“A lot of my childhood was around East LA. Cumbia has been in the background my whole life since I was a small child.”
@beck joins @IMS_MIS and Meridian Brothers on new track “Ritmo Babilonia”
https://t.co/lBIoSBcSIA
More than anything else, we the people want the gaslighting to stop.
Every failing organization in America, from commercial airlines to government agencies, runs the same meeting:
Everyone in the room knows the truth.
No one is allowed to say it.
That meeting is the problem.
Boyd’s OODA loop for solving problems starts with Observe. Lie at step one and every step after is theater.
Read that again. If observation is a lie, the entire loop fails.
Honesty isn’t a virtue. It’s infrastructure.
Fix that first. Everything else follows.
We the people know the system is broken. We know the problems. We know that 15 minute delay will become 8 hours. We know the SAVE Act won’t pass this month.
We are wide awake.
And some of us want revenge. Some want jail for the swamp creatures in DC. Some want to throw away the key.
I want accountability too. Not violence. Not revenge.
It isn’t the right that’s violent. I today’s left because when you are fed lies you become disoriented and confused and violence appears to be the only way out.
What I care about more than revenge is information. Cold hard facts. Who is screwing us. How they are screwing us. Names. Dates. Locations. Intent.
That’s why @nickshirleyy, @DataRepublican, and @MikeBenzCyber get millions of views.
Half a dozen times @DataRepublican has reached out and offered to investigate a person or problem she sees on my feed.
Her most common reply the next day? “Suspicious, but no hard evidence.”
Then she moves on. And I thank her profusely.
She doesn’t manipulate, spin, or trade in half truths. She publishes verifiable facts.
Facts you can use to find solutions to our collective problems.
There is a hunger for truth in this country.
Why?
Why is truth so powerful?
Why does the bare exposure of a fact often satisfy more than results?
The American spirit.
We are the most innovative, most adaptable, most resourceful people on earth. Give us the truth and we will find a way. Maybe not for the whole nation, but absolutely for ourselves and our families.
String us along on half truths and a steady diet of lies, and we are paralyzed.
Look at Los Angeles. Look at the wildfires.
Is there any doubt that most of those families would already be rebuilding if Karen Bass had not lied about cutting red tape?
Even if she had said it would take two years to start rebuilding, people would have been furious. Then they would have found temporary solutions. They would have moved, leased, adapted, fought.
When you can’t find the facts, when you can’t tell truth from fiction, you freeze.
The American spirit runs on truth.
Give us the facts. Even ugly ones. Even painful ones. We will find a way. We may even applaud the bad news.
Spoon feed us bullshit, and we will hate you.
Superman resonated with Americans because he was right
True, Justice and the American Way
But what they didn’t teach you is that order is critical.
Truth THEN Justice THEN the American Way
STOP BULLSHITTING US
We are Americans. We can handle the hard truth.
I’d love to keep the filibuster and make filibustering senators speak
That’s how the filibuster is supposed to work—protecting robust debate in the Senate
It no longer does that; it now forestalls debate
Enforce the filibuster
Or nuke it
The status quo empowers Democrats
@johnkonrad If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.” -General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, February, 1951
What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit?
What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe?
What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel?
What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language?
What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks?
What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big?
What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week?
What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way?
What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize?
What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy?
What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this?
What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it?
What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages?
What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended?
What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead.
I’m not saying I believe all of it.
I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.
Matthew 28:5-6
But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.”
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Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁
Killing my last remaining hopeful argument mostly. Although now I'm trying to convince myself COVID response wasn't worse than a forever war. That COVID response might have done more harm if we didn't learn from it.
I in fact do not “trust the plan,” especially when the exact plan is never coherently articulated. The idea that we should reserve criticism of our elected leaders on the vague assumption that there must be some sort of “plan” that we mere mortals don’t understand is just embarrassing. How did “trusting the plan” work during COVID? How has it ever worked?