These people were never MAGA.

Cernovich turned on Trump countless times-- including the time he told us all to abandon Trump and support Ron Desantis.

MAGA must transcend and embrace the responsibility of sovereignty, or be prepared to become subjugated by charlatans.

POSO- during Covid we were ruled by nerds, and it was a disaster

I think this whole H1B thing is an OP, a narrative perhaps driven by Team Trump to introduce the argument into the public mind, in the middle of an Information war between Illegal vs Legal Immigration to an extent. Everything beyond that is parsing out the minutia of that narrative and how to approach various aspects of it.

Time to set the record straight:

The modern Republican Party evolved in the 1970's, after the Watergate Scandal— a psyop to destroy an uncompliant DC outsider (Nixon).

By this time, the Mainstream Media had been firmly established, and had used its platform to sow fear over changing demographics and "cultural revolution." (i.e. the Hippie Movement, which was also a CIA-funded operation where agents were deployed in the late 1960's to hand out free LSD to young adults and encourage them to reject traditional values and embrace degeneracy.) The hyper-focus on social issues (abortion, civil rights, gun control) by the media distracted the public from more pressing policy issues such as taxation, and the erosion of the manufacturing sector through trade imbalance (bad trade deals) and the ever-expanding administrative state. (Creation of agencies such as the EPA, ATF, DEA, OSHA, NHTSA, and NOAA, all of which were created in the 1970's)

In 1973, a self-described "democratic-socialist" named Michael Harrington coined the term " neoconservative," to describe "liberal intellectuals and political philosophers who were disaffected with the political and cultural attitudes dominating the Democratic Party and were moving toward a new form of conservatism." The man who is considered "the godfather of neoconservatism" was Irving Kristol (father of Bill Kristol) and he said that neoconservatives actually supported the "limited" welfare state implemented by FDR, but rejected the more progressive programs instituted in the 1960's by LBJ's Great Society policy. (The net effect being that the Overton's Goalposts— h/t Burning Bright— were shifted so that the new political paradigm was a debate on how much socialism was appropriate for American society.)

In Irving Kristol's own words, "...a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."

Kristol purported that "bourgeois capitalism (economic policies that favor wealthy merchants and businessmen, who are entrusted by society to amass great fortunes then "trickle down" their wealth to their workers) is worthy of two cheers."

One of Michael Harrington's chief allies was Max Shachtman, who was born in 1904 in the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement to a Jewish family in Warsaw (moved to NYC as a child) and as an adult became a close friend and political ally to Leon Trotsky— the Bolshevik leader who in 1917 would assist Vladimir Lenin in leading a violent revolution against the Russian royal family which resulted in their brutal murder. (Irving Kristol was born in 1920 to a Jewish family that had migrated to NYC from the Pale of Settlement— which was abolished by the Bolsheviks after they took power in 1917. Michael Harrington was raised in a Catholic family but became an athiest.) Shachtman was a gifted writer and is credited with spreading Trotsky's ideas after being the first American to visit him in exile in 1930. They became close allies until a falling out in 1937.

After Trosky was expelled by Stalin from the Communist Party in 1226 and exiled/deported in 1929, he eventually settled in Mexico in 1937. The reason Trotsky was expelled was because he had become Stalin's biggest critic after the death of Lenin in 1924, and the biggest issue on which the two disagreed was how to sustain the communist/socialist revolution (the Soviet state). Trotsky's theory of "permanent revolution" stated that the socialist revolution could only survive if it was spread to advanced capitalist countries (like a parasitic virus), while Stalin's view was that of "socialism in one country," where Russia should focus on itself and strengthening the Soviet state rather than supporting a worldwide revolution.

Shachtman officially published his break up with Trotsky in 1938, when he published an article rejecting "dialectical materialism," which is the main philosophy of Marxism. (Essentially, it states that ideas follow material reality, ergo communism is merely a logical human response to real-world conditions; i.e. the inequities of socio-economics in capitalist societies.) Shachtman asserted that both the German fascists and Soviet communists were both two sides of the same imperialistic coin— symbolically manifested in the 1939 treaty between Hitler and Stalin to divide Poland— and that both systems delivered what he called "bureaucratic collectivism": where a small and powerful oligarchy reaped the benefits of a economy and divided the spoils among themselves. (I actually think Shachtman was accurate in this assessment.) This led to Shachtman calling for the creation of a "Third Camp," outside of the paradigm of capitalism and Stalinism, where "true socialism" could be implemented for the creation of a worker state.

