How many times, precisely, do I have to tell you the same thing, over and over and over again?
Eschew the black pill. Refuse doomerism.
You know exactly where the black pill has been and you d*mn well know that doomerism fights on the enemy’s side.
One of the things I will absolutely never understand — not even vaguely — is how everyone seems to have rewritten in their heads the fact that it was proven that the guy named after Spanish fountains has no real American following. (I mean, there must be a few hundred, not counting FBI agents, because of course there will be a few of those too. We’re a very large country and as the Good Book says “the chowderheads thou shalt always have with you) and it’s all foreign and bots, and the inevitable foreign bots.
And yeah, sure Turning Point invited the increasingly insane Tucker Carlson, but people the organization is — after all — the legacy of a man who was distinguished by TALKING TO EVERYONE. Of course they let Tucker talk. You expected them not to? And at any rate, the best way to expose the lunatics is to let them babble. ALWAYS WAS.
Yes, yes, the mass media continues pounding the drum about the fracturing of the right. And the bots and foreigners and foreign bots are pitching fits on social media, but seriously…
Guys, there is no great upsurge of groyperism in the country. Not even a little bit. All this is storm und drang online. It’s not real. It never was.
It’s a psyops.
The bitterly funny point in all this is that it’s not even a psy-ops aimed at you. It’s a psyops aimed at Jewish donors to democrat causes, who decisively closed their purses after 10/7 and some of which dared donate to the GOP. This whole operation is designed to convince them that the GOP is more Anti-Semitic than the profoundly Anti-Semitic left and get them to resume supporting the “least of two evils.” (It ain’t.)
The problem is that the right is profoundly naive when it comes to these things, and were raised and nursed on the idea that the left were these amazing planners. Starting with the USSR which…. wasn’t and moving on down to the present left.
I keep hearing people saying “They planned all this” and “this was all part of their plan” and most of it is as much their plan as it was my cat’s plan to fall from the chair while licking himself. They’re very good at “I meant to do that” and the right, being more rational is even better at rationalizing their actions.
Part of it is that the right can’t figure out why the left would do so much crazy shit, like try to destabilize the family, unless it were part of their plan to give the government greater power.
The truth is that the left does things like destabilize the family because they didn’t like their families. it is as easy as that. There is no real grand plan. There never was. Yes, the side effect is to give more power to the government. Sort of. Though honestly, mostly, it just causes chaos.
The problem is that the left can’t imagine second level effects, let alone third level effects. They believe that what they want will come true, because they want it. That’s it.
That is not the mind of grand planners.
Yes, they do puerile stuff like this operation “let’s convince the right to fall apart” though honestly, I think actually that was started by people abroad, who have better ability to plan (and less understanding of Americans.)
The point here is that you need to calm down. You need to calm down, and you need to stop dooming and blackpilling.
And you need to stop demanding trials, etc. etc. etc.
Look, seriously, yes, we need trials, but right now, and until it all is exposed first, what will happen if we go to trials is “it’s all the same. the right is engaged in revenge politics, just like the left.”
We have to be patient. And work.
Right now, what we need to work on is exposing and combating vote fraud, including how stupid and ridiculous vote by mail is.
We need to expose and combat this, or we’ll never be able to do the rest.
Other than that? Spit out the black pill, and possess your soul in patience.
I know it’s hard. I’m #teamheadsonpikes, remember? It’s very hard.
But nonethless we must learn to work and be patient. And spitting out the black pill.
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I agree, Doc, but one of the central blackpill tenets seems to be “elections are fake anyway, so pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” There are none so blind …
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I agree. Here’s your cane. I have a whole forest, and that’s just what we’ve found out about.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/19/georgia-bombshell-explodes-2020-secure-election-claims-n4947286
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OK, that’s some of the fraud in Georgia. Now they need to expose the fraud in Kalifornia, Arizona, Michigan (all those Detroit precincts with 200% voter turnout), Pennsylvania (where did those 766,000 ‘bonus’ mail-in ballots come from?), Illinois (where the graveyard vote is a venerated tradition)… I could go on, and on.
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Would you mail $100 in cash? With ‘This envelope contains $100 cash’ printed on the outside? If you don’t trust the mail with $100, why should we trust it with our future?
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So let it be written, So let it be done.
