I just finished watching the Weinstein-Tucker interview as well and it’s pretty clear we are on the precipice of a globalist coup. The Democrats are part of this coup and aren’t even really hiding it anymore. (See illegal immigration). People that say they won’t vote if trump is on the ballot are very short sighted. Trump is just a man. Not a savior. Don’t let the ok be the enemy of perfection. That said, I don’t much care for trump, but I don’t really think any of other candidates are very inspiring nor can get much done to turn back the tide of globalist fascism. The other day I heard DeSantis say something to the effect of the J-6 people in the DC gulag are getting what they deserve. They were misguided and should get tickets for trespassing and go home. They are being put in solitary confinement for weeks and months and some have been in jail without trial for years. J-6 was a deep state setup and they are pawns in a propaganda game. They are truly dissidents of a deep state coup. Why can’t he see that? The people that run the Republican Party are feckless because they are bought. That’s why. Trump and Vivek are the only ones running that aren’t. And just a handful of others in national politics. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee. Maybe a few congresscritters. It’s gonna be hard to get the country back. But what else have we got to do that’s more important? Be slaves of a globalist, Eugenicist, fascist oligarchy? No thanks.
I think there has been an undercurrent of this sort of thing for a long time in America. Eugene Debs would have favored it....there were Communists around in the 1920s etc...but it kicked into gear with 2003 and Homeland Security, and high gear in 2008 with Obama who is a totalitarian. Trump was a hiccup, and there was a soft coup against him.
He might not be the right guy for 2024. But, if he is the standard bearer sitting at home gives the bad guys power.
The same leftist media that was bragging about BLM rioters forcing Trump into a "bunker" as they tried burning down D.C., have the gall to treat Jan. 6th like Fort Sumter.
My guess is that some have been treated poorly. The state takes advantage of people without power. It would be great to see some sort of push from the right on CJ reform. Get rid of qualified immunity (gov't employees incl. police) and absolute immunity (prosecutors). The SC has gutted lots of the 4th Amendment. The US congress could fix almost all of it. Of course it won't ever happen. Got to stay 'tough on crime'. Note, it's also the same government that let Epstein skate due to a deal made by a R US Attorney.
Yep, I predict they will even go farther than that if they win in November. Anyone in the protest, even if they didn't enter restricted zones. people who gave/funded the march,supported the "insurrection" via social media. It will all be fair game to them. They will drop the mask, and gladly show you who is in power.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was slated to run against Jan Schakowsky for Congress. I've an interesting backstory into Illinois combine politics. In 2004, the primary was held on March 16th. Many will remember that on that day, Barack Obama obliterated Dan Hynes in the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, and Goldman Sachs partner, Jack Ryan, became the GOP nominee. In my neck of the woods, on the far north side of the city, and collar suburbs of Evanston, Skokie, Morton Grove, Park Ridge, Des Plaines and Rosemont, no Republican filed a nominating petition for the chance to get smoked by Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional.
Days before the primary in which she ran unopposed, Schakowsky's husband, political consultant, Robert Creamer was indicted by the U.S. Justice department for kiting checks. He was also charged with tax evasion, and his jointly filed returns were indeed co-signed by the esteemed leftist Congresswoman. With images of Michael Flanigan's 1994 upset of Dan Rostenkowski dancing in my mind, I recognized that running against Schakowsky was a bona-fide lotto ticket risk vs reward proposition. Because no one ran in the primary, by statute, the Republican ward and township Committeeman who composed the 9th District met in early May to select a candidate for the November ballot. I was pleased that I was asked to run by my fellow committeemen without even needing to hint interest.
In late May, the Illinois GOP convened in Collinsville. While there, my State Central Committeeman, who was tasked with filing my paperwork with the Illinois Board of Elections, sought me out at a restaurant. The State committeeman was handpicked by allegedly Outfit connected Rosemont mayor, Donald Stephens. The message was, "we need you to bow out. There's a (RINO) State senator facing a tough campaign, and if we lay down against Schakowsky, they'll take a powder in our race."
