Larry Cipriani

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” — Thomas Sowell

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[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 JUST NOW: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent will be REVOKING the Tax-Exempt Status of "nonprofits" who have been funding groups like Antifa

I ABSOLUTELY VOTED FOR THIS

KEEP IT GOING 🔥

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

I think a lot of conservatives are talking at each other or past each other because they’re not truly understanding some people just want to reform a constitutionally broken system, but other people want to change the constitution.

I support President Trump’s efforts to dismantle an administrative state that has accumulated powers it was never constitutionally supposed to have. I support making unelected bureaucracies accountable to elected officials. I support returning government to its constitutional limits because I believe that is exactly what our Founders intended.

But that is not what postliberalism is trying to do.

Postliberalism doesn’t simply want to restore the constitutional order. It wants to replace it with a different understanding of where authority resides.

That’s why this conversation is so confusing. They begin with many of the same legitimate complaints that constitutional conservatives have. The administrative state is out of control. Bureaucrats exercise enormous power with almost no accountability. Progressive institutions have abused their authority. Those criticisms are always correct.

Where we part ways is what comes next.

I want to restore the constitutional framework because I believe the Founders were right about one thing above everything else. Human beings cannot be trusted with unlimited power. It doesn’t matter whether they call themselves conservatives, progressives, Christians, or secularists or Jewish people. Man will always fall short of the glory of God. That is why power must remain divided, limited, and restrained.

The postliberal project often begins with constitutional frustrations but ends somewhere very different. Instead of asking how we restore the constitutional limits on power, it increasingly asks who should wield more power now that the “right people” are in charge.

That is a completely different question.

I don’t believe our problem is that the wrong people have too much power. I believe our problem is that too much power exists for anyone to possess in the first place.

That is the difference.

I want to dismantle unconstitutional concentrations of power and return them to their proper constitutional boundaries. I do not want to replace the American constitutional order with another theory of authority, even if that theory happens to come from people who share many of my policy goals.

That is why this debate is so important. You can agree on the diagnosis and completely disagree on the cure.

[jackwindsor @jackwindsor]

Ohio EPA's own draft permit language: "lowering of water quality of various waters of the state is necessary." 7,000+ public comments. A U.S. senator called it out. Both parties gagged on it. You don't write a permission slip for something you don't expect to happen.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Two quotes, twenty-one centuries apart, describing the same mechanism.

Aristotle first: “Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with him.”

Jefferson second: “To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens would be nothing less than to admit the Trojan horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.”

Read them together and the argument assembles itself.

The tyrant’s problem is the citizen. The citizen has history, has roots, has pre-existing loyalties to the republic that predate the tyrant and do not depend on him. He has opinions. He remembers what things were like before. He has standing to compare. The foreigner — admitted suddenly, dependent on the system that admitted him, owing his position to the current arrangement — enters with none of that. He is grateful rather than demanding. Dependent rather than sovereign. The tyrant does not prefer foreigners because he is cosmopolitan. He prefers them because they cannot yet rival him. Loyalty purchased through admission is more reliable than loyalty inherited through citizenship.

Jefferson names the mechanism from the other end: indiscriminate admission is not generosity. It is the Trojan Horse – the gift that enters through the open gate precisely because the gate is open, bypassing every defense the citadel was built to maintain. The horse is welcomed in. The soldiers emerge at night. The citadel falls not to siege but to hospitality weaponized.

Neither man was against foreigners. Both were against the political use of admission – the deliberate flooding of the civic space with people whose loyalties are unformed, whose dependencies are fresh, and whose gratitude can be directed. Aristotle observed it as a tyrant’s tool. Jefferson warned against it as a republic’s vulnerability. Both understood that a self-governing people requires a demos with shared history, shared stakes, and shared accountability – and that a ruler who bypasses the formation of that demos is not building a nation. He is building a tyranny.

And the Trojan Horse didn’t need to breach the walls. The citizens opened the gates. And then it was just administration.

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[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🔥 TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING

JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too.

