The Pete Quiñones Show - Episode 1302: The Future of Cities w/ Capitalisimo

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

62 MinutesPG-13Pete invited the host of Drive Time Movie Night, Capitalisimo, to come on the show and talk about the research he's done into how the dreaded "blue cities" can be taken back.Cap on TwitterTooky's MagDrive Time Movie NightPete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Antelope Hill - Promo code "peteq" for 5% off - https://antelopehillpublishing.com/FoxnSons Coffee - Promo code "peter" for 18% off - https://www.foxnsons.com/Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's Substack Pete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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Thanks for having me. Long time listener, first time caller. You know, we've actually been on a live stream together. That's true. Yes, on drive time movie night, of course. The show that I do with our good friend and OGC brother, Mike of Paul, every Wednesday, which I'll just shill right now. At 8 p.m. Central time, we watch a movie and chat about it in a completely non-serious way.

I feel like I'm a spiritually non-serious person forced to grapple with serious subjects due to the times that we live in. Well, it's interesting because it does have like a missed, you know, inspired by mystery science theater or anything. Sure. Anybody of a certain age was a fan of mystery science theater before it actually started getting woke. um but the i mean the movie you chose society yeah i mean it was like when i'm on next month i want to choose a movie and i want it to be even more ridiculous than that one do you do you know of a movie that's more ridiculous that you haven't seen i don't know i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm not sure i'm going to ask around because um you know i i like body horror because you know

like one of my one of my favorite movies is uh is uh american war wolf in london which right could could definitely be called the body horror and i love wolfen um but the that was just that was a fun time when i can make comments where the the two other people on the stream just absolutely like or like you can't are we going to are we going to get that now this stream's not going to get taken down it's it's x.com formerly twitter and rumble we could say i mean look if you can stream an entire movie unredacted uh then uh you know it's we're fine we're fine we're fine it's fine well we are not here to talk about movies um at the o gc conference this year you had a you had a speech from the topic of your speech was one that I'm yeah since I got out of

cities I've told people especially people with families maybe it's not a good idea are people to be in cities you know and I understand what I'm saying when I say that people may have very very long ties to an area and so I had to Mayaculp on that that and be like, it's up to you. But living in a city now is not the easiest thing to do unless you're very, very wealthy and you can mitigate the, um, mitigate what a city is. Well, I mean, uh, there, there are many people who have made the observation that one of the greatest things that money can do for you is insulate you from the problems. Uh, you know, it is a, it is an all purpose problem. So,

in many cases. So undifferentiated optionality. This is what some people have said. But yeah, you're not wrong. I mean, you know, young, young zoomers listening can certainly find a $70,000 house, but you're not going to like your neighbors. And it's going to be, you're going to be close to them. So that's true, except, you know, of course, there, I feel like there is an opportunity for a sort of a based urbanism, right?

It's not like cities were always shitty. They're decaying because they had a place to decay from, right? And when when people are fleeing the cities, and I would hesitate to say something like white flight. right that's that's not our not our analysis of the situation uh it's more like uh localized demographic displacement um is you know it's a symptom of of real real underlying problems and you know we can also look at structural we could also look at structural problems but i i agree i agree with the sentiment like it is tempting to you know just say you know what fuck this i don't need to deal with this i'm going to go i'm going to go live elsewhere there's lots of

nice land in this country and i could live on it and that's that's that's great i have an option i have a car it's it'll be fine right but you are giving something up right you're giving something up when you do that and you're you are removing yourself from the um you know both the literal and the spiritual center of power. You're providing physical difference or physical distance between yourself and power centers. Not a great way, not a great way to control the future direction of the country. And you're also giving up, you know, essentially what is what was made for you as the posterity of the people who built this country, right? You know, if you are living in a Stick-built house built in the 1980s in a commuter suburb. Well, you know, okay, all right. It's a 40-year-old house and, you know, I'm sure it's perfectly lovely, but it doesn't have the same kind of, it doesn't have the same kind of gravitas as looking at, looking at monuments that were erected 100 years ago to the glories of our nation, right? It's just not the same.

