I don’t, either. That’s why I’m not one. You’ll never hear me “tell you about” Rough Greens or Identity Theft Protection or some other service you don’t need and don’t want to “learn” more about. I’ll try to sell you on ideas, but that’s a no-cost proposition. Bottom line is I don’t like this sordid (to me) business of using ideas to get rich, as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Clay and Buck (and so many others do). It makes me think the ideas are just the vehicle for getting rich.
EPautos is a one-man show. I do not understand why anyone who wants to write/broadcast ideas needs a multi-million dollar studio and a staff of dozens, unless you’re basically a Zoo Keeper/tele-prompter reader who can’t do it on his own.
Anyhow, I don’t – and won’t peddle. Because I do find it sordid and I do think it undermines what I am trying to do; i.e., to propagate a different view about the order of things and maybe jump-start something that might, one day, amount to something.
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone out there who has helped me do all this by supporting the site via your donations, which keep me in coffee and the cats in kibble, plus some parts for the TA every now and then. I have some new coasters on order, by the way – and when they get here I will get to the stack of mail I have and send everyone who chipped in over the past few weeks at least one, as a thank-you. In particular:
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Keep up the good work, Eric. Will send a little something your way next week.
*The other day someone was accusing Paxton oin Texas f covering for a pedophile, or of *being* a pedophile, or something. I don’t know much (almost nothing, really) about pedophiles, except that any time someone looks like becoming a problem for the Powers That Be all sorts of Sexcrime allegations suddenly start pouring out of the woodwork.
Voting may be useless as far as foreign policy and Forever Wars are concerned. But it seems to be of at least some use regarding domestic policy — *particularly* Second Amendment issues.
Texas: Dem Senate Candidate James Talarico Supports Gun Control That Would Ban Private Firearm Sales
‘ U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D) supports implementing a background check requirement for all gun sales, thereby criminalizing the private gun sales Americans have enjoyed since 1791.
Under the heading Public Safety & Justice on his campaign website, securing background checks for all guns is listed as one of Talarico’s “priorities,” should he be elected to the Senate.
Another priority is the passage of a firearm storage law. Such laws typically set forth how guns must be stored–often locked in a safe or container, sometimes separate from ammunition–in order to protect “children in the home.”
A third priority is to raise the minimum age at which someone could “purchase semi-automatic rifles with certain military-style features like high-capacity magazines.”
Talarico is running against Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton,
a staunch Second Amendment supporter who,
as Texas Attorney General, has used his position to try to roll back any impact Biden-era gun controls might have on Texans.
For example, on April 24, 2026, Paxton’s office announced he “secured a landmark legal victory for gun owners, preserving an injunction that prevented enforcement of a Biden Administration Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule that unlawfully sought to violate Americans’ constitutional right to privately buy and sell firearms.”
In 2025 Paxton joined 25 other “State Attorneys General in a West Virginia-led amicus brief, asked the Supreme Court to take up a challenge to the District of Columbia’s lawless restrictions on the Second Amendment.”
He sued the city of Dallas more than once over carry bans that he believed violated Texans’ Second Amendment rights.
On April 17, 2025, Paxton said, via a press release, “I will always do everything in my power to defend Texans’ gun rights from cities that would strip us of our legal rights.” ‘
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/05/29/texas-dem-senate-candidate-james-talarico-supports-gun-control-that-would-ban-private-firearm-sales/
I posted under “Orange Man Attacks:” This doesn’t seem to be making the national press, but in TX Trump has endorsed another pedophile protector Paxton over Cornyn for Senate. Paxton wanted to let off a confessed pedophile (Adam Hoffman (sure sounds Jewish) – he’s an attorney so maybe knew some people in the DA’s office/court system) with ONE day in jail (already served when arrested)! Then 30 days. Judge upped it to 60 days cut in half for ‘good behavior’ (WHAT DOES THAT MEAN WHEN SOMEONE IS GUILTY OF PEDOPHILIA?). There’s two other mistrial/plea deals of Paxton’s that are questionable as well.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/ken-paxton-waco-plea-deal-child-sex-abuse-texas-attorney-general/
“Former Waco Attorney Released Early After Short Sentence for Child Abuse Plea Deal
Adam Hoffman, 49, admitted to indecently assaulting his son’s best friend over nearly three years starting in third grade, showing the boy porn on a tablet at his China Spring home. After a hung jury, Texas AG Paxton’s prosecutors offered a misdemeanor deal because the now-14-year-old victim refused to testify again [not true] due to emotional trauma; the judge set a 60-day sentence, cut in half for good behavior. The victim’s mother called the outcome ‘not enough’ despite initially supporting closure, while Reps. Jeff Leach and Pat Curry demand reforms to better protect victims and require their input on charge reductions.”
