"[Lawyers] participate in the same instinctive love of order and of formalities [as aristocrats]; and they entertain the same repugnance to the actions of the multitude, and the same secret contempt of the government of the people." - Alexis de Tocqueville

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We've been seeing a lot of these types of posts over the past few days. So we put this together as an explainer. Now keep in mind that we (US_OGA) are the small companies that produce oil and gas - not the big boys that are fully integrated and produce, transport and run refineries. We don't do that. We just pull it out of the ground and sell it to whoever will buy it. But those other guys are bad at explaining things because they have comms teams that are scared of their own shadows so we have to do if for them sometimes. That won't keep some of you from yelling at us. So be it. But yelling at us is like yelling at a farmer for the price of a box of cereal. But here you go. This might answer some of these questions.

“Poasting” is still important for 2 reasons: First, it develops party identity of those who are actually actively involved in the decision making process. It’s where an interest in politics turn into wanting to be a staffer and thus shapes outcomes. Second, which I believe is the most important, is it helps develop ideas in the free market of expression. This is the modern day federalist papers. While we likely won’t convince the opposition to come join us, those who are new blank canvasses entering the arena for the first time, can develop their opinions from the discourse. They can read our arguments and become educated in them and develop strong opinions based on reason and facts. However, what Poasting is terrible at, is actively bringing in those new people to the discourse. Those who willfully wander in will likely become active, but they would have anyways. We’re merely strengthening the resolve. We’re like a marketing firm in that way. Your desire for cookies is created by the worldview that everyone else wants cookies. We have to keep morale high amongst the actively engaged so we can convince normies that “huh, looks like everyone is buying cookies, maybe I should too.” However, that happens outside of Poasting, and is done by the people who engage in it. Really, Poasting is more an incidental trait of those who are already engaged. This should be more like a classroom for those engaged than actual voter recruitment. Come here, engage, learn, gain the necessary knowledge, and practice debating these ideas with “bill9187737” in the comments. So when you go out into the Real World™, and your friend, who is an Instagram Reels American, that thinks “Trump betrayed us” because something something “gas prices Israel” you can push back and say “No, and here’s why.” Then at the end of that conversation or in a few weeks you can say to them. “Hey man, I’m going to go vote today, want to come with me” and they will follow

Great. Another reckless withdrawal from an Islamic country. It's Afghanistan all over again 🫠

If you go line-for-line on Trump's campaign promises he's made sincere efforts on 90-100% and serious progress on at least 75-80%. No President in my life has ever delivered on his promises as radically as Donald J Trump has delivered to his voters in his 2nd term

This is why we call them the "retard right" They are unable to see what even Don Lemon can see.

Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY. Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump. We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.

Why We Post That People Should Die Guns are not going to save us. They aren't going to save us from taxes. They aren't going to save us from anti-liberty immigrants. They didn’t stop lockdowns. They won’t stop wokeness, or regulations, or spying, or your local school turning kids into trannies. It's not that they couldn't. It's just that not even the most hardcore will actually use them for that. That would be appalling. It would be abhorrent and disgusting. Calls for violence have no place in a polite society. Can you imagine the outrage if a school counselor who was socially transitioning children against their parents' will was shot by one of the disgruntled parents? Or if a Democrat who voted to create an income tax was tarred and feathered in public? All land on Earth has been conquered. There is nowhere to go to start something new. This means we have two options. Work inside the system, or work outside it. There is participation, or there is revolution. Inside the system means contributing political effort. Voting, running for office, lobbying, contributing to campaigns. Outside the system means violence. But nobody's going to do it. Nobody’s even allowed to say you should do it. Even if you say it should happen, everyone gets really mad. Sure, people are happy to celebrate past violence, like Independence Day or the Pine Tree Riot. Even some elected politicians are willing to talk abstractly about “Second Amendment solutions”. But like all respectable people, we believe only violence in the past is acceptable. Any future violence is absolutely wrong. We should celebrate these holidays in theater only, never as a sincere expression of cherished values. We have jobs! Some libertarians say voting is for suckers. Voting "legitimizes the state." Some even say that voting itself is violence. That becoming a Republican state rep is treasonous and anti-liberty. Which leaves many libertarians with nothing. They won't act outside the system. They won't act inside it. What's left? Posting. The dooming, the black pilling, the "my guns," the "it needs to get worse." It's a way to do nothing while feeling like the most hardcore guy in the room. It's crabs in a bucket. It's a lazy, bitter mentality that necessitates that you sit on your hands, wait for the collapse, and cry when your society is burnt to ash by the people who chose power over apathy. It is spiritual cancer. We talk about violence to make it clear to you it’s not a real solution. Tens of millions of Americans would have to die for it to be a free country again. Even with German efficiency, it would take hundreds of thousands of people to commit this much violence. How could that ever happen if there isn’t a single person willing? The only solutions forward are marginal. Move somewhere a little better than where you are. Make that place better by getting involved. Vote for whoever is slightly closer to you, no matter how imperfect. We do this in New Hampshire and it works. And it turns out if you do this consistently, not just politically but culturally and spiritually, you get something much bigger. You get a place where when the media misrepresents your get-out-the-vote campaign as a call to “assassinate Democrats” it’s not a big deal and some elected anarcho-capitalists call you and laugh about it. So be loud. Do your best to make your town, community, or state repellent to communists. Get in the media anyway you can to influence demographic changes in your community. Participate in local social media and at town meetings. Be a mix of resolute and pragmatic, as each situation calls for. Your options are voting or violence. And if neither seems like a good option where you are, do them somewhere else. Live Free or Die; Death Is Not the Worst of Evils

