Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Mexican cartels are using drones to drop bombs on rival cartels and police, and to intimidate civilians. Criminal organizations in many countries are using drones and have gotten good at using them in advanced ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjCFd3Vosg
On the international stage, the United States is acting like brash huns, its president receiving gifts of gold as countries complement him and shower him in gifts in hopes of corruption as they beseech Trump to lift tariffs. In the short term, the U.S. has higher taxes on goods they import and difficulty selling abroad where foreign countries tariff back and where tariffs on imports into the U.S. make U.S. goods more expensive. In the long term, the U.S. reputation is tarnished and countries may never trust the country again as the country already elected Trump twice, and may always elect another one in the future. A world where the United States can’t be trusted is a worse world for the United States and Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2J7-Es6g
“The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would work to shutter the department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. The plan revolves around a series of agreements that spread responsibility for administering tens of billions of dollars in school-related spending across the federal government.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/why-republicans-are-worried-about-trumps-plans-to-split-the-education-department-00658588
“NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to remain atop the nation’s largest police department once mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes over in January.
Her decision caps months of speculation over whether the high-society scion would work for a democratic socialist mayor and creates immediate tension for the embryonic administration.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/its-official-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch-will-lead-department-under-mamdani-00658811
“Attacks include: accusations that a notorious Russian military intelligence hacking group targeted defense, transport and tech firms involved in helping Ukraine; arson attacks on depots containing equipment destined for Ukraine in Poland; Russian ally Belarus weaponizing migrants to destabilize Poland; drones of unknown origin buzzing airports across the continent; and Moscow being accused of undermining the presidential election in Romania.
Poland called a Sunday rail line explosion “sabotage” and on Tuesday blamed two Ukrainians working for Russia.
Globsec, a Prague-based think tank, calculated there were more than 110 acts of sabotage and attempted attacks carried out in Europe between January and July, mainly in Poland and France, by people with links to Russia.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-defense-minister-guido-crosetto-russia-hybrid-war/
Trump threatens to jail Democratic lawmakers for saying that troops should not follow illegal orders, even though that is true, military men and women shouldn’t follow orders that are illegal. Threatening to jail lawmakers for such statements is yet another dent in U.S. Democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0RTOYhqKs
We can’t assume other people in history and in the current world think like us. Not everyone is a reasonable person who can be reached with diplomacy. Some people are ideologically psychopaths and are willing to kill many many people to get what they want. Such people can only be stopped by force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqn27gl2vg
The wisdom of the crowds and the efficient market hypothesis require an amount of independence of the people in the crowd. With the internet and social media, people are much more connected and therefore much less independent. The same fads, cults, and appeals that warp people’s political views may also warp their market views. So, markets may have gotten dumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Iok2wyoCw
Popular podcaster Tim Pool often doesn’t know what he’s talking about, yet he talks confidently and angrily. Some of it doesn’t even seem honest–I’m not sure if he’s convinced himself of bad arguments or if he argues dishonestly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChVW1lBdNrg
In secret talks, the Trump administration has been talking with Russia about Ukrainian capitulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZqRmMvBnY