“There’s a certain kind of film that weighs heavily on America’s collective nostalgia for kinder and gentler times. Yet in the same breath that we yearn for this simplicity, we often can’t help but scoff at it. For most of us, there is a specific film that comes to mind: one that we remember fondly from childhood, or the one we watch each year on the holidays. … The Sound of Music, re-released in 4K to commemorate its 60th anniversary this year, is the quintessential example, precisely because it hits on the extremes. It’s cloyingly saccharine in both style and substance, so much so that critics initially deemed it an emotionally manipulative flop. Yet it proved the test of time, sweeping the Oscars to become one of the highest-grossing movies in history and a staple lesson in both morality and musical education.” (11/07/25)
“A perennial characteristic of Silicon Valley startup companies is that they lose a lot of money, at least at first. That’s what happened to Amazon, Uber, YouTube, etc. But to my knowledge, no tech company has ever burned more cash more quickly than OpenAI. In 2024, it lost about $5 billion; in the first half of 2025, it lost a reported $13.5 billion; and in the last quarter alone, it lost another $12 billion. For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required — $2 trillion by 2030, according to Bain & Company. As the company at the center of the AI boom (along with Nvidia), OpenAI would represent a sizable chunk of that money. … OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.” (11/07/25)
“We all know that Trump is not telling the truth about inflation. He apparently believes the phony numbers that the various federal agencies and Wall Street ‘geniuses’ are pushing. Yes, gasoline (and even Diesel) prices are down, but not as much as he is telling us and the press. Yes, prices between $2.10 and $2.50 across much of the Heartland and South are good news. But prices on everything else are continuing to go up (and stay high) after the disastrous actions of Uncle Joe’s regime. And The Donald is not doing – and not able – to do very much. Of course, the problem is that we are not only NOT on a real standard – gold or silver, for example. We are far, far beyond the debasing of the coin that Hickman wrote about in the 1400s in England, and that plagued the SPQR (Rome) and hundreds of regimes throughout history.” (11/07/25)
“New York City is expensive. Housing is expensive, often prohibitively so. The city has crime problems. Other problems. Answers: Unshackle the housing market? Slash regulations and taxes? Make it easier to catch and punish bad guys? No. Prevent builders from supplying more and cheaper housing. Further hobble the police. Etc. Pro-Hamas socialist Zohran Mamdani has a slew of such pseudo-solutions. And has a large following.” (11/07/25)
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Class analysis is unsettling to many Americans because if it is true, then the wealth and political power of elites comes into question; we begin to see the means of extraction, and these means don’t look like the concepts in political and moral philosophy. It is almost like the philosophers were looking for after-the-fact ways to paper over what ruling classes had in fact done. This is why we must insist that the observable facts are more important than philosophical abstractions.” (11/07/25)
“After the terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I watched in disbelief as the world elevated the perpetrators and ignored the victims. Overnight, terrorism became something to excuse rather than condemn. The moral protections we assumed were universal, no longer applied to Jews. Outside my New York City home, protests erupted with vandalism, violence, threats and intimidation. Demonstrators acted with striking confidence, as if a new permission structure had been activated in which boundaries no longer existed. During that time, I helped expose university professor Amin Husain who said that Hamas was not a terrorist group and that reports of Oct. 7 atrocities were ‘not true’. He boasted openly about his reputation as an antisemite and his students laughed. In that moment, it became clear to me that someone was rewiring how a generation perceives morality, conflict and identity, shaping belief, weaponizing language and re-engineering society.” (11/08/25)
“Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City is a triumph of moral barbarism, economic illiteracy, illogic, and just plain envy. Mamdani’s campaign had a double pitch: billionaires should not exist, and ‘the people’ deserve free stuff.” (11/07/25)
“The openly Marxist, openly divisive and openly fraudulent Zohran Mamdani is the new Mayor of New York City, elected with 52% of the vote in a city formerly considered the crown jewel of America, and arguably the most important city worldwide of the past 200 years. During Mamdani’s victory speech, he spoke words that held true to his Marxist vision, and that should send chills down the spine of any student of history, or any keen observer of our modern world. ‘We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.’ Of course, every aspect of society, personal choice, foreign intervention, economics, etc., etc., that the government takes an interest in ‘solving’ inevitably results in hardship, stifling regulation, spiraling costs and shortages.” (11/07/25)
“On Tuesday night, New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani to be our 111th Mayor — our first immigrant mayor in generations, and the first Muslim mayor in our city’s history. ‘In this moment of political darkness,’ Zohran said on Election Night, ’New York will be the light.’ He lit the match — but it’s on all of us to make it shine brightly. Zohran ran an inspired and inspiring campaign that came out of nowhere and stunned people with its momentum. … Voters were compelled by his laser focus on affordability. And they were inspired by his vision of a city where everyone belongs, where the full diversity of New Yorkers can live in dignity, instead of constant struggle. Andrew Cuomo, on the other hand, ran a sour, selfish, fear-mongering campaign, which exacerbated tensions and divisions in New York City.” (11/07/25)
