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Make sure to loop into our long-form section: Cosimo’s Secret Guardaroda is reborn as a column for those who understand that true power begins in the shadows—Cosimo’s Secret Guardaroba is where the future is plotted, one whispered dispatch at a time. reboottherenaissance.substack.com/s/cosimos-se...
“Florence understood something that many modern free market apostles pretend not to hear. A republic survives when prosperity circulates. A republic decays when prosperity stagnates. The instrument The Medici reached for was a wealth assessment… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/an-argumen...
An Argument For A Wealth Tax: From The Ultimate Architects Of Capitalism, The Medici
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November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Florence understood something that many modern free market apostles pretend not to hear. A republic survives when prosperity circulates. A republic decays when prosperity stagnates. The instrument The Medici reached for was a wealth assessment… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/an-argumen...
Turns out, the architects of capitalism: The Medici actually instituted its own wealth tax. Even on themselves! Can you imagine? They refined the world’s very first income assessment in 1427 into a virtual duplicate of what is being proposed as a wealth tax. Stay tuned today for the whole story!
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Turns out, the architects of capitalism: The Medici actually instituted its own wealth tax. Even on themselves! Can you imagine? They refined the world’s very first income assessment in 1427 into a virtual duplicate of what is being proposed as a wealth tax. Stay tuned today for the whole story!
“Florence teaches when the firm forgets its humanism, the city pays the bill. The Medici built their fortune in cloth, credit, and culture. They built their legitimacy in people. They financed work as a civic act. They treated skill as a public asset reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
The Fall of the Humanist Firm: How Florence Hired Its Future While We Fire Ours
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November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Florence teaches when the firm forgets its humanism, the city pays the bill. The Medici built their fortune in cloth, credit, and culture. They built their legitimacy in people. They financed work as a civic act. They treated skill as a public asset reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
“A republic revives where reason returns.
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Reengineering Integrity in a Broken Republic: The Spanberger–Sherrill–Slotkin Stratagem for Competence, Character, and Civic Restoration
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November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“A republic revives where reason returns.
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
And reason is returning: in the measured, mission-driven rise of three women who remind America what public service once meant. During 2025’s election, it was Abigail Spanberger in VA and Mikie Sherrill in NJ. In 2024, it … open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Stay tuned for our report on these two and more after last night’s election in the U.S.!
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Stay tuned for our report on these two and more after last night’s election in the U.S.!
“Like Macron in his first ascent, Rob Jetten enters as restorer, not rebel, but restorer of purpose. Restoration does not necissarily mean reactionary when the principles and prescriptions align with innovation. He stands where decency and daring converge: courage… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The Dutch Dauphin: Rob Jetten & Europe's Next Chance At Continental Consensus
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November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“Like Macron in his first ascent, Rob Jetten enters as restorer, not rebel, but restorer of purpose. Restoration does not necissarily mean reactionary when the principles and prescriptions align with innovation. He stands where decency and daring converge: courage… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
“Modern consumers do the same. They wield withdrawal as their weapon. They create equilibrium through absence. When millions cancel subscriptions or shift spending, they are practicing Medici statecraft without knowing it. Economic unity creates political clarity… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Proof The Market Can Have a Mind: How the Consumer Can Become the Citizen Again
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October 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Modern consumers do the same. They wield withdrawal as their weapon. They create equilibrium through absence. When millions cancel subscriptions or shift spending, they are practicing Medici statecraft without knowing it. Economic unity creates political clarity… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The earnings report is in for Disney and the Kimmel backlash was more seismic than originally thought! Stay tuned for another Reboot to demonstrate how The Medici illustrated how the consumer can become the citizen again in an oppressive oligarchy!
October 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The earnings report is in for Disney and the Kimmel backlash was more seismic than originally thought! Stay tuned for another Reboot to demonstrate how The Medici illustrated how the consumer can become the citizen again in an oppressive oligarchy!
@reason.com nails it here. Maybe the legacy media should cover, I don’t know, a PATTERN here?
The guy who falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating cats is upset that media reported on young Republicans chatting about putting their political opponents in gas chambers.
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Vance's reaction to racist group chats will embolden the worst Republicans
Shrugging off the radicalization of right-wing political culture is a mistake.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@reason.com nails it here. Maybe the legacy media should cover, I don’t know, a PATTERN here?
