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Unveiling Hidden Forces

Avatar Culture and the Test-Tube Kids

Several years ago, I threw the term “Avatar Culture” out there. This is a link to a thread I had put together around it, but I never took the time to properly grapple with the idea. And I say properly because I think it could be the most important discussion of our time… Back when I was a kid, we didn’t have the internet. We didn’t have any way to link amongst each other outside of, well, … Read More

Breaking Bottles

Perhaps the most important personal story I feel a desire to share is that of my journey with alcohol. Ironically, I wasn’t much of a drinker as a youth. In an era where getting hammered was the event du jour, I had equally-bad interests but in slightly different directions. Sure, I drank plenty, but I would have laughed at the notion of me becoming an alcoholic… Read More

Change for Change’s Sake

I was engaged with someone on Twitter yesterday who began parroting these lines to me over and over. I was bigotry and hate; he was change and progress. He quickly spoke of me as an immoral monster - the same list of terms you’d think. There is this caricature of a right-winger that embodies everything they’ve been coached to hate. This has slowly been bled out across all of conservatives through propaganda like “MAGA” and wicked words from our media and even president. … Read More

Executing the Constitution

Americans have a very short memory. America has a relatively short history. How quickly we as people seem to have forgotten the very roots that make us who we are. The philosophical foundations that define The American Project; the civics which underpin them. Our great Founders had just come out of a brutal battle for freedom and independence - the very right to create this magnificent project, and live in the beautiful manner it envisioned and prescribed. Walk down the Bill of Rights. … Read More

Ode to America

I’m finding the competing vibes surrounding this 4th of July to be fascinating. Like feeling hot and cold water swirling but still separated. I’ve written a lot lately about the “seam” in this ‘culture war’ of ours. And it is seam; and it is indeed a cultural struggle. In many ways, it is a struggle for the very fabric of who we are. What brought us here; what comprises this magnificent project; what fundamentals and pillars prop the whole thing up; what is the result of an insatiable quest to change? Who are we … Read More

What is “Progress”

Those who have been here a while may have read a previous piece I did about the magical Obama-blessed word of “Progress”. That was one the amorphous mantras that broke the brains of a generation. Why the pursuits of “Change” and “Progress” unbridled and fueled by “Hope” is a wicked cocktail guaranteed to have a bad ending. This is not that piece. Here, I want to hone-in on what “progress” even means in the first place. What inspired me to hop over here from the Bird was … Read More

I’m Not Who You Keep Saying

Nothing is more essentially racist than race essentialism. I’ve been saying that line a lot lately. Because so much of the activism that is branded around “End Racism!” is overtly based on race essentialism - the very base concept of racism itself. This is the curse of postmodernism. And much worse than that, it was then weaponized into all these Racecraft spells (which has now become Hatecraft-politics of all different types and flavors). I had an interaction on the Bird last night … Read More

Controlling Not Just What You Say, but What You Are to Think

We are living in such strange times. We are living in deeply troubling times from my lens. I got inspired to push out this rant coming off thoughts about our broken media which I refer to as The Truman Show. If you haven’t seen that flick, you need to. Once you grasp the concept, you’ll see ‘stars’ falling as cameras all around you. In our era of 24hr IV-in-the-arm mass-media, they can literally curate and broadcast a faux-reality that can completely envelope an individual’s entire life now. From the moment they … Read More

The Coming Collision; the Impending Implosion

I’ve talked so much about coercion and rule (societal herding) by way of the “expert-class”. This reared its head grotesquely during COVID and is now being solidified and documented with Twitter Files. This machine of societal herding, which is really a machine of social-engineering, which is actually a machine built for power retention, massively overplayed its hand during the pandemic. I would have hoped more moderates on the left would have been … Read More

News Reporting as Storytelling

Our current media sphere is so corrupt, subservient and broken. I wrote on here yesterday about the ways in which this “Truman Show”-apparatus controls what we are to think. Our media’s curating and storytelling is the most critical cog in that Machine. I’m sure this has been integral to the press since its invention, but our new era of 24hr IV-in-the-arm mass-media is a game-changer. It really has dragged us into a realm envisioned by minds like Orwell. The most glaring sign of this is how … Read More

Subjective Realities & Weaponized Empathy

The Fallacy of Utopia

The notion of “The Utopia” is a funny thing, for the idea of Utopia is unique to the individual. It's a childish and almost entirely worthless thought; one that disposes with the nature of man. It's possible for someone to dream of their own Utopia, of course. It might even be possible for a single person to construct one. But that's ultimately where the idea crashes into a wall called reality. … Read More