I was a bit intimidated. In the 1950's, two GOP ward committeemen were offed by the outfit, one, Clem Graver was "taken for a ride" (literally) and never seen again. What if I was unwittingly standing in the way of a Rosemont casino license? Still, I wanted to run, so that evening, I went to my political mentors, who had their own clout. The next day, Karl Rove approached me and said, "you're the kid running against Schakowsky? You're staying in that race. That's an order from the White House." A few minutes later, I was told that Speaker Dennis Hastert wanted to see me. "We want you on that ballot. We'll fly you to Washington to raise money, I'll start out by contributing $5000 from the Keep Our Majority pac."
To make a long story short. The media never once uttered the name Robert Creamer. I was never invited to D.C. or given that 5k from Hastert, in fact I had to beg for $1k from him, and only got that because Hastert's chief of staff knew me from Edgewater. The RINO GOP chick retained her seat anyways and I lost 75/25. Don Stephens did however send me a couple a hun and every year I received a Christmas card from him.
Caucuses are a VERY different process than straightforward primary voting. You may well enjoy and be good at artfully influencing other attendees for your preferred candidate. Good luck and go get 'em!
I see the Republican and Conservative problems a little differently and you highlight that difference in your posting. You correctly point out that there are really 2 conservative themes. The free enterprise conservatives who focus on financial issues ( low taxes, less regulations, etc) and the cultural conservatives who focus on traditional issues ( strong families, JudeoChristian values, etc). Both live under the same tent, uncomfortably. The Paul Ryan’s vs. the Trumpers. There is a 3rd R group of professional political and admins who will support whichever of the two is strongest. I was a Ryan R and I suspect most who read this Substack are also Ryan Rs.
The last 10 years have convinced me that the Ryan wing was fundamentally wrong about 1 very important thing that the Left intuitively understood. Cultural control leads to political control which leads to economic control. While the Ryan wing was focusing on taxes and regs and belittling the cultural wing, the left was taking control of schools, religion, media, entertainment and every cultural institution. Once they did that they controlled the political sphere and it’s an easy step to the economy after that.
My point is that culture determines politics and from that you get the economic system. Culture wags the economic dog. For the Ryan wing to be successful they need the cultural system that the Traditional conservatives want. Free enterprise has historically only worked in societies that have a strong JudeoChristian cultural system. It has failed everywhere else. To put it another way, culture is the ocean in which the economy swims. Drain that ocean at your own peril.
If you want your low taxes and fewer regulations you better come to terms with the Trumpers. They are the army of small platoons that DeToqueville talked about. Right now they are the last shot at giving you the culture that you need to get the economic system that you want. I know a lot of Ryan conservatives found the Tea Party icky and feel the same way about Trumpers but brother, they are your last chance. You better learn to respect them because if you want strong families, traditional education, lower crime and the prudent middle class values that capitalism needs, they are the ones who will get you there.
I think the Venn diagram between Tea Partiers and Trumpers would be about 90%. It’s time for Ryan conservatives to embrace Trumpers and see Trump and see Trump as their chosen leader rather than see him and them as barbarian interlopers in their “let’s all just get rich” party.
We need to take action. True dat. And you're 100 percent correct on the non-democratic habits of even voting precincts. We've seen it first hand in our Congressional district.
"Illinois Republicans centralized everything years ago. They wound up selling out to The Combine and now are a marginalized and very minority party in the state. Does anyone care about them in any place that has a meaningful population of people? They aren’t competitive at all."
I picked this paragraph out of your comments to try and make a point. I am pretty sure it was not the point you were trying to make. The "federalism" of these United States. The strength of and fault line of our system.
First, to deal with Illinois. Chicago is/was the population center (read votes) and democrat. The surrounding 5 counties were republican but fed off the economic power of Chicago. It is, by definition, a metropolitan area. Cook Co. + 5 shared political power. As the surrounding Cos. turned democrat (thanks mostly to public employee unions), political power sharing was no longer necessary. The corruption no longer needed to hide. Political and economic power has consolidated and the devil take the hindmost. The rest of the state be damned. Fuck you basically. A small microcosm of federalism.
