This week on Dispatches from Clown World we dive into the discourse about James Hetfield of Metallica doing some banal crowd work much to the chagrin of a segment of the public in an era where all is political. How did we get to this point where we’re not allowed to enjoy anything because either it has to come with idiotic internet left wing views or it gets attacked for not expressing them? The answer is, of course, Reddit, that great scourge of modernity.

Many other Clown World topics to talk about. We have: Omar raid, the election generally, Kelly Clarkson vs Store, Hitler vs Lenin (and to make it better, indeed Hitler was left wing and Lenin was right wing!) no live execution, Greek troon shooter, and Hutu vs Tutsi cows.

Our Loony Lady Legislator is Mary Pelto…

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“The world seems to be controlled, not by a single orchestra conductor, but by a new apocalyptic beast, a sort of anonymous, omnipresent monster who has vowed, first and foremost, to destroy the West. The beast has no specific plan.” - Jean Raspail [The Camp of the Saints]

On Sunday night I accidentally got hooked into watching Toy Story 5 with my family, which is now streaming. I hadn’t intended to, but as my wife was watch…

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Of course, there is never a shortage of Clown World stories, but sometimes I wish there was. We have Trump at the UN, Saudi collapse in Yemen, Superintelligence, FBI beastiality trafficking, Dolezal’s sex service, the Elizabeth Holmes trailer, Sydney’s bets, and last but certainly not least, the Massachusetts masked lesbian bar.

Our Loony Lady Legislator…

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We are back from an unintentional break, and this week on Dispatches from Clown World, we have the Mistrial of the Century. The facts of the Lindsey Clancy case are too depressing to want to get into, but the discourse is of key importance. How did so many women get cooked by conspiracy true crime? Is the public incapable of understanding the meaning of not guilty by insanity, or for that matter what it means to be insane? How is it so many women seem to think “good for her?” And perhaps more than anything, the thread that runs through all of this is that giving the entire public a voice certainly didn’t improve anything.

It having been 4 weeks since we last recorded, we have choice Clown World topics: AfD wins (BSW did hit threshold by the way, exactly the sort of thing I should confirm before recording), Milo deported…

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World we are discussing token black professors. Tyler Austin Harper at The Atlantic wrote a quite interesting story about his time as a professor at a liberal arts college and the process by which it became apparent that they cared little for his skillset but instead only valued his skin color. This is, of course, yet another story where every moderately perceptive person had figured out by now that this was, in broad strokes, the case. Still, the story goes into great depth, is humorous, and Harper is a wonderful writer.

Then, after selecting that topic, the news came out that Jason Arday was found dead. Arday, of course, was billed as the “youngest Black [sic] professor in Cambridge history” and had a truly fantastical bio and had resigned after it coming out all of his work was plagiarized, in what is another scalp for the race science substackers. It provides an incredible contrast to Harper’s story, since Harper was act…

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“Those who are set up in a city as the guardians of its liberty cannot receive a more useful and necessary authority than the power to indict citizens before the people or some sort of magistrate or council when they commit any kind of offence against free government….it provides a release for those humours that arise within cities in one way or another against certain citizens, for when these humours have no legal form of release, they resort to illegal means that bring about the ruin of the whole republic.” - Machiavelli [Discourses, I.7]

“The sentence of ostracism was not in itself a punishment for wrongdoing. It was described for the sake of appearances as a measure to humble and curtail a man’s prestige and power in cases where these had grown oppressive; but in reality, it was a humane alleviation of jealousy, which could thus vent its desire to do harm, not by inflicting some irreparable injury, but by a banishment of ten years.” - Plutarch [Life of Aristides, 7.2]

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, Fauci Pleads the Fifth! It is hard to deny the wisdom of his legal strategy, assuming it doesn’t get him thrown in jail for contempt of Congress, which I think is largely a political matter. However, as the all time chief bureaucrat, he will remain a hero of the managerial class, despite the insane hubris to write it all down. This is a man who was young when the Nixon tapes were coming out!

