J. Mac

🇺🇸 I love the United States

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

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[King Doggo Good Boi @KingDoggoGudBoi]

Idaho Firefighter Shooting press conference 4:35 PM, Sherriff Robert Norris providing briefing

- First call at approx 1:21PM Firefighters were called to respond to a wildfire
- At approx 2PM shots fired at responders
- 2 Deaths, unknown amount of Firefighters, casualties possibly including civilians.
- Civilians on the mountain being evacuated, some may have been recreational visitors, people still coming off the mountain
- Active sniper fire in progress.
- Multiple state and federal assets on scene.
- Unknown if there are multiple shooters, it is possible but unknown at this time
- Believe that the 2 casualties are firefighters unknown # of casualties
- Rifles being used appear to be "modern sporting rifles"
- Rapid fire at LEOs and responders ongoing
- Sherriff refers to "individuals" (shooters), so multiple shooters seems likely
- They believe the shooter(s) are well hidden in the landscape
- The fire is burning and unmanaged at this time due to the active shooter situation
- Shooter(s) not showing any signs indicating surrender
- No officers have been hit
- Based on fire it appears to be multiple shooters
- Emergency ops are in play including air support such as helicopters and State and Federal LEO engaged.
- There will be another press conference or just a release, conference may be in the next several hours

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@ScottPresler SATX, many in their work clothes and many uniformed military. I was there in line at 0650 and was 30th waiting my turn. Line was steadily growing and I was done voting just before 0800.

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@ElonMuskOde On the photo alone as I've never had the privilege of meeting her: Distinct

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@realTrumpNewsX SATX👋

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[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@Devon_Eriksen_ This post explained so simply the cancer that our country is fighting and has moved me to absolute tears. Cancer is often put in remission and often, sadly, comes back. We have to really fight this!! Thank you for helping me see what our complacency has allowed.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The function of agencies is to reduce your agency.

That's the connection between killing an innocent squirrel and the unraveling of civilization itself. One may be trivial, and the other apocalyptic, but they are driven by the same impulse.

The impulse to regulate. Agencies regulate things. It means, literally, from its roots, "to make regular".

It's not regular to have a squirrel as a pet.

Make no mistake. That's what this is about.

Oh, there will be plenty of legal quibbling from the statists over who did, or didn't, or should have had, a special license to keep wildlife, which is apparently a sort of permission slip from the government that they want you to get before you do stuff.

But none of that mattered. Because the real reason, the real reason we have silly agencies, and silly laws, and silly bureaucracy, is that if governments confined themselves to doing what was needful, they wouldn't have much to do, and then people would start asking uncomfortable questions, like where exactly that full third of every paycheck is going.

So you have a bunch of agencies knocking about looking for things to do. To justify their jobs, and their budgets.

And what they end up doing is ... meddling. They have a bias towards action, because inaction doesn't give them power or money. And they have a bias towards NO, because YES doesn't give them power or money.

Can I launch a rocket?

NO, it might upset a seal. Or hit a shark on the way down.

Can I paint my house purple?

NO, it might affect other people's property values.

Can I create a bank account under my authorial pseudonym?

NO, you might use it to evade taxes.

Can I care for an abandoned baby squirrel?

NO, it might might have rabies.

And the reasons are always nothing more than thin coat of excuse, painted over the desire for more control.

When you have enough government agencies regulating aspects of life, you are only allowed to do what is regular.

What everyone else does.

This is insufferable, of course, and Patrick Henry would have been stacking bodies by now. So should we.

But it gets worse.

It's not just high-handed.

It's not just dystopian.

It's not just tyrannical.

It's not just miserable and petty and small-minded.

It's civilization-destroying.

Why?

Because civilization and technological progress are a very specialized things, requiring a unique set of conditions.

This is why most societies, throughout history, haven't had any progress. They've just spent generation after generation whacking at the dirt with a stick to grow taro root.

Civilizational progress, that rare jewel that only a few societies have achieved, depends upon a whole bunch of factors adding up to an environment where trying new things is easy and frictionless.

New things.

Novel things.

Innovative things.

Things that haven't been tried before.

Things that aren't normal.

Things that aren't regular.

Things that you can't do when everything is made regular.

Things you can't do when everything is regulated.

It's not regular to keep a pet squirrel.

It's also not regular to shine high-frequency radiation through people and take pictures with it.

Or to put up metal rods to attract lightning and see what you can do with it.

Or to treat diseases with bread mold.

Or to attach kite stuff to a bicycle and try to fly.

Every innovation that separates us from famine, poverty, disease, and squalor started out as an abnormal behavior that made other people uncomfortable.

This is why liberty leads to technology, to wealth, to civilization, to quality of life, to... everything.

And this is why bureaucracy takes it all away.

And this time, in the process, it killed a small, harmless, innocent, loving animal.

No not killed.

Murdered.

Because it did so with premeditation and malice aforethought.

Peanut was happy.

Peanut had never known anything from a human being but love.

Peanut hadn't a drop of malice in his soul.

Peanut didn't understand why he was being taken from the only home he had ever known, to a place of execution, to be killed.

Peanut didn't understand what he had done wrong.

Peanut died confused, alone, and terrified.

Peanut died so that a small collection of petty, spiteful, officious "human beings" could have jobs and feel important.

The harm they did, while small in the universe, was not small in Peanut's universe.

And it can never be put right.

So I say it's time for ordinary decent human beings who do not delight in the misery of others to stop being so goddamn polite and orderly.

Because it's not squirrels who need killing.

It's bureaucrats.

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

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@MTGrepp ❤️

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@ipjunkie @DC_Draino Its eerie😧

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@HeidiHarrisShow Liberals want children under 18 to have full autonomy over their bodies to change their gender and have abortions; which, according to liberals should be accepted and celebrated. Wouldn't it be logical then to accept & celebrate choosing to stay natural and create life as well?

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

1. TWITTER FILES:
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

[Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto]

JUST IN: Censored video re-emerges of Jacob Chansley reading Trump’s tweet, telling protestors to GO HOME and remain peaceful..

WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN…

[Doc Malik @DocAhmadMalik]

I got in to trouble for posting this video.
I was told to take it down and stick to my "scope of practice"
Well I won't be bullied and sorry but patient safety is precisely my scope of practice 👍🏻

[J. Mac @The_Proud_Mac]

@DocAhmadMalik Do you see as many vaccine injuries in non-mRNA covid vaccines as in mRNA? I know people who got JJ as well as Pfizer and Moderna, but all I see for adverse effects is really focused on Pfizer and Moderna in the US. I appreciate your time!!

[John Dalzell @JohnDalzell7]

@sirguzzbuzz @twinautismmom https://t.co/3T7Rd2Igxb

[Thomas Paine @Thomas1774Paine]

Border Patrol Agents Find Unconscious Tiger in Duffel Bag After Chasing Three Mexicans Trying to Sneak into U.S. https://t.co/PEGsu69OMV

[Unfiltered☢Boss @Unfilteredboss1]

Kanye is now reading Thomas Sowell ?! This dude is on a mission to find the truth. This is how all former liberals who move Right start their journey.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free ! ~Jesus

#TuesdayThoughts
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[CeCe ˗ˏˋ ✞ ˎˊ˗ 🌴 🇺🇸 @Ohio_buckeye_us]

@PressSec @SecPompeo @POTUS We support you Sarah. You are a powerful and smart woman who has proven herself over and over again that women can handle anything.

We are very proud of you. 🇺🇸

#Women4Trump