The day has come that Substack readers dread: I have turned on payment options. Not only that, the price points range from high to outrageous.1 But don't be too sad. Most of the content will continue to be free, including the right to comment. As long as you don't mind losing your country, you can continue to access 90+% of my content without paying a dime. I'm going mostly on the tip jar model.
If you are here for entertainment, my tip requests are indeed unreasonable. There are better laugh/dollar options.2
But if you want your country back, my prices are a screaming bargain compared to the competition.
For example, how many useful ideas/dollar have you read this year from CATO, Heritage, or any other major think tank of the Right?
Come to think of it, how many useful ideas per month have they produced?
Maybe I should append a zero to all the price points.
Or try this: how many election results did Donald Trump overturn with his $250 million dollar legal defense fund?
Maybe I should append two zeroes.
Why the Mooching Now?
Way back in January of 2022, I was put on what was supposed to be a 2-3 month layoff while the boss conserved cash. I decided to use the spare time to write a book: Rules for Reactionaries, and also decided to build some buzz by putting some of the chapters here on Substack. The inspiration flowed freely at first, but when March flowed into May, worry replaced the anger which fueled my inspiration.
I began to wonder if the layoff would end, and realized that writing a book which could be banned by Amazon and make me unemployable as well if word got out might be financially imprudent. And there was Rule 2 screaming out about the potential gold rush offered by Woke Corporate America. There are some potential billion dollar ideas in Rule 2. Why not act on one? Besides, writing computer code is far easier than writing good prose -- at least for me. And in the scenario that my savings runs out before I'm finished, the partially finished product would refresh my resume nicely should my old job not return.
That was last May. Here in late March, my old job has not rematerialized, my savings are running low, and the project is far enough along that I do not want to use it as a resume builder. I want to use it to financially punish a certain Silicon Valley billionaire who rigged the 2020 election. I want to build a Bond Villain level of wealth so I can be the Anti Soros. I want to bribe certain think tanks and other organizations into taking a hard look at the ideas in this book. I want to donate palettes of Rules for Reactionaries to conservative campus organizations. I want to get my car painted.
But I have a bit of a hump to get over. I might swing it without you, but the Science is unsettled.
A Force Multiplier and a Bonus for Subscribers
I have drafts of several more Rules already written, plus the plans for the remaining Rules. As long as I don't have to go to work for a super woke company, I should continue posting chapters for some time.
But if I get over the hump, I'll have a promotional budget to get the ideas out into the hands of more people. The Rules for Reactionaries have limited utility if only a few people act on them.3
Finally, those who pay will get early access to the rest of Rule 2. There are more potential billion dollar ideas within than I can use myself. Let us form a new and improved vast right wing conspiracy.
Actually, the top tier is a editable figure.
Try The Big U by Neal Stephenson, The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem, or Loki’s Child by Fenris Wulf.
But not trivial utility! You can use the rules already published to protect your family and community. Perhaps I should point out how in a future post…