90 Degrees

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[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

All the worst people you know agree on one thing.

The far Left, the groyper Right, and Iranian state television are all celebrating the death of Lindsey Graham. Same posts. Same glee. The horseshoe has become a wedding ring.

Lindsey Graham spent 33 years in uniform, half a century in public service, and his last 48 hours on earth in Kyiv standing up for the free world. His enemies spent the day proving exactly why he fought them.

RIP.

[90 Degrees @RightAngleQC]

@EL4USA @amyklobuchar got it right

https://t.co/zQDU5gvpPe

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

It was a shock this morning to find out that my friend Lindsey Graham has died. He was a man who loved his work, his country, and his family. He didn’t have an easy life growing up and to me that explained a lot about him as well as his devotion to his remaining family members including his sister. It also explained his almost kid-like exuberance about his job and the responsibilities he was given (even in his sixties he would get off a plane in a foreign land with a twinkle in his eye and look at me as if to say, can you believe we are actually here and doing this?).

Lindsey was loyal to friends and causes. He was willing to work on gnarly issues and take on (at times) political risks for the right reasons. It is fitting that he died shortly after visiting Ukraine, one of those causes he would stand up for through thick and thin.

Much will be said in the coming days about his relationships with others—President Trump and John McCain for instance—but what can’t be forgotten is the reason why so many people he worked with—from senators to staff—will mourn his loss: Lindsey had a zest for life and the Senate that made you want to get to work on a bill with him or at least debate him. He brought joy to his job.

Lindsey Graham was the one who was willing to work with me (when so few would) on helping the Afghan refugees. I remember standing outside of a little phone booth in the Republican cloakroom last year as he spoke with the Vice President, holding up a sign that said “Save the Afghans” and he put the phone on hold and said “OK OK I will go on your bill even if it gets me in trouble.” Or his early willingness to lead on big tech bills, including repealing the provision that protects them from consumer suits.

But mostly my fond memories of spending time with Lindsey (and we travelled the world with John McCain) was not about the ups and downs of his policy positions. It was about his love for the world, his loyalty to hard causes and his friends, and the pure joy he brought to life. I will miss him.

[90 Degrees @RightAngleQC]

@mattvanswol @mywitsendalso It was a heart attack. Please stop the conspiracy theories.

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@GovernorVA Can you be more specific? We want results-oriented solutions not generalities.

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@MarkWarner Serve himself? He’ll be gone in two years. Seems like it will serve quite a few other presidents.

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@OnlyHearSeeHate @FoxNews

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@GovernorVA Yes! While most of the world (including Europe) maintains a 12-13 week abortion limit, in Virginia, you can kill a viable baby at 26 weeks.

[Oldphart In Florida @OldphartFlorida]

@Dana55692117 @MAGAVoice

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@catturd2 @Keir_Starmer You’re welcome!

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@MotherJones Untaxable? Elon’s companies have paid billions in corporate taxes - not to mention the nearly 1 million jobs his companies have created.

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@DougMoore659499 @mattvanswol @buggirl Envy and pride – the wholesome values of the Left.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[90 Degrees @RightAngleQC]

@JenKiggans It’s all word salad. Her responses are never specific… always vague and obfuscatory.

[Last Coin Standing @LastCoinStandng]

@DefiantLs >90% of government should not exist:

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@RealCandaceO Every day, 1500 young Russian men die on the battlefield because of Putin‘s malfeasance. Light a candle for them and their families.

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@libsoftiktok It’s a violation of the first amendment to force people to use pronouns. This guy won his lawsuit. These nurses should sue. https://t.co/9HaOSjejdm

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[Damon Imani @damonimani]

A sitting U.S. Senator just casually called half of Americans 'hateful and divisive' on air... while promoting unity.
I had to jump in!

[90 Degrees @RightAngleQC]

@GovernorVA Assaults and deaths threats are also due to the widespread doxxing of agents’ personal information online.

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@GovernorVA ICE agents face significantly escalating threats: an 8,000% increase in death threats & a 1,300% surge in physical assaults. Federal agencies attribute this surge to radicalized rhetoric from sanctuary politicians.