank. He was a respected academic in the political science world (for what that's worth). And he showed considerable professional courage in stepping into that public policy mine-field: Talking openly about the influence of the Israeli lobby. In doing that, he did a service to the country.

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Oh Adam - - I'm recovering from some dumb illness (inflicted on me by a lowly-run hospital).

We have rain and cold (5 Cels.)! And I hope to bee well soon (maybe one week or so!)

Enjoy your soft spring!

PS: Thanks, Dieter!

I hope you're enjoying your weekend and all that. Beautiful here today. (~73 and sunny!) Got to run to the store for a few things. They're predicting 24° Monday night/Tuesday morning so I guess I'll have to cover my aloe and bring in some plants at least one more time. (Oh well...)

Cheers! ☮️

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Oh and yes - Adam has the link!

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Adam et. al.. - - this is the one - with Pascal Lottas and Larry C. Johnson - - - very comfortable smoking a big cigar - -and with a great vibe between the two - which Jonsohn seems to like very much:


"Update: US Middle-East Bases DESTROYED. Israel Defenseless | Larry C Johnson" on Neutrality Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yogVg6GFSeQ (March 13-ish).

PS: I didn’t refresh the page, so thanks for the comments and the video links, Mr. Smith, and thanks Mr. Hail again.

“Worst war ever conducted.” As compared to all that, it’s not even that important that ~ 1 $Billion a day has been spent. I saw that written and though, hell, $365 Billion, were it going on a year, is not even 1/3 of the WarMacht Department budget even. But, yes, it seems to have been a disaster even after a couple of weeks.

Americans might be very encouraged and supportive it Trump came out and said he’d been duped, this was all (someone else’s!) mistake, but he’s very sorry, and it won’t happen again. Trump does not to that, unfortunately. I’ve seen him on video saying he was wrong just a couple of times. (Actually, one was 2nd-hand from one of his former associates. Trump told this Cucinelli guy that, yes, he should have and could have gotten many of his rally-goers to become vote/poll watchers back in ‘20, before the steal.)

PS: Mr. Hai, in reply to your 2nd comment:

I guess someone, like Steve Sailer or you, perhaps, could put together an interesting analysis of this from exit polls.

Back in ‘16, I’m sure it was the immigration patriots that put Trump in office, and he wouldn’t even have gotten anywhere a year and a third earlier (coming down the escalator, or what-have-you) had he not talked about the immigration invasion problem. Additionally, here must have been some former Ron Paul voters who voted for Trump primarily on his anti-warmongering stance. The Libertarian party by this time was full of kooks.

IMO, the voters who didn’t bother in ‘20, yet surely didn’t vote for Brandon either, were those (almost) like me who were very disappointed in Trump’s lack of capability to get anything done, his picking of swamp creatures to work for him, his getting distracted by anything and everything, and then, to add insult to injury, his bring up his “Platinum Plan” proposal to give away $500 Billion - that’s not a measly half a Billion, but half a Trillion bucks to black people. Pretty off-putting, and, IIRC, that was just a couple of months before the election.

In ‘24, I can see lots of people having voted from his just to stick it to those who had waged lawfare to put this guy in jail and steal all his money over the last couple of years - just that alone. Then, after 4 years of Dark Brandon and the D’s having turned even more into the party of weirdos and Commies, what else was there to do… but, of course, stay home.

I don’t think ‘24 Trump voters, or ‘20 either, expected Trump to be much worse on the war-mongering that Trump-45.

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Trump "tweeted" (Truth Social-ed) saying that he'd recently made official pleas, seemingly requests with overtones of being demands, from five allied countries (and in the process of reaching out to more) from across Europe and Asia, to the following effect:

"Please, PLEASE! Dispatch significant elements of your navies to the Middle East to help me, the most pro-Israel president in world history, keep the Strait of Hormuz open! Please! World peace is at stake! -- Your friend, Donald 'Shalom' Blempf, leading Nobel Peace Prize candidate."

This man, soon 80, and dangerously surrounded by sychophants, claims that his begging for back-up naval forces from allies has borne fruit Some of them will be sending vessels to the Strait of Hormuz, he claims. These vessels will help keep oil flowing ---- but more importantly with the eternal, God-mandated holy mission to Keep Israel Great (i.e., the USA's main purpose for existence). They're the CHOSEN PEOPLE, remember. You can't question them.

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circulating on social media:

________________

* Start war
* Give 5 different reasons for war
* 80% disapproval
* Immediately blow up little girls school surrendering all moral high ground
* Kill leadership which is immediately replaced by more radical leadership
* Declare victory
* Have no contingency plan for closing the straits of Hormuz
* Have no clear victory conditions
* Gas prices skyrocket
* Economy craters
* Service members killed, taxes wasted, bases blown up, no material gain for the American public
* Continue declaring victory

Worst war ever conducted.
________________

PS: Good afternoon, everyone!

