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[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

“I know that Republicans might not be the answer to all of your problems but Democrats are the source of all of them.”

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Here’s the difference between me and the woke right losers who want to destroy the Republican Party.

I may not love this deal or be happy with it. I don’t even know what the full terms will be, no one does.

But whatever it is won’t change all the other things Trump did that I voted for.

I will still vote Republican no matter what. I won’t pretend like he’s the same thing as Biden and Kamala or whatever else I see happening on here right now.

None of this changes the fact that he is still the last man standing between us and full blown Marxism.

I will not doom and gloom the midterms.

Because ultimately I know that Republicans might not be the answer to all of your problems but Democrats are the source of all of them.

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

@JohnCornyn Grifter

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

@bungarsargon @AsheSchow Gold medal effective takedown. Batya sees things so clearly.

[The Cure @thecure]

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[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

What radicalized you?

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

@derekahunter @AlsobrooksForMD I'd celebrate the end of moral high ground lectures from democrats, but soon remember that all circumstances are one-offs that need not connect with any principal or standard cuz they just get in the way.

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

@howellsuzy @WSJ Yes! Like all the bad things, it was TRUMP who broke the barrier and ruined everything! This point in time would be devoid of sin without him. SMH, SMH.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

No GOP senate leader has ever lost 2 sitting members to primary challenges in one cycle until tonight. Congratulations John Thune.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

Feedback offered in good faith: I’m increasingly less likely to click through the links you post to your SI “articles“. This article is so devoid of information value and coherent writing that next time I’m likely to pass. Word quota met I guess. Hondo, if you are these guys’ boss as I’ve heard you describe yourself on podcasts, can you maybe get in there and add some editing or mentorship?

[IRISH PATRIOT @irishpatriot91]

Ireland 🇮🇪

Ballmun is saying NO to any Mosque, and rightly so.

Well done to the community for standing up, we don’t want these buildings anywhere in our country! https://t.co/NVdEDbPm8a

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.

No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.

The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.

Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.

Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.

Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.

The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”

America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.

Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.

Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.

It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

Carney's New War on Trump: Soros's ICC Architect Takes Canada https://t.co/i6hjSLUKy7 via @YouTube

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene...

This is the worst.

60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied.

They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later.

They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims.

Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists.

I'm so angry.

Let me tell you what 60 Minutes will NEVER report on

I was there. I lived it. I am still here.

I shared every story I could find.

Me, my wife, hundreds of volunteers delivered RVs to mothers holding babies who were sleeping in TOOL SHEDS AND TENTS in the freezing cold, in the mountains.

Because their homes had been ripped off the side of a mountain and washed down the French Broad.

So tell me 60 Minutes... WHERE WAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

Tell me, WHY did all these volunteers NEED to show up?

Any thoughts on that?!!!!!

Any investigation AT ALL into the federal or state government's response to Hurricane Helene?

Please tell me... if the federal government was doing such a GREAT JOB, why did we need to put victims in RVs...

...A MONTH AFTER THE HURRICANE?!!!!!!!

Literally every single victim you talk to in Western North Carolina has a horror story about dealing with FEMA...

...and guess who they will all say actually cam through for them?

Neighbors.
Church groups.
The Amish.
The Cajun Navy.
Shawn Hendricks.
Samaritan's Purse.
MercuryOne.

The Mission Mules hauling insulin up washed-out roads, ONLY ACCESSIBLE by mules.

Greg Biffle burning his own fuel in helicopters.

Veterans like Adam Smith who organized helicopter rescues with other veterans BY HIMSELF and then was demonized by the media for it.

Volunteers like Jake Jarvis working TO THIS DAY, 550 days later without ANY PAY AT ALL.

THOSE ARE THE STORIES FROM HURRICANE HELENE WORTH TELLING.

But 60 Minutes won't tell ANY OF THEM.

Because the truth makes the federal government the villain and the "deplorables" are actually the heroes in this story and they can NEVER admit that.

So instead they smeared the rescuers as white nationalists.

This is unforgivable.

I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.

And I will BE DAMNED if I let CBS rewrite the history of what happened to my mountains.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

I promise you, Ro Khanna, my daughter was scared when she was forced to take her last breath.
I was not there to hold her as she slipped away.
For years, Americans were told about “robust vetting” and “screening.” My family learned the cost of those false assurances when an illegal immigrant, driving intoxicated and in this country unlawfully, killed my daughter under the very policies you champion and still defend.
Oh, and he got a release date — because of course he did.
Katie got the grave.
Katie’s family got a life sentence of grief while he got another chance.
Your one-sided hyperbolic rhetoric would fit right in with J.B. Pritzker, his allies and the Illinois media that protects him.
How far we have fallen when men like you are treated as moral leaders while families like mine are left with graves, not justice. Bang-up job sir!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy is pretty philanthropic.

Giving low income/rural or disaster/storm hit areas access to high-speed internet via Starlink is pretty philanthropic.

Giving disabled people the ability to control computers & robotic arms with their thoughts is pretty philanthropic.

@elonmusk's companies are doing more to improve quality of human life than any "charitable" giving from any other billionaire on that list.

[Steve Parker @chortlehype]

@TheLaurenChen If you have a mother, you probably have someone who will stick up for you even when you are really really bad. It’s the first impulse.

[VoxDawg - Pattern Recognizer @VoxDawg]

@AlecMacGillis Pro Tip: If your NGO has to close its doors when the government stops funneling taxpayer dollars to you, then you were NOT a "Non-governmental organization"

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Dear John Thune,

Step aside now and let a real leader get the Save America Act passed

We are done with RINO Traitors

Sincerely,
77+ Million MAGA Patriots

[Some Welder 🇺🇸 @SomeWelder]

I’m happy my birth mother gave me up for adoption, rather than murder me.
If she hadn’t, I wouldn’t be here today to tell you to go fuck yourself.