In case you missed Piggy's post-SCOTUS rebuke of his tariff regime...here's
the short version.
The six justices who voted against the tariffs are a disgrace and betrayed
’Murrica.
The Democrats on the Court did it because Dems want to destroy ’Murrica. The
Republicans on the Court who overturned Trump’s tariff regime — including
the two muppets he himself appointed — are actually RINO stooges under the
influence of foreign powers.
But it doesn’t matter, because what the decision really said was that
I have vastly more power to tariff, embargo, and destroy other countries
than ever. I can destroy anyone. Any country. I tried to be nice before. I
was a good boy. But now? Forget it.
Biden was incompetent.
This country was dead a year and a half ago. Dead.
Now we’re the hottest country in the world. Barely legal but tits out
to *here*! And that ass!
Every president but me was stupid for not using tariffs to make us all rich.
I’m very good at reading!
Brett Kavanaugh is a good lil’ stooge who’s gonna get two scoops. His
dissent is genius, and you have to be a radical left lunatic to disagree.
I won. In a landslide. There was so much cheating, but I still won.
Yadda yadda yadda. All the usual demented rambling claptrap intermixed with
the usual lies from a degenerate old criminal whose brain is turning to
prune dip before our eyes. I’m sure I missed some of the finer points, since
after a few minutes of this maniac slurring and stumbling us onto the ash
heap of history, it all sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher — if that
teacher were George Wallace, drunk and brain-damaged.
And if this makes your blood boil, don’t forget to thank your Republican
neighbors, co-workers, and fellow churchgoers for putting this depraved,
bigoted monster back in the Oval Office.
Like a some Conservative version of the Casimir Effect*, I believe I can
prove, to a scientific certainty, that when two old-school neocon Never
Trumpers are put in close proximity to one another, eventually at least two of
the most odious and deeply held core tenets of their ideological faith will
always manifest themselves out of the air.
First element to emerge will be sanctimonious Both Siderism. An
above-it-all certainty that because Both Sides are pretty terrible they are
now "politically homeless".
The second element to emerge will be condescension. The airy dismissal
of any prior criticism from the Left of their now-former party, which, in
actual fact, will turn out to be just blatant Straw Man bullshit. We
know this because such derision never involves interviewing any actual
Liberals or citing anything that anyone on the Left has ever actually written.
Instead, the entire constellation of thoughtful, detailed and brutally
accurate analysis of the long, ugly trajectory of the Republican party --
decades of labor by hundreds of smart, savvy lefties -- is sneered at and
waved off as, "Well, you know how those people are."
And thanks to whoever it was that had the bright idea of putting old-school
Neocon Never Trumper Mona Charen and old-school Neocon Never Trumper
David Frum together on Frum's podcast, we now had a perfect opportunity to
either confirm or disprove my hypothesis by experiment and observation!
Let's see what happened.
First test: Emergent Both Siderism:
Frum:
What Trump is doing to poison the social conversation here at home, to
allow in these voices, to really mainstream people like Nick Fuentes and
Tucker Carlson, that is deeply frightening. That’s where we live. (Laughs.)
And it is opening the door to the kind of—there’s a lot of left-wing
anti-Semitism, but frankly, the right-wing variety still scares me a little
more because it is truly Nazi-like in its ferocity against Jews.
There is quite a bit of that. Sure, the right is awful, but they only
scare Frum "a little more" than the left.
Also Frum:
On the other hand, assuming there is an election and J. D. Vance is the
Republican nominee, he will be running against a nominee from a party that
just vetoed the most plausible-looking running mate for Kamala Harris
because he was Jewish and because he wouldn’t renounce his support for
Israel and wouldn’t hedge his condemnation of anti-Semitic outbursts on
American college campuses, and where important voices in that party are
saying that the test, their most important test for their support in 2028 is
Holocaust inversion...
Charen: As you say, J. D. Vance is very close to Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens
is a huge influencer, and all of that. On the left, it is, for now, the
precinct of the hard-left progressives. It’s untested as to whether that
will become the dominant strain in the Democratic Party. We’ll see. That
would be very, very worrisome.