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And this one also links to articles “Orange Man Attacks): On 3/3/26 Politico had Paxton poised to unseat Cornyn even though Cornyn had an edge in the polls and it was 3+ race: “Paxton has survived an impeachment by the GOP-controlled state House, a federal securities fraud investigation and slew of ethics complaints. Three months after beginning his Senate campaign last year, Paxton’s wife filed for divorce, alleging an extramarital affair.”
Cornyn won 910,382 (42%) to 878,564 (41%) for Paxton (2.2M votes total)
https://www.270towin.com/2026-election-results-live/state/texas/primary/
Yesterday, despite same fraud allegations + the pedophile allegations, Cornyn lost:
501,725 to 885,949 for Paxton (HUGE DROP in turnout)
New York Times, results-texas-us-senate-runoff.html
“MAGA influencers took to conservative media to bash Cornyn, with Steve Bannon calling him “reptilian.” Two days after the election, Paxton said publicly he’d “consider dropping out” of the race if Senate Republican leadership eliminated the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, an election law bill that Trump later said Paxton would work hard to pass but that Cornyn had not supported enough.
““I think that will probably go down in Texas politics history as one of the shrewdest political moves ever made,” Luke Macias, longtime campaign strategist who now hosts an influential conservative podcast in the state, told Newsweek. “When the [SAVE America Act] fell apart and then President Trump backed off of his impending expected endorsement of Cornyn, it completely reshaped the conversation.”
“Cornyn’s defeat is a major loss for the Senate Republican leadership, which opposes eliminating the filibuster.”
Yahoo: ken-paxton-primary-win-means-
Cornyn outspent Paxton $92 million to $38 million.
NYT, cornyn-paxton-texas-senate-primary-spending
He seems a typical Trump Maggot: authoritarian/not really caring about the law/morality/protection of minorities (like filibuster); grandstanding/wanting his way and anything to get “the (plea) deal” (even for a pedophile–missing some moral sense). He is aggressively anti-immigration and anti-abortion; Ds are hoping that will hurt him in the general election. [Forgot to mention pro-gun position.]
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Cornyn is still wondering what hit him. Something is definitely screwy to me in the vote, but maybe the TX Rs want Paxton out of the AG position. Looks like it will be another uniparty Beta O’Rourke energize the base/prove there’s a difference between the parties especially since you are now touting him (and then get screwed by another sleaze ball Trump). Rs believe it will take $200M to put him over the finish line (not sure who gets all these campaign ad millions–tv stations?).
5.29.26 The Hill. “Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) cryptically shared the fable of the frog and the scorpion on social media after President Trump torpedoed his reelection campaign by endorsing state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who cruised to victory in the Texas Senate GOP primary Tuesday.”
I’m not exactly touting Paxton in general, just as a friend of gun rights in particular.
I’m kind of a single-issue voter that way.
I could go for years or even decades without the word abortion entering my mind.
Immigration was/is pretty far down on my list of things to care about.
Cornyn definitely helped Biden push through more infringements on the Second Amendment.
