The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person’s will.
Rudolf Steiner, The Philosophy of Freedom: A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (1916), Chapter Nine.
On December 5, 1933, nationwide alcohol Prohibition in the United States ended after Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75 percent of states needed to enact the amendment that overturned the 18th.
Why?
The company went super-woke. And could, therefore, go broke.
Or, says Patrick Ben David, become a “zombie company,” unable to make profits, kept alive only by low interest rates and the hope that Apple will buy it.
Nevertheless, Disney joined a group of major players pulling their advertising off Twitter, er, X.
Why?
Because X’s new owner, Elon Musk, favorably forwarded a tweet about anti-white racism that was said, by many, to be antisemitic.
It’s the rage, now, not only to support Hamas’s terrorism but to excoriate Israel, Zionism, and even Jews in general, yet it was Musk’s forwarded tweet about how Jewish intellectuals and organizations too often support anti-white rhetoric that panicked the big companies, including Bob Iger-headed Disney.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, in an on-stage New York Times interview, asked Mr. Musk to respond to all this. “I hope they stop,” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”
Musk went on: “If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me, with advertising — blackmail me with money? — ‘go f**k yourself.’”
Then Musk repeated that command, using hand signals.
“Is that clear? I hope it is.” Smiling, he added, “Hey Bob . . . if you’re in the audience.”
Mr. Sorkin pressed X’s owner on the consequences.
“What this advertising boycott is going to do is kill the company,” said Musk, amidst his usual stutters. “And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company — and we will document it in great detail.”
“But those advertisers are going to say, ‘we didn’t kill the company.’”
“Oh, yeah? Tell it to Earth.”
Musk explained that both he and the boycotters will make their cases, “and we’ll see what the outcome is.”
The idea is to take the culture war outside educational institutions, the news media, and government bodies, and to shove it into boardrooms everywhere. It’s a great game of chicken, buck buck buck. And, unlike Gale Wynand in The Fountainhead, Musk appears more than willing to lose his investment in X just to prove the point.
An interesting place we’ve come to. The insider elites, and the ideological left, seek to advance woke ideology even if it ruins their own companies, such as Disney, and squelch free speech, even if it means betraying every last principle of American liberty.
So, in this war with other people’s fortunes, take sides: die, Disney, die — before X, let’s hope.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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How come all these other countries got better ‘Donald Trumps’ than we did?
Bridget Phetasy concluding her coverage of President Elect Javier of Argentina, on “Two Americas, One Cup,” the 130th episode of her podcast Dumpster Fire (December 3, 2023).
On December 4, 1783, at Fraunces Tavern in New York City, General George Washington formally bade his officers farewell.
There is no security of property, where a despotic authority can possess itself of the property of the subject against his consent. Neither is there such security, where the consent is merely nominal and delusive.
Jean-Baptiste Say, A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Chapter XIV.
On December 3, 1989, the leaders of the two world superpowers, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, declared an end to the Cold War, at a summit in Malta. A little over two years later not only had the Cold War ended, the Soviet Union was itself dissolved.
Terrifying the population is what our government does best, and most avidly. Officials regularly gin up irrational fears about COVID, or “white supremacy,” or Vladimir Putin — or a dozen other topics as part of a pretty obvious control strategy. It’s not as if these people mind scaring you; they want to scare you. And they do it every day.
Tucker Carlson, Tucker on X, Ep. 42 (November 29, 2023).
On December 2, 1823, U.S. President James Monroe delivered a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. The policy became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
Though a much-discussed principle of American foreign policy, it was undermined by the Spanish-American War and proved a dead letter as the U. S. entered World War I.
He paints the same picture of the UAP/UFO issue that has been rumored about for nearly 80 years: “Foreign objects are buzzing around in our airspace, and Joe Biden’s over 30 generals have not only been silent on the issue, but have yet to play ball with Congress.”
The tenor of the presser was summarized early by host Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.): “It is unacceptable that any mid-level, unelected bureaucrat staffers can tell members of Congress that we are not allowed to access information about UAP’s.”
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has pushed a disclosure procedure on the order of The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, but these representatives scorned that notion, arguing there remains too much secrecy surrounding the 1963 event in Dallas.
“So, whether it’s little green men, American technology, or worse — technology from the CCP — we need to know,” insists Rep. Ogles.
“I think the American people have a simple question,” Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) hazarded, “which is ‘if none of this exists, if this is all false, why, at every turn, are there people trying to stop the transparency and the disclosure? Why are folks who are in charge of committees, whether they are in the House or in the Senate, opposed to this disclosure?’ And it’s that point alone that piques the interest.”
Indeed it does.
It’s time for the people to find out.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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