During his acceptance speech this past Thursday night in Cleveland, at the closing of the 2016 Republican National Convention, Donald Trump used the word “violence” a total of eleven times. The word “freedom” was used just once, and it was used in context of “freedom” from free international trade.

In contrast Sen. Ted Cruz, in his speech on the Convention’s third night, used the word freedom twenty-one times and the word “violence” just once.

Trump’s speech, which clocked in at 1 hour and 15 minutes, was a full on display of a spoiled egotistical madman demanding to be anointed into the highest office in the most powerful nation in the world. The Republican Party’s nominee painted a picture of an America that is under siege from urban crime, terrorism and rampant immigration.

Trump’s portrait is of an America that is fraught with rising homicide rates, filled with Americans being killed by those entering the country illegally. It was a portrait of an America that looks more like the events of the Purge film series then the America I see everyday when I step out of my door to head to work.

Trump’s entire speech was completely devoid of any substantial details as to how he would get anything done, just threats and points on how the government should be made bigger and stronger and given more authority with him at the head of it controlling every part of American life.

It has become a sad occurrence over the course of the last few Presidencies that political figures have been likened to evil dictators of the past. The code pink left during the administration of George W. Bush had constantly compared him to Hitler, leftist ideologues have a long history of trying to compare Republicans to Nazis, and they have always been wrong.

Republican’s have always, or at least have claimed to, stand up for the limited government, free market principles outlined by our Founding documents — principles that are against everything the Nazi’s (National Socialists) stood for.

Enter Donald Trump.

In 2016 the Republican Party has abandoned all pretenses of being the principled party of limited government, free people and free markets. This could not be anymore evident by the uproar over Sen. Ted Cruz’s great convention speech and the warm embrace of Donald Trump.

Sen. Ted Cruz urged Republicans to “Stand and speak, and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom… (so that) we will be able to say, ‘Freedom matters… ‘” and Trump’s supporters took it as an attack on their candidate. What does that say about Trump’s base, it says that they know that Trump is not a person of conscience or is principled enough to defend the Constitution.

Now under the reign of Donald Trump, the Republican Party now embraces liberal concepts of federal wage controls and fighting the “gender wage gap.” Trump’s Republican platform embraces a “do as I tell you,” message to private business and anti-free trade policies that will increase the cost-of-living for all Americans.

Some of the same useful idiots who were attacking Bernie Sanders for his socialist policies are now embracing Donald Trump for openly supporting those same policies. In the same way the hardline enforcers of long gone socialist regimes attacked anyone who would dare speak ill of the Dear Leader — Trump’s New Republicans have gone nuts on Ted Cruz for standing up for liberty, because if you are not for Trump you must be defeated.

Trump laid out an argument for unlimited government under a single man, but don’t worry he’s not a tyrant, he’s a “Republican.”

Thanks to the Republican party, a party that helped to fight the Cold War, Donald Trump is frighteningly close to achieving his vision for Trump style National Socialism. Donald Trump is a threat to not just everything that the Republican Party was founded on, but he is an threat to everything our Founding Father’s held near and dear. The Republican Party itself and the misguided idiots who claim to be liberty loving conservatives, yet look at Trump through the eyes lovestruck teenage girl looking at the latest teen idol, deserve just as much blame for allowing this to happen as Trump has for leading the charge.

Congratulations Republicans, you have become everything you have claimed to hate. It’s not Socialism, its “Republican Socialism”.

I remember back during Barack Obama’s first term, cringing in disgust when video of grade-school children being taught a song praising the President made the rounds. It was very reminiscent of the Hitler Youth and fit in pretty well amongst the cult of personality that was built up around Obama.

It couldn’t happen on our side I thought.

Enter the USA Freedom Kids, who performed at a campaign rally for Donald Trump this past Wednesday in Pensacola, Florida.

The brainwashed girl group is the brainchild of 53-year-old Florida ‘businessman,’ and one time 80’s Hollywood stuntman, Jeff Popick.

