@sweatystartup I generally don’t leap on technicalities but I’m wondering what that quote repost incentive here is given that deadlifts don’t place any bar on the back. And I disagree. I’m 50 and deadlifts done right are great. & 80+ yo Twyla Tharp deadlifts 200+ at less than 140lbs.
Last Saturday, we were informed that the state would be responsible for our protection, and we were prohibited from bringing our firearms as they had taken control of our security. Later that night, an assassin stormed the event, exposing the significant security lapses. However, something extraordinary occurred that night that I can’t shake off. The goalpost shifted. The night was deemed a success because the perpetrator failed to reach the president or the cabinet. What?! Look, I don’t believe what transpired on Saturday night at WHCD was the result of a massive conspiracy. I don’t think the law enforcement officers who rushed toward danger were not brave and honorable. Nevertheless, I refuse to accept that this was our best performance. Washington seems content with waiting for us all to move on to the next story. I refuse to move on. Our entire security apparatus demands scrutiny. How many times have we heard after a major casualty event that there were signs that were overlooked? Last Saturday night, they assured us that they had control, but they didn’t. And if you’re going to ask us to surrender our firearms, you better rise to the occasion. They did not.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
It feels wrong that US military members are punished for betting on themselves to successfully carry out military missions, while politicians can bet on themselves through insider trading of companies they govern.
Either ban both of them or allow both of them.
Starlink has done more than any NGO to lift people out of poverty by connecting them with a means of education and a market for their good & services via the Internet
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
Daylight Saving Time is hilarious when you think about it.
Humans: “Let’s move the clocks forward so we get more daylight.”
The sun: literally ignores us and rises at the same time it always would.
All we actually accomplish is losing an hour of sleep and confusing everyone for a week.
How this is still a thing in 2026 is beyond me.
.@POTUS, this is Mayorkas 2.0.
I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley bill.
I want a secure border.
You’re accomplishing that.
Double down on deporting criminal migrants.
It’s what any reasonable citizen wants and voted for.
Ken Paxton has won statewide elections. Talarico is Beto 2.0. Media did endless hype videos and Beto lost. There has had net migration of Republican voters into Texas since then. Cornyn is blocking the SAVE America Act. Cornyn hates Trump and wants to impeach him.
Let’s take these paragraphs in order.
The arguments just haven’t revolved around liberating Iranians. Nothing about that is true. If you look at Trump’s history of comments just on X, it’s almost entirely about Iran either acquiring nukes or trying to kill him.
The benefit to America has been stated over and over, and you’re choosing not to hear it. Iran’s support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthi are dangers to the US for one reason or another. The Houthi shoot at our boats. The latter two have training camps funded by China to the south of us. And since we’re on China, this depletes yet another energy resource for them while we’re in a generational battle for energy dominance. None of this has shit to do with Israel, and it’s been talked about ad nauseam.
Regarding nuclear Iran, you don’t have to have fissile material to make dirty bombs, which even a cursory search of the last few days’ reporting would have told you this is what made the final decision to hit them. Regarding them being “powerless”, their military is. No one thinks the IRGC is going to invade someone, that’s never been discussed by any serious person. But the regime continues to fund transnational terrorism and they tried to kill our president. So no, it’s not hard to argue that their conventional military capabilities are nominal while the country still represents a serious security threat. That’s just not a serious position.
Finally, if it costs republicans 26 and 28, it will be because people on the right are morons. This libertarian/black pill marriage of profound ignorance regarding foreign policy is the loudest idiot in the room right now, and it’s destructive. It was my understanding you weren’t going to attack people on the right, but here you are carving up a policy and action you don’t even understand.