Yes, we can officially confirm that our beloved Republican Tea Party is being led by the Mad Hatter and us millennials have been thrust into their wonderland. The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY. So what can expect to happen when that last tea-party coffin is sealed?
— Candace Owens, 10/4/15

For those with a proper frame of reference, liberals during the Iraq War complained that the Bush Administration had no “exit strategy”. With that, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk have done what way too many uninspired millennials do.

Co-opt something without attribution and make it their own: in this case, the “#WalkAway” campaign.

Two months ago, Brandon Straka was a New York hair stylist with $300 in his savings account and a struggling side job as a performance artist. Now, thanks to his starring role in a video telling Democrats to ditch their party, he’s the head of a movement that’s been embraced by a wide swathe of the pro-Trump internet and earned him shout-outs from some of conservative media’s biggest names.

It’s exactly the kind of conversion narrative primed to go viral on the right. Straka’s video has earned nearly 2 million views on Facebook and YouTube, and scored him shout-outs from the likes of Fox News host Charles Payne, Trump superfan Bill Mitchell, Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk, and Candace Owens, Kanye West’s guide to the right-wing internet.
— Daily Beast, 7/3/18

While Brandon Straka found yet another way of saying things that black conservatives have said and were vilified for decades ago, he created a hashtag which today is all that’s required for that instant stamp of relevance.

Originality-challenged Owens and Kirk are now instructing black people to leave the Democrat Party under that co-opted #WalkAway hashtag, however they’ve been very careful as to not articulate just where they’d want them to go.

Many black conservatives escaped the liberal Democrat plantation for different reasons but most did so after realizing conservative principles were superior to the liberal. We embraced the Constitution as it was brilliantly written; not see it as a document flawed in its application today and in need of specific updates. We understood that government dependence was a strategic trap set by Democrats and self-reliance was the key to personal and professional upward mobility.

We’ve heard little of this from Owens on her numerous cable news appearances; only that there is a need to wake up black people, she has the alarm clock, and has presented herself as a genius by (again) repackaging the brilliance of others as her own.

Again, where would Candace Owens have these new woke black people go? Details.

Good thing she didn’t lead the Underground Railroad as they kinda’ needed a Point B.

As many blindly jump onboard any trending social media creation, are they really cognizant and appreciative of conservative principles if they come aboard the Republican ship or will Owens and Kirk take this new bloc and attempt to divide us from within and steer the Party in a direction at odds with those principles?

Or as self-described “community organizer” will Charlie Kirk use the organizations he’s already infiltrated to push his “conservatarian” platform which includes many concepts again at odds with conservative principles we currently try and adhere to?

Will these new “woke” black defectors from the Democrat Party see not enough handouts from either party be lured into the Bernie Sanders wing where way too many “free” shiny objects are being promised?

Whether Candace Owens was smart enough to have thought this through is debatable, but we should all take a few minutes and ask ourselves as a currently, fairly functional ideology, in the name of “inclusion” and embrace of the very identity politics we claim to abhor, do we really want people who may not share our core values being thrust into our midst by egotistical children who consider us pests stopping them from getting their way.

Why was that?

What shall we do with the Negro? I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
— Frederick Douglass

Okay, given the times it probably would’ve put an even bigger bullseye on the back of his head, but even today black conservatives are little more than showpieces to prove racial inclusion within the Republican Party.

There are many blacks today, experienced and scarred by the left, who are more than qualified to be “leaders”, that is, if they believe black people need to be led; a sentiment of internal debate to this day.

Sadly, some white conservatives are still bent on elevating those THEY deem worthy to lead us, without even the courtesy of asking.

For example….

Black Females with ZERO Conservative Credibility

The conservative movement leadership seemingly drooled over Stacey Dash all because she appeared in a bathing suit. She had zero background in conservatism or Republican politics at all but that didn’t seem to matter. All it took was one Tweet and she became a “leader”.

Because she was black and relatively young, the door was swung wide open despite the fact she would ultimately allow herself to be a joke on national television… as a Republican.

Then there was Joy Villa who told hundreds of thousands of gullible supporters she voted for Donald Trump even though she was a Bernie Sanders supporter who clearly had disdain for both of the two viable 2016 presidential candidates on Election Day.

