David McPherson

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Warning ⚠️ Language
But this needs to be said and as usual Glenn Reib did it perfectly!

Dear America,

Listen up, because this is getting infuriating as hell. You’ve heard of “death by a thousand paper cuts”? This is death by a thousand shrugs and those shrugs are turning into open celebration of the knife. We are barreling toward either the final death rattle of this republic or the very beginning of something far darker. Right now it feels like we’re sprinting straight into the abyss while the clowns running the show are throwing a damn victory party. I’m calling it moral shrugging and it’s rotting this country from the inside out like aggressive cancer. Every single problem we have could be fixed if these spineless cowards actually gave a damn. If they drew hard lines and said “this crosses a principle that actually matters.” But no. We’re drowning in pure, toxic indifference. Indifference is the anesthesia that lets them carve up a free society while the patient stays fast asleep&smiles about it. American citizens are being murdered in our own streets, &what do we get? Excuses. Justifications. Shrugs. And now, outright gloating.

Let me show you exactly how sick and depraved this has become. This is a Chicago alderwoman reacting to the cold-blooded murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman, out with friends on a public pier doing the most innocent thing: walking by the lake, hoping to catch the Northern Lights. Here’s what this progressive hack actually said about Sheridan Gorman’s death: “It sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time…they might have startled this person who had a gun at the end of the pier unintentional” Stop right there, you disgusting piece of shit. Sheridan Gorman, a beautiful, innocent 18-year-old girl...is shot in the back and killed by an illegal alien from Venezuela, a guy who had no business being in this country. And your first instinct is to blame the dead teenager for “startling” her killer? Wrong place, wrong time? The only person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time was that damn illegal who should’ve been deported long ago. Sheridan Gorman belonged exactly where she was...on American soil, in an American city, walking a public pier. She had every right to be there. He had zero. But in sanctuary-city Chicago, where they scream every day that guns are the real problem and law-abiding citizens shouldn’t have them, suddenly the narrative flips: poor Sheridan Gorman “startled” the armed invader. This isn’t indifference. This is active, repulsive justification for evil.

And just when you think these ghouls can’t sink any lower, add insult to injury, Mayor Brandon Johnson rolls up a brand-new baby-blue salt truck emblazoned with “ABOLISH ICE” in giant letters. Days after Sheridan Gorman was executed on that pier, this clown of a mayor proudly points at the truck like it’s some glorious symbol of unity. “Look everyone! Chicago stands together!” Abolish ICE. The very agency that could have removed the animal who murdered Sheridan Gorman. What a fucking clown show. While an innocent American girl like Sheridan Gorman lies dead because of sanctuary policies that protect criminals over citizens, the mayor of Chicago is celebrating a snowplow named after his desire to keep the borders wide open and the killers inside. He called her murder “heartbreaking” and a “terrible tragedy” then immediately doubled down on the same failed policies that got Sheridan Gorman killed. This isn’t politics anymore. This is a screaming, blood-red civilizational warning light. We’re watching corruption deeper than Watergate&taxpayer theft that makes Bernie Madoff look like a shoplifter. Innocent girls like Sheridan Gorman are being gunned down by people who shouldn’t even be here, and the response from our so-called leaders is smug defiance and virtue-signaling salt trucks.

Too many on our side are shrugging too “Nothing ever happens. Why bother?”
RIP Sheridan🙏

[David McPherson @chicagomcp]

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Officials also say the Amish have REFUSED to be paid for their labor.

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!!

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“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A number of my good friends and family have been surprised about my decision to support @realDonaldTrump for president. They have been surprised because my political giving history has been mostly to Democrats, my voting registration has typically been Democrat (in NY, you must be registered to the party in order to vote in the primary, and usually the Republican candidate has no chance to win), and many of our philanthropic initiatives have supported issues that are consistent with Democratic priorities.

