Benjamin Garner

I joined twitter to follow Chad Ochocinco, but got annoyed by his tweets.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

That was not the definition of a red card.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Call me old-fashioned, but I think it should be a bigger story that a sitting Republican member of Congress is missing, nobody knows where he is, yet he’s somehow still insider trading.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”

We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.

The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.

Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

[Benjamin Garner @BenjaminPGarner]

.@weatherchannel how old is your intern that writes these up?

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

This is a blockhead statement.

This isn’t about saying “I told you so.” It’s about the fact that we warned the church this was a dangerous departure from Scripture, that it would lead to real consequences. And when we said it, we were treated like we were harsh, unloving, or theologically off.

We weren’t. We were doing our job. We warned. That warning was ignored, dismissed, or mocked.

This is the same pattern again. There are people who want to act like they’re more loving, more understanding, because they refuse to connect theology to behavioral outcomes.

They’re not more compassionate. They’re just unwilling to do the hard work of pastoral ministry.

[Shane Morris @GShaneMorris]

A FB dude pointed this out, and it's very much true. If your reaction to these two images was substantially different in either direction...time to do some soul-searching/principles inventory.

[Undercover Brother @RealUCBfosho]

This.

100% this.

[Gator Gar @gatorgar]

I want to take a minute and pause. Zoom out with me. Let’s look at the big picture here.

We are a society that has, for better or for worse, decided blackface/whiteface and racial caricature in general goes against our values.

We are also a society that is making an exception for that rule, so long as we’re making fun of and attacking the widow of a man who was brutally murdered in cold blood.

Taking these two datapoints into account, we are a society that deserves some plagues or even an asteroid at this point.

I can assure you with my whole chest, that if this were a White person doing blackface to smear the widow of an assassinated Democrat, my reaction would be no different.

Participating in this is a one way path to Hell. Go along with it at your own risk, but don’t come crying to me about “social order” or the “division” in this country ever again.

[Benjamin Garner @BenjaminPGarner]

@NoahWall @seanmdav My plan was to read Al Jazeera and the Jerusalem Post, sum them together and divide by two to arrive at the truth. Will this work?

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

What @michaeljknowles doesn't seem to realize is that for most people doing this, it isn't really about Candace Owens. Candace is a lunatic and they all realize that. In any other normal situation they would just move on.

But people like Michael, Megyn, Matt and others (who these people previously thought better of) make it not just another day at the crack house. This is a lunatic who numerous people seem petrified of standing up against, or worse, actively sweep for. In some cases they "would rather die" than to stand up against evil. That's the issue. And it's a far more serious issue than even this evil itself.

It's not about Candace, Michael. It's about you.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

If there is one thing I have learned it's that most people in any space, industry or institution are followers. I am not saying this in a disparaging way.

Followers are extremely important. A world full of leaders would be a terrible world of endless conflict and strife. If you want to get anything done, you need a handful of leaders and a mass of dedicated, supportive followers.

BUT.

The influencer/podcast/commentator world is full of people who are followers pretending to be leaders. If you're naive like me, it takes you a long time to understand this so you keep being surprised when they refuse to act with moral clarity at times when leadership is desperately needed.

The other reason is, most people are unfortunately motivated by status and materialism way more than truth, principle or something greater.

If all you care about is clout, money, clicks, success etc then why would you ever speak up about anything until it's safe to do so?

That's why you need a small number of people who are prepared to take the slings and arrows for being early in order to shift the direction of that industry, institution or society in a different direction. The reason we respect those people is they are rare. If they weren't rare, we wouldn't respect them so much.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

I think almost everything that can be said about Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu has already been said, but when I step back and look at the full picture, I keep getting blown away by how reality handed us a script far more perfect than anything fiction could invent.

On one side, you have the cold, elitist “I’m the most decorated” athlete, raised in one of the wealthiest and most exclusive neighborhoods in the country, Sea Cliff, who gladly sold out the country that gave her everything in order to became the PR face of a brutal dictatorship in exchange for a few suitcases of cash. On the other side, you have the happy-go-lucky, “That’s what I’m fucking talking about” girl from working-class Richmond, coerced by Communist Party operatives, refusing to bow to them, and proudly representing the United States. And that does not even begin to touch on the tortuous path Alysa’s father had in getting to the United States, compared with the easy route taken by Eileen’s mother, or the many other layers of this story.

And then, perfectly, one wins both her competitions and the other loses both. If anyone tried to make a movie out of this story, no one would believe it.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Dan is a legend

[Connor O'Keeffe @connorokeeffe]

Wow this is bad.

Trump throws his full support behind Bondi, pretends like Massie is attacking him from the center-left and not from the position Trump campaigned on, and claims the Epstein files prove people guilty—but doesn't care if they're investigated or indicted.

Is he purposefully self-sabotaging, or is he just this tone-deaf?

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Look, you can be the biggest Trump supporter out there, that's fine, but if you can't admit this Bondi hearing & her handling of the Epstein Files has been a complete disaster, you're just as brainwashed & indoctrinated as the radical left that you attacked for the last 8 years.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It must be done or democracy is dead

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Happy 48 week anniversary to those who celebrate

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Republicans, if you're not going to end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court, then propose an Amendment that mandates the filibuster and fixes the number of Justices at 9. If Dems oppose that, then guess what? They're going to end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Does seem low