What is a Man?

If Tucker Carlson wanted to interview a 'real' man, maybe it should have been Jason Aldean not Andrew Tate.

I’m tackling a thorny topic, so get ready for the deep dive. I’ve been working on an essay about Tucker Carlson’s interview of Andrew Tate, and then Jason Aldean’s music video came out, “Try that in a Small Town”, and I knew I had to include it. Please watch Aldean’s video below.

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Tucker Carlon’s interview of Andrew Tate has 94.5 million views on Twitter to date. Now, Jason Aldean is getting the same sort of attention for similar reasons—for being a man’s man. Similar, but not the same, definitely not the same.

Both men are being accused of being racists. That’s what happens when you fall afoul of the Biden Totalitarian Regime (BTR). It’s kind of an automatic label that’s slapped on you. Tate has the added distinction of having spent time in a Romanian jail cell with the possibility of prison looming on the horizon.

To start with Aldean, as described in The Guardian:

Such is the theme of Aldean’s new song, Try That in a Small Town, which is all about how the singer and his pals will aggressively deal with unseemly behaviour on their turf. A sample extract: “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face … Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road. / Around here, we take care of our own …”

The article goes on to say:

The video leaves little doubt as to what Aldean is trying to communicate: it intersperses footage of him singing in front of Maury County courthouse in Tennessee – the site of the lynching of a Black man, Henry Choate, in 1927 – with footage from protests, looting and civil unrest. Small towns are wholesome, the message is. Full of “good ol’ boys” who were “raised up right”. Cities, meanwhile, are hotbeds of violence … and diversity.

That last bit isn’t spelled out – it’s not like Aldean yells “I’m a massive racist!” in the middle of the track – but the dog whistles are difficult to ignore. The song has been called “a modern lynching song” by detractors and the video was pulled from Country Music Television (CMT) on Monday.

Aldean defended the song on Twitter:

Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.

Every violent scene in Aldean’s music video is true. It all happened and it’s still happening, yet to point it out and to say “I won’t let that happen in my town” is racist. Maybe the Maury County courthouse is the right place to film the video. Maybe it says we aren’t living in 1927 when the lynching took place. We’re living in 2023 when we should be past all of that, but they are purposely dragging us backwards.

The plan is to turn us all into extremists. There can be no middle ground.

Just like on the prison yard, you must identify with one gang or another. And if you’re a young man who is angry at being belittled and told constantly that you are a white supremacist because of your anger, eventually you will become one and you won’t even realize it.

It all started when we were forced into lockdown over something called “Covid” that was nothing more than a bad case of the flu. We were told we should be fearful and hide in our homes. We were told to distrust our neighbors, our friends, even our own family members. We were told we had to wear masks to hide our faces from one another. We even shouldn’t look into a friend’s eyes at the market because it might encourage them to stop and talk to us. Don’t look at one another. Don’t communicate. Just walk on by. After all, anyone could kill you, even a loved one, just by breathing on you. Those who did not comply were the first to be demonized.

Locked in their homes, people turned to social media to communicate. People were encouraged to take sides against one another. People displayed their loyalties to BLM, antifa, the vaccine, the LGBTQ+ trans agenda. If you didn’t, you were a racist, an antivaxxer.

Criminals were glorified and anyone who dared stand up to them was put in jail.

As if I hadn’t already had a hundred reasons not to vote for puppets Biden and Harris, the day Harris told Jacob Blake that she was proud of him was the day I turned my back on her forever.

Remember Jacob Blake? Police had been responding to a call that Blake had allegedly broken into the home of his children’s mother, sexually assaulted her and stolen her truck.

Blake admitted to having a knife in his possession, but he ignored instructions to drop the knife and tried to get into the truck, where his children were waiting in the back seat. When he continued to refuse to obey the police commands, he was shot and paralyzed.

What should the police have done? Allowed him to drive away with the children inside? If those were your children, is that what you would have wanted the police to do?

Did Harris visit the mother or the children, to find out how they were coping? To maybe offer them some assistance? No. Jacob Blake was the victim, and she praised his courage.

So, what is a real man? Is Jacob Blake a real man? Would anyone in their right mind say he was?

In his song, “What I Got”, Jason Aldean sings about what it means to be a real man.