I don’t know specifics of Paxton’s positions, but generally I am in agreement with R party (although an independent since 2012): anti-abortion, anti illegal immigration/enforce border control, and pro 2nd amendment. I live in a blue state and since 2020 have mostly not voted for candidates. If I were in a state where election was close, I am not sure if I would have voted for Trump in 20 & 24 or could vote for Paxton.
I can’t vote D either. Talarico is pro-abortion and tries to justify it on the Bible/Annunciation–same with LGBTQ. He’s Presbyterian like Trump–I wonder if Trump calls himself a “progressive Christian” like Talarico. To me if you can lie to yourself there, what can’t you lie to yourself about?
https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/03/25/james-talarico-abortion-annunciation/
Cornyn spent $90 million so you can’t say he’s much better than Paxton–don’t believe he’s been caught at adultery or feathering his own nest to the extent Paxton has. And not so cavalier about the law (not going to get rid of the filibuster). It is going to be one ugly race–exact opposite of a Thomas Massie race. They yank the rope back and forth until they break it at the center.
AI: “Talarico is facing a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks from Republicans attempting to tie him to trans rights. Figures like Stephen MILLER AND Donald TRUMP RECENTLY FALSELY CLAIMED TALARICO IS TRANSGENDER, a strategy used to attack his manhood and distract from his opponent’s controversies.”
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Talarico on Israel: (AI) “a vocal critic of the Israeli government’s military actions in Gaza, though he maintains support for Israel as a Jewish state. His platform on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes several key stances: Weapons Restrictions: He supports a ban on U.S. transfers of offensive weapons to Israel, while continuing to support the provision of defensive weapons.Criticism of Tactics: He has accused Israel of committing war crimes and decried the “atrocities in Palestine,” but has stopped short of labeling the conflict a genocide. Refusing AIPAC Support: He has declined support and campaign donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).Two-State Solution: He advocates for a two-state solution and the removal of Hamas from power.
Cornyn was v pro Israel but probably not as much as Paxton: AI: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a staunch, VOCAL ALLY of Israel. His position is defined by AGGRESSIVE LEGAL AND POLITICAL ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE ISRAELI GOV’T AND COMBAT ANTI-ISRAEL OR ANTI-SEMITIC SENTIMENTS.(FEELINGS).
“Anti-Boycott Enforcement: Paxton is a relentless defender of Texas’s “anti-boycott” laws. He rigorously enforces and defends state measures that prohibit government entities from doing business with or investing in companies and contractors that boycott Israel.
“Condemning Terrorism: He has fiercely backed Israel’s right to defend itself, publicly condemning Hamas attacks and laying the blame for civilian casualties on terrorist leadership.
“Targeting Antisemitism: Paxton actively investigates school districts and institutions over alleged antisemitism, particularly in the wake of pro-Palestinian curriculum or protests.
“Cracking Down on Advocacy Groups: His hardline pro-Israel stance has extended to legal action against organizations that oppose Israel, including lawsuits to shut down Muslim advocacy groups like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations)”
Saw this Talarico speech video on OneIndia News. Don’t like modifying the Supreme Court, but other things he says are spot on. Probably modifying the SC will be only thing Ds do.
@5:59: “In my time in the state legislature, I’ve tried to serve my constituents. I’ve tried to serve the people of Texas. I’ve brought both parties together to pass 60 bipartisan bills, to cut property taxes, to raise teacher pay, to lower the cost of housing, the cost of child care, the cost of prescription drugs, including insulin. I I ran for office not to be served, but to serve.
“And then there’s Ken Paxton. I I have a legislative record. Ken Paxton has a criminal record. Ken Paxton Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America and he should be nowhere near the United States Senate. Three years ago this week, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office, his position of public trust to enrich himself and his donors at the expense of the people of Texas. Ken Paxton is everything that’s wrong with politics. He doesn’t he doesn’t serve us. He serves himself and his billionaire donors.
“Since taking office, Ken PAXTON’s net worth has increased 7,000%. While while our pay has remained stagnant, he NOW HAS 11 HOMES when most Texans can’t afford one. He has taken bribes from wealthy donors, all while he blocks overtime pay for Texas workers and guts our healthcare. This is the rot at the core of this broken system. It’s why It’s why we can’t afford anything. It’s why we can’t get ahead no matter how hard we work.
