SenSei Roshi

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1789, James Madison stood up in Congress and proposed the Bill of Rights.

What most people don't know: he thought it was a terrible idea.

Madison had spent years publicly arguing that a Bill of Rights was pointless, even dangerous. His logic was actually sharp. If you list specific rights, you imply those are the ONLY rights people have. What about the ones you forgot to write down?

So he didn't want to write it.

Then Patrick Henry ruined his life.

Henry was the most powerful political operator in Virginia and he despised Madison. He personally blocked Madison from the Senate. Then he redrew Madison's Congressional district to guarantee he'd lose that race too.

Madison was cornered. So during the brutal winter campaign of 1788-1789, he made a public promise: vote for me and I will personally deliver a Bill of Rights in the first Congress.

He won by 336 votes.

Here's the part that should blow your mind: Henry didn't even want a Bill of Rights. He thought it was too small. What Henry actually wanted was a second constitutional convention that would gut federal power entirely, strip Congress's ability to tax, claw back its war powers, fundamentally restructure the whole government.

So Madison wrote a Bill of Rights he didn't believe in, to defeat a man who didn't want it either.

Then Henry spent the next two years trying to block Virginia from ratifying the very amendments Madison had just written.

The First Amendment. The Fourth. The Fifth. The right against self-incrimination. The protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

All of it traces back to a petty political feud in 1788 Virginia.

History isn't made by visionaries with a plan. It's made by stubborn men backed into corners.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

My sister lives in Los Angeles.

She's a Democrat but voted for Spencer Pratt.

I was with her when she dropped her ballot in the mail weeks ago.

We checked today and it hasn't been received back.

Are they just TOSSING ballots for Spencer Pratt?

[Zack Peter @zackpeter]

So Nithya Raman has officially beat Spencer Pratt?? In what world… 🤨

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[David Asman @DavidAsmanfox]

As someone who covered the region for a dozen years for the WSJ, and reported in astonishment how even under conservative Pres Ronald Reagan USAID was funding socialist projects in Latin America, I can assure you that this is 💯 accurate.

[Anna 🇺🇸 @realAnn_29]

Can you imagine? Obama spent $35 million and two years on the Lincoln Reflecting Pool… it still leaked 16 million gallons a year and stayed murky.

President Trump fixed it in just two months for about $14 million, now it's crystal clear, beautiful blue, and the ducks are having the time of their lives.

The Builder President gets it done! Thank you .@POTUS 🇺🇸

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Investigative journalist Lara Logan Drops BOMBSHELL, Says U.S. Went After Maduro Because They Rightly Knew Venezuela RIGGED The 2020 Election with Iran and the CCP, Claims an EYEWITNESS Is In Custody...

“Venezuela stole the election from Trump, working with Iran, the CCP, and others. We know a lot of the details because there’s a very senior Venezuelan sitting in prison who was actually an eyewitness to the theft.”

“You want to know why President Trump doesn’t get the support he needs from a country like Spain? The cartel in Venezuela that runs the country, Cartel de los Soles, selected the Spanish Prime Minister. Why does America get all this heat from all over the world? The globalist-Marxist-Islamist alliance that uses these cartels as its army all work together.”

“The election in LA isn’t about one enemy, it’s about all of America’s enemies working together.”

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is insane

New 2026 House Oversight Committee hearing reveals a whistleblower inside USPS says there are so many drivers with non-domiciled CDLs, it isn’t feasible to stop the practice

Meaning there are so many illegal drivers the USPS does business with, it doesn’t make practical sense to not work with them

“We've also got recording — who's the VP of Transportation Strategy at USPS. Who has said, quote, "We didn't understand the magnitude of how many people are using non-domiciled CDLs," suggesting that attempted to stop this practice but realized that there are too many drivers who are using these non-domiciled CDLs, so it wasn't, I guess, practicable to enforce that particular ruling”

These drivers could be illegals, non-English speakers, immigrants drivers without proper paperwork

I did some research and found that of these CDLs, about 200,000 of them were issued to ILLEGALS

These are people who don’t speak English and shouldn’t be here, driving on our roads

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Well an 18 year old thug shot a rideshare person, Took their car and made errands and got her hair done then cries when Punishment is handed down.

[Andrew Branca Show @TheBrancaShow]

About that school shooting lie:

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

For those dismissing the possibility of fraud in CA vote, please remember that key protections we're told are built into the law turn out to be vaporous in practice:

--'You need to sign it' .... A mark or slash will do.
--'We check those signatures.' ... LA election workers told @jenlynncallahan they don't. https://t.co/svWWKDd6gu
--'Must be postmarked by Election Day' ... No! Fine print in regs lets voters self-date.
--'Ballot "harvesters" must sign the ballot envelope!' ... But the ballot's still counted if they don't.

All this doesn't mean there was fraud. Still ...

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 19-year-old Coast Guard Gunner’s Mate Frank DeVita manned a Higgins boat in the first wave at Omaha Beach. He made 15 trips ferrying troops in and bringing out the wounded and dead over 18 brutal hours.

In one moment that haunted him: A soldier’s helmet blown off by machine gun fire, part of his brain gone. The young man lay dying at Frank’s feet, crying “help me.”

No morphine. All Frank could do was hold his hand, start the Lord’s Prayer, and let him know he wasn’t alone as he passed.
Frank kept the horror inside for 70 years, then spoke for the brothers who never made it home. He passed in 2022 at 96.

This is the Greatest Generation. Real men. Real sacrifice. We remember. 🇺🇸

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

BREAKING UPDATE: Michigan DoorDash driver who publicly admitted refusing to deliver an order to a customer displaying an Israeli flag has had their account deactivated for violating DoorDash’s community guidelines.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

You won’t believe this!!!

Traveling in America is awesome, you don’t have to worry about being robbed, murdered, raped or even hi-jacked like in South Africa!

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Colonial powers built extensive modern infrastructure in places that had only had hunter-gatherer tribes or rudimentary subsistence agriculture prior to their arrival.

Since their departures, the last of which were about 50 years ago, over $60 billion in development aid has been sent to Africa every year, totaling around $1.5 trillion in foreign aid to the continent.

Huge amounts of that money are lost to waste and graft. Infrastructure that is built by international groups in Africa is rarely maintained and is often stripped and looted for scrap.

In 1960, South Korea was basically Gaza; razed by war with a GDP per-capita lower than that of Ethiopia. Today, South Korea’s GDP per capita is five times higher than that of South Africa, the richest Subsaharan country, and about 30 times Nigeria’s.

You can’t blame colonialism for everything forever. At some point, Africa has to take responsibility for its own failures.

[Pepe Deluxe 🐸 @deluxe_pepe]

My thoughts and prayers are with the Metcalf family. They’ve had to bury their son and then witness his character assassination from people who did not know him or them. I’m glad that all the witnesses knew and loved the twins.. called them great leaders and brothers. I pray that justice will prevail and that this will be the beginning of the healing that needs to occur. I know we will always have the wicked amongst us but our job as salt and light is to preserve life and lead the way. We do that through telling the uncompromising truth. #JusticeForAustin

Kimberly Blakes

https://t.co/wyAkiWUyfR

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The system is rotten

[SenSei Roshi @ODTrooper]

Supreme Court overturns ruling on Biden-era furnace rules in win for natural gas groups https://t.co/QX1ILPnjX7 via @JustTheNews

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

And the Democrats are bitching about this…

Make it make sense, please.

Happy Birthday America! Thank you for all you’ve blessed me with! 🙏🇺🇸❤️

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

DC liberals complain that they miss the old color of the Reflecting Pool (algae green):