Drive-by Quips

Sharp-witted political jabs and commentary, zooming past the noise with humor that hits both sides. #PolitiQuips

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid.

Wanna know what else I think is dumb?

The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether.

Here’s a list of some in case you forgot:

• Washington Redskins ➡️ Commanders

• Cleveland Indians ➡️ Guardians

• Stanford Indians ➡️ Cardinals

• Loudoun County Raiders ➡️ Captains

• Edmonton Eskimos ➡️ Elks

• Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day

• Lee–Jackson Day ➡️ eliminated

• Robert E. Lee High School ➡️ John Lewis High

• Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway

• Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali

• Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty

• Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos

• Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America

• Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company

• Uncle Ben’s Rice ➡️ Ben’s Original

• Eskimo Pie ice cream bars ➡️ Edy’s Pie

• Land O’Lakes ➡️ removed the Indian, but kept the land

• Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented worker

• Hispanic ➡️ Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use)

• Mother ➡️ birthing person

• Anchor baby ➡️ child of noncitizens

• black ➡️ Black

• Breastfeeding ➡️ chest feeding

• Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon ➡️ justice-involved person

• Ex-con / ex-felon ➡️ returning citizen

• “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct

• Fat ➡️ plus-sized

• Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom

• Manhole ➡️ utility hole

And so on and so on. . .

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@libsoftiktok Donald Trump did not post this.
The image is a fabricated meme designed to look like a post from his X account

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Caring about Donald Trump's idiosyncrasies is a waste of time.

I care that the border is shut. That DEI is dying. That we're rebuilding our military.

If he wants to say he's renaming a lake to freak out the squares, that's a bargain.

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“Terrorist” is a media epithet anyway that muddies the fight. Call them enemy combatants... they’re at war with us. Treat them as such.

[New York Post @nypost]

Canada's CBC instructs staff not to call 9/11 a 'terrorist attack' in news coverage https://t.co/AzmzqrnYZo

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Public schools are the failing buildings. “Public education” is the sacred buzzword they hide behind. Terminology won’t raise the test scores.

[David Burke 🇺🇸 @ConservativeTht]

Chinese children are taught robotics, advanced mathematics, programming & AI. American public school kids (depending on the state) are taught that gender is a choice, rainbow flags are great, American flags are racist and how to be a social Justice warrior.

If sanity does not return to public education, the United States is going to become a 3rd rate power. We owe it to our children to fix this before it is too late.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️ A new HHS-funded study has found a link between gender ideology and political violence...

1,208 U.S. adults were asked about their views on gender identity, as well as how they felt about killing Trump or Charlie Kirk, attacking police, and setting ICE buildings on fire.

People who were more supportive of gender ideology were ALSO more likely to support political violence, especially those with left-wing, authoritarian views...

Researchers think the whole “oppressor vs. oppressed” mindset could be part of the reason, but they admit that’s still just a theory.

Could be less about gender itself and more about the wider politics that comes along with it.

Source: NY Post / Writer: Daniyal

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@CNN Fear factor: Latest attack on American way-of-life; Amusement Parks are now bourgeois.

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@annvandersteel Welp that’s one way to get the Flock outta here 😛

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O fleeting Summer, golden thief,
Your lingering heat now slips away.
Cicadas hush, the long days brief,
As shadows claim the waning day.
Farewell, bright thief; autumn claims the rest.

[13 Action News @13abc]

How would you rate those early morning temperatures? We are getting a taste of early fall weather.

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THIS! 👇

[Paul Saladino, MD @paulsaladinomd]

I feel like it’s finally safe to say this out loud: The COVID era was a time of staggering overreach and repeated, official betrayal. They took our freedom, our livelihoods, and our trust, and no one has answered for it.

We were forced into isolation, fueling a massive psychological crisis. Beaches, parks, and trails where transmission was virtually impossible were closed, ignoring the crucial role of sunlight and Vitamin D for immune function.

The government and employers forced vaccine mandates, making millions choose between a medical treatment lacking long-term safety data and their ability to feed their families. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from liability.

If you had a severe vaccine reaction, you were on your own. When people tried to share these stories of big tech silenced them and deleted their accounts.

The architects of these policies, like Dr. Fauci, shifted goalposts constantly. He received a preemptive presidential pardon from Joe Biden, and when recently questioned by Congress, pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.

The biggest failure? We knew early on that metabolic dysfunction was a massive risk factor for severe COVID. Yet public health officials stayed completely silent on the importance of quality food, exercise, and true metabolic resilience.

Instagram deleted my account in 2021 for pointing all of these things out. YouTube deleted multiple videos on these topics.

We all lost something during those years. Whether it was someone you loved, your job, your sovereignty, or your health... I am truly sorry for your loss.

If all of this makes you angry, you’re my kind of people.

Let's make sure this never happens again.