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Dear lady, you have made me scratch my head on this one. The only Spanish fountain name I am familiar with is Fuentealba (loosely translated to White Spring). Is this what was intended as the counter to the “black pill”? I generally grok your writing and fully agree that no one should ever listen to the doomsayers, they indeed have been around since creation. And a happy and healthy New Year to you and all readers.
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I was wondering the same thing, but since you said the word Fuentealba, I realized that the guy she meant is probably Whatshisface Fuentes (I forget his first name), who is allegedly conserative yet espouses anti-Semitism of the sort you normally see among leftists of the “pro-Palestinian activist” variety.
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Allegedly conservative, even. (Consider this a typo-fix edit).
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Aha! I do think you are correct. Nick Fuentes. Yeah, he is not one I listen to at all.
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The younger Nick F, without a beard, is the bad one.
So far the most concise description I have of Nick F. Minor’s position is that he has the mind of an LGBT studies PhD. His strategy is that he does not want to finish a PhD, or compete for tenure and grants, so he took foreign coin to be ‘on the right’ because of the disgraceful voids left by the likes of David French.
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Are you saying that David French has voided his bowels in public again? Someone needs to tell him that not everywhere is San Francisco.
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And idolizes Stalin, yes.
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Fuentes. I don’t want to raise his profile.
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They’ll do that anyway. As we’ve seen since the 60s, the Left has a very basic attitude: We did it, now what?
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2022/01/17/is-this-how-democrats-will-steal-the-midterm-elections-n1550302
And history is repeating itself.
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They can be gotten rid of by cutting off all welfare. No, I do not want your children to starve, but we’ll only feed them if you sign away all parental rights, leave the country, and never attempt to speak to them again.
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Sounds good. Now get the courts to allow it, or Congress to change the law. See also, DACA.
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I’m not saying the left will say that, STeve. Yes they will. I’m saying the great lumpen masses will BELIEVE it. Right now they don’t.
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We’ve already seen huge shifts in popular opinion on major topics, ranging from COVID to Biden to Trump’s tariffs. MAGA itself is accepted as a mainstream political position, as opposed to the “fringe” movement it was treated as even two years ago. (Contrast how many public figures/CEOs were willing to be associated with Trump 1 vs. Trump 2.) The Somali daycare fraud is a “so big you can’t ignore it” scandal for anyone not in the MSM bubble, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it starts to get traction even there.
Public perception makes a big difference in what’s possible, and there’s reason to believe the public can be made to understand why prosecutions are necessary before they start in earnest. Will it play out that way? Dunno. Maybe it’s just bluster. Maybe the public won’t budge. But the Trump administration seems to be doing a lot of prep work to convince the public there’s fraud that need fixing, so I have hope.
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The Demokrats do not commit any one kind of fraud, they commit every kind of fraud.
All the time. Relentlessly.
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Remember that I only two years ago found myself in a waiting room with a group of people who seemed otherwise normal and sane who were shocked and surprised that KINDLY SWEET family man Biden was denying his granddaughter by the stripper Hunter knocked up.
No, seriously. These are the people that need to be made aware something is wrong. Is it even possible? Who knows? But it is worth trying.
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“The End is Near!”
“Which end, the beginning, or the back end?:
“The back end, of course. The ending of everything!”
“You do know the back end of a horse is its butt, right? So that means the end is an ass.”
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Some time just after Carter gave away the Panama Canal, some “comedian” (who imagined himself a singer) sang a song titled the “Last American Conservatives”.
His “song” had all of the remaining American Conservatives moved to a country of their own named after Ronald Reagan.
Of course, this was before Ronald Reagan won two terms as President. 🤣
And then there were the idiots who decided that after Obama, the Democrats had won and that there were not going to any future Republican Presidents. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Of course, I’ve lived through several “America Is Doomed” times. 😉
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Next big American Engineering Project: America is Domed.
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We all have.
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“The problem is that the left can’t imagine second level effects, let alone third level effects. They believe that what they want will come true, because they want it. That’s it.”
To be exactly precise, not only are they unaware of what the second and third order effects might be, they are pathologically unable to conceive of them. It’s like asking a sea sponge about air.
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The main thing unsaid, that I have considered adding along this theme, is that maybe capital punishment has some necessary utility, but some talk in favor of specifics has holes or is merely joking.
