Michael Padykula

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

Scope of SPLC's deeply embedded influence training teachers nationwide uncovered in sweeping report https://t.co/UoshWu3ghU #FoxNews

[Stacey @ScotsFyre]

@GadSaad @PatriarchTree

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The Scorpion and the Frog fable. Learn it. Memorize it.

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@Handre Really pay attention to this flagrant abuse of a population by a socialist government. Super example.

[Wake GOP @wakegop]

Congratulations @LukeFarleyNC !

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@GadSaad Netherlands should stamp out that gather immediately. Obviously general antisemitism.

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@SloanRachmuth Trump needs to remember that advice.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

First they come for the Saturday people then they come for the Sunday people…

[MAGA Posts @MAGAPosts]

Hmm I wonder why?

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hey everyone,

Don't forget to take a moment to laugh at Elizabeth Warren.

[Asaad Sam Hanna @asaadhanna]

This is the Lebanese singer Moeen Charif participating in the funeral of Khamenaei.
Few years ago he came to the US with his pregnant wife to get his new born baby American citizenship.
Next month he has a party in Michigan, so he holds either a Green Card or visa. And going out there chanting death to America and Israel”
@SecRubio @DHSgov @SenMullin

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@Jurek65182418 Xavier is absolutely inaccurate.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

An Atlanta judge let a man WALK OUT OF JAIL EARLY for BEATING a woman's face so badly, he SHATTERED HER ORBITAL BONE on a public train...

...TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS RELEASE, HE ST*BS A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON WALKING PATH!!!

HE GOES ON TO ASSAULT A POSTAL WORKER WITH A ROCK BEFORE HE IS CAUGHT BY POLICE...

In January, Jahmare Brown got on top of and beat a female attorney as she stepped off a MARTA train to go to work in Atlanta... he broke her NOSE and then shattered her ORBITAL BONE.

She needed 25 STITCHES.

...MARTA Police charged it as a MISDEMEANOR!!!

The incident report DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE BROKEN BONES.

Brown was sentenced to 120 days... but he was released early, and only served 60.

He was out in MARCH!!!!!

Two months later, he beat a postal worker with a ROCK and st*bbed Alyssa Paige to de*th at noon on the Atlanta Beltline.

If Brown had served the full 120 days the court gave him, he would have STILL BEEN IN JAIL the day he k*lled her.

Alyssa Paige would be alive.

STOP. LETTING. VIOLENT. OFFENDERS. OUT. OF. PRISON!!!!!!!!!!

WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@mattvanswol We have huge problems with our judiciary largely caused by Democrats.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Marcus Aurelius – the most reasonable guy from 19 centuries ago. Perhaps because Rome was roughly at the stage at which we find ourselves now.

He was the most powerful man in the world. He wrote the Meditations — his private journal, never intended for publication — to remind himself, daily, not to abuse that fact. Nineteen centuries later it reads less like ancient philosophy than like a letter from someone who understood exactly where we are now.

1. The Meditations were never meant to be read. This is what makes them the most trustworthy document in Western philosophy. No audience, no performance, no system to defend. Just a man at the top of the world’s greatest empire writing notes to himself about how not to become what power usually makes of people. Every other philosopher was constructing an argument. Marcus was conducting a daily inspection of his own character.

2. He ruled at the precise moment Rome peaked and began its long decline. Plague, barbarian pressure on every frontier, economic strain, institutional decay. He spent more of his reign on military campaigns in the mud (remember Gladiator?) than in philosophical contemplation in Rome – which was not what he wanted, and which he did anyway, because duty is not contingent on preference. This is the core Stoic move, and it is the opposite of everything the modern therapeutic culture teaches.

3. His central question is not “what do I feel?” It is “what is required of me?” The distinction sounds simple. It is civilizational. A culture organized around the first question produces Brave New World. A culture organized around the second produces the Pax Romana – and eventually, when it forgets the question, produces what comes after the Pax Romana.