“This is meant to be applied like a feudal system: consumers are not an afterthought. They’re the revenue base. The car, the cart, the closing table—they all lie on the same extraction field. The market is no longer “for us.” Consumers are just the means to an end…. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The Cartelization of the Consumer: The Real Agenda Behind Trump’s Profit Politburo Making Everything Unaffordable
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October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“This is meant to be applied like a feudal system: consumers are not an afterthought. They’re the revenue base. The car, the cart, the closing table—they all lie on the same extraction field. The market is no longer “for us.” Consumers are just the means to an end…. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
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@awscloud.bsky.social goes down an WOT fans…
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October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@awscloud.bsky.social goes down an WOT fans…
“When history advances, mediocrity always bands together for warmth. And in every Renaissance, the first to shout “degeneracy” are those who’ve done nothing worth remembering. Every rebirth has been met with reaction, it just depends how long the dark is accepted… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The Pretenders of Greatness: When the Unaccomplished Declare Themselves the Elect
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October 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“When history advances, mediocrity always bands together for warmth. And in every Renaissance, the first to shout “degeneracy” are those who’ve done nothing worth remembering. Every rebirth has been met with reaction, it just depends how long the dark is accepted… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
“If the party that once unleashed supply now hoards it behind tariff walls and data silos, it no longer serves enterprise. It serves one authority. And unitary authority, as every Florentine accounting book warns, ends when the people stop believing the numbers... open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Weren’t Republicans Supposed to Be Supply-Siders? Businesses Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Cartel Profit Politburo
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October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“If the party that once unleashed supply now hoards it behind tariff walls and data silos, it no longer serves enterprise. It serves one authority. And unitary authority, as every Florentine accounting book warns, ends when the people stop believing the numbers... open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Has. Ummm. Anyone. Like. ANYONE in the legacy media talked about how insane this is? And the LOOKS this invalid gets?
Trump: "There was a reason we chose Egypt because you were very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this. You are a great leader. You have very little crime. I want to thank you. He's been my friend right from the beginning during the campaign against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Have you heard of her?"
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Has. Ummm. Anyone. Like. ANYONE in the legacy media talked about how insane this is? And the LOOKS this invalid gets?
“Through The Medici lens, we see the metamorphosis of civic finance into factional faith. Lorenzo’s Florence ran on reputation. Trump’s DC runs on retribution. The Treasury has become a tribunal. The accounting sheets, a list of enemies. Indulgences for the loyal… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Rolling Out “The Receipts” of the Republic: Remember — Congress Carries the Coin of the Realm
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October 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Through The Medici lens, we see the metamorphosis of civic finance into factional faith. Lorenzo’s Florence ran on reputation. Trump’s DC runs on retribution. The Treasury has become a tribunal. The accounting sheets, a list of enemies. Indulgences for the loyal… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
Coming up for a special weekend edition: we apply The Medici Method(™️) on how states can “Rollout The Receipts” as the kids today would say, with the federal government illegally impounding its funds.
October 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Coming up for a special weekend edition: we apply The Medici Method(™️) on how states can “Rollout The Receipts” as the kids today would say, with the federal government illegally impounding its funds.
Incredibly insightful comments hot-off-the-printing presses of President Emmanuel Macron on liberal democracy and social media. The Medici would agree. Take a look at the article, plus our profile of him:
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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October 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Incredibly insightful comments hot-off-the-printing presses of President Emmanuel Macron on liberal democracy and social media. The Medici would agree. Take a look at the article, plus our profile of him:
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/macron-il-...
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/macron-il-...
This is required watching. Simply and plainly laid out. It is about REIMBURSEMENT rates. NOT about qualifications for care and/or insurance eligibility. If you want to bankrupt hospitals, then support MAGA. If you want to appropriately reimburse hospitals for services: D substack.com/@aaronrupar/...
Aaron Rupar (@aaronrupar)
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--
ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out ...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is required watching. Simply and plainly laid out. It is about REIMBURSEMENT rates. NOT about qualifications for care and/or insurance eligibility. If you want to bankrupt hospitals, then support MAGA. If you want to appropriately reimburse hospitals for services: D substack.com/@aaronrupar/...
The great economic unmasking begins. The ADP jobs data is getting closer and closer to predicting the BLS numbers—catch up on what we wrote about the Phantom Quarter economic fundamentals below from last month:
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October 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The great economic unmasking begins. The ADP jobs data is getting closer and closer to predicting the BLS numbers—catch up on what we wrote about the Phantom Quarter economic fundamentals below from last month:
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-mask-o...
reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-mask-o...
“For those pretending Machiavelli stands at his shoulder—whispering clique cynicism into his ear, validating each abuse—let us call the esteemed Florentine secretary to the stand. His writings are clear, his intent sharper still. Demolish distortion reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-misre...
MAGA Misreads Machiavelli, Now Trump Marches the Military Into the Republic
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October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“For those pretending Machiavelli stands at his shoulder—whispering clique cynicism into his ear, validating each abuse—let us call the esteemed Florentine secretary to the stand. His writings are clear, his intent sharper still. Demolish distortion reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-misre...
For any of the MAGA morons who want to shroud themselves in Machiavelli at training MILITARY in AMERICAN cities, you’ll be in for a rude introduction to the real Niccolo. Stay tuned, Humanists.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For any of the MAGA morons who want to shroud themselves in Machiavelli at training MILITARY in AMERICAN cities, you’ll be in for a rude introduction to the real Niccolo. Stay tuned, Humanists.
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Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.
September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.
“This assault is weaponized against patriotism. A Trump-aligned candidate in NJ now circles Sherrill’s privacy like a vulture. The message is as clear as it is chilling: step into public life as a veteran opposing the regime, and your very life will be laid bare… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...
The Archives Breached, The Honor Betrayed: Hands Off Sherrill’s Service Files
In life, a healthy amount of skepticism of correlation and causation is warranted.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“This assault is weaponized against patriotism. A Trump-aligned candidate in NJ now circles Sherrill’s privacy like a vulture. The message is as clear as it is chilling: step into public life as a veteran opposing the regime, and your very life will be laid bare… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...