So, Both Siderism? Check.
On to the second test: The Straw Man.
Frum: ...I think there’s something important that we [Never Trump Republicans]
bring, and that is a sense of that this is a group that has a unique sense
of the uniqueness of what is happening now. And I’m sure you’ve seen often
in the comments you get from readers or viewers or listeners, they’ll say
something [like], Aha, we warned you that the moment Dwight Eisenhower beat Adlai Stevenson,
Trump was the inevitable outcome—
Charen: Absolutely. All the time.
Really? You've heard Liberals blaming Ike for Trump?
"All the time"?
Because I am one of a whole army of Liberals who've spent decades warning you
fuckers of the dangerous trajectory your party was on and I have never heard
anyone say this. Not a single serious historian. Not a single
political theorist. Not a single potty-mouth blogger. There is no record
whatsoever of anyone arguing that the moment Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated
Adlai Stevenson in 1952, the eventual rise of Donald Trump became
“inevitable.”
Of course what Frum and Charen are desperate to do here is avoid talking about
things like Goldwater and the seismic ideological shift he represented in
1964 as the GOP began devolving through various stages, towards Trump-era
populism.
They don't want to talk about Nixon's Southern Strategy. Or the Powell
Memo. Or the red carpet the party rolled out for southern white
conservative Evangelical segregationists like Jerry Falwell and Pat
Robertson.
They'd like you to forget Paul Weyrich too, and Lee Atwater, and Karl
Rove.
They'd really appreciate it if you'd also forget about Newt Gingrich.
And Tom DeLay.
They're also praying that no one mentions the profound, malignant influence of
the Right's most popular bigot, Rush Limbaugh, or his hundreds of imitators,
or the fact that George H. W. Bush was so thirsty for Limbaugh's support that
he invited him to the White House for a Lincoln Bedroom sleepover and carried
in Limbaugh's baggage personally.
In fact, they'd be eternally grateful if you'd agree to forget the rise of the
entire Conservative media ecosystem -- talk radio, cable news, online
platforms, church pulpits, direct mailing lists -- emerging from the 1980s
onward.
Instead, Frum rolls out one of the stupidest Straw Men I've ever heard of, and
he and Charen deal with their barely sublimated guilt and shame by taking
turns punching it.
Frum: No, he’s not the inevitable outcome of Dwight Eisenhower and
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and George W. He’s
different. And we’re here to tell you that as people who liked all those
people. He’s different. And because we liked all those people, we can tell
you how and why he’s different in a way that the typical commenter who’s
blaming Dwight Eisenhower for being the start of Donald Trump can’t tell
you.
Charen: Well, yeah, the people who are kind of—and I’ll say this—I
think they’re kind of smug, and they say, This was always
conservatism, and this is just the full flowering of all the things that
conservatism always was. I say that is absolutely not the case...
So, Straw Man? Check.
Cowards? Check.
Experiment complete.
Theory confirmed by observation.
Submitted for peer review this day, February 20, 2026, by your pal driftglass.
*The Casimir effect is a weird little consequence of quantum physics that
says even “empty” space isn’t really empty. Imagine putting two perfectly
smooth metal plates extremely close together in a vacuum. You’d think
nothing would happen — but tiny quantum fluctuations are constantly
flickering in and out of existence everywhere. Between the plates, only
certain fluctuations can fit, while outside them, more kinds can pop up.
That imbalance creates a tiny pressure pushing the plates together. So the
Casimir effect is basically proof that empty space has a kind of restless
energy, and if you confine it just right, it can produce a measurable
force.
...what advice Team Legacy Media and Team Never Trump will always insist
Democrats must follow if they don't want to lose everything.
So, no surprise that, over at The Bulwark, Mark Leibovich's "advice" to
Democrats was centered entirely around picking fights with other Democrats.
From Leibovich's Atlantic article, which is why Tim Miller invited him
over for a bitch sesh:
The squabble underscored how the Democrats can’t help but keep playing to
a stubborn stereotype—a soft and pampered bunch, unwilling to make the
gritty sacrifices (such as getting dressed) necessary to prevail in their
“existential” campaign to save democracy.
