Much to their surprise, conservatives are discovering that they are increasingly the ones being disavowed by the Right now, as in this recent open letter to my old editor at the Dallas Morning News, Rod Dreher.
You are not going to gate-keep the right wing.
You aren’t going to veto the discussion of reality by pearl-clutching and making appeals to being “reasonable”, you aren’t going to restore the risk-averse conservativism of National Review by telling century-old horror stories about the ascendency of Adolf Hitler. You aren’t going to shut out critical conversations because you think their conclusions are distasteful.
The time when mainstream conservatism held this kind of power is over. And you will never have it ever again. Which is why you, and other conservatives, need to abandon the pretension and stop trying to pursue this futile task, for your good and the good of others that come after you.
Is it possible for conservatives to finally break from the form that has defined their own failure? Might you all stop quixotically raging against the sky and try to adopt a more practical approach?
I know that many of you are fond of that one saying by William F Buckley that “A conservative is someone who stands athwart the tracks of history, yelling Stop.” No doubt many conservatives find a certain nobility in these futile gestures, especially as America’s political reality grows much darker.
However, that train you now see coming down the tracks isn’t the crisis of modernity; nor is it some specific bad actor like Nick Fuentes, or even some popular mass delusion. The train is just a reality. It is the inevitable consequence of the politics promoted over the last three decades by those weak men too cowed to face hard truths head-on.
And no one can stop this train from coming, because all the opportunities to slow it down have been sabotaged, more often than not, by the very conservatives who were busy lamenting the sorry state of their predicament.
But lament your predicament or not, the train is still approaching. You are all going to have to make an adjustment to how you approach politics, or the juggernaut will run you down where you stand, not because you stood on some principle, but because you didn’t acknowledge the machine hurling towards you, just in front of your nose.
But perhaps this is history’s well-known sense of irony. Because, in the wake of this tragedy, everyone will naturally look back at your careers and wonder.
How?
How, after everything, after all of the articles, after all of the books, after all of the histrionic predictions of collapse and societal decline repeated over and over again, how could you still be so unprepared to face the world that you saw coming decades ago?
It is an eternal mystery. It is the story of how conservatism died.
Like everything that inevitably falls apart on its own, conservatism is dying under the weight of its own inconsistencies and incoherencies. Proclaiming “America First” while putting Israel first, waxing eloquent about the Constitution while never doing anything to defend the American Posterity, posturing about nonexistent principles, celebrating a capitalism that is built on a foundation of usury and fraud, and appealing to false histories and fake historical narratives, there is no reason to ever take conservatives and their gatekeeping seriously anymore.
They defend self-proclaimed democracy that violates the will of the people, enact injustice in the name of justice, proclaim an equality that has never existed anywhere, and in the process, conserve nothing. They are worse than worthless even by their own chosen measure.
John Slaughter understands what Rod Dreher and his fellow conservatives in the Republican Party and the Trump administration do not. The very last thing that America needs is conservatives attempting to “reform” the United States of 2025:
Conservatism now finds itself wedged between the left and a resurgent right, and like any cornered animal it lashes out with full intensity. We have already seen this in its readiness to destroy anyone even mildly skeptical of the Israel lobby. Conservatives have fervently used opposition to Isreal as a way to discredit emerging right-wing voices, partly because they are tied to Israel ideologically and financially, but also because it provides a useful pretext to rid themselves of right-wing voices.
The left, notably, has its own internal split over Israel–Palestine, yet it does not use that this as a tool to destroy its coalition. Conservatism does…because at the end of the day it is closer to the left than to the right. It accepts the progressive project and merely wishes to slow it, and so it views an actual right as the true threat. It also knows that if a real right ever took power, the professional conservative class be exiled. A genuine right would reverse the revolution: it would say “no more,” it would define who belongs and who does not, it would close the gates, it would revitalize heritage Americans. Conservatism cannot permit that, so it will strike the right long before it risks open conflict with the left.
This is why we must step past conservatism. If we don’t, it will persist forever as a placebo, an aspirin for civilizational cancer. It will keep saying, “We’re not the left,” and a certain portion of Americans, terrified of what the left is doing, will keep taking that sugar pill and thinking something is being done, and sit quietly while their country is looted.
