Very happy to let y'all know that yesterday I finally started taking antidepressants (yes, I see the irony in how this is worded) along with meeting with a therapist for the past 7+ months. Mental health = health; take care of yourselves and do what you need to do to be happy
The U.S. National Debt is $40T
Donald Trump accumulated $16T of that $40T
In just 6 years, Donald Trump has been responsible for 40% of the debt our country has ever accumulated in 250 years.
Kansas already ran this exact experiment, and the record is not close. The state's proof of citizenship law blocked 31,089 eligible registrations, a tenth circuit appellate court's own precise number, 12 percent of everyone trying to register for the first time. In exchange for that, the state's own evidence in court identified 39 noncitizens who managed to register over nineteen years, an average of about two a year, which the appeals court itself called incredibly slight evidence. A federal judge eventually struck the law down entirely and ordered Kris Kobach back to legal education classes before renewing his own law license.
The SAVE America Act's polling numbers tell a similar story once you ask the actual question instead of the easy one. Voter ID alone polls at 74 percent. Ask about the documentary proof of citizenship requirement specifically, and support drops to somewhere between 51 and 65 percent depending on the poll. Ask whether people support the SAVE Act as a whole, the actual bill with its mail voting ban and its federal takeover of state election administration, and it falls to 37 percent, with 63 percent either opposed or unsure. That gap between how a slogan polls and how the actual legislation polls is not an accident. It is the entire strategy.
Worth sitting with the passport numbers too. A hundred forty million Americans do not have one. Twenty-one million voting age citizens have no citizenship document handy at all. Only five states even issue the enhanced REAL ID that shows citizenship status, and more than a third of Americans mistakenly believe their standard REAL ID already does. The gap between what people think they can produce and what they can actually produce is exactly where Kansas lost thirty-one thousand real, eligible, documented citizens the first time this idea got tried at scale.
The idiot who runs our country says this but doesn’t have the courage or evidence to come after me. This should tell you how low IQ he is. Trump is who needs to get the hell out of our country because he is destroying it and making us the laughing stock of the world.
Three years ago I sued @PatrickByrne for lying about me. He claimed that I took a bribe and committed treason. He implied I was in some part responsible for the Hamas attack of October 7th.
His lies caused real damage and endangered my family.
On Friday I was awarded $1.7M in punitive damages by a Reagan-appointed federal judge. The court determined that everything he said about me was a complete fiction.
For those of you who don’t know Patrick Byrne, he is the former Overstock CEO who lost control of his company when it became public he was sleeping with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina. He is the man who was in the Oval Office with Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell leading up to the January 6th insurrection.
He is a clownish footnote in history. But his lies travel far and wide. He is a fraud who did the bidding of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.
This isn’t the first defamation case brought against Byrne, and it won’t be the last. Even after losing, he is still doing it.
He continues to tell his audience he has “three dynamite voicemails” and a former federal agent whose testimony confirms his story. Byrne had three years to bring that evidence to court. He never produced it. The voicemails he did produce, the court found, “do not mention a bribe, implicate contemporaneous involvement in any illegal scheme by Plaintiff, or otherwise independently corroborate Defendant’s story.” The former federal agent Byrne relied on, John Moynihan, gave sworn testimony that contradicted him. The FBI agent Byrne claimed had backed him up denied it under oath.
Those are not my findings. Those are the findings of a federal court. And nothing prevents Byrne from releasing the voicemails he keeps promising his audience. He never has, because the court has already listened to what he produced and found they prove nothing.
Patrick will try not pay this judgment. He didn’t pay the $34,969 the court ordered six months ago either. His strategy is delay. Fire the lawyer. Skip the hearing. File nonsense with courts that have already ruled. Repeat the lie on Alex Jones while the clock runs.
He is not a whistleblower or a spy. He is a man who got played by a Russian intelligence asset, lost his company over it, and has been performing a spy fantasy on the internet ever since.
He is a coward who wouldn’t even show up in court to face me. He is hiding in Dubai, where he fled during my case to avoid being deposed, and told the court a story about a Venezuelan hit squad to explain it.
He will run from this judgment the same way he ran from my trial. Fine. Every defamatory statement is a new lawsuit. I have as much time as he has words.
Isn't it funny how the mainstream media suddenly loses interest when the truth destroys one of its favorite anti-Biden narratives.
Yes, you read that right: @HunterBiden won a defamation case over bullshit claims that he was corrupt.
And remember the FBI informant who claimed Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from Burisma? He pleaded guilty to lying. But you probably didn't know that because it only made it to the back page headlines at the time.
The press gave the accusations endless headlines and wall-to-wall coverage. But when the stories collapse, the accusers are exposed, and the Bidens are vindicated?
Crickets.
Because the lie was profitable. The truth was inconvenient.
The lie gets the headline. The Bidens get smeared. The truth gets buried.
I remember a time when young men were chastised for showing this kind of earned emotion. Very fresh that the full range is available to these young cats.
This is a study from Scotland
2.3% of babies born to COVID-vaccinated mothers had birth defects!
Guess what the rate in UNvaccinated mothers was?
Wait for it....wait for it....wait for it........
2.3%!!
The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice
And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense
Such a tiresome waste of time
In all seriousness though, this will (or at least should) go down as one of the biggest media failures in modern history.
The political media absolutely HOUNDED the previous president and made his age/health THE ONLY issue that mattered of his presidency.
And then they helped elect a guy who was just a few years younger (aka still old as shit) with a litany of unexplained health issues, a brain that is visibly detoriating and who brags about taking his dementia test 3x a week.
And then....they just haven't talked about it. At all. You can barely even get them to acknowledge it.
They alleged a big coverup of Biden's health, but they are literally complicit in covering up the current president, Donald Trump's health...which we can all see, right in front of our very eyes.
Just can't put into words how much of a disgrace the political media is...
“I could have kept the whole $2B that I plundered from the taxpayers for myself. Instead, I was kind enough to give some of it away to folks who beat the fuck out of cops!”
Not many players were better than @Ky1eLong in his prime. Even at his best, he still needed help when it came to his mental health. Now, he's an advocate.
My conversation with the former Bears great on mental health, meeting expectations, Caleb Williams, Logan Jones, & more. 👇
They’ve all memory holed that a GOP led Senate Committee that included Marco Rubio investigated Russia’s conduct in the 2016 election.
They concluded that Russia intervened to help Trump (DNC/Podesta hack & leak, bot disinfo farms), and that Trump gleefully accepted their help.
@Nate_Tice Interesting- do you mind giving a tiny scouting blurb on why? I thought I had seen that analysts + scouts were much higher on him, and excited to watch him/see him enter the draft next year