Big Smooth

Devoted hubby and dad, cheerful conservative. Opinions are my own.

The only sacred cow around here is a 🍔.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”

As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?

But over time, I began to understand what I was witnessing.

This wasn’t naivety. This was a high-trust society, something so rare in the world that most people born outside the West have never even seen it.

After the Catholic Church banned cousin marriage, people in the West started marrying outside the family. That forced individuals to move out, build broader social networks, and rely on strangers for daily life.

Trust wasn’t just a virtue, it became a survival mechanism. You couldn’t build a working society unless you believed, at some basic level, that others would do the right thing.

That trust was reinforced by Biblical values.

Add to that the stability of wealth, people didn’t need to cheat or steal to get by. So trust flourished.

That’s why in the West, you can check out at a grocery store with no cashier.

That’s why the government lets you self-report your taxes.

Because here, truth is assumed, until proven otherwise.

But Westerners, sadly, think the rest of the world works this way. It doesn’t, and especially not Islamic societies.

Islamic cultures are low-trust by design, the result of centuries of tribalism, aggressive theological systems, and economic instability.

Islam doesn’t nurture trust. It nurtures surveillance, control, and suspicion.

In the Muslim-majority societies, you’re not even trusted to be alone in a room with your cousin or sister-in-law, because the assumption is you can’t be trusted.

Allah doesn’t trust you. That’s why every move you make must be regulated.

In those societies, deception is excused, even celebrated, especially when used against non-Muslims.

Lying is seen as a tool for survival and advantage.

That’s the mindset many immigrants bring with them.

When they arrive in high-trust Western nations, they don’t see a system to protect, they see a system to exploit.

They take advantage of your honesty, your openness, your kindness.

They see how your society was built on the idea that love believes all things, and they weaponize that belief against you.

[Twitchy Team @TwitchyTeam]

She had to be escorted out... then ICE beat her to the punch.

HA! ICE BRILLIANTLY (Politely) Shuts Down UNHINGED Dem and Her Facility Visit Stunt With JUST 1 Post

https://t.co/pnOMcMGxCl

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@SenMarkey Illegal aliens can't get Medicaid, Senator. It's against the law.

So how would Medicaid data support deporting anyone?

[TapL @TapLHarV]

I WAITED 8 YEARS TO RETWEET THIS

TODAY IS THE DAY

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

Oh sh--!

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

You can barely see over the counter at McDonalds - you're not 'coming' for anyone.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@tedcruz Said it before and I'll keep saying it: If the UK had any tradition of free speech or meaningful political dissent then the first two amendments to our Constitution would not have been necessary.

There's no reason to be surprised when this happens.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

I had one of those, once.

B---- gave me chicken pox.

[Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 @chadfelixg]

I have a dancing beaver on my stomach.

[Christopher J. Scalia @cjscalia]

My father’s confirmation hearings were 40 years ago! I share some memories about that summer and some thoughts about what has changed in @NRO.
https://t.co/Iuik1zdnqS

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@NEWSMAX Not having "spoken up" is one thing.

These motherfuckers were lying about it.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@PolitiBunny I feel like there's a Chief somewhere on that ship that can help that sailor solve that problem.

[Gator Gar @gatorgar]

Y’all ready to start having a little fun? It’s going to be a long two years for the swamp creatures that did this to us. 🔥 😎

[Bob GOYA @BobGOYA1]

I never vaccinated

Pharma doctors & big Brother profited

We worked 24/7 at Goya to feed US & countries around the World when no one had food

It was the lay down & die disease

It was fear & retreat into a bunker

We must never retreat!

Be courageous & move toward God!

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@BlueBoxDave Started way before that.

Protests/demonstrations/riots should never have been tolerated on college campuses in the 60s.

[David Sumner @DavidsumnerFilm]

@OwenShroyer1776 But I thought Gaza was a concentration camp and that's why they had no choice but to launch the October 7th War.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@OwenShroyer1776 That can't be Gaza, because I have been told for years that Gaza was an open-air prison where the population was only grudgingly allowed subsistence-levels of food, water and electricity.

[Comptroller Don Huffines @DonHuffines]

Education freedom allows parents to cut the chains of government and choose the path that is best for their children. With this new program in place, Texas is educating for growth.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@RepLuna Just get the government out of the student loan business completely.

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

@PitchForkArmy1 @catturd2 Will you be posting a complete list soon?

[Big Smooth @BigSmoothInBigD]

This should have a couple thousand re-tweets by now. 😎

[Can of Spam @iDoLikeSpam]

@cjscalia Once you got into Slytherin, you really should have stopped trying to bully that Potter kid so much.

[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

Prosecutors say a drunk driver struck and killed a 25-year-old woman in Lakeview, then sped away with her body in his car.

He crashed again blocks away and escaped on foot.

A judge declined to detain him.

https://t.co/HjmnBvynkP