I agree. My current issue is I'm not sure that the actual conservatives have a way out. I'm not a fan of the silicon valley right wing progressives as that seems to be just trading one type of managerial elite for another. NS Lyons recently spoke at the National Convention in Brussels and advocated for a bottom up conservative movement through parallel institutions. I like this idea, but unfortunately, conservatives are really really bad at it. I'm not sure we can get organised into anything and its more likely that the far left will be the ones creating the parallel institutions. You can't wait until everything is destroyed to start building. You need to start now so you are ready when things start falling apart. Do you think project 2025 will fill this hole?
What we need is to buy time for talented leaders to strengthen themselves for when the time is right. If I were a big time conservative donor, I would be pouring money and resources into training up talented young men.
That would be great. Especially if you can train them on smaller local levels before advancing. That would prepare them for the bigger stage as well as give them a good base so that when the government media arm attacks, their support base doesn't waver. You can also build on your local success so you know what works and what doesn't.
The only thing that was ever worth having in DC and indeed its entire point was legitimacy and DC itself has destroyed their legitimacy.
It is now worthless, a ruin.
Nothing worth having.
Forget taking it, to begin it’s unassailable and corrupt beyond any redemption and there’s nothing in DC worth a drop of sweat or blood. Or a penny.
It must be made a shell of itself and ruins, no power. This is both our survival and reciprocal for what they did to America.
More; at the state and regional level, or local level you can make headway. Take the nation, piece by piece. DC can be taken last, or never. Make it a true figurehead government as it deserves to be…
Solve America for Coup;
You can’t.
If you take the Capitol you lose the country as we are a Federation. Conversely if you have the nation but not DC then you are utterly useless in DC, ask Trump.
What happened in 2020 was the Dems and Uniparty took DC at the cost of losing the nation.
Now take the nation. DC can be isolated and razed. Trump was President of America, not in DC.
Well do flip that on them,
Let them keep their ruins, as we brick them in… they like walls and fences… so oblige them…
If hard work has its own reward of high culture, people can have all the agony they want if they ask for it. Maybe that's what the managerial elite look for.
Project 2025 is vital. We need a team of Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Doug MacGregor, John McEntee, and anyone else with the will to affect change to get in and start ripping people apart.
I never understood why he was nominated over someone like Byron Donalds. What a milquetoast and now he’s a traitor too. It’s obvious someone has something on him. I hope voters choose a better republican next time.
Something, a very large creature, died lately in DC, and the overpowering stench rising from the banks of the Potomac is very noticeable from sea to shining sea !!!
1) The history of GOP Speakers over the last 30 years is really a stunning chain of broken men who were never going to be leaders. Diagnosing the actual reasons for this is something I haven't seen anyone attempt. How does the GOP made up of business owners, working whites, Christians, end up with no-morals Gingrich, pedo Hastert, drunk Boehner, transparently insincere Ryan, sellout McCarthy, and now shifty Johnson. Clearly the people picking leadership want low t villains vis-a-vis the actual base of the party. Meaning that, all of our Congressmen are part of this network of corruption. That's a hard problem to fix. The party keeps firing its leader, but perhaps we need to consider firing the management team. That's a huge lift though.
2) The comments reflect a lot of grandiosity, it's fun to larp about power. But if we're honest about the situation, the right is dispossessed everywhere, even in places we ostensibly 'control.' There is no right wing revolution happening in rural Oklahoma or in Utah or in Idaho. So the idea we can top-down major reform, when we can't muster the power to control school boards, are illusory goals. Our talent pool comes from organizations, campaigns, local governments. Our policies right now aren't even coming out of those few places. We need to figure out how to build power from the ground up before we can consider revolutionizing the nation. That might feel more pedestrian than Napoleonic, but it's the only path forward. The challenge is to build actual power and effectively wield it to achieve meaningful results.
Unfortunately, there’s likely not enough-time left on the clock between now and our complete fall under the ever-creeping boot of whatever communism currently calls itself, to effect a peaceful restoration/revolution. Just as likely, there’s not enough time in this world left to those who at one time or another had the patriotic will, skills, means and balls to organize and go the 2A route. Realistically, America’s only hope to finally get on the path it was designed to follow is a massive wake-up. Not Likely..
