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Pedro L. Gonzalez

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Jan 27

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I spoke with former and current military personnel who support Operation Lone Star but are upset with Gov. Abbott's mishandling of the mission. In some cases, hundreds of illegal aliens are being released into the US. My story for @ChroniclesMag. chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/texas-gov…

Lt. Col. Peter Chambers, the first-ever Special Operations Surgeon for the Green Berets, has been on the border with the Texas Guard since the operation's inception. Among other things, he told me some guardsmen experienced serious side effects after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Most coverage of Operation Lone Star comes from liberal outlets that are basically rooting for it to fail. But the people I spoke with are supportive--they want the mission to succeed.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 26

Latest newsletter column: Donald Trump's endorsement of Morgan Ortagus empowers GOP hawks and a close friend of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. contra.substack.com/p/giving-the-n…

The first post she held in government was as a public affairs officer at USAID from 2007 to 2008 under President George W. Bush. In 2013, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided over her wedding. She also served on Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign in 2016.

While working for Jeb, Ortagus criticized Trump because “he does not think that Americans should be, quote unquote, the policemen of the world.” Ortagus added that she fundamentally disagrees with the “isolationist approach to foreign policy” in the America First platform.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 22

I have enjoyed watching the IDW and Douglas Murray and other "non-woke liberals" recently out themselves as just entitled shitlibs who think people to their right need to cater to them and change their politics to reflect their interests

Douglas Murray actually wrote an article arguing we need to arrange our politics to be more appealing to Bill Maher (lmao) and when she isn't discussing who best can handle anal sex, Claire Lehman posts about how the right is kooky while her own country shoots lockdown protestors

The great of fear non-woke libs is not of the left itself, but that the left will get so crazy that it will finally provoke a hard reaction from the right, which is their nightmare. We already have loser conservatives at National Review with this mentality, we need don't more

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 11

Gregory McMichael is one of the men charged in the Ahmaud Arbery case.

He's a former police officer and investigator with no criminal record, and he didn't fire a shot during the confrontation with Arbery.

He just received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

The theory of the case is that you're not allowed to protect your neighborhood when the police fail to do their job--as they did with Arbery--especially if you're white. You just need to let it happen, or risk going to jail for the rest of your life.

By all accounts Gregory McMichael has no criminal record and never had any complaints filed against him while working in law enforcement. His life is now over, his first crime marking its end.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 6

Douglass Murray tried to destroy my life over tweets that he didn't like with a badly argued and badly written hit piece. So bad, his own fans thought it was embarrassing. In the end, he nuked his own credibility and I enjoyed an outpouring of support. A wonderful start to 2022.

And that's not an exaggeration: Murray called for my professional ruin. I'm a new father, too, and I am just getting started in this industry. Murray's piece had potentially severe consequences for my family. But it took people about 30 seconds to see that his claims were false.

But Murray was also working with Bari Weiss, a supposedly "anti-woke" lib who is never more vicious than against people to her right. Irony: the woman who tried to cancel me is starting a university as an "anti-cancel-culture academic project."

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

@emeriticus

Jan 6

The whole purpose of the "intellectual dark web" is to ensure genuine opposition to the establishment never takes root. Their problem now, though, is that no one takes them seriously.

It makes sense that the IDW emerged within conservatism because the conservative movement is defined by gatekeeping and purges that protect that establishment above all. But people aren't going along with it anymore. The energy has, indeed, shifted.

The IDW is basically an offshoot of neoconservatism: a bunch of "non-woke libs" welcomed into conservatism who are never more vicious than when attacking people who aren't libs. Old neocons were Trotskyites too but could be insightful sometimes. Can't same the same for IDW types.

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