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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Trump channels the Project for a New American Century's dream of a new Pearl Harbor...but bigger. "Iranian Revolutionary Guard, if you're listening..."

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is astonishingly blind to have been able to imagine 30 live ins along with 30 other brothers could throw parties with free flowing booze and drugs to 100s of 18-22 year olds and think there weren't rapes. What a scary place to end up drunk at 2am. I really was blind.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess #TravelWithNatalie wants #Trump to expand his horizons. He's facing Eurasia.

Trump staring at a mini globe with the caption "His Hemisphere"

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy to Subscribe to the @washingtonsun.bsky.social today. I've been hoping for something like this. Good to see @danamilbank.bsky.social again.

https://www.washingtonsun.com/welcome-to-notus

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I look at Bush's painting and my mind flashes to, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy – I was able to get a sense of his soul." He's had 25 years to contemplate .... Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJk6AwEczO/?img_index=1

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Why do most of these Tech guys sound like they dropped out of college before they finished their Liberal Arts requirements? Oh, right. Who needs Kant, Hegel, or Husserl when one can read the wisdom of the Zuck.

In Zuckerberg’s manifesto, he notes how “historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.”

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

William Shirer on a similar phenomenon.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#EconSky Good advice. Paul Volcker on that relationship.

Finally, Fed chairman Martin, whose restrictive monetary policy Nixon (advised by then professor Arthur Burns) had blamed for his 1960 election defeat, retired from the Fed in early 1970.
Burns then became the new chairman. He was a highly respected business cycle expert and certainly close to the president. But to me the new Fed leadership seemed almost perversely willing to ease policy, reducing money market interest rates, even when the dollar was under pressure. More than once I pleaded with my longtime associate and friend, Fed governor Dewey Daane, to encourage the chairman not to ease when I was scheduled to meet with my foreign counterparts.
In the end, none of those measures—South African gold sales, activating SDRs, or even a mildly restrained monetary policy—would be enough to save the dollar or address the underlying payments deficits. The competitive position of the United States, reflected in a declining trade surplus, was simply not strong enough to offset the large government expenditures abroad and chronic capital outflows. A more fundamental approach would be necessary.
I had great respect for Arthur Burns as a student of business cycles. And I know he also felt strongly, even emotionally, that the independence of the Federal Reserve was critically important—he would often compare it to the Supreme Court. It has since become clear that he was under persistent pressure from the White House. The extent to which that influenced his policies remains unknown to me. After all, central bankers have been congenitally reluctant to “take away the punchbowl” and begin restrictive action when the inflation process is still nascent. In any event, the Fed wasn’t going to save the dollar.

Volcker, Paul A.. Keeping At It PublicAffairs. Kindle Edition.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#EconSky Remember this book, or the times? Ah the days when the Thursday afternoon release of money supply data was a BIG event.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

These people choose some curious poses, don't they? And they thought they looked good doing it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-photo-bathrobe-bed/

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

how funny timing is everything Professor I'm now well aware of my usage and can easily stay under the timed limit (efficiency of computing time helps with hallucination avoidance too) ...which suggests they will be decreasing that limit soon enough.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Mullock wins NJ-2 DEM Primary. Excerpt of victory speech in alt text

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D7QXeiPDc/

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#NJ-2 #DEM What an exciting primary. Now it's time to unseat Jrff Van Drew.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A bit of a stretch on your point but for a fun trip down memory lane (and kind of a starting point for market worship) here's a reminder of Greenspan as Ayn Rand acotlye in 1974. Ah the good old days when philosophy (or the lack thereof) matterred. newrepublic.com/article/9149...

Miss Rand appears to have done more in shaping his views than did Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a former teacher. Bespectacled Mr. Greenspan agrees that his 20-year association with Miss Rand helped to wean him from an earlier liberalism and other "mistaken policies."

"Alan is my disciple philosophically," Russian-born Miss Rand, 69, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, said recently. To put the thing in context consider recent developments. The world economy and banking system are under great strain. Food is everywhere short, and the oil producers have quadrupled the price with the effect of imposing a kind of excise tax of $60 or $70 billion annually on the consumers, at the same time that the producers' extraordinary new income is sloshing about the hard-pressed international exchange system.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Liberals DID deliver. The GOP destroyed much of their efforts and remain committed to destroying what remains. The arguments seem just as valid now. (NYTimes 7/16/1933)

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

throw a little DADA into the mix (for not dissimilar reasons to the last time, if you think on it for a bit)

https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

there's power, of nature, and then there's the power of men over others (a most curious thing) Russell expounding on Hume

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216201/page/n37/mode/2up

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#WW3 #Trump has ordered ALL traffic going through the Straits of Hormuz blocked and the interdiction of toll payers. I presume he means the Chinese and Indian vessels that have been given free passage recently. Silly me. Out of practice on the hiding under my desk nuclear war drills.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/supertankers-exit-gulf-via-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-iran-talks-begin-data-shows

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Who thought running the Stanford Prison Experiment on the whole world would be a great idea? That's right. These guys.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We can go there, like right now. I read about it in the NY Times.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

What is "science" anyway? What does the word mean? (sarcasm alert) According to Humpty Dumpty

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that’s all."