I read somewhere that 20 metropolitan areas will have half the population of U.S. by 2040 -2050. The fedral system was designed for the federal gov't. to handle national issues and state and local gov't. to handle issues closer to home and the people. The founders understood that pure democracy does not work over a broad and diverse population and a broad and diverse land area. That it only works for an homogenous population and relatively small land mass. Hence, the designed federal system. Well understood by most of us here.
Federalism is breaking down as population shifts to a few metropolitan areas. They will demand more power and to hell with a large, diverse land mass, people and interests. The federal gov't. (bureaucracy) already has their nose in every aspect of your/our lives. More "democracy" will be demanded by the metropolitan areas i.e. senatorial representation. Land masses and diverse ways of living will be forced to give up representation to the cry for "democracy". And so it goes. The false flag of democracy is waved in front of the population bull. No explanation required. Illinois writ large.
"Michigan’s GOP wanted precinct captains to have control over who ran in the primaries. "
This happens often in different locals for one or two reasons. The first is to control upstarts to the establishment, the second is to control the entry of fake republicans. There is an easier way... but not for Nevada, they have strapped themselves to the bomb with Slim Pickens and they are all on the way down. For the rest of us, it is simply to stop allowing NON REPUBLICANS to participate in the selection of REPUBLICANS (in 39, soon 40 states).
Ask, "Where do RINOs come from?" .... Open Primaries
How does NV make it worse? They have Open Primaries AND Rank Choice Voting...
I think they are persuadable and their hearts are in the right place
That’s laughable. How many votes for McCarthy to be Speaker? The Shitshow when team Gaetz ousted him and they wouldn’t work with anyone to seat a speaker. They are menace. It’s a matter of time before they go after Johnson They define the term Slapdick.
No way of picking candidates is perfect. The one thing that smoke filled rooms do reasonably well is to keep the populists at bay. It would be hard to believe any R smoke filled room would pick a candidate that said Lincoln could/should have cut a deal. Besides popular primaries, campaign finance reform has messed things up. Reliance on small $ donors just increases the role of populist voters. You've got to remember that lots of people are socialists at heart, including Republican voters. It's easier to buy voters off than it is to show them how a reduced scope of government makes things better. Who's going to be first to say that Medicare and Social Security need to be changed?
I wouldn't say that they do a good job of keeping populists at bay---->and if the voters in a closed primary want a populist, then a populist should get elected.
Most recent the Ds kneecapped Bernie vs. Hillary. There's a reason the writers of the constitution built in lots of friction. Pure democracy is not a very good idea.
This is not unique to politics. Throughout our culture things are centralizing and consolidating. Health care, automotive industry, aircraft, agriculture. It's dangerous because its so much easier to co-opt the leaders of several big entities than 100 large, small and middling. This leads to real fascism because governments, all governments, can't stop meddling. No one in this economy or government really supports free and open competition and upstarts will be dealt with through unfair competition, government regulations or my favorite, endless federal bureaucracy investigations. I would like to ascribe it all to malice, but I don't think most of it is directed. It's just happening, and then being exploited and furthered by the class that's in control.
It's partly due to the triumph of capitalists over capitalism. Once you out compete the competition, most capitalists will try to control the market and the really good capitalists usually succeed. Then they hire lobbyists . . . and you know the rest.
I just finished watching the Weinstein-Tucker interview as well and it’s pretty clear we are on the precipice of a globalist coup. The Democrats are part of this coup and aren’t even really hiding it anymore. (See illegal immigration). People that say they won’t vote if trump is on the ballot are very short sighted. Trump is just a man. Not a savior. Don’t let the ok be the enemy of perfection. That said, I don’t much care for trump, but I don’t really think any of other candidates are very inspiring nor can get much done to turn back the tide of globalist fascism. The other day I heard DeSantis say something to the effect of the J-6 people in the DC gulag are getting what they deserve. They were misguided and should get tickets for trespassing and go home. They are being put in solitary confinement for weeks and months and some have been in jail without trial for years. J-6 was a deep state setup and they are pawns in a propaganda game. They are truly dissidents of a deep state coup. Why can’t he see that? The people that run the Republican Party are feckless because they are bought. That’s why. Trump and Vivek are the only ones running that aren’t. And just a handful of others in national politics. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee. Maybe a few congresscritters. It’s gonna be hard to get the country back. But what else have we got to do that’s more important? Be slaves of a globalist, Eugenicist, fascist oligarchy? No thanks.
