I love this girl.  She's doing what I wish I could do full-time.

I just learned that she posts on Substack, and I read these two articles that you HAVE to read.  Remember how we used to love Coulter's takedowns of libtards back in the day?  Robinson does it on the RINOs we despise.  She reaches into their chests, pulls out their hearts while it still pumps, then eats it in front of everyone.

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-i-murdered-the-weekly-standard

QuoteThree years ago, I wrote an essay on "The Collapse of the Never Trumpers" that caused quite a stir. Rush Limbaugh talked about it on his radio show, while Nigel Farage congratulated me in the halls of Parliament. Hundreds of people wrote me "thank you" notes. The haughty Never Trumpers, not so much. My modest proposal was that the 3% of Republicans who never approved of President Trump should stop pretending that they were spokesmen for the 97% of Republicans who did. In the corporate media, where 97% of that 3% were keeping a high profile on cable news, the distortions became preposterous. This seemed to me elementary logic. But for the tiny group of delusional Never Trumpers, my modest proposal fell on them like a ton of bricks.

In the end, my essay ignited a kind of public war among conservative intellectuals that helped to bring down the neocons and the Never Trumpers in the media. Not only did the Weekly Standard shut down, but the National Review kicked out Jonah Goldberg, and the neocon's peewee prince Bill Kristol went to work for Democrats - all in six months. How did that happen? They had no base of support outside of the Beltway, and they were in willful denial about their own unpopularity. This dynamic was obvious at all levels of media, but let's take a high visibility example: the old panel at Fox New's Special Report with Bret Baier. Now, Bret Baier is obviously a very quiet Never Trumper but if you stacked your daily panel with Stephen Hayes, A. B. Stoddard, and Jonah Goldberg and these were the "conservative" pundits you picked to defend President Trump's policies then it's obvious what Bret was doing.

This one too:

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-national-review-sold-its

QuoteThere were rumors in the summer of 2018 that an audiotape was circulating that would send shockwaves through the think tanks of Washington and the conservative intellectual movement in particular. A top Google executive had been recorded telling his fellow employees that Google generously donated to conservative think tanks and magazines to dampen criticism of their anti-conservative bias. In essence, Google was buying off Conservatism Inc. and the GOP establishment to stay silent while Google monitored, harassed, and excluded Trump supporters. If true, the tape sounded like a smoking gun: incontrovertible evidence of the corruption and double-dealing of Conservatism Inc. that would permanently discredit it with Republican voters.

I was told that the tape had been offered as an exclusive to the Wall Street Journal. Months went by, and nothing happened. (There were rumors during that time that Big Tech lobbyists were trying very hard to get the Wall Street Journal to kill the story.) Then I began to get a series of messages from various anonymous sources that the organizations that were guilty of taking Google money to stay silent included: the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Cato Institute, CPAC, the Weekly Standard and the National Review. (A weak article appeared on September 27th by John McKinnon in the Wall Street Journal but it hardly mentioned the tape or its implications.) This was, needless to say, a huge story: was it possible that the entire conservative intellectual movement was being bought off by Big Tech companies?

Finally, I was approached by an insider at one of the think tanks who confirmed the main details. You could say I broke the story (since the Wall Street Journal piece had really buried it) on Twitter on October 30th, by saying:

Oh, this one too:

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-the-gop-committed-suicide-trying

QuoteWhen did the GOP cease to be a functioning party? When was the exact moment that you knew the GOP establishment stands for nothing and stands against nothing?

For many, this became apparent in the awful months immediately after Election Day 2020, of course, when a steady stream of GOP leaders took to the airwaves to let their voters know that "the most secure election in history" had just taken place.

For others, it was the Second Impeachment of Citizen Trump — a symbolic exercise that only served to destroy the political career of Mitch McConnell, and raze his reputation as the bluegrass Machiavelli of our times.

McConnell wanted Trump convicted, that's for sure. He pushed that sham until it was clear that he didn't have the votes. The GOP establishment wanted Trump dead and buried to clear the way for Their People in 2024. At the 11th hour, McConnell realized that he didn't have the votes and so he told his Republican colleagues: he would no longer vote to convict President Trump. The entire pointless exercise had only served to enrage the GOP base. This time there was no ground cover to hide his double-dealing. The Turtle had been caught. This was his show.

Like this:

QuoteMcConnell wasn't the only one who recently drove himself off the proverbial cliff like Thelma & Louise. Look at how many of them bought the January 6th insurrection story hook, line, and sinker! Did they know it was a fabricated FBI plot? Probably. Did they care how many American citizens would be jailed without being charged illegally for months? Not in the slightest. It's not just Romney, Sasse, Murkowski, Collins, and the usual cast of "useful idiots" for the Democrat Party either. It's Lindsey Graham telling you that he's "getting to the bottom of things" every night on cable TV for five years. It's Kevin McCarthy getting caught renting rooms at the Frank Luntz Day Camp for Future OxyContin Lobbyists after being forced to remove the unpopular neocon gasbag Liz Cheney from GOP leadership even though McCarthy was the one who had elevated her in the first place. You simply can't quantify that kind of stupidity.

Quote from: taxed on September 02, 2021, 06:37:51 AMI love this girl.  She's doing what I wish I could do full-time.

When did the GOP cease to be a functioning party? When was the exact moment that you knew the GOP establishment stands for nothing and stands against nothing?

For me, it was McStain, watching him lie to our faces about the border, back when Bush signed the bill for a border fence and the GOP refused to fund it.
That was my last straw...

What these freaks fear, and what we know, is that we're stealing their party and making it Conservative for its first time since its inception.

We will own the GOP!!!

Quote from: Solar on September 02, 2021, 06:49:39 AMFor me, it was McStain, watching him lie to our faces about the border, back when Bush signed the bill for a border fence and the GOP refused to fund it.
That was my last straw...

What these freaks fear, and what we know, is that we're stealing their party and making it Conservative for its first time since its inception.

We will own the GOP!!!

The shift I've been sensing is the GOP has gone from just ignoring us to at least scurrying about.  With their funding being shut off and Trump taking over, and with the blatant CCP-coziness, they are really in trouble.  A big problem for them is, as Robinson points out, is they have no safe place.  They aligned with the Marxists, but now they have nowhere to go.  Marxists will always have the radicals, and pro-Trump, America First has the MAGA base, but the RINO losers are stuck in the middle and nobody wants them.

Quote from: taxed on September 02, 2021, 08:03:26 PMThe shift I've been sensing is the GOP has gone from just ignoring us to at least scurrying about.  With their funding being shut off and Trump taking over, and with the blatant CCP-coziness, they are really in trouble.  A big problem for them is, as Robinson points out, is they have no safe place.  They aligned with the Marxists, but now they have nowhere to go.  Marxists will always have the radicals, and pro-Trump, America First has the MAGA base, but the RINO losers are stuck in the middle and nobody wants them.

These days when I hear RINO, it always makes me think of Wile E Coyote.          

Thanks Taxed, Robinson sounds like a real fighter! I'm going to look into her further.