She said, "Baby, do you ever miss being alone?"
I said, "Hell no, I don't"
She said, "Do you really think I'm where you belong?"
I said, "You know and I know"
You're perfect for me
Everything I'll ever need
I ain't playin', what I'm sayin'

It’s all about the traditional way of life. The idea that men should be the protectors of the family, that a family should ideally consist of one man and one woman and children. Of course, not everyone has this kind of life. It’s an idealized vision. I am divorced. I raised my children as a single mother. But I would still say the best environment children can grow up in is one where they have two parents who love each other and them. I wish my children had experienced that.

Andrew Tate got rich off of everything that is the antithesis of Aldean’s message in his music video. Yet, Tate is treated by Carlson as if he represents the epitome of manhood. Nothing is mentioned about how Tate got so wealthy. The crimes he is accused of are treated with kid gloves. Throughout, Carlson appears small and insignificant in comparison to the larger-than-life Tate, who basically bellows his message for two hours. Carlson acts like a fanboy in the presence of his manly idol. Why would he do that?

Could Tucker Carlson be part of the plot to push conservatives ever closer to extremism? I believe he is, whether knowingly or not, and I think this interview shows that.

Andrew Tate believes that the reason he is so dangerous is because his message is “traditional masculinity”. Tucker Carlson traveled all the way to Romania to give Tate a chance to explain exactly what he means.

There is no influencer on the planet besides me who is genuinely benefiting your life.

Yes, Andrew Tate actually said that.

When I teach things that genuinely help men’s mental health, no you’re not allowed to do that. You can’t escape the battle. The battle is here for all of us. So I’ve made my decision and that’s why I can’t be quiet. I would lose my self-respect, I’d lose my dignity and I don’t think I can function that way as a man.

The reason men died on the Titanic was for self-respect and dignity. They went into the icy-cold water and died because they would feel honorless if they jumped on the boat and left the women to die. So when you have self-respect and dignity you have a hard parameter and you’ll do things that are deemed crazy and insane because you believe in them and you stick up for yourself and that’s why they don’t want men to have self-respect and dignity.

So, I can’t be quiet and I’m going to say what I believe is true and I genuinely believe I’m helping the world. I think that any young man who is a follower of mine-I would argue there’s no influencer on the planet besides me who is genuinely benefiting their life. I look at these other influencers, these other streamers, they play video games all day, they smoke weed on stream, they talk garbage, it’s a bunch of drama back and forth like girls. I’m the only influencer or streamer who’s genuinely talking about making money because you need money to escape the Matrix… and I’m not going to stop doing it because I know I’m genuinely helping the world. And they’re going to try and punish me for it for the rest of my life. I think this is just beginning. And when I beat this case, which I believe I will be, I think something else is going to come.

Tate talks about being a good person. Weak people hurt people. If you are weak and always complaining, you can’t do good. Tate points out why Biden is so scary. It isn’t that he got weak after he was in office. It’s that he was weak to begin with and that’s why he was chosen. Traditionally, it was the strongest men who led, down through history. But that isn’t the case anymore. The most powerful man in the world, leading the most powerful nation, is the weakest representation of manhood that you could possibly find. Not only that, but he is white. A white “cis” man running the world—who then purposely denigrates himself by vilifying white men.

So, everything is a contradiction, and nothing makes any sense anymore.

I think weak men rape women. I think weak men rob stores. They don’t want to wake up and work hard and do it the honorable way and so it’s a weak man who robs and steals, it’s a weak man who beats the shit out of a girl, it’s a weak man who shoots up a school.

Society is telling men they need to be weaker and weaker and that’s somehow the solution to everything because being strong is toxically masculine.

How can women be happy when all the men around them aren’t men? We are the most beautiful union that God has possibility created on the planet. A feminine woman and a masculine man is the most beautiful union that could possibly exist. It raises children the best. Both parties are happier. But if you destroy one side of the equation how is the other side supposed to be happy? How can you as a woman be happy if you can’t find a man who can protect you, provide for you, sticks up for you, has morals, has principles. There’s none of those men left. So then what they do is go from man to man trying to find it. And by the time they’ve been through enough men to maybe find someone semi-close to it, they’ve been through too many men to ever be happy. And then you have the absolute destruction of western society.

This is all true, up to a certain point, but in the back of our minds, we can’t escape what Andrew Tate is being accused of, which is in direct contradiction of what he is saying in his interview. And so, once again, confusion reigns and we are thrown into chaos.

So, what exactly is Andrew Tate accused of? Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian women allegedly kept six women as “virtual prisoners” and forced them to have sex on camera for online subscribers. Is he innocent or not?

