The gang talks with Curtis Yarvin
Notes:
You know about the Royal we but have you heard of the Democratic we?
The Invitation to William was a letter sent by seven Englishmen, six nobles and a bishop, later referred to as "the Immortal Seven", to stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, dated 30 June 1688. In England, the heir apparent to the throne, James Francis Edward Stuart, had just been born to the unpopular King James II of England, and baptised a Catholic. The letter asked William, who was a nephew and son-in-law of James II, to use military intervention to force the king to make his eldest daughter, Mary, William's Protestant wife, his heir. The letter alleged that the newborn prince was an impostor.
The letter informed William that if he were to land in England with a small army, the signatories and their allies would rise up and support him. The Invitation briefly rehashed the grievances against King James. It claimed that the king's son was supposititious (fraudulently substituted) and that the English people generally believed him to be so. The present consensus among historians is that he was almost certainly their real son. The letter deplored that William had sent a letter to James congratulating him for the birth of his son, and offered some brief strategy on the logistics of the proposed landing of troops. It was carried to William in The Hague by Rear Admiral Arthur Herbert (the later Lord Torrington) disguised as a common sailor, and identified by a secret code.
The invitation caused William to carry out his existing plans to land with a large Dutch army, culminating in the Glorious Revolution during which James was deposed and replaced by William and Mary as joint rulers. William and Mary had previously asked for such an invitation when William started to assemble an invasion force that April. This request was done through secret correspondence that had been taking place since April 1687, between them and several leading English politicians, regarding how best to counter the pro-Catholic policies of James. William later justified his invasion by the fact that he was invited, which helped to disguise the military, cultural, and political impact that the Dutch regime had on England when his reign was unpopular and he feared a popular uprising.
“The libs never change”
Are we entirely sure that Noah Smith and Richard Hanania are different people? Our photographic analysis team has uncovered something truly shocking…
The discussed Odic force which was a 19th century idea which described the same concept as “vril” - as it turns out vril is also a 19th century idea.
A well-worded telling of the famous story of the rebellion of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang
Curtis gives a suggestion to Devon Eriksen for a possible follow up to his debut novel Theft of Fire - “If I Did It” - an (ahem) science fiction story of how to overcome the organizational hurdles involved in replacing the current Regime
The internet meme plot to storm Area 51 (they can’t stop us all!) (actually they could)
Somehow the (R) party ran this man for president against FDR
Some might even have called him a “Maverick”
Elon Musk, brat tamer
Dr. Buckaroo Banzai - physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star
Episode 7 - If I Did It, by Moldbug (featuring guest Curtis Yarvin)