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As with climate change have we gone too far past a tipping point in this matter? We are led by a man who doesn't read, doesn't reflect, never self examines .. and it shows.

"It would be catastrophic to become a nation of technically competent people who have lost the ability to think critically, to examine themselves, and to respect the humanity and diversity of others. And unless we support these endeavor, it is such a nation that we may well live. It is therefore urgent now to support curricular efforts aimed at producing citizens who can take charge of their own reasoning, who can see the different and foreign not as a threat to be resisted but as an invitation to...expand their own minds and capacity for citizenship"
Martha Nussbaum

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ICE at a few 100 polling places. Some purging of voter roles, a couple hundred or 1000 bomb threats and they all add up. Good thing Trump drove gas prices up.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395033262_Does_Extending_Polling_Hours_Compensate_for_Bomb_Threats_Evidence_from_the_2024_Election_in_Georgia_USA

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Via @katemanne.bsky.social #Epstein emailing with Joi Ito. Just as Trump diagnoses detractors with Trump Derangement Syndrome, so does Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/theres-ano...

https://substack.com/home/post/p-190028580?source=queue

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It's terrible and yet unsurprising that the current administration is far more concerned over the how might things seem to the electorate than how things are in reality. Seeming transcends being. Someone should write a book about this. Oh, right.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If you didn't live Nixon it wouldn't come to mind in an off the cuff conversation. I'm a geezer so I remember. Worth noting though we used to put many Cabinet members in prison, even the AG (who had his wife kidnapped 👀). But since that pardon, not so much. Ford's pardon was not a good omen.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm waiting for her to follow him.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Paid agitators, you say. Never been done before.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Very, very, crazy cold winter. Delaware Bay 2 days ago.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

the ice is exiting the bay rapidly ... just back from the beach

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

She is a force. And when things like this are happening, establishment types should take notice: (gift link) tiny.cc/0wry001

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/new-jersey-democratic-anger.html

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

We won't evolve, we will get disgusted, but the path to that disgust has just begun for the majority. We want another 1932. A clean sweep. A repudiation of all that is MAGA. Hoover had MacArthur crushing the Bonus Army, Trump has Stephen Miller.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

#Epstein Publicly subsidized aristocracy creation. What could go wrong? Same thing that always goes wrong.

Former Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell

Excerpt from Tale of Two Cities - Chapter 10 The Substance of the Shadow ... worth reading the whole chapter but trigger warning, it's grim stuff. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/old/2city12p.pdf

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

#BillGates #Epstein docs.google.com/document/d/1... TP: I think “nerd” is gradually becoming a comparatively friendly label. BG: No, “nerd” is boring. A “nerd” is a guy who never went out with good-looking girls. I think they were, like, staying at home or something.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If we are not all under the law as similar creatures... horror is sure to manifest

I could not see where his wound was, as I kneeled on one knee over him; but, I could see that he was dying of a wound from a sharp point.

"`I am a doctor, my poor fellow,' said I. `Let me examine it.'

"`I do not want it examined,' he answered; `let it be.'

"It was under his hand, and I soothed him to let me move his hand away. The wound was a sword-thrust, received from twenty to twenty- four hours before, but no skill could have saved him if it had been looked to without delay. He was then dying fast. As I turned my eyes to the elder brother, I saw him looking down at this handsome boy whose life was ebbing out, as if he were a wounded bird, or hare, or rabbit; not at all as if he were a fellow-creature.

"`How has this been done, monsieur?' said I.

"`A crazed young common dog! A serf! Forced my brother to draw upon him, and has fallen by my brother's sword--like a gentleman.'

"There was no touch of pity, sorrow, or kindred humanity, in this answer. The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there, and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual obscure routine of his vermin kind. He was quite incapable of any compassionate feeling about the boy, or about his fate.

"The boy's eyes had slowly moved to him as he had spoken, and they now slowly moved to me.

"`Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes. She--have you seen her, Doctor?'

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

He's crazy, but people buy his madness.

Graph comparing the relative Google interest between "Epstein" and "Greenland"

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

One of my favorite image captures from Twitter days...

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