Written by What I’m about to do could fairly be described as cheating, since I’ll be repeating much of it this Friday. Call this a behind the scenes look at show prep, and perhaps I can plausibly deny being a crook. I’m obligated by decency to say this outside of the paywall, but it has completely consumed my attention today, and here we find ourselves with a schedule to keep.
I read a piece today by a fellow goes but the name of Gregory Conte. Old friend, goes back to 2017 , though I had some awareness of his talent well prior. Served as my body guard for a time, earned himself more than one purple heart throwing down in other contexts.
But we’re not here for war stories today.
What I’ve long appreciated about this man is that he has a combination of qualities to his character which are tremendously scarce today. It’s likely safe to assume that scarcity has always existed, but today it could fairly be said that it is on the brink of extinction.
He’s got the courage to put himself in harm’s way. The skill and strength to survive that peril. The questionable sanity required to do this more than once in a lifetime.
And he’s actually pretty brilliant on top of this.
It’s not to disrespect warriors that I say few of them are poets. The man who decides when to wage war is rarely the man who dies in it, and I’m pretty okay with that arrangement, truth be told. That responsibility could certainly be wielded more prudently than any of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, but there must be a division of labor in any human endeavor worth speaking about.
Thus I consider it just, and good, that some men fight with fists, others with guns, others with pens, and others with money.
But when you meet a guy who can slay with a word, and also possesses those traits one needs in a melee, man is that cool…
I was contacted by a mutual friend about having Greg on the uncensored production to talk about some of the lawfare grinding decent folks down to the nub.
Truth be told I was kinda reluctant about the subject matter. I’m pretty tired of it, having been, to too many people, a prime example of its victims.
But I like Greg, and if he’s on it, I know it will be handled competently to say the least of it. So, what the hell… Let’s have a long overdue chin wag with an old friend.
As I’m procrastinating my preparations, Greg drops upon me a link to an article he’s written, and it gets added to my news consumption for today.
Reading the piece I forget all about Jewish spies and cavemen with beepers in 2024. Which, as an aside, if you’re still carrying a pager, you probably deserve to get blown up, even if the guys who did it are also monsters.
I got an image in my head, published atop a beautifully written piece from late 2017 or early 2018, describing a fight happened involving Greg. He’s got this formal business like outfit on, and he’s in this perilous moment with a guy covered in tats wearing an outfit that let’s you know he’s perfectly okay with getting into serious trouble.
Any other scene you see with these two guys in it you assume Greg’s about to be a crime victim, but the looks on their faces let you know that this time, they’re on the same team.
And if you’re not familiar with what happened you’re like how the hell is this even possible?
But if you actually give a crap about human beings, it’s pretty intuitive.
Rugged men without prudent leaders are not warriors, they are criminals. They require, for their benefit and that of our species, the guidance of men who are too occupied with their thoughts, to do the things rugged men do.
Guys like Greg Conte, and to a lesser extent, you might say Donald Trump, provide a very valuable perspective, too often overlooked.
We are all too familiar with the method of handling things where the thinking man sends the rugged men to channel his will into action.
Too rare is it that we see the will of rugged men, carried forth by those who spend their time tinkering with ideas. Actually understanding what happens on the street and in the defendant’s chair and in the homes of men who are too busy working themselves to death to be troubled with the frivolities that occupy the sub human minds of our Press. Taking those concerns, and channeling them into compelling text and speech and other means of transmission, in service to the people who are literally dying and going to prison, in the hopes that it will benefit people they will never meet.
That period of time when the Alt Right was ascendant, brought forth a lot of beauty, a subject I developed a greater appreciation for after having been starved of it in prison for a few years. As you might have read in an excellent book by a fellow I think you’ve heard of.
Reading Greg’s piece today filled me with inspiration. Again, the subject matter, despite its tremendous importance, I honestly am just exhausted of and want to walk away from.
But his writing style had me literally punching in the air, on the edge of my seat, cheering him on. And it was a long piece, too. I kept looking at my scroll bar thinking “There’s no way he keeps this up for that long. There’s gotta be like another story by another writer at the end. Some tacky advertisements maybe, a lengthy solicitation by the site operators to donate perhaps.”
To satisfy my curiosity I scroll to the bottom before I’m even half done with the post.
Nope…
I should have known better. It’s the Occidental Observer. They’re way too classy for that nonsense. This is dynamite content, header to footer.
I had a lot of fun just complimenting Greg on the piece. The writing just set me on fire for words. I’m gonna just apologize for the F’s here, which we try to avoid in this production, and copypasta some of what I said to him in the chat for your enjoyment. I’ll read it all live when we convene at 9:30pm US Eastern, on the member Discord.
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I’ll address the substance hopefully tomorrow, but briefly, I’ll deliver a well earned compliment.
I really love your writing style, man. I noticed you were good years ago and I’m reminded of it as I read this.
Fuck this is so good.
The information is, I regret to say I’ve gotten tired of talking about it if I’m entirely honest with you.
I endure some considerable guilt about that because I know it’s important, and I’m grateful some folks like yourself have the energy and sense of duty to keep pursuing it.
But I’m fucking exhausted and I wish I could just walk away already.
When I was told you wanted to talk about Charlottesville I was initially like “How many fucking times are we going to go through this?” but I took the contact anyway because I’ve appreciated you for a long time and I figured it’d be nice to reconnect.
Reading this fucking thing I’m literally punching in the air cheering you on, just for the goddamn style.
You put some much needed wind in my sails friend. Much appreciated.
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It’s a goddamn crime those talentless pieces of shit flood our newspapers and datacenters with fucking smut and have the nerve to put their real names and photos anywhere near it, all the more that they actually get paid well for this poison.
And again, I’m just talking about the fucking writing. The nonsense of subject matter is too obvious to warrant mention, in a conversation between you and I.
The contrast between the talent required to produce what you just sent me, and the fucking sub human ChatGPT drivel I was too disgusted by to even bother complaining about, puts the nails in the coffin of this mythical meritocracy we supposedly live under.
Your description of what’s measured by a jury trial was so well put, and as I read it I was thinking about that contrast here.
Put the highest paid and most revered affirmative action hire these goons have trained to do tricks with a pen….
Give him from now until the end of time, with all of Roberta Kaplan’s minions to assist him in producing his most compelling rebuttal…
Put both pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the same day….
Take an opinion poll two weeks later….
And even were it true that everything you said was complete bullshit, which I obviously know is not the case…
We’d right this ship before the next election.
Just on style.
I’m intentionally avoiding the provision of Greg’s replies, in part because I’ve not asked permission to publish them and also because he’s complimenting me and I don’t to hog the spotlight this time. This one I have to include because it provides context for what I say next.
He says;
That’s why we’re all super censored.
To return the compliment, your speaking in the Kaplan trial was amazing. Ciceronian. I was glued to my phone for the whole trial
I come back;
It’s a crime so little was recorded to our benefit, and that of history.
Let’s make sure we don’t repeat that mistake.
Not holding you responsible for that of course, just pointing it out as I smile to think I possess a few of the better moments I get to share with people from time to time.
He again expresses his appreciation for my praise, and I start to conclude our chat thusly;
I’m very pleased to know you’re enjoying it, because I am too. I’ve lacked inspiration for awhile and I’m having a lot of fun with words just trying to find more creative ways of expressing my appreciation for that piece.
What’s your schedule like for tomorrow?
I’ll set aside some time to talk to you after I regain my composure and I’ll do something more useful to the task at hand than blow entirely sincere smoke up your ass. 🙂
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