When Harrington coined the term "Neoconservative" in 1973, he was using it to describe Irving Kristol and his friends, who Harrington recognized as fellow liberals who wanted to see more aggressive US foreign policy implemented abroad, embracing Trotsky's concept of "permanent revolution/expansionism" (Forever Wars) but also the Stalinist concept of "bureacratic collectivism". (Administrative State) What brought Shachtman, Harrington, and Kristol into the same camp was their collective disdain for the growing "New Left" (Hippie) movement of the 1960's, which became obsessed with promoting social issues, called for the abandonment of all traditional values and the plunge into moral degeneracy, but also was disinterested in the labor movement's historical theory of class struggle— which is why its rise spawned the neoconservative movement, which came from the same leftist base.

The New Left would grow to supplant the existing Democrat Party, while the Neoconservative Movement (led by thinkers who were in direct contact and friendship with Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky) would grow to supplant the Republican Party. Both are fruit from different branches of the same [Bolshevik] tree.

What makes it all confusing to modern researchers is that the New Left movement was also anti-war and pro-free-speech. The problem is when you begin evaluating these groups on the merits of a single issue— that is when you fall into the trap of moral relativism. This is why First Principles is the only way forward.

TLDR - The modern Republican Party (NeoConservatism) was literally founded by the same Bolsheviks they so often claim to oppose.

Notice how they refer to MAGA in the third person— because they don’t consider themselves one of us.

https://x.com/ghostofbph/status/1872803180238733429?s=46&t=dk3FBglKJNULnlNs0jz0sQ

Ezra has been putting out signal today.

“Oh shoot, the government messed something up—again. Sorry guys! We’ll get it right next time. Just shut the fuck up and pay your taxes, mmkay?”

https://t.me/elon_alerts/52031

Jake interviewed Phil Tourney, President of the USS Liberty Veteran’s Association

Do people still think that the GOP are the "good guys?" I thought we elected Donald Trump THREE TIMES because we knew that they weren't?

Why are people still pretending that the Republicans are going to save us from the bad guys?

https://x.com/GhostofBPH/status/1873093049913401588

The kinder, happier, gentler, funnier defense contractor seems to be having a hard time.

https://t.me/disclosetv/14938

From the boss:

“H-1B visas are very bad for the American worker… I’m a businessman, so I use them, but I shouldn’t be allowed to.”

h/t https://x.com/lukasschubertmt/status/1873093578244968629

Let’s light this candle and get this party started.

https://x.com/ghostofbph/status/1873372591198712082

Tim is the op and may be too stupid to realize.

The people who spent the last 48 hours either observing the Op or putting forth First Principles arguments that are consistent with the long-running foundation of the MAGA agenda are the same people they were before, only even more based.

The people who spent the last 48 hours whining about infighting are also the same people they were before, only even more retarded.

Also, the latter is already capitulating.

Bottom line: if you can’t survive by hiring American & training American, you’re going to need to go set up shop in India, and I have a sneaking suspicion if you gave these tech companies the option to choose between that or the US, they would choose US every time.

When these oligarchs talk about a skill gap, they mean skill per dollar. They're talking about profits.

They’re counting on foreigners being willing to out compete Americans on a dollar-for-dollar basis because they’re allowed to siphon those dollars back to lands globalism has already ravaged.

The key is to kickstart mutually assured sovereign game theory, with each nation incentivized to produce from within.

America didn’t become a powerhouse by outsourcing. We became weak.

As many of the best sovereign minds in the movement elucidated this weekend, being America First means being AMERICAN first.

Well this isn’t nearly as interesting as the latest Twitter battle, but it’s an attempt at a narrative by a fellow at NATO about leaked intelligence that I I thought might be valuable to add to the sphere

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2024/12/16/intelligence-disclosure-as-a-strategic-messaging-tool/index.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NATO%20Review%20Intelligence%20disclosure&utm_content=NATO%20Review%20Intelligence%20disclosure+CID_f99c48b601045e15ffada0f0e1b37893&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=READLISTEN%20MORE