David J Edwards

Navy WX | Graphic Designer | NY2FL | Sharpening My Axe

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Start out with “don’t stab anyone.”

[ERICA 🤌🏼 @ZiaErica]

Sixty-nine years ago today, one of my best friends entered the world.
None of us knew then how many lives he'd change, how many laughs he'd create, or how many perspectives he'd reshape.
Today, we raise our cups a little higher for @ScottAdamsSays.

To Scott ☕️

[Adriana Vitan Balint @adrianavbalint]

'Ucrainenii au încărcat și au direcționat drona pentru aruncarea în aer a terminalului de petrol, contînd și pe alăturatul depozit de azotat de amoniu. Asta ar fi ras instantaneu cu totul cam jumătate din Constanța și, mai ales, ar fi șters urmele, exploziile spulberînd orice firicel din drona controlată permanent de atacatorul ucrainean.

Dacă nimerea, drona era rusească - vorba unui amic pe care-l prețuiesc mult. Doar că drona s-a înfipt și s-a blocat în balizele antipoluare. N-a mai putut mișca.

În tot acest timp, operatorul ucrainean al dronei avea permanent control vizual satelitar, în timp real, prin camerele video ale sculei, perfect funcțională cu excepția agățării ei în balize. Operatorul a văzut astfel că niște unii s-au apropiat și că filmează drona de la nici 10 metri distanță. Deci obiectul delict era nu doar blocat, ci deconspirat și ușor atribuibil statului producător și utilizator cu mare succes. E plin internetul de povești eroice despre lovirea cu dînsele, în două rînduri, a Podului Crimeei, între altele.

Cînd ucrainenii au văzut,  în timp real, că românii filmează drona neatinsă au sunat la București înainte s-o detoneze controlat. Au sunat nu din dragoste aliată, ci pentru a distruge în siguranță electronica în care încărcaseră traseul și ținta prestabilite. Altfel s-ar fi dovedit cu probe pipăibile că au țintit cu premeditare ce au țintit.

Pierdea controlului dronei prin bruiaj rusesc - adică varianta oficializată inclusiv de la cel mai înalt nivel în România - e o harneală pentru vîrsta unui școlar neatent de clasa a patra. Las' că rușii s-a lins pe bot de Starlink-ul american cu antena la vedere pe drona filmată. "Pierderea controlului" e anulată de telefonul de la ucraineni care a anuntat detonarea dispozitivului pentru - repet - distrugerea probei.

Pe scurt: ne-a ferit Dumnezeu.
Ne-a ferit numai bunul Dumnezeu, cu niște balize antipoluare agățate de coada unei monstruozități cu care România - deci NATO - trebuia tîrîtă în război, nenorociților!!!"
Sorin Faur, jurnalist

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

On the eighth anniversary of the Kavanaugh nomination, it now appears that there are some women who are not to be believed . . . when the Senate may be in the balance. https://t.co/yRyfjcUbXz

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

[Legal Phil @Legal_Fil]

Saying “I would jail anyone I dislike who might get in the way of my side acquiring power” isn’t really the best way to convince people that you aren’t a, well, you know.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

One might wonder why Newscum's team would post something so idiotic, but it makes sense considering they've never actually seen a project completed. It's a foreign concept to them.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible clip…

UK Green Party candidate doesn’t understand why bringing in millions of new immigrants impacts housing and services in their country.

She makes faces at the concept.
It’s as if she’s never thought about it before.

[Dahlia 🤍 @kuchisakeonnax]

If you say this about America at large they’ll kill you

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

Go big or go home. What a stud. These are the shoulders of giants we stand upon. He could have whined and claimed he was "disenfranchised" but no he signs the Declaration of Independence with his home address. The equivalent of Cortes burning his ships, the wealthiest man in America personally declares war against the Crown for Liberty. These are men worth honoring and remembering.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Pratt showed he can finish in top 2. Demoralized voters might show up in the general. Get him a ground game and we are looking at something. Now would be a good time for Tech VC’s to open up the checks and fund ballot chasers.

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Holy fuckin’ shit I would like to report a murder!

[AltAzn @Alt_Azn]

Let me explain the universe where Pratt doesn’t enter the race.

-Raman makes the runoff.
-Ro Khanna breaks with the party and endorses her.
-Mamdani, AOC and the squad follow.
-The “media” rallies around Raman as the LA Mamdani and we get nothing but fluff pieces.

Raman wins in November and LA becomes an even bigger shithole.

Pratt already saved us from all of that.

