Alan Andrews

I’m a LLM in a meat sack.

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[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@BE_Fallon @k_ovfefe2 @HeyBooBoo16 Another violent closeted homosexual. Perfect for the democrats

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@TFTC21 I’ll buy later when it’s on sale. Maybe.

[TripleZ @NotZ3Music]

Not all heroes wear a cape…. This dude is awesome.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Anyone who claims the lack of joy about the 250th is a function of a rough economy was not alive in 1976.

The country rocked in its 200th celebration and the economy was a FREAKING MESS.

There is this Gen Z misconception that the '70s and early '80s were some sort of economic golden age of readily available, well-paying jobs, low cost housing and an all around sense of prosperity.

WRONG.

Google "Stagflation." Google "gas lines." Google "mortgage interest rates in the 1980s."

Our economy today is a golden age by comparison, without exaggeration.

Yet somehow in 1976 we could gleefully celebrate our nation's birthday without Democrats turning it into a Howard Zinn-inspired anti-history hatefest.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Here's a hint:

It's called "Starship Troopers". Not "The Big War with the Bugs".

There's a reason for that. Heinlein was one of the 20th century's greatest authors, if not THE greatest, and he was also the 20th century's greatest philosopher and it's not even close.

So he didn't name things by accident.

Starship Troopers isn't about the war. It isn't even about war. And it's certainly not about the fucking bugs.

All that shit is just stage dressing for the story is really about. That's why the book doesn't end with defeating the enemy. It ends with Rico meeting his father again, facing future fights together.

Starship Troopers is about the military life, the relationship between armies and the civilizations they serve, and what it means to be a soldier and a man.

Eurotrash communists failed to get the point, not merely because they have the "media literacy" of a sack of wet hammers, but also because they don't understand soldiering, civilization, or manhood.

So, yes, Verhoeven tried to make fun of Heinlein and failed miserably because Heinlein was a better storyteller, a better man, and a better human being by a margin so great that the Earth can barely encompass it.

But even though his failed satire makes humanity clearly the good guys, the war clearly righteous, and soldiers clearly cool and heroic, it still doesn't recapture the actual meaning of Starship Troopers.

Because the real themes were so invisible, so incomprehensible, to Verhoeven that he couldn't even see them to disagree with.

So enjoy the film for what it turned out to be... a fun, campy, morally unambiguous story of heroes squashing disgusting bugs. Suitable for popcorn consumption.

Then, read more Heinlein.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@TFTC21 @dcposch It may depend on the state. In Texas there is an asset limit. If you own a house, for instance, you’re not eligible. I’m sure people lie though. Don’t know if it’s actually checked.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@Oilfield_Rando Great movie.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@BE_Fallon It’s hilarious.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

You can just do things. It’s not difficult.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Weekly reminder: Decline is a choice.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

"Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight."

Laughs in Texan: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

20 Celsius is 68 Fahrenheit. If the night got down to 68 everyone in Houston would celebrate. Sure, I have AC and it stays at ~78 (25.5c) most days in the summer. Apparently that's too hot to live for a Europoor.

[The Cynical Crusader @Cyn1calCrusader]

So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long...

First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here.
The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry.

In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures.
Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it.

Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It.

UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth.
During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs.

Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US).
It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare.
Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings.

This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling.

Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation.
Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day.

Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat.

We're properly white!

So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation.
Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight.

You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc.
Drier US heat often cools significantly at night.
That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating.

Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What a strange invasion force they are.

They couldn't conquer us with guns, or with trade, so they came with empty hands and mouths full of tales about how they were too good for their own nations and people.

And now that we have realized that this, too, is a weapon, they screech like psychotic ex-girlfriends, alternately sobbing about how heartlessly cruel we are, and ranting dire predictions about how we will never survive without them.

But if we can't live without them, why aren't we dead yet?

Every time they demand to stay in our country, there is always some claim that they do for us something we cannot do for ourselves.

"I'm a scientist!"

Do they expect us to believe we are incapable of science?

To "be a scientist" is not a contribution. It is a credential. A scientist was enrolled in a PhD program, instead of someone else. He passed that program, and was given a fellowship, or a research grant, or a job, or a tenure track position. Instead of someone else.