I think there has been an undercurrent of this sort of thing for a long time in America. Eugene Debs would have favored it....there were Communists around in the 1920s etc...but it kicked into gear with 2003 and Homeland Security, and high gear in 2008 with Obama who is a totalitarian. Trump was a hiccup, and there was a soft coup against him.
He might not be the right guy for 2024. But, if he is the standard bearer sitting at home gives the bad guys power.
The pre-trial judicial admin of those accused of 6 Jan wrongdoing is Russian gulag behavior.
The conditions under which the defendants are and have been held are wildly beyond typical standards.
Solitary confinement for a riot?
The charges are grossly overcharged. The sentences are unreasonable.
A handful of DOJ attorneys and judges have turned this into Nuremberg.
This is not the same FBI/DOJ that “investigated” and plea bargained Hunter Biden.
Equal, blind Justice? I think not.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
The same leftist media that was bragging about BLM rioters forcing Trump into a "bunker" as they tried burning down D.C., have the gall to treat Jan. 6th like Fort Sumter.
My guess is that some have been treated poorly. The state takes advantage of people without power. It would be great to see some sort of push from the right on CJ reform. Get rid of qualified immunity (gov't employees incl. police) and absolute immunity (prosecutors). The SC has gutted lots of the 4th Amendment. The US congress could fix almost all of it. Of course it won't ever happen. Got to stay 'tough on crime'. Note, it's also the same government that let Epstein skate due to a deal made by a R US Attorney.
the majority have been, now the DOJ going for people who never entered a building.....that's fascism.
Yep, I predict they will even go farther than that if they win in November. Anyone in the protest, even if they didn't enter restricted zones. people who gave/funded the march,supported the "insurrection" via social media. It will all be fair game to them. They will drop the mask, and gladly show you who is in power.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was slated to run against Jan Schakowsky for Congress. I've an interesting backstory into Illinois combine politics. In 2004, the primary was held on March 16th. Many will remember that on that day, Barack Obama obliterated Dan Hynes in the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, and Goldman Sachs partner, Jack Ryan, became the GOP nominee. In my neck of the woods, on the far north side of the city, and collar suburbs of Evanston, Skokie, Morton Grove, Park Ridge, Des Plaines and Rosemont, no Republican filed a nominating petition for the chance to get smoked by Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional.
Days before the primary in which she ran unopposed, Schakowsky's husband, political consultant, Robert Creamer was indicted by the U.S. Justice department for kiting checks. He was also charged with tax evasion, and his jointly filed returns were indeed co-signed by the esteemed leftist Congresswoman. With images of Michael Flanigan's 1994 upset of Dan Rostenkowski dancing in my mind, I recognized that running against Schakowsky was a bona-fide lotto ticket risk vs reward proposition. Because no one ran in the primary, by statute, the Republican ward and township Committeeman who composed the 9th District met in early May to select a candidate for the November ballot. I was pleased that I was asked to run by my fellow committeemen without even needing to hint interest.
In late May, the Illinois GOP convened in Collinsville. While there, my State Central Committeeman, who was tasked with filing my paperwork with the Illinois Board of Elections, sought me out at a restaurant. The State committeeman was handpicked by allegedly Outfit connected Rosemont mayor, Donald Stephens. The message was, "we need you to bow out. There's a (RINO) State senator facing a tough campaign, and if we lay down against Schakowsky, they'll take a powder in our race."
