🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️

Father of 3 young men, husband to Lori, guitar player in Old Play band, comp sci undergrad (NC State) and grad school (Ga Tech), Level 2 data scientist.

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

Because some of you have MOCKED my candidate, my candidate's supporters, and ME, relentlessly for the last 8+ years, I feel there is no better time to return the favor. There's a test involved. If you comment, please do share your score!
https://t.co/Asny8O9qAj

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@Gosleepriya 116

[MAZE @mazemoore]

The Late Night show hosts were so giddy and celebratory after Trump was banned from social media.

They absolutely LOVE censorship until someone accusing one of them of crossing the line. Then they become supporters of free speech.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is how an economy actually works

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@RDUAirport Just went through security for our morning flight. Fastest we've ever been through at this hour. Thanks TSA at RDU! You are always nice and are part of what makes RDU the best airport in the world!

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.

Here's how it went:

1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14.

2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0.

3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5.

It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.

Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.

I know you guys knew that already... lol

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Sam Harris sits quietly as Bill Maher calls out the NYT for pushing readers toward an opinion on the “Iran War.”

“The second day of the war… The New York Times’ headline was ‘US troops die.’ That was what they led with.”

“But then, in a country where I’ve read 80 to 90% of the people are thrilled that the Ayatollah is gone, what picture did they put? Picture of people mourning the Ayatollah…”

“I can’t believe that somebody at the desk didn’t get, ‘I’ve got a great picture of people dancing in the streets.’ Yeah, we’re gonna go with the 10% who are sorry the Ayatollah is dead because that’s gonna funnel the thought of our readers toward, ‘Oh, this is a bad war to get into.’”

“That, to me, is the difference in what the media does now and what they didn’t used to do. You’re funneling me toward an opinion, whereas I would love it if you just told me what happened.”

After a couple of low-energy “yeahs,” Harris conceded: “The boundary between activism and journalism has clearly broken down.”

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

Here's my Jesse Jackson story. I was in grad school at Georgia Tech in 1988. One time I was in downtown ATL, and a bunch of limos pulled up and Jesse Jackson got out. He was greeting the people on the street, including me. So I shook his hand. Little did he know that I was from North Carolina and would be voting for Bush and Jesse Helms. R.I.P. Jesse.

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@LotusBlossom44 @nckhui People aren't often fired or held accountable in Wake County Public School System. They are moved to jobs in a different location.

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@AlexPannell18 @CoachButch_CU @DariusR08981516 @mogulelites @SouthernD_FB @coachcoop29 That's great!!

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Who ordered the giant magnetic doors at the Capitol to be opened on January 6th, 2021?

[Caroline Di Russo @CaroDiRusso]

As I said earlier, regime change - in Venezuela or elsewhere - is a very serious and consequential thing.

No doubt.

But the satirical commentary following the fall of Maduro has been sensational. The irony. The sizzle. The absolute bangers.

Here are my faves so far.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I have been monitoring the Venezuela issue all day long, and there are so many questions yet to be answered (thanks to great Pentagon OPSEC), but the strategic reason for bringing down Maduro has become abundantly clear.

While we ostensibly captured Maduro based on legitimate, outstanding US drug charges from 2020, the real reason for the military operations early this morning is that neutralizing Maduro's Venezuela had become a strategic imperative for the USA.

Under Maduro, Venezuela had become the Latin American crossroads for all of the USA's principal enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hezbollah and Iran. Worst of all, Venezuela was eagerly becoming a part of Red China's Belt & Road initiative.

As America's enemies were lining up Venezuela as their base of operations in the Western Hemisphere to cause mischief and destruction for the USA, Maduro was at the same time making Venezuela a crossroads, safe haven and enabler for all manner of narcoterrorist operations, ranging from Colombia's FARC to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel.

On top of all that, Venezuela had become a key player in the illegal alien invasion of the USA, shipping its very worst to the USA in a deliberate and comprehensive destabilizing operation that might have worked had Donald Trump not won in 2024.

Next in importance: oil. The global and regional ambitions of both China and Russia are in large part dependent on the politics of petroleum, and the USA just deprived both of the cudgel afforded by friendly Venezuelan oil. Trump opponents say "It's about oil" as if that was a bad thing. Yeah, it's about oil.

Finally, all of this was in keeping with the most essential and fundamental foreign policy mandate of the USA almost since the nation's inception: the Monroe Doctrine. Operations like what Maduro was running simply cannot be allowed in the Western Hemisphere. Trump was right for falling back on this most basic of doctrines that protects the USA's sovereignty.

So was Maduro seized because of some five year-old drug charges? Yes. Legally--yes. However, like so many strategic issues in the world today, an action needed to be backed by the fine points of law, and it was. But the reality is that the Maduro takedown was a Monroe Doctrine-driven necessity that has greatly enhanced the power and national security of the USA.

Congratulations, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump national security team: you boldly took the steps necessary to defend the USA.

Well done.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Wild how only one of these ignited a week-long media outrage cycle

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Scott Adams breaks down all the ways the Democratic Party is a Criminal Organization.

Money Laundering via NGOs
Theft of SNAP Funds
ActBlue as a Criminal Entity
Election Rigging
Misappropriation of California Public Funds
Circular Money Laundering in Education Funding
Russia Collusion Hoax
Clinton Foundation Money Laundering
General Involvement in Gigantic Frauds

@ScottAdamsSays "It seems like a criminal organization.

And I mean that without any hyperbole."

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@nckhui @skgodwin @kyle_ingram11 I just saw you responded to this after I'd also posted about it.

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@nckhui @kyle_ingram11 Certainly you've written articles about politicians and activists across the political spectrum. Can you, @nckhui , cite any post you've ever made referencing a "far-left" person?

[🇺🇲 B-Dawg 🏖️ @blainnc]

@greendragonhq @grok Are people moving from Massachusetts to Tennessee or vice versa? Why?