It's on Youtube also and check out the comment section.  People are not taking it as satirical.  Not sure if it's meant to be or not.  

I'm getting into this group more and more as I hear them.  

1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said:

I think it might have been in one of the issues of The Objectivist.  That is just a guess.

It's from the Fountainhead.  It comes from Ellsworth Toohey's speech to Peter Keating.

47 minutes ago, atlashead said:

Executing all the guards.  Howard Roark would give John Galt anything.

Don't take this the wrong way but you seem weird.   

For those who need a sigh of relief: DOW UP 567  NASDAQ UP 148  S&P UP 46

Bull market resuming?  Stay tuned.   

9 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

For instance, here's a more popular voice:

 

I'm almost sure there's some truth to this. Hatred is a powerful motivator and nobody hates more than a power-monger who lost power.

 

Michael

 

I know the animosity towards Trump runs deep and wide but the market had over a year to purposely drop just to destroy Trump.  Why wait so long?  This is far fetched to me.  What I think is many anti Trumpers are secretly gleeful that this may start a serious downturn and convince voters to turn against him.   I'm thinking, of course, this is a correction and that we will see the stock market rally continue.  Wait a few months... 27,000 maybe 28,000?   

1 hour ago, Marcus said:

If they morally sanctioned his racism/sexism and allowed James Damore to stay would that make them more agreeable to you?

Uhh.. I'm confused.  His racism/sexism??  Did you read the memo??  Can you quote the part that is racist/sexist?

Just now, Brant Gaede said:

Bob is right, but so are you.

--Brant

context

Correct.  I have always assumed that man's attitude is the context and the only context referenced by Rand.  

1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said:

"Benevolent" is the wrong word.  

I think the phrase describes man's attitude about the universe, not the universe itself.  It goes like this: "I have a benevolent view of the universe.  It's a wonderful place and I can prosper in it."  

2 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

That is how you do it.  I regard pessimism as a bet hedging tactic.  My main goal is not to be disappointed.  

That's faking it.  You aren't a pessimist, you just decide not to care about the outcome.  

8 minutes ago, BaalChatzaf said:

If one's reach exceeds one's grasp  then he fails in the effort.

you want to stimulate  improvement?   Set a realistic goal.  If you reach it then extend it by a small increment and try again. 

You've provided the process of self improvement.  What you have not shown is the benefit of pessimism to that process.  I'll ask again.  Which type of explanation for failure will stimulate self improvement better?  A pessimistic one or an optimistic one?  

20 minutes ago, BaalChatzaf said:

Pessimists  always win  and optimists often lose.  If things are better than a pessimist  assumes  then the pessimist is pleasantly surprised. If things turn out as bad as the pessimist figured matter are no worse than expected.  On the other hand,  the optimist is more often disappointed than pleased with the way things turn out.  Keep in mind there are are more ways for things to go wrong than to go right (a variant of Murphy's Axiom). 

I think I can do 100 push ups.  I try.  I only do 15.  How should I explain this?  What's an optimistic explanation for a failure?  What's a pessimistic one?  If I want to do 100 push ups eventually, which explanation is more likely to stimulate self improvement?  

19 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

So the proper approach is:  Pay me or I won't heal you.  And if you are poor and can't pay me,  then it sucks to be you.  

What's your approach?  What should be done and how?

21 minutes ago, Brant Gaede said:

I didn't know you had to be a hedonist to justify pleasure.

--Brant

I'm sure the pleasure police will be knocking at your door.  "Sir... back away from that chocolate bar now!  You aren't allowed to eat that!  It tastes good!"

5 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Watch Hillary Zombies go wild when she screws up and honks out "We're going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we're going to raise taxes on the middle class!"

Michael

Freudian slip?  She had to have meant to say the rich... raise taxes on the rich dammit!   

Lock Her Up!

A change of pace: Impressionist Frank Caliendo on the Rich Eisen show comments on Trump.  start at about 13:58

4 hours ago, merjet said:

I didn't ask you to abandon it.

I know.  But I did ask a couple of questions in my reply.  I'll simply ask one in this reply: Is the oath as written flawed or inadequate?  

Why would you want to change the oath?  Don't you like it as written?  Is it somehow flawed in its current form?  I like it as is and would prefer to keep it.  

Stefan Molyneux has a new video on the Trump University Court case controversy:

12 hours ago, Roger Bissell said:

Me 'n' some of them other "stupid assholes" would like to get a peek at the Trumpster's federal tax returns for...oh...some reasonable and relevant portion of the past 20 years. 

("Every single thing he's done is in the public record...What's not to know? Hahahahahahahahaha ROTFLMAO on that one, buddy!  )

REB

Honestly, even when I consider a particular candidate a prick and completely unfit for office, I don't care if he simply says "none of your business" if anyone demands to see his returns.  They ARE no one else's business.  Frankly, I'm surprised that more Objectivists are not on board with this attitude.  There is one Trump opponent I know of that is:

The IRS Has No Business Vetting Anyone

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Not only should Republicans not be calling for examinations of tax returns, the clown they have stuck themselves with isn't giving the proper response to such calls, which is this: "My finances are none of your damned business."   Our luck is running out: Time to rediscover the power of principled thinking.  

Michael,

Did you miss this or were you  going to get to it?  Trump's presser today.  starts at about 20 minutes in.

I saw this and watched.  It's good.  

A blast from the past.  Christopher Hitchen's interview with Charlie Rose about his book "No One Left To Lie to"

More violent protesting of a Trump rally, this time in New Mexico.

Trump protesters smash door, break through barriers

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(CNN) - Protesters lit fires, smashed a door and threw rocks outside a Donald Trump rally Tuesday night in New Mexico -- the latest scuffle to follow the presumptive Republican nominee's campaign.

The scene outside Albuquerque's convention center was chaotic as police ushered protesters away from Trump's event and into the nearby streets.

There, anti-Trump protesters -- many critical of his positions on immigration -- loudly chanted, "F*** Donald Trump."  

The protesters had broken a glass door to the convention center. Some taunted police and jumped on police vehicles as officers in riot gear and on police horses moved them away from the convention center's exits.  Trump had already left the event.  .......