Methods don’t necessarily have any greater utility. This or that specific method, may have emotional appeal, but might only have theoretical benefit and much pragmatic downsides. The method communicates, but it may have very limited bandwidth, and the receivers might not decode the intended message. The joking talk, to the choir, communicates ‘we need to be serious’. But, the key audiences eventually will be the folks the punishment is intended to deter, and all of the squishes and fence sitters who we have already delayed a decisive remedy for the sake of salvaging. Ordinary capital punishment might suffice for the former, and would be more easily acceptable to the latter.
I would also add that trials and sentences must be individual.
Anyhow, we have a few things going on legally.
One, we have gone from an America bitterly divided over whether republican or democratic legal theory is more authoritative, to one where we also have peace dissenters who subscribe to the communist theory of lawlessness, and of non-existence of peace. This means we have a minor breakdown of peace consensus, and are gonna have to deal with some disputes.
Two, certain lawyers have been dumbasses, and have helped get a lot of people implicated under RICO, and we shall have to see. There’s a theory that people should be left a golden path to retreat, and so the ideal case is to talk people down from trying to escalate with further RICO offenses. If we really do not want to prosecute all of them, then we would want them to stop committing and inciting murders for about five more years.
Three, the appearance of collusive dumbassery, and of the delay in ‘self-correcting’ means that we can postulate that they also colluded improperly in the past, and that thus there is some justification to overturn some recent case law. As in, twenty to sixty years of precedent that maybe we can overturn some of. (I dislike a lot of restrictions on capital punishment that were developed over that time, for example.) We are probably in uncharted territory to an extent. CAse law for elections will prove interesting.
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As things have progressed (and it is most obvious Things Have Progressed in the past year just from the screaming from the commies and the j-skool media, but I repeat myself) Federal Judges have become the left’s main line of defense. There are rule changes and law changes that would combat the blast at judge-shopping and unlimited scope of District Judge-issued temporary injunctions, but the way to change the judiciary is to change the judiciary – approve more judge appointments at all level to fill the vast number of vacant seats. The Senate Dems had been blocking approvals, because small groups dictating things to the majority is “muh democracy”, but the Senate rules were changed in September and new Federal Judges are being approved since.
For anyone not aware, September was just four months ago. Diluting the power of the left’s pick-me judges in place will take some time. There’s already an effect in appeals courts, even in the famously insane 9th Circuit out here.
Be Not Afraid, and Please Stop Screaming. No Black PIlls.
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I’m curious at how much progress is happening under the radar. For example, for all the talk about blue slips, the filibuster, and stalled appointments, apparently the Senate has been approving Trump appointees at a breakneck pace in the last few months.
I suppose the answer is “Do your own research and don’t rely on commentary”, but I’m already spending too much time on this stuff as is.
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That September rules change allowed block approval of administration appointments by simple majority vote, for positions below a certain level. The Dems were zombie-filibustering everything because orange man bad and muh democracy, and finally, finally, after lots of negotiations failed to move Schumer and his pals, the elected majority said “Okay, then” and just changed the rules. Finally.
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Modded.
Another thing, this is an intelligence collection problem and an intelligence analysis problem.
We have choices of curated information, or we can roll our own collection. Almost all curated sources will, in the moment, try to have the spin that they calculate is best.
Basically, for various sources, over a long time, the sequence of articles or videos is a bit of a random variable.
Someone who believes in honesty, and who believes in something that exists independently of the drum-circle-for-tinkerbell, might have more long time consistency in what fact patterns they claim. But, they may see different possibilities and goals, and those will shape any writing creation that is not purely driven by autistic sperging or stimming.
Drum-circle-for-tinkerbell types who also consistently see lying as good strategy and tactics will have different patterns. In particular, if they are creating their claims about ‘facts’ on the fly, there is the oft described phenomena that they quickly contradict themselves over short periods of time, trying to be more plausible.
Inner party/outer party types do not necessarily have the same issues when they can stay on message. The sync displaces some of that opportunity for creativity.
(Aside, creativity and learning are elements of developing planning abilities. Or, rather, flexible non-rote planning abilities. If one learns the playbook only by doing the plays, one is not equipped to work outside the playbook on one’s own.)
The intelligence analysis side is a sort of generalized detection and classification problem. In theory, could be purely statistical and evaluated numerically by program. In practice, the statistics of human behavior are much too funky for fixed closed form formula to capture all changes of interest.
The portions of the left identify as having a master plan. They identify as being very smart, and having a good strategy.
Existence of a true master plan could be one of our hypotheses we are trying to test for. Q-anon, ‘trust the plan’, was basically unfounded speculation about a master plan, and or trolling, and or an agent provacetuer. (Never ‘trust the plan’. That is not how human plans work.)
