“We’re not voting our way out of this”

[Coach is Back!]

Things are getting extremely serious in America. Men know they may have to lay down their lives to save our country, and they’re willing to do that

“As I sit here driving home to my beautiful wife and our 5 wonderful sons with the 6th on the way, I have this feeling in my stomach. I have this question in mind. What would it take for a man to willingly sacrifice his life for a cause higher than himself? What would the appropriate conditions have to be in order for that to happen?

And I'm asking myself this because over the course of the last week, I have felt my mind, my body, and my spirit preparing for a possible conflict in which I may not be here anymore, but the cause in which I would be supporting is appropriate, and not only appropriate, but necessary.”

“Why though? Well, because we're seeing an absolute Islamic invasion of our country — we have a communist infiltration of our institutions. So what do we do with all of this as Christians or conservatives? Do we roll over and die? Do we wallow in the mud? Do we stay down? Do we stay in the filth?

Or do we recognize that it's actually us that has a monopoly on force? Not them. It's us.

It's us who has control over our inner peace, an inner peace that is brought forth by responsibilities such as raising children, such as getting married. These people are evil demons who do not want to see families thrive. They do not like to see progress because the moment they start to see families winning and people that are better off than them, they always have a finger to point. They always have someone that they need to take out. They always need some law that has to be changed. They are never at peace. They are never happy.

So what are we to do as men when we see that someone is coming to destroy our peace? That someone is coming to destroy our families? I know you feel it. I know you feel it, man. There's something in your stomach. There's something in your heart and your mind and in your spirit that is preparing you for something to come. Don't ignore it. Don't sequester it. Let it build.

These are the necessary conditions by which we will inevitably win this war — Something's coming that you might have to put your foot down for and stand firm —we're gonna have to start collectivizing here sooner rather than later”

Nobody wants to accept this as a reality but unfortunately this is exactly the direction our country is going

Men who love our country are going to have to stand up and say no more and take our country back

We’re not voting our way out of this

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2120997954949620077?a=7ZKxp6m3XMhR3UQmVYo&s=46

[Dave D]

There’s not going to be a civil war. People didn’t fight back during Covid when rights and freedoms were stripped, that was the gut check by the government, and by that metric we failed.

[Van_Bilderass]

There’s not going to be a civil war. People didn’t fight back during Covid when rights and freedoms were stripped, that was the gut check by the government, and by that metric we failed.

Exactly what I've told Coach repeatedly. That AI slop offers no realistic solutions either, "put our foot down collectively." OK, what does that mean? Rail against Muslims and Communists online, the Islamo-Communists?

I don't know if Coach has any realistic solutions either, I tend to doubt it.

I saw this, by Curtis Yarwin. He has some ideas. I don't necessarily endorse anything, just somewhat interesting. This is not a liberal, at all.

The midterm postmortem

“It is a Third World democracy in which parties are armies.”
Nov 04, 2026

The whole structure of Republican cope shattered today, and Republicans still don’t know what to do with it.

Republicans can win easily. They can win the next election easily. They could have won this election easily, if they were living in reality. Instead, from top to bottom, from voters to pundits to politicians to donors, they decided to live in la-la land. With what results, we see.

The whole theory of the postwar Republican Party is that Republicans take governance seriously, whereas Democrats only care about power. True enough. But not true enough to win. Just true enough to lose.

Republicans win a little bit of power and do some small things. The second Trump administration is real. It has done real things. Some have been screwups. Most have been good things. Yes, the White House actually needs a ballroom. Obviously our informed, concerned citizens can see that, and vote for the President who finally gave America the ballroom it deserves.

But all the pundits who blame this on “the divisive MAGA agenda,” and all the other pundits who blame it on “not executing the MAGA agenda,” are profoundly out to lunch. There is no “agenda” that will fix this. There are no “issues,” like “affordability.”

Republicans lost this election because they believe that elections are won by motivation, and motivation is about “issues” and “agendas.” This is indeed how a republic works.

The reality is that the United States is not a republic—a “res publica.” It is not a government of informed, concerned citizens coming together to govern themselves better. It is a Third World democracy in which parties are armies. It is the late Roman Republic.

In a Third World democracy, an election is a war: a contest for power. Ballots are bullets. Yes, wars need motivation. If history has any examples of war—foreign or civil, hot or cold—motivated by civic responsibility, I don’t know them. No one ever fought a war for an “agenda.” Wars are motivated by (a) loathing and (b) fear.

But wars are fought by organization. The Democratic Party is an organization. Yes, it is ramshackle and polycentric. It’s still an army. The fundamental principle of an army is absolute loyalty. In the Democratic Congress, voting discipline is absolute. Democratic voters do not need to be “motivated” by an “agenda.” There are two segments of Democratic vote: elites and clients. Elites are motivated by fear and loathing. Clients are not motivated at all. They are not political “citizens.” They are harvested by the head.