I don’t know what’s worse the three poor girls brainwashed and forced to perform, the Trump talking point lyrics of the song, or the fucking idiots in attendance smiling and clapping at the creepy performance.

I want to try write my next statement to make sure that there is zero chance that my thoughts on this get misinterpreted.

If you support the Donald Trump campaign and further more if you enjoy and support the this vile and disgusting propaganda in support of his campaign, not only are you a complete fucking moron — but that piece inside of you that makes you a decent human being, is probably missing.

Furthermore, to call this act “the USA Freedom Kids,” is a fucking joke. The Donald is just about as far from advancing the cause of Freedom as you can get, except of course maybe Bernie Sanders, but at this point I’m not even sure anymore.

“To me, freedom is everything,” Popick said in a telephone interview with The Washington Post. “That’s what this group is about. That’s what I’m about. Freedom for everybody. That’s the inspiration.”

For the past seven years now, the so-called philosophical “right,” have argued that President Barack Obama does not care about the law. Dear Leader, is what I and many others who are opposed to his actions have called him. An authoritarian, a dictator and emperor is what we have called him.

Now, many of those same people are gravitating like flies on shit to Donald Trump who is all of those same things we’ve hated Barack Obama for, albeit wrapped in the American Flag.

My initial thought during the early stages of Donald Trumps latest flirtation with the Oval Office was to laugh and call him a circus clown. However, the more and more his popularity grows, as a lover of liberty, I am downright terrified for what the future may bring with a Donald Trump Presidency.

We should not laugh, we should not joke, because the truth is Donald Trump is a bigger threat to liberty and the American way of life then Barack Obama ever was.

As the great Jeffrey Tucker wrote this past July after witnessing a Trump speech:

It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism.

I just heard Trump speak live. It was an awesome experience, like an interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove countries into the ground, and died grim deaths.

His speech at FreedomFest lasted a full hour, and I consider myself fortunate for having heard it. It was a magnificent exposure to an ideology that is very much present in American life, though hardly acknowledged. It lives mostly hidden in dark corners, and we don’t even have a name for it. You bump into it at neighborhood barbecues, at Thanksgiving dinner when Uncle Harry has the floor, at the hardware store when two old friends in line to checkout mutter about the state of the country.

The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism — one of the most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really should. It is still real. It exists. It is distinct. It is not going away. Trump has tapped into it, absorbing unto his own political ambitions every conceivable bourgeois resentment: race, class, sex, religion, economic. You would have to be hopelessly ignorant of modern history not to see the outlines and where they end up.

For now, Trump seems more like comedy than reality. I want to laugh about what he said, like reading a comic-book version of Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler. And truly I did laugh, as when he denounced the existence of tech support in India that serves American companies (“how can it be cheaper to call people there than here?” — as if he still thinks that long-distance charges apply).

Let’s hope this laughter doesn’t turn to tears. Read More…

Associating Donald Trump with “Freedom,” is like associating Miley Cyrus with modesty. True conservatives have worked tirelessly for decades to dispel the lies propagated by liberals that those opposed to their ideals are akin to Nazi’s and fascists — when in fact it is they whose ideals resemble both Hitler & Mussolini’s versions of National Socialism the most.

Now in 2015, a large swath of fucking assholes are ready to throw that all away by supporting the totalitarian ambitions of Donald Trump.

A world where Donald Trump is the only answer to the garbage that comes from the progressive left, is too scary a thought to fathom — it is not a place that I want to live.

I’m not a prolific blogger by any means, the closest I got to blog stardom was with my old and long-since shut down Right Wing Rebel site, when I got quoted by the official website for the Presidential campaign of the late, great Fred Thompson.

I’m fine with that, I never stared blogging in an attempt to become one of the next great voices in Conservative new media. I started blogging because I like playing around with web design and sometimes feel like I have something interesting to say that I want to get out.

I haven’t really done much of either lately.

Lately there has been something gnawing at me and festering deep inside that I just had to let out.

I am no longer a Conservative.