As she was going nowhere in her questionable “career”, Joy knew all it took to get the attention of shallow, clueless conservatives.

Conservative women were (and are still to this day) seal-clapping “the dress” and conservative men gushed on her “hotness”. With the irresponsible elevation by Fox News and so-called conservative “leaders”, she made it deep into the Trump inner circle.

Once a spankin’ Joy Villa tried to pull a #MeToo on a Trump loyalist, she was discarded like old Fox News as if she never existed… at least for a short while.

This appears to be how Fox News issues retractions when they actively promote frauds on their audience who fall down hard.

One would think with the hundreds of thousands of dollars Fox News alone puts into “researchers”, they’d be competent and not set up the conservative movement with publicity-seeking leeches. It’s also sad that the Trump Administration relies on those who’re supposed to be vetting as the wrong people are slithering in and leaving their stink on his staff and family.

One would also think they’d learn their lesson after being burnt twice.

But, no….

Now, we have a woman who’s just enjoyed her one-year anniversary as a conservative being given center stage to single-handedly free Democrat slaves from the plantation, and she never had any use for conservatives until she could access their money.

The ONLY reason most even know Candace Owens exists is because her latest boss, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, had a little bit of a public relations issue when several of his young employees posted racist Tweets. In an effort to prove he wasn’t a racist and keep those nonprofit donations coming in, he hired a black face and sicced her loose on social media, reciting with authority things that have been already been said by many much wiser and lost much for saying them.

Here’s only some of what her white conservative admirers DON’T KNOW, as again they were too lazy to vet, accepted her as credible only because she’s all over Fox News, and will ignore her past once presented to avoid admitting they were duped… again.

When Candace Owens implodes, and she will, conservatives who embraced her will later act like they never knew her or feign ignorance as to her nefarious and anti-Republican musings.

Owens does appear have recurring meldings of those who disagree with her and death….

How many conservatives have fought against the notion of the Constitution being this “living document” that can changed to accommodate today’s social debauchery, yet Candace Owens was one of those frame of reference-challenged millennials who believed it must evolve because she said so. Also, Owens didn’t think much of candidate Donald Trump, but as he can now do great things for her, the tune has been conveniently changed.

But none of this matters because, again, condescending white conservatives are too arrogant to admit to the fact they’ve been conned.

Candace Owens is in way over her big head on this one and if black conservatives had access to the technology of today years ago, they’d probably be the first to tell you that it will take more than a few hundred thousand followers and hashtags to lure multitudes of blacks off the social program Democrat-dependency LBJ deployed decades ago.

And until conservatives stop using blacks when convenient, telling them who they should follow and why, they won’t be much different than Democrats.

We’ll just be their “friends” when it’s okay to be seen with or serve them.

The obvious moral of this tale is that the Democratic Party has become so dependent on the African-American vote that it cannot hope to win a national election without generating a level of enthusiasm in that community comparable to that which former President Obama enjoyed. Consequently, any Democrat with an IQ exceeding single digits should be terrified by the #WalkAway movement. Candace Owens, one of its most influential voices (ask Kanye West), constantly reminds her huge social media following that the Democratic Party has used African-Americans to gain power and provided very little in return:

“When over 90% of a community is voting for one political party, they become irrelevant. Our voting predictability made it so that neither side needed to make good on promises to our community. This is all about to shift, dramatically.”
— David Catron, American Spectator

Do you really think Candace Owens was the first to issue this profound, original perspective?*

Obviously, Mr. Catron was wowed and is too important to accept there may be a point of view on black politics HE hasn’t considered.

No matter how many times we have white conservative males dismiss us because THEY know she’s such an important voice in a black community they seldom frequent or engage, it’s also sad how little they still know about Candace Owens and once told, they’re ready to give her a pass because of her “social media presence”.

Sorry, Kim Kardashian and Honey Boo Boo also have a huge online presence and try qualifying that value to society.

A recent report from BuzzFeed sheds new light on Candace Owens, the melanated darling du jour of the “Make America great again” crowd, revealing that the rising conservative star ran a blog that frequently mocked Donald Trump throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.

