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Dining & Cooking<p>Southern with a French Twist creates dinner table connections in Central Texas <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1990625/southern-with-a-french-twist-creates-dinner-table-connections-in-central-texas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/1990625/s</span><span class="invisible">outhern-with-a-french-twist-creates-dinner-table-connections-in-central-texas/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/AshleyOlsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AshleyOlsen</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austin</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Buda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buda</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/CanyonLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanyonLake</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/CentralTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralTexas</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dining</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dinner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinner</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/francais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>francais</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FrenchCuisine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchCuisine</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FrenchDinner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchDinner</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/HillCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HillCountry</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kyle</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/NewBraunfels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewBraunfels</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/PersonalChef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalChef</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/PrivateDinnerParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateDinnerParty</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SanAntonio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanAntonio</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SanMarcos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SanMarcos</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SouthernCuisine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernCuisine</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SouthernWithAFrenchTwist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernWithAFrenchTwist</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wimberley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wimberley</span></a></p>
RAWCHILI<p>Syracuse Orange football: Kyle McCord reflects on last season, gives NCAA waiver update in recent interview <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/4142877/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rawchili.com/4142877/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/absolute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>absolute</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/an" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>an</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrontPage</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/gives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gives</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/IN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IN</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interview</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/is" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>is</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/last" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>last</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/magician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magician</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/mccord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mccord</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ncaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ncaa</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NcaaFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NcaaFootball</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NCAAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NCAAF</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/nunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nunes</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/On" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>On</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/orange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orange</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/recent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recent</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/reflects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reflects</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Season" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Season</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/syracuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syracuse</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/SyracuseFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SyracuseFootball</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/troy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>troy</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/UPDATE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UPDATE</span></a>: <a href="https://channels.im/tags/waiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waiver</span></a></p>
TrumpKatz: Israel To Begin Annexing Gaza The Defense Minister explained that Israel will begin seizing...<br><br><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/katz-israel-to-begin-annexing-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.activistpost.com/katz-israel-to-begin-annexing-gaza/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" target="_blank">#Empire</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antiwar.com" target="_blank">#Antiwar.com</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kyle" target="_blank">#Kyle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anzalone" target="_blank">#Anzalone</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=J7r923SDJoi8t0QYcj5TEZfWmP2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
TrumpKatz: Israel To Begin Annexing Gaza The Defense Minister explained that Israel will begin seizing...<br><br><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/katz-israel-to-begin-annexing-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.activistpost.com/katz-israel-to-begin-annexing-gaza/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" target="_blank">#Empire</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antiwar.com" target="_blank">#Antiwar.com</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kyle" target="_blank">#Kyle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anzalone" target="_blank">#Anzalone</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=HLJTVIHNfJB079tRu1BvmyWxh0i" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
