The Pragmatic Conservative

Conservative. Christian. Gay. Pragmatic solutions for all.

[The Pragmatic Conservative @ThePragCon]

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[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

NO MERCY TO TERRORISTS you dumb bastards!

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

The irony of the Europeans coming to America and through their eyes giving us the 250th birthday celebration we need and deserve.

[Edward Lawrence @EdwardLawrence]

Vice President JD Vance put up a chicken coup outside the VP’s residence. A spokesperson tells me he will tend to the chickens. His kids already named the chicks. The coop was made by Carolina Coops, an American-owned small business which has been in business for 18 years. The owner Matt DuBoise pictured here after putting the coup up. #Chickens #FreshEggs #VP (pics courtesy Vice President Vance’s Office)

[Secretary Markwayne Mullin @SecMullinDHS]

I’m not surprised you would say something like this, @GovSherrillNJ.

On June 8th, I personally granted you access to the facility as an act of good faith— despite you having exactly ZERO federal oversight authority. Of course, you’re still trying to turn Delaney Hall into a political football for the radical left.

You were told BEFORE you went in you would not have the ability to speak to detainees. This is a federal facility, Governor. You are NOT federally elected.

I suggest you and your health inspectors spend more time at your New Jersey state detention facilities. Delaney Hall has 2x more medical personnel per detainee than NJ state prison, and at least 2x as much square footage. Detainees are also 2x more likely to die in NJ state custody. ⬇️

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8

This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

[Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2]

Five and a half years later—with new revelations related to what happened before and on January 6—the regime media absolutely refuses to consider that the Biden DOJ/Wray FBI abused their power to investigate, prosecute, and help convict more than 1,000 Americans for their participation in the protest that day.

Welker, like all other “journalists” and reporters of her ilk, actually think the unprecedented number of plea deals is the result of legitimate prosecutions rather than abuse of authority—particularly threats to turn misdemeanor cases into felonies—to extract plea deals.

They don’t entertain for a SECOND that perhaps something is off with a 100 PERCENT CONVICTION RATE before DC juries. Or question how the Biden DOJ got away with for years bringing the felony 1512c2 charge against 300+ J6ers (and the president) before SCOTUS determined the statute had been unlawfully applied.

The single minded focus on those charged/convicted of “assault” on police—when the 18 USC 111 statute also applies to “interfering” or “impeding” federal officers—allows the media to ignore the hundreds of other low level misdemeanor cases that nonetheless resulted in torturous investigations and prosecutions, rigged trials, and time in federal prison.

Corporate media is as responsible as the Biden DOJ, J6 committee, and federal judges in continuing to perpetuate lies about J6 and intentionally misleading the public about what happened in the largest criminal investigation in US history. Good for the president for pushing back and for his justified anger here:

[The Pragmatic Conservative @ThePragCon]

Evil.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

RFK Jr: Fauci FORCED AIDS patients onto the deadly chemo drug AZT and KILLED 330,000 people.

Fauci STOPPED any treatment alternative other than AZT.

Exactly like during COVID. Fauci STOPPED Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine...and ONLY allowed deadly Remdesivir.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

It's not that hard. The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer. The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newson promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose.

This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or spencer Pratt's campaign.

Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up.

There is a reason why cities like Chicago Los Angeles Portland Seattle and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam.

Mostly the concern I see on the political right over AI is cultural because there's nothing more that the political left and the Democratic Party wants them to get their claws into AI.

Because once an AI is programmed to tell people that boys can become girls it's the death of truth. Data centers being built isn't the problem, the data in those data centers is.

[Riley @rylzdigital]

so glad we destroyed our cities for racial justice or whatever, now can we bring the statues back for america 250?

[Lawrence Jones III @LawrenceBJones3]

Reasonable people can understand why Senator Susan Collins votes the way she does. She represents a diverse political group in Maine, yet she still manages to cast tough votes. However, Murkowski’s situation is different. Alaska is not Maine.

[America @america]

The SPLC used $4.1 million in donor to fund the KKK and other extremist groups.

This is how they used the money:

-Attend and host extremist group rallies across the country.
-Grow existing chapters of extremist groups.
-Create new chapters of extremist groups;
Recruit new individuals into extremist groups.
-Make donations to extremist group leaders.
-Purchase materials for cross burnings.
-Purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods.
-Create racist paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies.
-Publish extremist literature used in the recruiting of more members.
-Pay everyday living expenses, which allowed the Fs to focus on their extremist groups rather than seeking other employment.

They funded the groups they told the public they were fighting.

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

If you’ve ever worked construction, you know this exact type of homeowner that starts freaking out midway through a remodel. It’s a certain category of person that lacks visual imagination. They can’t even rotate shapes in their mind—they should be kept far from statecraft.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Same guy who grilled Brett Kavanaugh about fart jokes in his high school yearbook

[Amber Duke @ambermarieduke]

NEW from @dailycaller on the NYT's catch and kill operation:

- A source tells @wupton that the NYT had two women prepared to make sexual assault allegations against Platner.
- Those details were revealed to Fifield, presumably to make her feel more comfortable coming forward
- They never made it into the story, allegedly being removed at the behest of NYT editors and Platner's lawyers.
- The Platner campaign was originally only given two hours to respond, but that stretched into 24 hours, contrary to what interview subjects were told

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[The Pragmatic Conservative @ThePragCon]

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[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

“We” are the international consensus who care about freedom. You know — the one NATO member nations invoke when they want defense subsidies.

And “we” still agree on something: nations should apply their own sovereign laws. Which is why pathetic censorship flailing by foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech, on American platforms, protected by America’s First Amendment gets you sanctioned.

Sorry you can’t control the conversation anymore.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@DHSgov Can confirm. We have Signal messages claiming that the detainees didn't actually complain.

[Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer]

SCOOP: New data obtained by @realDailyWire shows that commissary sales at Delaney Hall surged 161% during the so-called “hunger strike” rising from $11,498 on May 26 to $30,013 on June 1.

While snack sales jumped, the detainee population fell from 724 to 621 during that same time period.

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[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This level of injustice is infuriating:

A dentist in Sweden examined “migrant children” and saw 80% had fully formed wisdom teeth - i.e. they were actually adults.

He reported it in writing at the request of the Migration Agency... and was promptly suspended, investigated, and fired.

[The Spectator @spectator]

I wonder how many readers have ever heard of the name Kriss Donald?

The young Glaswegian was just 15 years old in 2004 when he was kidnapped by a local gang of Pakistani men. The group selected him because he was white and they had some beef with a group of white men with whom Donald had no connection at all.

After driving around for hours, the gang – led by one Imran Shahid – stabbed Donald repeatedly before dousing his body in petrol and setting him alight.

I also wonder how many readers have heard of the name Tony Timpa? The white, unarmed Texan was 32 in 2016 when he suffered some sort of mental breakdown in public.

Instead of assisting him, police arrived at the scene and restrained him in such a way that he died. Bodycam footage released three years later – thanks to pressure from local journalists – showed officers kneeling on Timpa as he complained that he couldn't breathe and mocking him as he lay dying.

✍️ Douglas Murray

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