“The Democrats treat their fucking people like kindergartners,” Sarah
Longwell, a former Republican consultant who quit the party over Donald
Trump, told me. Longwell can get exasperated by her new allies on the
left. When I mentioned the DNC’s in-person-work kerfuffle, it set her
off.
“Republicans are over here being straight-up mercenaries,” Longwell said.
“Democrats give everybody Fridays off and talk about work-life balance.”
She apologized for yelling into the phone. Democrats “are not built for
when the fascists come,” she concluded...
Martin himself has a knack for reinforcing these caricatures. Just as I
was starting this project, he presided over the DNC’s summer meeting in
Minneapolis to begin the urgent work of rebuilding the Democratic
coalition and making the party palatable to American voters again. Soon
after calling the assembly of more than 400 party officials to order,
Martin relinquished his mic to a representative of the Saginaw Ojibwe
Nation for the DNC’s “land acknowledgment” ritual. Switching between
English and her tribal language, the Indigenous woman affirmed that
Minneapolis had been stolen from its native Dakota Oyate Tribe (“the
original stewards of the lands and waters”).
The interlude took only a minute or two but received outsize attention—and
ridicule—as an example of how Democrats remain overly concerned with
performative pandering to various small identity groups. “It is difficult
to imagine more than a handful of people looking out over the current
hellscape of U.S. policy and thinking to themselves: You know what we need
to be sure to address today? The Dakota War of 1862,” Andrew Egger wrote
in The Bulwark.
So let's take a look at how minor HR dispute and two minutes of harmless
comments at a summer DNC meeting in 2025 got turned into a five-alarm, OMG DEMOCRATS ARE THE WORST!
fire in 2026 at The Bulwark.
To start with, I found it interesting that Leibovich didn't feel the need to
include the next couple of sentences of Egger's Bulwark column which are as
follows (emphasis added):
Right-wing media gleefully ping-ponged the clip around social media:
Wake up, babe, they’re still doing land acknowledgments!
Democrats may believe, sincerely, that there is no harm (and, indeed,
some good) in these displays. But many more people instinctively recoil
against this sort of thing...
Two things. One for later and one for now. The later thing is,
who exactly are the "many more people" who "instinctively recoil against this sort of thing"
and how in the world do these "many more people" know the first god
damn thing about the 2025 DNC summer meeting?
Could these "many more people" tell me anything at all about the
other 99.9% of that meeting? Do they have strong opinions about the
Rules and Bylaws Committee evaluating the early voting state lineup for the
2028 presidential election?
Or the Resolutions Committee debate over proposals regarding the
Israel-Hamas war, including potential calls for a ceasefire and changes to
military aid?
How about the "Organizing Summer" Initiative to build volunteer networks,
register voters, and engage in non-political spaces to prepare for 2025/2026
elections? Any thoughts on those?
Let's put a pin in that for a minute, and get on to the second thing.
In the portion of the column that Leibovich left out, Egger explains how
this tiny moment became a "story" at all. The right-wing media was
doing what the right-wing media always does: latching on to
some incredibly trivial moment that would have otherwise passed unnoticed,..
or taking some remark wildly out of context ... or just making shit up and
using their gargantuan fascist echo chamber to hype the shit out of it.
Fox News headline, August 25, 2025:
DNC opens summer meeting with land acknowledgement ...
The second Fox News headline, August 25, 2025:
Lindy Sowmick, a Minnesota Democrat and self-described 'Indigenous
queer woman,' recited the acknowledgement Monday...
The National Desk, August 26, 2025:
DNC faces ridicule over land acknowledgment
Ridicule? Really? From whom, I wonder? Is it from...the fascists?!
The Colorado Springs Gazette:
Byron York blasts DNC land acknowledgement...
Really? York at the Colorado Springs Gazette? Oh how the mighty
fops of yesteryear have fallen.
Megyn Kelly on Facebook:
The Democratic party learned NOTHING as they start summer meeting with
"land acknowledgement..."