Among the stories that ran on the site: A critical look at Trump’s Muslim ban titled, “Serious Question: Is Donald Trump a Social Experiment?,” in which the writer compared Trump to Hitler; an explainer on how Trump can still be a racist even if he’s married to an immigrant; and a satirical “investigation” into the size of Trump’s penis (spoiler: probably small, the story concludes).
— The Root, 5/6/18

BTW — Candace Owens was a “journalist” for Vogue Magazine (if you can find ONE piece she wrote… just one) but it seems to be a well-kept secret as to why she left a company one would think would revere and empower black female employees.

Like most narcissistic millennials who don’t believe anything existed before them, Candace Owens is only clumsily repeating what many others have said decades before she emerged from the tough ghetto of Stamford, Connecticut and we’d have never heard of her had Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk not needed a black face to distract from the documented racists within his nonprofit and it paid off.

Candace Owens has just been in the presence of Donald Trump.
“Two days ago,” she says. “To chat about black America.”
In the Oval Office?
“Yeah.”
— Times (UK), 6/9/18

Candace Owens wanted attention, needed a job, and has been sanctioned as the latest black “leader”. If Tweets are all it takes to be considered important, one would think Tweets would be well thought out.

And then, there’s Candace.

In May, Owens praised a Louis Farrakhan tweet praising Trump as “a really big deal” and “relevant.” After a backlash from figures on the right, traditionally no fans of the Nation of Islam chief and his history of anti-Semitic remarks, Owens deleted the tweet.
— Daily Beast, 6/13/18

Any experienced activist with a modicum of common sense knows there are always delicate nuances to be navigated within an issue; not just pop off because you assume you must interject yourself immediately into a controversy.

Sadly, white conservative males are barely any better than liberals when it comes to their ignorant analysis of black politics. Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Peterson, the late Frances Rice, Shelby Steele, Ward Connerly, Walter Williams, Ken Hamlin, Star Parker, myself and many more have worked and lost much to share what are now declared new, fresh revelations by a social media “star”.

Political orthodoxies notwithstanding, there are plenty of black men and women who have broken from the party line on race—from anti-identity politics liberal John McWhorter to Muslim reform champion Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley to libertarian podcaster Kmele Foster to retired political scientist and Trump supporter Carol Swain to talk show hosts Larry Elder and Amy Holmes to Brown University professor Glenn Loury to Heritage Foundation president Kay Cole James. One may certainly disagree with some or all of their ideas; but no one would suspect them of being opportunists with no substance. Whether Candace Owens has any ideas at all besides the advancement of Candace Owens is very much in question.
— Cathy Young, 5/8/18

Owens created a website to dox anyone who dared say anything negative about her yet has been given star status on Fox News. Very few on the right ever came to the defense and/or offered an almost daily seat on the curvy couch to the many black conservative activists who were left to fend off the vicious left, the Democrat Party and their hostile media. Fox News still hasn’t offered contributor David Webb a show, and we have yet to see them reach out to Herman Cain, Alan Keyes, Alfonzo Rachel, Mychal Massie, Allen West or any of the others who’ve paid dearly as a result of the onslaught received because they dared speak out against the plantation mentality.

But when Candace speaks, clutch the pearls!

Obviously Malcolm X stole Candace Owens’ brilliance*… back in 1964.

I don’t know how many times to say it, but I’ve always found it insulting that liberals and conservatives alike deem it acceptable for black people to be the ONLY demographic in the United States to have unelected leaders: leaders THEY anoint and give a platform despite dubious backgrounds and self-serving motivations. If you can scrutinize an Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, why give Candace Owens a pass?

Because too many conservative men look at her physically, too many conservative women reflexively seal-clap and click “like” and not even think to inquire as to why she’s being pushed on all of us.

Candace Owens said Thursday she believes the Democratic Party will see a “major exit” by black voters leading up to the 2020 presidential election.

The Turning Point USA communications director predicted that black men and women – not white middle-class women – will become the “most relevant vote” in the United States by 2020 because more and more African-Americans are hearing “different ideas” through digital and social media.

“There is going to be a major black exit from the Democrat Party and they are going to actually have to actually compete for their votes in 2020,” Owens said on “Fox & Friends.”
— Fox News, 7/5/18

Uh oh… time for hashtags!

#WalkAway

#WalkAwayFromDemocrats

#WalkAwayCampaign

If only solving political issues within the black community were as easy as throwing out a few symbolic hashtag Tweets and Facebook posts.

