JohnBrantuk

Occasional eclectic tweets re personal freedom/responsibility, 2nd Amendment, building one's own boat. No annoying tweets re where I happen to be every moment.

[JohnBrantuk @JohnBrantuk]

@TPUSA Add the following:
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Darryl Worley @darrylworley
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Craig Morgan @cmorganmusic
Rockie Lynne @rockielynne
Lee Greenwood @TheLeeGreenwood

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

🚨 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

It’s true, Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show.

Performers and event details coming soon.

2.8.2026

https://t.co/HBHGfXj6yU

[KyleMatthewsCEO @kylematthewsceo]

Last night my oldest son said to me “Dad, me and all my friends are going to wear a coat & tie to school tomorrow.”

At drop off today I realized the entire school was doing it, when effectively every student was wearing a coat and tie.

What I found remarkable was they wore a coat and tie not because the school forced them to, or recommended it, but the student body decided to on their own, out of respect for @charliekirk11.

Admittedly, I did not know much about Charlie Kirk, but he clearly has had a profound impact on young American men.

It appears he really connected with them, and they are very, very sad about what happened.

And while we don’t know who the killer is or the motive, I would bet my dollar that what drove the killer to commit the murder of Charlie Kirk was to “shut him up”, but in the process only created 1,000X more Charlie Kirk’s.

Godspeed Charlie, and my heart aches for his wife and two young children.

[Kathy Tavoularis @KathyTavoularis]

I remember watching Johnny Carson when I was a kid and giggling. Same with Jay Leno. Now all these late night guys are political activists. And mean ones. No more laughs, just down right nasty comments about 1/2 the country. Who wants to watch that when you’re going to bed? #BringBackComedy

[Larry The Cable Guy @GitRDoneLarry]

So 20 yr olds litter the deck of Battleships, 20 yr olds work on submarines. 20 yr olds are in the Army and Marines but Slotkin thinks they’re too stupid to hunt for waste and fraud in Gov. Git outa here with your BS. The dumb ones are the ones that can’t balance the country’s checkbook.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Must be a coincidence 🙄

[M. C. Armstrong @mcarmystrong]

To @TheDemocrats ,

This is my career suicide note, but it’s also a thank you from someone who is done with careerism. I’m a lifelong member of your party and I’m voting for Donald Trump. Why? It’s not just your industrial-scale censorship or your endless wars or the fact that you disenfranchised millions of Kennedy voters through lawfare. If that were all I had, it would be sufficient, in terms of conscience and rage, but there’s more to this story than anger. Your hatred and censorship has taught me to admire @realDonaldTrump and to love my fellow working-class Americans, and for that I thank you.

This vote is for all the traumatized people who have been canceled and banished just for saying no to the establishment. This vote is for the surveyor, the farmer, the HVAC man, the nurse, the hairstylist, the Deadhead, the veteran, and my fellow adjunct professors who have told me their stories about being bullied by the Democrats in their friends and family and their colleagues at work. This is for the young Black woman in my class last year who, on the day of Kamala Harris’s visit to campus, said, “You’re going to hate me, Dr. Armstrong, but I’m not going. I’m voting for Donald Trump.” Why would she think I would hate her for the way she votes? What has happened to our country?

Somehow, Donald Trump has changed my mind. Where I once saw a cartoon white supremacist, warmonger, and narcissist, I now see the man who renegotiated NAFTA and the only president in the twenty-first century not to start a new war. Where I once saw the pal of the neocons, I now see a man who has awoken from his slumber and disavowed Dick Cheney, George Bush, and John Bolton, even as my own party embraces these “men.”

Why has the greatest entrepreneur of my generation (@elonmusk) risked his career to side with Trump? Why has the most consequential grassroots environmentalist of my time (@RobertKennedyJr ) sacrificed friends, family, and reputation to side with “The Orange Menace?” Why has the most courageous peace activist of the twenty-first century (@TulsiGabbard) left our party? Because Tulsi, Bobby, and Elon see what I see. Donald Trump is resilient and he’s risking his life to change the fate of our nation. Trump is transforming the Republican Party into the party of peace, free speech, and the working-class. He has converted George Bush’s billionaire boys club of Big War, Big Ag, and Big Pharma into a party that cares about public health and embraces regenerative agriculture.