All of the above said, I have always considered myself to be a centrist and/or moderate, and I have voted for the candidate and supported the issues and policies that I believe are in the best interest of the country. Some have accused me of supporting Trump because doing so will somehow benefit me financially. Fortunately, I do not need any financial benefits as I and my family have well more than we need. I have also committed to give away the substantial majority of my resources at or by the time I am no longer, so I don't consider personal financial benefits in the determination of whom I support for office.

Some have suggested that I am supporting Trump because I am seeking a position in his administration. To be clear, I haven't been offered one and I wouldn't take a job in the administration (I love my job and it is the wrong time in my life to work in an administration). I will, however, do everything else I can to help the president succeed in helping our country and its citizens.

All of the above said, I am an investor who manages funds that own some of the best, principally American, businesses in the world. In a better governed and managed America, these business will do better and increase in value faster. One might therefore argue that being 'long' America is somehow a conflict, so I thought to disclose this potential 'conflict' here.

Some of my friends and family who support @KamalaHarris are ok with my supporting Trump, but don't want me to attempt to convince others to support him. Because I strongly believe that a Trump administration will be better for the country and the world than a Harris administration, I think it is important to share my thinking to the extent it helps others come to the right conclusion.

Three months ago, when I endorsed Trump on the day of the first assassination attempt, I promised to share my thinking about why I came to this conclusion in a future more detailed post. I intend to do so in possibly more than one post, with the first, this one, explaining the actions and policies of the Biden/Harris administration and Democratic Party that were the catalysts for my losing total confidence in the administration and the Party.

To be clear, my decision to vote for Trump is not an endorsement of everything he has done or will do because he is an imperfect man. Unlike a marriage or a business partnership where there are effectively unlimited alternatives, in this election, we have only two viable choices. Of the two, I believe that Trump is by far the superior candidate despite his flaws and mistakes he has made in the past.

As always, I welcome your feedback on how I could be wrong and on how the below actions and policies I outline below might actually have been good for America. I have always believed that the best way to get to the truth is to hear the best arguments on all sides of an issue.

While the 33 actions I describe below are those of the Democratic Party and the Biden/Harris administration, they are also the actions and policies that unfortunately our most aggressive adversaries would likely implement if they wanted to destroy America from within, and had the ability to take control of our leadership.

These are the 33:

(1) open the borders to millions of immigrants who were not screened for their risk to the country, dumping them into communities where the new immigrants overwhelm existing communities and the infrastructure to support the new entrants, at the expense of the historic residents,

(2) introduce economic policies and massively increase spending without regard to their impact on inflation and the consequences for low-income Americans and the increase in our deficit and national debt,

(3) withdraw from Afghanistan, abandoning our local partners and the civilians who worked alongside us in an unprepared, overnight withdrawal that led to American casualties and destroyed the lives of Afghani women and girls for generations, against the strong advice of our military leadership, and thereafter not showing appropriate respect for their loss at a memorial ceremony in their honor,

(4) introduce thousands of new and unnecessary regulations in light of the existing regulatory regime that interfere with our businesses’ ability to compete, restraining the development of desperately needed housing, infrastructure, and energy production with the associated inflationary effects,

(5) modify the bail system so that violent criminals are released without bail,

(6) destroy our street retailers and communities and promote lawlessness by making shoplifting (except above large thresholds) no longer a criminal offense,

(7) limit and/or attempt to limit or ban fracking and LNG so that U.S. energy costs increase substantially and the U.S. loses its energy independence,

(8) promote DEI ideologies that award jobs, awards, and university admissions on the basis of race, sexual identity and gender criteria, and teach our students and citizens that the world can only be understood as an unfair battle between oppressors and the oppressed, where the oppressors are only successful due to structural racism or a rigged system and the oppressed are simply victims of an unfair system and world,

(9) educate our elementary children that gender is fluid, something to be chosen by a child, and promote hormone blockers and gender reassignment surgeries to our youth without regard to the longer-term consequences to their mental and physical health, and allow biological boys and men to compete in girls and women's sports, depriving girls and women of scholarships, awards, and other opportunities that they would have rightly earned otherwise,

