@SenTedCruz while I normally agree that using the nuclear option is bad form, has anyone thought about using the nuclear option to pass a law making the filibuster law?
@SenTedCruz since we know fraudsters are greedy folk, why not offer cash rewards and possibly somewhat reduced sentences for ratting out other fraudsters. Maybe enhance the offer if they leave the country permanently.
When someone engages in good faith open debate that disagrees with your position, that is not fascist, that is democratic.
When someone shoots the person engaging in that dialogue because they don’t like the ideas the person is expressing, that’s not democratic, that’s fascist.
I’ve been watching the footage and the reactions to the assassination of @charliekirk11 for two hours now. I’ve watched @glennbeck and @megynkelly have their heart ripped out of their chest live on television. I’ve watched scores of twenty-somethings cheering to the rafters and celebrating. I’ve seen conservatives, threatening payback and all the rest of it. So let me tell you how I’m feeling right now.
I feel ICE COLD. That’s very different than feeling nothing. I’ve been the first person on the scene of numerous traffic accidents where I was the only one to take action, and I’ve had three engine failures in single engine aircraft. This is exactly how I felt in those situations. The best way I can describe it is as a grim, determined, sense of FOCUS. I was trained to the belief that the first thing to do in an emergency is to not make it worse. The second thing I was trained to do was to evaluate the facts as far as can be known, to come up with a plan, then fly the plan. During each of those three engine failures. I felt the red-eyed rat of panic nibbling at my ankles, the same way I feel the red-eyed surge of rage right now. But right now what I am trying hardest to do is to think clearly and rationally until we get the wheels on the ground.
But one thing I am calmly, clearly, and rationally certain of is that something really enormously significant has happened, and that the ground I took off from is not going to be the same ground that I land on. We will be live today at 5 PM. Details to follow.
God bless you, Charlie Kirk. You had changed history before today, but I believe that it’s just a shadow of what will come after this horror in Utah.
Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America - an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.
@novapilgrim This is why making $15/hr at a convenience store is considered an entry level position, not a career. If people choose to never develop expertise in anything and only maintain entry-level skills, they’re going to have an entry-level life.
@SenTedCruz why not offer legislation allowing any adult American citizen to personally sponsor one illegal alien, but the citizen is responsible for housing the alien and accepts full legal liability for the alien they are sponsoring?
@michaeljknowles@benshapiro@charliekirk11 The federal government should start a program where woke celebrities can offer to exchange their American citizenship for citizenship for 10 immigrants,