Ben Shapiro and Yoram Hazony

Ben Shapiro’s “Sunday Special” from this past weekend (ep. 129) is well worth your time. They discuss what “conservative” means, and how we’d better start fighting against China and the woke before it’s too late.

China and woke-ism are #s 1 and 2 in threats against America. Immigration is probably #3, but China and wokeism are definitely 1 and 2 — although I’m not sure which is 1 and which is 2.

That’s why I cannot possibly vote for a Democrat for president. None of them are willing to fight the most important fights. They’re obsessed with things that are far down the list of priorities.

Administrative agencies are a good idea, until they go too far

SCOTUS was right to smack down the EPA in WV v EPA, as P&C detail in this episode.

The world is simply too complicated for the morons in Congress to legislate all the details. They have to set policy goals, and allow people — (1) with brains, and (2) who aren’t distracted by committee arguments over whether a man can get pregnant — to work out the finer points.

That’s all well and good.

But when administrative agencies try to set national policy, they’ve gone too far.

That’s precisely what the EPA did with their Clean Power Plan, and SCOTUS was right to tell them to soak their heads.

What is the biggest “existential” threat we face?

I’m getting sick of the word “existential” because of the way the left reflexively uses it with climate change, but it seems like the most apt word for my question here.

A friend just posted something on LinkedIn about how quantum computing might save us by figuring out how to address climate change. I replied, “Have you read Dune?”

Dune is set long after humanity has won a battle against the thinking machines. After the Butlerian jihad they instituted various conventions to prevent anyone from building a thinking machine. (Basically the rest of the universe would come down on you with atomics and wipe you out.)

Threat #1 — machines taking over.

We’ve all just lived through Covid, which — while mild by historic standards — illustrates that we are not immune to pandemics. Something natural or man-made might be lurking out there, and we are woefully unprepared.

Threat #2 — pathogens.

Iran is probably going to get a nuke. (Thanks, Obama.) Several other not-entirely-stable countries have them. China and Russia already have them. The threat of nuclear war is still very serious, although we seem to have forgotten it after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Threat #3 — nuclear war.

Elon Musk is one of the only people I know who’s talking about population collapse as a potential problem. Birth rates and sperm counts are falling, and weird stuff seems to be happening.

This seems like a serious, but mostly survivable problem.

Thread #4 — population collapse.

I list this one for completeness, but I don’t worry about it.

Threat #5 — alien invasion.

Climate change is a real threat, but I don’t think it’s even close to #s 1-4. We can deal with rising seas, bad weather and such. If we’re hit with any of these, I hope it’s climate change.

Threat #6 — climate change.

What have I missed? And which one do you think is the biggest threat?