As America accelerates toward a minority–majority reality, politics will reveal itself for what it has always been in pluralistic societies: ethnic politics. This reality was long obscured because, for most of the nation’s history, the population was overwhelmingly White. Only after the 1960s did the ethnic reality of democratic competition begin to surface at the national level. In a multiethnic state composed of numerous rival peoples, every bloc becomes political capital, and parties exist to serve those blocs. The left understands this and has organized itself accordingly. The right, if it remains imprisoned in the conservative fantasy of an abstraction-based nation, will be defeated. You cannot win an ethnic game by refusing to play it.
Conservatism cannot supply a common enemy, cannot supply a shared nation, cannot supply a unified faith. It cannot define what an American is, cannot name who belongs, cannot name who does not. All it can do is administer decline.
He’s underlining what John Red Eagle and I were the first to point out ten years ago. Being neither a political philosophy nor an ideology, and having no principles of any kind, conservatism is a literal guarantee of eventual failure.
That was as true in 1980 as it is now. The difference is that now, the observation is inescapable.
Rod Dreher admits that conservatism has completely failed, but he still refuses to give up either his hopes for reform or his faith in the essential goodness of the Synagogue of Satan while he laments the refusal of young men to swallow the same bullshit lies that their fathers and grandfathers did.
As our conversation went on, I heard real despair — and well-informed despair — that democracy is going to hold in the West, because the conditions that make for a viable democracy are disappearing: the dissolution of a common culture, the collapse of religion in his generation, the material impoverishment of his generation, and so forth.
I tell you, it was dark. But I kept hearing this, over and over, and I concluded that it cannot be dismissed.
The inability of us older people — Boomers, Xers, and older Millennials — to comprehend the world through the eyes of Zoomers is a big, big problem. Another strong theme: while it’s important to take a clear stand against anti-Semitism in the ranks, there is no way to gatekeep our way out of this. You cannot simply point at the Zoomers and say, “Thou shalt not,” and expect it to work. The problems are too deep and complex, and anyway, they have learned to have no respect for authority.
Why should they? The institutions of our society, as they see it, have lied and lied and lied, and still lie. They still lie in many ways about race (e.g., refusing to be honest about black crime), they lied about Covid, they lied about males and females, and they forced the insanity of gender ideology on us all. The military lied about Iraq. The universities embraced and enforced ideologies of lies. The Catholic Church lied about sexual abuse, and the connection to the prevalence of sexually active gay priests honeycombing the institution. They lied about the benefits of mass migration and diversity. They lied about Trump and Russia. The political parties and their corporate allies lied about what globalism would mean for ordinary people.
The media have lied and do lie about most things… Trust in the system is gone. Hell, I share most of these conclusions myself! The difference is that I am not a nihilist; I don’t want to tear it all down, but rather reform it.
There will be no reformation. There can be no reformation, for the obvious reason that there is nothing left to reform. Democracy is dead. The USA is no longer an American nation. The very purpose of the Constitution has not only been subverted, but inverted and is actively used to suppress and repress the rights of the very Posterity it was meant to secure.
As I wrote in 2004, one cannot revive a corpse. The lamentations of the conservatives are nothing more than morning for the world that they lost, for the world that they refused to defend on the basis of their fundamentally false assumptions about the wicked who have labored without ceasing to destroy America, Western civilization, and Christianity itself.
They have already succeeded in destroying the USA. They may be successful in destroying Western civilization. They will never succeed in destroying Christianity.
In the meantime, what is Rod Dreher’s plan for “reforming” this? I really fail to see how importing more Indians on H1B visas, attacking antisemitism, or sending more money to Israel is going to improve this situation in the slightest.
So if the young men want to burn everyone who was responsible for this absolutely unnecessary and completely avoidable civilizational catastrophe at the stake, I, for one, absolutely understand their point of view and I don’t give a quantum of a fraction of a damn about all the conservative legalistic dancing about how those who were obviously responsible for creating the situation weren’t the only ones involved.
This perspective from a Republican politico of color only underlines how little the conservatives and the Republicans understand the situation.
