Unless you have a heart of stone, you’ve got to take pity on normie Conservatives’ plight. Though still immersed in consumer culture, every brand they love to consume long ago sold out to people who hate them.
Included in that regime-aligned rogues’ gallery are the manufacturers of Conservative politics and news. They have gained the unflattering nickname Con Inc for a reason. The managerial elite whose purpose for existing is to make sure the people they rule over never get what they want also know that unmet needs create markets. So they figured out a long time ago that shilling hucksters who pretend to champion forgotten Middle Americans while pushing policies that harm them is a win-win.
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Desperation breeds gullibility, so we shouldn’t be surprised that normieCons flocked to give controlled opposition orgs like NRO and Daily Wire their Social Security checks.
Checks which those same grifters now begrudge their marks, by the way.
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To be honest, it’s tempting to sympathize with the Con Inc face men. A lot of them were farmed from Hollywood, so they knew the dominant Death Cult would never give them mainstream careers. In that regard, taking the ticket to feign waging the culture war on behalf of red state rubes might seem a reasonable compromise.
It sure was a profitable one, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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For decades it was smooth going on the gravy train. But then trouble appeared in paradise.
The first signs of the coming crackup of Con Inc appeared last year, when ex-child actor Steven Crowder launched a public contract dispute with fellow Hollywood alum Jeremy Boreing‘s Daily Wire outfit. If you’re keeping score at home, Boreing is the connector who made Ben Shapiro. A while back, he was seen riding the coattails of the Gillette controversy by hawking a line of razors.
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Like a company increasing its share of a shrinking market, Con Inc’s crackup started slow, but now it appears to be happening all at once.
In the past two weeks alone, Shapiro henchman Matt Walsh got egg on his face for his clumsy attempt to co-opt GamerGate 2.
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One week later, another major domino fell when popular Conservative commentator Candace Owens was fired by Daily Wire for publicly disagreeing with Shapiro on foreign policy. Their online spat soon unearthed deep religious differences.
The outspoken pundit’s messy exit led droves of DW audience members to question the outlet’s commitment to Conservative Christian values.
As he did with the Crowder debacle, Jeremy Boreing tried to get out in front of the Candace situation.
His attempt to argue that confessing Christ’s kingship could sometimes constitute antisemitism led to him being raked over the coals in the replies.
Now, to bring the crackup of Con Inc full circle, former Louder with Crowder co-host Jared Monroe has taken to X and GoFundMe, accusing the company of creating a toxic work environment and pursuing malicious lawfare.
Mind you, these allegations come one year after Crowder himself accused Daily Wire of similar contractual shenanigans.
Does this cascading series of crackups spell the end for Con Inc? Will tens of millions of disenfranchised Americans at least get relief from the fifth columnists that prey on them?
If past performance is any indication, no. The marketers and PR teams behind these grifts will find the right way to yell “Squirrel!” and distract normies from their own fleecing. Like most of our cultural crises, solving the Con Inc problem will mean waiting for the Boomers to exit the stage.
Until then, for your own spiritual health, stop giving money to people who hate you.
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Behold the difference between Matt Walsh, the supposed Serious Catholic(TM) at the Daily Wire and Candance Owens who I’m not sure even goes to church. God’s indeed shows no partiality in offering grace. God willing we end up with another practicing Catholic someday in Owens, along with her family.
I guess everyone’s favorite Catholic apologist Trent Horn got a video out warning Catholics that “Christ is King” is anti-Semitic sometimes. He has some personal reasons to make sure that conservative Catholic culture doesn’t suddenly start asking a lot of questions about the base assumptions of Clown World.
As for me, I know what the word “marrano” means. I don’t necessarily think putting out a video like that means he’s insincere. However, I do think that converts (or even cradles) from his background will need to stop asking Catholics in general to make it all “comfortable” for them. To me, it amounts to ask that we treat them all as assumed saints/fragile victims at all times.
I agree that ending Con. Inc grift (or getting any social reform) doesn’t occur until the Boomer wealth goes into the great beyond. Ben Shapiro in particular might be young enough to be living in a very different world as an old man, but we’ll see.