The speech everyone’s talking about: Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961. The CIA had just botched the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was livid. He’d been lied to by his own intelligence apparatus. And he walked onto that stage and said something no president has dared say since.

“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.”

Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy.

This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself.

And then he said the quiet part out loud:

“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”

Sound familiar?

Sixty-five years later, Trump drops this video on Truth Social. No commentary needed. The speech does all the work. And within hours, the same media outlets that spent four years calling Trump a conspiracy theorist are suddenly very quiet.

Here’s what they don’t want you to connect:

- Kennedy was assassinated 2.5 years after this speech

- The Warren Commission was a joke — even the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 concluded Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”

- The files are STILL classified

- Trump has been pushing to release them, but the permanent national security state refuses, instead slow-walking the order

The timing isn’t random. This isn’t just history. JFK described a permanent national security state that has only grown more entrenched — one that operates beyond elections, beyond accountability, beyond the reach of voters.

Kennedy called it “a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.”

That machine didn’t disappear when he died. It got even stronger.

Trump reposting this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a signal. The same forces JFK warned about are the same forces that tried to destroy Trump — Russiagate, two impeachments, lawfare, media blackout, assassination attempts. The playbook hasn’t changed. Only the names.

And now the sitting president just reminded the country who the real enemy has always been.

The speech that scared them then is the speech they’re terrified you’ll watch now.

Sharing this because they’re counting on you not to watch it. Don’t let them win. 🎯

[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

@NizNellie3 Ohio State University now has an Indian president, Ravi V. Bellamkonda. I'm sure he'll get right on thinning out the H1B staff.

[Jay Gatling @apinionsvary]

⚖️ Amy Coney Barrett all but admitted that the mob on the left has cowed her into submission.

She should resign IMMEDIATELY and allow President Trump to appoint a man who will base judicial decisions on the Constitution and not out of fear.

Yes, I said a man - ZFG.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The Museum Civilization

There is a peculiar class of modern Westerner who believes history has been permanently retired.

They speak of conquest the way a child speaks of wolves. Simply confident it no longer applies, offended that you would even mention it, and deeply upset when reminded that teeth still exist.

They insist the world runs on rules now and that borders are sacred. Also that true power has been replaced by paperwork.

This belief is not moral in the least. It’s f*****g archaeological.

They live inside institutions built by violence, defended by men they no longer understand, and guaranteed by forces they refuse to acknowledge. Like tourists wandering a fortress, they admire the stonework while mocking the idea of a siege.

They confuse order with nature. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Then blame the person that reminds them of this.

Civilization is not the default state of humanity. It is an achievement that is temporary, fragile, and expensive. It exists only where force once cleared the ground and still quietly patrols the perimeter.

A lion does not debate the ethics of hunger. Neither does a starving empire.

History is not a morality play, it is a pressure test. When pressure rises, abstractions collapse first. Laws follow power; they do NOT precede it. Property exists only where someone can prevent it from being taken. Sovereignty is not declared, it is enforced.

The modern West outsourced this enforcement, then forgot the invoice existed.

So when someone points out uncomfortable realities (whether about Greenland, Venezuela, or the broader balance of power) they respond with ritual incantations: “You can’t do that.” “That’s wrong.” “That’s against the rules.”

As if the rules themselves are armed. As if history paused because we asked nicely.

This is how empires fall. Not from invasion alone, but from conceptual rot. From mistaking a long season of safety for a permanent condition. From believing lethality is immoral instead of foundational.

Every civilization that forgot how violence works eventually relearned it the hard way. The conquerors did not arrive because they were monsters; they arrived because their victims could no longer imagine them.

The tragedy is not that power still exists. The tragedy is that so many have forgotten it does.

Idk who needs to hear this but civilization is a garden grown atop a graveyard. Ignore the soil, and someone else will plant something far less gentle.

Hate me for being the messenger and asking the hard questions about conquest if you want. You’re just wasting your time.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 as a practical manual for power. For five centuries, polite society has pretended to be shocked by it. Meanwhile, every successful political operator — on every side — has been quietly following it. The only people who haven’t read it are the ones who keep losing.

