Midterms 2026
Turns out… When folks say
Release the files
End the wars
Bring Prices Down
Stop the Data Centers on Rural lands
Get Netanyahu’s dick out of your mouth
They mean it. If the things don’t happen, the votes don’t come. I voted a straight Republican ticket, because I’m very hardcore behind Texas Gun Rights and Texans for Medical Freedom. At the same time, I fully understand all those folks who sat at home and watched the Republican Party of Texas burn down around them. The base has been speaking since Trump was elected in 2024; I’ve been listening to them. I can’t see any sign that elected officials have been listening to them.
White Folks with Talarico Signs
Image taken from Fox 7 Austin’s YouTube page: https://youtu.be/oV4_LBKhaW8
Last week something strange happened in Austin. There were protests of a white family’s home because this family had misunderstood the culture of the black neighborhood into which they had moved. Blacks are culturally very American, and we will freely associate and assemble on any public areas we want at any time we want. This is easy to verify historically.
The street onto which these folks moved is near an HBCU and has open parking. Students have been parking there, it would appear, since the University first came about. Non-resident parking is a normal occurrence in the neighborhood.
This new family seems to have somehow come up with a belief that parking in front of a home was only for residents of that home. How sorely they were mistaken in their beliefs. Oh, how, so, very sorely…
After allegedly having multiple students move their vehicles and leaving harassing notes on the vehicles, the community caught wind of what was going on. It would appear the HBCU students have freely associated with the neighborhood.
A woman with her phone on full record mode captured the Talarico-supporting family saying things like, “We paid $1.5 Million for our house. Y’all’s graduation rate is 25%. This is our Neighborhood!” Thereafter, the community swiftly assembled before the home in public during the light of day to let known their frustrations with the new residents. It was a glorious display of 1st amendment mobilisation.
First of all, I know that neighborhood. I have business in Austin on occasion. If you pay $1.5 Million for a house there, you are certainly not winning any intelligence awards. Further, the house likely has no garage given the nature of the story. I could never be so stupid as to spend $1.5 Million and not at least get a garage for it. Wild.
Second, these apparently childless folks are harassing other people’s children who are just trying to park their cars. Maybe if the left had more children, they’d have more compassion as well. We know this, but it bears mentioning again that Talarico signs are often indicative of anti-family, pro-evil politics. Full stop.
Finally, to take a graduation rate in a community and throw it around like that is the pinnacle of elitism that we have always understood to be a cornerstone of white, liberal politics. Malcolm X warned us all those years ago; we would do well to heed his warning.
I’m not sure exactly how these two Talarico folks are going to get themselves out of this, but it would do them well to walk around the neighborhood, talk to some people, get to know the community, and get ready to blend into the culture; otherwise, the only option would likely be to flee. It does not appear that the community will be altering their behaviors any time soon.
Socialists, the lot of you
The Matrix was a movie about humans building AI and the compute required such massive energy that AI had to farm humans to survive. We now live in a world where AI data centers are placing such load on the grid that We, the People, must give greater shares of our wealth in service of the power grid.
Plain ol socialism is we all pay an EBT tax irrespective of the benefit conveyed to each of us by EBT. This, here, is technosocialism: We all pay a tech tax irrespective of the benefit conveyed to each of us by tech.
It would appear that everyone loves their own socialism while hating another person's socialism. Hypocrites, the lot of you.
Institutional Land Investment
Having a nation of yeoman was a particularly important part of maintaining a free Republic according to Thomas Jefferson. He noted that, “the small landholders are the most precious part of a state.” With this sentiment, I must agree. And, I would contend, that the Jeffersonian take is indeed the American Conservative take.
President Donald Trump has jumped on the bandwagon of the 50-year-mortgage. This is a terrible idea. The first and most apparent reason for understanding this as a bad idea is that California has already implemented it. The United States, as a whole, is suffering from crippling housing costs, California is the State with the worst presentation of this illness by far. Whatever monetary piolicy dealing in housing presented by California should be avoided if merit and outcomes are your guiding light.
The second, and more important, reason for avoiding a 50-year-mortgage is that Thomas Jefferson would have waged war against you for such a move. We have an unemployment issue in this nation, and we have a welfare reliance issue in this nation. We also have institutional ownership of unused lands. Jefferson viewed land ownership as a natural right.
“Wherever in any country there are idle lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.” - President Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson advocated for the division and selling of public lands to individual landowners rather than to larger land prospectors and corporations. He fought for smaller parcel sizes in the Land Ordinance of 1785, but the passed legislation held parcel size at 640 acres presumably for managerial and surveying considerations.
Having fought a war against the ostentatious British royalty and aristocracy, Jefferson had particular disdain for those holding significant wealth being involved in challenges to governmental strength. This is a display of his devotion to the Republican form of government limited by a Constitution.
“I hope we shall crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
At this time, institutional investors own an estimated 3% of the single family homes in the United States - due to pricing pressures many are being held empty awaiting a buyer. This is happening while individuals and families sit around collecting food stamps. Idle lands and unemployed welfare recipients are not a great combination. Black Rock and Vanguard are in the housing and REIT market. Black Rock owns Invitation Homes and Vanguard provides one of the larhest REITs ($VNQ) for access to this market through the market. Berkshire Hathaway is so involved that we see rental signs peppered throughout the nation bearing their name and logo.