And so I think that we need to, we need, we as, as, I don't know, members of this thing of ours need to, we need to think of ways to return to cities, clean them up and make them places where we can, you know, where we can live in and raise families again. Yeah, I think one of the, one of the interesting things about this conversation is, is that this conversation. as old as the actual country, you know, 1776, where, you know, someone like Jefferson was very suspicious of anybody who would want to be in cities. And, you know, someone more like Hamilton, you know, would probably consider the cities to be the center of, uh, the heart of, uh, a country, mostly because, you know, he was very much into banking, very much into finance. And, Uh, yeah, I just, I mean, this one just seems to go back to, uh, go right back to the founding. I would, I mean, I would say, you know, I would, maybe I'm, maybe I'm only disagreeing on metaphorical

grounds, but I think the frame matters. I don't think that, you know, cities are, I don't think cities are the heart of a country. I think the heart of a country is the, you know, I, for lack of a better word, the hinterlands, right? The places that are, um, the places that are truly their, their own spots, small towns, um, you know, the, the geography itself of the country. Like, that's the heart. That's sort of the, the, the animating spirit to me. But I do think that the cities are the, you know, the head in the hands, right? They're, they're the, they're the places where a lot of things get done. And they are the places where a lot of people who make decisions, make decisions live, you know, for better or worse, it's, it is just simply the case.

So, um, you know, if we, if we want to control things, we, we have to be there, right? You have to actually, uh, you have, you have to play the game if you want to win. So, uh, as, as distasteful as some of us may find it, you know, like, and living in a city, right? As you mentioned earlier, is not easy. I mean, there is. there are opsec hazards of course constantly you have to be a little subversive and like our side need some subversives right we want to build things that are orderly and long lasting but getting there with as a bunch of lions is unfortunately has not proven successful we need we need a good supply of foxes

So I hope I'm one. I hope I'm not a, you know, I hope I'm not a pig just being fed fed to everything else. Who knows they may get me yet. But yeah, that's, I mean, we need these multiple strategies. We need to be, we need to be in places where we can take stuff, where we can take stuff from the other side. Every click, every connection, every moment your business is

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Yeah. And you hear a lot of people talk about, you know, that the 10th Amendment. If we just had the 10th Amendment again, everything would be great. And but what you have is, I mean, I happen to live in a state that really only, or where there's only one city that I worry about, like, becoming bright blue and shitty. Yeah. I mean, and that's Huntsville. I worry about Huntsville, Alabama, because it's headed that way already. Huntsville's an incredibly important city technologically. Very much so, very much so. Yeah. And the, you know, Birmingham, Montgomery, there, I mean, Montgomery is the, you know, the capital. That's, you know, it's a place you drive through very fast, even if you have to go there. Birmingham is not much better, but, you know, the outskirts of Birmingham, so Hoover is. places like that are great, you know, wonderful places. But the one problem you do have is when it comes to states is, is you may have this bright red state, but smack dab in the middle of that state, you have this glowing blue city there, that power centered in and they can, they control.

You're really, you're really setting that, you're really setting that ball on the T for me and just, you know, giving me a, giving me a quick little shoulder massage and telling me to just really knock it out of the park right pete do i appreciate it so uh with regards to the tenth amendment uh the tenth amendment the much the much denuded amend uh end of the bill of rights um of course uh gives to states all powers uh not specifically apportioned to the federal government um one of those things that has not been destroyed by think by you know subsequent rulings on the commerce clause basically is um is the rights of states to govern their cities um actually it was it was established there's sort of there's sort of the the dillon rule which is a legal it's a legal

principle named after um uh john for us dillon it basically says that local governments are creatures of the state in which they are located right so you know hunts huntsville montgomery birmingham all are basically portions of the state government of Alabama. And whatever constitutes them is constituted by the state itself. That is without respect to the residents and without respect to the federal government. So essentially there is no one who can be appealed to if the state chooses to do something. one of the things that is absolutely allowed is for states to determine how their cities are governed and that is that is very broad there's another important there's an important supreme court case

called hunter versus pittsburg where the pennsylvania legislature allowed consolidation of cities and a mr hunter did not want to be absorbed into the city of pittsburg as it so happens that went all the way to the supreme court it wasn't clear who had the who had rights there and the moody court ruled essentially that municipalities are subdivisions of the state and are merely conveniences of state power. And so they can modify or withdraw powers without compensation and vested in other agencies as they see fit. And many times throughout the country, this has been done. There are instances where, for example, the city of Detroit went completely bankrupt and was put into receivership by the state of Michigan. And eventually they gave it back to

to the people. They reverted to home rule, so to speak, and allowed people to elect their own mayor and dog catcher and what and what have you. But that's not how it has to be. There's nothing that says it has to be that way. And so a deep red state, you know, a trifector red state where you have a two houses of the legislature and a governor who are all majority or super majority red, right? They don't actually have to tolerate the existence of a blue power center. They could just say no. You know, you could you could just say, actually, we're going to take over your police department and we're going to dissolve your municipality and run it as an agency directly unelected appointed by the legislature or appointed directly by the governor of the state. And that means that then we pick who works where.