They/Thems say it’s pride month again:
Suggest we all sing it loud and proud:
What LGBTQ really means: “Let’s Get Biden To Quit!”*
I doubt that he cares about Israel either, other than that supporting them is expedient and profitable. The rationalizations seem post-hoc to me, in response to incentives rewarded by the existing patronage networks
I feel confident Mike Johnson would flip to passionately closing the border tomorrow and mass deporting illegal foreign migrants if he was paid to do so (which obviously is never going to happen). But my point is that his stated principles are irrelevant; it's unlikely he has any ideological convictions on any subject
We're sending money to Israel to fight the Gazans, and we're sending money to Gaza to defend against Israel. We're sending money to Ukraine to attack Russia, so shouldn't we also send money to Russia to fight Ukraine? I mean, it's only logical.
I don't see any way through this except by burning everything to the ground and starting again. I really wish I didn't think that was the case, but I do. They all need to go. All the politicians, all the bureaucrats, all the bankers, all the managers, and pretty much everyone in the military above the rank of colonel. Defund the ENTIRE government and start again. Repudiate all the debt these criminal liars incurred and (thereby) destroy the fiat dollar and its disintegrating hegemony before it sucks all of us into a vortex of destruction.
The UK Conservatives are on course for an historic demolition in the upcoming election largely for similar reasons - sky-high immigration, bellicose foreign policy, and half the elected party with no interest in pursuing anything like conservative politics domestically.
That would’ve happened to the GOP already if Trump hadn’t appeared out of thin air in 2016. But he may have only delayed the inevitable. Johnson’s brand of Reaganism isn’t electorally viable anymore. Whether it takes a total collapse of the party to prove it - I guess we’ll see.
I agree that there is something seriously wrong in Washington, however, as a historical footnote, when Truman supported Jewish independence in 1948, America did not have a border problem. Israel was not a recipient of large amounts of US aid until after the 6 Day war (it relied heavily on France). At that time, and in 1973, the US did not have a border problem.
True, the same people who refuse to close the border are now also the same ones who are squandering billions, not just on foreign aid either. How many billions were squandered in COVID giveaways and economic incentives of various sorts? But keeping the border open, giving some support to Israel, and squandering billions both domestically and abroad are not all joined at the hip (mixed metaphor, I know).
I agree. My current issue is I'm not sure that the actual conservatives have a way out. I'm not a fan of the silicon valley right wing progressives as that seems to be just trading one type of managerial elite for another. NS Lyons recently spoke at the National Convention in Brussels and advocated for a bottom up conservative movement through parallel institutions. I like this idea, but unfortunately, conservatives are really really bad at it. I'm not sure we can get organised into anything and its more likely that the far left will be the ones creating the parallel institutions. You can't wait until everything is destroyed to start building. You need to start now so you are ready when things start falling apart. Do you think project 2025 will fill this hole?
What we need is to buy time for talented leaders to strengthen themselves for when the time is right. If I were a big time conservative donor, I would be pouring money and resources into training up talented young men.
Need patronage networks for both business and art. That is the way.
That would be great. Especially if you can train them on smaller local levels before advancing. That would prepare them for the bigger stage as well as give them a good base so that when the government media arm attacks, their support base doesn't waver. You can also build on your local success so you know what works and what doesn't.
Forget DC.
The only thing that was ever worth having in DC and indeed its entire point was legitimacy and DC itself has destroyed their legitimacy.
It is now worthless, a ruin.
Nothing worth having.
Forget taking it, to begin it’s unassailable and corrupt beyond any redemption and there’s nothing in DC worth a drop of sweat or blood. Or a penny.
It must be made a shell of itself and ruins, no power. This is both our survival and reciprocal for what they did to America.
More; at the state and regional level, or local level you can make headway. Take the nation, piece by piece. DC can be taken last, or never. Make it a true figurehead government as it deserves to be…
Solve America for Coup;
You can’t.
If you take the Capitol you lose the country as we are a Federation. Conversely if you have the nation but not DC then you are utterly useless in DC, ask Trump.
What happened in 2020 was the Dems and Uniparty took DC at the cost of losing the nation.
Now take the nation. DC can be isolated and razed. Trump was President of America, not in DC.
Well do flip that on them,
Let them keep their ruins, as we brick them in… they like walls and fences… so oblige them…
If hard work has its own reward of high culture, people can have all the agony they want if they ask for it. Maybe that's what the managerial elite look for.
Project 2025 is vital. We need a team of Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Doug MacGregor, John McEntee, and anyone else with the will to affect change to get in and start ripping people apart.
I volunteer as National Security Advisor
I’ll run papers for you
I never understood why he was nominated over someone like Byron Donalds. What a milquetoast and now he’s a traitor too. It’s obvious someone has something on him. I hope voters choose a better republican next time.
Something, a very large creature, died lately in DC, and the overpowering stench rising from the banks of the Potomac is very noticeable from sea to shining sea !!!