The Republican Party is a label. As I said when I talked to former Democratic organizer Evan Barker: there is no “Republican Party.” Yes, there is a headquarters which distributes various funds. Yes, there is a gerontocratic corruption machine on the Hill. But every Republican politician is a party of one. He raises his own money. He makes his own lobbyist deals. He has his own “agenda.” The Republican Senate machine could not even pass a bill to make their own elections easier. Why? They would rather lose, and hope it rids them of these MAGA clowns. The gerontocrats’ seats are safe.

This is an abysmal form of government. We are in the abyss. The first stage of getting out of any abyss is realizing that you’re in it. American politics has always had a strong flavor of “manifesting:” living in the reality you want to see. If we all believe at once! To escape from the abyss, if it is even possible, first discard all myths, all lies, all illusion, all baits. Execute only in reality.

How do we get back to our constitutional republic? What kind of republic do we want to live in? That’s like asking ourselves how we want our steak dinners cooked once we’re rescued (as we deserve to be, so God of course will provide) from a desert island. It’s a mouse asking himself how he can escape from the trap, but also keep the cheese.

Historically, Third World democracy is also a temporary form of government. It is “late-stage democracy.” It ends in the victory of one army. It seems very likely that a Democratic victory in 2028 will result in a permanent one-party state: the US as California. There are infinitely many ways to run a one-party state with pretend elections. Heck, for all the tangible impact that any election since has produced, we’ve been there since 1933.

The Democratic Party has also entered a new phase. Except between 1941 and 1945, its bread and butter has been a “Mutt-and-Jeff” game of “moderates” and “radicals.” There was never any moral conflict between these groups. Along with mere personal jockeying, the “moderate” position has always been: “idiots, don’t frighten the sheep,” to which the reply is: “idiots, why are you afraid of sheep?” The radicals have been winning this argument, slowly but surely. Now they’ve pretty much won.

There is only one Democratic Party. This is a land of wolves now. Are you a wolf? No, but learn to fight like one. The healthy core of the Republican Party is the sheepdog party. As a Republican leader, you have exactly two jobs: fighting wolves, and herding sheep. Not “governing.” Not building ballrooms, bombing Iran, etc.

This final appearance of historical reality in politics, naked and unashamed, means we have only one remaining election. Losing this election will result in the destruction of the Republican Party as an effective historical force. Winning it, therefore, needs to result in the destruction of the Democratic Party as an effective historical force.

This is our only hope for escaping from a Third World future which will inevitably be dominated by China. The US will be Argentina, with nukes and the global reserve currency: two artifacts of the 20th century. The nukes will never be used, and the delicious transoceanic river of Amazon Prime gewgaws traded for crisp new green bills is a national drug addiction. Unfortunately, China has no reason to turn this river off—I wish they would.

First: Trump should resign now and let Vance go into the election as the incumbent. “Governing” is dead in this lame-duck admin. The most sickening element of Republican governance is the constant mendacious pretense that the President is in control of the executive branch. Stop lying at once! The President, in our regime as presently constituted, is not the CEO of the executive branch. The Congress is the CEO of the executive branch.

A Republican President is not the God-Emperor. He is a tribune of the people—a rebel in office. And in office, as the system works now, he is quite firmly chained. He has no power to do anything significant. Every statement and action of the new President must reflect and reinforce this reality, because we cannot escape from our trap until it is conveyed accurately to 100 million people.

When Americans rebel against the permanent New Deal regime and elect a dissident President, his goal must be to destroy the regime and the whole system of narrative fictions around it. The “Project 2025” strategy of tinkering with executive orders is counterproductive. Either it doesn’t work, or it does. When it does, it strengthens the enemy, by giving substance to the enemy’s lies. Oh good, you saved some money! You did a heckin governance! More green paper to send to China. If tinkering can significantly attrit enemy forces—as with USAID—it’s great. Likewise if it builds forces on our side. Otherwise, it’s pure vanity.

The President is the CEO of foreign policy—of the world, really. But not of America. This power is only useful inasmuch as it is used to help America. America needs a lot of help. Right now, it needs help with only one thing: winning the next election. Are there foreign-policy moves that will help win the next election? If so, make them.

But most of all, Republicans need to take the next two years to organize an actual political party. Winning the Presidency is not enough. Even winning Congress is not enough, as we saw in 2025 and 2026.

The White House is a political liability—a weak, demoralizing target—unless it can act with real power. There are only two ways to get this. One is a completely tame Congress, like FDR’s Congress, that will rubber-stamp bills written in the White House. The other is a constitutional reinterpretation that restores the executive branch’s status as a coequal branch, not subject to the legislature or courts. In this constitutional model, the accountability checks on the executive are reduced to election and impeachment.