“For 50 years, billionaires and their puppet politicians have stolen from us with their bribes, their bailouts, and their billionaire tax breaks. Trickle down economics is not a theory. It’s theft.
“The billionaires, the billionaires and their puppet politicians have been stealing from the American people, stealing the wealth that we created. It’s why everything sucks right now. It’s why everyone is so angry. The American people aren’t asking for a lot. a job we don’t hate, a house big enough to raise a family in, and a little leftover to go on vacation every once in a while. That is harder than it should be. Harder than it should be in America.
“We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We We don’t have a government of, by, and for the people. We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires. Mega donors. They buy politicians like Ken Paxton. And then those puppets turn around and rig the rules of this economy in favor of those billionaires at our expense.
“Everywhere I go across this state, big cities, small towns, red areas, blue areas, all of us are drowning. We can’t afford the basics. Groceries, gas, insurance, utilities, prescription drugs, the things that we need to survive. No matter how hard we work, no matter how much we save, those ends never seem to meet.
“There is something broken in this country. A few weeks ago, an Amazon worker died in one of Amazon’s warehouses. And as he laid dying, management told the other workers, “Turn around. Don’t look. Get back to work. Get back to work.” That was a human being. That was a child of God. That was our sibling (why not our bro?] sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed….
@11:42 “When we win this race, the first bill I’m filing as your next US senator is an anti-corruption agenda. getting getting big money out of our politics by overturning Citizens United, banning corporate packs and super PACs so billionaires can’t make unlimited donations to our campaigns, and banning members of Congress from trading stocks and enriching themselves while they’re in public office. We’re also we’re also going to go after the kinds of corruption that don’t involve money. We must pass term limits so members of Congress aren’t making a career out of public service. We must overhaul the Supreme Court so we can have confidence in the highest court in the land. And we must finally pass a national ban to end gerrymandering once and for all in every state in the union. Once we transform this broken, corrupt system, we can start unrigging this economy. We can start raising our pay, lowering our costs, cutting our taxes.
“We can finally start to get ahead. This is not going to be easy. We’re going up against those billionaire mega donors and their top puppet. They’re going to throw everything they’ve got…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuHCcgNh8o
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Well here’s another speech put out today:
A Message from COL. Doug Macgregor: “All For What”
@7:08 The current war with Iran was not chosen by the American people. The war was not authorized by Congress. It was the choice of the chief executive, Donald Trump. To suggest that it was a catastrophe is an understatement. There were strategic alternatives to the use of force. Alternatives that employed diplomacy, economic leverage, intelligence, and credible deterrence to manage differences with Iran that did not include an attack on the Iranian state and its people. This would have been a strategy that honestly balanced means and ends. A strategy that preserved and protected American national power without disrupting or destroying a substantial portion of the world’s energy supply, without depriving the world’s population of the fertilizer, feed stock, and food it needs, without sending food prices spiking across the world.
That strategy was never seriously pursued because the people with their hands on the levers of American national power, many of them never elected, never confirmed, never accountable to a single American voter, never seriously wanted peace. What they wanted was war. And what they got was war with a country that never presented an existential threat to the United States and the American people.
Now, every American family pays a war tax in the form of prices at the pump, at the grocery store, in medicine, and
in the flag draped coffins that are beginning to come home. The 21st century demands a military built for 21st
century realities. strong, agile, advanced, disciplined, and above all, effectively commanded by senior military
and political leaders who understand what American military power can and cannot accomplish.
Our armed forces are stretched across the Middle East in service of objectives that are not clearly defined, objectives that are not attainable, in wars for strategic interests that are not fundamentally American. We need and want
military power that is designed to defend America, not to fight other people’s wars or manage other people’s empires.
