Commies and Trashworld

Revolutionaries, Racists, and Witness

Interesting one! AI-generated “Soviet-style propaganda poster about the decadent west.” The cats are pretty weird.

Dear Friends,

The Bailey Band is in the studio today trying to finish up the final vocal work on the new album. It’s probably going to take one more session after today. It’s been a long journey and we’ve learned a lot, and are still learning. It is always very difficult to balance the forest and the trees. We want to do the very best job we can do at every moment—that is, every single note—but it is possible to get lost in the details and miss the big picture! The “big picture” is that we’ve got a terrific debut album coming your way, and we will hopefully have a good sense of a release date soon.

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We are down to the final week of the election season and things are at a fever pitch. Anybody who is “convinced” that so-and-so is going to win is a pure gambler or wishful thinker. I do sense that Trump has some momentum, but then I remember that he has a hard ceiling of 47 or 48 percent of the electorate. His people are enthusiastic; yes, the crowds are hyped. But the crowd is probably just not big enough. This is a big country and over half of it hates Donald Trump; his only hope is that enough people hate Kamala Harris even more (certainly possible!), or are just ambivalent yet motivated enough to get out and vote for him.

Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was politically stupid, particularly having a transgressive comedian tell jokes about various ethnicities. I’m sure he enjoyed calling Puerto Rico a “pile of garbage in the ocean” and I’m sure a lot of people laughed, but the half-million Puerto Ricans who are citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania probably didn’t take too kindly. That’s a state that Donald Trump needs, your might remember.

I am increasingly convinced that whatever the result, there is very likely going to be civil unrest in these United States of America. Both sides are passionate to the point of losing their minds (they believe the political apocalypticism), neither side will concede defeat, both will probably claim the election was “stolen,” and the results will be close enough for that to be facially plausible. We are careening toward a very painful civic train wreck. Great work, everybody. Stay safe.

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My friends at TruthXChange have begun posting videos from their August symposium—last week I already linked to David Bahnsen’s wonderful talk on work and the meaning of life. Here’s mine, taking on the right-wing “Christian” neo-masculinity crowd. I was having a bad hair day—I forgot to pack my hair product to keep it from being unruly!—but there’s nothing to do but get on with it. Sorry about that.

And here’s Andrew Sandlin delivering a cogent, straightforward, clear, and concise defense of classical liberalism from its erosion on the left and the right. Just enough to upset everybody!

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