“These idiots don’t understand that they can’t win an election on a whites-only platform,” he said. “They’re delusional. There are a lot of immigrants and native-born members of ethnic groups who are natural Republicans, and whom Donald Trump won in 2024. Take Indians, for example — if you think they are going to stick with a movement whose leader [Fuentes] denounces Usha Vance as a ‘jeet,’ you’re crazy. But that’s how they think.”
They’re not delusional. They simply don’t give one single solitary fragment of a fuck about winning elections anymore, nor should they. They are not Republicans! These myopic conservative morons should ask the young British men how much being ruled over by Jeets like Dishy Rishy appealed to them. They don’t want any foreigners as part of their movement, as part of their government, or as part of their society anymore. Because it’s not an ideological movement, it’s an identity movement, which is a natural, inevitable, and absolutely necessary development for whites in a multiracial, multireligious empire like the USA, as per Lee Kwan Yew, a politician whose grasp of politics vastly exceeded that of these conservative poltroons.
I publicly predicted all of this back in 2004. I said that the long-term winning strategy for Republicans was to stop pandering to minorities and become the White People’s Party. They didn’t listen then, they won’t listen now, and they probably won’t even begin to think about the possibility that I was correct until their electoral prospects begin to approach that of the current Conservative Party in the UK.
I was never one of them. I have no connections with them. I disavowed them a long time ago, even when this site was being publicly touted by them as one of the 100 Most Popular Conservative sites on the Internet. I was number 52 back then, ahead of The American Spectator, Human Events, and American Conservative. And in 2015, I exposed the false posturings of “conservativism” as a coherent political philosophy or substantive ideology in my book with John Red Eagle, Cuckservative. This is relevant because The Tree of Woe recently considered the way in which the direction of the disavowals is now changing:
Disavowal has a long tradition on the Right. For 75 years, right-wing moderates have disavowed right-wing extremists to make sure they’re not associated with them or their beliefs. It began in 1950, when Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith disavowed Republican Senator Joe McCarthy in her “Declaration of Conscience,” leading the way for the Senate to disavow Senator McCarthy entirely in 1954.
Disavowal became formal policy in 1955, when William F. Buckley begin purging the “far right.” A prolific disavower, Buckley famously repudiated Robert Welch in 1962, Revilo Oliver in 1966, Pat Buchanan in 1991, and finally Sam Francis in 1995. Buckley’s successor, Rich Lowry, disavowed Ann Coulter in 2001, and John Derbyshire in 2012.
Disavowal reached its peak in February 2016, when the entire conservative establishment came together to disavow Donald Trump in an essay series on National Review that included posts by Glenn Beck (The Blaze), David Boaz (Cato), L. Brent Bozel III (Media Research Center), Mona Charen (National Review), Ben Domenech (The Federalist), Erick Erickson (The Resurgent), Steven F. Hayward (Reagan Professor at Pepperdine), Mark Helprin (author), Yuval Levin (National Affairs), Dana Loesch (The Blaze), William Kristol (Weekly Standard), Andrew McCarthy (National Review), David McIntosh (Club for Growth), Michael Medved (talk radio host), Edwin Meese (former Reagan admin), Russell Moore (Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of Southern Baptist Convention), Michael B. Mukasey (US Attorney General), Katie Pavlich (Townhall), John Podhoretz (Commentary), R. R. Reno (First Things), Thomas Sowell (Hoover), Cal Thomas (USA Today), R. Emmett Tyrrell (American Spectator), and Kevin D. Williamson (National Review).
In 2025, a countervailing tendency has emerged in which right-wingers now disavow the disavowers, indeed they disavow disavowal itself.
The big change, of course, is the way that the American Left and Right have both rejected Israel, its brutal war on the Palestinians in Gaza, and its increased aggression against what seems like half the countries in and around the Middle East. Despite the initial sympathy after the October 7th attacks, the subsequent awareness that the attacks were permitted, and perhaps even encouraged in the interest of justifying ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, have eliminated those sympathies.
And, of course, the war on the Constitutional rights of Americans in the name of “anti-semitism” has unsurprisingly proved extraordinarily unpopular among pretty much everyone who hasn’t sold their souls and other body parts to AIPAC. Everyone who “fights antisemitism” is now correctly seen as being anti-American and no amount of rapid-fire rhetorical redefinitions of every single word involved is going to change that obvious dialectical truth.
