Bob Dylan said, “You can’t listen to critics.” Who am I to argue? Manning the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState.

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined April 2016
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I explained why almost every actor and artist ends up on the same side. Today I want to show you that none of this is an accident. It was theorized almost a hundred years ago, by an Italian communist sitting in a prison cell. His name was Antonio Gramsci. Once you understand his idea, you will see it everywhere. Start with the problem Gramsci was trying to solve. Karl Marx had predicted that workers in rich countries would rise up and overthrow capitalism. It never happened. Workers in Italy, France, England and America didn't want a revolution. They went to church on Sunday. They loved their country. They wanted a house, a family, a better life for their kids. The communists couldn't understand it. They had the theory, the anger, the slogans. Why wasn't anyone following them? Gramsci, locked up by Mussolini, spent years thinking about this. And he found the answer. His answer was this: a society isn't held together by police and soldiers. It's held together by what people believe is normal. What you learned at school. What your priest told you. What the newspaper says. What the movies show you. What your neighbors think is obvious. Gramsci called this "hegemony." Put simply, it means: whoever decides what is normal, rules. So he drew a conclusion that changed everything. In the West, you can't win by attacking the palace. You'll lose. People will defend the system because they believe in it. You first have to change what people believe. You have to win the schools, the universities, the newspapers, the arts, the churches. Slowly. Patiently. Trench by trench. He called it a "war of position." Once the culture is yours, politics falls into your hands like ripe fruit. Forty years later, in 1967, a German student leader named Rudi Dutschke turned this idea into a battle plan. He called it "the long march through the institutions." The idea was simple. Don't burn down the university. Become the professor. Don't attack the newspaper. Become the editor. Don't fight the courts. Become the judge. Get inside every institution, rise to the top, and change it from within. Now watch how it works in real life, step by step. A young activist goes to university. He stays. He becomes a professor. Now he trains thousands of students every year. Those students become teachers, journalists, lawyers, HR managers, screenwriters, civil servants. They all learned the same ideas from the same people. They hire people who think like them. After one generation, the institution has changed. After two, nobody remembers it was ever different. Studies have found that at elite American colleges, Democrat professors outnumber Republicans by roughly ten to one, and in some departments there are almost none. That isn't a conspiracy meeting in a basement. It's what a completed march looks like. And here is the most powerful part. Once the institutions are won, you don't need to force anyone. People absorb the ideas without noticing. A fish doesn't know it's wet. A young actor who grew up with teachers, drama coaches, screenwriters, agents and award juries who all think the same way doesn't need to read Gramsci. He just breathes the air. To him, these are not opinions. They are simply what good people believe. And anyone who disagrees isn't someone with a different view. He's a bad person. That's the final stage of hegemony. Disagreement stops being an argument and becomes a moral stain. You don't debate the other side anymore. You cancel it. This is why Hollywood thinks as one. This is why so many newsrooms sound identical. This is why your kids come home from college with ideas you never taught them. Nobody had to give an order. The march was already over. Conservatives made one huge mistake for fifty years. They thought winning elections was enough. They focused on Washington while the other side took the classrooms, the studios, and the newsrooms. They won some votes and lost the culture. And as Andrew Breitbart used to say, politics is downstream of culture. The good news is that a march can go in both directions. Buying Twitter and turning it into X was one institution taken back. There will be others. But it won't happen by complaining. It will happen when people who love freedom start teaching, writing, filming, building, and creating again. They understood the game a hundred years ago. It's time you did too.
Ask yourself a simple question. Why is almost every celebrity on the same side? Actors, singers, late-night hosts, award-show presenters. Thousands of people with different backgrounds, different lives, different temperaments. And somehow, on every major issue, they land on the exact same opinion, at the exact same moment, with the exact same hashtags. Free minds don't behave like that. An ecosystem does. Now ask a second question. Elon Musk is landing rockets on their own tails. He's bringing internet to villages that never had a phone line. He's building cars that drive themselves and implants that let paralyzed people move a cursor with their thoughts. Artists are supposed to be the ones who dream about the future. Here is a man actually building it. How many of them stand next to him? A handful. Why? Because Hollywood is not a free market of talent. It's a royal court. A young actor doesn't make it because he's good. Hundreds are good. He makes it because someone lets him in: an agent, a casting director, a producer, a studio, an awards committee. Every step is a gate, and every gate has a keeper. When your whole career depends on a few rooms, you learn very quickly what can be said in those rooms and what can't. This is how it works. First you stay silent. Then you nod. Then you repeat. Then you believe. Compromise never arrives all at once. It arrives one dinner, one role, one red carpet at a time. And once you've given up enough, you need the system to stay in place, because the system is the only thing that makes the sacrifice worth it. Want to see the whole mechanism in a single story? For decades, one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood was the subject of accusations from dozens of women, and much of the industry treated it as an open secret. A host even joked about it at an Oscar nominations announcement, and the room laughed. Speaking up seriously meant losing everything. When the truth finally broke, the same industry dressed in black and applauded its own courage. Silence while it pays. Virtue once it's safe. That's the system. And that's the real lie. Not that these people are monsters. Most aren't. The lie is calling it courage. Real courage costs you something. Saying what every room in town already applauds costs nothing. Saying the opposite is what costs. That's why so few artists stand with Elon. Not because they've studied his ideas and rejected them, but because standing there is a career risk they can't afford. Look at what happened to him when he left the consensus. Advertisers fled. Friends disappeared. Invitations stopped. He could afford it. Almost nobody else can. That tells you exactly how free that world really is. So wake up. Stop taking your political cues from people whose paycheck depends on agreeing. A celebrity endorsement is not an argument. It's a loyalty signal. Your vote, your convictions, your children's future: don't outsource them to people who are paid to recite lines someone else wrote. The people who build the future rarely get applause from the people who perform it. Think for yourself. It's the most American thing you can do.