Black people have been hearing “different ideas” for many years and the deaf ears continue for a variety of reasons, the least of which was a social media #WalkAway “movement”. As long as white conservatives prop up those they sanction as important while being too lazy to vet for experience, results and possible self-serving motivations, little will be achieved but then again, it’s been far from proven that the elite within the conservative movement is willing to do anything different and continue to write off black people.

And while it’s supposed to be a cute hashtag, there are risks with walking away from hostiles with no proper strategy. It’s easier to be shot in the back.

I’ve also said it many times that the black convert from Democrat-to-Republican is nothing that will be achieved by an artificial trend but are personal choices (with important familial and social considerations) to be made by those who’ve finally had enough already. Democrats use black people enough for political gain. Modern Republicans have been terrible at messaging while ignoring those blacks who’ve been trying to spread that message. Almost all lost, so it was never about their personal popularity like it is with Candace Owens.

Greatest picture of me ever taken. It was shot by Mike Lerner on an old Polaroid a few days ago.
I love it because I truly recognize myself.
— Candace Owens Tweet, 6/28/18

You were my favorite person ever to do a show with! We had way too much fun backstage. Do I not do the best @RepMaxineWaters impression ever?
— Candace Owens Tweet to Dean Cain, 6/30/18

To all the young people that follow me: I never dreamed of getting into politics, in fact, I never even thought about it. Unexpectedly, God can light a spark into your heart, and that spark can turn into a fire. Everyone has a purpose. It’s unmistakable when it arrives.
— Candace Owens Tweet, 6/27/18

Name ONE black so-called leader on the conservative side who’s ever exhibited such humility while in the trenches.

While the oh-so-important deployment of a hashtag will again be embraced by people who use black people for political and personal gain, the messenger delivering is always going to be important because when Candace Owens stumbles, and she will, conservatives will again look the fool for embracing another race hustler and white enablers behind the scenes will #WalkAway unscathed… again.

Or has that, too, been rebranded and redefined?

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who still appears to be living at home and living large when he travels to events to spread the anti-socialism, pro-capitalism message to the easily-impressionable youth, appears to have effectively tapped into Republican moneybags.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, TPUSA is not required to disclose its donors. But based on public tax records and some reporting by other outlets, IBT has identified the sources of over $900,000 in funding for TPUSA. Republican mega-donor families, GOP politicians and other wealthy individuals have provided large amounts of money.

In addition to traditional funders, TPUSA has a host of event sponsors, many of which are key organizations in the right-wing advocacy movement such as the conservative public policy think tank Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom and the libertarian think tank the Reason Foundation. Kirk said event sponsors typically top out at $5,000-$10,000.
— International Business Times, 11/28/17

In what’s sadly become an ongoing theme, Republicans appear to be easy pickin’s for those with hands out because a minimal, if any, vetting is done of the shiny recipient because why would anyone donate big bucks and have anything to do with an organization inhabited by those who don’t share our values?

Being consistent can be a real inconvenience.

Anytime the left needs someone to interpret the delicate nuances of an incident in the black community for the world, the media puts out calls for their usual spokespersons: Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton because we all know THEY speak for all of us. While we acknowledge the condescension and racism inherent in that kind of thinking, liberals are not alone.

It’s sad to note that because of decades of being called racists, too many white conservatives are quick to promote the newest shiny thing promoted on social media to prove themselves not, while failing to vet the possible motivations that inspired the shine. I’ve said many times, either here or during interviews, that the black community is the ONLY group in this nation that has superficially-recognized, unelected leaders and too many bleeding hearts that elevate them to that status.

I’ve also said many times that it won’t take a “leader” to bring the blacks out of the progressive prison of the mind. It will take that individual reckoning and subsequent decisions that will determine if a person wants to remain in the proven liberal pit of despair or choose another option and climb out to freedom.

Unfortunately, too many conservatives are no better than liberals in propping up those THEY believe best speak for us.

All it takes to get noticed is repeat something lifted from those who’ve truly suffered as a result of liberal retribution for leaving the “plantation” without authorization, and get elevated to “rock star” status. Many of the newly-elevated were chosen and are being actively promoted by those who see a promotional, thus monetary return for their own entities (nonprofits). For example, look at the conservative nonprofits that claim to be in support of black conservatives and you’ll find well-paid white conservatives running them and unpaid black conservatives being compensated with that “free publicity”. Of course, those white conservatives are the ones who choose who the spokespeople are, regardless of their dubious backgrounds.