But since Conservative Inc. is wholly owned by AIPAC, I think we’re going to see more and more big name conservatives rejecting the label, rejecting the posture, rejecting the premises, and rejecting the corruption, because no amount of media support and pay-for-puppeting is going to suffice to maintain their viability with an increasingly skeptical public. Calling people Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens “the Woke Right” as conservatives attempt to enforce an ever-growing set of anti-American laws, literal speech codes, deplatformings, and delegitimizations has rendered the neocolonization of the entire conservative movement obvious and politically unviable.
The appeal of conservative ideology and anti-anti-semitism is no stronger than the liberal appeal of ideology and anti-anti-racism in today’s multiracial, multireligious political world. In the post-ideological age, identity is the only game in town. And “conservative” is not an identity.
The Christian Nationalist Right doesn’t need conservatives because we have the truth on our side. Or, more precisely, because we are on the side of the Truth and they observably are not.
Cue all the moaning about “they’re trying to divide us!” To which I say: “look around you, Boomer.” They already did. There is no us.
I’m very far from the only right-wing figure to shake free of the mainstream gatekeepers of the right and reject both the title and the substance of the false political posture of being “conservative,” and for much the same reasons that Karl Denninger points out:
No, I am not a “conservative.”
Why not?
Well, what is it that “conservatives” are allegedly attempting to conserve? That is the seminal question of course, much as someone who claims to be “liberal” should be expected to answer — “What is it you are allegedly attempting to liberate?”
“Conservatives” are certainly not attempting to conserve, for example, the fundamental principle of The Rule of Law. Were they, being allegedly in power at the federal level today, every health care provider who is discriminatorily pricing (e.g. “negotiating” the amount a procedure is paid based on who the insurance firm is, a blatantly felonious act for more than 100 years under 15 USC Chapter 1) would be commercially destroyed and all their directors and officers would be under indictment and facing forfeiture of their entire corporate body of wealth along with all of the wealth each and every director and officer has amassed.
Nor does it stop with health care; under 8 USC Section 1324 every entity who has solicited, harbored or transported illegal immigrants into the United States and suborned perjury through false asylum claims would also be under indictment, subject to civil forfeiture (bye-bye Catholic Charities and dozens of others) and every single one of those people who made such a false claim and is here would be notified that they have 24 hours to get out or be prosecuted for perjury and permanently barred from the United States if, upon examination, their claim is in fact bogus.
Never mind the recent “article” discussing why car insurance is so expensive in many states — ignoring those here illegally driving with no license, insurance and often unable to speak English — and of course in some cases causing wrecks. The insurance companies love this of course because being limited on percentage of revenue by state insurance commissions they are for any set of actions that causes more wrecks or more expensive wrecks since that’s the only way for them to make more money. Since such people have neither money or insurance the only place they can get the funds to fix the car (and fix you) is from you, the law-abiding citizen.
How about Somali migrants? There’s enough fraud already uncovered for dozens or hundreds of indictments. Hell, even back in 2008 this was known when 80% of claimed family relations were proved false by DNA testing! Exactly how many of these people have been expelled? There is no right to be here if you gained entry through fraud, so why haven’t we thrown all of them out if we now have a so-called “conservative” Immigration and State Departments?
Conservatives didn’t conserve the ladies room; they didn’t even manage to conserve the distinction between a man and a woman. They’re certainly not going to conserve either the U.S. Constitution, the United States, or Great Britain. If conservatism is not rejected, they won’t conserve the European nations either. Or, most likely, humanity itself.
This is why I describe myself as a Christian Nationalist rather than a conservative. First Jesus Christ. Then family. Then the nation. But everything, literally everything, springs from the Living Word, including the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. If you don’t understand that, or refuse to accept that, you cannot possibly hope to understand very much about the world around you.
And anyone who urges you to adulterate any of those three things is speaking in obvious deceit and seeking to destroy all three, no matter what he calls himself and no matter how he justifies his falsehoods.
In answer to Mr. Denninger’s question, what liberals are seeking to liberate, whether they realize it or not, is literal Hell on Earth.
The most noticeable feature of politics in the West in recent years has been the swift and irreversible demise of traditional conservative parties. The disappearance of these parties has been dramatically illustrated by the grim fates that now await the UK Conservative Party and the Liberal/National Party coalition in Australia.
