Massie: Kash Patel threatened my staff with criminal investigations

Are serious leaders a thing of the past?

Hesgeth, Secretary of War, comes off like a buffoon, a middle-aged adolescent who appears in over his head. The Left is going to throw him in prison for the rest of his life when they return to power, as they make exceedingly clear at every opportunity. Neither he, nor most Trump officials, understand the stakes, even after four years of Biden, assassinations, riots, burning cities. The Left is serious. The Right is not. Trump, Hesgeth, Miller, and others, love to be provocative, to thumb their noses in the faces of their political opponents, without an apparent care in the world what will happen when their party begins losing elections. The Left doesn’t forget or forgive.

A cause dear to assistant FBI Director Dan Bongino

Was Bongino given a lobotomy? What the rice and beans is going on here? This is beyond bizarre. It’s alarming, is what it is. Bongino was threatened with the release of something, and now is told what to say, or else. That’s the only explanation I have.

Gavin McInnes and Anthony Cumia on the smartphone plague

The gallows humor that everyone falls into when speaking about smartphone addiction tells you everything you need to know. Everyone knows this is a threat to everything that makes us human. And yet we’ve conceded the war without any fight at all, accepting, fatalistically, what appears to be our doom as a species.

McInnes and Cumia both make points shockingly familiar to my own, but don’t venture into solutions. Probably because the only solution would be so radical, and seemingly impossible to pull off, that it’s not even considered.

The solution lies in the realization that the internet was our fatal mistake. The solution would be the total erasure of the internet itself. Short of a catastrophic sun flare, is it even possible to convince the world to eradicate something it feels it cannot live without? Is it plausible to consider that the addicts themselves would willingly burn down the opium den? How much longer can we really go on like this?