Coyote. Gonzo Anthropologist. Transformational Travel Guide.
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined April 2008
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A culture without the Strong God of Honor...
Has no Elders.
And a culture without Elders...
Will surely die.
Michael Ivan Skye retweeted
If only someone had warned them about the civilizational importance of being honest about the nature of their problems.
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"You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission."
Writer: Jacob Reynolds
Michael Ivan Skye retweeted
“The certainty of death teaches us, if we let it, to honor each moment of life as an unrecoverable miracle.”
UATX Professor @SpencerKlavan in @NRO on why the dream of a post-human future forgets what makes us human.
nationalreview.com/2026/10/w…
Michael Ivan Skye retweeted
Our Families and our People are Our Responsibility. It’s down to us. We are 911. Organize yourself, your family, your office, your neighborhood.
If you plan to bring great children into the world — and please do — use a midwife. Very, very important.
Everyone reading this comes from Ancestors who were Tough. Rough. Resilient. Resourceful. Courageous. And Ready for the next amazing challenge.
Now is our turn.
Make our Ancestors Proud.
Banish intoxicants and addictions. Our People require strength and clear thinking. Good sleep. Calm mind. Long walks without earphones. Without music. Just think and walk. Good ideas will come into your mind. Your eyes will point in good directions. Your toes will point in the same direction and you will succeed.
Make our Ancestors Proud. The see us. They are with us. They are in us.
We are the Ancestors of the future. We are the Bridge between Ancestors and Descendants. We must be a Very Strong Bridge.
We must make our Ancestors and Descendants Proud. Be the Strongest Link on a Chain of Steel. We pull together. We are One.
Barbarians are at the gate. Do not suffer traitors who open the gate.
Michael Ivan Skye retweeted
I could not have scripted a better scene.
She created him. She doesn't see it.
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France is about to find out if they have any hard men left to take care of the bad times their weak men created.
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They’re not rioters. They’re communists. And they seek to destroy western civilization and kill you. Don’t say I haven’t warned you.
How many times will Elon "break the 4-minute mile?"
There's no way to exaggerate this man's impact on younger generations who will be inspired to create "the impossible," believe they can do it, go for it... and actually succeed.
Boys and young men need to see older men daring greatly. It gives them a sense there's a version of an older man worthy of sacrificing greatly to become.
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Gavin Newsom: "Elon Musk is one of the great disappointments...he's ceding the EV space to China...he's put the brakes on his own innovation"
What did we do to deserve such a ridiculous buffoon for governor? Truly the dumbest mimbo alive.
Michael Ivan Skye retweeted
George Washington wasn’t the first president of this country. People just don’t know it because American schools aren’t even teaching the basics. They want our kids completely disconnected from the origins of America.
The Department of Education is more concerned with convincing your kids that the founders were oppressors… & that makes you and your kids oppressors as well. It’s CRT, it’s a Marxist ideology, and it needs to be eliminated.
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An entire generation of spoiled brats who’ve never built anything, stand on the crumbling empire they don’t deserve, built by great and courageous men who are now judged through the moral lens of the softest dorks living in the easiest times. Oy vey.
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I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
I sat down to write this article about the Father of America, George Washington.
I ended up writing about the man who stepped into the breach to raise him.
I’m embarrassed to admit how little I knew of this man who ended up being called “the greatest man in the world,” by his arch-enemy, King George III.
As a young boy I lived just minutes from downtown Washington D.C.. I took the school field trips to D.C. and the famous landmarks of the Revolutionary War. But it would be fifty years before I came to know much about the man the city was named for.
As I started reading about young George, one fact stopped me.
He lost his father at age 11.
How does a fatherless boy go on to father a nation?
Because this orphan boy didn’t just go on to become America’s first president–a great feat in itself. He also became the Commander In Chief of the Continental Army. And according to Thomas Jefferson, “the best horseman of his age.”
What most marks him for me as a Man of Honor is that he voluntarily gave up great power. Twice. To save the republic.
That’s a story for another day.
The Inheritance
George’s father, Augustine Washington, had paved the way for George’s older half-brothers to become respected gentlemen in colonial Virginia by taking them all the way to England when they were about 11.
Stop and imagine that. A father crossing the Atlantic with his boys–two months each way, through storms and open ocean–to make sure they got the kind of education that would give them the best chance in life.
Naturally, as George turned 11, he would have expected to receive the same sacred inheritance.
But that spring his father died.
And young George’s path to manhood died with him.
He wouldn’t be following his older half-brothers to England. He wouldn’t sit in the same English school rooms reading Cicero and Virgil. He wouldn’t spend his formative years by his father’s side, learning his trade. He wouldn’t ride beside his father to court and to militia musters. He wouldn’t learn from his father how men of standing carry themselves in public.
He wouldn’t get to see from his father how a man keeps his word, handles a debt, treats his neighbors and stands up in a difficult moment.
On top of all that, the share of land his father left him wasn’t much compared to his brothers’.
He could have turned bitter and resentful.
Read about the MAN who fathered him:
michaelskye.substack.com/p/t…