I was a bit intimidated. In the 1950's, two GOP ward committeemen were offed by the outfit, one, Clem Graver was "taken for a ride" (literally) and never seen again. What if I was unwittingly standing in the way of a Rosemont casino license? Still, I wanted to run, so that evening, I went to my political mentors, who had their own clout. The next day, Karl Rove approached me and said, "you're the kid running against Schakowsky? You're staying in that race. That's an order from the White House." A few minutes later, I was told that Speaker Dennis Hastert wanted to see me. "We want you on that ballot. We'll fly you to Washington to raise money, I'll start out by contributing $5000 from the Keep Our Majority pac."
To make a long story short. The media never once uttered the name Robert Creamer. I was never invited to D.C. or given that 5k from Hastert, in fact I had to beg for $1k from him, and only got that because Hastert's chief of staff knew me from Edgewater. The RINO GOP chick retained her seat anyways and I lost 75/25. Don Stephens did however send me a couple a hun and every year I received a Christmas card from him.
The only cool thing about it all was an inside mole at the Tribune told one of my mentors that the Editorial Board strongly considered endorsing me, but just didn't see my candidacy as viable. At least my hometown paper didn't burn me: https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-2004-tribune-congressio/134224188/
Caucuses are a VERY different process than straightforward primary voting. You may well enjoy and be good at artfully influencing other attendees for your preferred candidate. Good luck and go get 'em!
I see the Republican and Conservative problems a little differently and you highlight that difference in your posting. You correctly point out that there are really 2 conservative themes. The free enterprise conservatives who focus on financial issues ( low taxes, less regulations, etc) and the cultural conservatives who focus on traditional issues ( strong families, JudeoChristian values, etc). Both live under the same tent, uncomfortably. The Paul Ryan’s vs. the Trumpers. There is a 3rd R group of professional political and admins who will support whichever of the two is strongest. I was a Ryan R and I suspect most who read this Substack are also Ryan Rs.
The last 10 years have convinced me that the Ryan wing was fundamentally wrong about 1 very important thing that the Left intuitively understood. Cultural control leads to political control which leads to economic control. While the Ryan wing was focusing on taxes and regs and belittling the cultural wing, the left was taking control of schools, religion, media, entertainment and every cultural institution. Once they did that they controlled the political sphere and it’s an easy step to the economy after that.
My point is that culture determines politics and from that you get the economic system. Culture wags the economic dog. For the Ryan wing to be successful they need the cultural system that the Traditional conservatives want. Free enterprise has historically only worked in societies that have a strong JudeoChristian cultural system. It has failed everywhere else. To put it another way, culture is the ocean in which the economy swims. Drain that ocean at your own peril.
If you want your low taxes and fewer regulations you better come to terms with the Trumpers. They are the army of small platoons that DeToqueville talked about. Right now they are the last shot at giving you the culture that you need to get the economic system that you want. I know a lot of Ryan conservatives found the Tea Party icky and feel the same way about Trumpers but brother, they are your last chance. You better learn to respect them because if you want strong families, traditional education, lower crime and the prudent middle class values that capitalism needs, they are the ones who will get you there.
I was a big fan of the Tea Party.
I think the Venn diagram between Tea Partiers and Trumpers would be about 90%. It’s time for Ryan conservatives to embrace Trumpers and see Trump and see Trump as their chosen leader rather than see him and them as barbarian interlopers in their “let’s all just get rich” party.
We need to take action. True dat. And you're 100 percent correct on the non-democratic habits of even voting precincts. We've seen it first hand in our Congressional district.
"Illinois Republicans centralized everything years ago. They wound up selling out to The Combine and now are a marginalized and very minority party in the state. Does anyone care about them in any place that has a meaningful population of people? They aren’t competitive at all."
I picked this paragraph out of your comments to try and make a point. I am pretty sure it was not the point you were trying to make. The "federalism" of these United States. The strength of and fault line of our system.
First, to deal with Illinois. Chicago is/was the population center (read votes) and democrat. The surrounding 5 counties were republican but fed off the economic power of Chicago. It is, by definition, a metropolitan area. Cook Co. + 5 shared political power. As the surrounding Cos. turned democrat (thanks mostly to public employee unions), political power sharing was no longer necessary. The corruption no longer needed to hide. Political and economic power has consolidated and the devil take the hindmost. The rest of the state be damned. Fuck you basically. A small microcosm of federalism.