Those Damn(ed) Interns

It took me about a year after I had passed the Bar exam for me to actually be able to practice law. “Character and fitness” and I had gotten into a bit of trouble as a youth. Nothing major and the records had long ago been expunged, but the Florida Bar is nuts and they had made me unseal them (turns out, there were none; paper records and they had been destroyed) even though I told them all of this. Anyhow, this year gap which seemed like unfair torture at the time as all my peers began practicing, ended up being … Read More

The Case of the Crying Girl

The discourse around this video clip has really been something! What I’ve found most fascinating is that the dialogue has now become its own meta-story which has nothing to do with the actual story at all. Quite a microcosm of our time, no? I guess it wouldn’t make sense to write a piece about a video clip without first showing it; however, the thoughts I want to share actually have very little to do with … Read More

Prisms

I was waiting for some deli meat to be cut at Publix today when I saw the most trivial interaction tell such a deep story. The counter had three men; two were probably late 30s and the other in his 70s. Their dynamics first caught my eye because I noticed one of the younger guys tell the older gentleman to change the station and cutter he was on. He was clearly the boss; and these two clearly had some tension. I could tell Bossman was not a fan of his cohort, and … Read More

Web of Lies

I tried to write a thread on Twitter a year or so back, but it just wouldn’t come out right. I even began a second one, but it wasn’t presenting what I had in my mind and the choppy format of Twitter (and my addiction to linking threads) just couldn’t get it to land right. So I am going to try again here in long-form as I believe it is something we need to be talking about, because it foreshadows something really bad ahead… Read More

What is MAGA

“MAGA” is such a clear example of the brainwashing that has taken place. This individual showed up under one of my posts on Twitter yesterday and started giving the business to people in the comments. It was all just canned MAGA this and MAGA that, the same pictures of January 6th over and over, etc. I asked her to define “MAGA” and of course she couldn’t. Because “MAGA” is nothing more than a transparent attempt to

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The Perversion of Morality

The current leftist push is fueled almost entirely by emotion. The way it built the “will to obey” was by weaponizing that emotion. This is why it’s so tailor-made for our “bleeding hearts”. The vehicle for that became moralizing; a sense of self-righteousness on steroids. But I'm going to get into that all in a long piece I have bouncing around my mind. Here's where I'm going with this … Read More

Who Doesn’t Want to Wear the Ribbon

It's so gross how our sanctimonious left is manufacturing sports into another moralizing engine. You won't find too many leftists in sports jerseys, and there's a reason for that. Sports is the ultimate uniter. It erases boundaries that identity ideologues require like vitamins. … Read More

Election Denial, What do we do with it?

This notion of “election-denial” is quickly becoming all-consuming. I use that term generically here to mean all kinds of “They cheated!”/”Not my President!”-stuff which shares the same goal of denying election results. I was thinking today in the shower (because that’s how weird my mind is that it’s running through shit like this while I’m shampooing my hair) of what we do about it because it’s become so ravenous and is spreading to all camps in many different forms. … Read More

POP!

The Truman Show bubble has burst! These elections results have changed everything. Nothing more than dispelling the forever-myth of an electoral mandate, a “Moral Majority”. The ruse is over now. The American people are back! … Read More

Cultural Commentary

Humanity

In my late-20’s, I was floundering professionally and working at a small for-profit college which, for some inexplicable reason, had a tiny international ‘wing’. By that I mean they were bringing some kids from overseas and taking their money, but really had no infrastructure waiting for them when they arrived. This project was basically thrown on my lap when another guy resigned. I was new and eager to help and took it on without any clue what I was getting into. … Read More

Transcendence of Sports: Part I

It began with a short crossing route to #6. Santana Moss snatches the tough grab and uses his quickness to dash 17 yards and out of bounds. That’s it! That’s all it takes. One chunk at a time. I shouldn’t have felt this optimism; the previous score was soul-crushing and I knew this hurt all too well. But for some reason it felt different. I remained locked-in, like I just knew there was another chapter to this tale. Shockey picks up 5 and stops the clock. Like that. … Read More

