Brian McMeans

Personal: Christian, Conservative, Family - Professional: RLS, CFS, MBA

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

@Bifff33 @Karley_Marotta Very mature. Making my point.

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Salary cap and floor now or no 2027 season. I love baseball but baseball needs parity.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

MLB wants to curb the Dodgers’ spending in the name of competitive balance. This October, the Brewers and Rays are trying to show that the little guy can still win it all. https://t.co/rRDKznrdgN

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

I know this is not a popular opinion with my fellow Conservatives, but I have never believed that execution was an acceptable sentence. I am not aware (may be wrong) of Biblical justification. The Old Testament regularly describes exile. Execution is “an eye for an eye.”

[Fox News @FoxNews]

JUST IN: Convicted killer Christa Pike is now in critical condition after surviving two lethal injection attempts in Tennessee, according to her attorney.

"Christa is alive right now," attorney Randy Spivey says, adding that Pike is receiving "lifesaving care" at a hospital.

Another attorney says it appears a needle may have become dislodged or pierced through a vein, preventing the lethal drug from being properly administered. Tennessee officials have not yet confirmed what caused the execution to fail.

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

She was set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

The extraordinary sequence inside the execution chamber is now under investigation. Read what witnesses saw and heard as Pike remained alive after two doses: https://t.co/v84MyMEX4L

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

I know this is not a popular opinion with my fellow Conservatives, but I have never believed that execution was an acceptable sentence. I am not aware (may be wrong) of Biblical justification. The Old Testament regularly describes exile. Execution is “an eye for an eye.”

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted executions in the state after a woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection before she was rushed to hospital for medical care.

Read more: https://t.co/gmdOol4M29

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Finally.

[CNN @CNN]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will only be allowed to conduct vehicle stops if they have completed related training courses and must ensure that vehicles used for stops are equipped with lights and sirens, according to new internal guidance reviewed by CNN. https://t.co/zS6S8qILU8

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Yep, and I’m a Protestant.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Pope Leo XIV is the one man in the world most of us can look up to.

“Everywhere we look, we are led by a cartoon parade of the grotesque, the inept, the forgettable: political leaders of towering vanity and vapidity, a business leadership class that helps itself to greater riches even as it gets preachier with the rest of us, influencers and pop stars and celebrities, a galloping gallimaufry of narcissistic nobodies all desperately squeezing their last little crumb of manna from us.

“God knows, this pope has his critics. Nowhere more so than in his own land (as Jesus could have told him, that’s usually the way). In keeping with the simplistic tropes in which much American political discourse is now conducted, he is decried as “woke,” “liberal,” even a “communist.”

“It says a terrifying amount about what has happened to the American right that this man who urges governments to respect the sanctity of human life, desist from war, and observe the Christian gospel of charity for all is viewed as merely a lefty Chicago pol.” — @GerardTBaker https://t.co/EMsypWIgOc

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

AI concerns are not primarily law enforcement issues. And a morally binding agreement is no better than the toilet paper it was written on.

[NewsNation @NewsNation]

Following a meeting with the largest technology companies Tuesday, President Trump announced he and industry leaders signed a “morally binding” AI agreement to self-regulate. The meeting comes after Trump said earlier this month he would use the DOJ and FBI for AI enforcement if needed. @HannahBrandt_TV

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

But you and the other Trump minions won’t do anything about it.

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

GOP Sen. John Kennedy says no public official, including President Trump, “should spend public money on private ads for themselves,” after the White House aired a government-funded ad prominently featuring the president.

“You can’t spend public money to promote yourself,” Kennedy (R-LA) says, adding, “I also think that we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him while he’s alive.”

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Trump is lawless ignoring court orders, not to mention the Constitution. He should be impeached and removed. What great things has he done that makes those who claim to be conservative still justify their support of him?

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. https://t.co/D16Sq92nYb

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

We conservatives, before 2016, decried "moral equivalence": the inability to choose between right and wrong, aggressor and victim, invader and invaded, friend and foe, tyrant and democrat, good and evil. Our country is disgraced. America, at present, is not itself.

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Foolish post as usual. China heavily regulates everything. They are communists, it’s the definition of regulation. AI is really exciting but needs some control. Again suggesting an outside group with teeth to develop some guidelines possibly headed by somebody like @SteveCase

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump reveals he will discuss “Super Intelligence” with China’s Xi Jinping today.

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Trump is engaging in imperialism and publicly proud of it.

[Sofia B. Kinzinger @sofiakinzinger]

All while the President of the United States meets with Delcy Rodríguez as if she were an elected official and not a criminal, oppressor, torturer….should I continue?

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

And his war on any immigration.

[Alyssa Farah Griffin @Alyssafarah]

Tariffs + war in the Middle East =

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

All of it Trump and all of it predicted.

[CNBC @CNBC]

‘It's awful’: How tariffs, soaring fuel costs and higher interest rates are squeezing American companies https://t.co/vUcmqldnn6

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

This morning I watched this show and its hosts for about 10 minutes. My opinion, unrelated to the story below, is that it lacked any factual information (news) and was full of childishly contrived opinions and conspiracies. Please, do not watch this network.

[FOX & Friends @foxandfriends]

🚨 "DEFENDING OUR HOMELAND."

Retired Marine Col. @NewshamGrant breaks down the national security implications of President Trump's new Greenland agreement—which would expand U.S. military access while keeping the island under Danish sovereignty.

"You have guarantees that we have real freedom of action militarily... the right to keep our adversaries out."

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points, the first rate hike in 3 years. Cato’s @JaiKedia notes that inflation has been a persistent problem but has been exacerbated by the Trump administration's policies of war and reckless spending.

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

For those who don’t know, Navarro is Trump’s favorite tariff preacher.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

This was an ALL TIMER from Peter Navarro

[Brian McMeans @GlobalSurveying]

Agreed. Governments will not do it well. Instead, the industry should hire Eric Schmidt, Paul Ryan, and others to coordinate policies for the AI industry to adhere to. The government should be responsible for restraining China and others.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

AI-companies shouldn’t wait for governments to legislate on the technology before putting in their own safety controls, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said https://t.co/ljLkRVmJbR

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.