OK, for those of you who are not NFL fans, please allow me to identify the folks involved here:
1. Jaxson Dart is the second year quarterback of the New York Football Giants. He is from Utah, graduated from Ole Miss, and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Yesterday he introduced President Trump at a political rally in New York, not too far from New York City.
2. Abdul Carter is a second year edge rusher for the New York Football Giants. He is from Philadelphia and graduated from Penn State. He is a devout Muslim who prays to Allah on the field before games, and is extremely open about his faith in and out of the locker room. When Carter saw that his teammate had the temerity to accept the honor of introducing President Trump, he ripped him on X.
3. Both Carter and Dart were 1st Round draft picks last year, and both had strong rookie seasons. Giants’ ownership and management hopefully consider them to be the cornerstones of a team-wide revival to be led by new head coach John Harbaugh (a Super Bowl winner with the Baltimore Ravens and also someone who is not afraid to meet with President Trump). (That optimism exists even though Carter could not stay awake in team meetings last season.)
So with that background in mind, I have this to say to Abdul Carter:
Muslim terrorists destroyed a large swathe of New York City in the name of Allah, yet you are accepted on your team and in NYC, and no one challenges your beliefs or your right to express them. So how about you shut the fudge up, focus on learning how to sack the QB at the NFL level, learn how to stay awake in team meetings, and stop tearing your team apart when your teammate is given the honor of introducing the President of the United States of America?
This is a free country. You are free to worship a deity that enslaves women, and Dart is free to say hello to the President. How about you just accept that, Abdul?
Deal?
RE: Data Republican
I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well.
But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman.
You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you.
For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned.
This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected.
These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness.
Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible.
It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST.
You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under.
And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR.
I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall.
For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding.
An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear.
But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out.
Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense."
If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them.
This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President.
Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is.
I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that.
One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.
🧵THREAD: Iranian influence in US far-left protests
A Jewish rapper got beaten bloody at a Khamenei vigil in Washington Square Park. What happened next exposed something much bigger: a documented pipeline connecting Iran's sanctioned state TV directly to far-left protest organizers on American soil.
The receipts are extraordinary.
As always, patience as I pull the thread together. 👇
this isn’t exclusive to climate hysteria. this can happen with every issue the left claims to care about. because “the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution”
This is the Declaration of Independence — written in plain English so everyday Americans can understand the foundation of their freedom.
In 1776, a group of ordinary people made one of the boldest statements in human history.
They declared that all people are created equal.
That no king… no government… no ruler… gives you your rights.
You are born with them.
Among those rights are three that changed the world:
Life — the right to exist and live freely.
Liberty — the right to make your own choices.
The pursuit of happiness — the right to build a life that fulfills you.
Government is created for one primary reason:
To protect those rights.
Not to control your life.
Not to silence your voice.
Not to grow more powerful than the people it serves.
And here is one of the most important ideas ever written:
Government only has power because the people allow it to.
This is called the consent of the governed.
Take that consent away…
and government loses its legitimacy.
But the Declaration goes even further.
It says when a government repeatedly abuses its power…
when it stops protecting freedom…
when it becomes a threat to the very rights it was meant to defend…
The people have the right to change it.
Even abolish it.
Not over small disagreements.
Not over temporary problems.
But when there is a clear pattern of tyranny — a steady erosion of freedom.
The American colonies did not rush to rebellion.
For years, they tried peace.
They petitioned the king.
They asked for fairness.
They appealed to reason.
They were ignored.
Instead, they faced:
Laws forced on them without representation.
Their local governments dissolved.
Judges controlled by the crown.
Standing armies placed among civilians.
Taxes imposed without their consent.
Trade restricted.
Trial by jury denied.
Over and over, their rights were pushed aside.
It became clear that the government meant to protect them… was instead controlling them.
So the colonies embraced a radical idea — one that reshaped the future:
Power does not flow from rulers down to the people.
It flows from the people up to their government.
Always.
With that belief, they made a decision that would change history forever.
They declared themselves free and independent states.
No longer subjects of a distant king.
No longer bound to a throne.
But a new nation built on a revolutionary principle:
Freedom is not granted by government.
It is recognized by it.
And the men who signed the Declaration understood the risk.
To put their names on that document was to commit treason.
The punishment was death.
Yet they signed anyway.
Because they believed some truths were worth risking everything for.
The Declaration of Independence is more than an old document.
It is a reminder.
Freedom is not the natural state of the world.
Self-government is rare in human history.
Both must be understood.
Both must be protected.
Both must be defended.
That was true in 1776.
And it is just as true today.
Stop telling men to be nice.
Nice men will get you killed; from the individual up to the societal level.
Men are, and should be, aggressive and dangerous, especially if we want to endure what is coming.
Men should also be honorable, trustworthy, consistent, disciplined, and capable of compassion, kindness, and mercy.
Nice is bullshit. Nice will get you killed. And that’s why almost all of the men have been mentally/emotionally/physically/spiritually/educationally/financially neutered.
You follow Christ? Great! He has a sword, and uses it; read Revelation 19.
It’s going to take warriors to weather the coming storm. So stop telling men to be nice. Nice men do not adopt inordinate amounts of risk, up to and including the loss of their own lives for the preservation of yours.
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