@shoesonplease I would love to speak with someone about Senate bill 304 pertaining to Mackinac island trying to regulate the Hoffman family’s ferry companies by implementing a bill that infringes on the sovereignty of mackinaw city and st. Ignace. It’s a big story!
The American deer camp was, between approximately 1880 and 1990, the autumn ritual of every rural family in the upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Appalachians.
A cabin in the woods. Three or four men, three generations sometimes, who got there on the Friday before opening day, lit the wood stove, drank coffee that had been on the burner since 4am, played cards, told the same stories they had told the year before, and went out at first light on Saturday with rifles their grandfathers had owned.
A buck taken cleanly with one shot. Field-dressed in the snow. Hung in the woodshed. Butchered the next weekend in the garage with the family. Forty pounds of venison in the chest freezer. Steaks for the winter. Sausage made by the grandfather with a recipe nobody had written down. A roast for Thanksgiving. The hide tanned and turned into mittens for the youngest grandson.
The deer was free. The freezer was full. The boys learned to shoot, to clean a rifle, to gut an animal, to butcher it, to thank the woods for the deer, to be quiet for hours at dawn in the cold and notice things.
Roughly 14 million Americans hunted in 1980. By 2020 that number was 11.5 million, and the average hunter age had risen from 35 to 51. The next generation is not coming up.
Suburbanization removed the woods from the back door. Liability fears closed private lands. Public hunting access shrank. Time pressure on working families killed the long weekend at camp. The cultural drift made hunting socially suspect, then unfashionable, then, in some quarters, taboo.
The number of American teenagers who have ever fired a rifle, gutted an animal, or watched their grandfather butcher a deer in the garage on a November Sunday afternoon is, in 2026, statistically vanishing.
The freezer that used to be full of free, lean, grass-fed wild protein is full of ground beef from a Smithfield CAFO in Iowa.
The skill is one generation deep. If the grandfather did not pass it to the father, and the father did not pass it to the son, the chain is broken. YouTube is, at the moment, where the few remaining young hunters are getting most of their training.
A small American tradition that fed families for a century, taught a sequence of practical and moral lessons no textbook can replace, and connected three generations to the land their ancestors lived on, is closing down quietly, camp by camp, season by season.
The cabin is still there. The stove still works. The buck is still in the woods.
The grandfather is in the cemetery on the hill above the cabin. He cannot take the boy himself.
Somebody else has to.
🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled that drawing Congressional districts based on race under the Voting Rights Act is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, 6-3
This is a HUGE win, and could have MASSIVE ramifications for the 2026 midterms
Democrats for YEARS have sued over and over again to FORCE states like Louisiana to create black majority districts
Louisiana's map has now been thrown out.
If SCOTUS ends up gutting the act, a DOZEN Democrat districts could flip red overnight.
SWEET FUCKING JESUS, RAND...FUCK OFF WITH YOUR SPINELESS, HISTORY-FETISHIZING BULLSHIT.
You sniveling, quote-masturbating libertarian cuck, hiding behind John Quincy Adams’ 1821 bedtime story like it’s gospel while a nuclear-armed apocalyptic death cult has been screaming “DEATH TO AMERICA” since they stormed our embassy in 1979, funded the networks that helped 9/11, armed every proxy from Hezbollah to Houthis to slaughter our troops with EFPs in Iraq, and are now weeks from weapons-grade uranium while their IRGC generals openly brag about glassing Tel Aviv and New York.
This isn’t “preemptive war,” you constitutional cosplay artist...it’s self-defense under Article II, Section 2.
The President IS Commander-in-Chief.
He doesn’t need your permission slip from Congress to repel an imminent existential threat that’s already at war with us.
Madison wrote the Executive is “most prone to war”...yeah, because the Executive is the one who actually has to look a mushroom cloud in the face while you and your Senate choirboys clutch pearls and recite 200-year-old isolationist fanfic.
The Framers knew sudden attacks don’t wait for a floor debate.
Iran’s been in an undeclared war with us for 46 fucking years.
Trump just ended the patience phase.
This is textbook cowardice dressed as “principle.”
You’re not defending the Constitution...you’re defending your ego and your donor base of isolationist think-tank virgins who jerk off to non-intervention while the world burns.
Deep down you’re terrified of being called a warmonger, so you virtue-signal with dead Founders who never faced ICBMs, hypersonic missiles, or jihadi suicide swarms.
Weakness isn’t wisdom, Rand.
It’s the same appeasement psychology that got us Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
History doesn’t forgive the timid.
These joint US-Israel strikes are surgical, lethal, and necessary...decapitating nuclear sites, command nodes, and missile batteries before the mullahs cross the threshold.
No endless occupation, no nation-building fairy tale. Just pure, precise destruction of a regime that’s killed Americans, Israelis, and their own people by the hundreds of thousands.
Trump’s calling for regime change because that’s what winners do when the enemy is a theocratic cancer that cannot be contained.
Your “first instinct is to wish our soldiers safety”?
Bullshit.
Your first instinct is to kneecap them politically so you can tweet your little purity spiral and farm likes from the surrender caucus.
You swore an oath to the Constitution, not to 19th-century poetry.
Grow a fucking spine, read the actual document instead of cherry-picking dead guys, and get the hell out of the way while real leaders finish what weaklings like you have let fester for decades.
America doesn’t go abroad in search of monsters.
The monsters came to us.
And President Trump just put a .50 cal round through their fucking forehead.
Deal with it, Rand.
Or shut the fuck up and sit down.
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“I served this country. I paid taxes for 30 YEARS. What did I even fight to protect?”
After watching corruption get exposed in public — endless hearings, excuses, investigations that go nowhere.
“They protect the system. We pay the price — and the country is WORSE off.”
@SenSanders Probably has something to do with the fact that they don’t have to spend money on a military because the U.S. protects them. Imagine how much extra money they have to offer free stuff for their people…