Megyn Kelly on YouTube:
The Democratic party learned NOTHING as they start summer meeting with
"land acknowledgement...
Megyn Kelly on YouTube Shorts:
Megyn Kelly reacts to the ridiculously long "land acknowledgement" at
DNC summer meeting.
The Blaze:
The Democrats have gone insane
So at this point this is just another
"OMG! Obama wore a tan suit!"/ "OMG! Obama likes fancy
mustard!"/"OMG! That crazy communist Kenyan Obama thinks inflating
your tires correctly will solve all our energy problems!" bit of catnip for the bigots and imbeciles who think Fox News is "news" and
who jerk off to Megyn Kelly's hate-porn.
For the fascists to boost bullshit like this out of the Fox News terrarium and
into the wider world they're gonna need help.
They need their manufactured indignation at least appear to be
"bipartisan".
The need some cranky, octogenarian Democrat who is 20 years past his sell-by
date to pop off about how awful this insignificant little moment was.
They need...
Carville slams DNC over land acknowledgment.
There we go!
Yep. That was the Fox News headline, August 28, 2025.
And this was the Fox News headline, August 29, 2025:
Carville rebukes DNC over woke 'land acknowledgment' ...
And this was the headline in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post,
August 29, 2025:
Carville erupts over DNC's woke land acknowledgment ...
Yay! It's out there in the world now! People are talking!
People like Dan "Turncoat" Turrentine talking to [checks notes] Laura
Fucking Ingraham.
‘It’s Maddening’: Ex-Dem Strategist Slams Party After Day 1 Of DNC
Summer Meeting
Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine condemned his party on
Monday following the first day of the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) summer meeting.
One of the first items on the DNC meeting agenda was a “land
acknowledgement,” based on the premise that the Minnesota land they
were on was improperly taken from indigenous people. Turrentine said
on “The Ingraham Angle” that the Democratic Party was repeating its
past mistakes that led it to its current diminished state.
“Laura, you said it: it’s the definition of insanity: you just keep
doing the same thing over and over again. And as a Democrat, it’s
maddening that we’re still not serious,” Turrentine told host Laura
Ingraham.
And this is where Cokie's Law kicks in.
Are you familiar with Cokie's Law? If not, let the coiner of the term,
OG Liberal blogger and my Bradcast radio partner, Heather "Digby" Parton,
explain. From Salon,
August 24, 2015:
Many years ago when political blogging was in its infancy, I coined the
phrase “Cokie’s Law,” which referred to a specific comment by pundit
Cokie Roberts about the Lewinsky scandal that illustrated the precise
way the beltway media excused their propensity for cheap gossip and
scandalmongering. In discussing whether or not Hillary Clinton had
actually blamed her husband’s childhood for his philandering, Roberts
said:
“At this point it doesn’t much matter whether she said it or not
because it’s become part of the culture. I was at the beauty parlor
yesterday and this was all anyone was talking about.”
Cokie’s Law is the axiom that says the press can pass judgement
about anything once it’s “out there” regardless of whether or not
what’s “out there” is true. This allows them to skip doing boring
rebuttals of the facts at hand and instead hold forth at length about
how it bears on the subject’s “judgement” and the “appearance” of
wrongdoing without ever proving that what they did was wrong.
Once Carville had popped off, and Egger had written his bitchy paragraph and
worried about those "many more people" who "instinctively recoil against this sort of thing", the pervasive contempt for Democrats which is always roiling just
below the surface at The Bulwark was free to ricochet around like a
fistful of bottle rockets in a phonebooth.
They were obsessed with this story, not because of anything inherent about
the facts of the story, but because of what "people out there", "voters",
"normal people" would think. See! See! Democrats don't
care about normal people stuff. This is why Democrats lose!
No, this is why you can never trust a Never Trumper. Because they've
still got that Conservative media wiring in their heads. Because
whenever the Conservative media machine (which they loyally served for their
entire adult lives) does shit like this, it never occurs to them to attack
the machine itself for wildly exaggerating some bit of nothing into
Civilization On The Brink Of Collapse.
