The Second Amendment protects the right of every lawful gun owner, not just those with certain political views. No one should face a greater threat from law enforcement simply for exercising a constitutional right.

Trying to work off the feasting. Hope you all had a great Holiday!

Here is a sample chapter from my new book -The Patriot Audit. Finally finished editing and about to start pitching it.

I never would have believed, when I was writing my book back in January through March, that by October some of the things I imagined would be unfolding in real life.

In a perfect world, one would never have to call anyone a fascist. In a perfect world, of course, there would be no fascists to name.

If only Miller had the guts to state his intentions plainly instead of smuggling them beneath a thin veil of suggestion.

Look, people lose their minds when you use the F-word. But this is just one more piece of evidence in the growing pile — him basically saying, “l’État, c’est moi.”

It amazes me how easily the public has come to accept masked government stormtroopers acting as political enforcers in American cities.

The Democrats’ political problem is they actually care about the Americans the GOP is trying to hurt. Politically, they’d be better off just letting Republicans suffer the consequences of their own votes.

The GOP can frame it as ‘Democrats just want to give healthcare to undocumented immigrants.’ But when a red-state couple making $85k gets hit with a $25k annual bill for coverage, no talking point is going to save them from the backlash.

I need to amend my book query and include One Battle After Another as a comp.

Tonight it’s One Battle After Another.

Chapter 3 of my new novel - The Patriot Audit. Currently pitching it.

Here is a sample chapter from my new book -The Patriot Audit. Finally finished editing and about to start pitching it.

It all comes down to the whims of the king.

PSA: Always listen to your better 1/2. She saw something on my head that didn’t look right (and I get the joke that could go here). I probably wouldn’t have went on my own yet. But I did it for her & went & got it checked. Surface level melanoma. They just took it off.

The trouble with the woke is that they elevate identity over competence. The trouble with the anti-woke is that they do precisely the same—only substituting ideology for identity. In both cases, merit is the casualty.

What a shitshow the last few weeks have been.

The real interesting part is coming—the moment when people who’ve been conditioned to believe one thing suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of it. When the very system they cheered for, the one they swore was right, finally takes hold—and they’re the ones getting hurt.

Trump operates on the belief that might makes right and that philosophy fuels his approach toward Colombia and Greenland and his indifference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For him, strength is justification, and with strength comes entitlement.

1. If Trump, Musk, and Rufo are successful in eliminating “DEI hires” from the federal workforce, it would likely entail laying off thousands or tens of thousands of veterans, many with service-related injuries.

Those who’ve long argued that billionaires have been deliberately fueling our culture wars—choosing divisive distractions over the threat of class solidarity to safeguard their wealth—have, in recent months, been really strutting their stuff.

I did learn something today that I did not know before. Some of the "Diversity hires" for the Federal Government are Vets who need minor accommodations. I guarantee you this will cause a stink when these cuts get publicized.

Let's see. 1) Chamath gets a big tax cut. 2) Tariffs go into place. 3) American companies purchasing foreign goods pay the tariffs. 4) The cost is passed along to the consumer. Which effectively is a tax on the low and middle class. 5) Chamath makes out like a bandit.

The 2020 Floyd riots—riots, not protests—were entirely condemnable. I don’t care what the underlying grievances were; the moment peaceful demonstrations turned into destruction, it went too far. But what’s been striking to me is how those riots seemed to push so many on the right over the edge.

With Trump, there is no intrinsic sense of right or wrong. That’s simply not part of the equation. Right becomes right if someone pays to make it so; wrong is wrong if the price is right to enforce it. It’s a matter of pure transaction, devoid of principle.

You hear this some and it’s absolutely true. You can’t understand the present without understanding the past. This tine - way more than last time - Trump is what you would get if you combined Huey Long with William Tweed.

You’ve got to ban tiktok or you telegraph an x-ray of America’s jello spine to CCP HQ.

My feeling has always been - these social media companies should be treated like the private companies they are and the federal government should not use coercive language seeking to impact management decisions.

I used to say “old Bill has the memory of an elephant”. I will now say “ol’ Bill has the memory of Karen Pence”.

When I turn to the news in search of information about a disaster, I seek to understand the event itself, not to endure an instant barrage of political posturing and analysis. Yet not a single major American news network seems capable of providing what I’m after.

It doesn’t have to be a choice between human error and climate change. That’s a false dilemma. You can have both happen at once.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a well known and accomplished public figure lose their mind like this.

Suboptimal

This is true. It’s indentured servitude.

You’ll hear Musk and other tech bro’s say something like “we like immigrants because they are willing to come in and work 80 hours a week”. When the truth is - they either buck up and work 80 hours a week or they lose their job and their visa and they have to leave the country.

Musk and Ramaswamy grasp an essential truth: that America must continue to attract the brightest and most capable individuals if it wishes to maintain its competitive edge. However, they seem blind to the likely consequences of coupling this ambition with austerity measures.

Apparently Musk is taking away check marks (which means actual revenue) from big X right wing accounts that have disagreed with him on immigration.

Anybody that’s surprised about this rift really shouldn’t be. Musk is one of the most popular people in China. You had to know the turn was coming. His priority is Mars. Not union workers in Scranton.

I now think I might understand Elon Musk a little better than I did before today. Just in terms of his motivation.

I am not surprised that Vivek believes what he said. I am just surprised that he said what he believes out loud.

What will be interesting to see is whether anti-Israel protests will be treated as antisemitic protests by the government.

This is just how it’s going to be now. They use subtle threats and innuendo (backed by state power) to try and bully people into changing their private behavior.

Trying to recoup the advertising losses from the BlueSky exodus.

I guarantee you that this is why Musk blew the deal up. He likely freelanced and bigfoot Trump.

I’ve been offering my views on Trump for quite a while now. I think Musk is far more dangerous than Trump. It’s not even close.

You know Trump is fuming. And Musk is likely still sitting on one of his couches.

Christmas Vacation/Die Hard double feature night.

Because they are near the same height and they are always standing near eachother in the film - you don’t ever really think about Randy Quaid being 6’5” and Chevy Chase being 6’4”.

The punches are landing on the jaw.