Raging Papist

No matter what comes, and a lot may be coming, above all do this: Stay loyal to Christ, and His Church. I believe in One. Holy. Catholic. and apostolic Church.

Trump may be gearing up for a renewed round of attaqs on Iran or he may overthrow the government of Cuba or he may do both or he may ... just drink a diet coke and enjoy the long weekend.

"Christ is king" or "Noticer"

@JColeSTX @willchamberlain Exactly. Politics is "the swamp". So, you just neutered yourself. Have fun.

@RagingPapist @willchamberlain Hahahaha. You mean. The swamp. That’s the swamp you’re talking about. 😂😂😂

I was mistaken. Not about Massie getting shellacked - that happened - but about the idea that his loss would be a wake-up call

@rightwingnutrs Wr have to evolve beyond our pet issues. Am easy way to do this is to just be a Trump loyalist. If he is good on your pet issue, just trust him on the rest.

One of the problems I’ve noticed on the right since I was young is that so much of the right has a pet issue and they can’t see the forest for the trees. 2A obsessives only see things through the lens of “gun rights” and little else. This is why you’ll see these people defending illegals with guns. No concept that gun rights are part of a whole ecosystem you have to support.

Its not just the pro-life movement. This is also Ann Colter and other people or groups who were outsiders, and are resentful that they aren't special anymore or raking in money. That's the tragedy. These people and groups were influential to us, but didn't believe their own messaging.

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@ChristianHeiens There's no escaping politics. They just are what they are. When you disengage from politics, you give up any say you have. Good reflections.

A lot of people are asking why the "Libertarian moment" failed to materialize. Here are my thoughts, as a former Libertarian myself. About ten years ago, there was an expectation, certainly within libertarian circles but across the Right at large, that the future of "Conservatism" in the US would be Libertarianism. There was this belief that the GOP would become a vehicle for libertarian philosophy and that the Right as a whole would be moving in a far more libertarian direction. The Tea Party movement, Ron Paul's presidential bids, the prospect of a future Rand Paul bid, and old Reagan quotes about how the essence of conservatism is libertarianism were all in vogue if you were involved in any sort of Right-wing politics in America. There really was this feeling that the old Reaganite fusion was exhausted and the Iraq era had discredited Neoconservatism. Meanwhile, the 2008 crash, coupled with the managerialism of the Obama presidency, had radicalized a bunch of young men into rejecting what they saw as the establishment narratives of both parties. For a 20-something-year-old guy, being able to proudly say that he hated both Bush and Obama felt incredibly liberating. Ron Paul's two presidential runs, and the prospect of a third and potentially more successful one from Rand, promised to herald in a new era for American politics. Libertarianism also seemed like a great diffuser of the insidious social Progressivism that was beginning to creep into all mainstream institutions. The Great Awokening was just in its beginning stages, and at the time there seemed to be absolutely no response to the Progressive agitprop that was gaining traction on the Left. We understood that these "social movements" were all pulling in the same direction, but no one had any idea how to address them because they were about as intense as they were insane. Libertarianism seemed to offer a great response. Do nothing. I'm serious. There was this expectation that we could completely sidestep the Great Awokening and nip the entire thing in its bud by adopting a "You do you" approach. By pretending like social or cultural issues didn't matter, or in some cases, that Progressives were actually in the right on them, Libertarianism offered an avenue for the Right to seemingly take off the table an entire revolutionary movement that we all thought was driving young millennials (who were still in their teens and early 20s) into identifying as Democrats or Socialists or even Communists. "I don't care about the culture war. I want gay married couples to be able to adopt and protect their marijuana operation that's going on in the basement of their private property with AR-15s, and I want to abolish the income taxes they make on it, too." But when this tactic was put into practice, it never seemed to work. I remember in my old libertarian days over a decade ago, having conversations with Leftists my age in high school and college, and it was always disappointing. It's like I kept trying to win them over and explain I was on their side and that they just needed to understand that wealth redistribution and socialism were bad policies, but that we were both "social liberals" who wanted the same thing. I just wanted them to be rich on top of it all. And for some reason, it just never worked. At the time, I didn't understand why. But I do now. Libertarianism offered the possibility of escaping politics itself while still being political. You could tell someone that you didn't care about their lifestyle, worldview, theology, or culture, and still plausibly make the case for why they should vote for you and implement your policies, because your policies were all about transcending conflict rather than confronting it. Libertarianism offered the illusion of a sophisticated ideology for adults who had outgrown the tribal passions of the past. But that's exactly why it failed. It was always operating like a parasite on an older order that it didn't create and couldn't defend, but few of us could see it at the time because of the nature of the world around us. But that world, like the Bushite one before it, died. Mass migration and open borders actually changed the visual landscape of America in a way that was far more abrupt than the gradual changes of decades earlier. The Great Awokening, which Libertarianism offered to neutralize with its "live and let live" attitude, ended up devouring everything around it until people could no longer ignore it. The economic situation, which Libertarianism had such elegant solutions for as the centerpiece of its entire worldview, actually ended up being far more complex than the activists ever expected. America's massive twin fiscal and trade deficits, endless QE, zero interest rate environment, and the hollowing out of the Rust Belt all coincided with the rise of managerial credentialism, the professional laptop class, and the adoption of Progressivism as the civic religion of every institution and profession that seemed to be benefiting from these very policies. "Social Justice Warrior" and "Rich Liberal" became synonymous with all the institutions that had betrayed America. This created a rebellion, as Libertarians expected, but the moment Trump arrived, he revealed that the overwhelming majority of those rebels were not interested in smaller government in the abstract. They were looking for a government that would fight for them. They had felt betrayed, humiliated, forgotten, and denigrated. They believed, correctly, that they were losing their country. They had a deep resentment of our oikophobic ruling class and their wacky social views that seemed to always pop up whenever core elements of their way of life were about to be torn away from them. And once those things came to the surface, the "Libertarian moment" was essentially dead because it had no satisfying answer to the actual question being asked, which wasn't "how to balance the budget?" or "what procedural railguards can we set up to protect Americans from warrantless wiretapping?" It was “Who rules, in whose interest, and can we do anything to stop our dispossession at the hands of people who openly hate us?” The Libertarian moment failed because it had no answer to this question, which has essentially been the foundation of all of American politics since Obama's second term. It's a political ideology that wants to escape politics itself, and the moment politics became more than just a complicated math problem and instead was about which vision of civilization would prevail, the entire premise disintegrated.

