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How Come It Took So Long?
So Treasury Secretary Bessent just talked about cracking down on the funding of the Left’s Mostly Peaceful Protest Complex.
Nonprofits who give out grants to groups who commit violence will be tracked and likely DEFUNDED
I want you to know that I am shocked, shocked that left wing non-profits have been funding political violence.
Tell me it ain’t so, Joe.
I gotta say: how come it took you so long?
OK, we know why. If you are a left-wing billionaire or just a common-or-garden trust-fund baby, it’s been a great ride. You slosh out money to left-wing activist groups like CODE PINK and AntiFa and all the various UniCauses and the send Renee Good and Alex Pretti into the streets with your money cosplaying helpless victims protesting injustice. How cool is that.
Especially when you remember that present day rich kids enjoying the fruits of their fathers have a particular interest in hindering the rise of a new generation whose creative ideas may create billions in wealth and shrink the scope and prestige of your old-time centi-millions.
Yes, folks, don’t forget that a lot of regulation and political administration are not really about protecting the powerless but about preserving the status-quo privileges and the the hegemony of the present elite and putting the brakes on the next generation of economic creativity.
Only it’s much better — and even believable! — to present your selfish agenda as the selfless and compassionate fight to save the oppressed from the oppressors.
So if Treasury Secretary Bessent’s bloodhounds are now going to be burrowing around in the Form 990s of the best and brightest NGOs in the land…
Well, what is a patriotic citizen to do but say: it’s about time.
The fun will be reading all the lefty activists and their bribed apologists in the regime media as they gussie up narratives to show that Bessent’s actions mean the end of “our democracy” and life as we know it.
Of course, they will be right. The current regime relies and depends on the government not noticing that, by funding “mostly peaceful” protests they doing the equivalent of funding what used to be called “armed insurrection” when J6 protesters did it.
The “tell” is, of course, that our lefty friends just don’t see left-wing violence as a problem. Of course they don’t, because the effect of today’s left-wing violence is to support the current regime in its fight to prevent the rise of populist nationalism and the eventual replacement of the current regime that maintains the dominance and hegemony of the global educated class.
Sorry, trust-fund kidz. Most likely all you will do is slow the ascent of populist nationalism and increase the size of the end-of-regime butcher’s bill.
| Fri, 29 May 2026 21:19:34 GMT |
RINOs: What is Left for Them
I gotta say, reading the after-action reports on the Cornyn defeat, that I don’t really get it. I don’t really get why the GOP leadership in the Senate is so reluctant to go MAGA. And I don’t really understand why Sen. Cornyn would have gone with a bipartisan gun control bill back in the day.
I would have thought that, any Republican with half a brain would demand a king’s ransom from his Democratic friends in return for any teeny-weeny bill advancing the Democrats’ gun control agenda.
I would have thought that Majority Leader Thune would be extracting all kinds of concessions from Democrats for every hour that he kept the SAVE Act off the floor of the Senate.
Instead it seems that Thune is reluctant to put his GOP colleagues like Alaska Sen Murkowski and Maine Sen. Collins on the spot. Really? For a bill that has over 80 percent support from the American people, and even a majority of Democrats? I don’t get it.
Unless. Unless Thune & Co. are really living in a DC bubble. Or — and surely this cannot be true — the IC knows too much about every public figure in Washington for anyone to dare to step out of line. Maybe each of them have $40 million in gold bars stashed away like that CIA chappie. After all, why should the CIA get all the goodies?
Maybe it’s simple as wanting to stay in the middle and not get led into that terrifying wilderness inhabited by hard-right extremists.
But then it seems pretty clear to me that Sen. Schumer, although he would like to be more moderate, knows that he has to go left-wing to keep his Minority Leader position.
So Schumer has to shift left and Thune can’t shift right? It just does not compute for me.
Maybe I’m too naive. Maybe it’s just not obvious to the Beltway crowd that the middle-class populist movement is not just Trump but an organic movement that goes back at least to Nixon’s Silent Majority, and getting stronger with every iteration.
After all, the Euros are beside themselves with the populist nationalists from Britland to Hungary.
And I would think that all the political big game hunters in the US would have seen, for a decade or two at least, that the Democrats are utterly compromised by their terminally corrupt and hard-far-left-woke NGO Industrial Complex.
And yet it took a nobody like Nick Shirley to mainstream the whole Somali fraud thing and get the Vice President to head up a fraud committee.
But how could I get it and Nick Shirley could get it and they don’t? I’m just an amateur; they are the professionals “in the arena.”
Un bel di, vedremo. One fine day, we’ll see the man behind the curtain. But that day is not yet.
| Fri, 29 May 2026 02:31:44 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Nietzsche: I philosophize with a hammer. Me: No, Fritzi; you philosophize with the one-liner.
Information is surprise — George Gilder, after Claude Shannon
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: Plato