This is why I keep arguing against slogans and buzzwords filtering thinking. Just because someone uses Christianese language and dresses like Thomas Kincaid paintings doesn’t mean they are on your side. The entire Christian Media complex is rife with degeneracy and apostacy, and every single one of them bows the knee to the culture they were supposedly formed to counter. No, they were just made to ghettoize certain ideas and attitudes, and make a few bucks off of it at the same time.
If anyone is seriously arguing against saying “Christ Is King” ON HOLY WEEK, and you aren’t immediately discarding them as grifters and charlatans, then it is far too late for you. Just keep buying their tacky calendars and walrus books and pretend you’re giving a black eye to people who hate you instead of lining their pockets and making yourself don the clown nose for no gain.
Enough is enough.
One thing about these Con Inc running dogs is they all adopt a certain look. Once you notice that one of them always dresses like he came from an audition for the Millennial Brawny paper towel guy, it’s impossible to miss how they all do it.
“Once you notice that one of them always dresses like he came from an audition for the Millennial Brawny paper towel guy, it’s impossible to miss how they all do it.”
Okay, this is funny. 🙂
It’s the one positive side-effect of getting flooded with foreigners. Their descendants will *never* join Con Inc., because conservatism is racist, nor will they dress like white soyboys.
Wiffle,
Her husband is. I listened to a longish interview with him and Matt Fradd. The husband is a convert and at the time of the interview done several months ago, she wasn’t and was still with Shapiro’s company.
Matt tactfully asked the husband if Cadence was also a Catholic. He briefly said no, but implicitly expressed hope she would become one in the future.
So who knows, like St Monica, his prayers and others might’ve led the mustard seed to blossom?
xavier
That’s wonderful news on the husband! Praise be to God. Maybe the Church will have Owens sooner rather than later as well.
The “Christ Is King” debacle was the final straw for me. I won’t suffer any more excuses for these obvious grifters and mealy-mouthed supporters who don’t care about the potential damnation of souls, if they ever did in the first place.
They no longer get to wear my faith as a skinsuit, and I will no longer tolerate mammon worshippers hawking snake oil while the house burns down around them.
I’ve had it up here with tone-policing effeminacy.
Reaching that point takes courage. A lot of folks still cling to their favorite Con Inc personality because they can’t yet accept that there is no one with significant reach on their side.
But we have it on good authority that facts don’t care about feelings. And the fact is that no one in the chattering class is looking out for Joe and Jane Sixpack’s interests.
I reached that state a few years ago, I think around the Covid times. When I made a conscious effort to live my faith, I saw a little behind the mask of these conservative mouthpieces (among many other tribes I let influence me).
I may be young, but there’s are reason why I say Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino (we know the meme) is my spirit animal. My inner old man patience has no desire to tolerate jackasses who don’t share my (correct) views on the world – integralism to be clear.
That’s why when scandal happens on either side of the isle, I just laugh rather than get mad. Both sides are all liberals to me and liberalism is an enemy of the church. They deserve the negative consequences of their ideology.
“I’m telling you, I don’t even know the man!”
I expect that many of them have zero exposure to the faith, at least none that stuck.
I remember hearing Joe Pags on a drive once where he wondered why there would be any enmity between Christians and Jews, since Jews have never once taken action against Christianity. Not “the Jews” as a collective group, the claim was that no particular Jew had ever acted against Christians. Someone called into say that the high priest and other temple authorities were straight up responsible for Jesus’s death. Pags claimed that he knew no evidence for that claim, and when told that it’s blatantly in the Bible, he asked what specific verse to look for, as if the Passion was an obscure corner of the Bible that Christians should not be expected to be familiar with.
These sorts of statements are only possible if you are a liar, or if you are functionally a pagan.
“I expect that many of them have zero exposure to the faith, at least none that stuck.”
Many of them don’t believe in organized religion, i.e, they don’t want to be told what is the right way to practice faith by an authority. They want to be free to interpret faith as it benefits them. This is in part why the conservative christians fall short.
“Many of them don’t believe in organized religion, i.e, they don’t want to be told what is the right way to practice faith by an authority.”
That’s the end of the road of Protestantism.
Phase 1: We still have some authority and can vaguely organize into larger recognizable schools of beliefs. We’ll still make it church regularly.
