The Pete Quiñones Show Episode 1340: Pete and Thomas Livestream - The Old Resistance
Mar 9, 2026
Thomas777, a revisionist historian and fiction writer who livestreams on Substack, discusses the old right resistance from WWII onward. They examine distinctions between older resistance traditions and recent movements. Conversations cover historical networks, regional strategy in the Pacific Northwest, media and propaganda’s cinematic power, and debates on military decline, Zionism, and leaderless versus disciplined tactics.
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Old Resistance Versus MAGA Performers
- The modern MAGA crowd is not the historical right wing vanguard and often holds contradictory loyalties.
- Thomas777 contrasts old resistance figures (Metzger, Butler, Pierce) who built revolutionary movements with today’s internet-born activists fixated on culture wars.
Don't Try To Reclaim The Republican Party
- Building an above-board political strategy is futile because the regime will neutralize effective organizers through harassment or legal action.
- Thomas777 argues attempts to capture the Republican Party lead to audits, arrests, or smears rather than systemic change.
Military Bureaucracy Lost Its Strategic Edge
- American strategic incompetence stems from an officer corps that lost competence after 1989 and chases missions to justify itself.
- Thomas777 compares post-Cold War Pentagon expansion to Fauci-style careerism producing poor grand strategy and overbuilt forces.