And maybe they don't even work in that city, right? Maybe the city doesn't have is only basically an economic zone and doesn't have the types of leverage over the state any longer. For example, you know, if a city sues, say a city that wants to be a sanctuary city in a red state, sues the state. The state could simply delete the city. They could just say, actually, you don't have standing because you don't exist. It's completely, it's completely within the law and is, in fact, suggested by the existence of Supreme Court case law. So and, you know, people would say, wow, that seems really draconian. That seems really, that seems like it might be going a bit far, but the hour is late. And it is the types of, you know, poor governance that we've

seen in a lot of our cities is not something that's actually insurmountable. It's just, it's just something that's been allowed and chosen for the existing power structures who are benefiting from the lawlessness effectively. Well, I mean, I guess that all goes to will, right? I mean, here's a question. How many governor? Well, will and will and creativeness. Right. But how many governors do you think actually or their their staff, immediate staff, know that, know that they can actually do that? Well, I know of one who has been informed of it, but I couldn't, I could hardly tell you who, who else might know. It's something that all of them should know.

This is something, honestly, that should be being suggested by larger think tanks. But, you know, the problem is that, you know, many of us have abandoned the concept of conservatism for, you know, a broader and more vague label of being right wing. I think this is something actually that this is a distinction even that I guess my good friend in yours, Christopher Sandbatch made on a pony explain. press recently, maybe even last night, actually, that he does not consider himself conservative. He doesn't have conservative priors, right? He is more a man of the right wing. And that means that more stuff is on the table. We can actually take tools out of the toolbox rather than say, don't we have a magnificent toolbox? Oh, it's getting stolen. and by Jamal. I guess I'll do nothing about that. We don't want to lose, right? We don't want to lose

and we are not bound by a tradition of loss that allows us to just say, well, I guess our principles are wonderful as the world decays around us. So, unfortunately, I don't know that we have any non-conservative red governors. Maybe you can suggest. just one who is a more forward thinking but um yeah no one's done this so far there are lots of reasons to do it even um you know just from a pure party politic stance uh you know for example um just patronage um the if you go to any uh city hall right you're going to see a bunch of fat black women behind the desk and one out of 20 of them is working, right? And so you're just providing make work jobs using funds from, you know, sometimes quite heavy local tax burdens to pay people

to not do anything. Because those are those are people who are the cousins and the nieces and the nephews and the aunties and the uncles of people who have been elected to local government. And they find positions for them. And then those people work on campaigns and use the money that they have been given via the state coffers for not working to help run campaigns. And that's just assuming that they're doing everything legally, right? Which we should all know is not the case. So cutting off, cutting off those patronage networks alone, just in a pure party political. sense is is worth enough even if you're going to just say all right well you know we'll replace

we'll we'll replace all of these people with our people who are equally worthless and the cities will suck but at least we'll be getting the money right now I don't that's not a not a not a not a laudable goal but as a minimum viable product like that's a good enough reason to to seize those seize those organs of power every click every connection every moment your business is online, a threat is evolving. With Nostra as your trusted technology partner, you're not just reacting. You're ready, turning concern into confidence. From cybersecurity that protects what matters most to cloud solutions that scale as you grow