I have Donald Trump and more importantly, his supporters to thank for my new-found revelation.

Now, truth be told its been something that has brewed for a while now, years actually. I’ve alluded to this in the past without actually coming out and saying it before. I’ve written blog posts about “The death of Conservatism,” many times before after being inspired by the likes of John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. I’ve just could never make that last step, that final push until now.

It just took the reality TV star Presidential Campaign of the Donald and the love and devotion of his adoring supporters to be that final nudge that would push me over the cliff.

Thank you Donald Trump. For now I have seen the light.

If Conservatives, many of whom I once thought I respected could actively support Donald Trump in his quest to win the Presidency, then it has finally happened. Conservatism is truly dead and buried.

Just about the only thing that Donald Trump has going for him is that he is an asshole. Apparently there are those who have claimed or do claim to be “true conservatives” who have such a deep seeded desire to see an unfiltered, loud-mouth, tell it like it is type in the White House — that they have completely bought in to the idiocy that is The Donald.

We have actually already had a few assholes occupy the Oval Office, the current Asshole-in-Chief and his two predecessors come to mind. The thing with the Donald however, he’s the first candidate in quite a long time to come close to sniffing that Oval Office air that actually talks like an asshole.

The thing is that no matter what measuring stick you use, there is no way in hell that The Donald is a Conservative, not by a long shot. He’s not even a Republican.

John McCain has fantasized about and even flirted with the idea of changing political affiliation for a long time. The Donald has actually done it. As a matter of fact he has switched political allegiances more times than rapper Sean Combs has changed names.

He’s done it about five times since the 80’s, he’s switched parties three times since 2001.

Hell in 2008 The Donald actually supported the Barack Obama campaign.

“I was his biggest cheerleader,” the reality TV star told Sean Hannity on FOX News in 2011. “If you go back three years, I’m saying, ‘Do a great job.’ I wanted him to do a great job. I still want him to do a great job.”

We are to believe that somebody who just a few short years ago supported Barack Obama is a true, dyed-in-the-wool conservative?

How about the way that the Donald has made some of his billions. An integral part is by using the strong-arm of the government to level whole neighborhoods, destroying homes and small businesses so he can build another huge building.

Yeah, the authoritarian use of eminent domain, that’s very conservative all right.

In 2000 he supported gun control, abortion, higher taxes and socialized medicine, now some of the same so-called “conservatives” who called Mitt Romney a “flip flopper” are saying that the Donald “evolved.”

In 2012 he said that Mitt Romney of all people was too harsh on illegal immigration,

Yet today, his brain-dead sheeple think he’s going to deport all the illegals and build a giant wall.

You are bigger idiots then Obama’s supporters if you believe that.

The only reason that anyone supports the Donald is because he is a walking, talking big fuck you to the establishment media and to the elites in both parties. That desire to stick it to the establishment, is so strong that his supporters are blind to the fact that Trump is not one of us. He doesn’t believe in liberty, he doesn’t believe in the Constitution or anything for that matter other than in his own damn self.

He is completely devoid of any Conservative principles and bases all of his decision-making on whichever direction the winds of populism are blowing.

I’d say don’t be fooled, but it’s too late. I can’t believe that there are many Conservatives, whom I respected that have bought into his garbage.

Barry Goldwater is rolling in his grave. Which brings me to the predicament in which I and many like-minded people find ourselves in. Where do I fit in the current state of the Conservative movement.

The answer is, I don’t.

Dale Watson, one of my favorite country music singers, hates country music. I know that may not seem to make any sense on the surface, but when you dwell deeper into it — it makes perfect sense. Dale Watson used to fight for the tradition of Country music, but in recent years has decided that war is a losing effort. Country music has changed.

Bro Country Fan? Donald Trump Supporter? Not much different, both are devoid of any intellectual integrity.

Watson is old school country music in the Merle Haggard, George Jones mold. The stuff that get’s played on country music radio today is a far, far cry from that. Sadly, when the general population today thinks of “country music,” they think of Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and other such pop garbage.