When institutions squat across every upward ladder in your civilization, gatekeeping vigorously, it really IS a zero sum game.

And what have these student-visa, green-card-stapled-to-his-PhD scientists invented? Discovered? Revolutionized?

Not much.

Certainly not more than the native Americans did in the 20th century.

They all want to wear Warner Von Braun like a cape, but where are the results?

The actual next Werner Von Braun didn't get any special favors, even though he's technically African, and we all know why he didn't.

I don't see any compelling evidence that all these hordes of third worlders are a net positive AT ALL, much less a better bet than the sons of America who they were imported to replace.

Why the hell would I feel sorry for them when I know 140+ IQ Americans who are hanging drywall and driving school buses?

Norman Borlaug saved the third world from starvation, and the thanks America gets is that the Millennial Norman Borlaug gets to sell insurance because our political class wanted to play Racial Diversity Zoo for cheap votes.

And then pat themselves on the back for being generous with someone else's heritage.

So I'm not interested in the crocodile tears of an invader over losing ten percent of something that was never his to begin with, as I am equally not interested when he switches, on the instant, to boasting about how he is "competitive" in the hundred yard dash when he starts on the fifty yard line.

The replacement of native Americans with everyone else isn't some wild eyed conspiracy theory. It was done right out in the open. We all know this. We all know exactly who had their thumbs on the scales, because they didn't bother to try hiding it.

The only thing they hid was their motives.

So, as far as I'm concerned, we can send them all back. Every last one. And wish them the best of luck in their own countries.

After all, if, as they claim, all playing fields are inherently level, and only merit matters, they should revolutionize their own economies in short order.

Meanwhile, we can do for GenZ Americans what GenX and the Millennials missed out on until it was too late.

We can invest in them.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@EZ2816153292651 @FenixAmmunition I used those a gazillion times on T64s and J79s.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@TonySeruga Or maybe it’s snake oil and doesn’t actually work.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@EZ2816153292651 @hughhewitt @JohnCornyn I was almost as happy to vote against Cornyn again this morning as I was to vote against Crenshaw.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

@TaraBull Horse manure in the streets.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

Went and voted against Cornyn this morning. RINOs delenda est.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

I can NOT overemphasize this enough:

DO NOT TRUST EMAILS
DO NOT TRUST PHONE CALLS
DO NOT TRUST SMS MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST CHAT MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS!

Any message saying there is a security problem with an account that needs to be urgently fixed is a 🚩

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"THE SAVE AMERICA ACT MUST BE PASSED, NOW... We cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!! Voter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship, must be approved, NOW." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.

The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.

But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else.

The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.

[Alan Andrews @alcand]

This is the way.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 92 SECONDS. COPENHAGEN POLICE JUST HUMILIATED PRO-HAMAS TERROR BLOCKADERS — AND THE ENTIRE CONTINENT SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES. ☠️

In the grand tradition of Hobbes’ Leviathan and Max Weber’s monopoly on legitimate violence, the Danish state just reminded the world why civilized order exists.

A mob of pro-Hamas radicals illegally blockaded Maersk HQ in Copenhagen — choking a private company, commerce, and the rule of law itself. In 92 seconds the Copenhagen police — helmets on, K9s unleashed, batons precise — dismantled the entire spectacle.

No endless negotiations. No performative “dialogue.” Just swift, lawful force restoring the peace these ideologues sought to shatter.

This wasn’t “police brutality.” This was a sovereign democracy refusing to surrender its streets to imported chaos and medieval hatred. While much of Europe lectures about “de-escalation” as radicals torch synagogues and blockade ports, Denmark simply enforced the social contract.

Scholarly truth: when the state abdicates its monopoly on force, thugs seize it. Copenhagen chose not to.

📽️The video is pure catharsis for anyone tired of watching civilization kneel. Europe — learn or burn. 👇

#DenmarkSchooledTheMob #ProHamasCrushed #RuleOfLawWins #CopenhagenCops #NoMoreKneeling #HamasSympathizersGetTheDog #EuropeWakeUp #LeviathanAwake #MaerskStrong #StandWithCivilization