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Whole world's a tree Raylan, I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut. Boyd Crowder. Rider of motorcycles, shooter of guns, and taker of photographs.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I was dicing tomatoes this morning when my four year old daughter Moana ran into the kitchen with tears in her eyes

“Daddy,” she cried, “did you hear Scott Pelley’s contract with CBS News was terminated?”

I nodded.

“And now his loyal audience won’t be able to see him present the world’s most compelling stories in the nation’s top rated weekly news magazine, will they?”

I reluctantly nodded again.

“Even grandma?”

With that, I lost it. We threw our arms around each other and sobbed.

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

Wow.

Obamacare simultaneously destroyed lower cost independent physicians and maxxed out fraud.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hunter Biden is on X challenging people to show when he and his father were ever engaged in corruption. Good for him, that's got to be a much easier grift than painting, especially now that nobody wants to buy his paintings because his father is out of office.

Here's something to remind people just how long the Biden Crime Family had been at it.

In 1996 Joe Biden sold his house to an executive from credit card company MBNA for 1.2 million. Middle Class Joe made out very well. It was the only house in the neighborhood to sell for full asking price. MBNA actually reimbursed the executive who bought Biden's house for some of the cost. Very shady stuff.

MBNA became Biden's top campaign contributor by far. A few weeks after Biden won re-election in 1996, MBNA hired Hunter Biden. After working at MBNA for a few years, Hunter left the company but remained on the payroll as a "consultant" for about five years. What a gig.

What did MBNA get in return? MBNA was a predatory lender and at the time, bankruptcies were soaring. MBNA wanted legislation passed to remove the tools people had to protect their assets from credit card companies. Joe Biden spearheaded the legislation on behalf of the credit card companies and against the American people.

In 2008 Tom Brokaw actually did some journalism and asked Biden about it.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Pakistanis who gang-raped French tourist in front of her three children after her car ran out of fuel will be executed.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Pentagon Reporting

Please realize that every bit of reporting you see coming from major legacy media sources about anything Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon or Department of War is doing is butthurt propaganda.

I’ll explain.

You see, for years and years the major legacy media outlets such as the NYT, WaPo, Reuters, etc. have had privileged, largely unfettered access to the Pentagon—access other news outlets never enjoyed. This worked great in Democrat administrations, because the media was totally onboard with the DEI destruction of our nation’s military, and the Democrats knew the media would never abuse its access to undermine them. However, when a Republican is in office, that access was wielded against the administration via unauthorized leaks of classified and other controlled information, not to report the news, but to destroy policies those media members disagreed with.

And Pete Hegseth put a stop to that leftist gravy train. No more uncontrolled access. No more ability to get meaningful, unauthorized info from “sources familiar with the issue.” Zip. Nada. Nothing. He didn’t stop the legacy media from writing what they want—they always have had that right. No, he simply stopped the ability for certain members of the legacy press to undermine national security via privileged access that was denied the rest of the media.

And boy oh boy are they butthurt over that. So butthurt that they have lost whatever residual ability they may have once had to report honestly, and now everything they write is a character assassination piece sourced by anonymous “sources.”

Put simply, they are lying liars lying lies because they got their feelings hurt.

Couple this with the fact that the Gen Z “journalists” doing this reporting tend to have as deep an understanding of warfare as does my cat, and I just explained why any time you read Pentagon reporting from a legacy news outlet, you should assume the opposite of what you are reading is the truth.

[Dana Loesch @DLoesch]

It took a village to murder this man. The killer’s entire garbage family was culpable.

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

Honest question:

If J6 was an actual insurrection, why would the Biden Admin destroy 11K hours of video footage proving as much?

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I try not to contradict Nate very often but there’s a perfectly valid reason why it takes so long to count votes in California. Here is a typical timeline:

Election Day: everyone votes

Week 1: mail in ballots, absentee ballots, military ballots, overseas ballots, ballots accidentally issued to people’s pets, and ballots harvested from Skid Row start trickling in.

Week 2: As the ballots pile up, Officials consider appointing a Committee to Count Ballots.

Week 3: Committee to Count Ballots is appointed and commences discussion on electing a chairman.

Week 4: deadline for ballots from illegal immigrants.

Week 5: Committee decides that “chairman” is an outdated term and will be replaced by a term to be decided later once the Committee to Count Ballots Diversity Consultants finishes their report.