Watson knows he doesn’t fit in with that.

Via The Lincoln Journal Star:

Dale Watson didn’t want to come up with a new tag for the music he champions and plays. He didn’t have a choice.

A hardcore Texas honky tonker, Watson watched as real country music was pushed to the margins in Nashville as the Music City labels pumped out contemporary country that’s influenced as much by hip-hop and ‘70s mainstream rock as it is by Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Faron Young.

“We were cast out,” Watson said in an interview from Austin. “It was occupied country music. They took over the name, they took over the house. We were left out in the field. We were too country for country and not rock enough for rock ‘n’ roll. We didn’t have a home.”

So Watson created a place for honky tonk, western swing, rockabilly and outlaw country.

“If anybody wants to know where what used to be called country music is, it’s in a home called Ameripolitan, right on the corner of original street and roots boulevard,” he said. Read More…

The current state of Conservatism has been infected, much like “Country Music” has been ruined by flat-billed ball-cap wearing, “bro-country” douche-bags. Conservatism has been infected by its own set of douche-bags. Donald Trump supporter’s are like drunken Bud Light fueled Luke Bryan fans destroying the venue after a show.

True Conservatives have been cast out from the movement. I find myself being too conservative for conservatism and not libertarian enough for libertarianism.

I don’t know what to call myself moving forward, “liberty republican” or “republitarian,” or something else altogether. I just know I’m no longer a Conservative… and I’m all right with that.

Stephen Meade, 88, dress-wearing losing congressional candidate in San Diego may undergo heart surgery after he was hospitalized on election day.

Yes, you read that headline correctly.

I first saw this over at IOTWReport and initially thought that it was a joke, but no, its an honest-to-goodness true story.

Via The Los Angeles Times:

Stephen Meade, the dress-wearing Republican candidate for Congress in southern San Diego County, was rushed to the hospital on election day and may undergo open-heart surgery.

Meade, 88, was defeated by incumbent Democrat Rep. Juan Vargas in the heavily Democratic 51st Congressional District that includes Imperial County. Read More…

Meade, lost the election 67-33 in a district that is 70% Latino and where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans nearly 2-1. Combine that with the fact that he had no money, no campaign website, no endorsement from the local GOP, as a matter of fact they really even refused to acknowledge his candidacy — that’s a pretty good effort.

After serving in World War II and then attending college, Meade was a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, also sold electronics and worked in real estate. He’s also fairly Conservative.

Meade said he had toyed in the past with running for office but was discouraged by the expense and effort involved. Also he did not want to start with a low-level office.

This year, Meade said, he noticed that Vargas was not attracting any challengers. So he signed up with only a day to spare.

Meade thinks liberals and labor unions are driving the country into bankruptcy; he is hawkish on foreign policy. He accuses government of allowing monopolies in the cable television industry to gouge consumers.

As a reporter in Los Angeles, he covered courts and police, including some of the infamous murders of the late 1950s. He knows that it is his clothing, not his politics, that makes him newsworthy; he has no problem with that, his days of hiding are over.

When he dressed as a man, he was overweight. He shows reporters a picture of himself wearing men’s clothes and with a pot belly. Since opting for women’s clothes, he has lost weight.

The Meades live in a mobile home with a view of the Tijuana hills to the south, the ocean to the west. They have a Siamese cat named Coco, but no children. While he does not mind discussing his clothing, Meade figures the issue should not matter to voters.

“My wife doesn’t mind, neither should anyone else,” he said. “It’s about time for Congress to seat one of us girls.”

Hell so what if he’s a little on the freaky side with his choice of lifestyle, other then the whole cross-dressing thing, he’s just the kind of guy Congress needs.

48 years ago a Senator from Arizona by the name of Barry Goldwater was the GOP’s nominee in the Presidential election. “The turn will come,” Senator Goldwater had written a few years earlier, “when we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given. It will come when Americans… decide to put the man in office who is pledged to enforce the Constitution and restore the Republic.”