Why America is Losing the War With Iran (w/ John Mearsheimer) | The Chris Hedges Report...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-sSsZnSP8

I'm not sure that either of these are the Larry Johnson video that Dieter mentioned, but I'm posting them anyway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yogVg6GFSeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsURsBv9D7w

I've been calling this recent escalation (or attack or whatever it is) 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙 as it sounds more honest and accurate that way.
https://i.ibb.co/9HzPVyzs/God-blesses-those-who-bless-Iran.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/7JdB8KwD/operation-aipac-fury.jpg

Happy Saturday! ☮️

PS: I completely stay away from any of that, Alarmist, and I have no military background. It’s just not worth it to spend one’s day arguing on-line sometimes. I know this from such sites as The Unz Review.

“My take is still that Mr. Trump will end up declaring victory sometime around the first of April.” I sure hope so.

“The Iranians have turned out to be Epic Trollers; I wouldn’t be surprised to see the mother of missile strikes hit on Passover as payback for Israel raining on Ramadan.” The problem is, will Israel end its hostilities? Will they try their hardest to keep Trump involved?

PS: Hello, Mr. Hail. I have to go look up which French buffoon you are talking about (will do in a little while), as unfortunately, I didn’t like history in High School, so I avoided it in college, only getting to like it 2 decades later or so. In HS, we had one good teacher who loved the subject, but others were coaches, just going through the motions. I’d jam stuff into my head during recess to spit it out next period. I mean, it was to the point that if the test wasn’t being handed out fast enough, I’d lose a few points!

Anyway, that said, thanks for that take on the mid 19th century Euro history including about Chancellor Bismarck. I don’t know - if the “Great War” happened 40-50 years earlier, maybe the weaponry - I especially refer to auto-fire “machine guns” may not have done the carnage they did in the 19-teens. Perhaps just a fraction of White men would have been killed/maimed, leading to a better future. Then there was Woodrow Wilson. Without his plan - only assuming Germany would have lost again - to punish them so harshly and back them into a corner, there wouldn’t have been the ever larger, more world-wide 2nd round.

Alt-history can be interesting. First you have to know actual history, haha.

PS: I’ve heard of both these guys, Dieter. If you have some specific videos - on the shorter side, maybe 1/2 hour or less - I’ll check your favorite/most important out.

I gotta say, whoever Ron Unz promotes is someone who I don’t have so much trust in - Ron Unz is a terrible judge of character - it’s almost as if whoever he likes should be automatically disregarded. However, I have heard of both the guys elsewhere.

Alarmist below discusses his experience with the on-line armchair warriors. That said, I imagine some of them could do a much better job, assuming we somehow HAVE TO go to war to begin with, than the crowd Trump has. Picking the right ones… there’s the rub…

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"Passover" 2026: Begins April 1 at sundown; ends at nightfall on April 9.

The people who control Trump in foreign policy (at the least) telling him to end his war of aggression at the end March, specifically so that the Chosen People can have their religious holiday in peace, seems plausible.

But....

There's something that Trump-like buffoons who come into control of shiny military play-objects tend NOT to know about war. Something they tend to find out the hard way.

It's this:

To blunder into a war
is something easy.
To end a war, once started,
is something much harder;
and the path, unpredictable.

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Eisenhower once recounted that during the darkest hours of the December 1944 Ardennes Offensive, which we blithely call the Battle of the Bulge, he asked General Marshall in DC to surge troops and equipment into the European Theatre, and was essentially told “No.” Marshall had to provide for all the theatres, not just Europe. Ike realised there are practical and very real limits to the power that even the USA could then project, even while at the heights of its industrial power and with twenty million troops mobilised.

Aside from a few pesky Federal District Judges, nobody has really said “No” to the Bad Orange Man.

I’ve come to the conclusion that we are seeing a tragic re-enactment of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python’s Holy Grail. All those US bases in the surrounding countries reduced to smoking wreckage? “Tis but a scratch … I am invincible!”

Being former military, I try not to venture to too many pages frequented by other former or retired US military officers, because dropping a contrary opinion is guaranteed to turn the comment section into a mine field. Yep, I stepped on a mine at one site run by a retired Squid Commander by simply asking on the day before the US started bombing if the US risked an outcome like Athens suffered in 413 BC when they did their little expedition to Sicily and had their asses handed to them by Syracuse. I was quickly told what a moron I was, that our world today is nothing like what Athens faced in the Pelopenese vis à vis Sparta and its allies. My point was simply that Athens decided to go abroad to look for trouble and found it in a crushing defeat there and that did not help them at home.

We aren’t seeing much footage of strikes on our bases, and the war porn they do show us is of limited entertainment value. What we are no longer seeing are pictures of the damage our friends in Israel are taking. OPSEC is the official reason for that, but it does raise questions, as does the absence of Bibi and his posse the last week or so. BOM can rant his Truths all he wants, but apparently Iran is not yet tiring of all of the US’ winning.

