On November 10, I wrote This Post Will Be Deleted in 36 Hours. I included in it a copy of a social media post I put up on Truth Social and Gab. It went viral on Gab in a way I did not expect. It was in the top 3-5 posts for that 24 hour period and continued to steadily circulate until I deleted it after a few days.

I removed it from both platforms, but I trust it was seen by a few people connected to Trump who I know follow me on Gab. (Whatever you think of Gab, that place is monitored by all sides for a variety of reasons.)

Do I believe my angry post changed anything? I seriously doubt it. At best, it was a data point that someone took note of. But I believed it was important to not just quietly quit but publicly let them know I was angry and fed up and done. It was also important to give voice to the very real anger and frustration felt by so many. The fact that it went viral so quickly proved my point. It resonated with many people on that platform.

Some people have wondered if I’ve turned on President Trump. I have not. I still support him. Do I still think good things are going on we don’t see and understand? Yes. Do I like everything he is doing? No. But I don’t see the big picture he does so I can only wait to see what he does.

But after all of that work in posts and podcasts over years, I didn’t want to discuss why Trump would endorse that snake Vivek. I didn’t want to theorize why he would introduce something as ridiculous as 50 year mortgages.

I was sick of all the rotten things I listed in my viral post.

After years of working out the policy puzzles and trying to figure out the very big picture, I was done. I didn’t want to do it any longer.

I wanted to build something that depended on me (and God, obviously), not on what politicians are doing.

So why did I do it and what does that have to do with you as my online friend?

It’s related to sovereignty.

There’s a reason I did that and then moved to a new focus.

I needed my sovereignty.

Build a family life of meaning, sovereignty, and faith outside the world’s templates

It would be too difficult for me to build something of meaning if I continued to be chained to what I had been doing the previous several years.

I want to build something that isn’t dependent on what other people are or aren’t doing.

Because of that, it was a burn the bridges moment for me as I said in a comment on that post.

The posts and podcasts still exist in an archive as I would never be that rash to delete everything. But, yes, the websites are gone.

I’m not the only person who has come to this point. In fact, it was seeing this post on Gab today that made me finally sit down and write the post you are reading. The yellow highlights and arrow are mine.

I could have kept going. I could have continued to read the tea leaves and share my thoughts. But I was done.

INFJ door slam level done.

Really done.

I wanted something of my own.

If Trump successfully does what we are hoping for, then we will be headed in a good direction.

But if Trump doesn’t successfully accomplish what needs to be done, I want to already be expanding the sovereignty of my work and my family.

We’re at a pivotal moment in history.

I felt we had reached the point where my writing about Vivek and mortgages wasn’t going to do anything to improve the sovereignty, joy, faith, and meaning of our family life.

And so that’s why I wrote the viral post, deleted it all, and moved on.

If things go well, I may republish a couple of posts to revisit important points in the future. But it will only be as a retrospective.

At this point, the only things that matter to me in the political realm are those that are directly impacting my family’s ability to live as sovereign a life as possible. This includes massive and complete remigration of people who don’t belong here, fixing the financial system, and righting the wrongs of blatant corruption and election rigging.

If Trump fails in those, the path to greater sovereignty will be much more difficult for all of us.

But at least I will have already gotten a head start on it.

And I hope to encourage you to do the same along with me each day.

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