(10) encourage and celebrate massive protests and riots that lead to the burning and destruction of local retail and business establishments while at the same time requiring schools to be shuttered because of the risk of Covid-19 spreading during large gatherings,

(11) encourage and celebrate anti-American and anti-Israel protests and flag burning on campuses around the country with no consequences for the protesters who violate laws or university codes and policies,

(12) allow antisemitism to explode with no serious efforts from the administration to quell this hatred,

(13) mandate vaccines that have not been adequately tested nor have their risks been properly considered compared with the potential benefits adjusted for the age and health of the individual, censoring the contrary advice of top scientists around the world,

(14) shut down free speech in media and on social media platforms that is inconsistent with government policies and objectives,

(15) use the U.S., state, and local legal systems to attack and attempt to jail, take off the campaign trail, and/or massively fine candidates for the presidency without regard to the merits or precedential issues of the case,

(16) seek to defund the police and promote anti-police rhetoric causing a loss of confidence in those who are charged with protecting us,

(17) use government funds to subsidize auto companies and internet providers with vastly more expensive, dated and/or lower-quality technology when greatly superior and cheaper alternatives are available from companies that are owned and/or managed by individuals not favored by the current administration,

(18) mandate in legislation and otherwise government solutions to problems when the private sector can do a vastly better, faster, and cheaper job,

(19) seek to ban gas-powered cars and stoves without regard to the economic and practical consequences of doing so,

(20) take no serious actions when 45 American citizens are killed by terrorists and 12 are taken hostage,

(21) hold back armaments and weaponry from our most important ally in the Middle East in the midst of their hostage negotiations, hostages who include American citizens who have now been held for more than one year,

(22) eliminate sanctions on one of our most dangerous enemies enabling them to generate $150 billion+ of cash reserves from oil sales, which they can then use to fund terrorist proxy organizations who attack us and our allies. Exchange five American hostages held by Iran for five Iranians plus $6 billion of cash in the worst hostage negotiation in history setting a disastrous and dangerous precedent,

(23) remove known terrorist organizations from the terrorist list so we can provide aid to their people, and allow them to shoot rockets at U.S. assets and military bases with little if any military response from us,

(24) lie to the American people about the cognitive health of the president and accuse those who provide video evidence of his decline of sharing doctored videos and being right wing conspirators,

(25) do nothing about the deteriorating health of our citizens driven by the food industrial complex, the fraudulent USDA food pyramid, and the inclusion of ingredients in our food that are banned by other countries around the world which are more protective of their citizens,

(26) do nothing about the proliferation of new vaccines that are not properly analyzed for their risk versus the potential benefit for healthy children who are mandated to receive them,

(27) do nothing about the continued exemption from liability for the pharma industry that has led to a proliferation of mandatory vaccines for children without considering the potential cumulative effects of the now mandated 72-shot regime,

(28) convince our minority youth that they are victims of a rigged system and that the American dream is not available to them,

(29) fail to provide adequate Secret Service protection for alternative presidential candidates,

(30) litigate to prevent alternative candidates from getting on the ballot, and take other anti-competitive steps including threatening political consultants who wish to work for alternative candidates for the presidency, and limit the potential media access for other candidates by threatening the networks' future access to the administration and access to 'scoops' if they platform an alternative candidate,

(31) select the Democratic nominee for president in a backroom process by undisclosed party leaders without allowing Americans to choose between candidates in an open primary,

(32) choose an inferior candidate for the presidency when other much more qualified candidates are available and interested to serve,

(33) litigate to make it illegal for states to require proof of citizenship, voter ID, and/or residence in order to vote at a time when many Americans have lost confidence in the accuracy and trustworthiness of our voting system.

I welcome your thoughts.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Let’s not forget that @POTUS Biden was the Democratic presidential candidate 63 days ago.

We were told by the administration and the media that Biden was in perfect health and that videos of him exhibiting serious deterioration were ‘right wing propaganda.’

Then, threatened with the 25th amendment, on July 21st, he stepped aside to be replaced by @KamalaHarris who was complicit in the lie. She knew, and she told the American people otherwise. Her reward for keeping quiet was to become the presidential candidate without a primary or other transparent process for her selection.