And he can deny the charges against him all he wants but here is his brother Tristan Tate explaining on camera how money from sex work/OnlyFans accounts goes directly to him (illegal), he “takes full control over their accounts” this stops girls from “run[ning] away” and he “likes to keep the girls’ passwords” because if you don’t “a chance they will run away,”.

I do believe he is being targeted by the BTR, not because, as he claims, he is a danger to the Biden regime’s agenda of destroying manhood. But because a big part of the regime’s agenda is to create chaos, hatred, and violence and Tate’s persona fits that goal perfectly. We are all being forced into narrow boxes of extremism. We are all being forced to hate the other side. Tate’s message is a great way to get all the young conservative men who are insecure and easily influenced to be herded into a box of white supremacy extremism. And Carlson helped to spread it.

The prophesy, if it is repeated over and over enough times will fulfill itself.

In a live stream with famous Twitch streamer and friend Adin Ross, Tate revealed he has over 10 kids, with different mothers around the world. Upon being asked if all his kids were from different mothers, Tate says, “Not all different, but there’s been a few ovens to bake the bread. Women are slow, G.” 

Tate has said repeatedly that he doesn’t see “the tactical advantage of getting married.”

How did Andrew Tate make a large portion of his money? He started Hustler's University where, for $49.99 per month, men can learn how to become rich like him. He encouraged men to share controversial videos of him on social media to up his profile. According to Tate, the ultimate proof that you are a manly man is driving a Ferrari, being buff and having lots of women.

An Observer investigation revealed how followers were explicitly encouraged to create “arguments” and “war” by posting deliberately controversial clips that would attract high engagement and views, thus generating more Hustler’s University signups. On TikTok, where videos of him were widely pushed to young users by the algorithm, content tagged with Tate’s name has been watched more than 12bn times.

Phillips, a subscriber, insists Tate — who once slammed women as “intrinsically lazy” and claimed they bear “some responsibility” for being sexually assaulted — encourages his disciples to “respect” females.

Now, I will interject here, should a woman go to a strange man’s apartment, get drunk and then not take some responsibility for herself—not for what the man does—but for not being smart enough to stay out of a potentially dangerous situation. Yes, I think she should. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. No woman in her right mind should leave a bar at midnight and purposely walk down a lonely alley, just because she should be able to, and it won’t be her fault if she gets attacked. The world isn’t a nice place much of the time. Be smart.

Phillips, who is single, says the university advised him not to give women “everything they want”, but to “give them what they actually want. It’s two different things.” (Sort of like when a woman says no, she doesn’t want sex, the sexual predator ‘knows’ she really means yes.)

The irony is that while Tate promotes individualism and not following the crowd, the way he makes money is off of getting vulnerable young men like Phillips to follow him. Young men who will never, ever in a million years make as much money as Tate or have as many chicks as he does. They will just give their hard-earned cash from their ordinary jobs to make Tate richer.

If you are a confident, secure young man, would you join Hustler’s University? Doubtful. If you are a virtuous father, would you want your daughter dating Andrew Tate? Doubtful. Would you hold him up as an example of manhood to your sons? Doubtful.

Tate, whose father was black, and mother is white, grew up in a Christian home, became an atheist and apparently has now converted to Islam. Muslim men can have multiple wives. They can have sex with as many women as they want.

As I’ve mentioned before, I lived in Luxor, Egypt for three years. I got the message loud and clear from the men there—not just one or two of them. Probably 99% of the men think women were created to be used by them and that is not an exaggeration. Their wives do not have any right to ask them where they go, night or day, or who they are with. The job of the wives is to stay at home, bear children, and care for them. When I asked what would happen to one of their wives if she was unfaithful, the response was always the same: she would be killed, and it would be honorable to do so. No man would go to jail for it.

This is not some fringe belief. It is reflected in the political system of every Islamic country that I know of. Correct me if I am wrong. When I was in Egypt, a woman in Cairo was thrown from her balcony by the men in the neighborhood because she had invited a man into her home, not even to have sex with her, just to visit.

This is not to say that there aren’t plenty of Muslims who do not agree with this horrific treatment of women. I have met devout Muslim families with traditional views no different from Judeo-Christian ones, with fathers who provide for their families and would never consider having multiple wives or cheating on their one and only wife. I write about one such experience in Into the World.

Conservative Christians, Jews and Muslims are uniting in America against the woke agenda being pushed in schools. The regime hasn’t dared to come for Muslims—not yet. But eventually, anyone who claims loyalty to a religion other than that of transhumanism will be persecuted.

Again, everything that we know instinctively to be right and true is being upended. Contradiction, conflict and chaos are encouraged.

