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Happy Independence Day!

I'm sitting here listening to the "Lectern Guy", preparing for tomorrow's interview.
It's Independence Day. I'm a Canadian. I appreciate that Canada does not have the same history as America, and in that sense, Canadians have a very different appreciation of what "freedom" means. Oversimplifying it possibly to the point of caricaturizing it (I thought that was a word, but Microsoft is underlining it), the Canadian concept of "freedom" is something that was given to us by the elites we believe should govern us. The Canadian view of "freedom" is, in a material sense, the freedom to do what you are told.
For the Zeitgeist of Canadian history, "freedom" that was something borne out of uncertain and violent revolution from a tyrannical government. Our freedom was "recognized" - given to us - by that government,
Operating on this understanding, freedom given is not freedom. It's pre-circumscribed. It's not a right. It's a privilege afforded.
Flipside, freedom fought for - the freedom to be left alone, to fend for yourself, is inherently more destabilizing. In a meaningful way, true freedom is inherently more risky. It is uncertain. It is wild. It is the freedom to choose your destiny, as opposed to the illusion of freedom to "choose your own adventure" from a limited number of chapter options.
I guess it might be something of human nature that many people prefer the limited "choose your adventure" notion of freedom than true freedom to write your own book.
Having lived through the Covid era, the most disheartening thing is seeing the next generation seeing their 'book of freedom' reduced to fewer and fewer chapters, and not even knowing it. And while it is an offensive notion to anyone with even a fading memory of freedom (or whatever freedom they thought they had), it is comforting to those who fear true, uncertain freedom. It reduces individual agency and individual responsibility for the trade-off of certainty and predictability. But it inevitably ends badly because the greedy and the tyrannical will abuse of their freedom to exploit those who fear their freedom.
For good or for bad - depending on who you ask - Americans have always valued a more pure concept of freedom. But the political and social "elites" are trying to breed that love of true freedom out of the American consciousness. They have already done it in many parts of the world, and we are seeing the consequences of it.
But the American Experiment has always been contagious. American freedom has always been the envy of the world. And as long as there are enough freedom-loving Americans - and freedom-lovers at large - there is still a fighting chance for freedom.
That is what the 4th of July means to me.

Thank you all for being here. Thank you for making me understand true freedom. And Happy Independence Day everyone!

p.s. If this has been an incoherent, rambling mess of a flow of thought, I blame oxygen deprivation from the Canadian wildfires! I should have exercised my freedom to stay inside as the government suggested to me šŸ˜

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We got summoned back from fishing… Darn it! The big reveal is going to start shortly!

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Apparently, they have 400 pounds of crawfish. It’s going to be one heck of a feast tonight with @Ginger_Ninja

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Bourbon w/ Barnes: Thursday, May 29, 2025

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Appearance on Richard Syrette

I did a quick hit on Richard Syrette yesterday. Gotta keep Canadians apprised of the U.S. madness.

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The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023

Closing Argument: Birthright citizenship is deeply American, and wholly Constitutional.

The Barnes Brief, Podcast Format: Monday, July 17, 2023
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Board Poll: Sunday Topics, June 1, 2025

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The most ridiculous lawsuit yet…

We will talk about it tonight, but this one takes the cake.

A woman’s family sues the oil industry because she died from hyperthermia.

The woman was obese. Decided to take her car to an appointment on the hottest day of the year.

Her car is air-conditioning didn’t work.

She doesn’t sue the car company for the broken air conditioning.

She doesn’t sue the food industry for making her obese.

She sees the oil industry for climate change.

In King County. Barnes’ nemesis County.

So she might win. Lol

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/leon-vs-exxon-complaint.pdf

For the last three years I’ve been looking after my father in laws car. After the coof jabs, he experienced a rapid mental and physical degeneration which rendered him unable to stay at home. He had a heart attack the evening of his second jab which he survived. The family wouldn’t listen to my protests but the fear was alive back then and they were in full psycosis mode. He’s owned the car for 67 years and today we loaded it onto a trailer as it’s off to a new owner. It was built in 1927 during the golden years of English engineering, sadly those days are long gone.

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, May 30, 2025

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Art of the Day: Venice wallpaper. The integration of art into your daily living space, much as Frank Lloyd Wright employed with his architecture, provides a continuous, contemporary mental escape and pleasant enveloping environment and aesthetic to work within and under the umbrella of expressive joy, as this art turned wallpaper of my favorite city in the world into your own home. For me, Venice is my Atlantis, and always wondrous to remember within your own home.

Book Recommendation: The New Economics. While a leftist at heart, the insights into the modern monetary system offered by dissident economist Steve Keen warrants further inquiry and introspection for public debt hawks and neo-classical economists.

Wisdom of the Day: ā€œI am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgiven.ā€ President Donald Trump. Ā 

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Barnes Brief: Friday, May 23, 2025

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Art of the Day: I love the geometric shapes and colorful display of mosaics, mixing and merging with the colorful windows as the sunlight interacts with the interior space, most often found in near eastern world, but not alone there. The striking pillars to the gothic arches shape the space, but the walled mosaics give it life. The kind of place one could chill in the early evening before sunset and witness the divine expressed in the artistry and craftmanship of the human mind.

Book Recommendation: Jeffrey Sachs: The Strange Case of Dr. Shock & Mr. Aid. Sachs is a Globalist Economic Hit Man. Always has been. The Harvard economist engineered ā€œshock therapyā€ economics in the 90s, a policy so disastrous in Russia, he had to pretend he didn’t do it. A big champion of globalist institutions, The World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations, he masks his agenda behind talk of ā€œaidā€ and ā€œdevelopment.ā€ Sachs’ biggest allies are George Soros and Bill Gates. It’s no coincidence he’s America’s leading China apologist, hates Trump, championed global Covid vaccines, open borders, WTO China, whining ceaselessly about climate change, condemns America as a ā€œcolonialist, racist, white supremacistā€ nation, who had an ā€œinsurrectionā€ on J6. He's completely incompetent, and a total phony. This book exposes him from the left, along the lines of The Confession of an Economic Hit Man.

Wisdom of the Day: ā€œI thought about the core tools we EHMs used in my day: false economics that included distorted financial analyses, inflated projections, and rigged accounting books; secrecy, deception, threats, bribes, and extortion; false promises that we never intended to honor; and enslavement through debt and fear.ā€ John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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Barnes Brief: Friday, May 16, 2025

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Art of the Day: A lifelong favorite of mine, a gift from my brother when young, reflecting the fearlessness of the working class folks who build those fancy castles in the sky, unafraid and unaffected sitting up miles in the sky just snacking on a little lunch. Their extraordinary achievement, their direct sense of success, and their fearlessness toward the risks of the world always fascinated me as a child, and to this very day, remains one of my favorite American photos.

Book Recommendation: Grapes of Wrath. A seminal text by a legendary American writer.

Wisdom of the Day: ā€œA sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.ā€ John Steinbeck.

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