The left’s successes were conspiracies and prospiracies, but had major distinctions from a successful master plan, in hindsight. There were several bets they made, that clearly assumed X, and which failed on Y happening. For example, Biden was supposed to have a pay off. The left’s successes were at least as much emerging from their behavior as executed to plan.
Our successes have involved successful smaller plans, but largely are emerging from behavior. Chaos riders, and little adhoc groups of angry paratroopers.
Post Kirk shooting shift, is a generalized preference cascade but not a true preference cascade.
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Some are trying to destabilize the family as a way of breaking down society. As late as the 1960s, this was a consciously articulated program. It’s unlikely they have all forgotten it.
Jack Zipes, who was distinctly left, wrote an entire book about how children’s literature should be a conspiracy between the author and the readers against all other adults. He criticized a book of E. Nesbit’s for having a boy be scolded by an adult who was clearly in the right. (Part of that is the tendency of critics to regard all works as trying to fit under their principles, of course.)
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Yes, but what they are doing to actually break the family isn’t that nonsense. That nonsense has been around since Victorian times and does NOT break down the family.
It’s the other stuff like turning women and men against each other, etc.
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Indoctrinating girls and young women that anything other than a career in cubical land was failure, and anything that impeded competing for the next rung on that corporate career ladder was a fish-bicycle distraction, sits on that shelf as well.
The young female people I know about who are happiest are the ones that smiled, nodded, spoke the required words, and then once free of academe did what they wanted, finding a good guy and proceeding to make babies.
The career-first female people I know, on the other hand, are obviously miserable.
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In other news, no lies detected:
https://babylonbee.com/news/planet-fitness-offering-convenient-new-two-week-membership-for-new-years
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I believe it! I carefully did not go by the gym this morning, because I suspect the parking lot overflowed. The first three weeks of the new year are always crazy. Then the top water clears, and the rest of us can go back to having the equipment mostly available when we want/need it.
Planet Fitness’s policies turned me off, even before they went PC. “Judgement free zone™” is not what I want in a gym. I see enough bad judgement as it is. That and the lack of free weights. They are more about cardio and generalized fitness than weight training.
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Whenever I see those dubious “Nothing is being done!” tweets a few hours after a scandal break I have to fight to urge to reply and tell them that they can’t just go from accusation to imprisonment, unlike in their native Russia.
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I get the frustration. It’s the civilian equivalent of “Hurry up and wait.” But it’s necessary.
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It’s a build up of frustration, because there have been no high-profile convictions for anything. And the statute of limitations on the bad actors on J6 (the real bad actors, not the ones persecuted by the Biden fedgov) is about to run out.
And it’s not helped by Pam Bondi’s apparent need to get on Fox News all the time, and to prosecute bogus gun crimes rather than the people responsible for RussiaGate, the 2020 election fraud, the Epstein cover up, or, you know, anything that Trump got elected on.
The raid on Mar A Lago happened one year, six months, and a few weeks after Biden took office. The people who ordered the raid knew, it is now documented, that they had no legal basis to order it. We’re a year into Trump’s current term, which should be plenty of time to put a case together on something that the blob did wrong.
But so far? Nothing from DOJ. (Trump himself is cutting funding to places that need to be starved, to his credit.)
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Pam Bondi is …. weird.
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Regarding ‘do something!’
Folks forget that courts do not run on ‘internet time’.
It seems that the median time from filing Federal Civil Rights charges until verdict is 30-36 months; criminal trials might go 6-18 months from indictment to start of trial.
And then we get to what AAG Dhillon has posted – lots of USDOJ lawyers either bailed or were forced out; they’re running pretty short-staffed. A Grok note
Get it right, but please get it done!
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Note that those that left would be the ones not doing as ordered, or worse, doing it so ineptly that the cases get thrown out at the first hearing. Even if conscientious, any of those that would leave because of politics are not worth any cognitive energy expended to regret their departure.
Sure numbers matter, but as noted there’s lots and lots of them remaining.
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I have way more respect for Harmeet than for the Bondi bimbo. Yes, they have personnel problems and need to be careful about whom they select because of the indoctrination factories that ALL law schools are. But Harmeet is actually getting stuff done. Bondi… isn’t, except stuff that’s bad to any libertarian, and (one would hope) most conservatives.
