In this post, I may be late to a party that no one knows about yet. Recently, I’ve written a couple of posts about notable ‘conservatives’ that have broken with Trump. After the first post, I thought it would be a one-off, a one and done and yet I had to come back for more not long afterward. The occasion of the Iran War and the part of Isreal’s participation and strategic interest to us made it a hot topic that needed to be highlighted. Yet again, I thought I had worked the topic more than enough and would be on to more important people and things; but here I am again. The conclusion to my prior analysis was that all of the gang that I’ve previously and will here just refer to as The Discontents, were all survivors of corporate and public failure. They had big jobs they lost; at the time, believed to be unfairly lost. They were losers in big law suites, they had power and influence and lost it precipitously, maybe deservedly, maybe unfairly or both. They made very big money and now were struggling to rebuild in a new media ecosystem. I attributed their backstabbing ways, not to genuine convictions but as a path to regain old clout, fame, and wealth. In order to do that, a sure path was to trailblaze a new route around the all-encompassing success of the Trump dynasty and his historical accomplishments that are still amassing. The Discontents would capitalize on all the marginal sunny day sailor friends that pushed Trump over the line in 2024 and now ‘hate’ him over a thousand little doubts writ large. The huge multitudes that are irked by $4 gas, $10 burritos, Epstein, and Jews, these are a ripe and ready new constituency for The Discontents. It’s a wave that could be ridden into and well past 2028 and would offer thousands of high-profile positions to this new alternative administration – if successful – on the Trump bashing platform. Redemption was at hand. While these are almost certainly a prominent feature of this group, the most direct cause might something be far more simple: direct payments right now.
Let’s start with caveats and a disclaimer: my assertions are proffered as an analysis of patterns of behavior and speech byThe Discontents. At this time, I have no direct knowledge or physical evidence of transactions, communications, or documents that would legally prove acts of compromise have transpired. However, when collective actions abruptly defy long established allegiances, these do not come out of a vacuum; there are causes and effects. I point out patterns and precedent. It would be a full-time journalist’s job to track all of the documentation of just a dozen or so public influencers moving in the sphere of supplanting the Trump’s administration’s work, so don’t look for that here. My sources are perusing posts on the X platform and a variety of conservative news aggregators that quote and comment on these individuals. In order to streamline my thoughts here, I’ll speak to and from the positions promulgated by Tucker Carlson in particular but my conclusion is directed to a much wider set of influencers, some of whom are primarily crooked little stars just on X.
I started off by saying I’m late to the party. Over the past few weeks, I’d comment on X, directed to or about The Discontents and expressed my opinion of how they’re reaching to amend their various past falls from grace. In my last couple comments, I observed and declared that they appear to be getting paid, as an evolving explanation for their curious dissents, the level of energy they’re putting into their strained positions that seem to contradict much of their prior career, and even to the point of a personality shift. Then along came the indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), that’s documented tens of millions of dollars transferred to numerous real-deal far right fringe groups, clear subsidies to keep both the hate groups and SPLC in business to pump their donation cash spigot. A new large scale business model for corruption has hit the big time and the court docket. Finally, here is why I may be late to the party; Matt Walsh, the sometimes genius sometimes crackpot conservative documentarian has suggested there will be more, hinting that he believes someone, the SPLC?, someone is using this model with a bunch of conservative influencers. He appears to have hints from back channels confirming what I’ve observed by watching patterns. I wouldn’t normally reference Matt Walsh but I don’t hesitate to say my peace when I myself read the same tea leaves of patterns. If Matt Walsh aligns with that, so be it.
‘There are no dumb questions’ but if there was one, maybe it would be this: Why would lefty orgs or George Soros types bankroll any conservative? The not so dumb answer would be: to separate any and all support of Donald Trump apart from his conservative base; divide and conquer. I could launch into yet another list of superlatives about what Trump has successfully done but I’ll spare that for now. Driving a wedge into conservatism isn’t quite so hard as it seems. Conservatism does have its low IQ constituents; it has a perennially angry faction. Yes, there are Jew haters, probably more than we’d like to admit. There are plenty of staunch isolationist and fiscal absolutist, plenty of holier than thou types that can easily be fluffed up by any innuendo from Trump’s worldly past, his ostentatious present, and in the people that view all comprise [Art of the Deal] as a moral flaw.
The more difficult question is how could someone like a Tucker Carlson be taken in and dupped? Tucker is maybe the highest profile person of The Discontents. His name was once floated as an outsider prospect for President. He is to me, the most baffling particularly because I once viewed him as very smart and very wise, the very gifts he most compromises for his new anti-Trump cause. Case in point; when an IDF soldier desecrated a statue of Jesus, certainly a condemnable act, Tucker rushed to tar the entire nation of Israel and our entire foreign policy with them over this one whack job Israeli. Tucker says we went to war over an Israel that has given us nothing. Other more rigorous minds know differently. The point here, to put it very simply, is: Tucker Carlson is obviously a very smart man, or was. Why is he now acting so profoundly stupid? He is not some trailer park ignorant Joe Bigot sitting out on his astroturf cursing some war he doesn’t understand. He’s moved in high places, seen the complexity of a first world super power first hand and up close, interviewed a lot of main characters, and commented competently. Why does is he now reducing everything that Trump touches in Joe Bigot vernacular? ‘Thirty pieces of silver’ provides a plausible explanation.
Back in the old days, there was this guy named Matt Drudge. He aggregated news stories in the simplest format imaginable but also did some investigative journalism himself. He broke the Monica Lewinski story on Bill Clinton and made history. He was the news man’s news man, the place where even big media snuck off to, to get the zeitgeist of the daily news. He was instrumental in getting Donald Trump elected in 2016. Somewhere between 2017-18, his lead stories took a sour turn on Trump without warning. Over the next year his slant took a 180 degree turn. Matt Drudge was always secretive but with his big reverse, he became a ghost. It was rumored that Drudge was sold but to this day, no one knows to whom, by whom, or how much. The Drudge report is now insignificant and that is or was the whole intent. If Drudge soured on Trump and conservatism through a true leftwing conversion, it was not genuine enough to go public with any explanation. Judas presumably lives a life of luxurious ease somewhere far from anyone’s view. Meanwhile, America went to hell and is trying to make a comeback. A lot of innocent people died, were raped, murdered, pushed onto subway tracks, gravely persecuted over the lawlessness ushered in by the Biden left, their corruption of elections, the promotion of $ trillions in fraud. Matt the Judas Drudge had a strong hand in that digression. Conservative corruption has consequences too, somewhere far away from a tropical island drinking Mojitos.
As I suggested earlier, I have no ‘legal’ proof for the theories I lay out here, but the evidence is building. I’ll just say unequivocally, the measure of positional variance for The Discontents well exceeds basic legitimate disagreement over policies. The venom is unjustly personal and terminal; the ensuing disintegration will, like their defection, be a public spectacle.
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