Lovely analysis. All things equal these migrant gangs & tranny-cults are an existential threat to my children right now & Trump/RFK is the only way to attempt a remedy, which is likely.
Trump winning election = Leftist tears
Trump failing on policy = MAGA maturity?
If the DR wants better policy it’s past time to start a professional lobby.
Migrant gangs aren't that much of an issue, are they? The one exception would be that Venezuelan gang in Colorado, IIRC.
As for trannies, I'd rather err a bit too much in favor of trans rights than a bit too much against them. In the past, we had things such as aspiring eunuchs getting back-alley surgical castrations done because they couldn't get surgically castrated in a safe, medical setting.
Those gangs you speak of are close to ME. And it’s getting worse. Haitians, cartel crime, petty porch pirates, Hispanic gangs, homeless drug addicts, etc… it’s all the same problem more or less. This stuff is being allowed to fester. It all puts my children in jeopardy. There are Venezuelan & other refuse migrants accosting my car at stoplights trying to wash windows. My kids are in the car, & I’m at risk for a car wreck at least. Can’t take them downtown. Worried about the park if I’m not around etc…
This needs to be stomped out the compassionate way or the ditches for all I care. My kids are at risk, daily.
Transgenderism is a cult of witchcraft & child sacrifice. It’s being pushed onto children at the local public schools. “Drag queen story hour” is pedophile ideology. The goal is sexualization of children. They’re painting the sidewalks gay & parading children around in parades with anal sex as the main theme.
There’s no such thing as back ally surgery. Anyone with a mental disorder should be treated as such, corrected not enabled. We don’t agree with anorexic people they are fat. We get them help.
Perverts whose instinct is to cut their dick off might be best met with threat of violence if they try to impose their sickness onto others. Sometimes people need to be told no. For their own wellbeing some instincts are bad, & it’s not ok to promote them. If you feel the need to masturbate in public that’s when normal people react, rightly. Getting people the mental health they need is better than assisted suicide & cutting your genitals off is a slow suicide. It should not be validated, encouraged, or celebrated.
Keep in mind this is all coming for you too. Nothing I’ve stated here requires hate, mistreatment, or dehumanization of any kind. It’s simply what has to be done. Multiple countries now ban “gender affirming care” for minors because it’s harmful, period. Putting an end to this at the federal level will cause the entire fake 🏳️⚧️ agenda to implode & thus end the hysteria.
If you live the US, every single problem I’ve states above will be encroaching your front porch as it does mine in due time. “Venezuelan gangs only in CO” is just because they got here first.
The homeless zombie apocalypse started in LA & Seattle, then Denver, now my suburb… there’s no safe place & we should all act collectively as if we personally are at high risk until the problem is fixed on the whole.
Interesting how California seems to produce left-right fusionist populists. I know at least for me, people get confused as fuck trying to pin me down as being on a specific team of the political spectrum.
One thing really struck me from an Ezra Klein interview with Julius Krain, a 2016 pro-Trump guy who founded an American Greatness type online journal who became disillusioned (following a similar path as Substack's own Jeff Giesea). Scratch a populist, and you'll find an aspiring technocrat who just wants things to work more efficiently and less corruptly.
Finally, I always go back to a graph that was published in The Economist. They did an article comparing various political parties in different countries. To described the Democrats ideology, they used "centralization" and "multiculturalism". No matter which Democrat wins, that's always the direction of travel...
“There must be a serious discussion about what it means to be an American, and who is an American” - this is so important, I think about this all the time when arguing about immigration.
“he can serve as a placeholder or pause America’s decline” - as a normie conservative, this is exactly it, I can’t bare to think about giving woke leftists anymore power.
“crude vulgar racism is low status coded to well-educated Whites” - some of the criticisms of X being a platform of fascists and racist are coming true. Overt racism is definitely percolating and it remains to be see how it plays out. It hurts the cause.
The placeholder argument is an underwhelming one but let that undercut its importance. We’ll get a couple of funny normal years without liberal insanity being pushed via the federal government.
I hear all this talk about the GOP becoming ‘a multiracial working class,’ or as online aspiring ‘Elite Human Capital’ aligned reborn neoliberals put it, ‘prole party,’ but this isn’t really true. MAGA base is overwhelmingly white and aside from a segment of Latinos and some Asians (mostly Indians). Blacks will overwhelmingly vote Democrat no matter what as well Jews and homosexuals, etc (traditional Democratic constituencies).
What I’d like to see is the current duopoly fragmenting into 3 or 4 parties with neoliberals-neocons and ‘populists’ in separate parties. I do not trust the Silicon Valley interests behind Vance nor the Wall Street social liberals and neocons behind Harris.
The nature of the US electoral system leads to 2-party systems, and the support of Vance and a couple of Silicon Valley defectors are one of the few things that gives me hope for the long-term prospects of the MAGA movement. The movement desperately needs some brains if it's going to actually modify legislation and/or tear out the existing washington bureaucracy, although I don't have much enthusiasm for corporate tax cuts.
I also don't think Robert's correct about this election being close. Most of the polling I've seen has Trump neck-and-neck with Harris and the polling usually underestimates Trump by substantial margins.