Anjum and Heena, hosts of podcast 'Hijabi Half Hour', think his conversion could amplify misogynistic stereotypes of Muslim women.

How Muslims feel about Andrew Tate’s conversion to Islam

Hijabi Half Hour co-hosts, Anjum and Heena are concerned that Tate’s influence on young men and new converts could mean that they try to justify misogyny and gender roles with Islam. 

"I think that there are issues because now that he has become Muslim, there is this association of his previous views. But the reality is those are not Muslim views or Islamic views in any way, shape or form,’ Anjum said.  

In a livestream with Adin Ross in November 2022 Tate encouraged the streamer to get himself an Islamic wife, and "that she wouldn’t cheat on you, she’d cook for you, she’d look after you, she wouldn’t have an OnlyFans".  

Heena questions where Andrew Tate picked up this stereotype of Muslim women. 

She asked: "Where has he’s got his version of Islam? I worry - is it from genuine Muslim men? Is it from misogynistic Muslim men? Or is it things he’s seen on the TV?" 

In Tate’s interview with Carlson, he easily spouts words that contradict the way he actually lives his life. He praises marriage but at the same time says he will never get married.

“We talk about why men don’t get married anymore. I can tell you why I wouldn’t want to get married in America. I don’t see the point being married to a woman who’s had so many partners before me that she can’t properly pair-bond (I think that’s what he said) with me and then giving her the opportunity to financially destroy me. I think that would be a bad chess move. And I do believe in marriage…. It would be better if everyone was married. I’m saying, if you’re living in an immoral society…”

Immoral society? Are you holding yourself up as an example of morality, Mr. Tate? I guess just like climate czar John Kerry can fly around in gas-guzzling private jets while the plebians need to stop driving cars, Tate can f*ck as many women as he wants while at the same time lamenting the immorality of society. He’s above it all. The very hypocrisy he accuses elites of having, he has himself.

Andrew Tate and men like him can have multiple partners, but women can’t. I’m no mathematician but that doesn’t compute. If a man can have tens or hundreds of women doesn’t that mean that there are tens or hundreds (thousands?) of women out there submitting to his advances. But he specifically says women shouldn’t do that. What are those women classified as? Lower class whores? The bad girls who can be used and abused because they deserve it.

Take your chances with Andrew Tate and maybe he will keep you on his arm for a year or two.

He says he takes care of his women. For how long? Does he give them some nice gifts and then when he tires of them, send them on their way so they can subjugate themselves to the next guy? Didn’t he say that weak men are the ones causing women to move from man to man and never be happy and that is why he will never get married in America because it’s so immoral? Yet he is a major contributor to that immorality.

As a woman, I think I’d rather take care of myself, thank you, and not be dependent on a man like Tate who tries to seduce me by driving a Ferrari, flexing his muscles and throwing money around.

By the way, not all women go gaga over a buff man with a Ferrari. I’ve met a lot of men like Tate, and they are not necessarily the most secure men on the planet. They are continually having to prove how masculine they are by their over-the-top exploits. It gets quite boring.

I think it’s hilarious when men claim women are so emotional and men are so rational. Tate even brings up the old-fashioned complaint of how women behave when they are “on their period”. They just don’t think straight. I was living in London when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister. There was a lot of talk about, how could a woman run a country when every month she would be at the mercy of her crazy emotions due to her period. As I recall, Margaret Thatcher ended up being called the Iron Lady.

Andrew Tate even mentioned women and their periods in his interview. Women are emotional. They have periods. They need men, who are rational, to guide them.

I guess the fact that we are on the brink of World War III has nothing to do with men being emotional. I guess that historically men have done a great job of taking care of the planet and women and children, etc.—which is why we’re hurtling so quickly towards the destruction of it all, thanks to the men in charge.

You only have to walk into a bar on a Saturday night to see how emotional men are. After a couple of beers all they have to do is look at each other in the wrong way and it’s “What are you looking at?” And the next thing you know, it’s a brawl.

Somehow, that doesn’t qualify as emotional. Somehow, men marking their territory and invading each other’s countries isn’t emotional either. But women crying over a love scene in a movie proves that they don’t think with their brains. Absurd.

Yes, we should have strong men. I’m all for that. I can’t stand wimpy men. But there are a lot of different ways to be strong. And I might not be as strong as most men physically, but I would venture to say that I am just as strong mentally, if not stronger than most. And in this era, mental strength is what is going to save us.