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Search AIB Go Mile to see where you, your family and your friends can find your local Go Mile event. AIB, for the life you're after. I agree. And, you know, as you've already alluded to, you know, that would be a revolutionary act. It would be considered to be a revolutionary act. The things that you're, the things that you're mentioning. It would absolutely dominate a media cycle. I mean, you think that people, people got up in arms over, I mean, gerrymandering, which is the lamest part, right? The lamest part of state politics. is drawing is is gerrymandering and people lost their fucking minds they would they they it would be wild the response would be wild but the act is absolutely legal so yeah what i was going to say is is that you know as much as you think that you're going to be attacked by the regime and by for lack of a better term the left really what you're going to be attacked by and you know it's something the stormy waters always says the enemy of every right revolutionary

movement is the conservative yeah absolutely it's a it is a major hurdle i don't honestly even know if um you know one of the issues is that a lot of uh a lot of the the red a lot of a lot of the red a lot the red governors are, you know, basically farm lobby guys, right? They don't actually even have interest in the cities. They kind of try to prefer, they kind of prefer to pretend they don't exist in action, if not in fact, if you pay attention to, you know, ones who say aren't named DeSantis, right? DeSantis is maybe the only red state governor who ever like, whoever took any interest in what goes on in the cities in his state in a in a in a considerable way in my opinion and that was mostly because of the um mostly because of the coronavirus response so or you have a state

like mine where you have a great grandmother who's the aunt see the go the governor's a great grandmother they call her you know me ma me ma me ma me ma is not going to stand it is not going to uh is not going to seize power like this what you know we need we need i don't know we need right wing pelosi to if it's going to be a woman it's going to be a generational woman right but also you have to believe that what would cause a governor to act in this manner would be an emergency so there is the problem is there's no real emergency well sure well yeah the frog is boiling right when when does it become an emergency but the problem is that yeah okay so you know previous example Detroit you know they they gave it back why'd they give it back

they didn't need to give it back you could have kept it bankrupt forever right you could have kept it under emergency powers forever. I mean, I mean, this is not municipal governance. This is not an example for municipal governance, but emergency things can just kind of last. There's typically no expiration on this sort of thing. So, you know, the federal government has had control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 2008 under emergency powers. It's never given them back. And those, those entities control the entire higher secondary mortgage market for homes in the United States. So, which is, you know, land use related, obviously, but is, it just, it just goes to show you that we don't really need to, once we get it, we don't need to give it back, no matter what the extensive reason is. Like, that's another reason why conservatives lose is usually conservatives will actually do the, operate according to the spirit of the law, rather than the letter of it.

To win, you actually need to just genie logic your way through things, in my opinion. Well, do you think that's how it gets done that where you see the first, like, real blue city get taken back is by emergency? like okay so this mandani character just got elected and i would say that you know like new york would be the last the final boss i mean sure that that's not going to be the first that's not going to be the first one to uh you know to get taken back but um it almost seems like it would have to be like a a failure a complete failure a and you know you would think that i mean well I mean, I want to say Chicago, but Thomas lives in Chicago, and he's like, it's not as bad. There's really one section that everyone avoids, but it's not really as bad as everybody tries to make it out to be.

And I was just in Portland and I didn't see anything in Portland that made me think. But, you know, there are. Around this time last year, I was in San Francisco. And it is, it was exactly as bad as advertised in the tenderloin. Um, I, I will say, uh, you know, I, uh, I'm not going to dox myself, uh, at this juncture, but, uh, having been in, uh, having been in many rust belt cities, uh, the parts of them that are bad are much worse than people have a, um, much worse than people have a conception of, right? Um, when a, say like a, uh, say like a, a, uh, going through depleted neighborhoods in parts of Detroit

that haven't been built back up. And there are parts of Detroit that aren't bad. Like, you know, you can find good parts of virtually any city. And it's, they're recaptured at great expense

in all cases. But, you know, people who live in, in a suburban area or a small town that has not been, depleted like that can't understand an entire you know an entire city block that has say you know 80 addresses right where one-tenth of them is occupied right it's it's it's insane to see uh what we've allowed to happen um in our cities um and even even in places like chicago like yeah i mean

Thomas is right. You can go, you can go places in Chicago, especially if we're talking about all of Cook County or something like that or the broader metro area. Yeah. There are still plenty of nice places to be. But we also just allow ghettos and slums to exist. And those places don't, you know, buildings don't fall down on their own. They fall down because people neglect them and flee them and can find no takers because of the people who live around them. being allowed to continue to be uh be produced negative extradalities uh on a daily basis let's say in the most diplomatic possible terms well you know small i love it in a small town and small towns have you tried that in a small town yeah exactly and the people will to anyone who's live, you know, the people who are elected to office in a small town, a lot of them are legacy, a lot of them, you know, or, you know, and there's, there's corruption, not corruption on a mass scale, but, you know, there's going to be corruption. But, you know, when you, when you multiply that to.

