Endnu en ung europæer må lade livet for de venstreorienterede/liberales fantasi om fri indvandring. De samme mennesker, der har stemt for denne virkelighed, er tavse hver gang, vi mister et barn til indvandrervold og -voldtægt. Denne tavshed er deres anden forbrydelse mod os.

Det er ikke mindst derfor, PÆN DANSK BORGERLIGHED hepper på de venstreradikaliserede Demokrater: fordi Trump, Musk og i et mål Zuckerberg fjernede meget af den censur, der holdt anderledes tænkende (altså borgerlige, fædrelandskærlige) nede. Det skal de straffes for. Den reaganoide liberale borgerlighed, der ikke har tænkt en tanke eller læst en bog med tænkning i siden 1989 (om nogensinde), hader det tænkende og læsende patriotiske højre mere end venstrefløjen hader patrioter. Jubelen i den antinationale liberale borgerlighed over at det nu bliver sværere for almindelige borgerlige amerikanere at få løst de problemer, der ligger dem på sinde, er ikke tilfældig eller triviel. Det understreger blot, at liberalisme er en *progressiv* ideologi. Den har altid haft mere til fælles med venstrefløjen end med fædrelandskærlige. Så der er ikke noget overraskende i, at en forenet front af højre- og venstreliberale glæder sig over resultatet, der gavner det venstreradikaliserede Demokratiske parti.

This breaks my heart. The Norwegian Seamen’s Church in Houston has been sold and converted into a mosque. That place was my home away from home. I celebrated Christmas there, made memories that still mean so much, and always felt a little closer to Norway when I walked through those doors. 😔 They moved to a new location, but seeing the old church turned into a mosque still stings.

Does anyone know how democracy ends in something other than Brazil or South Africa

Conservatives are the janitors of gynogerontocracy

I'm a storyteller. I will tell you a story. Not a thinly veiled allegory or analogy. Not a fable. Not a parody or a satire, or some smug little parable featuring characters "Ronald Grump" and "Alan Tusk". No, this is a true story, and it means what it means, with no hidden symbolism whatsoever. It contains only facts, and general principles to derive from them. It is a story about Rome. We all know what Rome was. It was a republic, then an Empire, then nothing. But every time we ask why, historians wish to tell us it is complicated, and that we desperately need historians, such as themselves, to sort it all out. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire was not complicated. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire can be explained in two words. Cheap labor. The Romans, as you know, had two classes, the patricians and the plebeians. The patricians ruled Rome. But the plebeians were Rome. And the patricians forgot this. Around this point in the story, you may be thinking you understand me already. You may think you have anticipated where I am going with this. You may think that this is going to be some general polemic about the importance of remembering the little people. It is not. I have a very specific meaning, and I always choose my words very, very carefully. Two words. Cheap. Labor. The Romans patricians, like the old and the rich of any society, owned land, and sold goods. To do this, they bought labor. The Roman plebeians, most especially the young, sold labor. So that they could buy goods and land. So, it should go without saying, but often doesn't, that it was in the interest of plebeians that goods and land be cheap, and labor be expensive, and in the interest of patricians that land and goods should be expensive, and labor should be cheap. Now, markets have natural cycles. The price of every thing fluctuates up and down, looking for an equilibrium which is only ever temporary. Sometimes goods and land are cheap, and labor is expensive. Then the plebeians become fat and prosperous, and they marry pretty girls and have lots of healthy children. Sometimes goods and land are expensive, and labor is cheap, and patricians amass vast fortunes and build fine estates and eat honeyed dormice. To every thing, there is a season. But the patricians controlled Rome. Not fully or directly, not in theory, but they had money. And money buys power. Just as power buys money. And the temptation, in the long run, became irresistible. To buy political power, and put the finger of that political power on the scales of the market. To make sure the cheap labor stays cheap forever. In Rome, cheap labor meant slaves. Elsewhere, it has meant other things. In Rome, slaves kept labor cheap not only because slaves don't get paid, and can't quit, but also because every plebeian who sells labor must compete with the slave on price. Little by little, this took away from the plebeians, not only because real wages were depressed, but more importantly because there were no seasons of labor scarcity. No cycles in the market where wages went high. No fat seasons for the plebes, just an ever-increasing drought. And, while the patricians controlled Rome, the plebeians were Rome. It was their blood, shed in the legions, that conquered the world. Their sweat that built the shining city of seven hills. And their patriotism that defined what Rome was. The patricians ruled Rome. But the plebeians were Rome, and when they ceased to bear allegiance to Rome, Rome ceased to exist, because the only thing that Rome ever was, the only thing that any city or nation ever is, is its people. A man who has no work, a man who must compete with slaves, a man who is beaten down to want the hungriest beggar will take, is a man who cannot have a home and a family. Not only because he cannot afford such things. But because no woman will have him. No woman will bear his children. The ultimate expression, after all, of female lust and admiration, is "I want to have his babies". Fewer people seem to realize that the reverse is true. I was told once, by a man who should have known better, that Rome fell because the Romans forgot what it meant to be Roman. Nonsense. Rome fell because Romans knew exactly what it meant to be Roman. Which meant they knew that to be Roman meant to be replaced by slaves. The patricians bore no allegiance to Rome, because it was cheaper to replace the Roman workers with slaves, and the Roman legions with mercenaries. The plebeians bore no allegiance to Rome, because Rome bore no allegiance to them. And so Rome simply ceased to be. The outward forms hung around awhile, until the mercenaries, bearing no true allegiance to Rome, realized they didn't have to wait to be paid. They could just... take. The patricians destroyed Rome because they thought like politicians instead of kings. A politician buys a crown by offering the most to those whose support is most in doubt. A king knows that crowns and thrones are only symbols, and power comes from armies of loyal men, whose loyalty must be bought with loyalty in turn. Not table scraps. The Roman plebeians didn't want, and couldn't survive on, free bread and circuses. They needed work and land and incomes to have families and happy lives. But no Caesar emerged in time. Tick tock, Mr. Vance. Tick tock.

