“It is NOT a beauty pageant! It is a scholarship program!” is the famous line about a fictional competition in the movie Miss Congeniality. But major changes announced to the annual crowning of Miss America are real, right down to not calling it a pageant, with the aim being more competition and less beauty emphasis.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25My read of Cass is he's trying to grope towards a new synthesis of the right of center. From the ess… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Maybe I need to read him more to get that. I read the substack post on the 3 demands that seemed to…
on Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)I put down only facts. I gave no personal evaluation at all. However since you asked: I am strongly…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I think the premise that someone like Cass is working with is that Trump and Musk *aren't* on-board.…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Musk seems to have flipped from Grey to Red (though who knows how long that will last). Cass is an o… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Eh maybe...? I mean admittedly I am not the closest Musk follower but my take on him is that his two… on A Grudging Concession About Something Trump DidThe Good: 1) Tariffs on China. 2) What he's done with Israel. 3) Dismantling DEI and understanding i… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This isn't exactly the Grey Tribe (though Musk has overlap with them and Thiel is Grey to the bone).… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The ideas are worth taking seriously but the conceit that Trump (or Vance, or Musk) understand or ar…
on Trump’s Most Insidious Scheme (So Far)That's a law enforcement agency arresting, for months or years, people who not only have not committ…
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