Jed Patten Skillman

Free-Thinking Conservative.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@johnrich Same for Thomas Massie.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@RepThomasMassie @JesseBWatters @DonnaPrissyrn1 Just a few days ago you were running for reelection as a Trump supporter...

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@BonemanJoe @mirandadevine Hmm... Maybe our homophobic President isn't really homophobic. Ever consider that?

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Such a perfect description of our formidable Treasury Secretary. Chapeau!

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

A beautiful little nugget of micro history...

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

Remember, 9/11 was "the day America will never forget". Twenty five years later many of us have forgotten.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@johnrich Mr. Wizard... what a great show that was.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@MissionLoco @KennethRWebster "Exploit our awful divisions", like The Left would never, ever do that... Like they never heard of Rules For Radicals.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@FlakedAndFormed @martinim777 @NateSilver538 MartiniM threw some chum in the water and you bit.
His point is, elections should be fully counted and results announced in a very few hours not multiple days. Banana republic stuff should be a direct pipeline to federal prison.

[NeoTraditional Architecture Memes @VicctorianChad]

Building on the right should be illegal. Building on the left should be aggressively incentivized.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Health Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the LARGEST autism fraud bust in US HISTORY in Minnesota

Initial cost: $38M
Cost this year: $442 MILLION.

"This was organized theft that EXPLOITED the most vulnerable children in America!"

Lay the hammer on these scum!

"This was the cost of the Early Intervention Development Program in 2020. It was $38.1 million. This is what we expected to be paying every year. Instead, this year, it's $442 million!" 🤯

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

RFK Jr. told Tucker Carlson the CDC buried its own internal study showing a 1135% INCREASE in autism risk from hepatitis B vaccination.

The researchers were shocked.

So they covered it up.

How?

“They got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who are TOO YOUNG TO BE DIAGNOSED [with autism],” Kennedy explained.

Imagine discovering evidence of catastrophic harm and making sure no one ever found out.

Then, telling everyone it’s “safe.”

If health authorities are willing to keep a signal this alarming hidden from you, what else are they not telling you about vaccines?

Is it possible that your child’s allergies or chronic immune issues didn’t appear organically, but were triggered by vaccination instead?🧵

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Bo Jackson’s best throw. Maybe the best throw by anyone. Harold Reynolds can’t fathom he’s out and the Mariners coaching staff reacts like the other team after Roy Hobbs knocked the cover off the ball. Unbelievable.

[Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno]

Hard to watch. The lies of the killer, the utter disregard in his voice. The disregard of the police, accepting the lies without question, cuffing someone already immobile, unresisting on the ground, who is telling them he's been stabbed.

The British people are going to have to decide what they want to do about that.

Not just these cops and their commanders, the entirety of British police who have made race both policy and practice to the extent of victimizing the native population, from teenaged rape victims to a boy bleeding out while cuffed. Selectively policing speech, entirely one-sidedly. This is where that goes.

Not just the entirety of their police, but the governing boards and the politicians, political parties that did this.

This didn't happen in a vacuum.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

A long-ish, but but amusingly well-written piece. Though reflecting poorly on both political party's leadership, the essay answers the question, "why did Republicans hit The Panic Button and leave town so suddenly?
https://t.co/vY0gnAs0kR

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@nicksortor It’s not just the money, it’s all the people involved is purchasing, packing, organizing, and hauling these supplies only to abandon them.

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

@AinsworthKeith @LangmanVince @HereforTucker47 George Ryan was a Republican.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Guy makes an insane house for a frog

[Jed Patten Skillman @JedSkillman]

Excellent advice…

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

In response to the many comments about venomous snakes, this video shows how Cheryl and I handled a recent rattlesnake rescue.