Bytes Europe<p>Kyle Alessandro – Norway’s Eurovision representative with a soft spot for Fuengirola <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/778272/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/778272/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/alessandro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alessandro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/connection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>connection</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/eurovision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eurovision</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/fuengirola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fuengirola</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/have" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>have</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kyle</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/malaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malaga</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/norwegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>norwegian</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/representative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>representative</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/roots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roots</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/strong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strong</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/the" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>the</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>with</span></a></p>
PhillipeSudDuMonde :verified:<p><a href="https://lile.cl/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyle</span></a> 💜🥹</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Acquitted killer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a> announced he would not be supporting Donald Trump’s attempt to return to the White House <br />– but ultimately ended up politically endorsing him anyway <br />after he was inundated with <a href="https://c.im/tags/vitriolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vitriolic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/messages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>messages</span></a> from the former president’s followers.</p><p>The flip-flop by Rittenhouse <br />– who has fashioned himself as a <a href="https://c.im/tags/gun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gun</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rights</span></a> activist after shooting two people to death in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during racial justice protests there in 2020 <br />– followed an initial pledge to write in former congressman Ron Paul as his choice on November’s presidential election ballot.</p><p>In a video posted on the social media platform X, Rittenhouse argued that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> had a “bad” record with respect to gun rights <br />and explained he would instead back Paul.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/kyle-rittenhouse-trump-endorsement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/aug/03/kyle-rittenhouse-trump-endorsement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The next morning, <br />wrecked, <br />I put on sweatpants and a hoodie <br />and tried to smuggle myself out of the hotel without having to talk to anyone.</p><p> I gave my chit to the valet and looked around to find Vance and Yarvin standing there waiting for cars. </p><p>“How do you guys feel?” Yarvin asked. </p><p>Vance was wearing a hoodie too and looked like I felt. <br />“I feel horrible,” he said. <br />“Not good.”</p><p>Yarvin asked what I’d thought of everything. </p><p>I said it would take a long time for me to figure that out. </p><p>We all shook hands, <br />and they waved as I got into my car and we all resumed our usual battle stations in the American info-wars.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unabomber</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaczynski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kaczynski</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dasha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dasha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nekrasova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nekrasova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Coinbase</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Koch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Milo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Milo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yiannopoulis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yiannopoulis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Steve</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bannon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRx</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RAGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RAGE</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monarchy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decentralized</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lydia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lydia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laurenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laurenson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BDSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BDSM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mencius" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mencius</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moldbug" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Moldbug</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thielverse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cruz</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Josh</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hawley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Masters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rod</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dreher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Walter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kirn</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>worldview</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dystopian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" 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Chuck Darwin<p>“We are in a late republican period,” <br />Vance said later, <br />evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. </p><p>“If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, <br />and pretty far out there, <br />and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”</p><p>“Indeed,” Murphy said. “Among some of my circle, the phrase ‘extra-constitutional’ has come up quite a bit.”</p><p>I’d asked Vance to tell me, on the record, what he’d like liberal Americans who thought that what he was proposing was a fascist takeover of America to understand.</p><p>He spoke earnestly. “I think the cultural world you operate in is incredibly biased,” he said<br />—against his movement and “the leaders of it, <br />like me in particular.” </p><p>He encouraged me to resist this tendency, which he thought was the product of a media machine leading us toward a soulless dystopia that none of us want to live in. </p><p>“That impulse,” he said,<br /> “is fundamentally in service of something that is far worse than anything, <br />in your wildest nightmares, <br />than what you see here.”</p><p>He gave me an imploring look, <br />as though to suggest that he was more on the side of the kind of people who read Vanity Fair than most of you realize.</p><p>If what he was doing worked, he said, <br />“it will mean that my son grows up in a world where his masculinity<br />—his support of his family and his community, <br />his love of his community<br />—is more important than whether it works for fucking McKinsey.”