Texas Barner

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[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@varadmehta No they're saying under 30 makes up 19% of the overall registered voters, not likely voters

[Possy @TURBOPOSSUM]

Counterpoint: "International Law" is just how we explain the United States Navy to children and invalids, and the Navy ain't gonna do anything to stop him.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

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[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

No country on Earth assimilates better than America. These are football obsessed 2nd gen immigrant kids wearing cowboy hats, crushing beers, throwing up horns, and celebrating one of the greatest comebacks in school history.

THIS is why America rules the world.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

On September 11, 2001, the US military arsenal contained more than 200 strategic bombers, 2,100 fighter jets, 10,500 nuclear warheads, and 550 ICBMs. We could have flattened all of Afghanistan and Pakistan with 1% of our firepower. A rounding error.

Any other great civilization in human history, given the same wealth of military resources, would not have hesitated to do so. Caesar would have completed it before sundown; Sulla would have laughed you out of the Roman Forum (or worse) for even broaching the idea of restraint.

But not the United States. Despite the horrific barbarism we had suffered on our shores, we—more than any great power heretofore in mankind’s history—made every effort to avoid harming civilians and minimize collateral damage. Even when it was to the detriment to our own martial efficacy; even when it meant prioritizing the lives of Afghan locals over American troops.

Then, we did something even more unprecedented: We spent 20 years rebuilding the country that had housed the monsters who murdered our own people. Two decades of grueling deployments for hundreds of thousands of our troops, at an unfathomable cost of blood and treasure. More than 2,000 precious lives lost; $2 trillion of taxpayer funds sent to the most backward country on the planet, an investment never to pay us any return.

America is the greatest country on earth, and the US military is the most morally righteous fighting force ever to march the globe. Keep the aftermath of 9/11 in mind any time someone tells you otherwise.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Trump: "let Data Reign"

Goes hard.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Everyone is posting the map of states they would or wouldn’t live in. Here’s mine.

I would rather live in any random state in America than anywhere else on the planet. I’m not exaggerating.

This is the greatest country in the world, and each one of our 50 states is a unique, wonderful place to build a life for oneself, raise a family, and contribute to one’s community.

Red or blue, north or south, landlocked or coastal, colony in New England or island in the Pacific, none of the matters compared to our shared citizenship in the greatest nation this world has ever seen.

We’re all blessed to be here as fellow countrymen. Every acre of this land is sacred, every inch is worth fighting for, and every one of our states is a place I’d be grateful to call my home. There’s literally nowhere else in the world I could even imagine raising my family.

I love this country, and I love all my fellow Americans. I hope each of you has a great weekend, no matter which of these 50 states you call home.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Signing a surrender document while meeting with the French President is a little too on the nose…

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Tons of good nuggets in this Susan Collins profile, but I'll be thinking of this little aside for the next couple of decades:

https://t.co/sgdqq9UZm9

[RBe @RBPundit]

Worth noting that antisemites keep winning Democrat primaries and losing Republican ones.

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@AaronBlake A huge stain on the resume of JD Vance who flew to Indiana twice and flipped exactly 0 votes. He seems to have no sway or influence among Republican legislators. He also failed to get a maximalist map in Ohio

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@walkeri141 A huge stain on the resume of JD Vance who flew to Indiana twice and flipped exactly 0 votes. He seems to have no sway or influence among Republican legislators. He also failed to get a maximalist map in Ohio

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@baseballot A huge stain on the resume of JD Vance who flew to Indiana twice and flipped exactly 0 votes. He seems to have no sway or influence among Republican legislators. He also failed to get a maximalist map in Ohio

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@adamwren A huge stain on the resume of JD Vance who flew to Indiana twice and flipped exactly 0 votes. He seems to have no sway or influence among Republican legislators. He also failed to get a maximalist map in Ohio

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@CurrentRevolt @leachfortexas "...a strategic eye towards the 2028 Republican Primary" ????

[Colby Badhwar @ColbyBadhwar]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Aid to Ukraine" is really an investment in American manufacturing.

$51.2 billion has gone into the US defense industrial base to date. Once all funds are obligated, it will be over $60 billion.

Top recipient states:

1. Arkansas - $4.25 billion
2. Alabama - $3.31 billion
3. Pennsylvania - $2.83 billion
4. Arizona - $2.72 billion
5. Texas - $2.04 billion
6. West Virginia - $1.98 billion
7. California - $1.96 billion
8. Florida - $1.59 billion
9. Missouri - $968 million
10. New York - $943 million

Note that not all contracts and investments are reflected on the map, so it won't match the total obligations. Only prime contractors and select key subcontractors are mapped. The defense industrial supply chain stretches into all 50 states, and many states are underrepresented due to the nature of the weapon systems provided to Ukraine (e.g. no aircraft =very little for South Carolina & Washington).

If your state isn't highlighted that doesn't mean that there are no funds from the Ukraine Supplementals flowing into your state.

[U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell @SenMcConnell]

The United States urgently needs to reach a bipartisan consensus on the centrality of hard power to U.S. foreign policy. Read my full essay in @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/Z463yFxxPk

[Texas Barner @TexasBarner]

@Ejmiller25 @NoahCRothman https://t.co/wkyblpffaD

Biden won EV and Mail 50.99%-47.13%