Now I don’t think the GOP is all the way there yet, but they’re clearly the party that embraces dissent, and dissent—brave speech—is the fuel for evolution. So, for the first time in my life, I’m voting Republican. In the name of peace in Ukraine and free speech here at home, I’m casting my vote, as a Kennedy Democrat, for Donald Trump.

#TrumpVance2024 #MAGA #MAHA #TeamUnity
#HealTheDivide #Peace #Iraq #Ukraine

[JohnBrantuk @JohnBrantuk]

@HyattConcerts At concert at Hyatt Regency Newport Beach- GREAT concert but getting eaten alive by fleas!
Hyatt please spray amphitheater for fleas/pests!

[JohnBrantuk @JohnBrantuk]

At concert at Hyatt Regency Newport Beach- GREAT concert but getting eaten alive by fleas!
Hyatt please spray amphitheater for fleas/pests!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is brilliant. Very difficult to explain something like this thoroughly and succinctly in less than three minutes. Charlie absolutely nails it.

[Jon Fleischman @FlashReport]

I literally can’t think of a single good thing that comes of the legislature returning to session here in California. Period it just means more regulations, more taxing, more borrowing, less freedom, more corruption. 🤮

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

Disagree. She actually did sleep her way into and upwards in California politics and most women (and men) may learn that and see it for what it is: evidence of an unqualified political aspirant getting ahead based on smthg other than merit. It’s relevant, and fair game.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

First they sued him. Then they prosecuted him. Then they tried to take him off the ballot. The only thing more tragic than what just happened is that, if we’re being honest, it wasn’t totally a shock. Biden’s inevitable ritual condemnation of political violence today (when it comes) will be insufficient and irrelevant. No amount of verbiage today changes the toxic national climate that led to this tragedy.

Apoorva and I mourn for the rally attendee who was apparently killed by the shooter. We believe the fact that President Trump is safe right now is nothing short of an act of God. My heart tells me God intervened not just for Trump, but for our nation. Today, the future survival of the United States of America came down to less than a hair’s width in the path of a bullet.

If any good comes of today, let it be this: Americans just had the chance to see our next President’s true character, unvarnished. He took the fire, he took the hit, he felt the blood, and then he stood right back up for the people he was put here to lead.

Regardless of who you vote for, let’s unite around the TRUTH that what happened today is unacceptable, now and forever. May we all remember Thomas Jefferson’s words 225 years ago:

“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions…And if we feel their power just sufficiently to hoop us together, it will be the happiest situation in which we can exist. If the game runs sometimes against us, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.”

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

You are a disgusting pig who has done as much as any man alive to cast Trump as an evil, non-human demon. SIT THIS ONE OUT HORROR MAN.

[JohnBrantuk @JohnBrantuk]

@elonmuskTN A. YES, YES, YES!!!

[JohnBrantuk @JohnBrantuk]

@elonmuskTN YES!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Dems are in a real conundrum. If Trump is really an evil super villain dictator who wants to destroy our system of government or whatever then assassinating him would be morally justified. But they don’t want to justify this, which means they’re confessing that everything they said about him for ten years was nonsense. They either have to openly defend this assassination attempt or admit that they’re full of shit. There is no good option. They’re screwed.

[PatriotTexan @RQueenjr]

Exactly

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Be careful of Political parties that warn of a threat to Democracy while they themselves arrest their political opponents, work with Tech companies to censor those that disagree with them, allow men in women’s sports & bathrooms, encourage child mutilation surgeries, fire Federal workers & nurses for not getting experimental gene therapies, threaten to expand the Supreme Court and eliminate the Electoral College, cause rampant inflation, increase the cost of groceries by 26 percent, allow 11 million people to illegally cross the border, and push the entire World close to World War III.

[George @BehizyTweets]

BREAKING: Cathie Wood, one of the most influential people in the business world just publicly announced that she'll be voting for Trump and that he had the best economy in history

"Trump or Biden?"

"I am a voter when it comes to economics. And on that basis, Trump."

📷@realMeetKevin