Israel, me, Team Candace, and the Turning Point Aftermath, December 22, 2025.

Introduction.

I just got back late Saturday night from Amerifest, 2025, Turning Point's National Conference. It was quite a wild ride down there,

and I've never seen anything quite like it. To get anywhere, you had to navigate through what must

have been 17 acres of vendors and podcasters, with all of the podcasters casting pod content

at one another. Reminds me the time they threw two Scotsmen down into a pit, and they both got rich selling rocks to each other. There were just thousands of wall-to-wall people, the air just crackling with right-wing hustle, and the tight security and the loud furries protesting across the street. All in all, it was quite the spectacle. I consider myself personally enriched for having been there. What I want to do here, share my opening remarks from the discussion about Israel and the Jews that I had with Steve Dease, and then follow

that up with some color commentary afterwards. There are a few things I touched on in my opening

remarks that I really need to expand on. And by expand on, I mean soaking them with lighter

fluids, setting them off, and then gesticulating at them in an animated

fashion. I'm including my remarks in their entirety below, because there were some pretty gaudy

reactions online afterwards, meaning all thrust and no vector, like what happens when you're blowing

up a child's party balloon, and it slips from your fingers before you can tie it off, and it visits

every last corner of the living room. This is not a discussion of the aftermath of the conference as a whole, but rather just to fall out from my little part in it. So here we go. I'm going to highlight, in bold, certain phrases that were missed by those who thought to characterize my comments as those of a Zionist pig who made off in the night with my Judas shekels. What I intend to do right after

that, first, is explain the state of civil strife within the conservative movement. Then I'm going

to expand on a few of my points that were misconstrued by certain online maladroit mind readers,

sometimes deliberately and other times because they just can't help it. What I then want to do

after that is tie all of this in with the

gospel, the only answer to what currently ails the conservative movement, which would include,

incidentally, Nikki Minaj being there. So get a load of my opening remarks. The biblical expositor,

John Stott, once observed that fuzzy thinking was one of the sins of our age. When you connect this

to ignorance,

malice, and bad faith, you can find yourself with something that is truly rancid. This being the

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