Unfortunately, the American people did not believe they were ready for such a man and Sen. Goldwater lost his bid to the Presidency. All however was not lost, as the backbone that was his campaign, a campaign that much like a certain Texas Congressman’s campaign in 2012, was established and run by men and women much younger then most elected officials. A campaign that was drawn from organizations like Young Americans For Freedom, the Young Republican National Federation and like-minded individuals from across our great nation. The Goldwater “revolution,” much like another “rEVOLution” today, pioneered the use of small-dollar amount donations and generated a large group of like-minded individuals who spread out continued the fight, giving many of today’s Conservative politicians their first national hearing.

The backbone of that campaign filled Central Committee posts and other elected offices across the country. Slightly less then 20 years later that backbone restored the nation’s might and morale, took the reigns of power back from the Jimmy Carter disaster, ended the Cold War and brought us ten years of peace and prosperity not seen since before the 1920’s.

Are today’s Ron Paul “rEVOLutionairies” willing to truly stand up for liberty like they proclaim, support the best candidate with a chance of winning we have and then take a cue from the Barry Goldwater Conservative revolution and once we reclaim the wheel that steers the ship that is our Nation fill those central committee posts, fight at the grass routes to make sure our side continues to steer it in the right direction?

Or are they going to bitch and moan, ignore our candidate and hand the progressives another four years to stack the Supreme Court, district courts across the nation and do an untold amount of more damage to our nation

John McCain is an American patriot, who served his country bravely during the Vietnam War. He is a true hero and for his service to his country, he will always have my respect and admiration. That being said however, respect and admiration alone are not enough to earn my vote.

When I set foot into a voting booth, I want to vote for a candidate whose values most closely resemble the values that I hold dear. I am a Conservative and I wear that mantle proudly as a badge of honor. As a Conservative, I want the withering of the Federal Government’s powers. I want to see federal powers over duties that were never intended at that level — returned to the states, cities, communities and individual citizens.

The overriding and fundamental principle of Conservatism, is, was and always will be the preservation of and the extending of freedom. In that endeavor, John McCain does not just fall short of the target — he completely misses it.

Throughout his Senatorial career, not only has John McCain position on many issues been opposite of those of Conservatives, but often times he has been one of the leading voices in opposition to Conservative viewpoints.

The Senator from Arizona’s name will forever be on the McCain-Feingold bill., a legislative effort that completely destroyed the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, thus impairing the rights of citizens to support the candidates of their choice.

In 2002, yet again while working with Democrats, the Senator from Arizona via the McCain-Lieberman bill attempted to attach his name to legislation that would have in essence, created an energy tax — raising the price of gasoline, electricity and home heating.

With the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, the Senator from Arizona once again attempted to forever attach his name to legislation that this time would have forever destroyed the sovereignty of America’s borders, while allowing criminal lawbreakers who are stealing the rights and privileges of American citizens to earn those rights and privileges of American citizens — thus granting amnesty to criminals.

John McCain was given the nickname of “maverick,” because he is viewed as somebody who doesn’t play by the established rules of his party. A more apt nickname however for John McCain would be the “chameleon” because he does in fact play by rules, he plays by the rules of the Democratic party and does so while masquerading as a Republican.

Consider this report last March from the Hill:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.

In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.

Democrats had contacted Jeffords and then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) in the early months of 2001 about switching parties, but in McCain’s case, they said, it was McCain’s top strategist who came to them.
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Other senators who played major roles in the intense recruiting effort, according to Democrats, were then-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) as well as Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

“John [Edwards] at that time was working with McCain on a couple things and there was a sense that because of his relationship that he might be a good person to talk to him,” Daschle said. “He was clearly one of those that we thought could be helpful.”

A source close to Edwards said Daschle’s comments are accurate.

John McCain is the most unprincipled and opportunistic members of the Republican party — to nominate the Senator from Arizona as the GOP’s candidate for the 2008 election would in essence destroy the Goldwater/Reagan Conservative movement and cause both major political parties in America to be liberal parties.