St. Augustine Vibes

I spent today in my favorite town in America. It's where I spend most Sundays as my wife is a devout Catholic and we're raising our children under the faith. This is the oldest Catholic parish in America. Where Catholicism first set down on our soil. St. Augustine is walking, breathing history. It never lost its sense of it. Like it froze in time as time moved on around it. Our preist this morning gave a righteous homily! I was almost surprised at the level of fire. It was really a call to duty … Read More

We Should Tend to Our Children Like a Garden

Be a parent, not a friend. These are very different functions. Your child will have many friends, but they’ll only have two parents. It is a unique role and it’s meant to be. It's not designed to be all fun and peaches and cream; it starts out with wiping poop. But all that tending, all that holding, yes even those moments of discipline and instilling structure, serve to build that unique bond. It is the foundation from which your special bond is constructed and gets its tremendous influence. … Read More

Thoughts from the Chair

I’m sitting in a chair in a dark room as I write this. I’ve spent a lot of time on this chair, though not always in this room. My little guy is laying next to me, rocking back and forth as he's always done to soothe himself, but now in a big-boy bed. He used to be to my right on this chair. Before that he was on my chest. Before that it was his sister. I held him like that a few weeks ago. He had pulled a lid off a sippy-cup the day before and made a huge mess, so I had given him … Read More

Thoughts from the chair: Letting go too fast

I've written before how much these dark and quiet times mean to me. How much they've changed me; how they were meant to. I'm writing this from that chair, my boy rocking back and forth again. I remember the day we bought this chair and the story behind it. I remember all the time (and money) we spent at Buy Buy Baby (thank goodness we didn’t succumb to the bizarre pressure to get The Chair from Pottery Barn Kids. That cost 4x the one I’m rocking on … Read More

Lions in a great time of need

I know our society has grown sick with the need to politicize tragedy, but I have to feed those flames here. I had a rattling (and tragically, representative) experience this morning. I left my house in a nice suit to attend Mass and an awards ceremony. I ended up standing guard while a police convoy escorted those same children from church back to their school. In the blink of an eye! … Read More

Local Renaissance

A string quartet on hallowed musical grounds. Coldplay by candlelight. My wife came to me out of the blue a few months back and showed me this cool show she had found in downtown Jax. It was an orchestra by candlelight doing modern tunes like Ed Sheeran, Adele, Coldplay, Taylor Swift. This is why I dig her! ;-) When we met in Miami, she would rather go to the small cozy jazz bar on South Beach than the big trendy loud club. I was good with both worlds, but was … Read More

Beyond the Headlines

Lawless zone in Atlanta

Did you know leftist radicals with ties to Antifa have another lawless zone outside of Atlanta, have been arrested for domestic terrorism there, attacking police for months and today shot one? It’s wild my headline could be true, but it is. It’s not even exaggerated. This is yet another of the endless stories that you won’t hear much about on mainstream news channels. When you do, you’ll have a hard time understanding what is going on because they’re only giving you a sliver of the story … Read More

Caught Red-Handed

There have been so many boogeyman throughout COVID. One of the most persistent has been the monster known as “COVID Heart”. From the very beginning of this pandemic, we have been led to believe (in absolute terms) that SARS-CoV-2 presents some novel risk of heart damage from corollary impact. Importantly, we’ve known for decades that viral exposure can cause corollary impacts such as myocarditis/pericarditis (inflammation of heart muscle vs outer lining; however … Read More

Andy Slavitt: Dirtiest Player

The level of corruption being revealed within our federal apparatus across various fronts is mind-blowing. The more rocks we turn over, the more we find. Mind you, this one is Facebook and not Twitter … True to my title, Andy Slavitt has been a filthy figure in this all. If you’ve followed him on Twitter, you know well his revolting tweets that dripped with sanctimony. And shots. With Andy it is … Read More

Some Thoughts After Today’s Twitter Files

Man, where to even begin. Twitter put tape over my mouth again today, so I haven’t been able to do my usual rantings. So much bouncing around the brain after Taibbi's two-pack of Twitter Files. It’s an endless cavern of brain fodder! I felt like sharing some thoughts, but I don’t at all feel like “writing a piece". So I'm just going to ramble here… The thing that jumped out at me most was “collusion". … Read More

Receipts: Case File #1: Race-based admissions

The title itself screams of an Equal Protection violation. For those new to the Constitutional party, the 14th Amendment mandates that:

“No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Simple enough, right? Not so fast! This clause has been … Read More