Just like liberals.

Like too many online aggregators that find stories real media companies produce, rewrite them and claim to “break” news, these new authorized black conservative spokespersons regurgitate the profound statements of those who were disowned by family members, and in some cases lost livelihoods because they chose not to think as the liberal left demanded they do. These new “black conservative leaders” came from comfortable households and have the luxury of a social media platform to shout out their newfound words of wisdom for those they count on for mutual exploitation.

I do not observe Jackson, Sharpton, Cummings, Lewis, Skip Gates, Maya Angelou, John Lewis, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Don Lemon, Melissa Harris-Perry, Joy Reid or any of the other liberal blacks given a platform to speak with conviction on my behalf. I wasn’t given an opportunity to vote for any one them and their success, given their collective missions, has been a dismal failure if not damaging. They say what their massahs approve and they’ve been afforded comfortable lifestyles as compensation to meet a political end.

See: house nigga

Black conservatives who’ve lost much because of their activism are too numerous to count but their messages have been successfully co-opted: Shelby Steele, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain, Frances Rice, Ward Connerly, Wayne Perriman, Alveda King, Jesse Lee Peterson, Mychal Massie, Roy and Niger Innis, Anita Moncrief, Lynn Swann, Allen West (and many more) and it’s embarrassing that bleeding heart and/or opportunist donor-dollar conservatives have now included Candace Owens (who was a Democrat until very recently and escaped the legendary ghetto of Stamford, Connecticut) and Kanye West in that respected category.

Those now being elevated to black conservative spokesperson status, if we’re to be intellectually consistent, and those elevating them for monetary gain are no different than those on the left.

It’s also clear these nouveau-activists can’t stomach what comes with being a sanctioned leader.

Silencing opposing views. Who does that?

Almost all of the black conservatives mentioned above suffered more than some social media tweaking and never once did it dawn on them to sue to deny the free speech of others, including racist hate speech from so-called progressives. Sad it never occurs to the easily-butt hurt that the easiest way to rid oneself of the Facebook and/or Twitter emotional torment blitzkrieg is turning off the fucking computer.

If we’re to believe that black people can think for themselves, then we don’t need the publicity-seeking telling black people what they should be thinking. If you can’t name an unelected “leader” for any other ethnic group in the United States, maybe there’s a damn good reason for this.

What shall we do with the Negro? I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
— Frederick Douglass

That is, unless you really do think black people can’t think for themselves….

To make matters worse, the template of superficiality has permeated down to the next generation of so-called “conservative” leaders whose main goal is not to be a living, breathing example of our values but self-promoting provocateurs who go to hostile college campuses: not to share and defend those values but to be video-recorded being met with the expected mayhem for viral social media product and the possibility of the Holy Grail: a segment on Fox News for more self-adulation.

While being given prominent places on the 2018 stage, millennials like Tomi Lahren, Candice Owens, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk have been knighted the new stars of the movement despite limited life experience and even worse, dubious support for the Republican Party and our president. They are arrogantly honest, albeit of questionable intelligence, and being able to prance from college into a prominent nonprofit gig hasn’t hurt them.

We have Austin Petersen, who ran for president under the Libertarian party, who is a total Never Trumper. We have Ben Shapiro, who is like the leading Never Trump voice, we have libertarian speakers such as Dave Rubin. We want big names, people that draw attention, and you know what? There’s going to be a lot of contradictory statements. We’re cool with that. There’s going to be Alex Epstein in a shirt that says ‘I love fossil fuels’ and we’re going to have speakers talking about how conservatives should better embrace the idea of climate change. It shows that we as Turning Point we embrace conservatives, libertarians, people in the middle.
— Charlie Kirk, 12/23/17

How much of a rising star is Kirk really? Ask another wannabe as they compliment each other while they also believe, in their arrogance, they are telling us all something we’ve never heard before just because THEY are saying it.

“Smartest conservative in the movement“…? Puh-leez.

And why did Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA bring on a willing attention whore like Candace Owens?

Insincere damage control.

Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.“
— The New Yorker, 12/21/17

If that wasn’t bad enough….

Or the woman who effectively replaced Clanton, 22-year-old Shialee Grooman, who tweeted in 2013….

— Turning Point USA Keeps Accidentally Hiring Racists, Huffington Post, 4/25/18

See a pattern?

Charlie Kirk urgently needed a damage-control black face, found a more-than-willing and ready one from the ghetto of Stamford, Connecticut.

Candace Owens, despite the smiles, doesn’t think much of real conservatives and has openly said as much. That is, until in futility she attempts to scrub the evidence of her social justice warrior past. (see Degree180 founder: Candace Owens)

Degree180 launched a full-scale investigation into the bat-shit-crazy antics of the Republican Tea Party and the results are not-so-shocking to say the least:

Yes, we can officially confirm that our beloved Republican Tea Party is being led by the Mad Hatter and us millennials have been thrust into their wonderland. The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY.

So what can expect to happen when that last tea-party coffin is sealed?

Frankly, me and my millennial peers did not exactly understand why it was such a big deal that Bill Clinton got a blow job in his office. I don’t care who my doctor, banker, grocery-bagger, or any other person that I may come across in my daily life is having sex with– AS LONG AS THEY DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS. All of that talk about “but his morals” gets you nothing but a mandatory STFU from me.
— Candace Owens, 10/4/15

Kirk also has a history of unforced, clumsy remarks.

Kirk grew up in Wheeling, Illinois, and was an Eagle Scout; in a 2015 speech to the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, he said that his “No. 1 dream in life” was to attend West Point, but the slot he considered his went to “a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a different persuasion” whose test scores he claimed he knew. (Kirk said he was being sarcastic when he made the comment.) Kirk acknowledged in an interview that it is something of an irony that he heads an organization devoted to waging political warfare on campuses when he never actually attended college himself. “I joke that I wasn’t smart enough to go to a four-year school,” Kirk told me, although he noted that he continued his studies at a community college.
— The New Yorker, 12/21/17

As many of these “woke” millennials were either still in high school or early in the college years, there was a time when the Paulies were considered a virus trying to infect the Republican Party.

They were all about infiltration and the forced integration of their libertarian views: views they’ve now re-branded as “conservatarian” and we all know liberals constantly re-brand to fool their opponents.

These are the people who say when they are around libertarians they feel conservative, and when they are around conservatives they feel libertarian. From what I can see the fault lines are that they disagree with libertarians on immigration, foreign policy, and sometimes abortion. And they disagree with traditional conservatives on federalism, on gay marriage, and on drugs.
— Charles Cooke, writer for National Review, author of The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right’s Future

The sad thing is too many conservatives don’t dig into the background of cash vacuums who create nothing, are declared “brilliant” to the uniformed for saying things NEVER said before [sarc], while concealing their true self-serving political motivations.

What’s sad, again, is how quickly conservatives embrace race-victim infiltrators (see: Stacey Dash, Joy Villa) without the minimum of vetting.

So we have CPAC throwing at us well-funded #NeverTrumpers (thanks, Foster Friess) who have yet to own up and formally apologize for the inter-party interference they caused in 2016, and those narcissistic “edgy” millennials who spend more time on social media touting how they “destroyed” this person or “blew up” Twitter; not because they said anything really new but because they say they did.

Candace Owens & Kanye West Are Leading Black Revolution

A scary prospect, especially when clueless white conservatives anoint those “leading” anything black.

Here’s some examples of the original, groundbreaking revelations Kirk and Owens have shared with a world only THEY can change!

Kirk: Armed guards are good enough to protect our banks, celebrities, sporting events, concerts, airports and athletes but not our schools?
Kirk: Government Taxes Us Every Chance It Gets
Kirk: The Media Wants To See Trump Fail
Owens: Facts Upset Liberals
The Left Uses Racism To Control Black Americans
Kirk: Your gender or color of your skin should not dictate what ideas you have or political party you support
Owens: Liberals Are Tolerant Until You Disagree
Bad Teachers Need to be Fired
Kirk: Liberals would much rather see rich people become poor than poor people become rich
Leftists Hate Diversity
Kirk: The Left Hates The Idea That There Are Other Ideas

And in yet another astonishing bit of ironic narcissism on display, Shapiro issued the following ironic gem with regards to the “student” movement that arose following the Parkland shooting.

