President Trump needs to get his act together quickly. That interview with Laura Ingraham was embarrassing. I've been on the Trump train for 10 years now, but that interview was the absolute worst shit I have seen from him ever.
All for high-level negotiations & leverage with foreign countries, but if those pieces being negotiated are H1B visas & foreign students, then it's not worth it.
It's a reminder that Trump can be awesome at times, but he's a Boomer Conservative at heart which will become more apparent as he gets older. I hope that Vance and Miller are strategically ignoring him and finding ways to keep him away from meddling in long-term projects.
I think we can all agree that the mood has shifted dramatically in our favor against H1Bs since 2019. Also, unemployment for 20ish year old Americans wasn't 9+% in 2019 (i.e. entry level jobs straight out of college)
> Support Israel because it is a settler-colonial state founded by Westerners, rather than for the usual evangelical reasons.
I've been saying this too. When I was in school, manifest destiny wasn't a dirty word yet. The settler-colonial ideologicial framework is sound; I just disagree with the conclusion that there was anything morally wrong about it. To the contrary, if your ancestors traveled for thousands of miles to found a nation on land inhabited by barbaric tribes for centuries, that is an accomplishment one ought to commemorate.
Trump has permanently changed the political landscape. These Con Inc old guard are literally old boomers who are out of touch. The proper response to these screeds IMO is to point and laugh. “OK Boomer”
Jonah Goldberg "waddling"...🤣....he hasn't got the cobbles to convince anybody of anything.....I read "Liberal Fascism" years ago....what a gatekeeping load.........
Nah the retardation is going to repel EHC, the economic populism will crater our QOL. This outweigh any increased awareness of “identity issues” (and I dont think you really need this to have more strict immigration control, the historic american nation as a political project is a deadend).
He is one of the best DR accounts but his followers are mostly retarded (as evidenced by questions on podcast and comments here) and he is too tied to the Historic American Nation stuff
There’s nothing much left of Historic America anyhow. Even the current idea of “white” is no longer Anglo-Protestantism but a mishmash of Catholics, Italians, Eastern Europeans and others who have nothing in common with “historic” America.
It's the biggest manufactrovosy this side of the Arian debate. Fuentes and Carlson have both put their cards on the table. They don't care one whit about demographic replacement and are happy to leave you in the deep end without a lifeboat if that's what they consider the moral, Christian thing to do. They are Peter Hitchens for America, with a slightly better sense of humor. They are not your men in Washington, fighting in your corner, working on your case and if you think they are, you're as delusional as the people who thought Trump was going to cross the rubicon in 2020 and institute mass arrests of pedophiles.
"[T]he Declaration and Constitution must take a backseat to usher in a new, post-democratic, post-capitalist economic system that advocates isolationism, an immigration ban, and a domestic policy that blurs distinctions between church and state."
So exactly what the Founders who wrote and signed the Declaration and ratified the Constitution believed in. Other than maybe Hamilton, I don't think any of the Founders were Capitalists as it is being used in the above sentence. They were for capitalism within the nation, but not in the globalist sense that the above seems to use it.
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
If ConInc succeeded at that, the Republican Party would go the way of Europe’s center right parties: eaten from the right until it disappears.
The “Conservative movement” in America is probably dead already due to demographics, but such as it is, the only way it will wield any political power is via some type of Trumpist populism.
I'm a Boomer by age but I'm with the youngsters. I was a Reaganite 1978-1982 but was pretty much clear of that Old Guard stuff by 1990. If given a chance I would spit on Reagan's grave. God fogive me for being a youthful Buckleyite.
It turns out that Elon's takeover of Twitter was good in the short run, bad in the long run. Yes, it brought back important voices to a major social media platform, but it also drove off the Left which is now holed up at BlueSky. So with nothing else to fire at, the Online Right is firing at itself, and certain influencers are getting crazier as talking-points that were forbidden years ago are now freely discussed. I think that's why for example Tucker has lost his marbles, as has Banania.
Meanwhile the old guard sees this explosion of forbidden talk and is horrified...they simply didn't see it years ago because the were married to the MSM and didn't notice the censorship nor did they care really. They certainly didn't go down the rabbit-holes we in the dissident right have. So they react to the Carlson-Fuentes-Yarvin axis like my Mom would...they just can't comprehend, and are repulsed. Typical house slave behavior.
He has been stewing in RW social media for so long that it's messed with his brain...some people (like Alex Jones, Tucker, and Matt Walsh) start seeing liars and devils everywhere, and others (like Hanania, James Lindsay, Richard Spencer) heel turn and start pretending they're sensible, and spend their time punching right, eventually coming to wacky conclusions like "Liberalism is great, actually".
I assume the Left has their own variety of terminally online psychosis. Candace Owens is a good example of a leftist heel-turn.
