Colonel Pete

🇺🇸 Colonel Pete | Follower of Christ | Tocqueville Liberty Institute Founder | USAF Ret | Public Speaker #theTocque.org

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

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[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

Repeal the 17th Amendment. The senate must return to the states as our founders intended.

[Gina @GinaSaysSo]

This is laughable.

Another shutdown doesn't serve "the people we represent."

Who are those people @LeaderJohnThune?

Asking for 80 MILLION who thought we were electing representation only to find out there is no such thing.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@TiffanyFong He would much more credibility if he didn't drift from his own coins. Sigh. So much to like and so much to dislike. There is always that tension.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

Not everyone should vote. Uninformed or self-interested voters dilute the republic into mob rule. Our Founders designed the republic to filter out raw self-interest and low-information voting. Direct popular election of senators through the 17th Amendment removed one of those filters. Without it, state legislatures could check federal overreach. Repeal it and restore the original balance.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

I was in NE India, Manipur State, almost 15 years ago. These were "yellow" Indians that look more like me than the subcontinent Indians. They were genuinely curious about American red Indians. I chuckled. Said they looked like me or a mix between a Chinaman and Mexican with a tan.

[Mike Kobe (Wild Horse) 🪶 @Oklahoma_Brave]

Just a FYI for those interested, only liberal clowns care if you call us "Indians". We don't mind.

The best way to refer to us collectively is by our nation.

99% of us never gave any thought to the Redskins, and all my friends thought changing the name was the bigger slap in the face.

We don't care if hot White/Adian/Hispanic chicks dress up as NDNs. Just so long as they're hot.

We don't really care if you call us Chief, but Tonto will probably earn you a punch.

We remain the demographic that enlists in the military more than any other, but rates of domestic violence and other crimes on the reservations continue to be a major problem, indicating that maybe it's not the best way to go.

NDNs like Whites, Asians and Hispanics. We're not as relaxed around Blacks and we generally really hate [dot] Indians.

Sometimes in film and TV shows you'll see NDNs wearing what may seem like a strange mix of western and classically Native attire.

This isn't a mistake. Around the time that the first Yellowstone prequel was set, the majority of Comanche wore "mixed" White/Hispanic and Native clothing.

Interestingly, at the same time, the bulk of the Navajo were stubbornly clinging to buckskins and furs.

Just some trivia for you.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@patrickjwitt Let me know how I can help. You can learn more about me on LinkedIn and https://t.co/qOt87VOCdj. Thank you, Patrick, for your service on both counts.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

A Canadian who lived their “universal healthcare” system for 32 years just gave Americans the reality check everyone pushing “Medicare for All” needs to hear.

She didn’t rant. She showed the receipts:

• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48+ hours for a hospital bed last year alone.
• Almost 1 million Canadians now leave the ER without care because the wait is too long (up fivefold in some reports).
• ER doctors warn these delays are lethal.
• 5.9 million adults still have no regular family doctor.
• Specialist waitlists are exploding — median 28.6 weeks from GP referral to treatment. Some doctors are closing practices to new patients.
• Only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people — well below the OECD average. Hallway medicine is routine. Patients die on stretchers.

Her line hits hard:

“We want universal healthcare… until we learn.”

She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.

America’s system is also broken: crushing costs, administrative bloat, and real gaps for the uninsured or underinsured. We spend nearly twice as much per person and still have problems.

The solution isn’t importing Canada’s waiting rooms. It’s fixing supply (train more doctors/nurses, cut red tape), adding real competition and price transparency, expanding HSAs/direct primary care, and protecting innovation.

Be informed before you trade one set of problems for another.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

There are very good reasons to believe this evil woman wielded "the power of the AFT" to keep schools closed so long during Covid-19, doing incalculable damage to millions of children, in order to extract (or extort) a trillion dollars of taxpayer money from the US government.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@GinaSaysSo Care to share what some of them are?

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@DeAngelisCorey @ConceptualJames Absolutely. The teachers’ unions have become the biggest obstacle to actually educating kids. They protect bad teachers, prioritize power over students, and have been bleeding parents and taxpayers dry for decades. Time to break their grip.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

If I take out a loan where the interest is 1% and I provide PRN (or collateral valued at 10% of the initial loan amount), how does the PRN coin’s value behave over the life of the loan?
Specifically:
Is the PRN coin designed to hold stable purchasing power against the US dollar, or does it tend to lose buying power (inflate) over time?
If PRN loses value against the USD (for example, drops 50% in purchasing power during the loan term), how does that affect the real interest rate I effectively pay?
Is this essentially a variable-rate loan where the real cost depends on the performance of the PRN coin? (i.e., if PRN does well and increases in value, my real interest cost goes down, and if it drops, my real cost goes up?)
Thank you!

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@scottmelker Of course they would. Fractional reserve banking is what ruined our nation.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@_J64_ @CJKonstantinos @bramk In 1913, the American people became the collateral for the US to borrow money. First, we were collateralized in February thru the 16th Amendment. Then, we were leveraged in December thru the Federal Reserve Act.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@PunterJeff That is quite alright. Just keep steadily stacking sats. When BTC recovers, MSTR should buy MSFT. 🤣

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

Vibe coding? So far, Google has the best platform from what I can see. You agree? @NicolasChaillan

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@Vivek4real_ What did he get done?

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@cathsupre @Vivek4real_ They manufacture them. They do not use them.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@praying_medic1 It's the law. You fool around and you find out.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@OldeWorldOrder It's been here. We've been asleep.

[Colonel Pete @Colonel_Pete]

@cryptofergani He is not wrong. We are slaves. Henry Ford: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”