Trump is a safety valve only. He is nothing like a populist. He is a regime loyalist radicalised just enough to have some motivation to weaken the very worst criminal networks within the Deep State. Trump will have trouble deporting anyone. The courts will disrupt his agenda and the bulk of the Red Stare employer class welcome mass migration which is integral to their business model. Trump will secure skilled migration to drive demographic change whole Vance will shill for H1Bs while undermining any opposition to DEI.
The wild card is the possibility of a Colour Revolution. The regime can constrain Trump in office easily enough but the prospect of trials in relation to Russiagate and the assassination attempts incentivises the intelligence sector to bring Trump down ASAP.
Geopolitically Trump may secure an exit from the Mid East once energy independence is bedded down by scrapping the Green stuff.
If the GOP was more pro-immigration, gave up its 2020 election denial, gave up Project 2025, and appealed more to EHC, then I could consider giving them a chance. Not now, though. In spite of the Democrats' defects on things like censorship and disparate impact civil rights law.
You do realize all those civil servants are already biased? Do you know what the Cathedral is? The political elites--these bureaucrats currently in power--have massive sway over the nation, and they tend to be woke liberals. That's their overwhelming average. The average vote of DC should tell you all you need to know about these "civil servants".
I could understand if civil servants were meritocratically hired, without DEI, and to ensure a balance of political affiliation. But as it stands today all Trump promises to do is what the left has done for the last 30 years. You can't call him a dictator just because he wants to do what the other side has been doing for decades.
Does Trump actually talk about bringing back merit exams for civil servants?
As for de-Wokifying our elites, as @Nathan Cofnas argues, proving hereditarianism and publicizing this knowledge would go a very long way towards achieving this goal.
I think you have far too much faith in the political elites. I know one or two who fit the mold and they aren't exactly eager to debate this sort of stuff.
And no, of course Trump won't bring back merit exams. But why should Trump appointees perform any worse than the current political elites? There will still be embarrassing mistakes our federal government and agencies make, they just might on average kill this country less.
Idk how much more you can kill this country frankly, and I don't really want to find out.
One thing that we can say about the Left, though, is that it is becoming the party of elite human capital (EHC) in recent years, whereas the Right is descending into a prole party, with occasional Tech Right dissidents.
Lovely analysis. All things equal these migrant gangs & tranny-cults are an existential threat to my children right now & Trump/RFK is the only way to attempt a remedy, which is likely.
Trump winning election = Leftist tears
Trump failing on policy = MAGA maturity?
If the DR wants better policy it’s past time to start a professional lobby.
Migrant gangs aren't that much of an issue, are they? The one exception would be that Venezuelan gang in Colorado, IIRC.
As for trannies, I'd rather err a bit too much in favor of trans rights than a bit too much against them. In the past, we had things such as aspiring eunuchs getting back-alley surgical castrations done because they couldn't get surgically castrated in a safe, medical setting.
Those gangs you speak of are close to ME. And it’s getting worse. Haitians, cartel crime, petty porch pirates, Hispanic gangs, homeless drug addicts, etc… it’s all the same problem more or less. This stuff is being allowed to fester. It all puts my children in jeopardy. There are Venezuelan & other refuse migrants accosting my car at stoplights trying to wash windows. My kids are in the car, & I’m at risk for a car wreck at least. Can’t take them downtown. Worried about the park if I’m not around etc…
This needs to be stomped out the compassionate way or the ditches for all I care. My kids are at risk, daily.
Transgenderism is a cult of witchcraft & child sacrifice. It’s being pushed onto children at the local public schools. “Drag queen story hour” is pedophile ideology. The goal is sexualization of children. They’re painting the sidewalks gay & parading children around in parades with anal sex as the main theme.
There’s no such thing as back ally surgery. Anyone with a mental disorder should be treated as such, corrected not enabled. We don’t agree with anorexic people they are fat. We get them help.
Perverts whose instinct is to cut their dick off might be best met with threat of violence if they try to impose their sickness onto others. Sometimes people need to be told no. For their own wellbeing some instincts are bad, & it’s not ok to promote them. If you feel the need to masturbate in public that’s when normal people react, rightly. Getting people the mental health they need is better than assisted suicide & cutting your genitals off is a slow suicide. It should not be validated, encouraged, or celebrated.
Keep in mind this is all coming for you too. Nothing I’ve stated here requires hate, mistreatment, or dehumanization of any kind. It’s simply what has to be done. Multiple countries now ban “gender affirming care” for minors because it’s harmful, period. Putting an end to this at the federal level will cause the entire fake 🏳️⚧️ agenda to implode & thus end the hysteria.
Coming for me too in what sense?
If you live the US, every single problem I’ve states above will be encroaching your front porch as it does mine in due time. “Venezuelan gangs only in CO” is just because they got here first.
The homeless zombie apocalypse started in LA & Seattle, then Denver, now my suburb… there’s no safe place & we should all act collectively as if we personally are at high risk until the problem is fixed on the whole.
Interesting how California seems to produce left-right fusionist populists. I know at least for me, people get confused as fuck trying to pin me down as being on a specific team of the political spectrum.