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I’d like to thank my coworkers for asking how I’m doing today on my first day back to work since my brother-in-law passed away the morning of October 12, 2026. I’d like to, but since none of them have, the opportunity has yet to present itself.
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David Crowley's 'Free' Universal Childcare Program Will Cost Billions for Wisconsin Taxpayers townhall.com/news/amy-curtis…
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Portland Is Poised to Kill the Robo Taxi Industry townhall.com/news/amy-curtis…
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Based on what I’ve observed at the Pilates place I pass to and from work, this information is not widespread.
Do women know it’s possible to wear a tshirt and shorts or leggings to the gym?
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How hard is it to paint a straight line?
I saw this pop up in my feed and thought, “How bad could it possibly be? They’re forced to make a statement on the conditions of the field markings?” Incredible.
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Enjoying this BLT on sourdough in Ilhan Omar's honor
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Women at the gym should not be objectified and judged by their appearances! They should be free to go to the gym unharrassed, so they can freely record themselves in revealing workout attire and post those images on social media so people can comment on their appearances!!!
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My brother in law passed away this morning. Cancer. His death was not unexpected. But still.
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God doesn’t promise us a trouble-free life. He doesn’t promise that we will always understand everything He does—or allows. But He does promise to be with us every step of the way. And He promises to work all things together for our ultimate good and His glory. So even when you don’t understand what God is doing, you can still trust Him.
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Keith Ellison Was Busted by CNN for Taking Lavish Overseas Trips Funded by Corporate Lobbyists townhall.com/news/amy-curtis…
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Related, my cover of “Beyond the Veil” xitter.cf/pudgenet/status/183063…
Replying to @pudgenet
7. “Beyond the Veil,” by Randy Stonehill. I had just learned a family friend had died.
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Today may be a big day for our band kiddos as they compete, but today is also one of the most important anniversaries our family has. Three years ago today, @BumpstockKen officially adopted the Tiny Tyrant. And somehow, “officially” feels like such a small word for something that had already been true for so many years. He came into her life when she was three years old. We got married when she was six. And somewhere along the way, without fanfare or ceremony, he simply became her dad. Not because a piece of paper said he was but because he showed up. Because he loved her. Because he was there for the little things and the big things. For the bedtime stories and the hard days. For the milestones and the moments nobody else saw. Because he chose her, over and over again, until there was never any question that she was his and he was hers. And I think about what that day must have meant to TT because from her perspective, she wasn’t meeting her dad for the first time. She wasn’t suddenly gaining someone who had decided to love her. She was standing beside the man who had already been there for most of the life she could remember, and finally getting to say, in the most official way possible, “That’s my dad.” For a little girl who had known his love long before she understood the meaning of adoption, that piece of paper wasn’t creating a relationship, it was giving her the security of knowing that the relationship she already treasured was permanent. Three years ago, a judge signed a piece of paper and gave the world the legal words for what our family had known for years. But that paper didn’t make him her dad, it just caught up with all of our hearts. And I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully explain what it means to watch the man you love choose your child so completely. To know that when he married me, he didn’t just accept the fact that I came with a daughter. He opened his heart and made room for her as his daughter, too. He didn’t love her because he had to. He loved her because she was the Tiny Tyrant. Because she was his little girl. Because somewhere along the way, she became part of him. And she didn’t just gain a legal father that day, she gained the official recognition of a love that had already been there for most of her life. And maybe that’s the part that gets me the most. She didn’t have to wonder if he was choosing her. She had years of proof. She didn’t have to wonder if he loved her. She had felt it in a thousand little ways. And she didn’t have to wonder if he was really her dad. That day, she got to know that the man she had already called Dad was officially, legally, permanently hers. Happy 3rd adoption anniversary, Daniel and TT!!! Daniel, thank you for loving our little girl long before you ever had to call yourself her dad on paper. Thank you for choosing her. Thank you for giving her the gift of a dad who never needed a biological connection to know she was his. You didn’t become her father that day, you just finally got the paperwork to prove what we all already knew. You were her dad long before anyone ever signed a thing. And you always will be 🖤
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sharkie accidentally traumatizing this kid 😭
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