Instead they automatically
react by beating up on Democrats for...what? For letting someone talk
for 90 seconds at a two day conference?
This is why your humble scrivener warned y'all about the Never Trumpers
colonizing the Liberal media and elbowing actual Liberals out of the
way. Because believe it or not, there is another way -- a different
way -- to talk about these garbage stories which the right-wing media is
constantly trying (and, as they did here, frequently succeeding) to
stovepipe into the wider public conversation.
You hang a lantern on it. Contextualize it. Talk about how
the whole Fox News business model is based on taking trivial nonsense and
inflating into crises and expecting us to fall for it. To be
distracted from the Epstein Files by it. Good God how stupid do they think
we are?
Also, I for one would like someone to explain to me how it came to be the
received wisdom of the Legacy Media that low-information or disengaged or
undecided voters can be people who have no idea what's happening in the
country and couldn't tell you who their senators are or their representative
is if you held a bazooka to their heads..
...while at the same time these same low-information or disengaged or
undecided voters are apparently so deeply enmeshed in the
right-of-the-decimal-point organizational details of the Democratic party that
they're going to give up on the Democrats and vote straight fascist party
ticket because of 90 seconds at the 2025 DNC party meeting or some HR dispute that
some anonymous, disgruntled staffer leaked to
The New York Times (which is always only too happy to "report" on
bitchy office gossip.)
And our "allies" will never just use a Fox News talking point to bludgeon
Democrats just once. They recycle them, stacking one high dudgeon atop
another until they have the highest dudgeon of all.
Because it wasn't enough for our "ally" to wildly overreact in the pages of
The Atlantic to what amounted to an HR dispute:
“The Democrats treat their fucking people like kindergartners,” Sarah
Longwell, a former Republican consultant who quit the party over
Donald Trump, told me. Longwell can get exasperated by her new allies
on the left. When I mentioned the DNC’s in-person-work kerfuffle, it
set her off.
“Republicans are over here being straight-up mercenaries,” Longwell
said. “Democrats give everybody Fridays off and talk about work-life
balance.” She apologized for yelling into the phone. Democrats “are
not built for when the fascists come,” she concluded...
Goodness no. Leibovich just had to recycle the bullshit
Fox News talking point from last year to make sure the knife went
in all the way.
You can watch this shit move through the system like a contrasting agent
moving through a human body during a C/T scan. From the Fox
News Bombast Machine to Megyn Kelly's histrionics to a useful chump like
James Carville shitting pine cones over it, then on to The Bulwark and
cable news...
...then recycled and amplified in The Atlantic, then back to
The Bulwark where any $10 Cassandra knows what comes next.
A stern warning that if Democrats want to win, they need to start picking
fights with other Democrats.
And picking fights with former Democratic presidents.
Oh, and don't forget picking fights with "various groups that make up the
party’s broad coalition".
So yay! More hippie punching. All of which is supposed to make
Democrats more popular with "regular people."
And yet somehow going after Republicans -- y'know, the actual fascists who
actually have a knife to the throat of American democracy -- isn't really
on the menu.
So, should Democrats follow this advice and start a circle of infighting,
what exactly is it that "regular people" are supposed to suddenly
notice? That no Democrat likes the Democrats? That every
Democrat is running against their own party?
In which case this $10 Cassandra predicts that, should any of that happen,
we can all look forward to a chorus of Team Legacy Media and Team Never
Trump voices decrying "Democrats in disarray."
One final note, by way of demonstrating that anyone can have all kinds of
fun with Cokie's Law. Can you believe Sarah Longwell losing her shit and
yelling into the phone while she was on the record?
But, well, what'dya expect? Chicks, amirite! Way too emotional
to be trusted with really important jobs.
And, being a sane and decent person, you would probably bark at me. How
dare I! And rightly demand that I take that misogynist shit
back.
But, see, under the shield of Cokie's Law I am protected.
Because under the shield of Cokie's Law it doesn't matter if it's true.
All that matters is my assertion that some non-specific group of "people" are
talking about it.