One thing really struck me from an Ezra Klein interview with Julius Krain, a 2016 pro-Trump guy who founded an American Greatness type online journal who became disillusioned (following a similar path as Substack's own Jeff Giesea). Scratch a populist, and you'll find an aspiring technocrat who just wants things to work more efficiently and less corruptly.
Finally, I always go back to a graph that was published in The Economist. They did an article comparing various political parties in different countries. To described the Democrats ideology, they used "centralization" and "multiculturalism". No matter which Democrat wins, that's always the direction of travel...
“There must be a serious discussion about what it means to be an American, and who is an American” - this is so important, I think about this all the time when arguing about immigration.
“he can serve as a placeholder or pause America’s decline” - as a normie conservative, this is exactly it, I can’t bare to think about giving woke leftists anymore power.
“crude vulgar racism is low status coded to well-educated Whites” - some of the criticisms of X being a platform of fascists and racist are coming true. Overt racism is definitely percolating and it remains to be see how it plays out. It hurts the cause.
The placeholder argument is an underwhelming one but let that undercut its importance. We’ll get a couple of funny normal years without liberal insanity being pushed via the federal government.
*don’t let that undercut its important
I hear all this talk about the GOP becoming ‘a multiracial working class,’ or as online aspiring ‘Elite Human Capital’ aligned reborn neoliberals put it, ‘prole party,’ but this isn’t really true. MAGA base is overwhelmingly white and aside from a segment of Latinos and some Asians (mostly Indians). Blacks will overwhelmingly vote Democrat no matter what as well Jews and homosexuals, etc (traditional Democratic constituencies).
What I’d like to see is the current duopoly fragmenting into 3 or 4 parties with neoliberals-neocons and ‘populists’ in separate parties. I do not trust the Silicon Valley interests behind Vance nor the Wall Street social liberals and neocons behind Harris.
The nature of the US electoral system leads to 2-party systems, and the support of Vance and a couple of Silicon Valley defectors are one of the few things that gives me hope for the long-term prospects of the MAGA movement. The movement desperately needs some brains if it's going to actually modify legislation and/or tear out the existing washington bureaucracy, although I don't have much enthusiasm for corporate tax cuts.
I also don't think Robert's correct about this election being close. Most of the polling I've seen has Trump neck-and-neck with Harris and the polling usually underestimates Trump by substantial margins.
Trump is a safety valve only. He is nothing like a populist. He is a regime loyalist radicalised just enough to have some motivation to weaken the very worst criminal networks within the Deep State. Trump will have trouble deporting anyone. The courts will disrupt his agenda and the bulk of the Red Stare employer class welcome mass migration which is integral to their business model. Trump will secure skilled migration to drive demographic change whole Vance will shill for H1Bs while undermining any opposition to DEI.
The wild card is the possibility of a Colour Revolution. The regime can constrain Trump in office easily enough but the prospect of trials in relation to Russiagate and the assassination attempts incentivises the intelligence sector to bring Trump down ASAP.
Geopolitically Trump may secure an exit from the Mid East once energy independence is bedded down by scrapping the Green stuff.
Censorship is a huge issue, as well as Big Health / Food. With Trump you have a chance this will improve.
The Tucker Carlson event in Anaheim with Vivek and RFK jr. Was eye opening.
https://tuckercarlson.com/vivek-tour-rfk
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-75593006?r=1nm0v2
I think culture was bullshit less so cooled off and instead is now baked in.
My phone was hacked.
If the GOP was more pro-immigration, gave up its 2020 election denial, gave up Project 2025, and appealed more to EHC, then I could consider giving them a chance. Not now, though. In spite of the Democrats' defects on things like censorship and disparate impact civil rights law.
What is it about Project 2025 that puts you off? What part of it will likely get implemented and is also so terrifying to you?
Firing all of the civil servants and replacing them with loyal Yes-Men.
You do realize all those civil servants are already biased? Do you know what the Cathedral is? The political elites--these bureaucrats currently in power--have massive sway over the nation, and they tend to be woke liberals. That's their overwhelming average. The average vote of DC should tell you all you need to know about these "civil servants".
I could understand if civil servants were meritocratically hired, without DEI, and to ensure a balance of political affiliation. But as it stands today all Trump promises to do is what the left has done for the last 30 years. You can't call him a dictator just because he wants to do what the other side has been doing for decades.
Does Trump actually talk about bringing back merit exams for civil servants?
As for de-Wokifying our elites, as @Nathan Cofnas argues, proving hereditarianism and publicizing this knowledge would go a very long way towards achieving this goal.
I think you have far too much faith in the political elites. I know one or two who fit the mold and they aren't exactly eager to debate this sort of stuff.
And no, of course Trump won't bring back merit exams. But why should Trump appointees perform any worse than the current political elites? There will still be embarrassing mistakes our federal government and agencies make, they just might on average kill this country less.
Idk how much more you can kill this country frankly, and I don't really want to find out.
One thing that we can say about the Left, though, is that it is becoming the party of elite human capital (EHC) in recent years, whereas the Right is descending into a prole party, with occasional Tech Right dissidents.
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/the-rights-human-capital-problem/