The Conservative Party governed the UK from 2010 until last year. The Coalition government held office in Australia from 1996 to 2007, and from 2013 until 2022. Both of these parties were soundly defeated at the polls by ideologically unified social democratic parties that were led by uninspiring and pedestrian politicians – namely Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese.
This suggests that voters rejected the conservatives, rather than warmly embracing their social democratic opponents. UK Labour’s rapid fall from grace since last year’s election victory and the party’s current unpopularity confirms the correctness of this view.
More troubling for conservatives in the UK and Australia is the fact that both of these once dominant parties – so shortly after losing office – now find themselves in such acute states of internal disarray and that they have no realistic prospect of regaining office in the foreseeable future. In fact, it is clear that neither party has a viable long-term future at all…
These conservative parties – although in power for most of the past two decades – have resolutely refused to implement the kind of radical economic and social reforms necessary to remedy the serious economic inequalities and social problems that continue to bedevil all Western liberal democracies. In fact, despite their professed commitment to traditional values, conservative parties have – just like their social democratic counterparts – enthusiastically embraced and implemented the economic, cultural, and foreign policies of the new and now dominant global elites.
However, the death of the conservative parties is just the harbinger for the main event, which is the death of Western liberal democracy itself. The only question is if the global elites will somehow manage to hold on to power once their vehicle fails, or, as is much more likely, the new model nationalists will replace them in the West as they have already done in Russia, China, and elsewhere.
It’s telling that none of the self-styled champions of democracy ever advocate genuine direct democracy despite technology that obviously permits it, but instead, always exert their utmost efforts to prevent any and every aspect of direct democracy with the excuse of stopping “populism”.
Someone who calls himself something like Faggotus Maximus took offense at my contemptuous dismissal of a deceased political whore and purported to attempt what he erroneously calls a “fisking”:
Dear Vox, Once upon a time you were important, very important. You were the first to provide real resistance to the Social Justice Warriors with Gamer Gate. Being first is important. Very important. Your books on Social Justice Warriors have stood the test of time.
You are among the first to achieve real traction getting important ideas into the minds of right wing intellectuals and activists: that conservatism is not enough, that Social Justice Warriors are a cancer that must be eradicated, that free trade isn’t working according to accepted theory, that conservatives need to play hardball and not play strictly by the rules when the the other side is cheating gratuitously.
As in a multi level marketing scheme, you deserve partial credit for those who have run with your ideas — maybe even a few orts of Charlie Kirk’s work when he has strayed into Christian Nationalist territory.
And you have deserved a well deserved rest from activism. You can retreat across the Atlantic to relative safety to focus on your family and on fun hobby projects with my complete blessing, with a bit of pontificating to the next wave of activists when you feel like it.
But that is not all your are doing. You have been repeatedly dismissing those who are are still fighting the good fight. And your repeated claim that those who have done greater things than you are disposable ticket takers is gammafied envy whining on the order of a twink Marxist sociology professor. It is more cringeworthy than your Mary Sue self insert at the end of Alt Hero.
There is more, of course there is more, but it’s always projection with these nobodies and neverweres. First, he clearly doesn’t even know what a “fisking” is, since he doesn’t go methodically through whatever I actually wrote that set him off. This is a false assertion of a faux-fisking. Second, he’s the only one who took any offense. I’m certainly not offended by anything he wrote, neither are any of my readers, fans, supporters, and casual followers. On the level of rhetorical heat to which we have become accustomed since 2001, this barely rises to the 2/10 level.
These are his words, not mine:
“Offense has been taken. Great offense. For some strange reason I find the disparagements of a Benedict Arnold to be more offensive than the gloatings of an open enemy. Offense shall be served.”
There will likely be some who ask why I respond to an irrelevance. The reason is that I never use an critic’s irrelevance as an excuse to avoid addressing him. I have debated PhDs and authors of the textbook on the subject concerned and I have debated complete nobodies. Unlike Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Nick Fuentes, I do not generate excuses to run from either criticism or debate.