</p><p>At that, we called it, <br />and the crowd of young men who wanted to talk to him immediately descended on the couches. </p><p>People kept bringing drinks, and there was a lot of shit talk, and it went on late. </p><p>I remember thinking at one point how strange it was that in our mid-30s <br />Vance and I were significantly older than almost everyone there, <br />all of whom 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Chuck Darwin<p>Yarvin and Laurenson bounded out of the crowd as the cheers were still ringing. </p><p>They were giggling, seeming to have had some wine. </p><p>“Nixon—Nixon!”Laurenson said, <br />still laughing. </p><p>I couldn’t tell if she was delighted or horrified.</p><p>A couple of hours later I found Vance standing up by the bar, <br />surrounded by a circle of young and identical-looking fanboys. </p><p>I went over. He asked what I’d thought of the speech, and he suggested we find somewhere to talk.</p><p>He asked me to turn my recorder off so we could speak candidly. </p><p>I agreed, with regret, because the conversation revealed someone who I think will be hugely influential in our politics in the coming years, <br />even if he loses his Senate primary, <br />as both of us thought was possible.</p><p>It also revealed someone who is in a dark place, <br />with a view that we are at an ominous turning point in America’s history. </p><p>He didn’t want to describe this to me on the record. </p><p>But I can show it anyway, because he already says it publicly, and you can hear it too.</p><p>That night, I went up to my hotel room and listened to a podcast interview Vance had conducted with Jack Murphy, <br />the big, bearded head of the &quot;Liminal Order&quot; men’s group. </p><p>Murphy asked how it was that Vance proposed to rip out America’s leadership class.</p><p>Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine<br />—that our system will either fall apart naturally, <br />or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers.</p><p>“So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things,” Vance said. </p><p>Murphy chortled knowingly. </p><p>“So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. </p><p>“And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order.</p><p>He said he thought this was pessimistic. </p><p>“I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said.<br /> “And turn them against the left. </p><p>We need like a <br />de-Baathification program, <br />a de-woke-ification program.”</p><p>I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. </p><p>“I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: </p><p>Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, </p><p>replace them with our people.”</p><p>“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say<br />—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order<br />—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”</p><p>This is a description, essentially, of a coup.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unabomber</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaczynski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kaczynski</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dasha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dasha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nekrasova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nekrasova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" 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Chuck Darwin<p>On the last afternoon of NatCon, <br />a few hours before he was set to give the keynote address, <br />Vance showed up. </p><p>He spotted me drinking a beer at the bar and came over to say hello. </p><p>“I still have no idea what I’m going to say,” he said, though he didn’t seem worried.</p><p>I wandered down to the ballroom to wait and ended up sitting with the U.S. correspondent for the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. </p><p>I knew that some of the reporters there might have been under the impression that this was all mostly just tweedy MAGA pageantry. </p><p>He had a more complex view, having just spoken to Yarvin, <br />and asked me to explain his philosophy. </p><p>I found myself at a loss. <br />I said that there were these things called the regime and the Cathedral and that Yarvin was “sort of a monarchist.”</p><p>“A monarchist?”he asked. </p><p>He seemed taken aback to learn that what this hero figure of the New Right dreamed of was a king.</p><p>Vance showed up, wearing a suit and bright red tie, <br />looking relaxed for a person who was about to give a speech to hundreds of people who viewed him as possibly a last great hope in saving the American nation from global corporatist subjugation. </p><p>He’d shot up in the polls and at that moment was second in his primary, helped by regular invitations from Carlson.</p><p>I asked how he was feeling about the speech. He looked impish. “I think I’ve got a good topic,” he said. “I’m going to talk about college.”</p><p>What he meant was that he was about to give a genuinely thunderous speech, titled <br />“The Universities Are the Enemy.” </p><p>People immediately pointed out that it was a variation on something that Richard Nixon said to Henry Kissinger on White House tapes back in 1972. </p><p>Vance denounced elite colleges as enemies of the American people; </p><p>he has long proposed cutting off their federal funding and seizing their endowments. </p><p>The speech was later linked in alarmed <br />op-eds to “anti-intellectual” movements that had attacked institutions of learning. </p><p>But that doesn’t quite reckon with what an apocalyptic message he was offering. </p><p>Because Vance and this New Right cohort, who are mostly so, so highly educated and well-read that their big problem often seems to be that they’re just too nerdy to be an effective force in mass politics, <br />are not anti-intellectual. </p><p>Vance is an intellectual himself, even if he’s not currently playing one on TV. </p><p>But he thinks that our universities are full of people who have a structural, <br />self-serving, and <br />financial interest in coloring American culture as racist and evil. </p><p>And he is ready to go to extraordinary lengths to fight them.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unabomber</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaczynski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kaczynski</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dasha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dasha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nekrasova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nekrasova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention 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href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>libertarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kook</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>We drove a long way into the desert before we arrived at the campaign meet-and-greet, <br />which was being hosted by a former CIA official in a comfortable retirement community. </p><p>The crowd of a few dozen was mostly sweater-wearing retirees, <br />immersed in a media culture in which the people who repeated the most incendiary and Trumpist talking points tended to gain attention and political support. </p><p>This kind of groupthink was not just a phenomenon of the liberal media, <br />and this fact has hampered the campaigns of both Masters and Vance, <br />who are often seen as Trump-aligned culture warriors, <br />and who have had a lot of trouble working their more complicated policy ideas into our fervid political conversation. </p><p>He talked through his proposal to regulate tech companies as common carriers, <br />like America once regulated phone companies. </p><p>The crowd seemed interested but hardly electrified. </p><p>When he took questions at the end, they were mostly the usual ones about the supposedly stolen 2020 election<br />—a view that Masters did not push back on<br />—the border wall, <br />vaccine mandates. </p><p>One man raised his hand to ask how Masters planned to drain the swamp. </p><p>He gave me a sly look. “Well, one of my friends has this acronym he calls RAGE,” he said. </p><p>“Retire All Government Employees.” </p><p>The crowd liked the sound of this and erupted in a cheer.