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Josh Neal returned to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss the first six months of Trump’s second term, current things, and listener questions.
Topics include:
3:07 – Josh Neal’s views on Trump in general and on his second term.
14:00 – The online consent manufacturing machine (Alt ZOG).
40:53 – Reclaiming classic books from the editorializing of liberal-progressives.
49:28 – America as a hyper-polarized country.
57:33 – Good things about Trump’s second term.
1:16:20 – Bad things about Trump’s second term.
1:43:27 – Listener questions.
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Wow, that was riveting! Alt ZOG is a great epithet, made me laugh out loud. I’ve noticed this effect too. Will listen again.
edit: it was better the second time!
Only part way through, Alt-ZOG is a brilliant term that we need to get out there.
Another effervescent discussion.
‘Bad’ category honorable mentions: Larry Ellison unveiling the Stargate Project and AI-produced MRNA cancer vaccines. And, though it may predate the start of Trump’s term proper, lest we forget the emasculation and ((forced)) retreat of AG nominee Matt Gaetz.
Re: alt-zog and the koshering and colonization of right wing movements discussed around the 20′ mark.
I was going to say so after Greg’s PWR appearance last week but equally valid now –
please pay closer attention to the populist Japanese nationalist party Sanseito that gained traction this past election and and its leadership.
Translating the Japanese language wiki page for Sohei Kamiya yields interesting findings about israel that are conspicuously absent from its English counterpart.
TL;DR – his once spicy opinions on the merchants cohencidentally dropped many Scoville units in tandem with his surging popularity. Guard rails in place!
An amusing counterpoint – of the 25 translations of the ZOG wiki page a Japanese version is not among them!
(The party’s surge is a testament to the under-documented rapid demographic changes happening there with the working population since 2023 and also the tourism deluge that has further aggravated the native population, made possible by the precipitous currency debasement.)
Some more thoughts for Greg and the team on fundraising.
1. I would happily pay to be vetted and then able to network with other people in my part of the world who are also avid readers of Counter Currents. Maybe that is a service that could be offered.
2. This idea comes from my experience with a fundraising job in the Con Inc space (for lack of a better term). It may be the case that it is easier to raise funding for Counter Currents via a different project/entity. You could already be onto this with The Homeland Institute. A new brand that donors might feel more comfortable donating to. Then some of the funding from that can be used for Counter Currents.
It seems fundraising is kind of drying up across the board. I think in part this is our ideas going more mainstream. As they become more normal, then they become less radical, and more run of the mill. As they become bigger too, more freeloaders hop on board the wagon. That’s just in the nature of these things.
With Web sites like this one the content, or at least most of it basically has to be free for it to be relevant. So that’s another thing.
The next point is that crowd funding from many small donations is a hard way to make lots of money. What you really need is one or two extremely wealthy backers. Imagine a few million from an eccentric right wing billionaire. (Lots of leftist publications have this set up. And quite a few of them are now drying up, cf. Jezebel, Vice, Media Matters. Or they had USAIDs.)
It seems a lot of content creators in this sphere are struggling for money at the moment. A factor could also be that the whole thing was on a smaller scale in the Alt Right days and before, so smaller budgets helped more.
I also think in terms of individual content creators that it is becoming increasingly hard to get donors. I think people felt like their favoured youtuber was doing a service and/or was recently doxxed and needed temporary help at various points in the late- 2010s, but now its at the point where people feel they’re basically just paying someone else’s rent for them, with no clear end goal beyond just supporting someone else.
That doesn’t go for a group like Counter Currents, but it’s possible that the same aversion to donating overlaps into groups also.
WRT your ideas, I have said for many years now that simple networking is probably the most important thing. Feeling isolated or estranged from your immediate group is a terrible thing. Even knowing 1 other redpilled person is such a huge confidence booster. Even have 1 conversation with a stranger that isn’t a libtard can make your whole week. That’s how it is.
I concur that networking is very important. Having like-minded friends is just the beginning. The left is great at networking, and they’ve been running circles around us with that since forever.
We should all try to give something. There’s a lot of good writers here. They deserve to be paid. I like them all, even the ones I disagree with.
If you donate a certain minimum amount, then you get to be an Insider. You get some special benefits (such as upvoting and editing), which I like.
Another idea to raise funds.
Start a news website like Noticer.news but for USA. Don’t make it just news for WNs. and not fringe like Justice Report (although they do good work as well). Cover content from the periphery as well. We want to maintain the pipelines from libertarianism, alt lite, etc etc. Run ads on the website from like minded businesses. Click throughs that result in a purchase earn a commission for the news site. Lots of our people are now starting businesses. Clothing, health products etc. The model is there, I’m not the first to think of it. This is how we create our own self perpetuating mini-economy. Regardless of Counter Currents funding status, this is a something the movement needs anyway. And I’d rather have CC and people like Greg involved in it.
I must say that I am quite grateful to the Trump administration for cutting the the funding for the ‘Danish’ Refugee Council by 20%.
In re: the merchandising question—I’m surprised that the site doesn’t sell t-shirts and things featuring the iconic logo (adding the “Books Against Time” subtitle would also be a good option) or the Janus illustration. I would buy either in a heartbeat. The Bowden merch was cool, but utilizing the visual language that makes the site unique (a general sense of understatement, black and gold color scheme, using Greco-Roman art in a way that isn’t cringe and cliche) is a better strategy. I’m also going to be that guy and say that AI-generated anything is not the way to go. I understand this means more money to hire artists, but people are just really put off by it in my experience. And there is already a wealth of great material to work with besides what I just mentioned: Against Imperialism, What Is A Rune, Volumes 1 and 2 of North American New Right, Summoning the Gods, and Reuben all have exquisite covers that I think would be especially suited to adaptation for merch. I’m sure there are artists and maybe even t-shirt makers in our circles who would be good to work with for a project like this. Heck, you could even do a poll and see what people would want to buy!
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