J. Wargo

It’ll be “Our” country soon enough

Let me explain what’s happening with Kalshi and Polymarket, and this is just an educated guess but I’m probably spot on. These are not polls, and they’re not even accurate indicators of bet predictions. These have now become messaging tools. The reason these rapid changes happen so close to an election is because they’re being manipulated. If a backer of a candidate wants it to look like they’re winning, all they have to do is bet on themselves, post it all over social media, and then sell off. Massie had a massive spike two times that made absolutely no sense, the day Trump did a rally for Ed Gallrein, and when the news of his alleged hush money scandal dropped. On Tuesday, there will be a massive selloff, the same way crypto whales will dump their bags after manipulating a meme coin. The latest polling has Gallrein +4 in one poll, and Massie +1 in another. Both of those are horrible for an incumbent, and Trump endorsed candidates are absolutely crushing it in this primary. It’s fun to look at the betting market for odds on a fighter or a teams odds of winning in sports, but when it comes to political races it’s nothing more than a tool to hype up voters or get them to stay home.

In homeschool, my parents taught me a song I thought they wrote: “Who were the witches? / Where did they come from? / Maybe your great-great-grandmother was one / Witches were wise, wise women they say / and there’s a little witch in every woman today.” Last week, I heard it elsewhere for the first time in my life while listening to a podcast by Zaid Ayers Dohrn, the son of domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In the episode, he played a clip of himself and his classmates singing it at the “scruffy alternative preschool” his fugitive parents sent him to while underground and on the run from the FBI in New York. It probably shouldn’t surprise me. My parents were never directly involved in left-wing violence, but they moved in overlapping circles with Weathermen and others of a similar mind. And they were radicals. I grew up idolizing the Black Panthers, writing ecstatic poetry about Cesar Chavez, and sincerely believing the U.S. government assassinated Malcolm X. Today, I hold the values of principled conservatism very closely. I’ve come to see much of the left-wing project as rooted in utilitarian hedonism and fear-based social conformity, aimed at erecting theoretical scaffolding for moral anomie. It wasn’t ideology that changed me, but an abiding commitment to truth wherever it led, regardless of the political implications. Much of that transformation is thanks to Buckley, Scruton, and the Manhattan Institute. Which is why I’m thrilled that, beginning next week, I’ll be working at the Manhattan Institute full-time. I couldn’t imagine a better place to invest my energy. *P.S. For those supposed “right-wing accounts” with poor reading comprehension who mobbed this the first time (in prototypical leftist fashion), this post is stating that I was raised in a progressive environment and came to conservatism of my own accord.

In homeschool, my parents taught me a song I thought they wrote: “Who were the witches? / Where did they come from? / Maybe your great-great-grandmother was one / Witches were wise, wise women they say / and there’s a little witch in every woman today.” Last week, I heard it elsewhere for the first time in my life while listening to a podcast by Zaid Ayers Dohrn, the son of domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In the episode, he played a clip of himself and his classmates singing it at the “scruffy alternative preschool” his fugitive parents sent him to while underground and on the run from the FBI in New York. It probably shouldn’t surprise me. My parents were never directly involved in left-wing violence, but they moved in overlapping circles with Weathermen and others of a similar mind. And they were radicals. I grew up idolizing the Black Panthers, writing ecstatic poetry about Cesar Chavez, and sincerely believing the U.S. government assassinated Malcolm X. Today, I hold the values of principled conservatism very closely. I’ve come to see much of the left-wing project as rooted in utilitarian hedonism and fear-based social conformity, aimed at erecting theoretical scaffolding for moral anomie. It wasn’t ideology that changed me, but an abiding commitment to truth wherever it led, regardless of the political implications. Much of that transformation is thanks to Buckley, Scruton, and the Manhattan Institute. Which is why I’m thrilled that, beginning next week, I’ll be working at the Manhattan Institute full-time. I couldn’t imagine a better place to invest my energy. *P.S. For those supposed “right-wing accounts” with poor reading comprehension who mobbed this the first time (in prototypical leftist fashion), this post is stating that I was raised in a progressive environment and came to conservatism of my own accord.

The era of mass migration was a global, coordinated effort to move as many people as possible from the Global South to the United States. It was a *multi-billion dollar* pipeline. Why was the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sponsoring migration through the Darien Gap?

Mass migration through Darien was disastrous for the Embera — whose villages were turned into refugee camps by the UN, USAID, and other NGOs. Their schools were taken over by migrants, and the rivers they rely on for drinking water were contaminated. The NGOs didn’t care.