The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Tucker, Blackrock and the SIFI Two-Step Tom Luongo The big news this week was Tucker Carlson’s unceremonious firing by Fox News. The reasons for Tucker’s firing are still unclear. And even Tucker’s emergence from his man cave on Tuesday for two minutes did nothing to quell the speculation. What it did do was underscore just how much real power he amassed during his time in the prime time slot anchoring Fox’s entire evening. I’m not the first to point out to you just how many views this thing has gotten, dwarfing his Neilson Ratings. This was a serious needle scratch.  Something changed behind the scenes.  Within an hour Don Lemon was dumped by CNN.  Susan Rice left the Biden Administration that morning. Nate Silver was let go from ABC News. Both Carlson and Lemon had stories planted about them harboring ‘toxic workplace environments’ to set the scene.   Nuts and Sluts is a time-tested method of invalidating a public figure. It doesn’t have to be true, it just ...

  China and the Great Reset Michael Rectenwald In this essay, I first aim to show that China is the model for the Great Reset. China’s economic and political system, “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” is the globalists’ blueprint for West.* Second, I address the role that China itself may play in the new globalist order. In addition to being a model, is China a partner, or a competitor with the Great Reset agenda? The answer to this question depends, in part, on understanding the relationships between China and the Western globalists. The terms of these relationships may be gleaned from Western investments in China’s economic and political system, and from the involvement of Chinese officials and other China-based notables in Western globalist NGOs, international governance bodies, corporations, banks, and universities. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics The title of this section represents a play on the description of the Chinese economy by the Chinese Communist Party ...