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@catturd2 WNBA is not a sport…. It’s a side show 😝

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

OBGYN Who Delivered 5,000 Babies: Abortion is “Never” Necessary to Protect a Woman’s Health https://t.co/p3YrZYLAK5

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THIS! 👇

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

A BAKER'S DOZEN OF MAXIMS TO LIVE BY ON POLITICS X

1. Yes, dark and scary secret government conspiracies exist. Most things are not dark and scary secret government conspiracies.

2. You don’t have to agree with everything a politician says to support him or her.

3. Disagreeing with a movement politician on a single, specific issue does not mean you must be exiled from that movement.

4. Just because an X user comments favorably on something somebody else says does not automatically mean that the same X user agrees with everything else that other somebody has ever said or ever will say.

5. If you want to accuse somebody of saying something bad, make sure they actually said it.

6. Government always looks out for itself first, regardless of what political party is in charge. This has always been true and will never stop being true.

7. Just because somebody disagrees with you does not make them a bot, nor does it mean they are being paid by Russia/Israel/Ukraine/Hamas/China/Qatar/etc.

8. However, bots do exist, and some X accounts are, in fact, being paid by Russia/Israel/Ukraine/Hamas/China/Qatar/etc.

9. It’s OK if your political views change over time as new information becomes available. That’s called being intelligent.

10. Just because someone supported something in the long ago past does not automatically mean they support it now.

11. There is no such thing as “objective reporting.” Every journalist has an agenda, and that agenda permeates everything they say or write.

12. Self-proclaimed experts usually are not.

13. Disagreement does not equal disrespect (unless the disagreement is done in a disrespectful way).

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@TeamTrump47 @NobodymrRobert 🇨🇦 Syrup exports and moose races 🇨🇦

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Strict gun control policies in Sweden. Self-defense is not a standard accepted reason for civilians to own a gun there. But swords? 🤷‍♂️

[New York Post @nypost]

Several people injured in sword attack at Swedish school, police say https://t.co/fQQcfagS4K

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@DLoesch Give them roots… then give ‘em wings

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

Dr David Bellamy was a real environmentalist, defined as someone whose genuine motivation is to understand nature & reduce pollution. Those claiming that there is a "climate crisis" are fake environmentalists pushing a political agenda designed to enrich themselves & their paymasters.

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This 👇

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Depuis les années 70, le futur a été volé.

On devait avoir des voitures volantes.
De l’énergie abondante.
Des bonds vertigineux en physique, en biologie, en matériaux.
Une civilisation qui multiplie.

On a eu autre chose.
Des ministères de la rareté.
De la décroissance présentée comme vertu.
De la frugalité obligatoire.
De la culpabilité permanente.

J’ai toujours senti que quelque chose clochait.
Parce que l’histoire humaine n’a jamais été celle de la pénurie volontaire.
C’est celle de la puissance. De la construction. De la multiplication.

Ce qui s’est passé est simple.
Les communistes ont perdu la bataille économique.
Ils ont gagné la bataille culturelle et institutionnelle.

Ils n’ont plus besoin de prendre les usines.
Ils ont pris les autorisations.
Les normes.
Les universités.
Les esprits.

Ils ont transformé chaque problème d’ingénierie en drame moral.
Chaque ambition en péché.
Chaque abondance en menace.

On te vend la soif sur une planète d’océans.
On te vend la pénurie sur une planète d’abondance.
Le même logiciel partout.

Résultat : les systèmes sont capturés.
L’État est orchestré par des gens structurellement incapables d’innover.
Pas parce qu’ils sont mauvais.
Parce que le logiciel qu’ils ont reçu depuis cinquante ans leur apprend à gérer la rareté, pas à la détruire.

Dans un autre contexte, les mêmes cerveaux pourraient créer.
Dans celui-ci, ils bloquent.

Sauf une anomalie.

Elon Musk.

Il a fait le pari fou.
Il a refusé le script.
Il a construit.
Dans un monde qui n’aurait pas été capturé, on en aurait des dizaines comme lui.
Lui a tenu.
Il est devenu l’homme le plus riche du monde en produisant de l’abondance au lieu de la rationner.

Il est un peu comme Moïse.
Il montre la sortie du désert.
La voie où l’on arrête de gouverner la pénurie et où l’on pose les tuyaux.
Où la puissance rend tout possible.

Ce monde est en train de finir.
Quand il tombe, les bonds seront absurdes.
En physique. En biologie. En énergie. En matériaux.
Tout ce qui a été bloqué pendant cinquante ans va exploser.

On ne manque pas de ressources.
On manque de bâtisseurs.

Allez construire.
Suivez ceux qui refusent le script.
Le futur n’a pas disparu.
Il attendait juste qu’on arrête de le voler.

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Mr. King needs a cookie and a nap...

[GBC @GBC_Press]

World-famous American writer Stephen King:

"Trump is a tumor injected into America's veins. He is a tyrant who would not hesitate to set an entire country on fire for his own narcissistic ego. None of the horror stories I have written could be as terrifying as this man."

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

So many things like this is why the United Nations is a joke.
A den of vipers giving a performance.
And just like with everything else, the US is the biggest financial contributor.
POTUS should stop them from vacuuming up our tax dollars and confiscate the property.