Phase 2: My Bible based church is lucky to hold potlucks with another down the street. How often do I need to make it to church again?
Phase 3: It’s just me here, reading my Bible every once in a while.
Phase 4: Shop at Hobby Lobby and watch the Daily Wire.
It definitely seems that modern Western culture’s mockery and/or disdain of any kind of higher authority (especially a moral one) seems to have its origins in certain strong anti-Catholic sentiments within Protestantism.
Very good summation of the past year or so. One other rhyming item was Owen’s attacks on Crowder re: his dissolving marriage when Crowder v. DW contract dispute came up. While I doubt that they are on the same side, neither of them are certainly on DW’s side anymore.
Thanks. I must have overlooked Candace Owens using Crowder’s divorce as a handy club to beat the dog.
“Unless you have a heart of stone, you’ve got to take pity on normie Conservatives’ plight.”
Can confirm, I have a heart of stone. Any sympathy for those who still consider themselves conservative went out the window when the topic of student loan debt became a hot button issue a few years ago.
Let God be the one to have mercy and pity on these poor fools who still think the conservative platform is the “religious right” of the 80’s, even though they’ve been anything but that for the past 20+ years.
In case you missed my dealings with another gaggle of usury apologists on X today, they’re dropping the mask and admitting to acting out of spite now.
More than one expressed the general sentiment “Yes, I want debt slaves hurt because they’re low IQ saps getting what they deserve. Why should I pay one red cent to clean up someone else’s mess?”
It’s often remarked that we cannot coexist in a civilized society with Lefties. But the Mammon Mob’s selfish individualism rules out having a society at all.
I haven’t seen today’s escapades yet. I removed Twitter from my phone so I wouldn’t be tempted with the distraction and dopamine hits (it helps so I’m forced to read or draw during downtime at work).
To your point, it’s becoming more clear, at least for sane and normal people trying to be moral, we don’t live in a society that works with us at all.
Speaking for myself, when it comes down to it, the left wants to kill me in the fashion of the Nazis (drop me dead in the street bc of how I look) and the right wants to kill me in the fashion of the commies (work till I die).
But all I can do is the best I can, because what else is there to do?
“Let them be debt slaves forever” speaks to the worst elements in human nature. Solutions could be had that won’t cost taxpayers a dime. Arguments could be made that it would stimulate the economy. We could even get Mammon on our side here.
But nope, they would genuinely rather have people rot away because they wouldn’t personally benefit.
Just talked to another one who, when I informed him that half of the $2T in federal student debt is headed for default, advocated throwing the defaulters in jail.
I officially hate fiscal Conservatism more than Leftism now.
“Yes, I want debt slaves hurt because they’re low IQ saps getting what they deserve. Why should I pay one red cent to clean up someone else’s mess?”
I’d argue that it’s this sort of anti-social thinking that has done far more damage to society than any of the political happenings of the last few years. There’s this pernicious way of thinking that looks at the world’s evils and simply responds with a shrug or a smile, all the while utterly debasing itself because “well, sin and vice has always existed so it doesn’t reallly matter”.
Speaking from personal experience, it’s this kind of malicious apathy that ruins friendships, destroys families, and tears down entire communities. It’s an utter poison that turns people into hollowed-out shells of human beings with total contempt for life itself. It’s literally the road to Hell.
If there’s one vice that should be quashed relentlessly, I’d say it’s definitely this one.
Yes, it is just barbaric.
Bronze Age economics for the win. Usury is a corrupting vice, and the student debt nightmare highlights how it destroys people.
Christ is king.
Amen.
And Mary is Queen! Deus Vult!
To speak a bit more at length, it’s fascinating to me that all of this blew up just after Stone Choir put out an episode in which, among other things, they said if you are in a situation where someone is telling you to deny some specific aspect of the faith, no matter how “trivial,” that is the very aspect you must affirm as loudly as possible.
“Oh, look we’re just saying that it’s rude to say it *in this situation*.”
Next it will be it’s rude to say it in any situation.
And then it will be illegal.
It’s best to refuse to cooperate when the penalty is merely “rude.” If you won’t affirm it to not be rude, are you really going to affirm it when the cost may be your life?