My take is still that Mr. Trump will end up declaring victory sometime around the first of April.

The Iranians have turned out to be Epic Trollers; I wouldn’t be surprised to see the mother of missile strikes hit on Passover as payback for Israel raining on Ramadan.

☯️

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"Whether he be forgiven by MAGA in general and have enough support left"

What percent of Trump voters voters will refuse to vote for any R or Trump-aligned people again because of these wars and their imperialism-of-stupidity policy?

I wonder, more specifically, what percent of...

- Trump-2016
- Trump-2020
- Trump-2024

...voters would leave the R-voting coalition in 2026/2028/longer, specifically because of these people's Permanent-Wars-For-Israel policy?

I specify the four different elections because each coalition was a little different.

You may find a lot of three-time Trump voters out there, but you'll also find many who were Trump-16 but declined to vote Trump-20 or Trump-24, for whatever reason. What we can say about Trump-16 voters, I think, is they were more purist ideologically than the later iterations. I'm thinking the Trump-2024 coalition may be willing to sustain the losses from a Stupid Wars policy than the Trump-2016 would've been.

But even the Trump-2024 coalition might lose enough to return a huge D-majority in both houses of Congress. The US has this two-party big-tent system, after all, and small shifts by marginal voters always decide elections and get exaggerated i the re-telling by so many pundits and talking-heads, and by well-meaning scribblers like Steve Sailer. If you lose even 10 percent of your voters, you may lose by what gets called a "landslide" (which is really just an artifact of the electoral system, but it still has results).

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The danger of empowering people who are --- I don't want to sound to mean or negative, but let's say it this way: people who are less-than-serious morally --- the danger is they will indulge in toy-soldiers adventurism. A great temptation, and usually a bad idea. ometimes it may work, but success breeds failure, like the gambler who thinks himself on a winning streak and gives it all back to the house.

In the 19th century, the kind of thing I refer to was true of France, in several cases. Going way back, France's mismanagement and various problems and misjudgments during the 16th-18th centuries led to their own chronic instability in the 19th-20th centuries, which persisted after the Revolution/Napoleonic shock and probably remains true even down to our time in identifiable ways.

The French leaders made foolish mistakes. These mistakes, though, sat atop a relatively strong state and a cultural patrimony that had wide respect across Europe and the world (a fact which does not automatically make for good statesmanship, and may even encourage arrogance leading to bad leadership).

France had something of a Trump-like buffoon in charge in 1870. The man blundered into an ill-conceived war with Prussia, which he easily could've avoided but chose tough-talk and walked into Bismarck's trap. France was humiliated in short order, about as badly beaten as anyone could be in those days. The emperor himself, who had chest-thumped his way into the war captured by the Germans, the state collapsed, and radical leftists staged a briefly successful socialist resolution in Paris, the "Paris Commune" (eventually suppressed, with thousands killed, by the Germans; the first real case of modern left-wing martyrs, commemorated by dedicated socialists far and wide for decades to come; none of it would've happened without the stupid French decision to walk into an avoidable war in the summer of 1870).

(Whenever I've noticed French leaders eager to intervene here or there, as Marcon is now leaning towards despite NOT being a crazed Israel-First type, it calls to mind the classic mistakes France has made in earlier eras; a short way of saying this is "imperial hubris," though none matches the USA's now, even if ours is an imperialism under the Star of David).

A school of thought long influential is that the White Man, (and Non-White men too, for leadership of the world was ours and our fortunes allowed others' success for a very long time should thank God for Chancellor Bismarck's existence on the European scene in the 1860s-80s, and that his success and prestige was so great that his "system" outlasted him a long while. Without him (or a figure as good as him), the foolishness of 1914 could've come much earlier, starting the process of Western Decline considerably earlier, with unpredictable results but probably bad for both us and the world.

To paraphrase what somebody once said famously at a presidential debate, "Messrs Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, you're no Bismarcks."

None of these Israel-First tough-talkers are morally serious people with rational, stability-oriented objectives. They are like teenagers playing a computer game, and are clearly running on the fumes of their own egos, around their fat narcissistic leader.

(The Trump people, now that they've embraced endless war, intervention, and mayhem, have drifted into being cartoonish figures at times, I mean they sound like they're movie villains. None more than "Pistol Pete" Hegseth, the tough-talking, crazed Israel-First ideology are self-parodies right out of the gate.)

These people also have interventions against Cuba and perhaps other places in store, once they get bored of Iran, or whatever is their plan (if they have one), or run our of war-materiel and have to beg somebody to supply them to keep up their Wars for Israel.

PS
Chris Hedges interviewed John Mearsheimer on Youtube the other day- very good

Larry C. Johnson - smoking a big cigar - spoke to a young guy on youtube and had strategic news nobody else had like how the tanker-airplane was lost - - -and how the Iranians have all in all - the upper hand in this.