Tony Garzolini

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[Jacob Sullum @jacobsullum]

ALPR cameras turn a license plate into the "functional equivalent" of a "GPS tracking device," warns a lawsuit challenging Wichita's "warrantless ALPR dragnet surveillance program." https://t.co/M0GrRTkskP

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

The Broad Peak tragedy in Pakistan leaves a difficult question: was it simply fate, or have ambition, commercial pressure and human ego pushed climbers further into risks that the mountains have always carried? An avalanche is a natural event, and it would be wrong to blame commercialisation without evidence. But we cannot ignore today’s culture of crowded expeditions, deadlines, records, sponsorships and the pressure to reach the summit at any cost.

Mountains are not trophies. They do not care how much an expedition costs, how many records are at stake or how many people are watching online. When the conditions say no, turning back is not failure, it is good judgment.

We cannot keep taking summits, fame and profit from the mountains without giving something back through protection, restraint and respect. Nature is not asking us to conquer it. It is asking us to listen, and to leave our ego at Base Camp.

[reason @reason]

What the flock is happening in Georgia?
https://t.co/NfJBcXeuDs

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

True hero right here.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@KobeissiLetter And this, my dear friends, is why you must own precious metals and other inflation hedges.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@BarstoolHubbs Maybe yes .... maybe no. It's mind boggling that we can't at least try him out and see.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

In honor of Alan Greenspan's passing today let's flashback to Ron Paul's interrogation of him in February of 2000.

*Just weeks before the dot com bust*

Where Dr. Paul got Mr. Greenspan to admit that he had no ideo how to measure the supply of "money". Just a brilliant moment.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@BullTheoryio Hooray capitalism.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@BronxPinstripes And check out the payroll for the two teams not named the Yankees. Amazing.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@JoezMcfLy @Yankees Agreed. At minimum, it challenges the kid and the Yankees learn early in the season what their options look like for roster juggling later in the season.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@TKL_Adam There will NOT be a rate hike. Trump hand-picked the new Fed chair to lower rates regardless of what actually makes sense. When you answer the question of what Trump is willing to do to give Republicans the best chances in the mid-terms, then your trading strategy is clear.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

Wow - what an outing by @brendan_beck3 today. Congrats.

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

The comments on this are priceless.

[City of Phoenix, AZ @CityofPhoenixAZ]

Photo safety cameras are officially up and running! Beginning today, drivers caught speeding may be issued a traffic citation.  

These photo-safety cameras are a great reminder to all drivers to slow down and obey all traffic laws, because it’s better a flash than a crash!

Learn more at https://t.co/YIHpcr2fkC.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

FREE DEXTER TAYLOR!

Dexter was arrested, charged, and thrown into Rikers Island. His crime?

Assembling legally-obtained firearm parts in his home.

Dexter had no prior criminal history; he was not suspected of any violent activity. His only “transgression” was exercising his fundamental right to bear arms.

This battle is not just for Dexter Taylor’s freedom but for the rights of all Americans.

This is about the ongoing struggle against an overreaching government that seeks to micromanage and control every aspect of our lives.

Our rights are not granted by the state—they are inherent and must be vigorously defended against all encroachments.

Dexter is a champion for the Second Amendment and for civil liberties.

If you wish to support Dexter in his legal battle, consider contributing to his fundraiser, linked below.

His fight is our fight—a stand for the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.

We stand with Dexter Taylor. #2A #FreeDexter

@blkgunsmattr @MajToure @DoniTheMisfit @jeffcharlesjr @lpnyofficial @LarrySharpe @gunrights @gunpolicy @GunOwners

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@BudgetHawks President Maya MacGuineas: "Social Security…it's going to be insolvent in 6 years…It's going to cause a generational resentment, and younger people are going to be right to be angry about it."

[Tony Garzolini @TonyGarzolini]

@Jackkk He means private flights with Starlink, right? No way this dude flies commercial.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Some have asked me to comment on the SCOTUS ruling striking down tariffs based on emergencies declared by the Executive. Why should I comment when Gorsuch has already nailed it right here? 💯

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If you’re reading Epstein files now, it’s because I’m in Congress and fighting.

I’m not taking all the credit. At least as much goes to @RepRoKhanna @FmrRepMTG @laurenboebert @RepNancyMace.

And too many documents are still being withheld or redacted, but we’ll get to that too.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

Good news:

Today I forced DOJ to release millions of Epstein documents.

Bad news:

The Israel first superPAC just bought another $800,000 of ads against me.

You can’t make this up!

I definitely need your help if you can lend it: https://t.co/AgJY01IWPL