The STAND Party

By Rich Kozlovich

Tucker Carlson has become an irrational misfit, and has made a lot of noise that's mostly unpleasant and stinks.   Kind of like passing flatulence.  While he's spouted off about a third party for years, he, along with Thomas Massie are attempting to put that into play.  Now, at this point I think someone needs to ask Vice President Vance what he thinks about this.

The only third party that was ever successful in America was the Republican party, and that was because they had a mission they believed was of overwhelming moral importance, end slavery.   

Ross Perot's Reform party did make a small dent, and then disappeared down the drain because they couldn't agree on what they really stood for, and the same is true of the Libertarians, they're all over the place, which is why they've never been able to mount a successful campaign on their own.  Other than at the local level, the only Libertarians that get elected seem to be Republicans.  

Elon Musk once threatening to launch a third party if the Congress dared to ignore him and pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill!  And we're shocked why?  There were many, including me, who believed the day would come when he would be a serious problem for Trump.  Why? Because he's Elon Musk, and unlike Sir Thomas More, "A man for all Seasons", Elon Musk is a "man for no seasons", and a man for whom I've had little respect.  Where's his third party now?  He has no third party.  

What does Tucker and the rest of that nitwit brigade stand for?  They're claiming to defend the idea of America by destroying Israel.  That's the overwhelming moral imperative that will be the foundation and structure of their party?  That's not much of a platform, and it will be attacked intellectually, emotionally, and financially.  So, the question that needs asked and answered is who will be part of his "party"?  

1. RINO's who've been kicked out of, or are already out of office, like John Kasich?  They have no base, and they will get no real support from the Republicans who they misled for years. 
2. Democrats like Fetterman? No Democrat will make such a move, even it they're kicked to the curb by the far left radicals.  
3. Far left radicals?  They already have their own party, the DSA, and it's taken over the Democrat party, they don't need Tucker, or his band of misfits.  

Can he get financing?  Yes, from Muslim and far left billionaires, but that will be money down the drain.  You still need bodies, and they won't get them.  As for those who are allegedly on board, the one thing they all have in common is they all possess such massive egos it leaves no room in their heads for intelligence. Big ego and bad attitudes will guarantee the bickering will start very quickly. 

One commenter called this "alleged" party the "STAND party".  Stupider Than a Nazi Democrat.

I've just finished reading this article,  The Conservative Pledge Against Barbarism about Claus von Stauffenberg, and how "The conservative’s trust in law and order, tempered by nobility and duty, confronted the barbarian’s will to power, which weaponized modernity’s masses, technology, and ideology into unprecedented domination."......"The epic clash between civilization and barbarism resonates with foreboding. Ideological barbarians persist, cloaked in new rhetorics of “equity” or “security,” eroding law into tools of domination."  

Life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior.  The patterns of life repeat over and over again.

Update, 8/23/26

• 'THREE LOSERS, and a pocketful of change!' Trump erupts on Tucker Carlson and 2 'Republican traitors' amid possible run for president - 'The most important thing I can tell you about us is that we are devoted Christians and Trump is not a Christian at all'.   President Donald Trump erupted this weekend on former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson along with former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., amid speculation Carlson may run for president.  On Aug. 1, Greene had posted a photo of herself with her new husband Brian Glenn, Massie and Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who quit this year in protest of the Iran war.........."Tucker's 'Views' have fallen through the floor, and will only get worse. Nobody cares about him any longer in that he has become totally irrelevant, and happens to be, surprisingly, a very Low I.Q. individual. He could barely get out of College, and maybe he didn't, but only really dumb people can't make it through that wonderful four year time in life!...... 

My Take - As an FYI Tucker Carlson has a BA in History, but struggled academically and took five years to complete the course, receiving his degree in "absentia", whatever that means.  How smart can he be if he took five years to complete a history course?  I mean, this isn't like physics or some advanced science course, it's history!  So, how is it he became so prominent in the media?  Tucker is a nepo baby, coming from a wealthy family with connections.  "His father was "a prominent media executive, U.S. ambassador, and director of the Voice of America, while his maternal lineage included wealthy heirs and cattle ranching fortunes."

• The GOP, the left and the third-party gamble -  We now have several amateur prognosticators, popular journalists with wide followings, trying to affect the political horizon by calling for a third party. They are Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, each wealthy in their own right, trying to gather together their followers to do just that.

While these four all once leaned MAGA and pro-Trump, they have, in my opinion, gone off the rails politically because in no way can I agree that the destruction of Iran and its goal to build a nuclear arsenal should be condemned simply on the basis that Trump got us into yet another war. I completely disagree. Trump prevented a sure nuclear world holocaust because the Islamic Republic of Iran, a ruthless, evil theocratic government bent on establishing a worldwide Caliphate, wouldn’t hesitate to radiate American cities into slabs of molten glass even at the expense of their own nuclear destruction. To them, it’s no question it’s worth the try!.....

Update, 10/6/26: 

• Rees-Mogged by reality - Tucker Carlson invited the British conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg to appear on Carlson’s show to rehearse themes to which we have become accustomed. At some point Vice President Vance will have to conduct an intervention for his friend who won’t quit selling the ideological Kool-Aid, or he will have to renounce his views, but the damage will have been done......