Put Down the Ayn Rand

Put Down the Ayn Rand

Wherein author Alex Hellene speaks authoritatively on a subject that weighs heavily on my mind, as well: busting the Big Tech trusts. Get over your knee-jerk “Muh private businesses!” conditioning and realize these tech giants do not care about the Constitution, fair play, freedom of speech, competition, or any classical…
March 13, 20199 Comments
Good News

Good News

As a nice change of pace from the usual news about Christian leaders tripping over themselves to accommodate the spirit of the world, today we have a couple of refreshing positive developments. First up, African Methodists call their pozzed American brethren's bluff in the face of an attempted shakedown. (Here…
February 26, 20199 Comments
Mercedes’ Ride Ends

Mercedes’ Ride Ends

Mercedes Carrera, a porn actress known for her involvement in #GamerGate, has been arrested on child sex abuse charges. A man and woman who both work in the adult film industry were arrested after being accused of sexually abusing a young girl in Rancho Cucamonga over the course of months,…
February 7, 201919 Comments
Gunga Din: Boomer Edition

Gunga Din: Boomer Edition

You can learn a lot from the remnants of the Buckley Right--not about effective policy or the true state of the world, but about how the neo-feudal uniparty manipulates Conservatives into thinking and acting against their own interests. Our elites' fingerprints are all over attempts to create a new controlled…
January 29, 201916 Comments
Who’s Frank Pentangeli?

Who’s Frank Pentangeli?

Perusing this humanist blogger's semi-apt comparisons of various dissident Right figures to characters from the Godfather saga, one comes across this howler: Also, because of excessive pride, Fuentes is too often and too easily dismissive of views and ideas that doesn’t jibe with his paradigm, and this is especially true when…
January 14, 201929 Comments
Conflicting Perceptions

Conflicting Perceptions

The internecine conflict that's upturned the Republican party since 2015 can be described as a war of conflicting perceptions between Conservatives typified by Mitt Romney and populists represented by Trump. David Reaboi explains. For a full treatment of the Romney Republican vs. Trump Republican perspective conflict, see here as Tucker…
January 4, 201912 Comments
Who Is Trump?

Who Is Trump?

A favored parlor game among the punditry during the Trump administration is to spitball about which prior administration it most resembles. Trump's rabid foes have a fetish for comparing him to Hitler, but serious commentators limit comparisons to other American presidents. Early on, MAGApedes likened Trump to Jackson, but Old…
December 26, 20188 Comments
Reminder: There’s No Voting Our Way out of This

Reminder: There’s No Voting Our Way out of This

Today strikes me as a good time to repost this piece from three years ago. You're always in for something interesting when you go back through the archives for a little perspective. A previous post on how the tide is turning against legacy media and its Leftist bias drew commenters…
December 21, 20188 Comments

Baptism by Fire

Reader Durandel asks, Can we win with the leaderless, multiheaded hydra approach without at some point having a legitimate, genuine leader who is then martyred for the cause to trigger the Right into action? I've had reservations about the "no leaders" approach for a while. Granted, military history is not…
December 20, 20188 Comments
Sheep Without a Shepherd

Sheep Without a Shepherd

A recent post elicited some black pills in the comments, so it seems like a good time to put the current state of dissident politics in perspective. There's a feeling in the air that the energy of 2016 has largely dissipated. Even staunch MAGApedes are wondering if they haven't poured…
December 18, 201819 Comments