Matthew Uselding

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

Not to get political but whats the point of winning a fifa peace prize if u cant throw ur weight around on a bullshit suspension

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Complete game shutout ✅
Less than 100 pitches ✅
Minimum batters faced ✅
Career-high 15 Ks ✅
Fastest pitch ever by a SP (104.5) ✅

The reaction says it all

[Remember That Dude? @RememberThtDude]

Remember this dude?

Josh Gasser, Wisconsin 2010-2015

#OnWisconsin #Badgers

[Joe Barnard 🚀 @joebarnard]

Now more than ever, it's important that you scroll social media as much as possible! Especially if it's full of something upsetting that you have no power to change. You should use your one wild and precious life to Monitor The Situation

[awnuh♡ @awnuhaha]

“Hitler is bad and I disagree with what he’s doing but we still have no right to intervene because it might lead to civilian casualties” Do you see how stupid that is? That’s exactly what some of u ppl sound like

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

I'm not a fan of the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome," but I genuinely can't think of a more perfect example of it in action.

Let me perfectly clear here: if you're rooting for the Islamic Republic of Iran simply because you hate Donald Trump, you should reassess your life.

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

Khamenei actually was the monster the libs think Trump is, and they still don't get it.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Look, I think the President shouldn't be able to start a war without Congressional authorization. But yes you actually can free people by taking out the leaders who shot 30,000 of them in cold blood when they tried to free themselves.

[Conjecture Institute @ConjectureInst]

"People wring their hands and say that there must be "better ways of finding solutions" than warfare. Of course there are. We have already found them. The nations and people of the West use them all the time. They are openness, tolerance, reason, respect for human rights — the fundamental institutions of our civilisation. But no way of finding solutions is so effective that it can work when it isn't being used. And when a violent group defines itself by its comprehensive rejection of all the values on which problem-solving and the peaceful resolution of disputes depend, and embarks instead on a campaign of unlimited murder and destruction, it is morally wrong as well as factually inaccurate to represent this as a case of our needing "better ways of finding solutions". That is why we have to insist, by force if necessary, that everyone else in the world also respect, and enforce, the minimum standards of civilisation and human rights. Western standards."

~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf (2001)

[AG @AGHamilton29]

I want you to know it’s ok to recognize we are the good guys and to celebrate us taking out the bad guys.

There is a lot of grey in the world. But whether murderous Islamist terrorists deserve to be taken out is not complicated.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

If you call yourself a progressive, and you’re not even a little excited by the prospect of a woman-hating, gay-hating, Jew-hating neanderthal regime that in no way represents the will of its people being crushed, you’re not actually a progressive.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

What a game. What a moment

[@jason @Jason]

Gorsuch on 🎯:

“For those who think it important for the Nation to impose more tariffs, I understand that today’s decision will be disappointing. All I can offer them is that most major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people (including the duty to pay taxes and tariffs) are funneled through the legislative process for a reason.

Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people’s elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man.

There, deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions. And because laws must earn such broad support to survive the legislative process, they tend to endure, allowing ordinary people to plan their lives in ways they cannot when the rules shift from day to day.

In all, the legislative process helps ensure each of us has a stake in the laws that govern us and in the Nation’s future. For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent. For others, it may not seem so obvious. But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today’s result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is."

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The Supreme Court makes plain what should have been obvious: “The power to impose tariffs is “very clearly a branch of the power to tax.”

[Libertarian Party of Louisiana @LouisianaLp]

ICE will murder as many Americans as it takes to keep us safe from from roofers in Home Depot parking lots.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

I’m an immigration restrictionist. I believe that we have the right to remove any and all people who entered our country illegally.

Also, ICE is out of fucking control. A bunch of pussies, drunk on power going around intentionally escalating violent interactions and intimidating US citizens.

They create these tragic situations and after this gigantic show of force, they won’t deport a fraction of the illegals who entered under Biden. This is simply not worth it.

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX