Jessie Partridge

[John F. Kennedy Jr Q @Real_JFK_Jr_]

BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.

Americans work 40+ years…

Pay taxes.
Follow the rules.
Build the country.

Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.

Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into.

Read that again.

The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line.

This is not compassion.
This is a government priority problem.
America First was never just a slogan.
It was a warning.

Who comes first?

The taxpayer… or the system?

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

The Restoring the West Manifesto

I spent the first part of my life living under oppression. I know what it means to be silenced, to have your freedom stolen, to watch a civilization reject the very values that make human flourishing possible.

I also know what it means to be free. And I know that freedom is not inevitable — it must be defended, understood, and taught anew to every generation.

The West is at risk of losing that fight. And too many people who should be leading the defense have no idea how to do so.

That’s why we’re launching Restoring the West.

The Crisis We Face

The civilization that gave the world individual liberty, the rule of law, scientific inquiry, and human dignity is under siege — not primarily from external enemies, but from internal collapse.

Many of our institutions have been captured. Too many of our universities teach students to despise their own inheritance of broad thought and discourse. Our media amplifies every grievance to leftist ideology, while ignoring threats from intolerant ideologies and forces. Our leaders lack the moral vocabulary and fortitude to defend what we’ve built.

Meanwhile, illiberal ideologies — from political Islamism to postmodern identity politics — advance unchecked, demanding submission to group identity over individual conscience, censorship over free speech, and tribal loyalty over universal human rights.

Classical liberals and conservatives? Too often, we’re losing. We win elections but lose the culture. We defend policies but surrender the principles. We react to provocations but fail to plant ideas that endure. We even wage wars to liberate oppressed people in other nations, yet we fail to explain—both to outsiders and to our own citizens—the moral absolutes that demand we use our power against evil, such as the death cult that served as the operating system of Iran’s Islamist regime.

The West will not be restored by winning news cycles. It will be restored by winning the argument for why the West is worth preserving.

Our Guiding Principles:

DEFEND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, UNAPOLOGETICALLY

The features that have uniquely made our civilization a place where all can flourish are rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition: individual liberty, equality before the law, freedom of conscience and expression, and the dignity of every human being. These values built free societies. These values are now under attack. We will defend them without apology or equivocation.

FIGHT ILLIBERALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS

Whether cloaked in religious orthodoxy or academic jargon, illiberalism seeks the same end: the suppression of individual freedom in service of collective control. We oppose political Islam, which seeks to impose religious law on free societies. We oppose postmodern ideologies that replace individual rights with identity hierarchies. We refuse to choose between these threats. We recognize them both as enemies of Western civilization.

PLANT IDEAS THAT ENDURE

This publication is not about outrage or affirmation. It's about intellectual ammunition. Every piece we publish will advance a clear argument, address serious objections, and connect to the project of civilizational renewal. We write for people who need to be persuaded, not just people who already agree. Our goal is to shape minds, change debates, and arm veterans and new generations for the work ahead.

SPEAK WITH MORAL CLARITY

I did not escape one form of oppression to tolerate another. I will not pretend that all cultures are equal, that all ideas are equally valid, or that we can restore the West through euphemism and evasion. Moral clarity is not extremism — it's the precondition for moral action. We will say what is true, even when the truth is uncomfortable.

FIVE PILLARS, ONE MISSION

Everything we publish connects to the civilizational foundations we must restore:

Faith & Family - The roots of free societies

Education - Where the future is won or lost

Law & Liberty - Without which we are subjects, not citizens

Nation & Citizenship - The framework for self-governance

Media, Arts & Culture - Where values are formed or deformed

These aren't talking points. These are the fronts in a war for civilization itself.

SMART BREVITY, SERIOUS PURPOSE

Busy people need clear arguments, not bloated essays. We respect your time by making every word count. But efficiency serves substance, not the other way around. We will never sacrifice intellectual rigor for algorithmic reach or dumb down complex arguments for easier consumption. Excellence is the standard we want restored in our civilization — it’s the standard we hold ourselves to here.