Great article, as always. Two points:
1) The history of GOP Speakers over the last 30 years is really a stunning chain of broken men who were never going to be leaders. Diagnosing the actual reasons for this is something I haven't seen anyone attempt. How does the GOP made up of business owners, working whites, Christians, end up with no-morals Gingrich, pedo Hastert, drunk Boehner, transparently insincere Ryan, sellout McCarthy, and now shifty Johnson. Clearly the people picking leadership want low t villains vis-a-vis the actual base of the party. Meaning that, all of our Congressmen are part of this network of corruption. That's a hard problem to fix. The party keeps firing its leader, but perhaps we need to consider firing the management team. That's a huge lift though.
2) The comments reflect a lot of grandiosity, it's fun to larp about power. But if we're honest about the situation, the right is dispossessed everywhere, even in places we ostensibly 'control.' There is no right wing revolution happening in rural Oklahoma or in Utah or in Idaho. So the idea we can top-down major reform, when we can't muster the power to control school boards, are illusory goals. Our talent pool comes from organizations, campaigns, local governments. Our policies right now aren't even coming out of those few places. We need to figure out how to build power from the ground up before we can consider revolutionizing the nation. That might feel more pedestrian than Napoleonic, but it's the only path forward. The challenge is to build actual power and effectively wield it to achieve meaningful results.
Unfortunately, there’s likely not enough-time left on the clock between now and our complete fall under the ever-creeping boot of whatever communism currently calls itself, to effect a peaceful restoration/revolution. Just as likely, there’s not enough time in this world left to those who at one time or another had the patriotic will, skills, means and balls to organize and go the 2A route. Realistically, America’s only hope to finally get on the path it was designed to follow is a massive wake-up. Not Likely..
They/Thems say it’s pride month again:
Suggest we all sing it loud and proud:
What LGBTQ really means: “Let’s Get Biden To Quit!”*
*credit to whoever coined it. 👆
If we have a chance, it starts here:
TRUMP 🇺🇸 2024
I doubt that he cares about Israel either, other than that supporting them is expedient and profitable. The rationalizations seem post-hoc to me, in response to incentives rewarded by the existing patronage networks
I feel confident Mike Johnson would flip to passionately closing the border tomorrow and mass deporting illegal foreign migrants if he was paid to do so (which obviously is never going to happen). But my point is that his stated principles are irrelevant; it's unlikely he has any ideological convictions on any subject
His base is Raytheon and Boeing. He's not betraying anyone.
Did Johnson get monkeypox from a Raytheon lobbyist? One of my sources said this.
Correct. All points.
Despite all the RINO’s actions to support the communists we the people shall overcome.
Betrays his country.
And he does appear smug and proud. Ugh!
We're sending money to Israel to fight the Gazans, and we're sending money to Gaza to defend against Israel. We're sending money to Ukraine to attack Russia, so shouldn't we also send money to Russia to fight Ukraine? I mean, it's only logical.
I don't see any way through this except by burning everything to the ground and starting again. I really wish I didn't think that was the case, but I do. They all need to go. All the politicians, all the bureaucrats, all the bankers, all the managers, and pretty much everyone in the military above the rank of colonel. Defund the ENTIRE government and start again. Repudiate all the debt these criminal liars incurred and (thereby) destroy the fiat dollar and its disintegrating hegemony before it sucks all of us into a vortex of destruction.
Remember when this wasn’t what the GOP constantly did?
Yeah, me neither…
He adopted a black thug as a son and thinks the earth is 6,000 years old. How could things go wrong?
The UK Conservatives are on course for an historic demolition in the upcoming election largely for similar reasons - sky-high immigration, bellicose foreign policy, and half the elected party with no interest in pursuing anything like conservative politics domestically.
That would’ve happened to the GOP already if Trump hadn’t appeared out of thin air in 2016. But he may have only delayed the inevitable. Johnson’s brand of Reaganism isn’t electorally viable anymore. Whether it takes a total collapse of the party to prove it - I guess we’ll see.
I agree that there is something seriously wrong in Washington, however, as a historical footnote, when Truman supported Jewish independence in 1948, America did not have a border problem. Israel was not a recipient of large amounts of US aid until after the 6 Day war (it relied heavily on France). At that time, and in 1973, the US did not have a border problem.
True, the same people who refuse to close the border are now also the same ones who are squandering billions, not just on foreign aid either. How many billions were squandered in COVID giveaways and economic incentives of various sorts? But keeping the border open, giving some support to Israel, and squandering billions both domestically and abroad are not all joined at the hip (mixed metaphor, I know).