David Thibault

unpopular opinion provocateur

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Fox News: “Cory Booker and Alex Padilla…want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don’t want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces.

Trump: “Well, they wouldn’t be saying that if they didn’t hate our country.” (2025)

[Regulator Jackson @Regulator_Jack]

@deanbphillips

[Dean Phillips @deanbphillips]

Since I hate misinformation, I acknowledge the little boy was abandoned by his father who fled ICE agents.

I witnessed great compassion from CBP agents towards abandoned children when I visited the southern border a few years ago - and this little boy is in good hands.

But what’s happening in MSP is a stain on all of us - as the rights of Americans are being shredded.

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

DIVISIONAL ROUND COMING UP!!!!!

Repost to win 2 tickets for Sunday's playoff matchup at @GilletteStadium: https://t.co/S9z2nKv1V6

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Here's the thing about the Greenland deal that people aren't talking about enough, and it's related to the US economy.

We're in a huge amount of debt as a percentage of our GDP. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it's essentially insurmountable. We've been in bad shape for a while, but last five years have been catastrophic post-COVID. There is no way to sugarcoat that fact. We cannot outrun math.

This leaves us with really two options -- either cut back on spending dramatically and painfully across every sector from the military to social programs to basic infrastructure, or we grow our economy drastically and rapidly so the debt becomes a much smaller fraction of our GDP, allowing us to realistically pay it down without significant turmoil.

Or we can collapse entirely.

Those are our options, and Trump knows it. He's playing up the national security implications -- which are absolutely very real also -- but the Greenland deal is very much about giving our economy the growth it needs through natural resources and raw real estate to help us pay off our debt and get back onto sound economic footing again, while we still have the juice to pull something like this off.

It's extremely bold and the people who want America to fail will want this play to fail also. But if successful it will quite literally save our country in the long term. If you are really America First, you have to be hoping for this to happen.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Clown world. 🤡

[Joanie Scott @JstJoan]

I worked under your FAA @PeteButtigieg and, after 34 years, mostly as an Air Traffic Controller, I retired because of how you and the Biden administration, to use your words, shit on every employee at the FAA and ruined a once fine agency.

You allowed men into my office bathroom.

I had to work with and for people you hired and promoted because of the color of their skin or who they have sex with who were wholly and completely unqualified for their job.

You FORCED me to inject an experimental dangerous drug into my body in order to keep my job and paycheck.

As for what the current ATC's "have been through", every single one of them is eligible for an interest-free loan program which their credit unions initiate during every government shutdown. As well, they all can withdraw from their TSP accounts. Every FAA employee knows these are both well established, common practices during shutdowns, so the only ones not coming to work are the ones making a political statement.

President Trump is right to call them out.

You, sir, can sit down and shut up.

[Media Lies @MediasLies]

Senator Durbin explained why he defected from the Democrats. He actually admitted the truth about the strategy they are using:

“I cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbor's paycheck or the food for his children.”

There's the truth!

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

The D exaggerations and hysteria about health care premiums becoming suddenly unaffordable leading to death and destruction are about to be seen as myths.

Premiums for those in poverty will now go from $0/ month to…$0/month. No change!

A family of four making $32,150 (100% of poverty level) will go from $0 to only $56/month. Most families pay more than $1000/month.

A family of four making $62,150 (double the poverty level) will go from $107/month to $354/month.

Three times poverty? Those making $96,450 will go from $482 to $801/month.

The government didn’t shut down because the Ds want to protect the poor and the needy. It shut down because the Ds want free health care. This entire debate is about middle and upper-middle income people who the Ds want to give massive subsidies to so hardly anyone is left with private insurance coverage.

This is an Obamacare bailout, with the goal of eliminating private insurance, on the road to a single-payer, government run health system. Obamacare for all.

It’s a good thing Rs stopped it.

[Phil Kerpen @kerpen]

What is "clean" about COVID-emergency supersized subsidies to insurance companies??? This has ZERO to do with government funding.

"Our new offer is that you pay the ransom."

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

Democrats just refused to pay the federal workers and American troops hurt by their shutdown.

Sending your money to big insurance companies and keeping their Obamacare failure on life support is too important to them.

[The_Moderate_Virginian @TheModerateVA]

@GuntherEagleman @LeaderJohnThune They rejected this same deal last year.

[David Thibault @David_Tboww]

“Affordable” and “subsidies” in the same term is quite something

[ABC News @ABC]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to outline Democrats' new proposal to end the shutdown, offering Democratic support for a funding bill in exchange for a one year extension of current Affordable Care Act subsidies. https://t.co/GidlYunpbY

[David Thibault @David_Tboww]

Took 38 days for this to be proposed?

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

DEMS SIMPLE PROPOSAL:
A simple one year extension of existing ACA tax credits
Re-open the government
Establish committee to continue negotiations for long-term lower healthcare costs

[Political Blasphememes @PBlasphememes]

🎯

[David Thibault @David_Tboww]

So damn to the govt employees and families off of SNAP - but now that the elections are over and the airline CEOs start making calls to Capitol Hill.. all of a sudden there’s urgency and compromise

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Talks underway to reopen government, including CR + minibus funding package and separate ACA vote.

Blumenthal says a separate ACA vote would amount to “surrender”

Shaheen, a key negotiator: “I think talks continue to be productive, and hopefully we can get to a resolution.”

[David Thibault @David_Tboww]

These and the beta soy boys

[C3 @C_3C_3]

I present to you the most damaging demographic in the world.

The white liberal woman.

They enable the destruction of the West.

Exactly what Orwell warned us about…

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Virginia just elected her as governor

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

@SenSchumer This is what is really happening.