Below is a photo of me receiving the Child Welfare League of America’s Award for advancing the safety, permanence and well-being of children, youth and families, back when I was president of InsideOUT Writers.

At that time, I was training as a full contact boxer and kickboxer. I was offered to become a professional boxer by one of the top trainers, Stan Ward (a great guy), in Benny “the Jet” Urquidez’ gym. I desperately wanted to do it, but I said no because I was a single mother caring for my three children and I was building InsideOUT Writers. I simply didn’t have the time needed to devote to the training—and I am not a person to do anything halfway. But this photo, well, looking at it years later, I can see how men found me intimidating—women, too.

It’s never easy standing out. My dad used to tell me, don’t ever stoop, it only draws more attention to your height. You can’t hide being tall, so embrace it. I took that advice to heart, and I’ve always stood up straight and tall and been proud of it.

Yes, work hard, have a high moral standard, don’t give in to the weaker parts of yourself. That advice goes equally for men and for women. We can both be strong in our own ways and respect one another.

Then again, the whole idea of what is strong and what isn’t, has been shifting for a while. No matter how buff Andrew Tate and his crew get at the gym, they will never defeat the new cyborg soldiers the military has in store for us. The weakest man among men, the guy who can’t remember where he is half the time and can’t even read the teleprompter accurately, the guy who falls off his bicycle and trips down the stairs of air force one, has the power to push a button and destroy every man, woman and child on the planet. He doesn’t have to have big muscles to do that or even a sound mind. He just has to obey orders—like the rest of us are supposed to do.

Vitalik Buterin, the nerdy kid who hung out in his basement playing the video games Tate so derides, created Ethereum, all because he got inspired by those video games. Ethereum is now the largest open source, blockchain based platform for decentralized applications. I wrote about Buterin in my essay SoulBOUND.

I would ask, with all his muscles and fast cars and chicks, what has Andrew Tate accomplished other than scamming a lot of vulnerable young men? A year ago, after being banned from social media, Tate announced that he was setting up the Tate Foundation “dedicated to helping towards men’s mental health and also protecting women against violence from men”.

I’ve looked in vain for the Tate Foundation. If it’s there, and someone knows about it, please inform me. Anyway, my experience of nonprofits is that they are generally set up as money laundering schemes or ways for the wealthy to avoid taxes while appearing charitable.

So, once again, why, out of all the men Tucker Carlson could have picked to interview to represent what a man is, did he pick Andrew Tate? Because it all fit into the regime’s agenda of mass confusion, hysteria, and pushing everyone into a corner. Forcing extremism on the masses.

The message—which is a good one of strength, honor, loyalty, honesty—is being perverted in order to confuse us. Earlier in this essay, I talked about the dark side of the men of Luxor, but there is always another side to the story, and I always look for more than one perspective.

I was told many uplifting and fascinating stories by the men of Luxor. I write about that side of Luxor in Neom's THE LINE. One especially enlightening story was about how during the Arab Spring uprising, the men kept their villages safe and there was relatively little violence compared to cities like Cairo.

On the west bank of Luxor, where the Valley of the Kings is located, there are many interlocking villages. Every man, every head of a household, has a rifle. There is no controversy about it, and they would never consider giving up their weapons. Just five families control the villages and each one can trace their ancestry back hundreds upon hundreds of years to the tomb raiders of old. Their traditions run deep and there are many good and practical reasons why they have them.

During the violence of the Arab Spring, the men of Luxor formed units, patrolling the villages. Everyone knew one another in that intricate web. So, when outsiders came and tried to infiltrate Luxor and cause dissention, they were immediately identified and run out of town. Many of the men of Luxor make their living with their boats on the Nile. When they were refused gas for their boats, they attacked the gas stations and took them over. One man showed me the scar on his head from a gunshot wound.

This is exactly what Jason Aldean is singing about in Try that in a Small Town. This truth is no different in an Egyptian village than it is in a small American town. You can try that sh*t in the city, but it won’t work in a small town.

I don’t like the way the men of Luxor treat women. I don’t like the way Andrew Tate treats women. I like how Jason Aldean treats his wife and children in the video. Now, I have no idea if he is loyal to his wife in real life. I have no idea if the idealized version that we see in his music videos is how his family actually lives. I do know that I would rather hold Aldean’s vision up as an example for my grandchildren than Andrew Tate’s vision of “success”.