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, we have a political circus special since there has been too much largely unrelated political news to take it any other direction. In the first half we have four separate stories about US Senators or the people who wish to be US Senators. Most importantly, there is Mitch McConnell, who is now Schrodinger’s Senator, simultaneously dead and alive until someone can check on his condition. We also have Graham Meets Grim on the sudden end of Lindsey Graham, America’s most notorious effeminate warhawk. Speaking of Grahams, that is followed by “Platner? I hardly know her!” on the knives out situation leading to the end of the Senatorial hopes of some random loose cannon they employed to act like a man. Lastly, we have Haley Stevens Sticks it to ‘Em about the Michigan Senate race and a woman who did a sketch-comedy worthy “Midwest Lady” bit:

For the second half we have yet more crazy political stories, this time internationally. Those are: Anne Widdecomb murdered, Farage resigns, Le Pen in, Colombia’s caudillo, and Erdogan’s gift of a gun. (I apologize for not putting links in, I have been sick for over a week and don’t feel like it.)

I have finally retired the long-struggling “Meeting of the Week” section and it has been replaced by the “Loony Lady Legislator” feature.

Our first LLL is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez who was apparently really cool in college

In Clown World History: It has been two years since Trump survived the assassination attempt in Butler, PA!

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That is all for this week. Thanks for listening.

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, we are celebrating America’s 250th birthday! Some general and often wandering discussion of this country’s history, the festivities, and the libs who can’t stand it. While “bread and circuses” is considered pejorative, in this exact instance, the government is absolutely supposed to provide circuses. Does America have its problems? Sure, but you’re supposed to love your country because it is yours, and this one happens to be particularly impressive.

As usual, we have many other Clown World topics: Mamdani’s sweep, Colombian election, Iran peace?, World Cup, MLB pride, Euro heat wave, and Usha’s dress.

Our Meeting of the Week is the Cardinals’ Consistory

In Clown World History: it has been 11 years since the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

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“Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.” - Charles Mackay [Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The Crusades.”]

“I can’t stand up and praise or blame anything relating to human actions and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Some gentlemen count circumstances as nothing, but in fact they are what give to every political principle its distinguishing colour and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what make every civil and political scheme beneficial or harmful to mankind.” - Edmund Burke [Reflections on the Revolution in France]

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, Antoine and I discuss the growth of data centers, their obvious lack of profitability, the bubble economy, and the fact that these doesn’t make sense for any purpose but unprecedented mass surveillance. We do have some things going for us though, such as that the great majority of the public hates them. Unfortunately, our elites don’t care, and the environmental crisis has apparently ended while they insist on wasting vast resources on software that summarizes Reddit so that the Chinese don’t do it first.

Plenty of Clown World news over the last two weeks since we were last did a show. We have: the first trillionaire, Belfast riots, Anna Paulina Luna assaulted, the other Jeff Epstein, Elmo hopes both teams have …

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Dispatches from Clown World is back! (though that is not nearly my biggest podcast news of the day…also we recorded this a couple of days ago when I couldn’t say yet.) We have a new host and are still working out some kinks, but the hope is that the sound quality will be much better. Antoine is a musician and has recording software, and while we hope to continue to improve, the file is 3x as big as when Alexis and I did it, which has to be worth something.

Anyway, we discuss the defeat of Thomas Massie, his career, his opponent, Trump’s huge influence, and of course the $30~ million in Israeli money that was rained down on this obscure House district. Did AIPAC and the other Israel-Firsters over extend themselves? Is there a future for gadflies in Congress?

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In other topics, I stupidly did not bring my list home with me despite that I always use it to write this. I am not in the mood for fill…

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Dear Readers,

Welcome to my second monthly newsletter. I am finding that thus far I really do not like writing these, so make no guarantees that I continue, but I do think there is value in making my work easy to find for people who are not on social media, and I can hardly to tell you to google my name daily. Writing these is somewhat depressing, both because I am not getting published nearly enough, and because it causes me to realize I have no real memory of what has happened in the last month, though Iran and the ensuing problems has somewhat consumed all other news.

