Steve Barker

Retired USDA rangeland management specialist, retired executive director for the Az Association of Conservation Districts, retired natural resource consultant

[Steve Barker @SteveBarkerAz]

Yeats’ The Second Coming - "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

REPOST if you're PROUD to be an American! 🇺🇸

[National Debt Tweets @NationalDebt]

$39,345,340,787,969.72 (+) #NationalDebt

[National Debt Tweets @NationalDebt]

$39,323,731,819,938.67 (+) #NationalDebt

[Digby Furneaux @DFurneaux]

I hate to break it to you all but you've been lied to!
Earth is leaving an ice age.
Earths climate is continually changing and no amount of tax is going to change that.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study of US temperatures from 1899 to 2025 uses 40 million daily records across 1,211 stations and it finds extremes have declined.

The most intense heat remains in the 1930s.

In 1936, about 22% of stations recorded all-time highs, no modern year comes close. Heat waves peak between 1930 and 1944, then drop and only partly recover.

The long-term trend is flat to declining.

Cold extremes also decline, but mostly at night. This is largely a product of urbanization over the decades which traps heat and so lifts overnight lows.

Still, overall the extreme temperature burden is down about 30%. US temperatures are less extreme today, not more.

[Mr raise em right @RaiseEmRightAz]

Where are you @katiehobbs let’s see you do something for a real Arizonan for a change!

[The MillieMeter @themilliemeter]

PLEASE help this man @johnrich!!!

[Kate @kate_p45]

imminent domain is the biggest scam. It takes homes from hardworking Americans.

@ASU should be ashamed of themselves.

Anyone out there that can help?

cc:@johnrich

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BUSTED BIG TIME! 🚨
Democrat Georgia State Rep. Karen Bennett — the loudmouth BLM activist who screamed to DEFUND THE POLICE — just got caught RED-HANDED stealing nearly $14,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits she wasn’t entitled to!
Federal grand jury INDICTED her. She resigned in disgrace, pleaded GUILTY, and got hit with restitution.
Imagine that. A “public servant” who wanted to defund cops… turning around and defrauding taxpayers during a crisis.
Hypocrisy on steroids.
These are the people running your government.
Share this before they memory-hole it! 🔥
#DrainTheSwamp #DemocratCorruption #Busted

[🏜grownwildinAZ🌵 @grownwildinaz]

Hello Arizona 89 yr old being bullied by ASU wTF!!! @FrontlinesTPUSA

[Nancy Cottle @NancyCottle1]

Shame on you @michaelcrow

[The Gateway Pundit @gatewaypundit]

SHAMEFUL: Arizona State University Files EMINENT DOMAIN Lawsuit to SEIZE 124-Year-Old Historic Phoenix Home from 89-Year-Old Senior After He Refused to Sell

READ: https://t.co/flzobasamu

[Maricopa County Libertarian Party @LPMaricopa]

Private Property Rights are paramount, this is clearly government overreach. ASU "expansion" trying to use the gov monopoly of force to take his land and bulldoze his historic house is a terrible violation.

[Rev. Jarrett Barton Maupin, Jr. @ReverendMaupin]

This man is Robert Young. My friend and neighbor of nearly 30 years. He married his wife on the steps of Louis Emerson House. Mr. Young is one of my incredible supporters in the race for Phoenix City Council District 8. His endorsement means more now than ever. He and I have toiled together (literally in the summer sun) in the often thankless and sometimes seemingly impossible vineyard of Historic Preservation - for decades. It is a labor of love, heritage and for the benefit of future generations. If elected to council, I will continue EVEN MORE VIGOROUSLY to support his efforts to save this beautiful and historic home, one of the few examples of mixed Queen Anne and Charles Eastlake design left downtown. The house predates statehood and is built of locally sourced sand brick, baked in the open air over a hundred years ago downtown. It is a box house or box cottage, a rare example of territorial style homes. The only others that come close to comparison are in the Presidio in Tucson. Louis Emerson, who built the house, was a local butcher and happened to be a Republican who opposed segregation and anti-semitism in the pioneer days of Phoenix. The house is the pride of the historic Churchill subdivision. EMINENT DOMAIN is a widely abused practice, particularly in the City of Phoenix. This is elder abuse and an outrage. If this INJUSTICE disturbs you, stand up for Robert Young by voting MAUPIN for Phoenix City Council District 8 and @andybiggs4az for Governor and @votewarren for Attorney General. More to come as we fight fight fight for Brother Young! @johnrich @realDonaldTrump @KariLake

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Eminent Domain Horror in Arizona

ASU is using eminent domain to seize an 89 year old man’s 124 year old home that he’s owned for 50 years. He turned down their $850k offer. Now they’re forcing him out. Just an old man living in peace and the government can still take it.

This is terrifying.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Decay is a choice. DC before vs after:

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Imminent domain is theft. @ASU you should be ashamed.

[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."

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Arizona State University filed to use eminent domain to steal a 124 year old Phoenix home from a senior homeowner

The man who owns it is a 89 year old senior citizen who’s owned the home for 50 years

ASU says they need the land for their downtown health campus

ASU made multiple purchase offers, they’ve offered up to $850,000 for the home. The homeowner keeps refusing. So now they plan to just take the home with eminent domain

If eminent domain goes through he’ll be forced to accept the appraisal price