On the other hand, Andrew Tate is spot on when he talks about the Matrix:

I think there are certain agendas that are being pushed. I think the media and the judicial systems of the world work together hand in hand. I think the goal is to control people’s minds to the point where they don’t discuss anything important. (Interesting to note that Tucker Carlson hasn’t watched the Matrix. He reveals that he is so dyslexic it’s hard for him to watch videos. Ironic that videos is what he does best and how far his influence has gone because of it) Anyway, he explains that the basic premise of the Matrix is that human’s minds are controlled and put inside of a false reality so that their body-heat can be manifested for the machines. And I don’t think it’s much different from reality. Our minds are controlled, we’re put in a false version of reality, we’re told things that aren’t true, we’re arguing over things that don’t matter, we’re observing a false version of events, and the goal of it is for us to be distracted long enough for our bodies to be used for the machines. The soulless.

There are agents in the movie whose purpose is to make sure nobody’s minds are awakened. They want to keep you asleep. Any person can become an agent at any time, if they aren’t unplugged and their mind is not free they can become an agent and their job is to keep you asleep. You see agents all the time. Covid awoken me to agents. When I would sit and talk to somebody and they seemed perfectly rational and normal until I mentioned Covid and then they fully change. “No it’s dangerous!” “No, what do you mean, are you crazy? My grandma got sick.” And they became an agent instantly and started repeating the news to me. And I was like, “Your grandma got sick, how old is she? 97? Interesting. I better lock myself in my house then. Dumb ass.”

I can say this for Andrew Tate, he is articulate and intelligent, and he really gets the Matrix. He's far from perfect though. Nobody’s perfect. Maybe prison will humble him. Maybe God will confront him for real in prison, the way it has happened to so many others.

Or maybe he’ll just get a little older and wiser, which is what we are all supposed to do.

Tate sums up everything that we need to be aware of when Tucker asks him what he makes of the race conversation in the United States...

"I think it's deliberate,.. they're trying to put fuel on the fire and they're deliberately trying to accelerate division."

If a black billionaire and a white billionaire meet, I don't think there is much conversation about race...

...but amongst the lower echelons of the populous, they seem very interested in trying to turn us all on each other..."

Tate continued "I think what certain people in the world would be most afraid of is white people of a certain class and black people of a certain class shaking hands and saying 'this is bullshit'"

And that’s exactly right. In the world of the elites there is only money and power. Elites don’t care about borders or skin color. They don’t stand by a political party or a religion. They only care about money and power. They will make a deal with anyone if it brings them more of that.

Meanwhile, they want us so busy hating the person who doesn’t look like us or have the same politics or the same pronouns—anything that takes us away from all the wonderful blessings that we should have in common. Like family and neighborhood, faith and love.

If we get anything out Tucker Carlson’s interview of Andrew Tate, it’s that we shouldn’t follow any influencer. Especially not Andrew Tate. Sure, take what is good and discard the rest. Don’t allow the regime to manipulate you into becoming an extremist.

“Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.” ~Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Here's a man for you. Willem de Kooning in his studio in the 1950s. A quiet man. Making art, not war. He's got some muscles on him, though. Very handsome. But in those days, I don't think men hung out in gyms pumping iron.

De Kooning’s marriage to artist Elaine Fried has been described as “a lifelong partnership affected by alcoholism, lack of money, love affairs, quarrels and separations”. Many people can relate to that. The 1950s wasn’t the perfect era and woman weren’t happy then and suddenly started becoming unhappy in the 1970s, as Tucker Carlson suggests during his Tate interview. People haven’t changed all that much down through history. What’s changed is the elites’ ability to control everyone through technology. And the fact that we can now destroy all of humanity and the planet along with it by pushing a button. That’s quite an achievement. And it’s one that men can take responsibility for, not women.

In fact, all those billionaires who are ruining our lives, like Bill Gates, are white men. If women were in charge, would it be better? Absolutely not.

The staff where I taught in juvenile hall always told me they would much rather break up a fight between boys than between girls. The boys would stop if you pulled them apart and overpowered them. But once the girls started, they were immune to pain, threats, they would just keep on tearing each other to pieces.

We all have our fallen nature and until that is taken care of, nothing else will get any better.

But what we can do is hold on to some simple truths and make sure we don’t let go of them. What Jason Aldean says about small towns is one of those truths. This is what the regime is afraid of. The connection that small communities have to one another. The fact that tradition runs deep, and the down-to-earth people who live in small towns will not easily be swayed by the regime’s propaganda machine or the razzle-dazzle of online influencers.

If civil war comes to America, if violence breaks out, if bombs start dropping, where would you rather be, the city or a small town?