Let’s set another thing straight. I am not a “self described dark lord”. The title of “Supreme Dark Lord” was granted to me by SF grandmaster John C. Wright himself after the editor-in-chief of Tor Books described me as rising “all the way to downright evil” and after my VFM and Dread Ilk forced the tech giants to completely revise their legally questionable terms of service. To this day, I am banned from YouTube and officially barred from setting foot in Google’s Mountain View headquarters. And I am reliably informed by my eyes and ears there that my name can only be spoken in hushed whispers at the headquarters of the Daily Wire.
Now, the truth of my disparagements notwithstanding, I can’t be a Benedict Arnold because I’m simply not on the same side as Charlie Kirk or FM or Brilyn Hollyhand or Nick Fuentes or Ben Shapiro or any other conservative creature who a) is funded by foreign political interests, or b) believes “Judeo-Christianity” is real or c) subscribes to the idea that Western Civilization was ever dependent upon Judaism in any way, or d) asserts that America is an “idea nation” or a “melting pot,” or e) believes in Enlightenment ideals such as “free trade” or “free speech” or “progress” or “equality,” or f) supports the societal normalization of sexual deviancy, no-fault divorce, abortion, and euthanasia.
All of these things are antithetical to civilization in general and Western Civilization in particular. I actively oppose and reject every single conservative who espouses any of those ideas. There is no us.
I am not, and I have never, ever been, a conservative. I explained why in CUCKSERVATIVE; it is merely a posture, it is neither a philosophy nor an ideology. I have never belonged to the Republican Party, or indeed, to any political party or faction. I do not care if the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party are currently in power; I publicly dismissed all of them as the bi-factional ruling party back in 2004 and pointed out that the historical USA no longer even existed except in name and geography.
All of which is to say that I cannot retire from activism since I have never been an activist. I am neither a political activist nor a political extremist. I am an intellectual, which is something that is increasingly rare in an age of frauds, political whores, paid propagandists, and charlatans. I do not advocate, I observe and I assess. I do not think in binary terms, but from a probabilistic perspective. I certainly do not expect any political elites to pay attention to, endorse, or accept my observations, much less any of my recommendations, however correct they might be.
As a student of Aristotle, Martin van Creveld, Karl Marx, Friedrich von Hayek, Robert Prechter, Steve Keen, and Peter Turchin, among many others, I don’t view politics as being anything more than a superficial layer of distraction that obscures the real tectonics of human society, which are ultimately material and spiritual in nature. Modern politics across the West is a collection of delusional children playing make-a-wish; one has only to witness the incessant European conferences on how the member-states of the European Union, led by the European Commission, are going to institute regime change in Russia to grasp the fundamentally irrelevant nature of politics today.
This is not to say politics has no influence on society at all. But that influence is limited, indirect, controlled, and inevitably bows before material force and spiritual power. Moreover, there is virtually no link between the will of the people as theoretically represented by their democratically-elected “representatives” and what the people of the nation actually want. Very few, if any, of the institutions and policies of the current US federal government were ever desired by the American people, and yet they were forced upon them anyhow. The same is true of most European nations.
I very much doubt that most of my readers, much less any of my critics, can fathom how low my expectations are. We swim in a sea of willfully delusional retardery and none of the things that obsess most political activists matter in the least; forget who will win the electoral race in the 4th California congressional district or whatever as most people across the West will consider themselves fortunate if they preserve electricity, clean water, and indoor plumbing in their neighborhoods and avoid being roasted over open fires. All polities collapse in time, and the USA is observably approaching the end of its viability as a unitary governing entity. I’m not the first to see this; Wang Hunin observed the same thing years before I predicted a collapse in the 2033 timeframe in 2004.
Politics is not going to fix this.
The irony is that my opinion of FM is not entirely dissimilar to his opinion of me. He thinks I am wasting my time developing new concepts, disproving various historical falsehoods, and publishing a range of books that will last for centuries. I think he is wasting his time trying to build a political coalition on behalf of people under the financial control of global satanists in order to preserve a decrepit polity that cannot survive intact. His interest is in the success of the Republican Party. My interest is in the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.
Only time can conclusively determine who is correct, but regardless, I can’t pretend to care about something that never mattered to me in the first place. And as for those matters that gave offense, I can summarize my views in a succinct manner:
Disagree if you like. Take offense if you wish. The facts are what they are. The Truth is what it is. And nothing you, me, FM, or anyone else says is going to change that.
