Dan Bongino rediscovered something many of us have known for a while, and it’s not that he didn’t know it. Sometimes you can do more for the movement, issue, party, candidate, whatever it is, from the outside.
Don’t get me wrong, without champions on the inside, nothing ever changes, but Bongino just spent half a year, give or take, at the top of the FBI only to discover that you can’t get it done from there.
I don’t have specifics or details, but as an outside observer, I was thrilled he was willing to step into the role to see if he could make a difference, and was not at all surprised when he got out. I’m sure we’ll learn more over time, but we’re limited by the security restrictions placed on him as an officer of the law at that level. Until then, we get this.
Negative Messaging
Many years ago, a company I worked for held a confab of sorts. All the middle and upper-level managers were called to the corporate offices for meetings. I carpooled with two of my fellow managers (over an hour each way), both of whom acted like they were the victims in a hostage situation with no hope of Stockholm syndrome. They were bitter and bitched about work all the way there and back.
By the time we got “home,” I didn’t want to work for that company anymore, and I wasn’t like them before that day.
Our nation is a car filled with people like them, many of them Republicans, trying to turn us off to not just the opportunity of a Trump presidency, but the possibilities.
We finally got something good. A virtually leak-proof administration led by a guy who is trying to act in the best interests of regular Americans, not lobbyists, special interests, or some industrial complex. He’s about as anti-globalist and pro-worker as we’re ever likely to get. He is for American exceptionalism, cheap, abundant energy, and economic policies that, if allowed, will make America great again for everybody.
Having got what they thought they wanted, many a Republican can’t think of anything else to do but bitch, which the rest of the world, likely to get a shorter end of a smaller stick, should Trump prevail, is happy to encourage.
When offered something for which we ought to feel blessed, our impulse is to hit it in the head with a rock and pretend it wasn’t us when it dies.
On Tuesday, he was back at it, ripping grifters on the Right and the “tactics” they use to “bullsh*t” conservatives.
“The support for the Trump administration in the working world is strong. And people are tired of the endless bullsh*t from the black-piller, chicken-little grifters. Watch their tactics, and once you see them, you’ll never unsee them. They use a couple of different tactics to bullsh*t you,” Bongino wrote on X.
He then called out grifters on the Right who pretend to conduct explosive investigative work but are really just “charlatans and morons.”
“First, they overload you with information but they underwhelm you with evidence. Here’s an example of what I mean – they’ll try to convince you that John Smith robbed a bank, so they’ll data download on you and lose you in the chaos,” he said. “They’ll tell you things that might be true, but aren’t evidence of anything. They’ll tell you John was in the bank that day. That John knew someone who worked there. That John was arrested ten years ago for a misdemeanor. But they won’t tell you that the fingerprints, video and DNA of the thief matches someone else. Solid investigators sift through chaotic information and mine the evidence gems. Charlatans and morons do the opposite.”
I feel blessed that we have Dan back to amplify this message. I’ve been niggling at the edges of it for a while. I bring it up in private and small group conversations. Point to how the bots, trolls, and black-pillers are massaging the messaging.
Reporting on economic signs of hope, international advantages, all without trying to come off as some Trump Homer who sees no wrong. Hoping people will see what’s being done.
Breaking things is easy. Fixing them is hard. The internet culture is mighty impatient, and if we don’t push back against the MAGA civil war voices, our new golden age will get kneecapped at the five-yard line, and we’ll never get to see what was possible.
The super majority has a vested interest not just in Trump’s failure, but America’s. They would rather wallow in self-inflicted misery than admit they could lift themselves and the world up on our coattails.
Because you can’t advance the global Marxist Ummah with a strong and free America, giving the best and brightest an opportunity to thrive on their own terms rather than those of our self-proclaimed betters.
You deciding what freedom and success mean to you is a threat to their planetary tyranny, and America has long been the only place where anyone could work hard and become greater than their previous masters.
They will say and do anything to undermine that.
You and I are what is left to defend it, and we have a President and an administration that wants to secure it, not to burnish resumes or score points but for generations of regular people.
We have to accept that we need Republican majorities in Congress to keep that train rolling, and that not all of those Republicans need to be good ones.
Congress isn’t going to stop sucking, but Trump can’t do anything if Democrats take the majority of either chamber.
Breaking things is easy. Fixing them is hard. The Obama and Biden admininstrations poisoned what they didn’t break, and healing takes time. We need to make sure Trump and whoever follows him is Republican, and can do the work needed to set things, if not totally right, then well on their way.
Bongino again.
“I want to be clear on this point, intra-party/movement policy disagreements are healthy and natural,” he continued. “But endless pessimism meant to strategically attack a movement from the inside, is not about policy, it’s political cannibalism. And many of these grifters are hiding their real agendas from you.”
If the pessimism goes unanswered, that messaging wins the day, not just at the midterm in November, but ever after.
Things are good and getting better, just not fast enough, and the left will leverage that to derail the America we could have in exchange for the promise of debt, mediocrity, crime, drugs, homelessness, and misery.
Remember, Democrats can’t do affordable. They rob the future to subsidize fraud today. And there is no end to this appetite. They have no other plan. Control speech, limit mobility, hamstring growth and opportunity, and bankrupt the nation.
No one is perfect, and no government ever could be, but less government is better, and Donald Trump is the only guy who thinks, at least where government is concerned, less is more.
We can debate how much less, and how to get there, but we’ll never get there if Democrats have any say.
Stop eating your own. Trump’s the guy, and he has inspired a small cadre of loyalists you’ll want in key government positions for years to come. Or, you can let Democrats’ lawfare and defame them into obscurity, after which, no one will be left with the balls to try again.
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