Why This Matters

I have seen what happens when civilizations abandon their principles. I have lived under the thuggish sandal of illiberalism. I know the price of freedom because I know what life costs without it.

Too many of the institutions that once defended Western civilization have failed or been captured. The task of restoration falls to us — to those who understand what’s at stake and refuse to surrender what generations before us built and bled for.

This is not pessimism. This is realism coupled with resolve.

The West can be saved. But only if we’re willing to make the argument for why it deserves to be saved — and then do the work required to save it.

Welcome to Restoring the West.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Jessie Partridge @1handroyal]

@BillyBrianSeam1 @archeohistories Different Princess Alice

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @Real_Ames]

Employees from Sports Drink, a bar in New Orleans, CONFRONTTED multiple ICAC officers ( Internet Crimes Against Children) because they thought they were ICE agents. Even when the officers explained who they were .. the man filming said, " We don't care who you are. We don't support what you do. " Repost this until Sports Drink New Orleans fires these employees and has to shut down from lack of customers. Apparently, they are ok with crimes against children. Bud Light this bar!

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Every. Single. Time.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

You can't afford another kid because childcare is so expensive—but Somali fraudsters got millions of your taxpayer dollars for child care centers that don’t exist.

You can’t afford a home—but 100 Somalis spent millions of your taxpayer dollars on luxury properties.

You’re paying $30K a year for terrible health care—while they got millions of your taxpayer dollars for health care centers they never opened.

That's the Democratic elites in a nutshell: You come last. And if you object, they call you racist.

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

The fragile coalition on the right is at the edge -- and the left knows it. They didn't push the right here, the right did it all by itself by taking the bait.
The left and its legacy press ID'd Musk as the lynchpin to this coalition and if they can't take down Trump or Musk individually, they will take the alliance and with it the first domino in the coalition.
Blind loyalty has no place in a free republic. People are free to agree and disagree on the merits of the issues. This nation was built on criticizing its lawmakers and airing grievances with policy. The people who don't understand these concepts are as great a threat to this republic as the legacy press and identity politic left they purport to oppose.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Federal Judge Orders Astronauts Be Returned To Space Station https://t.co/j8XQJbA3Cs

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

🚨The media will never show you this!

Kathy Hochul had a Black, disabled New Yorker arrested for demanding answers after she overhauled the home healthcare program.

Kathy Hochul is effectively stripping Medicaid benefits from over 100,000 NYers by April 1st unless it’s stopped!

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

Look at how many people showed up to see Trump work the drive thru

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Once a Nazi, always a Nazi? George Soros Paying Student Agitators To Whip Up Anti-Israel Protests | ZeroHedge https://t.co/XxXQS7a6pR

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Why the Epidemic of the Violent, Crybaby Protestors?

After seven months of nonstop pro-Hamas protests on campuses and in our big cities, a certain predictable and monotonous pattern has emerged.

The placards calling for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel (“From the River to the Sea”) are now amplified with ever more venomous rhetoric and performance-art demonstrations—from “Death to Israel! Death to America!” shouts (vintage 1979-80 Tehran) to flag burning to chasing and assaulting Jewish students, to defacing iconic monuments (including veterans’ cemeteries), storming classrooms, and to interrupting congressional life on the Hill.

Yet when a college president or government official on rare occasion calls the police and a few arrests or even suspensions follow, the fiery protestors melt.

We were led to believe by their hateful sloganeering and disrespect for the law that they were the descendants of the do-or-die 1917 Bolsheviks, or the thuggish 1930s Mussolini black-shirted toughs. But on the slightest pushback by authorities, they metamorphosize into hot-house plants that whimper in “I can’t believe this is happening to me” undergraduate style.

Last fall, we first saw glimpses of the fragility of the hate-Israel crowd at Harvard, where outrage followed when the names of violent protestors were spread among potential employers.

At Vanderbilt, the thuggish demonstrators that broke into an administrative building when confronted with police removal descended into preteen whimpering—to the point of claiming it was so unfair because one protestor needed to change her tampon. During the near-day long pout, they further sobbed that the officers tasked to keep them away from university officials were treated with food from Panera Bread, but the poor protestors were not.

When masked Pomona protestors swarmed the president’s office, they oddly found themselves subject to arrests and possible suspension. And then on spec their fury turned into self-pity and lamentation.

At a Bakersfield, California city-council meeting, a fiery revolutionary, Ms. Riddhi Patel, screamed at the city council members in pro-Hamas fashion. And then she cowardly shouted out a murderous Parthian shot: “I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all you mother—…We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.”

Yet after throwing down the Maoist gauntlet, Patel was reduced to prepubescent sobbing at her hearing where she faced 18 felony counties. (Did she assume Bakersfield was Yale or San Francisco?).

So questions arise: why do these fire-and-brimstone revolutionaries calling for death and destruction wear masks? What or whom are they afraid of?

Why not show the world who they are and proudly advance their revolution?

Why, after signaling their anti-establishment fides, do they fall into sobbing fetal positions when confronted with the possibility of being expelled from what we thought were their despised universities?

Various explanations come to mind, none of them mutually exclusive:

1) This helicopter-parented generation is fragile and wilts when exposed to real consequences, since they have never really faced any—or much of anything beyond their sheltered lives;

2) Many sprout from mother-ship universities where their bullying of cowardly administrators means they are further coddled by protective DEI apparatchiks, convincing them they are gifted, special people;

3) They mostly come from upper-middle-class, well-off families, or the elite of the Middle East. Or they are on generous foreign student support and thus are used to having their way, given their parents have groomed them to go to elite schools, get cattle-branded degrees, and plug into lucrative jobs. Any interruption in that cursus creates hysteria;

4) They saw that the looters, arsonists, vandals, and assaulters of summer 2020 faced no consequences while the demonstrators of January 6 faced prison sentences. Thus they concluded that the leftwing administrative state would always exempt them (and it usually does) from all consequences;

5) They fear their coddling parents will be mad if their suspensions or arrests retard their oh so precious career paths;

6) Those on student visas and green cards who praise Hamas, trash the U.S. (literally and figuratively) in a manner that would get them jailed or killed in their romanticized birthplaces assume self-loathing Americans will always either appreciate or tolerate their hypocrisies. The more they show hatred toward the U.S., the more they are paranoid about being sent back to Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Jordan, or any of the beloved homelands.

What would end the street-theater violence, the student anti-Semitic bullying, the shut downs of bridges and freeways at commute hours, the mobbing of classrooms and lectures?

1) Arrest violent offenders and charge them with major felonies when they threaten lethal violence (i.e. the case of Ms. Patel), stop commuter traffic, break into a lecture hall, or disrupt Congress;

2) Expel all students who violate university rules; arrest those who commit violence; bar them from re-admission;

3) Put a simple hold on all student visas for 1 year to sort things out;

4) Deport all on student visa-holders who are suspended from universities; and deport all green-card holders who break federal or state laws;

5) File federal racketeering charges against the interstate organizers of violent protests that shut down or occupy public buildings, disrupt transportation, and endanger public safety.

6) Get the government out of the student loan business; tax university endowment income; reduce non-scientific government grants to campuses.

Just a few expelled students or deported visa holders would work pour encourager les autres.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Crooked bastards
https://t.co/wO4FCFMnPp

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Special counsel Smith indicted Trump aide Walt Nauta  for an allegedly false statement of “I don’t know”. John Brennan and James Clapper both lied under oath to Congress. Andrew McCabe lied three times to federal investigators. James Comey 245 times under oath claimed ”I don’t know/remember.” Equal Justice?

[Jessie Partridge @1handroyal]

@POTUS Those jobs were not created. Those were the jobs placed on “hold” during Covid. This is a lie.