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unabomber</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaczynski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kaczynski</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dasha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dasha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nekrasova" class="mention 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href="https://c.im/tags/RAGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RAGE</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monarchy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decentralized</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lydia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lydia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laurenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laurenson</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BDSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BDSM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mencius" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mencius</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moldbug" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Moldbug</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thielverse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cruz</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Josh</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hawley</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Masters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rod" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rod</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dreher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Walter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Walter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kirn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kirn</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/worldview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>worldview</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dystopian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NatCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NatCon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thielbucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thielbucks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Masters</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Foundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Foundation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/New" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>New</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Curtis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/incels" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>incels</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Josh" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Josh</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hammer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anton</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arnade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arnade</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sohrab" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sohrab</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ahmari" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ahmari</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Compact" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Compact</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>libertine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>left</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>libertarian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>right</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/kook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kook</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>I asked Masters whether he thought the core of his project was a fight against a consumerist <br />techno-dystopia that many on the left have also come to fear. </p><p>He said yes. </p><p>I asked why, if this was the case, it almost never came across in his mainstream media appearances. </p><p>“That’s interesting feedback,” he said. “That it’s not coming through.”</p><p>“I go on, and it’s the tail end of the B block, and I’ve got two minutes to talk about <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rittenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rittenhouse</span></a>,” he’d said earlier, </p><p>talking about his spots on Fox News. </p><p>“And it’s like, ‘Well, the left is insane, and this kid shouldn’t have been on trial, <br />and they’re punishing him for being a white guy who defended himself with an AR-15.’ ” </p><p>Conservative media seems to thrive on culture-war touch points as much as all the rest of it. </p><p>“I feel like I’m willing to go there,” he said. </p><p>“But you can’t do that on Laura Ingraham sound bites.”</p><p>He was a little less rosy about the future with some interviewers than he was with me. </p><p>“We need someone with their hand on the tiller who understands where we’ve been and where we need to go,” he told the podcaster Alex Kaschuta recently. </p><p>“Otherwise we will get just totally owned by the progressive left. </p><p>And the progressive left just remains the enemy. </p><p>It’s the enemy of true progress. It’s the enemy of everything that is good.”</p><p>I asked if he could give me a vision of what he thought victory for his side would look like.</p><p>“It’s just families and meaningful work,” he said, <br />“so that you can raise your kids and worship and pursue your hobbies and figure out what the meaning of it all is.” </p><p>Pretty much anyone could agree with this. And pretty much anyone could wonder how it is that this sort of thing has come to seem radical, <br />or distant from the lives of many people growing into adulthood today. </p><p>“It just feels so networked,” he said. “It’s so in-the-matrix.”</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Unabomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Unabomber</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kaczynski" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kaczynski</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dasha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dasha</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nekrasova" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nekrasova</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thiel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Balaji" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Balaji</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Srinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Srinivasan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" 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Kyle Hackney<p>Kyle Hackney</p><p>Website: <a href="http://www.kylehackneysandiego.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">kylehackneysandiego.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Kyle Hackney of San Diego blogs about entrepreneurial pursuits and modern operations management practices.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kyle</span></a> Hackney San Diego</p>