The tame Congress is the easiest way. The best way to build a tame Congress is to do elections the AOC way: cast candidates like actors. Centralize all the funding and all the staff. Since fundraising is the main job of a Congressman, they now have no real job at all, which is appropriate for actors. They can record soundbites on TikTok if they want. As usual, the Democrats are running this program already.

To make any of this work, Republicans have to relate to their voters in a completely different way: not like a crowd of self-motivated citizens concerned about “issues” and agendas,” but like an army of disciplined soldiers amped up on loathing and fear.

The motivating question of the election is: are we going to make it to the future? Some future? Any future? Or are we going back to eternal 2021? Does the government actually care about the people it rules over, or is it an insane power cult obsessed with bizarre causes and crusades? Will the US continue on its path of becoming a Third World country? Will it open the borders to the entire Third World?

Compare this as a source of martial energy to “affordability.” Yes, I’m going to fight in this election that’s a war for… money. Well, not money for me. Money for people like me. “Gibs,” as we say on the Internet. We are not expecting our soldiers to fight with bullets, not because that would be bad or wrong, but because they are not actual soldiers and have never shot anyone in their lives. Fortunately, ballots will be enough. (“Ballot” and “bullet” have the same etymology—votes used to be cast with little balls.)

Then, organize our soldiers. Where we find the missing power is simple: turnout. Or as we say in Silicon Valley, engagement. If your product is not getting enough engagement, it is probably not very engaging. You know what’s engaging? War. Also, games.

We need to gamify voting. Voting, in fact, is an augmented-reality game (ARG). Here’s how a 21st-century political party works: it’s an app. On your phone. Every time you have a chance to fire a ballot in the war, your phone pops up and helps you pull the trigger. You are not interested in “issues” or “agendas” or even “candidates.” Voting is just data entry. If you have the party’s app installed, it will show you what data to enter and how to enter it. Ideally, this nuisance would be eliminated, and the party would just vote automatically on your behalf.

This party is a real party, not a label like the “Republicans.” It has real structures. It has a party line, which is always true. It has an intelligence organ, which makes sure the party line is always true. This party line is spun by hundreds of media professionals, as talented as anyone at NPR or the NYT, into a rich and compelling narrative, which is also true (if often shocking), and which everyone can live inside. Since local news in America is also dead, constructing local narratives is also a rich opportunity.

These systems do not exist today for a reason: everyone expects them to magically exist on their own. Actually, a real political party is not and cannot be a profit center. It’s a cost center. What does it cost? A lot! What does it cost to spend $500 million in the midterms on boomer consultants who place boomerslop TV ads? Also a lot.

A real political party is, of course, a shadow government. It is not just a shadow government in the British sense of “ministers in waiting.” It is a shadow single-party state. It contains all the organs of the new state which can operate before its founding in a private capacity—including state media, and eventually even state education.

At the core of the shadow government is an intelligence agency, whose only goal is to find out and distribute the truth. A completely harmless private organization—but neither profitable (since its product is power, not money), nor a nonprofit (since this makes it vulnerable to law fare).

The fact that this organ does not exist is a measure of our weakness, and our failure to understand the basics of historical statesmanship. Our knowledge of those basics is what has to get us out of the abyss. Lies, illusions, myths, will no longer suffice. We have no choice but to live and act in the full historical truth. We can still soften and spin it for the boomers, but not by hiding it or denying it. That’s all over.

I have to admit, as I've said many times, I don't have the solutions either, and Europe would need solutions to be sure. I have said we'd need a God-Emperor, we'd need another Hitler, but I don't see it happening.

[mphgrove]

I guess you could argue the Far Left won in this latest election (El Sayed and the Democratic Socialists in a smattering of places) but the real story is the huge impact of Independent voters who swung against Trump and the Republicans. Think places like Maine, Kansas, Texas, Mississippi, and all the 52%/48% congressional districts in middle-of-the-road regions across the USA. These are all places that are just as (or more) conservative than they are “liberal”.

All us middle-of-the-road citizens are the safety valve against any sort of civil violence (now and in the future). Sorry Coach. We ARE NOT THE FAR LEFT. But the Democrats better work real hard to “fix things” or the Independents will shove the momentum right back the other way.

[LurkerNoMore]

Qoach and the MAGAtard fatsos just love to talk about a civil war.  It's part of their LARPing fantasy.  Everyone knows that if a civil war broke out, they would never leave home and the internet.  It would be the fastest civil war in history of any country.  All it would take to win is to turn off the internet and stop selling White Claw drinks. 

[SweetDaddySiki]

I'm learning "Civil War" by Guns and Roses on my beloved Les Paul Standard guitar. The problem is that I have to tune down half a step and that bothers my ears. Sounds flat.