David Barry

Just a guy

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Keir Starmer wants to crack down on X under the pretense of “women’s safety”, whilst he’s the one allowing the ongoing rape and killing of British girls by migrant rape gangs.

Evil, despicable man.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Raise your hand if you’d rather have the Senate debate the SAVE America Act than the 21st Century Road to Housing

[David Barry @DAlvaBarry]

@atrupar Hey @grok what really happened?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world.

The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make.

Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing.

However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants to come along for the ride can buy Tesla stock.

If Tesla “merely” becomes a $1.999 trillion dollar company, I get nothing. This is a great deal for shareholders, which is why they voted so overwhelmingly to approve this, for which I am immensely grateful.

And they did so by a margin far more than you won your political seat.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Martin Luther King's daughter:

Jurors need to be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@RevRayCistman I found that teaching my son not to stab people prevented such an outcome.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

You should not be disheartened by the existence of rational black men.

[Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

I practice law in Collin County, Texas.

Karmelo Anthony will be convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

As he should.

He murdered that boy because he was raised to hate white people and to view himself as a victim in every situation.

It’s a culture thing.

[David Barry @DAlvaBarry]

@AbdulElSayed You want a medal or a chest to pin it on?

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly right

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

You are the most treacherous and truly worthless Republican leader in the history of the party. You even make Paul Ryan look like a plausible Republican, and there could be no lower bar.

Stop talking. You’re embarrassing yourself.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

Please, PLEASE, President Trump: go after John Thune with the same viciousness you just went after Thomas Massie with

FORCE him to pass the SAVE America Act.

Sincerely,

We The People.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This cost Henry Nowak his young life.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune This is day 139 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”

We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.

The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.

Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

[David Barry @DAlvaBarry]

@Justinjpearson Sounds like a case of FAFO

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@StateDept Banger thread