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[Western Civ Maximalist @brian_lenney]

Two months ago something happened to Idaho that nobody's talking about enough...

A Boise Democrat's interim committee wrote a bunch of "housing affordability" bills. Developers shaped the recommendations, and Republicans carried the water.

And your local zoning? Gone.

I voted no on all of it.

HB 800: now manufactured homes can go on any single-family lot statewide. Your city doesn't get a say (unless you've got an HOA, which is the only thing they left standing).

SB 1352 is the one that should scare you. Cities over 10,000 can't require lot sizes bigger than 1,500 square feet. So now they can fo 12 units per acre, mandated by the state. And it passed the House 36-34. Two votes decided the future of your neighborhood. Flew through the Senate.

SB 1354: says ADUs can now be forced into every community and HOAs are stripped of the ability to block them (SB 1353 would've crammed duplexes in too but that one died in the House).

You know what none of these bills do?

Not a single one stops institutional investors from buying entire subdivisions and converting them to rentals. California money is flooding our market and pricing Idaho kids out of homeownership and nobody addressed it. Nobody even tried to hold anyone accountable for the actual "affordability" problem.

They called it "housing affordability" but it's just developer welfare.

The interim committee that produced this whole package? Run by Sen. Ali Rabe, a Democrat. Guess who was at the table writing the recommendations. Developers.

And Republican legislators delivered it for them.

Governor Little told the press in 2023 he opposed the state overriding local zoning and said it wasn't his approach.

Then he signed every bill a few months ago anyways and never explained what changed.

Oh and Idaho isn't alone...

Over a dozen states ran the same play this year. Montana. Colorado. Virginia. Georgia. Read the bills side by side the framing is almost copy-paste (i.e. National leftist playbook).

So, this session the Idaho legislature decided Boise Democrats and developers know better than your mayor and your planning commission.

And exactly NONE of these bills will make housing affordable.

But they will make a lot of people RICH!

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@mattvanswol @LoriMills4CA42 Misdirection so he can attend the wedding.

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@phil_boldt @sgruber91 Seth is not saying that only women should be punished for murder. Where did you get that?

[Students for Abolition @SFAbolition]

🚨 We need YOUR help to abolish abortion in Tennessee!

House Bill 570, which would establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies, has been assigned to the Tennessee House Population Health Subcommittee.

Please CALL and EMAIL the below Subcommittee members and ask them to PASS House Bill 570 out of Subcommittee.

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Chair Michele Carringer
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[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

Texas … sad news for the pro-life movement, but our numbers are UP.

Really enjoyed my time sitting down with @sgruber91 to expose so many of these hard truths.

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@SpoonForIdaho Caffeina can’t be. Saw rainbow flags at the State St location. Avoid.

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@nettermike Receipts?

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@americanvoice__ There’s a bunch of people on SNAP about to get motivated to work for a living. Maybe they can help.

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@CBS2Boise Hell no

[Ben Bergquam - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News @BenBergquam]

“Who’s going to pick our cotton?” Wow! Idaho House of Representatives, @DaleHawkinsID, breaks down why even in Red State Idaho they can’t pass legislation against illegals. Attacked by industries who have grown dependent on modern day slavery! And what he says about the northern border, shocked even me!

From the Canadian border. Along with Idaho Rep Cornel Rasor.

Law & Border @RealAmVoice

[Austin M. Craig @austinmcraig]

It’s not symmetrical at all.

The Left is feminine coded.
It’s a feminine trait to affirm.
People on the Left feel the need to affirm everyone in their tribe, or anybody presenting as downtrodden. So if anyone in-group deviates notably, it isn’t well received. Over time this has narrowed the Overton Window on the Left. It’s partly why Charlie Kirk was so threatening. He wouldn’t affirm anything he didn’t genuinely believe of his own mind and worldview, and would draw out even minor distinctions between similar views. This was always done in a tone of friendly debate, but was still culturally alien. It wasn’t affirming.

The Right is masculine coded.
It’s a masculine trait to prove.
People on the Right have no problem saying “I disagree with you, let’s hash this out. Prove it.” Call it debate, intellectual sparring, civil dialogue, whatever. The Right is perfectly comfortable disagreeing. As a result, the Overton Window on the Right is much bigger than the Left. It’s the “big tent” party now for that reason. It’s how Musk, RFK Jr, Gabbard and others were able to join. Do they agree on everything? Obviously not, but they also acknowledge that they don’t need to agree 100% to make progress toward their mostly-mutual goals.

The result of all this:
The Left, in their fervor to affirm and welcome the downtrodden, have drifted further left to affirm and welcome ideological radicals agreeable to their priors. They’ve also narrowed the range of acceptable speech/thought.

The Right then exists in territory so far away from what the Left will even *look* at that it ALL looks like “far right” extremism to them. That’s how a politically moderate Christian Conservative like Charlie Kirk gets called a “Nazi, bigot, Fascist,” etc. and the whole Left believes it. They 1) Won’t examine his remarks themselves, even though it’s ALL available, archived, unedited, and easy to find, and 2) Must affirm each other, their leaders, and the weakest and most radical among them. If a particularly fragile person says “he made me FEEL UNSAFE!” then the entire tribe must AFFIRM that person’s feelings because all feelings are valid (even if the feeling is asserting something counterfactual)!

I don’t suppose it’s always been like this. But it is definitely like this now.

Everybody on the Right has been through the Left’s ideological landscape, spent time there, travelled those lands, watched their movies, listened to their arguments, and concluded it’s emotionally motivated nonsense. They don’t have much use for it.

That is not at all true of The Left. The Left are afraid of the Right’s ideological landscape, both because it’s more wild and openly hostile by nature, but more importantly, they can’t go there because their peers on the Left will judge them for even *looking* at it.

The modern American Left is a bizarrely insular, uncurious, histrionic tribe that doesn’t even understand itself, but will feverishly enforce its unquestioned rules. Another word one might use for that kind of group is a “cult.”

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@ElijahSchaffer Lots here from @SethGruber

https://t.co/HT3BxdNJMJ

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Trump gives an Oval Office address following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

maybe somebody look into this guy

[Chloe Cole ⭐️ @ChloeCole]

I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens”

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Kennedy called it a turning point.

Not just because of what the order does—but because of what it ends.

And that’s when RFK Jr. dropped the chilling history behind gain of function in America.

He explained how it all started back in 1947, when U.S. military and intelligence agencies began experimenting with biological weapons.

By 1969, the CIA bragged about achieving “nuclear equivalency”—the ability to wipe out the population for just 29 cents a person.

That same year, President Nixon toured Fort Detrick and shut it down.

He called it “dual use research”—bioweapons disguised as vaccine development—and led over 180 countries to sign a treaty to end it.

But after the 2001 anthrax attacks, everything changed. A quiet clause in the Patriot Act gave government officials legal immunity—even if they violated that bioweapons treaty.

“That relaunched a bio weapons arms race,” Kennedy said, “and that was driven by gain of function research.”

In 2014, Obama tried to stop it after multiple pathogens escaped from U.S. labs.

But the research didn’t stop—it just went offshore, to places like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

That, Kennedy said, is where the COVID story really begins.

[𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐗🐦‍🔥𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍 @XPHOENIXDRAGON]

⚠️MRNA IN FOOD SUPPLY❓️

[Coach Kevin Kru @kevinkrus]

@Shine_on_2012 Calling for immediate firing squads adjoined to the courthouse after due process.