They buy the agricultural land where the off ramp is going to go. Yeah. Yes, that kind of thing. Yes. Thankfully, thankfully, I live in a county that doesn't have a federal road. So, yeah, that kind of thing doesn't happen. But there's, yeah, but the, when you multiply that to like where I used to live, Atlanta, you're talking about levels of corruption.

I mean, and basically all Atlanta is is a smaller version of Washington, D.C. when it comes to corruption. So, yeah, what you're looking at is, I could see a governor doing as you. you described for a smaller city, you know, if something really, really bad happened or something like that. But you're kind of looking at like the Atlantis of the world or the, the, the, the Montgomery's of the world or the Orlando's. Orlando is one of the most corrupt place on the fucking planet. I honestly think that one of the, okay, there are a lot of of Casas Belize that could potentially be used in order to take a city back. The one that is most boring but also fairly plausible is, you know, starving cities of federal

and state funds, which would have to be a coordinated effort, of course, and might take quite some time, causing them to bankrupt themselves because they can't balance their budgets and then seizing them in receivership and not giving them back. one way. Other ways, significant civil unrest would, has been used to take, to take police departments from a lot of, a lot of blue cities and put them directly in the hands of the state. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the people in those police departments and doesn't change, typically doesn't change who gets to hire the chief of police and things like that. So it's very, very difficult to rip them out root and stem and replace them with a bunch of judge dreads.

But it's a step. It's a step. And it shows, it shows that it's that the Hunter versus Pittsburgh decision is, is alive and well because local policing is a, is an agency and an operation of local government that can be alienated at will from cities, right? And that's been done, that's been done throughout the country in many different cities. I was going somewhere with this and I've lost my way. So prompt me again. Prompt me again, Pete. And now a look at the forecast.

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about um you know just how the bigger how the corruption of like dc when you oh yes um any any um any any um any scandal that can be uh you know that can be judiciously uh may judiciously pumped up in the media right assuming you have a compliant media group or it's salacious enough to really go wild um in social media in a way that the mainstream can't avoid it. Some level of corruption getting blown up like that could be sufficient cause, especially if we're talking about multiple city governments, longtime mayor, something where you have to say that this problem is actually, actually goes all the way down and we need to rip it all out, right? That is another sufficient, sufficient cause that I think has real legs. And honestly, there,

there are so many anyone who is sufficiently engaged in the politics of a city will sort of realize that there are these open secrets right where you just don't talk about it because you know state senator whatever is nailing the chief of staff for the mayor and um you know this decision was made over cocaine whatever whatever whatever like all of these people go to parties together i'm not even kidding it's so many decisions in this country are are made over cocaine and alcohol um at least uh well at least in my town so you if you can pump up any of these things to be to be salacious enough that there's a public outcry

than you have a chance to take to take it as well. But I think far in away the one that would be far in a way the one that would be able to prompt since we don't control the media would be the financial one. And you could probably get the conservatives to go along with you

because they love acting like everything is a house's checkbook so it's an easier sell for them well cap i guess the the question is how um when is that when you can do we do it do it now do it now we could do it now we could of course we could do it now but we don't have our got we don't have our got we don't have our in place and that's the you know I the the first time one of our one of our guys becomes like a governor or a lieutenant governor governor in our guy hell yeah then you know I mean we should probably have mayor and sheriff our guy first I mean that that's very helpful mayor and mayor our guy is super hard mayor our

guy is incredibly difficult because every city has its own political feeder system people don't typically go mayor governor right people do not do mayor governor there's a whole state level political system that happens um in most states and then there and then that leads to the governorship and then there's a there are city political systems that lead to mayor and that leads to uh that ends at mayor and then both mayors and governors can go can aspire to um national office, House or Senate, if you're a big enough name, and you have enough friends. And, you know, obviously the top, the top tier of any of these can be Mr. President. But, but typically you don't, these are parallel tracks.

