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[Orthodox Ethos @OrthodoxEthos]

Andrew Tate talks masculinity—but Fr. Josiah explains what it really means to be a man ☝️

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Olive 🌸 @OliveEngBulldog]

@TkeeTonya It’s my understanding only poll workers can’t. But, they try to intimidate voters.

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

I asked you to name classic books that are "must reads" with your kids

Here are 15 of the top answers you gave, with brief synopses and discussion lessons from each (save this and reference it with your kids):

[Sarah @SarughG]

@ZubyMusic O Brother , Where Art Thou?

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Here is the Jeffrey Epstein video that VH1 and Paramount Global removed from my profile.

On 2007 VH1 featured Jeffrey Epstein for 15 minutes of their show ‘The Fabulous Life of Billion Dollar Wall Street Ballers’ VH1 referred to Jeffrey Epstein as a "former school teacher turned billionaire." They mentioned Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey, and one of his victims can be seen at the end.

I have restored and resurfaced the entire episode. It has been removed from the internet by Paramount Global, which blocked it on copyright grounds. There is coverage of Epstein from start to finish in this video.

It’s long but worth the trip down memory lane. It was EXTREMELY hard to recover the full video, it goes into his properties, his island, his jet, his companies, and his friends.

I rarely ask, but I would be so thankful if you would please share. I also reviewed the entire video to add important time stamps below.

Must Watch Time Stamps:

10:14 Epstein Jet Loita Express
10:48 Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker
14:02 Epstein’s science and school influence
22:14 Epstein’s Island
24:50 Epstein Island continued
27:49 Epstein’s victim

If I missed an important timestamp, please comment where. Thanks for your trust and support.

[Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley]

maybe it’s just me but i don’t think an attorney general or district attorney should be sending angry tweets out to the people they’re prosecuting

(who are supposed to have a presumption of innocence)

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions… but all along are mile markers.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I don’t know what level of influence I have, but I beg you to do everything within your power — w/ the time we have going into November 7th —

to teach each Republican you know about the elections in KY, MS, NJ, NY, OH, PA, & VA.

We can do this. It’s within our power.

[Reza Chowdhury @RezaC1]

What's happening in NYC today isn't a natural disaster or climate change.

This is a 175-year old sewer system that uses clay pipes that has been neglected for literally over a century.

As of 2014 - "The average age of New York City’s 6,400 miles of sewage mains is approximately 84 years." and that's the average.

Now which politicians is going to fund it and fix it?

It's always easier for our politicians to blame "climate" rather than the serious of decisions that got us here.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

“Today, the man wearing red got on the subway, he opened his folder and started reading. 🧐

A few stops later a man got on and asked him “what are you studying for? You look confused, maybe I can help?”

He said my son just failed a math test, and I am re-studying fractions so I can teach him. I am 42 years old and I don’t remember any of this, so I am reteaching myself.

The guy in the black informed him that he use to be a math teacher, and would help quiz him.

Everything the man in the red got wrong, it was broken down and corrected for him.

By the end of the train ride, the man had a better understanding.

He had a new method to come home with to teach his son.

It’s the little things like this that I love seeing, because most people could care less about what the person next to them is going through.

❤️❤️❤️”

[Justine Wadsack @Wadsack4Arizona]

🛑 ATTENTION TUCSON‼️
🚫Vote NO on Prop 413 🚫
This is an "emergency" to raise the Tucson Mayor's salary from $42K/yr to $180K/yr.

It also gives the City Council members a MASSIVE pay raise from $24K/yr to $144K/yr.

✳️ Go to https://t.co/eXOpQJ2d8n

This is a nearly 500% pay raise with OUR money!! These people are delusional if they think Tucson will give THEM more money while WE THE PEOPLE struggle in a recession!

➡️ Get your "413Facts Arrow" signs and put them next to their "Yes On Prop 413" signs. Go to Conservative Connection located at 1102 S Pantano Rd (22nd & Pantano) in Tucson or contact Bob Dohse on FB.

[Bryan Fetterolf @bryanfetterolf]

@WallStreetSilv Start a squat removal service 😂

https://t.co/mtsUYfdxEH

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

It took me until today to realize Trump's "find votes" audio is a Rupar!

A "Rupar" is a video/audio in which removing one part reverses its meaning.

Trump: “So look, all I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is more than we have because we won the state.”

If you leave out "...we won the state" -- as the media normally does -- it looks like he is asking for fraud. If you include it, he says a recount or better count would find him to be the legitimate winner.

Add it to the list.

Partial Rupar List:

1. Fine People Hoax
2. Drinking Bleach Hoax
3. Overfeeding koi in Japan Hoax
4. Covington Kids Hoax
5. Find Votes Hoax

Once you see the gears of the machine, everything makes sense. Biden ran for office on the #1 Rupar, and won.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

He said it…

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

She even sells “My Friend Tee” shirts https://t.co/xWA4imrPfq

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

As usual @HJoyceGender gets right to the heart of it

[JLWittenbraker @janetfortucson]

Tucson is in crisis, over the last 3 1/2 years crime and homelessness has risen exponentially, our economy is a dumpster fire with a poverty rate of ~24% and our infrastructure is failing. Yet, Tucson Mayor Romero has publicly stated that climate change is her top priority. Vote for common sense, fight crime, stop fentanyl and fix our roads for once. #votewittenbraker
https://t.co/A32Y3wyN28

[Abby Libby @abbythelibb_]

I said I was 170 pounds earlier, and some of you were shocked. You know what I look like, you've seen this photo before, but so many comments on that tweet were: I think you meant 120. No! I haven't been 120 since before I finished puberty and hit my full height. I'm 5'8," and I have boobs, OF COURSE I'M NOT 120. But you wouldn't know that because women don't talk about our weight. I was 140 in college, very skinny, and just starting to work out and put on muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat. I carry more fat at the moment than I'd like to, but I'm nowhere near overweight or unhealthy. I can run or swim a couple miles no problem and pull 210 pounds off the floor. Of course I'm 170 pounds! Even as I hopefully lose some fat, I don't want to lose weight. Why is it that men feel insecure if they're too light (because that means no muscles), but women feel insecure if we're over 100 pounds? I WANT MUSCLES TOO. The body positivity/fat acceptance movement is a terrible lie, but SO IS the "traditional" model look. Those photos of old Budweiser and Calvin Klein ads that have been floating around in juxtaposition to the new fat girl ads are just as unhealthy. Those rail-skinny girls are on drugs to achieve that look. They have eating disorders. They're at higher risk of heart attack than your average chubby girl. THEY ARE NOT HEALTHY, and we used to be honest about this. I'm tired of Conservatives pretending skinny model hot=healthy to make political points on the internet. I'm 170 pounds. I'm not perfect, but by no metric am I unhealthy. As long as our rhetoric is full of just as many misconceptions and lies as the body positivity movement, we won't beat it, and we don't deserve to.