You guys remember when Victoria Nuland admitted this in front of the Senate but because she wasn't supposed to everyone treated it like it didn't happen? That was weird, huh?

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think. Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they’re the GOP’s secret sauce. You think the GOP rode Trump’s coattails. They think Trump road their coattails. In this world, Republicans won because Democrats went too far. Woke was too crazy. Republicans were moderate and sensible. Now, they have to keep the party that way or Republicans will make the same mistake the Democrats made. They think in very outdated terms. Republicans will lose in 2026 because the incumbent party always loses. This is a political “rule”. They are 100% certain Republicans will lose. Therefore, anything Trump does to try to win the midterms is actually cope. You’re talking crazy. Crazy is bad. SAVE? Deportations? That’s crazy. Crazy is bad. “But if you redistrict and pass voter ID Republicans will win!” Senate Republicans are not thinking like that. They’re thinking you’re nuts. Passing bills, making law? They think that whatever mandate they had was squandered by Trump over controversies like Minneapolis and posting too many memes on Twitter. The GOP looks too crazy now. Well try again next time. They’re actually doing us a favor. By doing nothing they’re protecting us from our own excesses. They’re helping us not look crazy. We had better thank them. When you think of MAGA, you think of Donald Trump and reindustrialization and deporting illegal immigrants. When they think of MAGA, they think of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They think of Roy Moore losing Alabama in 2018. They think of “grab them by the pussy”. They think of “they’re eating the dogs”. They think of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz and Alex Jones. They think of crazy people doing stupid things. So, in every election since 2016, and maybe even before that, it’s Establishment Republicans who have saved the ticket from the worst excesses of Donald Trump and the Republican base. That is what Senate Republicans mean when they say they want to “govern”. They want to pass budgets and workshop foreign policy. That is why they still won’t implement Trump’s agenda. They think it is deeply unpopular, or will become unpopular even if it temporarily polls well. They think Trump only won because they saved his bacon. So, John Cornyn. John Cornyn lost because the base is deeply unhappy with Senate Republican leadership. Republican voters would probably replace a majority of Senate Republicans if you simply took a straw poll. Senate Republicans know this, but think that Republicans voters almost always “come to their senses” because we all know Republicans can’t afford to be crazy. Democrats lose when they’re crazy. Republicans will lose the same way. Sometimes the base has to be coerced or told what to do. That’s why they have to spend $100M propping up Cornyn. Cornyn’s loss is shocking to them because it doesn’t make sense: * Trump has “no reason” for endorsing Paxton over Cornyn. It’s crazy for Trump to do this. Senate Republicans save Trump again and again and this is how he repays them. * The voters are out of control. The base is “supposed to” vote for Republicans anyways, so they should know we have to support moderates who can win. The fact that the voters don’t know this is more proof that Senate Republicans are the smartest people in the room.

It's funny that American capitalists have started making the same excuses for their failed system that the Soviets used to use. "Soda is a bourgeoise comfort, comrade! We must subsist on beans and rice for the Glorious Free Market!"

We should pay members of Congress two million a year, Senators five. If they are found to enrich themselves in any other way aside from maybe home appreciation we execute them

Let me explain the four major differences between leftwing political violence and rightwing political violence: 1. Rightwing violence comes from the fringes of the conservative movement. Leftwing violence comes from the mainstream of the progressive movement. 2. Conservatives rarely encourage or glorify rightwing violence. Progressives routinely encourage and glorify leftwing violence. 3. Leftwing violence is such a common event that we hardly take notice of it unless it involves assassinating a major political figure--think of how routine Antifa/BLM style destruction of our cities has become. Rightwing violence is notable in its rarity. 4. Leftwing violence is often falsely attributed in the mass media to conservative beliefs. The opposite never happens.

Only leftists could equate off color jokes with calls for assasination.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but you couldn't pick a worse analogy. Cato and Cicero were widely lauded for milennia afterwards. The American founders despised Caesar. The comparison here is damnatio memoriae, or Qin Shi Huang's destruction of history.

We need to internalize that we are really bad at most stuff related to the physical economy compared to the Asian baseline, only then can we seriously attempt to get better Jerking off about how sick the SR-71 was is unpatriotic at this point, what we need rn is honesty

You're so full of shit. The post-war left has been defined by the amount of bureaucratic, soul-sucking regulations they want, coupled with insane social experiments like housing children with pedos(Germany). You hate freedom, the operating motivation of your movement is sadism.

Specifically, Covid/Biden etc. inculcated a deep sense of paranoia. Some have become so habituated they can only see conspiracies and lies wherever they turn, because that is what they are used to.

What Schmitt feared above all else was the abolition of Iustus Hostis and it's replacment by the enemy as criminal. If you do not understand this aspect of his thinking then you will not understand Schmitt.

It's really important to hammer home that the current crop of "progressivism", "liberalism", "democracy" yields feudalism if the policies are carried through a few decades.

There was a clip Tucker showed on Fox back in the day that encapsulated this. A professor screaming "You don't belong here! This place is for everyone!!"

Liberalism is dead, there are no liberals. There are only men ghost dancing around the ashes of liberalism, using it as ad hoc justification.

‘Far from being conservative, this was the generation of forced racial-integration, gun-control and the Keynesian welfare state.’ jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/1945-wa…

Might makes right. All stable power structures are legitimate. Ask the voters for more power. Tell them how the government actually works. Never pretend to have power you don’t have. You’re the rebellion, not the empire

Tl;dr Nap III lived in the shadow of his uncle, was looking for ways to increase France's glory. Mexican conservatives had just lost a civil war, were desperate enough to accept French aid. Opposition in Mexico was immense, and the scheme collapsed w/prospect of US intervention.