On Twitter just now, someone wrote:
"If you support Trump or his cronies in any way, you're a bad person."
So I replied:
"Agreed. So we should all favor the complete shutdown of the Fed, the military-industrial complex, and the IRS to starve him of resources
and power. I'll sign you up."
Oddly enough, progressives don't seem to go for that!
Most of them were even OK with authorizing surveillance powers for him, to the exasperation of Glenn Greenwald.
These people use the hashtag #Resist, yet it would never dawn on them to target -- or even think about -- the major institutions that empower the regime.
The #Resistance is entirely superficial, as we knew it would be.
Progressives can't really resist, because in their hearts
they love the state, and can't even temporarily roll it back.
In general, politics brings out the worst and stupidest in people.
What brings out the best is commerce: giving your fellow man something he wants.
And right now, something rather notable is going on: the estate of the late Mark Hendricks, an enormously intelligent and successful Internet marketer, is selling off his digital assets: a lifetime of products you can learn from as you create your own income stream online.
And -- here's the kicker -- the estate is giving you the right to sell all these products and keep the
profits for yourself.
This doesn't happen a lot. Or ever.
You can keep them for yourself and learn a ton.
Or if you sell even one, you instantly make back your investment.
Sure beats creating things from scratch.
Plus, I'm sweetening the deal with bonuses:
The thing to get, to get my bonuses:
Warning: she's gone in 48 hours.
Tom Woods