And I actually think that a lot of our guys have a much better shot at being, we could have, like, one election cycle, not even that hard to get one of our guys in as a state level house rep not not difficult every you know i mean even the libertarians managed to get state level house reps all the time so we could do it not an issue um and that can lead you to i mean that can lead you to governor pretty pretty rapidly um that said i think that and and we we should definitely uh any anyone who is listening who is aspiring to such a thing should absolutely go for it, right? But those are not the only routes to power, you know, many, many of our guys, a favorite member of the administration right now, Stephen Miller has not been elected to public office and has quite a lot more power than many people in the government who have been elected. So, you know, there are ways. by just being an operator in administrations, on campaigns, you work on a campaign, you get a job

in the office of the person you worked with. That's how it works. Or you get an appointment to a position. And congratulations. You're the head of a, you're the head of a state or city department. Right. And now you control a budget. And now you can, you know, within the bounds of the law pick and choose with little nudges where that shit goes right that's that's what the left did right it it works we could do that there's nothing stopping us from doing that other than a knowledge of how the system works and a willingness to actually reward our friends well that that is interesting in that we are seeing like a change we are seeing people it's more clear to even to politicians especially into people in politics that that friend

enemy distinction that james lindsay is so afraid of while he uses it and abuses it as much possible do you mean do you mean the friend enemy distinction from noted nazi journalist karl Schmitt. Yeah. Jurist. I said, did I slur and say, you said journalist, yeah. Jurist, jurist, the, the chief, the crown jurist of the Reich. Yes. Yes, yes. He's got all of his ideas are poisoned, like the idea that you should start the day with coffee and a nice piece of toast, the Nazi idea of starting the day with coffee and a nice piece of toast, or the Nazi idea that people who are your friends, you should treat well and people who are your enemies, you should you should not treat as well

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called um but he had like um you know celebrating of course of course you don't mean a corn cob pipe no no no this was this one has a long a long stem and everything yeah we're not talking about that guy um this is from 2017 and he it's 2017 2018 he's like celebrating you know the way i celebrate it when i turned my neighbor what i call ice on my neighbor and like somebody pointed out like someone took a screenshot of that tweet from back then and posted it recently and said, yeah, this guy, this guy works in the administration in, you know, with the, um, in like department of Homeland Security now based on beyond based. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, I mean, now the problem is, is that you, you know, we want to see remigration and there's a lot of talk now. I, you know, I don't know about you, but I'm at the point where it's like, go on Twitter and tell me what you did, not what you want to do, not what you plan on doing. There's been a lot of, I'm going to go on Twitter, you know, and tell you what, what we plan on doing and then we don't see that get done. How about you just go on Twitter after you, hey, we've already done it.

Yes, it happened 20 minutes ago. Yeah, or no, it's like. well we know for the for the past for the past month we decided we were going to deport one million people and we deported one million people instead of going on twitter and going you know we plan on doing this in the next month and then we don't see any results yeah yeah uh i mean obviously obviously for the um obviously for the administration uh that that that would be a a wonderful thing uh there there is also some danger of our guys uh you know adding to adding to dog piles on random lib tards um and and and retweeting the base take right and not and not think and like

ending their day like wow i sure did a lot of engagement fuck what what did that do right uh you know amplifying boosting all that stuff it's obviously good but it's also it is ultimately pretty low effort. And so we need to be in, uh, we need to be doing things that have effects beyond ourselves. So, uh, you know, for some people that is, uh, you know, uh, for some people that is just as much as, you know, making a, making a judicious choice about who you do business with. Like maybe that's the most you can handle. And that's, that's perfectly fine. And for some people that is you know choosing to work in a promising uh a promising candidates uh you know second campaign right for uh for state level or maybe uh maybe federal uh maybe a federal position

right and then you work in their office and you are the one who chooses what white papers they get to see um that's super extremely powerful and completely underrated. I mean, we just went through four years of a bunch of a bunch of staffers secretly puppeting a president, or not so secretly, I guess, from our perspective, but people were sure surprised. And that is an avenue that is open to you. You have many options, and you need to pick one that's actually going to build you to be in a position, to be the guy with

the pipe who went from shit posting to actually uh actually calling out raids so yeah well let's talk about that let's go back to cities for a second uh well let's go back to cities let's go back all of us right now if our guys are in a city right now um if our guys are in a city right now um say they're in a city and talk about what would be a good thing to be doing if you're single or what would be good thing to do if you have a family what do you think would be uh do you specifically mean to improve the uh do you specifically mean to improve your the life just around you yeah i mean yeah you're taking care of yourself you got to take care of yourself yeah what do It has to start there.