Veritas incontestabilis stat
UPDATE: Dennis Prager’s fate is more than a little ironic in light of the Black Rider analogy often used for the ticket-takers who have ceased to be useful to their masters. Of course, the fact that I was unaware of this only underlines how little attention I pay to these manufactured entities. Only a short-sighted fool could ever envy what passes for their so-called “success”.
It matters because he has building a cult of personality, teaching insane shit, and injecting mental poison into the Right. His disgusting Charlie Kirk post was but a trigger to write this fisk. He needs to either mend his ways or have his reputation destroyed. Benedict Arnold was once the Continental Army’s most effective general. He’s not remembered as a hero today for some reason. And yes he did hate Charlie. He hates everyone who is more successful than he is, that envious little $#*(@). He denegrates everyone who makes an impact as a “ticket taker.”Vox is not just a mere Black Piller. He is pushing Black Pills, a cult mindset, and assorted insanity using cred built from past real accomplishments.
Again, pure projection. I neither envied nor wanted the “success” that a corpse, a paraplegic, and a suicidal nutjob previously enjoyed. I wouldn’t trade places with Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, or any other well-funded current gatekeeper if I were offered 10x their revenue and the daily services of the entire Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad. Nor would I trade places with successful non-gatekeepers like George RR Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Larry Correia, and John Scalzi. I also don’t hate any of them, but low-status men like FM often confuse contempt and disdain for hate and envy.
The amusing thing is that what FM calls “insane shit” today, a few years from now he will likely pretend to have believed all along. I still remember when most of the readers here thought I was crazy for refusing to celebrate Jordan Peterson as the great intellectual hero of the Right, and when evolutionists thought I was crazy for asking about the average rate of evolution by natural selection. It wasn’t even that long ago when people thought I was crazy for pointing out that the USA could not win a war with either Russia or China, much less a Sino-Russian alliance. I don’t always correctly anticipate the future, but I do have a better track record than most.
Anyhow, the fact that FM believes me to be a Black Piller should suffice to demonstrate that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
When Clown World and its manufactured talking heads are dismissed as fake and gay, this is not merely metaphorical rhetoric. In far too many cases, it is the literal truth.
Conservative Host Leaves Longtime Wife to Marry Gay Lover
Robby Soave, a well-known political commentator and co-host of The Hill’s Rising, has become the latest subject of D.C. chatter after revealing his engagement—to a younger gay partner—shortly after parting ways with his wife of nearly a decade. The 36-year-old, who also appears regularly on Fox News and serves as a senior editor at Reason magazine, proposed earlier this month to Jie Jung Shih, a medical student at Georgetown University.
I’m sure you’re all absolutely shocked by this totally unexpected turn of events. And Soave is hardly the only one. More than a few credible allegations have been made about “conservative” opinion leaders whose names you would definitely recognize. They’re all constructed of pure astroturf.
Trust only the great books and the ideas that have stood the test of time. Trust only that which is Good, Beautiful, and True. Stop paying attention to people simply because they are capable of mouthing one or two phrases with which you happen to agree. Any actor is capable of doing the same. As a general rule, if someone appears on television or is permitted on YouTube, they are almost certainly fake, probably gay, and definitely irrelevant. And while there are, of course, exceptions to the rule, that doesn’t change the fact that the rule is far more reliable than your easily-manipulated emotions.
Witness the total ineptitude of GOP Inc.’s Charlie Kirk replacement in trying to address the most basic aspects of the problem of legal immigration. He even tried to appeal to Israel Zangwill’s concept of “the melting pot” coined 290 years after the arrival of the Mayflower, as America’s founding doctrine.
And consider how Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, could only draw 150 viewers to a recent stream after selling her very valuable blog to Paramount for $150 million. All success in Clown World, be it financial or just fame, is not only fake, but formulaic.
It certainly appears that Mr. Fuentes took the offer that his immediate predecessor turned down. Isn’t it fascinating to observe how the self-styled “most-canceled man in America” is suddenly being granted mainstream platforms?
At least we have the answer to who the next major gatekeeper will be. It should be amusing to see Mr. Fuentes doing interviews with Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, and the Weinstein brothers. The conversations about conversations should be informative indeed.
There is an informative commentary on US politics in Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Boy.