Queer+/Equity Revolution

What is GLSEN

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about GLSEN the last few weeks. They are the organization that Target heavily supports and very proudly supports and plans to continue supporting even though it’s a large part of the current blowback they are under. GLSEN is a Queer+ activism group heavily funded by big corporate which has pervaded our education apparatus. ← That’s precisely what is was built to do though; that sentence could serve as GLSEN’s mission statement. … Read More

Why I Despise “Pride”

I just experienced something that gave me the perfect lens to explain why I have such disdain for the entire notion of “Pride”. I have a 10 year old daughter, who I have talked about many times before. She was my first and is my angel. Daddy’s little girl. Much of what I write and speak about has been crafted through the intense love I have for her and the innate fiery desire to protect her. Having children of my own has truly made me see all of life differently. … Read More

What is the Nexus Here

There is a massive disconnect taking place within this “parental rights” discussion. That topic is almost entirely focused on the context of schools. Should parents have control over what is being taught in our public-schools, or is this the purview of the state? The spark for this discourse today was this disgusting article from a writer who, of course, is riddled with daddy issues and childless (she calls her cats “the kids”): Schools are the topic here, almost in whole. And yet, so frequently when I talk to people on the center-left about this issue … Read More

Gender Theory/Trans Activism, it Fails at the First Step

I've spent a lot of time in the past discussing the critical difference between gender theory (the engine underlying trans activism) and gender dysphoria. The difference in these concepts is central to every aspect of trans activism; that being, the social and political activism push to mainstream gender theory and codify transgender rights into law. Gender dysphoria, as I'm sure all know, is a mental-health condition we diagnosed long ago, which has remained … Read More

The Whittling of Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5

The DSM-5 is the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is the accepted Bible of the psychiatric world. It wasn’t that long ago when gender dysphoria was spoken to in the Manual in the same manner as many other mental-health disorders such as anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder, limb dysphoria, etc. That’s when the Manual spoke to medicine and science, before it was usurped by ideologues and turned into a vehicle for … Read More

Gender Rant

I was thinking about the words that got me sent off to the Twitter clink again. “Hateful conduct”. GTFO! I stated that transgender means a person with gender dysphoria (fact) which is a known and diagnosed mental disorder (fact) - one that is currently in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (also a fact). That’s it. That’s the tweet. The one that I now have to delete or I likely never get to post on Twitter again. … Read More

It’s Time to Abandon Pride

And so we have reached the societal moment where “Pride” must either be abandoned or destroyed. Those are the only two options, and for now they both exist. I’ve been putting a ton of juice this week into trying to help the former prevail, because eventually it will be too late for anything but the latter. Eventually the orcs will come do what needs to be done. And if civil society continues remaining derelict of duty, continues turning away from clear wrong in the name of … Read More

The Blueprint for Leftist Revolution

If you’ve never read the thread from Josh Daws linked below, you need to. It is one of the most extraordinary attempts I’ve come across at making sense of what otherwise seems insane. All of these various topics that should have nothing to do with each other (race, gender, sexuality, climate, globalism, etc.) all get blended into what I refer to as “The Same Thing”-ideology. They go in one side of this ideological sausage-grinder as apples and oranges, but only one product comes out the other side. … Read More

Scripture from an Atheist

I just had this lightbulb go off in my head and I want to share it. It's not really a new thought, but more of previous thought channels finding a new connection. I just watched Tucker Carlson's eighth episode on Twitter. It was heavy! I commented on the Bird that his 5min clip had drilled right into the heart of the culture war. I then went to grab a thread I wrote the other day to drop below it and read a few things in the process that kind of froze my mind in its tracks. … Read More

“I Will Happily Talk With Your Autistic Children About Masturbation”

If you’re wondering if the above is real or if it’s possibly just exaggerated Twitter-stuff to get a rise out of the anti-woke, unfortunately, I can confirm it is all too real. And the more you dig, the deeper it goes… Dylan Kapit: Disability Inclusion in Sex Ed. is beneficial for everyone … Read More

The Rotten Fruits of Equity

I had ESPN’s First Take playing in the background at my office. (That’s probably it’s own issue worth discussing, but not for now.) I overheard commentary from the female guest that was on which caught my mind enough I focused in on it. I watched a bit more of the show (until Stephen A. Smith’s performative buffoonery made me remember why I don’t watch that show) and was really impressed by her analysis. So much so, it led to a waterfall of thoughts … Read More