You can't improve everything around you unless you have to, your home has to be in order before you can even think about doing that. Sure. Okay. So just here's base level, something anyone can do. If you're in a city and stuff kind of fucking sucks and you've got some neighbors who are on their porch shouting at all hours of the night and everything always smells like fucking weed, your city has some sort of online portal where you can do, where citizens,

can do nuisance reports you got to be the nebiest fucking neighbor in existence you got to be looking outside your blinds you got to be taking a photo you got to be making reports make a report every week put it on your little put it on your calendar so it's in your phone it gives you an alert and it says make a report about those pieces of shit down the block and you know what every city keeps track of how many reports get made and every single city will eventually actually respond to that. People who are not your natural political allies will help get those things done because squeaky wheels are tracked metrics and all of these bureaucracies run on these types of metrics. So do that, do that. Make that system work for you. Set up a script, like vibe code a script

that puts in a report every week if you need to but like that's one thing that you can do to fight in a small way fight in a small way against a narco tyranny right and fight in a small way against the negative externalities of certain people who shall remain nameless so um in terms of actually seizing power things like that um there are places for people with different um political persuasions occasionally even in city government you if you're if you're not uh well beware of obsec obviously always beware of obsec but um you can express more conservative opinions of certain things as long as whatever those things are is it has some sort of leftist connotation um things like uh historical preservation or uh

Pollution or noise ordinances, beautification, all of those things will be, you know, parks departments. Typically, parks departments and building divisions are typically the most right wing organs of any city government because they fucking have to be. Like, those are, those are major enforcement mechanisms. You know, building, building divisions can just seize property pretty faster than any other portion. Board of election commissioners jobs, low-level jobs in board of elections commissioners, you will be right there when they roll in the door with a dolly full of, full of harvested ballots from the old folks home.

You will be able to take a photo of that. And, hey, you know, those jobs come with bennies. You just got to, you just got to play the game. uh as distasteful as it might be so those are all opportunities for uh you know for virtually anyone because you know i'll tell you the the people who are currently doing those jobs are fucking retarded so any anyone listening to this is likely to be at least 10 to 15 IQ points higher what do you like if we do get to the point and i mean it's probably will be long gone before this before this might even be a possibility that these do

get taken back i mean how do you keep them i'm of the opinion that okay so you know what i think good so this question was asked uh and i won't mention who asked it but this question was asked during my talk at the OGC. And the answer is, you don't. You never get to stop fighting. Like, you are here forever. Your children will be fighting the same fight. Like, we are fighting against entropy.

We're fighting against the night, right? You don't get to stop fighting. There's no final victory until Christ returns. Literally, there is no final victory until Christ returns. And so that's, that's how it is. We will have like localized times of great triumph, but we will always be fighting. That's it. This is a strategy for the situation that we're in.

You know, if cities were really red and state governments were really blue, Gavin Newsom would have nuked, would have nuked right-wing, Los Angeles yesterday using all the strategies I just said. And he would be right to do so strategically, right? We just need to have, we need to have the will and we need to have the morale to realize that like these are paths available to us. You know, these cities are ours. They are our birthright. They are massive centers of funds.

They're massive centers of power. all of the lower rungs on those on the ladders up to power right are currently occupied by star wars names in patronage positions you need to get your foot on one of those rungs by hook or by crook practice tequila like take an insight role like just you know be a don't wear the don't wear the maga hat to the job interview get on it and start working on it while people who are in positions of power also hopefully get their heads out of their asses and do one of the more robust strategies that we've outlined. But we have to make sure that our feet are on those rungs.

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you know we're just going to lower taxes a little bit and you know we'll see we'll see what that does yeah you've lost you've you've you've taken you went forward one step and you've just gone back 10 and they've just jumped forward 20 yeah i mean it's okay patriots win the super bowl they'll have to play again next season that's it that's what you're doing it will it will never end for us until until we're dead or we receive our final reward so yeah i i just and it's just too easy i think when people do get elected when they do get some power, when they do get that position to just take all the benefits that come from it and forget about their people.