Any talk of “ICE hype edits losing the election” is a twitter-siloed misread of the media normal people consume and care about. They irritated leftists on here, and that’s about the extent of it. The truth is that the GOP hasn’t adapted to the slopcannon era of shortform political content, not that it’s gone too far. The DNC did adapt, and it won. Right now, 90% of the things Dems and normies believe about “politics” are just not true, in a way that has never been the case before. Epstein eating babies with Trump, etc. Only a few years ago, the “piss tape” and “Russiagate” took intense national media coverage to develop as mass psychoses, and even then only really weathered discreditation among low-info olds. Now, the vast majority of things you hear from “apolitical normies” are some sort of schizophrenic lie derived from a momentary partisan event 6 months ago — something you, reader, forgot about a week after it happened because you mostly consume news on here. The GOP lost among its base because of the war, gas prices, bad PR, take your pick. But if we’re talking about media strategy, it lost swing normies that it won in ‘24 because it has consistently failed to adapt to the meta of Lindsay Clancy-style TikTok parallel-reality construction. Funnily enough, this media environment — the total death of “legacy media” and “trusted experts,” supplanted by a decentralized online hive — is the exact thing many on the Right have wished for for many years. It happened… now what? As of now, nothing: hysteria is a commodity you can buy, but Republicans aren’t investing. They seemed to have missed the part of epistemic collapse where the “validity” of ideas is totally meaningless, replaced only by their ability to gain attention as a directional signal. Trump wins nationally because he is a gravity well for media attention, a unique talent; but the GOP without him as the candidate is totally excluded from the infostream, seemingly by their own choice. Everybody laughed at the DNC buying catamites like Harry Sisson back in 2023, but that’s just part of the game now — botfarming new stock characters into the popular mind in order to run participatory ARG-style media events designed solely to drive turnout. These things don’t happen by accident, they cost money and require learned acumen. Obviously this is only one small part of the electoral environment, but it’s one that very few people seem to be talking about. Epstein hysteria, the Cornell 7, Nolan Wells, etc. probably drove Dem enthusiasm in as big a way as Iran drove GOP unenthusiasm, and it’s an angle where the GOP seems uninterested in competing.

Look at it this way: a political system where one side winning means you get to continue having a country and the other side winning means the total destruction of the country is not a system that is going to be around forever anyway

it’s actually insane to think how when elon was 31 he made $180 million from the sale of PayPal and he could have just bought a private island and spent the rest of his life in peace, without having to work another day instead he sacrificed basically everything trying to build the future. failed multiple times, almost went completely broke, but he kept going, spending the last 20 years building reusable rockets, electric cars, global satellite internet, AI, brain interfaces. basically the whole infrastructure for the future of civilization just to end up in a world where people are publicly calling for his execution, and getting applauded for it you don’t even have to like him to realize how completely fucking backwards the world has become

I want so much for this not to be true. But it is true.

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us." Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026. There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true. But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.) In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you. The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there. I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

So funny, I was just about to post this with the caption ‘accelerationist coping remedies’.

Det var neo-konservativismen og libertarianismen der tabte. Vælgerne gider ikke krige og masse-indvandring, så de blev hjemme. MAGA lever stadig, hvis den bevæger sig i retning af America First, som var det Trump gik til valg på i første omgang. Trumps fejl er at han lyttede for meget til den etablerede Republikanske fløj, som sad fast i neo-konservatismen og libertarianismen.

I hope y’all like accelerationism… because it’s on the menu now.

It’s a luxury belief that only makes sense in a bubble of power where history doesn’t exist

BoomerCon camp commissars would rather support the left’s race communism than admit their worldview is what got us in this situation (and that it can only survive through censorship and tyranny). DECENT CONSERVATIVES would rather help the left win than to see bright, courageous and well read young right wingers lead the way. Geriatric authoritarian worshippers of the postwar liberal order desperately fighting the only people that could save the West: virtuous men, which is right wing men. Stale, waning libido versus a healthy one. Much of the right’s losses aren’t actually losses as much as it is deliberate concessions made by cuckservatives/reaganoids and other janitors (thank you BAP) to the left. Cuckservatism and “classical liberalism” are features of universalist progressivism, not opponents thereto. Mainstream conservatism’s deep, envious hatred of more talented, courageous, truthful and knowledgeable people to their right is perhaps the single most underrated reason for the left’s victorious trajectory in decades. Look to nominally conservative media, and you will find the left’s most ardent helpers.

IMO Texas won’t go red again maybe ever. This is the California-tipping point where demographics make going red impossible. A dem governor will also exponentially increase illegal voting and probably secure blue Texas for 2028 and the death of the Republican Party permanently

Immigration was the the number one reason people continued to support Trump Blaming this loss of the president's most impressive accomplishment to run cover for the war really requires a forfeiture of your soul

Somali daycare center owners right now

When you change the demographics of a state you change its future Texas imported groups that reliably vote Democrat, and they did exactly that