[@amuse @amuse]

@grok confirm that the DOJ refuted the baseless claim that it was investigating E Jean Carroll. Confirm that Reid Hoffman paid for E Jean Carroll’s LAWFARE against Trump and she lied about the support under oath. Confirm the jury did not find E Jean Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her credible. Confirm that the judge gave the jury an instruction that the lesser claim of sexual abuse could be as innocent as an unwanted peck on the cheek. Confirm that Reid Hoffman was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein and estimate how frequently the men met and where. Confirm that Reid Hoffman is funding a SuperPAC backing James Talarico (CIS).

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

The Carroll case rested on a sequence of legal maneuvers with no precedent in American civil litigation. Democratic legislators passed a retroactive temporary law eliminating the statute of limitations for decades-old accusations that could not be dated, located, or defended with alibis. The day the temporary law took effect, Carroll filed her pre-prepared lawsuit, the first in the state to do so.

A Democratic mega-donor secretly funded the plaintiff’s legal costs through a nonprofit. The arrangement stayed hidden until one of Trump’s lawyers discovered it. A Clinton-appointed judge then sealed all records so the jury never learned the billionaire backer had publicly committed to Trump’s political destruction. Every participant in the legislative, funding, and judicial steps operated inside the same political network, and each decision produced the same cumulative result.

The jury explicitly checked “no” on the verdict form’s specific rape question. The judge ruled rape proven anyway, claiming the jury had used a common rather than statutory definition… an impossibility, since their rejection under the common definition precludes rape by any standard. Trump’s team was barred from arguing innocence before a second jury, which awarded $83.3 million ($65 million punitive) on the rape finding the first jury had rejected.

A defendant was sued for defamation over denying an accusation, prevented from asserting that denial as a defense, tried before a judge who concealed the plaintiff’s political funding, and hit with a nine-figure verdict built on facts the jury itself refused to find.

No comparable sequence exists in recorded U.S. civil litigation history.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States."

“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification."

This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years.

[tantum @QuasLacrimas]

"I expected the campaign to be about bike lanes" is a memorable line. Millennial Dems have been as fried by Parks & Rec as Gen X Dems were by the West Wing

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Progressives will never stop doing

They are incapable of self government

We can separate from them or deny them the franchise, but we can’t keep pretending that they should have access to power at any level

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

During the 2024 campaign, a post went massively viral claiming JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” contained a scene in which Vance had sex with a latex glove jammed between two couch cushions. This was a total fabrication.

In interviews, the poster responsible for the meme said he was inspired by a story about Lyndon Johnson spreading false rumors about political opponents having sex with pigs to try to force them to publicly deny the allegations.

The fact that the claim about Vance, which came with page numbers that could easily be checked, was totally false, easily falsifiable and came from a source who openly admitted he made the whole thing up was irrelevant. The story spread across the internet and into mainstream media and discourse.

Stephen Colbert joked about it repeatedly. He shared AI generated meme images of Vance with a couch. John Oliver also spread the memes. And, eventually, so did the Harris/Walz campaign, with Walz saying he couldn’t wait to debate Vance, if Vance would “get off the couch and show up.”

On the first episode of his 2005 show, “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert, who gleefully spread the couch memes, famously promulgated a widely concept called “truthiness.” He explained that certain things that are not true nonetheless “feel true” because they validate priors, and people would rather have their beliefs reinforced than debunked.

He said: “It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.”

“Truthiness” was not a criticism of liberal discourse — it was presented as the animating concept of his parody of Bill O’Reilly; that conservatives didn’t want truth, they wanted “truthiness.”

Liberals like Colbert and Oliver demonstrate no self-reflection or self-awareness with regard to their previous criticisms of conservatives and conservative media when they spread viral misinformation like the JD Vance couch meme, which was a perfect example of “truthiness,” in that it was a completely fabricated claim that had the feel of truth to progressives because it validated their beliefs about Vance.

Anyway, here’s my point: A screenshot is currently circulating of a passage from the Wall Street Journal article about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s history of infidelity, sexting and hookup apps, which says that Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer.”

A lot of people are saying this screenshot is fabricated. Some of these people are claiming that they are WSJ subscribers who have read the paywalled WSJ article, or even that they are journalists who wrote this article, and that this passage does not appear in it.

You should not listen to these people.

Graham Platner refers to his penis as “Mein Fuhrer,” and also, he has shaved his pubic hair into a “landing strip,” which he refers to as “Der Fuhrer’s mustache.”

This is the truth, or at least, is exactly as true as it needs to be.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Again once you realize…

Dem Party:

Antifa is the military wing

Judiciary is the lawfare wing

Media is the propaganda wing

ActBlue is the laundering wing

SPLC/ADL is the targeting wing

Soros/NGO network is the funding wing

School/H-Wood is the indoctrination wing

Simple.