Let me suggest some reasons why these problems persist and why we fight wars that nobody voted for. Why do foreign lobbies write American foreign policy? Why do some of the same names recycle through scandal after
scandal with zero accountability, zero consequences, and zero shame? Part of the answer, a significant part, lies in the Epstein files. What those files represent is not merely a sex trafficking scandal, though that’s a big part. The files represent the operating system of debased political power in Washington, DC. Power that is hostage to interests that are divorced from American national interest. Power that is corrupt or foreign or both. The files reveal how influence is purchased. How blackmail becomes leverage. How the most powerful people in our country achieve and maintain their positions. Not through merit, not through public service, not through the consent of the governed, but through compromise, through secrets, through the quiet, unspoken understanding among certain men and women that everyone in the room has something to lose and therefore everyone in the room stays in line.
This is how wars are started without the consent of the govern. This is how foreign lobbies ultimately shape domestic as well as foreign policy. This is how the founding principles of our republic are dismantled from the inside out. While the rest of us watch and wait and wonder why nothing changes.
The American people demanded the full truth. every name, every flight log, every financial transaction, every communication, every detail released in full to the public without redaction and without delay. And I say this as plainly as I know how. Every individual implicated, regardless of party, regardless of title, regardless of wealth or political connection or national loyalty, must face the full unsparing weight of American justice. No exceptions, no negotiations, no quiet retirements with full pensions and security details. Our country is our home. It is time to clean it completely, permanently, and without apology.
I want to leave you with one final thought. You knew before the gas prices hit, you knew something was wrong. Before the grocery bills climbed, you knew something was coming. Before the ships stopped moving fuel through Hormuz, you knew the people making these decisions were not making them for you. The American people have known for years in their bones, in their gut, with the instinctive clarity that no amount of media spin can permanently suppress. That something fundamental was broken in the relationship between American government and the American people it was created to serve. You were not wrong. You were right. You are not extreme. You were right tonight. Because the consequences are obvious at your gas pump. They are in your grocery cart. They are in the homes of families whose American sons and daughters are engaged in fighting a war that was never put to a vote. In a Persian Gulf that should never have been set on fire.
The national conversation exists because truth, real, documented, unfiltered, fearless truth, needs a platform that answers to no foreign lobby, no defense contractor, no political machine, and no blackmail file. Only to you, only to the American people. What we are doing is exploring the outlines of a new way forward, a new political movement that in time, we hope and pray, will be a new party. We invite you to go to our website, the nationalcon conversation.org. org and join us.
But I’m not asking you to donate money. You need your dollars more than ever. The road ahead is tough and you should keep your money. There are a few among you who can’t afford to support us. You know who you are. If you can, please make a direct investment in the movement for a new party. We are asking the hard questions without permission, without apology, and without a single foreign dollar attached to it. Because here is what they cannot take from us. Here is what no lobby, no blackmail file, no purchased election, no foreign government can ever extinguish. Americans who know who they are, their history, their identity, their purpose. Americans who know what this republic is supposed to be and who refuse absolutely and permanently refuse to be silent. Washington told us, Jefferson instructed us. Madison warned us. Thanks for listening. God bless you, your families, our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines. And God bless the United States of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgYdurDEmA&t=850s
Here’s another one: “Colonel Douglas Macgregor: THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Hello, I am Colonel Douglas McGregor, president and chief executive officer of the national conversation.org.
Today I want to tell you about an American who lives in your community. This American worked at the same company for 31 years. He was never rich. He was never famous. He was an American who believed that if you showed up, did your job, and kept your word, the Americans in Washington who were supposed to represent him would keep their word, too.
In 1971, he made $11,000 a year. That was a house, a car. It meant food on the dinner table, and a wife who raised the children at home. $11,000.
Today, the same job pays $50,000. Sounds like progress. Five times the money, but that house costs 15 times more than it did in 1971. The car costs 20 times what it did in 1971, and the wife and mother staying at home. Well, that is now a mathematical impossibility.
