Baseball and politics. I value sincerity and humility; I reject duplicity and egotism.
Dallas, TX
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These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…
Listen. You know I am right.
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They're just driven insane by their inability to argue their case. So they want to kill everyone.
Scott Galloway calls Elon Musk a "traitor to the West" and invokes the executions of the Rosenbergs after WW2.
"We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West."
*Applause*
These people are absolutely unhinged.
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So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right?
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A huge congratulations is in order for @DataRepublican and @JoshuaLisec.
Their new book Unelected has debuted in the top 10 on the New York Times Bestseller List!
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The idea that Pinochet, Mussolini, and Franco, who killed under 1% of their countrymen after they took power, were worse than Pol Pot, who murdered about 25% of his, is beyond absurd.
And Pinochet probably did more good than harm overall. Pol Pot, on the other hand, destroyed almost everything he touched. His per capita domestic civilian death toll was higher than everyone on this list.
Top 20 Worst Dictators in History
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Locations of Uganda and Ethiopia are switched even though the leaders are correct share.google/bTcu2SAk3Z5NYL…
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"I was the kind in AP classes who also got suspended for fighting"
I'm not sure we've ever seen a political candidate this thirsty for a tough guy image.
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People are growing really tired of Abdul's smug, whiny, fake tough guy schtick. Angry snark works great for a couple of weeks, early in the cycle, but then you need to attenuate it and dial up the optimism and hope as you close. Now, every single clip of Abdul in memory is him with a furrowed brow looking smug and offended and angry, so it's painting one consistent picture...Abdul's a little bitch.
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When I say that women lack the concept of an honorable enemy, this is what I’m talking about.
Obviously a lot of the Democrats’ new vindictiveness is Trump derangement, but the Great Feminization is part of the story, too.
Men understand that the other guy is a professional just like me, and we should have an open fight by fair rules and both go home at the end of the day.
For women, conflict isn’t over until the other side is gone and they never have to talk to them again.
Men believe in hierarchy, so a fight is about establishing dominance within the hierarchy and making the other guy subordinate.
Women don’t, everything is egalitarian and consensus-driven, so if you do get conflict, the only possible outcome is total exclusion from the group.
It makes sense that the Democratic Party is abandoning old-fashioned ideas about honorable conflict as it becomes more dominated by women.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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Being an exceptionally talented musician is one thing. But to stand before such high-caliber fellow musicians, a large audience, and cameras—all while remaining composed, communicating skillfully and effectively, showing genuine enjoyment, and staying focused on the creative process—that is what truly amazes me.
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In the past, there was little reason to deal with cranks like @ConceptualJames and his conspiracy-addled handler @SovMichael.
Michael O’Fallon and James Lindsay argue with a straight face that NatCon/Yoram Hazony Jews, the Roman Catholic Church, Peter Thiel, China, Claremont Institute and a host of other NGOs, and anyone who advocates living in red states next to other people of like mind who don’t want to trans your kids are all part of a larger conspiracy to balkanize and destroy the United States of America.
At this point, the conspiracy is so large that it seems to include most of those leading on the right. Again, this is all so degraded and stupid I have little desire to speak about it.
But these two are vicious and able to put lies together and spend all their time doing so. They tried, unsuccessfully, to get me fired from Blaze Media. No warning. No straight talk with me. They just went around my back, cast aspersions, and strung a narrative that was the same thing as what the Antifa-adjacent Jason Wilson at The Guardian was saying at the time.
In other words, it’s clear to me that they worked with the worst of the left to attack me.
Lindsay—an atheist math PhD who voted for Hilary Clinton for President, seems happy to distance himself from MAGA now and says he would vote for the Democrat over Vice President JD Vance in 2028, and isn’t sure about Marco Rubio, either—became a supposed fellow traveler on the right a few years ago, which is also when he began reading some political philosophy books and other content about the right on his own for the first time in his life.
Instead of gratitude for being invited in for his good work attacking wokeness, which I and others were happy to do for him, getting him speaking gigs, etc., he turned on all of us and now lies and calls us slurs on the daily.
The best steelman I can give him is that he saw there were people on the right who are nuts or further to the right than he is, and then decided to attack the lot of us as bad actors, and anoint himself as Gatekeeper King.
The claim he and his crazed handler actually make, however, is that there is a conspiracy of a small but powerful group people on the right who are attempting to control and subvert everything to hasten the destruction of America to pave the way for tyranny. They then “just ask questions” and “connect” tenuous dots to slime people.
Sound (ironically) familiar?
Sadly, we live in a retarded clown world. I don’t wish it so, but it’s true. Myself and my actual compadres aren’t part of some large apparatus that can employ younger attack dogs to defend us against people who have the time and motive to post garbage all day calling us vile names (Nazis and fascists seem to be preferred).
These stretched stories are comforting for people who are understandably confused about what’s going on, and desire a simple template to comprehend it.
But good people in the midst of doing serious things—people who’ve spent their whole lives studying America and teaching a generation of leaders dedicate to saving it while building new institutions and businesses with the same goal—don’t appreciate being slandered and lied about by grifters who as they speak are actively doing what they profess to be against: which is to rip this coalition apart.
The next question is: who’s paying for this divisive op? Clearly, *some* Jewish money is devoted to Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee now. Whatever the intent, it’s going to the worst spokesmen possible for their cause at the worst possible time. This was part of my friendly message to Israel last week. For which, predictably, I’ve been called an anti-Semite by the usual suspects. As I tried to say in Jerusalem: this is not a productive approach.
americanmind.org/salvo/israe…
But the plump Tweedles' “anti-semitism” campaign is fairly new. There are obviously other, larger forces at play underneath that.
Who are they?
I would be grateful if some of you could look into it.
