Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️

Business attorney.
Native Coloradan.
I like to be outside and live music.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

When did we abandon the notion that the antidote to harmful speech is more speech? Counter that with which you disagree with speech that celebrates truth, reason, logic, and evidence. Censorship is disgraceful. Dialectic is critical. Ideas deserve discussion. #FollowTheSilence

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Some of the liberals complaining that I should focus more on the right-wingers in my book and in the below comments are missing a crucial point: different propaganda is directed at different audiences. Some of the most effective propaganda geared at well-meaning people is not overtly right wing. What makes Ezra Klein an effective (and very well paid) propagandist is that his role is laser focused on getting liberal and progressive people steered away from the deeper changes that would make society much more equal and less repressive.

[Elizabeth Nolan Brown @ENBrown]

"Adults would ⁠still ⁠be able to take, ⁠share or view nude content through an age verification process” is just such a dystopian sentence

But that’s where we are. In like two years, we’ve gone from “we just want to make adult sites block kids” to “yes, it’s totally reasonable to make people submit their IDs or do facial recognition before they can use a computer or phone”

[Chase Oliver @ChaseForLiberty]

The best thing about the World Cup being here in the US is so many people can come here and realize how amazing our nation and its people are, and how terrible our government is, particularly to folks who came here from somewhere else.

We are the most amazing, beautiful, diverse, and loving nation on Earth.

We just don't have a government that reflects our values. And we haven't in my adult life for sure.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@Acyn Pathetic.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@JackPosobiec That's people doing tricks on bikes.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@kobedryman @glukianoff No?

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’m suing Trump from multiple fronts, so obviously I’m not a fan, and I’ve been a lifelong Democrat, but I think there are a major tensions between left liberalism and left progressivism. I much prefer liberalism and feel like the current party has a lot less in common with liberalism than it used to.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@LPNH @JoForLiberty Yeah... The LP should be for Racist and abusive policing!

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@JoForLiberty Please no. I'd probably vote for you, but even you have to agree there are stronger candidates.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

I'm in.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race.

This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office.

I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@tennsand @Hannah4Liberty @HalleckScott @russdaniels303 @LPNational @carynannharlos Who is Ernest Luning? Snowden did not "defect" to Russia. He was trapped there by the US. Such poor reporting oin this article on at least two things that are easy and obvious--the whole thing loses credibility. Terrible.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@notexxy @AngelaTC @RealAngelaMc Were they booing her? Or booing the terms of the deal to free her son and the parties to it. I would celebrate her and boo Trump, even though I'm extremely glad her son is free.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@LondonRiverSFW @LPNational It is hard not to wonder how many of the counter-productive weirdos in LP (and, frankly, other third party) circles might be supported or resourced by duopolists. Would explain a lot.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@mwj1369 @lpky @Jtodd601 Dude's a baller. Sorry you don't like colors.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@kksuggs @ggreenwald @JamesDelmore1 The answer to all three of your questions is no.

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

@WSJ What is it called when the government owns stakes in private companies?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I can't think of a more glaring and revealing political irony than a politician who called his ideology "America First" proudly *boasting* that he's far more popular in Israel than in his own country: in fact, so popular there that he could be elected Prime Minister of Israel.

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.

Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn't repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?

The Boomers -- with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda -- gave their answer.

Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.

Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger -- and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin -- but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.

Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that's why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there's Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don't believe you that this is a question of Massie's voting record (which is stellar, by the way).

Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:

A patriot who values his country's sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.

Even if for some reason you don't like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.

These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky -- Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.

Put up a nonentity like "Ed Gallrein" who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.

But the rest of us understand.

Can you imagine "Ed Gallrein" leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn "vaccine"!

Remember, too, that the folks who voted for "Ed Gallrein" tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.

But the younger generations, who don't get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren't going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers -- and therein lies hope.

Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie's shoes.

If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you'd think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump's enemy.

Not that you'd know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, "Ed Gallrein" left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.

But since we're not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.

As Glenn Greenwald put it, "If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.

"There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous."

I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.

The polls show that this situation won't exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that's obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.

Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.

Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don't always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.

For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember "Ed Gallrein," not even as the answer to a trivia question.

[Graham Gerritsen 🔰⬆️ @GrahamGerritsen]

@raefejenkins Vote third party. It's only a lost cause until enough people start to actually vote for the cause. And the more people who "throw their vote away" on third parties the less cost there is for additional voters to join.