S4E015: Late Night Podcasting

Podcast reaction content! Featuring the Smokestack plus Duke of Alba conversation.

Flashbacks to Covid, refineries exploding, multiple large files ongoing.

A grand strategy for energy independence. Bringing Venezuela into American influence and control, what if there’s actually an underlying strategy to everything?

The rules-based international order. Being unprepared for things in the current year.

Doomer philosophy, Chinese military theory. Nothing is going to percolate up to the policy makers.

Fighting war across all possible domains.

Interpretive tools for understanding what you’re seeing.

Putting eggs in your hair is great. Urine therapy. Sumo rubs his body with olive oil.

Trump is not Wilsonian, he’s Jacksonian. Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, white native Americans.

Smokestack really likes Alanis Morisett. Singing advice.

The American Civil War, messianic eschaton, protecting the world by killing enough of the right people. Ushering in utopia.

What people’s desire to save the world.

Solving the delayed second coming of Jesus.

How to kill ghosts.

A real religion doesn’t recognize itself as a religion. The actual religion of America.

The chaos is on purpose.

Token militaries, naked American self-interest.

Love’s home on the Internet.

There are worse things than being America’s Disneyland.