Realpolitik in an Unreal World
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In the practice of Realpolitik, it is typically considered ill advised to go out of one’s way to antagonize the greatest possible number of political participants with one’s speech. Today we break that rule with our episode title “Misesian Socialism”. The phrasing derives from the name of one Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist of […]
Written by SurrealPolitiks
In the practice of Realpolitik, it is typically considered ill advised to go out of one’s way to antagonize the greatest possible number of political participants with one’s speech. Today we break that rule with our episode title “Misesian Socialism”. The phrasing derives from the name of one Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist of […]
Written by SurrealPolitiks
https://surrealpolitiks.com/podcast-player/977/members-only-chat-20230419.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:48:36 | Recorded on April 19, 2023I am so glad we started doing these members only chats every Wednesday at 9:30pm Eastern. We live in, interesting times, as goes the curse. Toward the end of Monday’s public show, a caller brought up recent indictments in Charlottesville,...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
We live in, interesting times, as goes the curse. The member chat this came in advance of has been published. Logged in subscribers can access it here. Toward the end of Monday’s public show, a caller brought up recent indictments in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a Soros backed prosecutor has fulfilled his campaign promise by […]
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There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence lately in the news, and I’ve been struggling to get caught up with how dramatically technology has changed in the last three years. One might expect the pace of change to only increase from here, and as much as I share the concerns of Elon […]
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https://surrealpolitiks.com/podcast-player/913/members-only-chat-20230412.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:31:35 | Recorded on April 12, 2023Today’s weekly video chat for our paying subscribers was a lot of fun. I opened it up with some updates on my legal struggles and some information about a trick the FBI tried to play on me. Then I went...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
The Wednesday night SurrealPolitiks members only video chats have been a lot of fun so far. I have appreciated the audience interactions, and, not without consequence, that interaction has saved me the trouble of needing to do much show prep. 🙂 The more you talk, the less I have to, as I’m fond of saying. […]
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There’s an old saying that two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead. Which means Washington is going to have a lot of very morbid work to do, if it wants to clean up its intelligence messes. Over a million people in the United States have “Top Secret” security clearances. While […]
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I just fixed two big problems several people were reporting on the SurrealPolitiks website. 1. When creating an account, the system was set to email the customer a link to set their password, rather than allowing the customer to create their password during checkout. This was problematic for a number of reasons, most notably if […]
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https://surrealpolitiks.com/podcast-player/846/members-only-chat-20230405.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:29:19 | Recorded on April 5, 2023Our second weekly members only video chat took place tonight, on April 5th 2023. I think these things are off to a great start and I am grateful to all our members who participated. Among the things we discussed were...
