Schedule

Past Appearances

• Barnes & Baris:
  
• Barnes, Viva & Duran on Iran War:
  
• Barnes & GoodLawgic:
  

Planned Appearances

• Friday at 9: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
• Saturday Movie at 9 pm eastern: TBD
• Sunday Law for the People w/ Viva at 6 pm eastern

Art of the Day: Bansky, the infamous anonymous muralist, whose famed art appears overnight in hot spots around the globe, eviscerates war propaganda with the brilliant contrasting images of his Bombs with Babies. Gets the point across with elegant efficacy. The only certainty with war is horror awaits someone, somewhere. A bias toward NO tenders out universal humanitarianism.

Book Recommendation: The Achilles Trap: The Iraq War.  Riddled with incompetency, the decisions at each stage backfired in our Mideastern war politics, summed up as we “failed to grasp critical nuances” of the enemy.

Wisdom of the Day: “But America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy…. America well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign Independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brow would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of Freedom and Independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an Imperial Diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.” John Quincy Adams.

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• When swing state voters were asked in 2024, they overwhelmingly opposed joining any war between Israel and Iran.

• This is nothing new, as the same skepticism animated voter response during the Iran nuclear weapons panic of 2009.

• Americans do not want the US to be the dominant player on the world’s stage.

• Americans see us as overinvolved already.

• Americans do not want to risk war with nuclear powers.

• Americans no longer believe intervention solves anything.

•  This reflects souring opinion on military interventions in general.

• Americans saw this all the way back to the Korean war that sunk Truman.

• They just as quickly turned on the Iraq war that crushed Bush and the Bush coalition forever.

• Part of this also reflects that Americans increasingly view Netanyahu’s Israeli government skeptically.

• Skepticism of Israel under Netanyahu is now a global phenomenon.

• The only group that a majority supports Israel over the Palestinian cause are now reduced to boomercons.

• Hence, Trump’s temporary Gaza idea was widely rejected right away by voters.

• Indeed, a surge in opposition amongst younger independent voters even has a bare majority supporting even giving military aid at all to Israel.

• Americans are even split on helping Israel against Hamas, fueled by young voter skepticism.

• Every group is trending negative toward Netanyahu’s Israel.

Hence, why so few Americans back American direct involvement in a war with Iran. 

Schedule

• Friday at 9: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
• Saturday Movie at 9 pm eastern: TBD
• Sunday Law for the People w/ Viva at 6 pm eastern

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Art of the Day: Rose Window, Notre Dame. The stunning stained glass of the great old church astounds up close as much as it amazes from a distance. A bucket list item of mine checked off a decade ago when I attended the midnight mass at Christmas at Notre Dame, the most literary legendary church in the western world, sitting over an ancient site of religious recognition and spiritual invocation before Catholicism even set its first cornerstone on this little island in the Seine, with its underground waterways eminating up through to its recipients of the comforting waves above. The brilliance of the masons that molded the glass with copper and sapphire, forging this remarkable window into their own artistic minds where God meets man and expresses itself over the centuries for us all to bewilder and bewonder its symmetry of shape, colorful expression, and remaking of a physical glass into a rose resembling petal, whispering at the cycle of life and a quick glimpse into God’s soul as well as that of nature and of our own.  

Book Recommendation: Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch. He forecast it all a quarter-century ago -- a new globalist aristocracy distant from national identity, common culture, and worker-led economics that threatened our collective futures. 

Wisdom of the Day: “The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” President Eisenhower.

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