The Biden lie is perhaps the greatest lie ever told to the American people by our government. And this lie was also told to us repeatedly with a bold face by the current Democratic nominee for president.

Now all of a sudden, the former most left-leaning Senator (proudly left of Bernie) and now the most left-wing politician in the country, over the last two months has become a gun-toting, shoot-the-intruder, fracking-supporting, border-wall-building candidate who began her career at @McDonalds. She almost sounds like a Republican candidate for president.

How can anyone trust anything she says?

Even if you carefully watch her speak or read the transcripts of the four interviews and one debate she has done, it is nearly impossible to understand what she is saying. She has yet to answer a direct question about the economy, the border, or foreign policy.

In response to questions about specific policies, she simply repeats the same scripted stories about being a prosecutor, growing up middle class, and/or other non-sequiturs, and neither the media nor the moderators challenge these insipid, unresponsive answers.

I voted for @JoeBiden because after @realDonaldTrump’s first term, I believed the country would benefit by a more centrist candidate. Biden promised to bring the country together. And as Biden was a supposed ‘one-term’ president, we were misled into believing he wouldn’t be beholden to the progressive wing of the party and could implement a moderate political agenda.

I and the American people were misled. I apologize for casting my vote for Biden. It was a big mistake.

VP Harris’s entire candidacy relies on support from an undisclosed cabal of party leaders who selected her in a private process. She didn’t get one vote in a primary. As such, she is perhaps the most beholden-to-the party candidate in history.

Her campaign is a blatant attempt to say what she needs to say in order to get elected. She is keeping her appearances unprecedentedly limited compared to any other candidate in history so that she has less surface area to be understood for who she really is and what she actually believes.

She has done four interviews and @Tim_Walz four during the last 63 days compared to 70 for Trump and @JDVance.

[See: https://t.co/jBlD23GBCO]

Ask yourself, what previous presidential candidate in history has run a campaign doing everything he or she could to avoid the media? You won’t find one. Then ask yourself, why?

VP Harris’ evasiveness is only possible here because of a complicit media which should be screaming from the rooftops about her refusal to be interviewed, but instead repeatedly excuse and praise her and her campaign.

In the nearly four years of the Biden/Harris administration, the world is up in flames with a hot war in Europe with approaching one million dead, and a growing conflagration in the Middle East. Our large and small cities are overrun with unvetted migrants with the associated impact on crime, budgets, and services, and lower income Americans cannot afford a proper meal. Our universities have become hotbeds of hate. Free speech is being squelched except for @X, one of the first likely targets, along with its proprietor @elonmusk, of a future Harris administration. Our government spending and waste are totally out of control and I could go on and on.

I strongly encourage you to vote accordingly.

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Non-Citizens Voting Needs To Dominate The News Again, Make This Go Viral

“Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama's key advisor, is heading up the operation of tasking our federal agencies to actually get votes from illegal immigrants.”

“There's no doubt that this is the plan. It's to encourage these illegals to vote. They've given them phones. They connect them to Social Security numbers. They connect them to voting in these states. And their job, really, is to come here and vote. And they're putting them in the right places, the right states.”

“The reality is, it was the plan from the beginning, get these people here as fast as possible and get them voting”

“The Congresswoman is absolutely right and most states, only three states, actually have laws that require proof of citizenship. So the rest of us are exposed if they get a Social Security number and a driver's license, they're going to vote.”

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Incredible! 97-year-old WW2 paratrooper vet returns to Normandy to recreate his D-Day jump. 🫡🫡

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Renovated course at @CanalShores near Chicago reopens this summer following work by @wadsworth_golf, Todd Quitno, @JoshLesnik, @KemperSports and @QuitnoGolf 👇

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The story behind our big weekend in Augusta.

Last summer a guy named "Stevie Nicklaus" (with a Florida area code) reached out to us with a voicemail and wanted to have a FlagBag made for his grandpa.
We thought... "Could it be?"

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