two from Tim Pool

Tim Pool takes on Gavin Newsom's ridiculous gun-control proposal: a 28th amendment to the US Constitution that includes provisions that already exist:

More people are trending conservative in their views:

That's probably due to leftist overreach. People are sick of all the bullshit.

Let me lay it on the line: I personally don't want a nation that swings totally over to the socially and religiously conservative side. I see a lot of these idiots spouting off in the Instapundit comment sections, ranting on and on about how gay marriage is a sham and homosexuality was the gateway for the current groomer crisis. I can't imagine going back to some rightie fever-dream caricature of a straitlaced, 1950s-era morality that can't accept or adopt to pluralism, and that fails to see diversity—not just of race but also of thought—as a strength. We already went through a weird theocrat phase under George W. Bush, a phase I never totally understood because Bush himself was never that overtly churchy, yet theocrats clung to him as if he were some kind of savior. And it's not as though the Democrats were any better: all that puckered-sphincter, PMRC bullshit about labeling rap CDs with parental-warning stickers came from none other than Tipper Gore, the sexually repressed wife of big-time Democrat Al Gore. So the left has long had its own schoolmarmish tendencies. Neither version of social conservatism appeals to me, nor does the Islamic version (or Amish, or whatever). We're all better off being more socially and religiously liberal, living in a society characterized by tolerance and pluralism. I agree that the groomer stuff has got to go—drag-queen performances for kids are an abomination. But do I think drag queens need to be eliminated? Not at all. A healthy society includes weird, dark corners.

What I want is a nation under the salubrious strain of dynamic tension, simultaneously held together and pulled apart by civil-but-passionate arguments, not a nation of retarded Antifa fuckheads burning down whole city blocks and causing billions in property damage. I don't want us to be so close to physical civil war that I find myself muttering darkly, along with many others, about the need for Americans to arm up and get ready to fight for their essential freedoms against an oppressive government and oppressive co-citizens. The problem, though, is that we passed the point of civil discussion years ago, and whatever cold civil war is going on right now can easily turn hot at any moment. The left keeps pushing and provoking the docile right, and it doesn't understand that, at some point, the right is eventually going to respond to this nonsense by decorating a lot of lampposts with swinging leftist bodies. But the left these days can't seem to help itself, and this can only end one way. I don't take any pleasure saying that, either. As far as I'm concerned, this isn't a threat so much as a promise.

So if America is turning conservative, may this only be a mild turn, a pushback against all the current leftist insanity (what Tim Pool outright calls "evil," and he may be correct to do so). Healthy dynamic tension is a fine line to walk, but it's better than the alternative, which is wholesale domination by either side of the aisle. I don't want a totally leftist or rightist America. I want an America that, like the eagle embracing both peace and war on the back of the US dollar, knows that a balanced approach is the best way forward.