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I’m less exercised about Bondi than many.
She has directed a few reasonable amicus filings in gun cases that are supportive of rights, while in some other active cases the DOJ has chosen to support challenged laws. I’m getting Mixed Messages from her.
The Epstein files flub was pretty bad. Binders! Binders of women! No, sorry, that was the campaign against Romney.
But, she also is Harmeet’s supervisor, and H is pretty good so far.
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This is a column on forensics for writers Cedar Sanderson wrote on Dec 27. I recommend it to help understand why forensics, investigations, and trials take time.
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https://cedarlila.substack.com/p/forensics-for-writers-part-3
WPDE.
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“The truth is that the left does things like destabilize the family because they didn’t like their families.”
Which proves the left is singularly lacking in compassion and imagination. My family sucked. I don’t want to destablize families, that leads to more kids going through the hell I did. I want more stable, better families.
…And yes, part of that is Revenge. Because the major part of why my family sucked was progressive ideals mixed with toxic personality disorder. I can’t stop people from being crazy, idiots, or both. I can write stories that say “there is a better way.”
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I was thinking this week that the left have encouraged young women not to take the first step to founding families, which is, find a husband. We aren’t meant to be singletons forever, or at least, even singletons need the support of a network (usually known as “family.”)
As I and my relatives age, I observe how families not only raise children, but care for old people. Various relatives have had medical issues in the past few years. I can’t imagine how people who don’t have families deal with everyday issues like transport to a hospital, caring for themselves at home after surgery, speaking up when there’s a misunderstanding with nurses, etc. No matter how fit we are in our 20s, eventually we become old. And time is merciless.
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A husband is the best investment a woman can make. (The reverse is also true.) Think of how much you’d have to pay for a personal assistant that does what a spouse does, then factor in the emotional support, the ability to have kids, little things like love… Feminism (of the “You don’t need a man!” variety) was a raw deal for women.
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Emotionally, I do not get it. It’s like “I am upset, so I will go break things.”
I’ve broken down and burnt furniture that gave me problems– such as better-than-nothing furnishings which broke during a bad day– with great glee, but I can’t manage the shift from “this item which is part of the bad feelings” to “have bad feelings, break things.”
It does have really good predictive power, though.
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That’s because you are more emotionally mature than a toddler. The left, by and large, is not.
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It is very hard to manufacture an event. It is much easier to manufacture the reaction to an event. Handily, real events are occurring all the time.
Relatedly, instead of asking “Where are the arrests?” “Where are the indictments?” “Where are the prosecutions?” the question to ask is “Where is the money?”
If you stop the actors, you remove the actors, but if you stop the money, you remove the incentive
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THIS.
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Many of the black pill comments on X, etc., come from bots, or overseas agents, or people who are acting as overseas agents.
It’s very suspicious that the first time I read of a “MAGA civil war” was in the mainstream media, in chorus, on practically the same day. All pointing to F….s, at once. And his sudden internet traffic has been shown to be fake. (NYP headline: Look at the REAL source of Nick Fuentes’ sudden rise: foreign bots.)
On the Minnesota fraud, Powerline has been on the case for years. As they point out, people have been charged, and sent to prison already. The effort continues. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/a-dose-of-reality-on-the-minnesota-frauds.php
Again, though, it’s very suspicious that the MSM reacts to the report by…attacking the guy whose video went viral. So, most of the MSM are not in the news business. They’re in the propaganda business. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
A reason for hope is that the internet was designed to be a distributed network. This distributed information network is bringing down the old power centers. It’s fascinating to watch.
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They have to attack the messenger: they can’t engage with the message.
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That NF guy has a strong, loyal, and vocal following in the vast number of conservative U.S. patriots who happen to live in Pakistan and Nigeria.
Say thank you once again that Musk bought Twitter, and has since continued to make it more transparent. I think things would be very different if he had understandably bailed on that purchase when the roadblocks popped up.
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And be sure to look for the VPN shield. As some predicted, websites CAN detect and block VPNs; whether they SHOULD is a debate we might want to have had before now.
Elon’s detect without blocking is a reasonable compromise; I suspect that the EEUUUU won’t be nearly that circumspect.
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I’ve seena few observations over the last couple of days that the US simply isn’t properly equipped to handle the industrial scale of corruption that’s currently taken root . We don’t have enough federal law enforcement people (since it’s pretty clear that state LE is being blocked from investigating some of this stuff). The obvious answer is to hire more federal agents to investigate. But that enlarges the bureaucracy, and if you eventually resolve the problem you’ve still got a bunch of excess Federal agents sticking around.