This only applies to abnormal people, though, who are totally invested in The Machine. It seems that Scott Greer spends time outside The Machine and that's why I like his work and currently subscribe to it.
Liberalism is great but caveats are in order. I disagree with Hanania on immigration. I’m a hardcore libertarian (lolbertarian if you prefer) and think the roads, streets, etc. should be privately owned. In the meantime, the natives have rightful ownership and can curtail immigration via democracy.
I disagree with Hanania on immigration but he does seem to be honest. The stupidity of the right is shocking sometimes. We’re going to be ruled by live streamers and podcasters? Fuentes isn’t dumb but his whole program is just vibes + Israel hate (see Hanania’s article on Deneen today—Fuentes, et al. aren’t much better). They would wreck the economy while gurgling “Line goes down…Brrrr!”
They’ve sucked a lot of naive (and dumb) people in by capitalizing on the errors/deceits of the “establishment”, so they can grift. The establishment was wrong about x, y., z…therefore, the moon landing was fake and gay. Now we see libertarian podcasters like comedian Dave Smith suffering from audience capture because MAGA brings them more $$$. “Hey, I’m just asking questions!”
Dave Smith is a true and utter mediocrity. Horrible comedian, not particularly smart, just goes online and says stuff because it's the only way he can make anything of himself. If this were 20 years ago, he'd be working in a Best Buy where he belongs. But yeah, agree with you about everything else.
Scott is putting out bangers lately, although of course the podcast is always FANTASTIC and INCREDIBLE.
President Trump needs to get his act together quickly. That interview with Laura Ingraham was embarrassing. I've been on the Trump train for 10 years now, but that interview was the absolute worst shit I have seen from him ever.
All for high-level negotiations & leverage with foreign countries, but if those pieces being negotiated are H1B visas & foreign students, then it's not worth it.
It's a reminder that Trump can be awesome at times, but he's a Boomer Conservative at heart which will become more apparent as he gets older. I hope that Vance and Miller are strategically ignoring him and finding ways to keep him away from meddling in long-term projects.
honestly he had an interview similar to this one with ingraham back in 2019, which shows how short peoples attention spans are
I think we can all agree that the mood has shifted dramatically in our favor against H1Bs since 2019. Also, unemployment for 20ish year old Americans wasn't 9+% in 2019 (i.e. entry level jobs straight out of college)
I have thought of another position, which I would call Western Futurist.
Oppose virtually all third-world immigration, promote automation instead.
Pro-science 'American Dynamism' platform
Support Israel because it is a settler-colonial state founded by Westerners, rather than for the usual evangelical reasons.
Support an independent Orania for the same reason, promote moral equivalency regarding these causes.
Avoid RFK Jr.-itis, knee-jerk vaccine aversion.
Unlimited energy development in all forms, especially nuclear.
Ignore social issues by pushing them down to county levels.
Public schools are no longer the norm, they become a "safety net" social service which the general public no longer uses.
Unlimited homeschooling and charter institutions.
Deregulate agriculture, waive rules for small farmers.
End credentialism.
If these positions appeal to you, let me know.
> Support Israel because it is a settler-colonial state founded by Westerners, rather than for the usual evangelical reasons.
I've been saying this too. When I was in school, manifest destiny wasn't a dirty word yet. The settler-colonial ideologicial framework is sound; I just disagree with the conclusion that there was anything morally wrong about it. To the contrary, if your ancestors traveled for thousands of miles to found a nation on land inhabited by barbaric tribes for centuries, that is an accomplishment one ought to commemorate.
Trump has permanently changed the political landscape. These Con Inc old guard are literally old boomers who are out of touch. The proper response to these screeds IMO is to point and laugh. “OK Boomer”
Jonah Goldberg "waddling"...🤣....he hasn't got the cobbles to convince anybody of anything.....I read "Liberal Fascism" years ago....what a gatekeeping load.........
Nah the retardation is going to repel EHC, the economic populism will crater our QOL. This outweigh any increased awareness of “identity issues” (and I dont think you really need this to have more strict immigration control, the historic american nation as a political project is a deadend).
Didn't realize Greer let smart, rational people contribute here...
He is one of the best DR accounts but his followers are mostly retarded (as evidenced by questions on podcast and comments here) and he is too tied to the Historic American Nation stuff
There’s nothing much left of Historic America anyhow. Even the current idea of “white” is no longer Anglo-Protestantism but a mishmash of Catholics, Italians, Eastern Europeans and others who have nothing in common with “historic” America.
Nailed it with this comment too!