@JadeAtrophis Nailed it.

In a sense, but not quite. What they've done is taken anything that has the *potential* to lead to illicit disordered sexual desire (lust) as something to be avoided. Which just so happens to include that, along with many other normal relationship forms of affection

@EmeraldRobinson The only thing that stinks is Massie. Thankfully, the shit got shoveled out.

Something stinks in Kentucky. Gallrein refused to do any debates. Gallrein had very few supporters at his campaign events. Gallrein had very few supporters at his victory party. Kentucky uses rigged voting machines too.

I have been informed by relatives in Shelby County, Kentucky that following Gallrein’s victory over Massie, Jews have purchased all farmland and expelled the peasants to beg in the streets of Louisville.

30 year Sheriff ousted by voters in Alabama because he wouldn’t work with the Trump administration and participate in the 287g program to help apprehend illegals. al.com/politics/2026/…

@g0dfr0y Who cares the size of the crowd. The point is, the retard got blown out and now we have a runner stamp for the Trump agenda, which we voted for.

NOBODY showed up to Ed Gallrein's victory party. Apparently there wasn't a single Kentucky state lawmaker at the event. Does this make sense to.....anyone? Make it make sense?

@captive_dreamer He was the face of their wretched dissaffection.

Important to realize that it's not just about Massie - all the same morons who constantly fall for psyop MSM headlines about "Chinese visas" or "Obama's deportation numbers" all lined up behind him. Perennial losers. That's all they are.

It’s not that I’m pro-Israel, it’s just being rabidly anti-Israel has become the Really Stupid Person position, and I don’t want to be seen as associated with it.

@MassieforKY Make good on your promise! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN NAMES!

I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸

@michaelmalice The mountain of sellouts and traitors

@captive_dreamer Why is it so hard to understand that we just want Trump to enact his agenda? Any roadblock needs to be swept aside.

Nobody is realizing anything other than the fact that if you're America first, you're a Trump supporter. We have no time for libertarian traitors who want open borders and guns for black thugs. Get on the team or get out of the way.