Stop Making Children Into Moral Authorities
There is something deeply perverse about using children to promote a political agenda. Children simply don’t know anything about politics. Sometimes children ask questions that help us rethink the world because they’ve had little experience with it — when my 4-year-old daughter asks questions about the universe, that prompts me to further learning and research. But she doesn’t have answers, because she’s a child.
— Ben Shapiro, 3/21/18

Shapiro comes off as a petulant child to many of us so his words almost come off as a punchline.

Ben Shapiro is 34. That means he was in diapers when some of us were initially pushing back against the Clinton machine and agenda at a time when there was no such thing as a blog or a consumer-ready Internet to distribute thin musings on a moments notice. He is only where he is today because of those who fought, and in some cases, lost much to create forums like those he exploits for personal attention today.

Nothing like having a “talk radio” program, pre-recorded so he can pontificate while not having to lower himself and engage with actual listeners.

Heaping attention and praise upon the modesty-challenged is a reflection on their lack of self-discipline mixed with that delusion of grandeur.

Technically speaking, the 24-year-old Charlie Kirk still lives with his parents, though he spent 338 days on the road last year on Turning Point USA business. On his frequent visits to Washington, D.C., Kirk most often stays at the Trump International Hotel.
— Politico, 4/6/18

BTW, for those who donate to Turning Point USA, room rates at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. range from $364 to $945 per night. Wanna bet he stays in a “suite” that runs from $945 to $4,429 per night? Of course, that doesn’t include food and all the other expenses involved with luxury travel but who cares; it’s not HIS money.

The one thing all of these millennial usurpers have in common? They want fame, fortune, demand access, attention, our support and money while looking down upon us and strategically redefining “conservative principles”.

What Exactly Is a ‘Conservatarian’?
Which brings us back to the original question — is “conservatarianism” a new, tech-minded branch of libertarianism, or is it the same old philosophy with a shiny new buzzword? The term seems to be just another addition to the lexicon of political flavors — are you a techno-utopian, a Randian idealist, or a run-of-the-mill nihilist?
— The Atlantic, 7/14

Maybe they should invest the time living and learning what conservative principles and morals are before imposing their superior knowledge to those they hope “die off”.

Until ALL of the #NeverTrump-ers and the spawn they’ve created sincerely apologize for the damage they did to the Party and our presidential nominee in 2016 (which the narcissistic arrogant seldom do with any level of sincerity)some of us will be in full #resist mode. After all, they showed us how to do it.

UPDATE

How long does it takes for those with the resources to finally start catching up and vet those who want (not earned)to be stars? Don’t count on the right. We’re truly beginning to question the ability of conservatives in the “media” to actually do their job while acquiescing real reporting, albeit late, to the left.

Even by the whiplash-inducing standards of Trumpworld, Candace Owens’ rise has been fast. In November, amid allegations of racial bias, the conservative campus advocacy group Turning Point USA hired Owens, who is black, as its director of urban engagement.

Owens, suddenly a new face of the American right, was less than two years ago the CEO of an online publication that frequently mocked then-candidate Trump, including conducting a mock “investigation” into his penis size. (The story determined that it was likely very small.) And in a 2015 column for the site lambasting conservative Republicans, Owens wrote that it was “good news” that the “Republican Tea Party … will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope).”

How long have we been putting that out there to conservative crickets or arrogant denial?

Indeed, the speed with which Owens has gone from running a frequently anti-Trump, anti-conservative website to being one of the president’s most prominent new supporters illustrates the wild land grab still going on for influence in the pro-Trump ecosystem.

Most of Owens’ writing for Degree180 was not political. Much of it was personal, including essays about her struggle with anorexia, inspirational exhortations, a fierce essay titled “Fuck Girl Code: I Can Hook Up With Your Ex-Boyfriend If I Want,” and advice about how to get prescription stimulants “without so much as a doctor’s evaluation.” (The site seems to have stopped publishing new material in December 2016.)
— BuzzFeed, 5/15/18

Granted, we’re not the greatest fans of BuzzFeed, but this was not an exercise in Pulitzer-level digging. It’s just too many on the right could be bothered to look, let alone even know where.