Carter Lawson

Constitutional conservative, southerner, pro-nuclear power, attorney. Go Dawgs! And I “like” and retweet lots of stuff. Don’t read anything into it.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

250 years ago, on July 2nd, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain.

John Adams wrote to his wife the next day:

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.—I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

Well, not quite.

On July 4th, the delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence — and that has been the day for celebrations ever since.

[Kimberly Ross @SouthernKeeks]

I know plenty of people who voted for Trump because they couldn’t stomach a Harris administration.

They’re not at all happy with recent events and especially VP Vance’s words and actions.

These people aren’t on the left. They’re not Democrats. And they’re very angry.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The pressure campaign is on. If you are on the right and you decline to salute the President’s deal with Iran, you are to be otherized — branded a warmonger, a neocon fossil, a man itching to put other people’s sons in the sand. The choice, we’re assured, is binary: boots on the ground or the President’s memorandum. That is a lie, and the people repeating it loudest know it is a lie.

Start with the alternative they pretend never existed. Israel had a plan to destabilize the regime from within — and the President personally refused to allow it, at the behest of the Turks. Erdogan picked up the phone, and the option that wasn’t a land war and wasn’t surrender quietly disappeared. So spare me the two doors. There was a third, and Washington bricked it up to keep Ankara comfortable.

Now look at what we took instead. The memorandum reopens the Strait of Hormuz “for 60 days only,” after which Iran and Oman decide who passes and what they pay. It dangles a $300 billion reconstruction fund, with Gulf money — Qatar’s prominently — already moving toward Tehran. Iran now says Israel must leave Lebanon or the deal is breached. And the grandson of the regime’s founder has called the war the “lesser jihad,” declared that the “greater jihad” begins now, and hailed the agreement as a victory for Tehran. When your adversary calls the deal a victory, believe him.

Then there is the Strait itself — the tell. The entire point of the campaign was to take that chokepoint out of Iran’s hand. Instead, the memorandum leaves the regime holding the switch, free to flip it whenever a strike in Lebanon gives it a pretext, as it has done again and again. A waterway we can reopen by permission of the Ayatollah’s heirs was never reopened. It was rented.

And consider the clock. We bombed Iran for roughly thirty-nine days. Then we let nearly seventy days bleed away between the last bomb and the signature — almost twice the length of the war itself — while panic over oil did Tehran’s negotiating for it. Momentum is perishable. The President took a campaign that was working, put it in suspended animation, and is now selling the thaw as a triumph.

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[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Traicionó sus convicciones.

Traicionó a su principal aliado.

Traicionó a 42,000 manifestantes masacrados bajo su promesa de ayuda.

Traicionó a su país.

Traicionó a todos los que confiamos en él.

No puedo entender qué pasó con Trump.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

I must have missed the part in the MOU where the Iranian regime pays reparations for all the American and Coalition people the IRGC killed with IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Carter Lawson @CarterL97869697]

@DawgNationDaily And a shut down pitching performance!

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

If a monkey horded 10 bananas, the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas.

This is why humans have a technologically advanced society and monkeys live in trees and have to forage for bananas every day.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

“Elon didn’t earn that money.”

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Platner,

Ratio.

That's it. That's the whole rebuttal.

You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms.

But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it.

Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles.

I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --

you, as someone who is a self-admitted Communist, someone who has Nazi sympathies -- not to mention all the horrific, personal-life stuff --

You are the worst candidate in history, right AND left. You are the authoritarian evil that every "democracy" group speaks about, yet they will hypocritically not say a word against because they believe that being anti-Trump is more important than allying with Communists or Nazis.

You are not "populist." On the contrary:

You are the perfected example of how liberal democracy has rotted so far that they'd rather stay silent about you, hoping you'll win against the most moderate Republican in the Senate, than to hand Trump the possibility of retaining the Senate.

[Rich Lowry @RichLowry]

We've seen a lot of unimpressive Senate candidates, corrupt Senate candidates, and unfaithful Senate candidates over the years, but Platner is something new and different--a shockingly twisted Senate candidate, like something out of Quentin Tarantino movie, truly dark and disturbing

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[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Californians might be willing to sacrifice California but unfortunately the rest of the country needs it. So that can't be permitted.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

When someone tells you black is white what they are really doing is threatening you. They're confronting you w/ the prospect of having to
oppose someone for whom the truth means nothing at all & who values only power. For ordinary people this is an intimidating prospect indeed.

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

If you hate Donald Trump so much that you’re willing to give Graham Platner a pass, you are absolutely broken.

[Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug]

My prediction is that the Democrats remain predictable:

Platner doesn't drop out. Senate Democrats continue to support him.

They don't "believe all women" or believe in anything, actually, other than power

If that means backing the Nazi tattoo guy who abuses women they will

[Randy Fine @VoteRandyFine]

Never in my lifetime did I think a Jew, @SenSchumer, would stand up and justify electing someone with a Nazi tattoo on their chest.

Democrats are so desperate for power that they’ll embrace evil to win.

People willing to embrace evil to gain power should never, ever have access to it.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

It's genuinely amazing that our one party state has an un-auditable post election process that takes weeks where they tell us vote numbers that are oddly convenient for them and we just accept it

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Not caring about him wheeling six chicks at once when he was married is your choice

Not caring that he pretends to be a populist when he went to one of the richest prep schools in America is your choice

Not caring he went to war saying he always wanted to kill people is your choice

Not caring he went to work for Blackwater after serving and now calls the army very dumb and stupid is your choice

Not caring that he made fun of Purple Heart recipients is your choice

Not caring that he jerks off in porta potties is your choice

Not caring about all the shit he’s deleted on Reddit and he never thought would see the light of day and shows what a giant jackass is he is your choice

Not caring that he is a Nazi is your choice but if you support him and promote him don’t ever lecture anybody about the moral high ground again because you are a piece of shit

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

If Paula Jones was 1) a completely crazy person who couldn't even remember when she was assaulted and 2) whose lawsuit against Clinton was only enabled by a GOP legislature passing a temporary law to obviate the statute of limitations just to get Clinton and 3) her lawyers were funded by a GOP megadonor billionaire with some serious ethical issues -- there would have been wall-to-wall news coverage of the obvious injustice.