Mike Van Meter

Lover, Fighter, Farmer, Philosopher, Comedian, Friend, Foodie, Man of Letters, Husband, Father. Host of @unyieldingpod

[Raymond Ibrahim @RaymondIbrahim5]

JD Hall appeared on Tucker Carlson saying that Muslims were "very kind" to Christians, didn't "tax churches," and even "took care of our holy sites."

In this brief video, I debunk these claims with the actual historical record:

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@coldxman I'm not sure this is the best way to go about casting.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@KeithWoodsYT Zero self-awareness of privileging the "American Dream" of a couple vacations a year, going out to dinner a couple of times a week, and a nice house and a nice car; devoid of meaning, agape, and living your life unto God. Talk about a wasted life. #hedonism

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@charlesmurray I regard this as very strong evidence for early dating.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

This is an excellent example of how rationalization works. This is dark, immoral, and selfishness couched in the warm light of "authenticity" and "empathy"-Let the reader be aware.

[Jesse Ridgway @McJuggerNuggets]

This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21.

The choice was not made lightly. We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided.

I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news. We are devastated. This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.

She underwent the procedure earlier this week and is on the mend. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but emotionally we are drained.

Trisomy 21, also known as Down Syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome. It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch. The odds of a baby having it is 1 in 1000.

When I first confronted this news, I was shocked but optimistic. If they’re a little slow intellectually, then we’ll make it work. I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed.

Once we made it public, it became clear that MOST people don’t know what Down Syndrome entails (and no, it’s not the same as Autism):

50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively shitty from a health perspective.

I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.

The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse…they may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk.

We spoke with doctors, friends, family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has Trisomy 21.

This was WAY higher than I expected, I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that’s because most terminations happen privately, it feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast.

You never think you’d be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.

To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you. You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.

As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.

It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.

Love you guys & thank you for understanding. ❤️

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

This is what Islam produces.

[Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab]

@SStricklandMMA Sean, serious talk: the moment Khamzat puts you on your back, do what you always did with your father quit, curl up and let him do what he wants. It’s rational for a trailer-park waste of space like you. No reason to endure pain when you’re already worthless

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@ConceptualJames You are the one who is not exegeting the text properly. Because somewhere else Jesus tells Peter to put away his sword does not mean that there aren't other times where it is appropriate to defend yourself with a sword.

[GodLogic_GL @GodLogic_GL]

Dear @TeamYouTube: The YouTube channel (@MohammedHijab) is abusing the copyright system to attack other channels. Here is a video clip of him giving me VERBAL CONSENT to put our discussion on my channel. After I posted it, he filed a copyright complaint. Why is this being allowed? Are people allowed to deceptively give verbal consent to post content in order to get the person a strike?

Video that got struck: https://t.co/Da40RR8PqY

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@Murawwaa100 @GodLogic_GL What about Hijab's dishonesty? Does that matter to you?

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@mohammed_hijab You're so weird for posting this on your own page. You act like an unhinged 12 year old boy.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@dmiller4thewin @NatCon2022 @remarks @grok 40%-65% they are unable to match.

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

God bless the Restore Britain party.

May their tribe increase, and may they have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@BenSasse I'm sorry Ben.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@TheJollyBrawler @Smpr_Refrmnda @JoelWebbon Says @TheJollyBrawler as he engages in his own obsessive gay nonsense.

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

Joe is the best heir to DW’s legacy.

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

So it’s been a little over a year since the failed attempt between the leaders in Moscow and Ogden to come to one mind.

I’ve largely avoided any public commentary on it, partly because I don’t think about it a lot and I have more pressing responsibilities, and partly because it had seemed best to let sleeping dogs lie (everyone had been largely minding their own business and moving on).

But since there has recently been a number of festive dust-ups during this festive season, and since I periodically get tagged and asked what I think, I thought it might be helpful to put out there how I frame the whole thing (with apologies for the length):

During the meeting here in Moscow a year ago, there were two noteworthy points of agreement (among other things). One was that Stone Choir was bad news, and the other was that the attempt to slip Nazi iconography into normie Christian stuff was no bueno (the example of the second that we discussed was Samuel Holden’s White Boy Summer video that included the Nazi imagery).

Our contention was that slipping the Nazi stuff into a pastiche of images of John Wayne, John Macarthur, Teddy Roosevelt, and Steve Irwin was an attempt to co-opt the WBS meme in destructive ways, and the Ogden guys pointed to Brian’s clarification after the video that they were unaware of the Nazi junk when they originally commended it.

All of this was to the good, and why there was optimism after the meeting.

So if there was some agreement about the problem, where was the rub? Partly over the seriousness over the issue (how widespread, how grave), and partly over how to address it (denunciations, declarations, statements, etc).

For my part, I noted that denunciations often backfire and simply give the transgressive edgelords the attention they want.