It's like the enemy does, you know, we talk about this all the time. It's like the enemy gets power and they get their most radical friends like sinecures elected to office, all sorts of things. some quote unquote right winger gets elected to office and like the guy who was working on his campaign who you know mentions like um you mentions somebody who's it doesn't even have to be Carl Schmidt it could be you know it could be it could be Oswald Swangler and it's like oh well you know I'm going to have to cancel this guy before he gets me canceled and they literally think that way i think that is one of the reasons they do that yeah no i mean it's they have well

this is all like seeking approval from the enemy right it's like oh no no no we're don't we don't worry we're not racist look we elected a black retard like that's our candidate top that oh yours is just a white woman ha we lost the election. Great. Awesome. Good job. Victory at last. Can you imagine how bad it would have been if somehow Nikki Haley had won the nomination for the GOP? Are you just talking about the fact that the White House would be in the, you know, be like people be shitting in the corner? Marginally more Indian than it is at present. That's right. Yes. I can't imagine what the FBI office is like.

What does somebody say? Someone said that the good thing about Cash Patel taking over the FBI is that even if he didn't, you know, do what he's promised to do, turn it into a museum to the deep state, you know, everybody would be so repulsed and turned off that no work would get done anyway. That's right. That's right. Everyone's got old-fashioned wooden clothes. pins on their nose walking around trying to try not to step on any of the plastic bags that are now littering the hallways uh in in the grounds it's it's amazing what one can do yeah unbelievable yeah all right well i let's call it right there sure you come can come back on any time

and maybe maybe even will uh people should know like before this all we were doing doing was talking about movies that's it before we started recording we were just talking about movies that's right you know it's funny last christmas right at christmas i gave you my heart in the very next day you gave it away mike ferris invited me on a show coffee and a mike i always go on there and he lets me rant about a certain um you know tribe of people sure you know and the band is right yeah exactly and so we did an episode for Christmas where all we did was talk about movies just talking about some of some of our favorite movie do you know how many fucking Sparrooks complained look at the way look at the situation this country's in

and you're on you're talking about movies how dare how dare you I'm so bait I'm based. I don't listen to, I don't listen to music unless it's Wagner and I don't watch movies unless it's Triumph of the Will. That's right. Triumph of the Will in, on my meta-oculus while I listen to Wagner at 3x Speed. Just, yeah, I have my, I have my, I have my, I have my, I have my, I have my nurse made putting uh putting droppers in my eyes like a clockwork orange so that i can so that i don't need to blink while i watch it um yeah no people promote anything you want go okay okay well you can find me at the capitalissimo on x.com formerly twitter give me a follow i appreciate it uh you can also find me on the tookies mag youtube channel where i do library of mass destruction with our friend

Christopher Sandbatch we we do full readthroughs full readthroughs of media and media and history books of a subaltern variety and you can also find me on drive time movie night on X and rumble with Michael poll every Wednesday and you'll be able to see mr. Pete Kinone as there next month you guys read full books I wonder someone else is there there anyone else who does that i'm pretty sure i invented reading an entire book on stream i don't know where i got that idea from i i because i've been doing it now for so long i did the first one in 2021 and i'm just i trying to figure out who where i got the idea to do that from i mean it's an audio book with color commentary yeah yeah so you know i that it's

It's good. It's good. It's, it's, it's, it's a very, very vibey to produce. I guess we're really talking shop. It's very, it's very fun to do that. You always know what you're going to get into. I actually like to not read ahead, right? The first book we did was aberration in the heartland of the real, Wendy Painting's history of the Oklahoma City bombing, expansive history of the Oklahoma City bombing and we that was like that was like 90 hours and it was it was great because I hadn't read it for 10 years and so I was I was rediscovering things as we went along so yeah yeah I think the first the first thing I read what in its entirety was Uncle Ted's manifesto oh yeah great great classic classic yeah yeah it just you know everybody's everybody's happy about

and then the next thing we read was uh state revolution by london so yeah i am enjoying 200 years together uh the the the paragraph by paragraph analysis uh is is is is great so is wild huh i mean there's no way there's no way in hell i could do that without Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson. Oh, for sure. For sure. I mean, having someone there who's like, oh, I know exactly. I read a book about this guy.

I'm trying to pronounce his name. And Dr. Jay is like, oh, yeah, I read a book by this guy. So I read a couple of books. Oh, yeah. Sergey. We go way back. Yeah. All right, man.

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