When the Constitution was ratified in 1788, it rendered many of the prior Confederate laws inoperable. A new land law was required to sell public lands. Hamilton - employed as Secretary of the Treasury at that time - wanted to sell the lands for top dollar in unlimited quantities to the extremely wealthy. Pennsylvania Congressman Gallatin argued that small farmers and individual landowners be accommodated as well. A compromise between the two views was struck by Congress in the Land Law of 1796. The law allowed lands to be purchased for $2 per acre in unlimited quantities, and the fees would not be due for a year. This allowed the wealthy to purchase large tracts of land, while the less wealthy could purchase smaller tracts without needing to pay up front.
Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian viewpoints are still in conflict to this very date.
Where others wanted to make way for prospectors and speculators, Jefferson wanted to ensure land ownership of actual settlers. This is an extension of self-government. Jefferson, further, was wary of both unending property taxes and financial instruments backed by property. He viewed such levies as elders being unnecessarily burdensome upon future generations. Jefferson himself knew the effect of these instruments. Jefferson’s father-in-law accumulated massive debts. When he passed, a decision was made to divide the estate between Jefferson and his brothers-in-law, as such the responsibility for those debts passed with the properties onto the younger men thus encumbering them and their estates. Jefferson was on paper one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, but he was made poor by these debts. For this and other reasons Jefferson is quoted as stating, “The Earth belongs to the living.”
The longer the financial instrument, the worse the problem. Mortgages burden one’s heirs with one’s decisions thus creating a sort of serf class through financial instruments. Taxes are of the same effect: the decisions of a past Congress burden today’s landowners with unending payments to a master where a failure to pay the tax results in the forfeiture of the land. Forfeiture of land is a chief and well-understood cause for war. This is obvious, as self-governance is almost wholly predicated upon land ownership. Jefferson urged that we remove the ability to contract multi-generational financial burdens as “it would bridle the spirit of war”.
Jefferson always privileged self-government over the desires and passions of institutions. This is the American Conservative way and it should be preserved and protected by whoever claims himself an American Conservative.
Definitions
Yeoman - a person who owns and cultivates a small farm; from the English commonlaw class of freeman below the Gentry.
Reading
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-06-02-0420-0001
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/blm/history/chap1.htm
https://fee.org/articles/principle-interest-thomas-jefferson-and-the-problem-of-debt/
Jobs numbers
Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Thousands of jobs are being terminated on a monthly basis. The jobs numbers for the past 2 years are casting a shadow of uncertainty over the nation.
We were warned about this. Last year, before the election, the leader of the Teamsters (even a broken clock may be correct twice a day) said there are millions of open jobs that no one will take. He then explained that he predicted in the next few years, millions of jobs will be terminated and that we need to retrain people to transition before they are laid off. Mike Rowe addressed this problem in a series earlier this year. A multitude of employers are trying to entice people to make a career change and join up, but no one responds. As predicted, the open position number has hovered around 7.5M for over a year now and shows no signs of changing. Looks like the new jobs are staying while the old jobs are going.
When Trump was elected and folks were busy celebrating, I was busy trying to get folks to develop reasonable skills for the future. I knew MAGA had to step up to fill the void if we were to make America successful during this Presidency. Few have answered the call. We are supposed to be conservatives: We are supposed to represent individual freedom, merit, and responsibility. Instead, there is a lot of othering and collectivist blaming. If you are going to go down that road, you might as well identify yourself as a Leftist.
People are stuck in their ways and refuse to make changes when it is good for them. As conservatives, we need to stand on individual responsibility and get the work done - irrespective of the past. Changing is hard. But as the saying goes: "life is change and death it's alternative." Adapt or die.
Mamdani
Mamdani might be the son of wealthy elites. He might have been born somewhere else. He might still have a slight accent. He might look a little different. He might have customs you don't know or understand.
He is still a New Yorker. Y'all keep taking shots and he keeps ducking. You can't win this on bullshit. He out worked you and that's how he won, simple. The Democrats were too busy whining about Trump and talking about who gets to use bathrooms and locker rooms; the Republicans were too busy group chatting collectivist nonsense about race and religion. You both lost in NYC and a socialist won.
Mamdani worked. He was everywhere taking photos, making videos, partying, chatting it up, actually being a New Yorker and being in New York. When asked about his first trip outside the country in a debate, he said he wasn't taking one and he would stay in the city - the ONLY candidate in that debate to give the America First response was a socialist, not a Republican, not a Democrat. The Republicans and Democrats said they would be on the first flight out to Israel.
Mamdani talks about taxing the wealthy. Most people don't understand New York, so they missed the point. What the people of New York heard was that these companies based outside the city - all over the world - are taking money out of the city to their respective headquarters. Taxing them would keep the money in the city. He met Trump's capitalist version of America First with his own Socialist version of America First... All this while the Democrats and Republicans were talking about bathrooms, blacks, and Jews. They were out-worked by a socialist who can't put 135lbs up on the bar. It's fucking embarrassing.
This isn't a hard problem to solve. The major parties in NYC didn't get played, they're just too stupid to know what people voted for. The lazy, unrealistic view of politics that lacks nuance is dying. People are hungry for more than talking points and repetitive slogans.
In Texas the same is coming. Texan politicians are largely complacent. They recite the same punchlines. They give the same, washed up speeches. They shake the same hands they shook last year never coming to the parks and cafes where We, the People, frequent. We are lucky to have Brian Harrison here in Ellis County, but how many like him are in Texas government.
Get out. Block walk. Talk to your neighbors. Learn and sell your preferred candidates. We can take this back, but a Republic requires the people to participate. Participate or lose it all to socialists.