Matt

[Matt @Matt__Sickler]

Hey @MCO your website shows several parking garages open right now, but they’re all closed. Almost missed a flight bc we relied on your site to be updated. Be better.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[Matt @Matt__Sickler]

@drinkonsaturday I miss this guy a ton

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

You know what would prevent this? Not having federal employees with full taxpayer funded benefits and a retirement package doing the screening at airports.

The Overton Window has shifted so much that most people just accept the way to "fix" this is for congress to fund the TSA.

Well I'm old enough to remember when every airport had private companies contracted for screening and this was never an issue.

Some airports, San Fransisco for example, still have a private company doing the screening and operations there haven't been impacted.

Fly accordingly...

#CityLife #flying #TSA #houston #airport #government #democrats

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

Mr @NYCMayor,

I say it as an Iranian New Yorker: You are a human garbage.
When our people were getting slaughtered and hunted like animals by the Islamic Republic terrorists, you stayed silent. You didn't say a word. Now that the regime, the murderers of our people are under attack, you came out of the woodwork to defend them.
You are an Islamist human garbage and I fight your agenda as long as I breathe.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

UPDATE: To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC you must present two forms of ID, plus a social security card 😱

[Matt @Matt__Sickler]

@NiallHarbison

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Barack Obama: “The Bush administration has done nothing to control the problem that we have. We’ve had 5 million undocumented workers come over the borders since George Bush took office.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

FLASHBACK to 2006, when Amy Klobuchar said she wanted a border wall. Why? Well - she argued that illegal aliens shouldn’t be let into the country while legal immigrants wait in line.

She also said companies hiring illegals must be prosecuted for it.

Imagine how that would go over with her people in Minnesota today.
Watch this

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Let me get this straight:

1. prior administrations deported millions of people, and riots were basically nonexistent

2. the moment trump took office, a coordinated campaign by politicians/legacy media *directly called for resistance to ICE*

3. once riots happen and people are die, the spotlight shifts to stopping deportations and defunding ICE

If this was such a crime against humanity, why did no one riot in 2024?

The intention behind the unrest is NOT empathy.

Empathy is being manufactured on false grounds to achieve political aims. And people are getting hurt.

[James Klüg @jamesklug]

Hey just so you know, leftists are going to riot for the entire time that a Republican is president for the rest of your life

So you better get tough and get used to it

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Photo 1: A man Barack Obama gave the Presidential Rank Award for deporting illegals.

Photo 2: A man the Left calls a Nazi for deporting illegals.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚨I DIDNT WANT to do it BUT I have too.

You didn’t see this yet.

The narrative that “he was just filming and the officers got angry” is false.

The narrative that he was only trying to protect two women is also false.

He, along with others, was actively interfering with a legitimate law-enforcement operation. That is why officers moved them off the street.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

When officers attempted to detain him, he resisted arrest.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

He was armed and chose to insert himself into an active enforcement operation while resisting arrest.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

An agent called out the presence of a firearm. During the attempt to secure it, the weapon discharged before the agent could declare the scene clear. Other officers, hearing a gun call and a gunshot while a suspect was resisting arrest, reacted according to their training.

From their perspective, they were confronting an armed individual resisting arrest. That is why, immediately after the shooting, one officer urgently asked where the firearm was. He believed he had just engaged an armed suspect, because that is precisely the situation as it appeared in real time.

He did not deserve to die. However, his actions, his decisions, and his criminal interference were contributing factors, alongside serious failures by the officers involved.

I believe the shooting was unnecessary. I believe there were many alternative ways the situation could have been handled. I do not believe the officers were truly under lethal threat.

Recklessness on all sides resulted in a man losing his life.

Approximately 23 percent of ICE activity occurs in Texas, yet we do not see these outcomes there. Minnesota accounts for roughly 2 percent of ICE operations, yet has seen multiple shootings involving American citizens.

The difference is organized resistance. Blue states have coordinated efforts designed to insert civilians into active ICE operations to interfere intentionally and directly.

Interfering with law-enforcement operations is illegal, and it is dangerous. This is how people get killed.

Resisting arrest is illegal, and it is dangerous. This is how people get killed.

Within the Second Amendment community, there is a common saying: “I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.” It refers to choosing survival over moral victory.

That same principle applies to interactions with law enforcement.

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be alive?

Make smart decisions when dealing with law enforcement. Survive the encounter. Then take the fight to court. Use every lawful platform available to expose misconduct. Name departments, supervisors, and officers. Demand accountability through evidence and process.

But interfering with an active operation, resisting arrest, and doing so while armed creates a predictable and deadly outcome.

Was it legal for him to be armed? Yes.

Should citizens carry lawfully? Yes.

Is it profoundly reckless to interfere with law enforcement and resist arrest while armed? Absolutely.

When we carry firearms, we accept greater responsibility. That responsibility was neglected here.

It is possible to support immigration enforcement while condemning reckless policing.

It is possible to criticize law enforcement while also acknowledging the dangerous behavior of civilians.

It is possible to recognize complexity, rapid escalation, human error, and shared responsibility in a fast-moving situation.

He did not have to die.

Liberty only survives when it operates within order.

Nothing about this situation was orderly.

When order collapses, lives are lost.

He did not have to die.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

@StephenM It's called 'stochastic terrorism', and it's used to incite violence against you.

Joseph Stalin pioneered this technique in Communist Russia.

Not enough people are familiar with this term, but it's straight out of the Communist playbook.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

I’ve sat through over 50 hours of Charlie Kirk’s videos as an ethnically Black American.

Not one racist word.

Not 1.

What Democrats do is cut snippets, strip context, and shove sound bites at the same gullible slob audience too lazy to fact-check.

That isn’t exposing racism .. it’s manufacturing lies to spark division.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

No one banned Jimmy Kimmel from every major social media app.
That happened to Trump.

No one conspired to put Jimmy Kimmel in jail.
That happened to Trump.

No one fired a bullet at Jimmy Kimmel.
That happened to Trump.
And Charlie.

What happened to Kimmel is that his corporate employer decided he was no longer a profitable figurehead for its product distributed over the public airwaves.

That's it.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I enjoyed dinners with Charlie, but worried for his safety. The left says they want “national conversations.” Charlie Kirk actually did just that. In the lion’s den, no less, at left leaning venues, hoping facts and common sense would prevail.

And they murdered him for it.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

When Democrats threaten your life, believe them.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Notice how conservatives are very angry about Iryna’s killing and yet there are no shop owners boarding up their windows in preparation for mass rioting and looting. As a leftist, how do you not look at this fact and come to the realization that you are definitely the bad guys?

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

America will never be the same.