Instead, I commended a strategy I’d seen Doug use a number of times over the years, most notably after the publication of Black and Tan. After that book came out, a number of kinists attempted to find safe harbor in Moscow circles, thinking that someone who partially defended the South on constitutional grounds (as Doug did) would be sympathetic to white identitarianism (which Doug isn’t).

So after a number of dustups with the kinists online, Doug published Skin and Blood, partly as a way to clear out that particular error.

In the meeting, I described the strategy as “Don’t denounce them; disappoint them.”

In other words, if you have some gnarly elements latching on to your community or movement, you don’t need to directly condemn them by name; instead simply say or do things that will disappoint them.

“We thought you were so based and awesome but now we see that you’re just another compromiser, etc.”

So my basic exhortation to the gents in Ogden was this: given our shared agreement that Stone Choir and the Nazi imagery used by Samuel Holden are not good, you guys should periodically find a way to disappoint the members of your community who think that you’re on board with that.

If you guys think it’s important to talk about Jewish influence on and in the US (and other related matters, all of which we said was perfectly fine), know what kind of folks that might attract (i.e. “Hitler was a Christian Prince," etc) and be prepared to disappoint them.

Get the undesirable elements to break with you because you say or do something unpalatable to them. If they’re trying to co-opt your thing or steer you by flattery, then communicate clearly that you can’t be steered or co-opted.

And to their credit, they seemed to agree with this approach and had said that they had done so at various times on their podcast. We encouraged them to do so more and more.

Now here’s the thing: a week after that meeting, the White Boy Christmas video dropped, the Ogden guys promoted it, and we had the back and forth on the Signal chat, culminating in the Laced with Poo blog post, and the Ogden guys leaving the chat.

My basic read on how that went is this: The guys in Ogden took my/our advice. But we were the undesirables that they wanted to disappoint. Posting and defending the video seemed to me was their way of saying, “We won’t be ‘steered' by Moscow” (which, for the record, we weren’t attempting to do).

And while I’ll admit that this was somewhat disappointing to me, I’ve basically viewed it as a strategic decision on both sides about how and with whom we want to labor.

Ogden is basically saying, “We want to build and fight on our part of the wall, in our way, with guys like the Holdens and the Crusader anons who listen to Stone Choir.”

And we’ve said, “We’re going to build on our part of the wall in our way, which means periodically disappointing those who stan for Nazis and laughing at those who like to call Doug a “fat rabbi who makes incomprehensible word salads.”

And honestly, while I wish it wasn’t so, I’m actually content with the situation. As I argue in Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, we’ve brought the sublimated conflict into the open and clarified it. And then we’ve all placed our bets on how to build and who to build with, with much of the flare-ups downstream from those decisions (It's all in Girard, man).

Some are convinced that Moscow is about to implode or is withering away, that the Spirit has departed, and we've doomed ourselves. I guess we’ll see.

In the meantime, there really isn’t any ill will on our end, despite the public insinuations that we're paid by Mossad, that we've sold out to the Jews, or the Longhouse, or the Jewish Longhouse, in order to get platformed. We find those sorts of claims amusing and make jokes about them in staff meetings.

And they don't keep us from appreciating some of the good stuff coming out of Ogden. I listen to Ogden podcasts occasionally (but only the good parts). And Doug is currently reading Reviling Wives with benefit.

So there you have it.

Happy New Year.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@TerriGreenUSA @FrankyMacDonald

[Pastor Mark Driscoll @PastorMark]

Doug Wilson is the Christian Nationalist Liberals are Afraid of | The Mark Driscoll Show | Ep 12 https://t.co/3vjcPlYcFv

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Anyone who thinks the California government has a revenue problem is mathematically illiterate or part of the fraud.

California does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Politicians and their henchmen stealing tens of billions of dollars PER YEAR from our pockets.

Ask yourself why they can’t pass an audit! Ask yourself why they change the reporting rules on your pension! Do you start to see a pattern?

Endless reams of money keep falling through the cracks with no accountability into the waiting hands of thieves.

When is enough, enough?

California will soon start to lose its grip on being the most vibrant state in America. The billionaires will leave. The millionaires and middle class will too.

And once they are done taxing us of everything we have, and none of us are left, they will tax you.

Now, if you’re frustrated about crime, healthcare and education you should be. I am, too: our approach to these issues is trash. Our results on these issues are also trash.

So fix the problem: kick out the people who run the kleptocracy. Elect real leaders who are competent, firm, tough and high agency.

But no matter what you do, if you keep asking for politicians to take people’s money, you are firmly part of the fraud not part of the solution…and everyone sees you.

[Mike Van Meter @mvmthedeuce]

@Eric_Conn @TheJollyBrawler @douglaswils @Brian_Sauve @SamuelHolden_ You are so magnanimous.