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Rope is cheap, and there are lots of lamp posts.
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Which is why the Elected Left will legislate Rope Control and their militant Street Wing will tear down the raaacisst! lampposts.
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No, it’ll be a Federal District Court Judge issuing a no-rope TRO. Way faster than actually passing legislation, and one can obviously find some TimWalz judge somewhere that will sign off on just about anything.
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The Reader suggests repurposing ATF agents and the Biden IRS hires to something useful. DataRepublican can give the marching orders.
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Wanting something is not the same as demanding something, Americans are used to getting it now. Most know deep down that everything takes time, but all our lives we’ve been convinced you can turn on a dime. You can’t, at least not yet, physics hasn’t gotten there for us yet. There’s things like inertia and the laws of conservation of energy. The same thing happens with governments and human beings. You can’t turn things around on a dime, but you can voice an opinion, and opinions are likes Anus’s everyone has one but they don’t smell the same. Just because some spout of they are mostly venting their spleen, that’s what Trump does, he vents and gets it out of his system. And it drives the left crazy, it also drives our side crazy. But that’s all it is venting his spleen, it’s not what he says, but what he tries to do. The same with the rest of us, it’s what we try to do. Sarah make us think, and that is a gift from the big guy. A wonderful gift, because once you start thinking you can’t stop. Thinking and questioning is what makes us human, the feelings came afterwards, think about it.
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When a mayor states, “We Will Replace The Rigidity Of Rugged Individualism With The Warmth Of Collectivism,” you should consider moving, especially if you own property.
This isn’t a black pill. It’s rational to flee the jurisdiction, once they tell you who they are.
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And since the NY Governor is a supporter, out of New York would be better.
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Yeah. Hell is warm.
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Funny how there’s no flood of celebrities loudly declaring they are moving to New York City.
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We can hammer this.
“When will you move to NYC?” or “When will you move to SF?”
Socialism is right there! Go! Quickly! Before they have to wall out all the poor victims of Capitalism! Go!
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I’d say, for predictive power, that it’s a little more complicated– they try to hurt families because they can’t hurt their own.
It’s a kinda magic thinking thing. “I am mad at [TARGET], I cannot hurt them at acceptable price; so I will hurt [safe alternative target].”
This carries over to other things– “I want to help [TARGET], but it’s too hard, so I will do [alternate thing].” Usually things like say sorry for something you didn’t do and which generally wasn’t actually wrong, if it happened at all.
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Like one theory about the witchcraft accusations in parts of Europe. Ordinary people couldn’t go after the local noble, or other powerful figures, so they targeted those already on the fringes, or who had irritated the community in some way, and vented on them.
Accurate description? No idea, because premodern and early modern minds and societies are rather different from ours in some ways. Possible explanation? Oh yes.
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I for one now commit to go to my Republican caucus (heart of the beast, Denver’s Capitol Hill) and then the County Assembly and follow through as an Election Judge. We can make a lot of noise in places like this forum, but it’s more catharsis than persuasion.
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Let me tell you the value of the grey pill
we’re doomed, but maybe we’re not doomed *today*. :P
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No doom today. Doom tomorrow. There’s always doom tomorrow.
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After mulling it over, I’ve realized what Carlson, Owens, Fuentes, and the identitarians on the Right have in common: they are self-marginalizing. Setting aside the question of if they are right, they have crippling flaws that disqualify them from leading. Owens attracts crazies and contradicts herself. Fuentes is an accelerationist who is actively trying to make the problem worse. Carlson is the most credible, but he sucks up to bad actors and has suspect motives.
As for the identitarians, you’re never going to turn American whites into a voting bloc. You have one chunk that vote liberal, another chunk that believe in race-blind equality, and the remnants you might be able to convince aren’t a big enough bloc to do anything with. Even if the identitarians can actually agree on a definition of “American” to rally around, they’re never going to be able to sell it to the masses. It’s a non-starter.
It’s not just that they shouldn’t lead the Right; it’s that they can’t. They are the dog chasing the car: an opening gambit without an endgame. Whether they are right is irrelevant; there’s no world where rallying around them leads to a useful result.
Maybe that’s why all of the recent drama feels so inconsequential. It’s a battle of influencers, not substance.
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