Kim Garner

[PDX Real @PDXReal1]

This is some hilarious shit.

The DSA wants to dismantle the United States as we know it. Get rid of American grit, ingenuity, artistry, and self determination.

Like every socialist revolution, what they want is your souls. But, of course, not your souls in any way any God fearing American understands the idea. They want you beaten down, broke, and destroyed…and godless…so, in the end, you surrender to them willingly, gladly, apologetically.

And when you give them that, what will you get for it?

The best you can hope for is to be lined up against a wall as its “saviors” pump rounds into you in the name of equality. A quick death would be best.

Those who remain will be tortured souls enduring slavery, humiliation, and subjugation.

The greatest threat to our democracy isn’t nationalism. That is a lie.

The greatest threat to our country is leftist collectivism. The left is being captured by this deadly ideology. And they don’t understand where it leads.

But history doesn’t lie. We need to stop this history from repeating itself.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@oregoncitizen_ I do, I truly do!

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6).

I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing.

Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22).

Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding.

Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I decide to leave Quebec/Canada because:

1) the taxation system is astounding, rendering it nearly impossible to accumulate enough money to truly retire
2) the government's open immigration policies have made it unsafe for my family to remain here (due to the exponential increase in Jew-hatred).

Today I found out that I shall have to pay a departure tax for exercising my right to leave, and the money that will be taken from me (because the obscene amount of taxes that I've already paid in full is not enough) will be given to new incoming immigrants who hate Jews. My taxes funded my forced exit and will fund the harassment of any remaining Jews in Canada.

It would take me 10+ more years of work to save the amount that is likely to be taken via the departure tax.

Is this moral? Ethical? Just? In any case, off to bed. Tomorrow is a new day.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@Austen Not to mention ensuring free speech!

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@KGWNews If only we could exclude Multnomah county from Oregon.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@TinaKotek Your defiance of federal law is what is making things dangerous.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

Nautica is giving away a trip to Florida so I entered for a chance to win 🌴✈️ Worth a shot. Enter here: https://t.co/Jk4imG4lVF

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position.

LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@conservmillen Congratulations!

[Ben Edtl @benedtl]

Non citizens in Portland circulating IP28 that would criminalize farming, fishing, hunting / eating meat in Oregon. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off.

… and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election.

If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@JeremyWingert79 Swallows and Amazons is so fun!

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@JeremyWingert79 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is lovely and we all loved it.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

Oregon is swimming in corruption and incompetence.

[Rep. Dwayne Yunker HD3 @RepYunker]

Oregon agencies made $2.5 billion in unintentional accounting errors in 2025, up $700 million from 2024 but lower than the previous two years.

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

The world’s longest-burning light bulb just turned 125 years old — and it’s STILL going strong. 🔥

Hand-blown Shelby with a carbon filament, installed in 1901 as a simple night light for firefighters at Livermore Fire Station No. 6. Guinness World Record holder. Built to last when America actually made things to last.

They are actually celebrating it this weekend.

Modern junk breaks in months. This thing refuses to die. That’s American engineering. 🇺🇸

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia.

David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful."

The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes.

[Kim Garner @2knowpeace]

@EricLDaugh Name them.