4. You cannot control events. You can only control your response to them. This sounds like a self-help aphorism and is actually a load-bearing philosophical principle. It means: stop organizing your life around the management of outcomes you cannot guarantee, and start organizing it around the quality of the person and the decisions doing the managing. The Stoics called this the inner citadel – the one thing no external force can touch, the one thing worth defending absolutely.

5. He catalogued power’s corruptions with the precision of a man who felt them daily. The temptation to be flattered. The temptation to surround yourself with people who agree. The temptation to confuse your position with your worth. He wrote these down not as warnings to others but as active resistance to his own tendencies. The most powerful man in the world was more worried about becoming a fool than about any barbarian on any frontier. He was right to be.

6. His son Commodus was his civilizational failure – the thing he could not fix. The philosopher-emperor who spent his life practicing virtue produced an heir who made the gladiatorial games his primary occupation and declared himself a living god. No philosophy of personal virtue, however rigorous, solves the succession problem. Institutions must outlast the men who build them or they are not institutions – they are personalities.

7. Rome in Marcus Aurelius’s time was roughly where the West is now: still dominant, still functioning, already hollowing out from within – the institutions still standing, the spirit that built them quietly departing. He saw it. He wrote about it. He held the line for as long as one man could hold a line, knowing that after him came what came after him. His last entry in the Meditations might as well have been written this morning: begin the morning by telling yourself – today I will meet people who are ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, envious, and unsocial. They are this way because they cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the good and the beautiful, and I will not be made into them. He failed to save Rome. He left us the notes on how to try.

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

@Handre We need to see more of these clear explanations on the failures of socialism. Thank you.

[Handre @Handre]

Socialism has a body count, and it keeps meticulous records of everything except the graves.

The Soviet Union starved roughly 5 million people in the Holodomor of 1932-33 while exporting grain to prove the collective farm worked. Mao's Great Leap Forward killed between 30 and 45 million between 1958 and 1962, mostly by ordering peasants to smelt their cooking pots into useless pig iron. Cambodia under Pol Pot emptied its cities in 1975 and murdered a quarter of the population with hoes to save bullets. North Korea runs a hereditary monarchy that dresses in Marxist costume and let 3 million citizens starve in the 1990s while the Kim family bought cognac by the case.

Venezuela sat on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth and still engineered inflation of 1,000,000 percent by 2018, leaving surgeons scavenging dumpsters and toddlers dying of measles that vaccines had erased decades earlier. Zimbabwe seized productive farms in 2000 to correct historical grievance and turned the breadbasket of Africa into a nation printing 100-trillion-dollar notes worth nothing. Cuba froze its economy in 1959 and now displays 1958 Chevrolets not as nostalgia but as the only cars anyone can keep running. East Germany built a wall in 1961, then shot the people who tried to leave the workers' paradise, which tells you everything about who the paradise served.

Notice a pattern? Central planners cannot calculate what prices communicate. They compensate for that blindness with barbed wire. The intellectuals who designed these systems never suffered under them. Walter Ulbricht did not queue for bread. Nicolás Maduro does not eat from the trash. The state promises to abolish scarcity and delivers only the scarcity of freedom.

Every one of these regimes began with a moral claim: that men with guns could allocate resources more justly than free people trading voluntarily. Every one ended by pointing those guns at the citizens it swore to liberate. The coercion was the design working perfectly.

You were told these were accidents. They were the design.

[Michael Whatley @WhatleyNC]

The Toler family lost their little girl Callie last week when an illegal immigrant with 3 prior deportations blew through a stop sign and crashed into her family’s car in Pitt County, NC.

This never would have happened if Roy Cooper and Joe Biden had not opened our borders wide open, allowed millions of illegal immigrants into this country and fought every effort to deport them.

The Toler family remains in my prayers during this heartbreaking time.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Roy Cooper will be a rubber stamp for the radical left in the U.S. Senate.

👉 Will Raise Your Taxes
👉 Belives in Open Borders
👉 Embrace Radical Gender Ideology
👉 Release Convicted Criminals

North Carolina doesn’t deserve this.

[Michael Padykula @MikeLeConte4evr]

Trump calls terrorist Iranian a ‘cancer.’ Is he finally the one to remove it? https://t.co/RQ6QZdRlbX #FoxNews