1. Machiavelli’s central insight is not that the ends justify the means. That is the misquote that lets comfortable people dismiss him. His actual insight is simpler and more disturbing: power has its own logic, independent of morality, and those who refuse to understand that logic will be defeated by those who do. The Prince is not a villain’s manual. It is a description of reality that makes virtuous people uncomfortable – because reality doesn’t care about their virtue.

2. The current progressive system applies Machiavelli more fluently than any of its opponents. His first rule: the appearance of virtue matters more than virtue itself. The DEI statement while systematically excluding dissent. The democracy rhetoric while suppressing opposition. The compassion branding while destroying careers. This is Machiavelli’s prince – not good, but performing goodness to maintain legitimacy. The performance is the power.

3. His second rule, which the current system also applies perfectly: cruelty, when necessary, should be delivered swiftly, completely, and early. Cancellation is Machiavellian – total, swift, exemplary. The point isn’t the individual being cancelled. The point is the ten thousand people watching who quietly adjust their behavior. One public destruction purchases a million private silences. Machiavelli would have recognized the mechanism immediately. He invented the theory.

4. Communism applied the fear side of Machiavelli with full conviction – Stalin made the explicit choice Machiavelli described: better to be feared than loved. The show trial is pure Machiavellian theater – a public demonstration of power functioning as a warning to everyone who isn’t on trial. But communism made his fatal mistake: it destroyed the people’s goodwill so completely that it generated not just fear but hatred. And Machiavelli is unambiguous – you can rule through fear, you cannot survive through hatred.

5. His most important democratic insight — the one nobody quotes — is that the prince who builds his power on the people is more secure than one who builds it on elites. Elites are few, demanding, and treacherous. The people are many, ask only not to be oppressed, and are a more stable foundation. The political movement that actually connects with ordinary people against the credentialed elite is applying Machiavelli more correctly than the elite relying on institutional capture alone.

6. What should we do? Stop bringing virtue to a knife fight. The chronic error of the opposition is the naive prince Machiavelli explicitly warns against – the leader who assumes truth wins automatically, who believes that being right is a strategy. It is not a strategy. It is a precondition. Being right gives you something worth fighting for. Machiavelli tells you how to fight: build your own power base, never rely entirely on others, control your narrative before your enemies do, and treat fortune as something to be seized, not waited for. Fortune favors the bold. Not the righteous. The bold.

7. Machiavelli is taught in universities as cynical amoralism – the thing decent people reject. This framing is itself Machiavellian – it keeps the manual out of the hands of the people who most need it. The current establishment didn’t reject Machiavelli. It institutionalized him, rebranded him in the language of social justice, and uses him daily. The opposition reads Augustine and loses. The system reads Machiavelli and wins. Until the side that is actually right decides that understanding power is not a betrayal of principle but a precondition for defending it – the result will be the same. Virtue without strategy is just a dignified way of losing.

[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

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[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

@John_F_kJr In case you didn't know, Austria is not in NATO.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

BTW, it's increasingly clear to me that the catalyst for the Indian invasion was the hyperinflation hole almost every country dug themselves into as a result of COVID.

There's a conspiracy theory that the world economy was headed for a Great Recession-like downturn as early as August of 2019. I'm not sure about this, but the response that world governments had to COVID---massive bailouts, money printing, reviving ZIRP after a slow uptick in interest rates---mirrored their response to the Great Recession. The lockdowns effectively halted economic activity, preventing the spread of financial contagion while central banks scrambled to solve the problem, like pausing a video game so you can think about how to beat it.

These actions created a massive inflation bomb that would hit the economy once the lockdowns ended. As such, governments kept reinstituting lockdowns and curfews into early 2022 as a way of managing economic activity and lowering the money velocity that contributes to inflation. Vaccine mandates were another tool; blocking the unvaccinated from "non-essential" travel and commerce gave them a further brake on the velocity of money. Don't forget the absolutely absurd things some governments did, like Queensland having literal COVID gulags and Quebec forcing Walmart to assign a minder to unvaccinated customers to make sure they were only shopping for "essentials" like food.