I’m voting straight ticket Republican in the midterms AND I’m dragging my friends with me to the polls to do the same

Trump's instinct for spotting an 80/20 issue and getting his enemies to lunge for the 20 remains unparalleled.

HE’S STILL GOT IT BOYS

Trump completely changed the culture of the DC administrative state. For the first time in my career, I’ve heard government employees say things like “we work for the American people” and “we need to create value for our country” with sincerity instead of sarcasm and snark. The 47 transition team brought in a bunch of private-equity dealmakers and corporate executives at the cabinet deputy/under-secretary levels, and they’ve been cleaning house. These are people who are used to working long hours, being responsive to their stakeholders, and holding their teams accountable. People who care more about results and value creation than they do about years of tenure or where your MPA degree is from. People for whom the words “fiduciary duty” actually mean something. Almost overnight, they transformed the way work is done in DC. If you view a federal job as a way to just coast through a career and collect a pension (with an occasional pit stop at Booz Allen Hamilton or Accenture to top up your 401k), you’re not going to make it. If you want to just clock in 9-5 via Microsoft Teams and get paid as a GS-14, the American people no longer require your services. If you treat government funds as an infinite reservoir of Monopoly money, rather than as a finite pool of capital funded by hard-working taxpayers who deserve a return on their investment, you’re out. The difference has been night and day. As an investor, as a taxpayer, and—most importantly—as a citizen, I couldn’t be more excited or more grateful. Patriots really are in control 🇺🇸

This is fake news at its finest.    First off, we’re not ‘banning’ any program. The federal government doesn’t set curriculum or programs.    Here’s the truth: we are holding colleges accountable for leaving students worse off than if they never enrolled. Too many graduates report delaying major life milestones like buying a home or starting a family. Why? Because low return-on-investment programs saddled them with unmanageable debt that was never going to translate into a real-world job.    Federal student loans are not a welfare program for failing college programs. American students deserve education and training pathways that prepare them for the workforce – and transparency about programs that will never pay off.

This is literally lower immigration then pre-Hart Celler by the way. Remember this the next time somebody tells you Trump "betrayed us" and to sit out the midterms.

In case you were wondering what Trump got out of his summit this week with Xi Jinping, check this out: China just froze all of Iran's money there. This is the same China that was buying 90% of Iran's oil exports before Trump's blockade. It's a new world, folks.

This chart is the only reason you need to vote Republican in the midterms. The second Democrats regain control, they will open the border and continue the replacement of the U.S. population with foreigners who hate our way of life. If they retake power, we will lose our country.

You punish bad Republicans in the primaries. You vote to save the country from leftists in the general. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

DHS is reducing your rent, especially in states that cooperate with @ICEgov. Texas accounted for about a quarter of ICE arrests in July and posted the country’s sharpest rent drops, with San Antonio down 4.8%, Austin 4.3%, Dallas and Houston about 3%. Miami’s average rent is down 2.6%. Phoenix is down 4.2%. Atlanta is down 3.2%. Nashville is down 5.3%. New Orleans is down 8%.   Research shows that illegal-worker inflows push rents and home prices up. That inflow has been reversed in the states running the hardest interior enforcement.   Want lower cost of living: support mass deportations.