I read somewhere that 20 metropolitan areas will have half the population of U.S. by 2040 -2050. The fedral system was designed for the federal gov't. to handle national issues and state and local gov't. to handle issues closer to home and the people. The founders understood that pure democracy does not work over a broad and diverse population and a broad and diverse land area. That it only works for an homogenous population and relatively small land mass. Hence, the designed federal system. Well understood by most of us here.
Federalism is breaking down as population shifts to a few metropolitan areas. They will demand more power and to hell with a large, diverse land mass, people and interests. The federal gov't. (bureaucracy) already has their nose in every aspect of your/our lives. More "democracy" will be demanded by the metropolitan areas i.e. senatorial representation. Land masses and diverse ways of living will be forced to give up representation to the cry for "democracy". And so it goes. The false flag of democracy is waved in front of the population bull. No explanation required. Illinois writ large.
Utmost concern for minority rights until they become the majority, and then there will be no rights for minorities.
time to reapportion the states. MIchael Lotus America 3.0 is a good book about that.
"Michigan’s GOP wanted precinct captains to have control over who ran in the primaries. "
This happens often in different locals for one or two reasons. The first is to control upstarts to the establishment, the second is to control the entry of fake republicans. There is an easier way... but not for Nevada, they have strapped themselves to the bomb with Slim Pickens and they are all on the way down. For the rest of us, it is simply to stop allowing NON REPUBLICANS to participate in the selection of REPUBLICANS (in 39, soon 40 states).
Ask, "Where do RINOs come from?" .... Open Primaries
How does NV make it worse? They have Open Primaries AND Rank Choice Voting...
Get smart, get the hell out of NV.
I think they are persuadable and their hearts are in the right place
That’s laughable. How many votes for McCarthy to be Speaker? The Shitshow when team Gaetz ousted him and they wouldn’t work with anyone to seat a speaker. They are menace. It’s a matter of time before they go after Johnson They define the term Slapdick.
Johnson knew going in it was a 1 yr gig. Lets hope they hold the House
No way of picking candidates is perfect. The one thing that smoke filled rooms do reasonably well is to keep the populists at bay. It would be hard to believe any R smoke filled room would pick a candidate that said Lincoln could/should have cut a deal. Besides popular primaries, campaign finance reform has messed things up. Reliance on small $ donors just increases the role of populist voters. You've got to remember that lots of people are socialists at heart, including Republican voters. It's easier to buy voters off than it is to show them how a reduced scope of government makes things better. Who's going to be first to say that Medicare and Social Security need to be changed?
I wouldn't say that they do a good job of keeping populists at bay---->and if the voters in a closed primary want a populist, then a populist should get elected.
Most recent the Ds kneecapped Bernie vs. Hillary. There's a reason the writers of the constitution built in lots of friction. Pure democracy is not a very good idea.
This is not unique to politics. Throughout our culture things are centralizing and consolidating. Health care, automotive industry, aircraft, agriculture. It's dangerous because its so much easier to co-opt the leaders of several big entities than 100 large, small and middling. This leads to real fascism because governments, all governments, can't stop meddling. No one in this economy or government really supports free and open competition and upstarts will be dealt with through unfair competition, government regulations or my favorite, endless federal bureaucracy investigations. I would like to ascribe it all to malice, but I don't think most of it is directed. It's just happening, and then being exploited and furthered by the class that's in control.
Federal and state regulations are causing a lot of the centralization.
It's partly due to the triumph of capitalists over capitalism. Once you out compete the competition, most capitalists will try to control the market and the really good capitalists usually succeed. Then they hire lobbyists . . . and you know the rest.
Did you inadvertently use the word “liberal” when you meant “conservative?”
Proof read it.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Nope......Classical Liberals are in fact conservative these days!
Made you look, and think!
All told, establishment Republicans are not interested in "we the people". They are sold out and compromised - their end cannot come soon enough!