“The idea that Kennan was some proto-groyper secret handshake Jew-hating link tying us all together is the fever dream of a malicious lunatic.”
—Michael Anton, @theammind
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It’s so depressing that this might be the only news story that could actually wake liberal white women up to the danger of radical Islam.
DEVELOPING: Judicial Watch is seeking canine euthanasia records during Dem Senate nod Abdul El-Sayed's tenure as Detroit health director when 1000s of dogs were put to sleep @ his agency, which was described as a "dog slaughterhouse." In Islam, pet dogs are viewed as dirty/haram (forbidden) to touch
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If this is how you respond to Mollie Hemingway, one of the kindest and most generous people in media, you are a fundamentally unserious person.
James Lindsay’s ongoing yearlong meltdown has been entertaining to watch, but I hope he gets the help he needs. Fat, bipolar, and clearly on the take—what I call the neocon trifecta—is no way to go through life.
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I quoted Thomas Jefferson to Insurrection Barbie, near word for word repeating his stance on immigration. Her immediate, gut reaction. "You hate the constitution."
These people do not know anything about this country, its history, or the men who built it. And when they are shown their words, unfiltered, they despise them, and believe them enemies of the United States.
I sincerely hope that embarrassing Barbie this badly, in calling the words of Thomas Jefferson unconstitutional, gives her a moment of clarity. That she might realize that she has no idea what she speaks of, that she knows not what she does as she preaches national suicide, claims to be the true defender of the men who when reading their words she spits them out as unAmerican.
I hope that she will reflect on this, but I doubt it.
The full quote, from Thomas Jefferson, compared to what I said,
"Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies.
Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another.
It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."
Again, the gut reaction of the supposed defender of the constitution and the declaration of independence was to in essence call the writer of the declaration of independence unAmerican for his immigration stance. You can't make this up.
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I don’t believe you’ve ever engaged with anyone in good faith disagreements. I don’t think you could even define what good faith means. Every engagement with you is just you throwing out ridiculous word salads of accusations at those you disagree with, that you didn’t even come up with yourself but got from James Lindsay.
That’s why the only thing that was left to do with you was to get you to disavow Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, and so many others. To show you know absolutely nothing about anything you claim to stand on even as you henpeck everyone over the slightest disagreements.
I don’t engage with people once I can tell it’s no longer in good faith. That’s generally where I draw the line. If you can’t engage in good faith, that’s proof enough for me that your intentions are actually nefarious.
If you want to pretend your entire movement is not MOSTLY aligned with ideological authoritarians who happen to usually have a negative opinion of the Jews, the constitution and conservatives I don’t know what to tell you.
Don’t be surprised when you get blowback for having a conference in Israel where you proceed to smear Evangelical Christians and Jews on 10/7 as the only reason America and Israel have an alliance instead of 50 years of bipartisan policies.
I can’t imagine why all the antisemitism on the right comes from the movement that promotes Dugin, Ebola, Franco, and Schmitt.
Not to mention a movement that is steeped in (T)raditionalism.
It’s not my problem that every one of these people make accountability synonymous with an attack on the coalition. Legitimate concerns with Jew hatred running rampant that only a blind person would miss is an attack on JD Vance. That’s a retarded statement. Or an admission of guilt.
Me personally I have no plans to stop highlighting that there is nothing conservative about these people, their ideological role models or their awful ideas about economics, politics and foreign policy.
They have Tucker wage the ground war so the aristopopulists can sit up on their learned perches and attack anyone who calls them to the carpet.
Carlson was participating in NatCon at its inception. The first year he kicked it off by starting to attack free market capitalism.
The official program for the inaugural July 2019 conference lists his speech:
“Big Business Hates Your Family”
The same conference included Patrick Deneen, Vance, Peter Thiel, Michael Anton, and other figures associated with the developing New Right.
Then he interviews Putin, Dugin, and runs an opp on Christian Zionists and Protestants for two years while these people wink and nod at him and then say I didn’t say that.
At a Heritage-hosted event in July of 2024, Tucker declared:
“Every bad person in Washington I’ve ever met was aligned against J.D. Vance.”
He had elevated every obscure anti-American moron who peddles Russian and Iranian propaganda up and to and including the President of Iran for who he offered no pushback.
He has called Trump the Epstein class the anti-Christ and wanted him removed under the 25th amendment.
But God forbid anyone says a word about anything with postliberalism and it’s perceived as an automatic attack on JD Vance.
The NETTR crowd like Wolfe explicitly say they don’t believe in the separation of church and state.
The president of Heritage defended Tucker Carlson, who called Christian Zionists a brain virus and a political parasite.
And throughout all of this, all of these people who are sitting up here and feigning moral indignation about being called a bunch of Jew haters because of their alliances, and their tolerance for people who hate America and hate our constitution and use Jew hate as an effective scapegoat the bad guys for noticing. Not to mention their promotion of Dugin (when I say they, I mean the institutions that they all defend against anybody who dares to say anything).
Hard pass.
Gaslight somebody else because it’s not gonna work with me.
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We’ve officially moved to GK Chesterton was a Nazi and if you read him you’re a Nazi
They’re just woke leftists
They’ll be calling for the destruction of statues of the founding fathers soon enough
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James is an asset to us, not a threat
He's destroyed his reputation so thoroughly that the only people who take him seriously are a very particular set of controlled-opposition "conservatives" who he drives to discredit themsevles
James is the kiss of death, a culling plague
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The proper understanding of James Lindsay is that he's a spaz. Overly excitable nervous system. The weird kid on the playground with Ritz cheese cracker dust on his turtleneck speed-talking to you about his pogs.
"Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man."
“The idea that Kennan was some proto-groyper secret handshake Jew-hating link tying us all together is the fever dream of a malicious lunatic.”
—Michael Anton, @theammind