These methods weren't working. Wages were still rising. Remote work had become the norm, so lockdowns couldn't put significant sectors of the workforce in the unemployment line for very long. Businesses were SCREAMING for workers. "Fight for $15" became a reality without any government intervention. This country was experiencing real wage growth for the first time in decades.

And then the Canadian trucker protest happened and it put the fear of God into world leadership. If even Canadians---famously passive in the face of globohomo---had had enough of the COVID nanny state, everyone else was about to grab the pitchforks. It's not a coincidence that within a couple of months of the Canadian trucker convoy, almost every nation in the West and LATAM had dropped its lockdown and vaccine policies. Conveniently, this coincided with the Ukraine war, so the masses had something to distract them. The higher energy prices that the war caused acted as a damper to inflation, particularly in Europe, but again, they weren't enough to defuse the Weimarization bomb that was looming.

Mass Indian immigration was the solution. The Fed (and every other central bank) was out of liquidity, so they resorted to human liquidity. Mass Indian immigration ended and reversed the trend of rising wages. It propped up social welfare systems that were dangerously close to collapse. And it accelerated the Great Replacement. I don't think it's a coincidence that mass Indian immigration didn't exist prior to the 2020s and ramped up starting in 2022.

Indians are ideal for this purpose. They are born slaves. They're happy eating peasant vegetable slop and sleeping on mats stacked twelve to a studio apartment. They don't complain when they're underpaid or abused. They vote hard left and are more politically organized than other minorities. Even Guatemalan illegals expect to be treated with a baseline of human dignity. Indians eat shit, smile, and dream of the day when they get to make OTHERS eat shit.

And there's 1.5 billion of them. Latin America's total population is less than 700 million spread out across 20 some-odd countries. Mass Latino immigration, both legal and illegal, requires a combination of local instability, cartel governments, lax border enforcement, and legal pilpul that is difficult to keep firing on all cylinders. Mass Indian immigration just requires you to sign one agreement with the Indian government, which neatly aligns with their goal of extracting wealth from other countries and seizing control of them via soft power, since they could never do so militarily or economically.

There's no other way to explain why Indians are invading EVERY country, including those that are poor. We had the Boriswave, the Bidenwave, the Trudeauwave, the Scomowave (now the Albowave), and the Jacindawave (which has turned into the Luxonwave if Kiwi friends are to be believed). Indians are in Russia AND Ukraine AND the West AND nonaligned countries. Indians are all over Serbia (median wage: $820/month), Georgia (median wage: $560/month), and Thailand (median wage: $340/month). These countries do not need cheap labor because they already have it. What they DO need is human liquidity, because they all let moneyprinter go brrr during COVID.

I hate to say it, but inflation may be why Trump is moving more slowly on mass Indian deportations then we'd like. I originally thought lockdowns would be maintained as an inflation control measure, albeit rebranded as "climate lockdowns." The Canadian trucker convoy ended that as a viable method. Defusing the Indian invasion is vital, but there are likely fears that doing it too fast will collapse the economy (as cheap, scammy, and dishonest as Indians are, their presence as consumers and scabs acts as an inflation reduction mechanisms).

This is as blackpilled as I'm allowing myself to get today. DEI: Deport Every Indian.

[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

@MAGA__Patriot And people wonder why Republican politicians are cowards.

[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

@Maga4liberty The Logan Act is a paper tiger, in two centuries only slaps on the wrist.

[Larry Cipriani @cbunix23]

@FloppingAces In addition to privacy concerns, another is false positives. Police have drawn guns on innocent people and taken them to jail because human error entered the wrong information into Flock’s hotlist, or Flock AI misidentified a plate number. https://t.co/iZXf4v5R88

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mrs. Owens,

You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk."

He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it.

You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it.

You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days.

You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater.

You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu.

You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name.

And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely.

Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him.

So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath.

Every single one failed.

I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow.

The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts.

I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.