Uncle Henry sat down. “Otto could speak off the cuff as easily as you could spit prune pits. He could talk for a full hour with only one or two thoughts to keep him company, and when people suggested he run for Congress, he said he’d be delighted. He had done well for himself, selling flavored grain alcohol to nondrinkers, but the market was drying up now that Montanans could walk into any pharmacy and purchase all the cocaine they needed.
“Otto campaigned on the back of a manure spreader. He said, ‘This is the first time I have spoken from a Republican platform.’ He made speeches against Wall Street and the railroad barons and their terrible greed at the expense of the honest workingman and tradesman, and he was elected with sixty percent of the vote and went to Washington, where he discovered that his outspoken opposition to the railroads had raised the cash value of his vote on railroad bills considerably. A Republican in favor of free enterprise got chicken feed for his vote compared to the People’s Champion from the High Plains.
“Otto once told my father that bribery was simply a case of the free market at work simplifying the decision-making process. He had a fine time in Congress and did not overexert himself. He met with the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lawyers, who were helpful in advising him on regulatory matters. He passed antitrust laws that had about as much effect as a fart in a cyclone, and every two years he put on his old clothes and came home to roam the state and thunder against the Special Interests and the Malefactors of Wealth, and the Republicans put up some squinty old guy with bad breath, and Otto was elected to four terms.
“He moved to New York City after he got beat, running for a fifth term. There had been a bill that would allow the railroads to trade parts of their original land grant for parts of the Crow Reservation and thus open up forty square miles for copper mining, and Otto was going to vote for it, and then Balestrand started talking to him about the Indians and what a rough deal they got, how they were robbed, and the two of them shared a bottle of O-ho-no-ma-wa-hee, and Otto’s conscience was aroused after years of lying dormant. He voted nay. The bill passed, of course, and in the fall, the Republicans put up a cowboy against him, a Rough Rider in the Spanish War, a husband and a father of six, with a level gaze and a square jaw and a cleft in his chin, and the Republican newspapers accused Otto of wanting to give Montana back to the savages, and he was thrashed in the election.“
The Big Bear must be rolling his eyes watching a mainstream “comedian” like Jimmy Kimmel trying to save his career by appealing to the Jester’s Prerogative.
‘The MAGA gang desperately [is] trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,’ Kimmel said Monday, adding that the far-right was scrambling ‘to score political points from it.’
Those comments sparked swift outrage among conservatives and even drew the attention of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who labeled Kimmel’s words ‘some of the sickest conduct possible.’ But rather than soften his stance, sources say Kimmel intended to double down on his next broadcast, a move Disney executives feared would further inflame tensions.
For Kimmel, who has helmed the late-night staple since 2003, the suspension marks the first major interruption of his 22-year run. Friends say the comedian is ‘angry but unbowed’ and feels Disney caved to political pressure.
After the announcement, a source told The Daily Mail that Kimmel ‘feels betrayed.’ ‘Jimmy has always pushed boundaries, that’s what his audience expects,’ the insider revealed. ‘The idea that one comment could sideline him after everything he’s given ABC — he’s gutted, but he’s not sorry.’
It’s always amusing to see what people in the mainstream believe is “the far-right”. The actual Right, the real Right, the only Right, isn’t trying to score one single political point from what is reported to be the assassination of a milquetoast conservative employed by foreign interests. Nor do we celebrate it. Why would we, since he’ll be replaced by another manufactured “success” before long. This Charlie Kirk tweet should suffice to explain my complete indifference to his reported fate.
Sure they are. By far… Those must have been some fascinating ideas and arguments derived from the complete literary works of Jordan B. Peterson.
This will be my last word on Charlie Kirk because I never considered him anything but irrelevant, and what little I’ve learned about him in the last week has only confirmed my total lack of interest in whatever it was that he was selling to the American public. Be offended if you like, but observe that you’ll search 21 years of archives here in vain without a single reference to him prior to the recent events.
Back to the cancel culture boomerang. It’s even more amusing to see a mainstream clown like Jimmy Kimmel appealing to the same Jester’s Prerogative that didn’t protect Owen Benjamin back in the day. No one cares how many boundaries you’ve pushed in the past, the point is that you pushed too far for the current political climate and therefore you’re canceled.
