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Tom Elia's avatar

Man, you really nailed it with this, Jeff:

“This isn’t a populist movement anymore. It’s a return to first principles of Western Civilization. Countries that embrace it will be fine. Countries that don’t will be left in the dust.”

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Tom Eckert's avatar

Amen!

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Bill Pocklington's avatar

I was really impressed by Andreessen's interview on Uncommon Knowledge. Before that interview, I was pessimistic about DOGE. I came away far more optimistic: this is a generation long battle, DOGE is going to force programs to justify their authority and constitutionality, DOGE is going to spawn a process of bringing the public along.

I too hope that momentum isn't lost by prosecuting the sins of the past. Make the documents public, enable a resurging fourth estate to try these people in the court of public opinion and then having them fade into obscurity.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

Yup. Marc is sold.

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JBP's avatar

I-L-L-

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

He doesn't identify with Illinois much given what they tried to do to him

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JBP's avatar

Litigating against him was one of the worst ideas in Illini history.

Brendan Eich does cheer for the Illini. I think he is mostly a super-programmer, rather than a tech investor now.

Both better than Larry Ellison, who is funding Michigan NIL now. The shame!

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Scott Garl's avatar

You turned me on to Marc, his takes are remarkable. Haters hate him for being so successful. I'd probably faint if ever given a tour of his So Cal compound!

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Tom Eckert's avatar

Sue them for damages in Civil court!

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Bill Pocklington's avatar

Sold and solid

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Ataraxis's avatar

Sunlight is the key. The politicians are not prepared for the corruption DOGE highlights on X.

Their backpedaling on the 1500 page Continuing Resolution shows how they want to continue with their grifting ways, but they were slapped down by AI and X in a few hours and had to retreat. They’ll keep trying, but X with its real time information will win.

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Bills's avatar

I read parts of his speech on Red State. He called out all the woke people in governments around the world for their woke policies. I have always liked him. He speaks the truth and doesn't care.

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NNTX's avatar

The video of Millei in front of a whiteboard depicting the numerous gov't agencies that he was eliminating, literally throwing the magnetic decals with those names, was WONDERFUL!

Trump's signing the many EOs on Jan 20 had a similar cleansing effect.

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Melinda Romanoff's avatar

Milei should demand active flamethrowers and .50 cal machine guns for his podium, wherever he speaks. Don’t bother bringing chainsaws, while on the road.

(Reloaded my Von Mises, and finally ordered THE big Rothbard, for my book queue because of Milei.)

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David A. Rosen's avatar

WIth oyu 100% @jeffreycarter . Argentina will be in our travel plans... maybe on way to antarctica..

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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

Viva la Chainsaw Revolucion! Milei is my favorite. I also would like to go to Argentina. None of this means all that much if the Biden, bureaucrats, and Deep State criminals aren’t held accountable. But I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for congress to do it. They only go after people like Bannon and Navarro because Republican politicians are useless RINO crapweasels. I always hated this idea that Trump’s appeal was “populist” as a pejorative. His appeal is common sense and pragmatic. It should be popular as hell!

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

The weasels got pardoned. Should Trump fight Putin's extradition of Fauci? ha

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JBP's avatar

I still think there should be some Jefferson Davis type consequences for Milley and Fauci. Maybe court martial Milley and take away Fauci's license to practice medicine. No way either of those two should have any credibility going forward.

Also Brennan at the CIA has all the grace of Kim Philby, making moronic statements and being serially incompetent, but still protected because he is a political insider (like the Cambridge 5).

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NNTX's avatar

I agree. Yes these are necessary for justice, but more importantly to demonstrate that such actions will not be tolerated in the future.

This is why a new Jan 6 committee makes sense. First, the original committee destroyed their documents so can't just use the transparency option. But also, again showing these problems might illuminate the dastardly and unconstitutional behavior of those Dems and never Trumpers.

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Lynn W Gardner's avatar

Jeff, outstanding… keep up the great work..

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Contarini's avatar

Great post. I agree with all of it.

It would be great to visit Argentina. Apparently it’s got some beautiful scenery, as well as great steak!

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Eric Ivers's avatar

Another great piece. Thank you.

Trump needed populism to get elected, so his campaign was a populist campaign. And he will fulfill the promises he made to populists. But his agenda goes far beyond that. He intends to make America great again, and to put a huge roadblock in the way of anyone who tries to screw it up.

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Scott Garl's avatar

Trump has prepared brilliantly. When one door closes, another one opens. This guy's loss in 2020, and re-election, has made him 20x more toxic to his adversaries vs if he won in 2020.

He's going to get way more shit done, and torture them all way more now.

Great post!

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Herbert Jacobi's avatar

Spot on.

One thing to remember is that Trump has four years at most, two depending on the Midterms, though I hope he has a plan for that. The Biden pardons actually did Trump a service. The fan boys would want Trump to go after Biden and Company but it would be Stray Voltage and a distraction. Plus these things would (and probably will) drag out in court post Trump. If he can accomplish what he wants it would be a bigger win than throwing Hunter or any of the others in jail. That would make them sympathetic characters to a lot of people. Look at mean old Trump going after poor Hunter. That was Newt's mistake in going after Clinton. If something comes up, pursue it ,but don't go snipe hunting.

My guess on the Tariffs is that they are an opening bargaining position. Trump is the guy who wrote The Art of the Deal. It's an opening move. QP>Q4.

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Patricia J.'s avatar

Well said. And Argentina is the next place I want to go too!

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NNTX's avatar

We went to Argentina in 2014-2015. It is an amazing and beautiful country. Buenos Aires elegant--went to the best NY Eve party of my life there. If you go, check out the gorgeous scenery and wine country of the Northwest, around the provincial (and very attractive) city of Salta.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

I had a friend go a year ago. He did BA, then the wine country. I want to do that plus add fly fishing in Patagonia. He said he drank some wonderful wine there that never gets out of the country. Argentinian food is fantastic.

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Ron Sandack's avatar

This is perhaps your best commentary, Jeff! Thanks for an inspiring read. Cheers.

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reed scott's avatar

Yes. We need to be careful here. I love what Our president is doing but far flung hero worship of the man I see in many, rings loud alarm bells for me. The Left actually believes we have elected an American Reich. We can't give them ammunition for that sick position. They're going to continue ad absurdum with the screeching and we must countermand their foolishness with righteous Republicanism.

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JBP's avatar

Doesn't matter what Trump or his supporters do. The Left only knows that screeching 'racists' gets them votes in the suburbs, so that is what they do.

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Ataraxis's avatar

But the difference between the first Trump administration and this one is that this time around they don’t care about the leftist’s screeching.

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Danimal28's avatar

Reading up some on Argentina during War 2 and it is fascinating. For the most part it remained neutral but had parties sympathetic to both the Axis and Allies and both powers conducted intelligence operations there throughout the war. I would go there in a heartbeat.

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Jeffrey Carter's avatar

It and Brazil became a haven for Nazi's post war

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