It's the biggest manufactrovosy this side of the Arian debate. Fuentes and Carlson have both put their cards on the table. They don't care one whit about demographic replacement and are happy to leave you in the deep end without a lifeboat if that's what they consider the moral, Christian thing to do. They are Peter Hitchens for America, with a slightly better sense of humor. They are not your men in Washington, fighting in your corner, working on your case and if you think they are, you're as delusional as the people who thought Trump was going to cross the rubicon in 2020 and institute mass arrests of pedophiles.
"[T]he Declaration and Constitution must take a backseat to usher in a new, post-democratic, post-capitalist economic system that advocates isolationism, an immigration ban, and a domestic policy that blurs distinctions between church and state."
So exactly what the Founders who wrote and signed the Declaration and ratified the Constitution believed in. Other than maybe Hamilton, I don't think any of the Founders were Capitalists as it is being used in the above sentence. They were for capitalism within the nation, but not in the globalist sense that the above seems to use it.
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
--Thomas Jefferson
Nah, I just want to take down Tucker. The rest I’m ok with
If ConInc succeeded at that, the Republican Party would go the way of Europe’s center right parties: eaten from the right until it disappears.
The “Conservative movement” in America is probably dead already due to demographics, but such as it is, the only way it will wield any political power is via some type of Trumpist populism.
Tucker is part of the clown show with his talk of “demons” and conspiracies. EHC is sorely lacking on the right.
The libertarians got their tax cuts their deregulation their 50 year mortgage.
Regular conservatives got some memes on Twitter.
I'm a Boomer by age but I'm with the youngsters. I was a Reaganite 1978-1982 but was pretty much clear of that Old Guard stuff by 1990. If given a chance I would spit on Reagan's grave. God fogive me for being a youthful Buckleyite.
Great piece I did feel Nick making the rightist civil war all about Israel was reductive there are other issues.
I will say what I sad on the last piece
We need to hold Trump's feet to the fire we have given him everything it's time he gives back.
I am sorry it takes more then a gif of a stupid dance at a rally in 2016 to endear me to a politician.
HUZZAH!!!
It turns out that Elon's takeover of Twitter was good in the short run, bad in the long run. Yes, it brought back important voices to a major social media platform, but it also drove off the Left which is now holed up at BlueSky. So with nothing else to fire at, the Online Right is firing at itself, and certain influencers are getting crazier as talking-points that were forbidden years ago are now freely discussed. I think that's why for example Tucker has lost his marbles, as has Banania.
Meanwhile the old guard sees this explosion of forbidden talk and is horrified...they simply didn't see it years ago because the were married to the MSM and didn't notice the censorship nor did they care really. They certainly didn't go down the rabbit-holes we in the dissident right have. So they react to the Carlson-Fuentes-Yarvin axis like my Mom would...they just can't comprehend, and are repulsed. Typical house slave behavior.
How has Banania lost his marbles?
He has been stewing in RW social media for so long that it's messed with his brain...some people (like Alex Jones, Tucker, and Matt Walsh) start seeing liars and devils everywhere, and others (like Hanania, James Lindsay, Richard Spencer) heel turn and start pretending they're sensible, and spend their time punching right, eventually coming to wacky conclusions like "Liberalism is great, actually".
I assume the Left has their own variety of terminally online psychosis. Candace Owens is a good example of a leftist heel-turn.
This only applies to abnormal people, though, who are totally invested in The Machine. It seems that Scott Greer spends time outside The Machine and that's why I like his work and currently subscribe to it.
Liberalism is great but caveats are in order. I disagree with Hanania on immigration. I’m a hardcore libertarian (lolbertarian if you prefer) and think the roads, streets, etc. should be privately owned. In the meantime, the natives have rightful ownership and can curtail immigration via democracy.
He hasn't, he's just too intellectually honest and sees reality too clearly for Scott's low IQ followers.
I disagree with Hanania on immigration but he does seem to be honest. The stupidity of the right is shocking sometimes. We’re going to be ruled by live streamers and podcasters? Fuentes isn’t dumb but his whole program is just vibes + Israel hate (see Hanania’s article on Deneen today—Fuentes, et al. aren’t much better). They would wreck the economy while gurgling “Line goes down…Brrrr!”
They're either truly dumb, or pure sociopaths (sometimes both).
They’ve sucked a lot of naive (and dumb) people in by capitalizing on the errors/deceits of the “establishment”, so they can grift. The establishment was wrong about x, y., z…therefore, the moon landing was fake and gay. Now we see libertarian podcasters like comedian Dave Smith suffering from audience capture because MAGA brings them more $$$. “Hey, I’m just asking questions!”
Dave Smith is a true and utter mediocrity. Horrible comedian, not particularly smart, just goes online and says stuff because it's the only way he can make anything of himself. If this were 20 years ago, he'd be working in a Best Buy where he belongs. But yeah, agree with you about everything else.