Did the American become lazy, dumb, or less capable? No. So where did the value go? It was stolen. Not by a man in a mask. It was stolen by men in suits in woodpanled rooms who changed the rules while your parents trusted their country.
It all began on one day, August 15th, 1971. The day the music stopped and the gold standard was discarded. We hear the number on the news. $ 38 trillion in national debt. You hear it, you shake your head, and you go back to work. The politicians count on that. They rely on your inability to visualize the crime. So, let us do the math together.
Imagine you are standing in Bethlehem on the night that Christ came into the world. In your hand, you hold $1 million. You begin spending it. $1 million every day. You spend through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Crusades, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, and D-Day. A million dollars a day, every day for 2,000 years, right up until this morning. How much would you have spent? Roughly $740 billion. You haven’t even hit the 1 trillion mark yet. Today, Washington is adding $1 trillion to the national sovereign debt every three months.
To reach our current debt of 38 trillion, you would have had to spend $1 million a day for 100,000 years. In other words, for longer than the modern men and women have walked this planet. This is not economics. This is a crime scene…”
(it’s 13:36)
https://thenationalconversation.org/
Thanks for everything you do Eric.
“It makes me think the ideas are just the vehicle for getting rich.”
Clearly, that’s exactly the case for many “personalities”.
I recall a libertarian-ish conservative radio show host I listened to in the 90’s. He kind of disappeared, so one day in the 00’s out of nostalgia I looked him up, figuring maybe he’d be doing a podcast or something, now with the interwebz and all- and what did I discover? He was now doing a radio show in a different market where he had reinvented himself as a librul!
I also recall a blustering bullshit-artist Democrat NY real-estate developer who reinvented himself as a Republican andfooled all of the bubbas and became president…..
The thing I don’t understand when it comes to bloggers and vloggers, is why so many people tolerate the peddlers. If someone is paid to promote a product, their endorsement of that product reflects negatively on both that product and THEM.
An older trusted YT mechanic I watched recently asked viewers to email him with their preference as to what he should do with a particular vehicle he was working on. It became immediately apparent that he is trying to harvest email addresses to no-doubt start hawking stuff. That’s so sleazy that I immediately stopped watching the guy’s videos.
Everyone wants to monetize everything now. I don’t mind an honest ad that open about being an ad and unobtrusive- i.e. you can just see it and decide to click on it or not- but when people sell their credibility to the highest bidder or try to force you to view/listen to their advertising, they instantly ruin their credibility in my book.
Eric, your little one-man site here is more valuable than many huge institutions, like Gannett or the Jew York Times. It is the vision of one good man, and it is obvious that your primary objective is to proffer ideas and get others to think, and not to just monetize what you are good at., Bravo!
Thanks for your work, Eric, not to mention the space to hang out, hear other ideas, spout off about stuff. Having been thoroughly raped by the family court system, there’s no possibility I can contribute financially (I’ll be lucky to escape homelessness in my old age), but if I ever escape the shackles, you’re top of the list.
And maybe men should start asking why slaves in the antebellum South were legally entitled to adequate food, clothing and shelter, but involuntarily-divorced dads in 2026 are not. No, I’m not joking.
I am at present about a hair’s breadth from homelessness in my old age. (I’m 69.) It wasn’t the family court system that got me and impoverished me, though. It was something else that sent me from riches to rags.
And no, it was not any vice. Funny how people always assume so.
It actually had more to do with having someone in the nursing home for seven years, three month, and three days, at 100% Private Pay. Most people don’t even know what that means.
That sucked away between a half and three-quarters of a million dollars.
Some “financial planning service” hoovered up another $220K.
And then “someone” torpedoed my remaining investments (*physical* gold and silver, lots of). They didn’t *steal* my wealth; they *killed* it. They didn’t want it. They just didn’t want *me* to have it.
So today my total net worth is $14 and change. But, hey, I’m a Boomer. So I got mine!
Hi David,
Very sorry to hear about your situation. Hearing about this made me feel ashamed that I’m kvetching about a stupid toggle switch for my old car…