Week 6: fraudulent ballots from the Chinese Communist Party arrive.

Week 7: The Committee elects as Chairzerxon a nonbinary disabled child to count the ballots.

Week 8: it is discovered that the Chairzerxon does not actually know how to count.

Week 9: the ballots are thrown away and the Committee announces election results that are entirely made up.

[Someoneuknow @someoneuknow43]

@jasonwhitlock The problem

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

This was all true.

All of it.

I was there.

We can do it again.

This is our past.

This is our future.

God bless President Reagan.

God bless America.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

The fact that we are having a hard time throwing America a 250th birthday party because leftists are threatening to kill everyone involved is the most zeitgeist shit I’ve ever seen in my life

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Remember when Trump’s ICE Gestapo was trampling peaceful protestors with horses?

Never mind, this was tyrant Justin Trudeau’s Gestapo trampling peaceful protesters that just wanted freedom during Covid.

[bjet @bjetinc]

Is this a trick question? https://t.co/DtAZPZoNsg

[bjet @bjetinc]

Don’t be stupid in Texas. https://t.co/QpyWrlx6yE

[bjet @bjetinc]

It’s almost like gun control is racist. https://t.co/OKrK2kAIbJ

[Positively Chaos @DiroShare]

@BuzzPatterson @Shari_Criswell I didn’t know any of this information, grok, knew it all, this is a little of the condensed answer.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.

As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton

Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.

When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?

“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.

Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.

You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?

I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?

The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!

The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!

We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:

- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”

[OregonWolf @WhitewolfOr7]

Oregon was once a land of rugged opportunity, timber, tech pioneers, and hardworking families building the American Dream in the Pacific Northwest. But starting in the late 1980s, as Democrats locked in control of the governorship and legislature with no Republican trifecta in decades, the state became a laboratory for leftist experiments. The results? Skyrocketing homelessness, urban decay in Portland, failing schools, businesses fleeing, and policies that punish success while coddling chaos. Oregon Democrats own this mess.
After the last Republican governor, Vic Atiyeh, left office in 1987, one party Democrat rule took over. They shifted school funding with Measure 5 in 1990, promising relief but delivering bureaucratic bloat and mediocre outcomes. Instead of strong basics in reading, writing, and math, Oregon kids get indoctrination. Today, too many Oregon schools rank poorly nationally, captured by unions that prioritize politics over parents and standards.
Fast forward to the progressive era: Portland’s embrace of “defund the police,” harm reduction, and radical experiments turned a vibrant city into a national punchline. Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalized hard drugs, flooding streets with fentanyl and open air addiction. Homeless encampments exploded, businesses boarded up, and downtown entered a “doom loop” of crime, vacant storefronts, and declining foot traffic. Violent crime spikes followed George Floyd era policies, with slow police response times making neighborhoods unsafe. Even after partial reversals, the damage from decades of soft on crime Democrat governance is baked in.
Economically, high taxes including income taxes that drive talent away and anti business regulations have stalled growth. While the nation recovered, Portland’s metro lost thousands of jobs in recent years, with high paying sectors hit hard. Housing costs soared due to restrictive zoning and progressive mandates, pricing out working families. Population growth slowed as Oregonians voted with their feet, heading to lower tax, safer states. Overreliance on volatile income taxes and social spending experiments left budgets strained, even as roads crumbled and services lagged.
Homelessness remains a disgrace under leaders like Tina Kotek, tents everywhere, failed “housing first” approaches without accountability, and billions spent with little results. Green deals and environmental extremism hurt traditional industries like logging and energy, trading blue collar jobs for virtue signals. Democrat supermajorities keep doubling down more spending, more rules, more excuses.
The pattern in Oregon mirrors the national Democrat playbook, erode law and order, expand government dependency, prioritize ideology over results, and watch American exceptionalism bleed out. From the 1980s timber transitions mishandled through today’s urban collapse and economic stagnation, Oregon proves that unchecked progressive governance doesn’t build, it destroys. Oregonians deserve better: lower taxes, safer streets, school choice, and policies that reward work, not welfare. It’s time to reject the failed Democrat vision that turned the Beaver State into a cautionary tale. America, and Oregon, can do better. 🇺🇸 🐺

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene.

First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners.

Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith.

The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood').

But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications.

The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point.

The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get.

Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.

As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA.

The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power.

That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax.

Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster.

Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be.

No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate.

Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.