Demosthenes

2,410 year-old conservative Greek Orator who pounces and seizes. Also serving as the alias of a member of the Wiggin family. Sane is now insane. #tcot #tlot

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

We negotiated with nukes in WW2. Don’t want to surrender? Drop Little Boy. Still don’t want to surrender? Drop Fat Man.

[yogesh @yogeshtwet]

JD Vance:

If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact McConnell is one retiring Senator while Biden was the president running for another 4 year term in control of the nukes

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

Democrats are racist!

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on losing the Texas Democratic Senate primary to James Talarico

Crockett: “It was a racist race.”

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

On brand, Graham Platner held us all for 11 minutes against our will.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: USA comes back from huge deficit to defeat Belgium 5-4 after receiving four surprise mail-in goals at 3:00am

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

That’s basically how it happened.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

As far as I can tell Platner was discovered by some DSA talent scout who went into a faux hipster dive bar in DC, and there was a gruff butch tatted up bartender spouting some shit about Israel, and they were like "fuck yeah, I found our working class Elvis"

[R.C. Maxwell 🇺🇸 @RCMaxw3ll]

We were THIS close to unbridled corruption in Florida.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 Italian PM Giorgia Meloni shows up last in Ankara and steals the whole show 🇮🇹

Restraining order her “♠️”

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The single richest man in America personally bankrolled the Revolution, kept Washington's army alive with his own money, and then died broke in a debtors' prison. The man who funded the country got thrown in jail for being poor. Meet Robert Morris.

If the United States has a financial founding father, it's this guy, and almost nobody knows his name.

He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1734 and came to America as a 13 year old boy. He got into the shipping business in Philadelphia and was so good at it that by 1775 he was likely the wealthiest man in all of the colonies. Ships, trade, credit, money moving everywhere. He was the money.

Here's the wild part. At first he didn't even want to declare independence. He thought it was premature and voted against rushing into it. But once the decision was made, he didn't hedge. He signed the Declaration of Independence and threw his entire fortune behind the cause.

And thank God he did, because the young country was flat broke. The army was starving, unpaid, falling apart. So Morris did something almost nobody would do. He used his own personal credit and his own personal cash to keep the war going. When Washington needed money to march on Yorktown for the campaign that basically won the war, Morris helped raise it, at times pledging his own name and fortune to cover it. He became known as the Financier of the Revolution, and it's not an exaggeration. He kept the lights on.

He's also one of only two men to sign all three of America's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. When Washington offered to make him the very first Treasury Secretary, Morris turned it down and pointed him to a young Alexander Hamilton instead.

Now the tragedy. After the war, Morris poured everything into massive land speculation, betting enormous sums on the future of the country. The bets went bad. Spectacularly bad. He ended up owing something like three million dollars, a genuinely staggering fortune for the time.

And so, in 1798, the man who had personally financed American independence was locked in a debtors' prison in Philadelphia. He sat in that cell for years. The Financier of the Revolution, penniless, behind bars, while the country he'd funded moved on without him.

He finally got out around 1801, aided by a new bankruptcy law, and lived quietly and broke until his death in 1806.

A man who was richer than anyone, gave it to a nation, and died with nothing.

Robert Morris. He bought America's freedom and went bankrupt doing it.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

@matthewstoller @redsteeze There are very few things sadder in the world than watching people deny reality, to the point where they lie to themselves. It was obviously a Nazi tattoo.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

Bring back asylums.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Government subsidies making things unnecessarily more expensive exhibit #8228194.

Government slashes SNAP, Walmart and Sam’s Club slash their prices.

Because when the State pumps taxpayer money into something, demand explodes while supply stays constrained (or gets regulated to hell).

So producers simply raise prices because they can, and everyone pays.

We’ve seen it in housing where Section 8 and “affordable” mandates lead to bidding wars and rents through the roof.

In college tuitions where subsidized loans caused tuitions to triple in real terms.

In healthcare where Medicare/Medicaid bloat led premiums and costs to skyrocket.

Subsidies simply distort prices and stick you with the bill.

(End them all)

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

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[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Democrats went out and tried to find a candidate that they thought could resonate with young white men.

The result was Graham Platner— a caricature of white men that they have in their heads.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

I don’t believe Trump wants other prime to live there. He’s saying that it would be a beautiful place if they’d stop indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Mamdani talks about America the way Trump sometimes talks about Gaza: as a place that could be really nice if we let different people build a different civilization there.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

Do not let them memory hole this.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

JUST IN: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has scrubbed his X account of all mentions of Graham Platner in hopes no one will remember he was a diehard early supporter.

[John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC]

Democrats still think they’re the good people…

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Some illegal immigrant who crossed the border and anchored his baby just 10 minutes ago gets automatic U.S. citizenship for that child...
But some of us are generations deep in this country and somehow we are labeled a "colonizer on stolen land?"

Sounds retarded, doesn’t it?

Here’s the reality: In 2023 alone, unauthorized immigrant mothers gave birth to roughly 300,000 babies in the U.S.—about 8-9% of all births that year. That’s hundreds of thousands of new "anchor"citizens every single year, tying their parents to the system and adding to the strain on American taxpayers, schools, and communities.

Meanwhile, millions of us with deep roots—families who fought in our wars, farmed the land, and built the nation—are told we don’t belong. Enough.

Congress needs to fix this loophole. Make it a priority.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

Good! Stay in!

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

NYP: Graham Platner is refusing to drop out of the Senate race unless he gets to name successor

A source familiar with the campaign discussions said Platner, his campaign and political strategist Morris Katz are deliberating about the Maine Democrat dropping out but only if his replacement has the same views he holds.

#MaineSenate

https://t.co/xjPvdjTAdR

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Here are things that the Platner story has that the Kavanaugh allegations did not have:
1) proof of contact between the accuser and the accused
2) documented allegations from the accuser naming the accused to others *before* the accused rose to the national stage
3) multiple accusers with documented proof of contact and long-standing recognition of abuse

Liberals who are saying "this is just like Kavanaugh" are just reminding everyone of how flimsy the Kavanaugh accusations were

They are also letting you know that they don't care about evidence. They will accuse their enemies without any documented evidence. They will protect their own even with mountains of evidence.

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

Yup.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

Is that the same United States Women's National Soccer Team that lost to a boys high school team?

[Demosthenes @DemosthenesGame]

LOL

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

FLASHBACK: Graham Platner applying to run for Senate