I do, however, have one piece of good news for fans of The Wayward Rabbler. As you probably saw, I have released my lovely wife Alexis from her obligation to host the podcast, which has never been profitable and which is frequently about topics …

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This week, in what may be our last episode in this format, Alexis and I discuss the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. Were they actually on the supply side of race hate? Will anything come from these charges? The SPLC is a key part of the entire gay race communism system. It is not clear who will donate if the money is used this way, though on the other hand, plenty seem to say that they knew.

We have tons of other Clown World topics: Door Dash grandma, RFK’’s raccoon penis, Hegseth’s Pulp Fiction, Sabrina doesn’t like that, Clash of Clans Foot tribute, Camp of the Saints gone and back again, two women named Chavez, and Sheryl Cowan can’t get a job.

For Alexis’s Conspiracy Corner we discuss the dead nuclear scientists.

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“It is an undertaking of some degree of delicacy to examine into the cause of public disorders. If a man happens to not succeed in such an enquiry, he will be thought weak and visionary; if he touches the true grievance, there is a danger that he may come near to persons of weight and consequence, who will rather be exasperated at the discovery of their errors, than thankful for the occasion of correcting them.”
- Edmund Burke [Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 1770.]

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World I present my novel foreign policy idea: the Sane Man Theory. In contrast to Donald Trump’s Mad Man Theory (or reality, it would seem,) the Sane Man Theory is where a political leader tries to behave reasonably so that others think he is a rational individual who can be reasoned with. If America’s adversaries are anywhere near as crazy as our government claims, they are must be masters of this technique.

It was, as ever, a big two weeks in Clown World. In other topics we have: Trump’s Easter Bunny, Bondi fired, KBJ on Japan, space diversity, social media settlement, MMIWG2SLBTQQIA+, retarded German whale, the chimp civil war, and Bardella & the Italian Princess.

Also I just realized I forgot the Kristi Noem’s crossdressing husband story, I apologize!

For Alexis’s True Crime Corrido…

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Dear Readers,

In February I said I would start doing a monthly roundup of my articles and other work. Well, more accurately polled you all on it and was given an affirmative by those proud few who participated. However, I had written two very long articles for this Substack in fairly close succession and there was not much worth adding. I believe the only other thing I had published in February was a single Libertarian Institute article, which does not a roundup newsletter make. I have only done somewhat better this month, though at least have things to share.

Still, what a month for news it has been, since Donald Trump’s insane and disastrous attack on Iran. All of the things I successfully got published this month were on that topic, which was not my intention, but who can even remember what else has happened in the last month besides Trump’s increasingly unhinged statements and high gas prices. In future months it will hopefully be the case that I ca…

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World we have some good news: Cigarettes are Back! After a lifetime of endless scolding, browbeating, and propaganda, it seems that, as per the New York Post, smoking is fashionable again. Hollywood parties now offer cigarette platters for guests. More people admit to smoking occasionally and are willing to be seen and photographed doing it. But will any policies be rolled back? Is it actually the end for the anti-smokers? We can only hope.

We have plenty of other great topics: Newt’s nukes, Onlyfans CEO dead, Loomer’s journey to India, Taylor Lorenz on Cuba, the Daily Stormer closing, Secret Service Agent shoots self, Bill Cosby’s $60 million settlement, and the virgin husband.

For Alexis’s True Crime Corridor, we have the quadruple amputee cornhole champion accused of murder.

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This week, on Dispatches from Clown World, Alexis and I go over the Iran War, which despite its utter seriousness seems to be treated as a joke by the Trump Administration that it may destroy. If you do not use Twitter to have seen the insane videos the White House keeps releasing, here is one:

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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, Alexis and I unenthusiastically cover Trump’s State of the Union speech, to which we didn’t pay any great amount of attention. However, the silly boycott by many Democrats, Ilhan Omar screaming, and more beg the question “How long can this country survive when half the country always thinks the President is the nation’s greatest enemy?” The prospects certainly do not seem positive.

To follow our underwhelming main section, we have a number of great Clown World stories to cover: the fake dog ban panic, Andrew’s arrest, autistic boy abandoned at ICE protest (I must apologize and note he is only described as “special needs,” not autistic,) Canada is poor (it seems that, in what must be a first, Canada sent a reporter around to Alabama to ask what they are doing right…I hadn’t real…

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