Feel free to pass this along to any fellow travelers who were members in good
standing of [Insert "You Must Be Fucking Kidding Me" Group Identity Label
Here] For Trump" and ask them to pay special attention to Kaspar Gutman's
warning:
That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both
sides. Because, as you know, sir, in the heat of action men are likely to
forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them
away.
Because boy howdy did they fuck around and boy howdy are they finding
out...and boy howdy didn't their collectively follies end up dragging the rest of us (and the
legacy of the Enlightenment) to hell with them.
Reminder: Primaries are where you pick your favorite candidate, preferably without heaping so much "I saw my opponent consorting with the
Devil behind the barn" invective on your opponent(s) that, if they win, you've succeeded in damaged them so severely that you hand the election to the opposition. This is called "Reaganing Ford".
The general election, in the other hand, is where you vote out the fascists --
enthusiastically and without bitching -- even if your primary pony ran out of
the money,
However you measure modern political history, the media's unwritten rule of
politics during this era has been to allow the Republican party to get away
with this bit of legerdemain. Everyone understood that, starting with
the Powell Memo and Nixon's Southern Strategy, the base of the party was going
to be comprised largely of bigots and imbeciles -- Archie Bunker chumps who
listened to Limbaugh and watched Fox News.
Ah, but the thin, outer shell of the party would be a candy-coated carapace of
respectable front men and women who would not embarrass themselves on
"Meet the Press", would know which wine paired with what at Beltway
cocktail parties, and wouldn't run screaming into the night for fear choosing
the wrong Italian meat for their sammich.
And for as long as I can remember, it has been the job of the media to pretend
that the latter was the Republican party...and, despite being
the overwhelming majority within the party -- the mob without which
Republicans would never win another election -- it was also the media's
corollary job to pretend the former did not exist at all, and to mock anyone
who said otherwise as unserious kooks and alarmist crackpots.
That was it. That was the job. Denigrate Democrats as out-of-touch
snobs, laud Republicans as sensible and sober and, when this gigantic hoax
inevitably had a containment breach -- when the crazy got out of the lab
and into the world for all to see -- it was time to double down on the Both
Sides Do It lie to calm the public and reassure them that, however bad things
looked at the moment, Democrats were somehow worse.
My quote searching kung fu has not been sufficient to locate the exact quote,
but I distinctly remember, after Trump won and the MAGA lunacy had kicked the
doors entirely off the lab and were (and are) abroad in the land, hearing one
or more freshly-former Republican ad men or spokescritters -- maybe Michael
Steele, maybe Stuart Steven, maybe Steve Schmidt, but most likely Rick
Wilson --- saying words to the effect that of course they knew
wide swaths of the Republican base were bigots and loons, but that was
irrelevant. Not their department. Their job was to get their guy
elected, period. And to do that they needed to fire the base up enough
to put shoes on, get out of their La-Z-Boys, and get to the polls, all bug-eyed and furious, on election
day. Then shut them back in the basement or attic until next time.
That's how little thought they gave to the toxic waste they were storing in
leaky barrels directly under our democracy. How little thought they gave
to doomsday machine they were building, or to what the consequences would be
if containment failed completely.
And then, one day, Donald Trump showed up, swept right past the respectable
front men and women, the handlers, the ad men, the complicit media and told
they base they didn't have to be ashamed anymore. That it was, in fact,
a great and glorious thing to shout their racism, misogyny, homophobia and
batshit conspiracies from the rooftops.
He shut the containment down.
And that was all it took for the thin, outer shell of Republican
respectability to disintegrate almost overnight. Shown up as the
political equivalent of the "whited sepulchres" of Matthew 23:27 --
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto
whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.”
-- as the real Republican party emerged fully into the
light.
And you'll never guess what? That real, emergent Republican party looks
exactly like the Republican party about which Liberals had been
sounding the alarm for decades, and for which we were dismissed as unserious
kooks and alarmist crackpots. Which is why we all have op-ed columns in all
the major newspaper now, and, when we can get away from our top-rated,
well-funded and heavily promoted podcasts, we try to find time between that
and our book tours to hop on MSNOW where we are tirelessly congratulated for
being right about the Right all along.
