Eric Richard

Tulsa, formerly of Jenks HS, U of Kansas, U of Tulsa and AT&T.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@JonahDispatch I would love the guy if only he didn’t play for City.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@MarkMaddenX If they did our system wouldn’t get the best from them. First thing our youth coaches would note about young Leo Messi would be how much he walks, and question his “grit.” Our “hustle! hustle!” sports culture prizes athleticism and work rate over skill and tactical awareness.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@MarkMaddenX Real shitbag defending there. Not bad all in all, but…

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@ApocalypticOBS @Bernstein “Cringe” is over. Find another annoying buzzword.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@captainB1948 @OllieHolt22 At a late season NFL game in Philly you don’t want to be in the shade, you want the sun. 🌞

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@cabsav456 @CathyYoung63 Helping Ukraine defeat Russia’s attempted conquest is not only morally right but strategically smart. We hold back because a 79 year old man with unresolved daddy issues craves Putin’s approval.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@MarkMaddenX Sick of profanity. Get creative, like European football fans:
Have you ever seen the Flyers win the cup (win the cup?)
Have you ever seen the Flyers win the cup (win the cup?)
No you haven’t, no you haven’t
Not in 50 years you haven’t
You have never seen the Flyers win the cup.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@SamanthaTaghoy Every letter added represents another glorious victory in the lefties’ heroic revolutionary struggle. #LGBTQWERTYMST3K+

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@Pafar @JonnyRoot_ XX is female, XY is male. All the rest of it is make believe. “Gender identity” is just another form of grievance group politics.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

We had a good thing, Britain.

A really good thing.

You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks.

The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls.

That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world.

That was the deal.

Now look at you.

You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state.

You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM.

You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain.

You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City.

Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks.

You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today.

Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock.

Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what?

We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund.

Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t.

You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships.

You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them.

The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies.

You had one job.

Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits.

That’s it. That’s all we asked.

And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us.

But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The two most militarily capable US allies are Ukraine and Israel. Weird to have a political system where one of the two parties despises the first - and the other is deciding it hates and resents the second. America needs and benefits from both those friendships!

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@DA_Stockman Then: “…pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Now: “F**k you, we’ve got a budget deficit, plus Vlad is such a badass!”

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Andrew is a venal, sly, preening shit.
But he is not the embodiment of our monarchy.
An institution which - for a thousand years - has survived good, bad and indifferent sovereigns.
For better or worse, the Crown is the thread that carries our island story.
Today, its enemies are mustering. For them, this isn't about Andrew, but sinking a nail into another emblem of an older, atavistic Britain.
Churchill said democracy was the worst form of government that had ever been tried - apart from all the rest.
When it comes to who our Head of State should be, the Royals are similarly imperfect. But anyone proposing that an elected president is always the answer, hasn't been paying attention.
Now, more than ever, we need the historical continuum that monarchy guarantees. Britain faces revolutionary pressures. Our culture is being effaced. Our certainties eroded. Our ancestral identity traduced.
Many on the Republican Left want to reset out national clock. A new Year Zero. Andrew, and his vile obsessions, have gifted them an opportunity.
Nobody who has met the former prince seems to have a good word to say about him. Was he a product of the deference which governs royal life? Yes. But that same system produced our late Queen, Anne and William.
The Crown has outlived worse catastrophes than Andrew, and will do so again. Today, it's not easy standing up for the Monarchy. But those Britons, for whom patient, quiet goodwill comes naturally, should do so.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@MarkMaddenX It was fine. Didn’t hate it.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@oddroadmap @AdamKinzinger "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@DesalleTim82583 @MarkMaddenX If you think your wellbeing depends on the president, you don’t even understand the idea of America, let alone the constitutional role of the presidency.

[Foster @foster_type]

A problem for the seven of us conservatives for the last ten years is reading the same quote or watching the same thing as our leftist friends and both agreeing that it's bad and then when they elaborate on why they say the stupidest thing you can possibly imagine.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Lillian Hellman was a staunch, unswerving supporter of Stalin's Soviet Union. During the Winter War, in which the Kremlin was trying to devour Finland, Hellman said, "I don't believe in that fine, lovable little Republic of Finland that everyone gets so weepy about. I've been there and it seems like a little pro-Nazi republic to me." (Hellman, of course, had never been to Finland. She was an inveterate liar.) Today, she has her equivalents on the right -- who speak about Ukraine in *exactly* the way she spoke about Finland. I hear them pretty much every day. The Stalinists, the Putinists -- birds of a feather, and I wish they'd fly far, far away.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@MarkMaddenX Every time a short corner is played one lucky fan should get to punch the manager.

[Eric Richard @Tulsa_United]

@DominicJPino @GayPatriot We can’t have Norway’s healthcare system because we’re not a small country full of Norwegians. You can’t get Scandinavian benefits purely by taxing the rich; you’d have to tax the middle class a lot more, and if you want to run for office on that, best of luck.