Honestly it's too much! You're embarrassing us!
Meanwhile, back in the real world, we come now to the today's object lesson in
containment failure.
Meet Jeremy Carl.
Who is Jeremy Carl?
Great question! This is from one dingy wing of the GOP's policy
abattoir.
Jeremy Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, where his
primary focus is on immigration, multiculturalism, and nationalism in
America.
Prior to joining Claremont, Jeremy worked for a decade as a research
fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, serving as a
policy advisor to many national political figures. While at Hoover, U.S.
Secretary of State George Shultz praised his “mastery of subject matter”
and “ability to write comprehensively and with clarity.”
And right now Jeremy Carl is up for an important job in the United States State
Department. But it looks like maybe he won't get that job. And do
you know why? From The Rolling Stone:
Trump Nominee Crumbles When Pressed on White Nationalist Posts
Jeremy Carl is the president's pick for a top State Department position, but
his confirmation prospects aren't looking good.
Donald Trump last summer nominated Jeremy Carl to lead the Bureau of
International Organizations. It’s a top position in the State Department,
acting as the primary nexus between the U.S. government and several
international organizations like the United Nations, and requires Senate
confirmation. Carl served in Trump’s first administration and is now a
fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. He’s also a
prolific poster with a long history of espousing white nationalism,
antisemitism, solidarity with the Jan. 6 rioters, and other extreme
viewpoints.
Carl sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, which
is weighing whether to confirm him to the key diplomatic position the
president wants him to hold. Senators pressed Carl on his social media
posts. It did not go well.
Here’s one exchange between Carl and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Ct.), for
example:
Murphy: “Tell me how you define white identity and what you think has
been erased about white identity
Carl: “Certain types of, umm, Anglo, uhh, derived culture that comes from
our history…”
Murphy: “Like what?”
Carl: “Umm, let me think about this. Uhhh, you know, senator, I would say
if you were to look at the book by one of your Senate colleagues Born
Fighting about the sort of Scotch-Irish military culture and certain, you
know, pride that went with that, that would be one example. Obviously, you
could have sub-elements of that culture. You could have Italians, you
could have Irish…”
Murphy: “But you’re now retreating to ethnic identity. You don’t speak
about ethnic identity. You speak about white identity. So tell me the
values that stitch together white identity, that make it different than
Black identity.”
Carl: “I would say the white church is very different than the Black
church in terms of its tone and style, on average. Food ways could often
be different. Music could be different.”
Murphy: “And those are being erased?”
Carl: “Well, if you look at the Super Bowl halftime show, which was not
in English…”
Murphy: “Our ability to access white churches or white food or white
music is being erased?”
Carl then said that mass immigration has “Balkanized” what he described
as “common American culture,” that this weakens America and that he won’t
apologize for his comments on the issue...
It goes on and on like this, proving that Jeremy Carl is a ball-less poltroon.
Because if he we are real man -- a real MAGA man -- he would've
gone so much further. Shit, even a half-bright skirt like Bondi showed
way more gonadal firepower than this sorry excuse for a male.
If he was any kind man he would've told the committee to go fuck themselves. Shown them the master race doesn't back down and names will be taken!
He would've told the committee that his white supremacist / Christian
nationalist beliefs were entirely in keeping with those of
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and JD Vance.
He would've told the committee that +77 million patriots had put Donald Trump
and his white supremacist ideology back in office so he could cleanse the
nation of the scum and degenerates who are standing in the way of our national
greatness and Trump's thousand-year Reich.
He would've told the committee that, if they knew what was good for them -- if
they didn't want ICE or worse coming for them and their kids... if they didn't
want the DOJ, the FBI and the IRS up their collective asses, and raining
indictment down on them -- the committee had fucking well better shut up, bend
the knee and do as the Dear Leader commands.
But no, Jeremy Carl didn't do that.
So much for MAGA solidarity. So much for 'WWG1WGA'.
Scandalous! Shameful! And don'tcha just bet this limp dick, soy-boy had a big,
fat Soros check burning a hole in his pocket the entire time he was rolling
over for this so-called committee.
