damndrewby

US Political & Global Security Commentator | Moderate Millennial | new to the tweeter-verse 🇺🇸

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mamdani Orders Visiting Teams To Redistribute Some Of Their Runs To The Mets https://t.co/uQDijWsxV0

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@GavinNewsom This is rich coming from Mr. Prop 50.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

“All of our f**king money goes to Israel..”

It’s 0.035% of all U.S. tax dollars to be precise, and that money has to be spent exclusively on US military equipment..

But you didn’t know that…

Tell me @TheoVon Does it physically hurt being this stupid??

[John Ferguson @JohnnyWhiskyTX]

“The peaceful majority is irrelevant”

Millions of Muslims may not be blood thirsty raging wolves, but they’re not going to stop the 10% who are terrorists.

Muslims are not allowed to go against another Muslim in the Ummah

Wake up TEXAS

[Kimmie @kimmagagal2]

Accurate🤦‍♀️👀

[Shiloh Marx @Shilohmarx]

https://t.co/Zc3rPqwK0I

Ms. Senator Lisa Murkowski,

– In 2002, you became a U.S. Senator when appointed by your father, then-Governor Frank Murkowski, to fill the vacancy created by his resignation.

– In 2004, you won by 7,711 votes.

– In 2010, you lost the Republican primary to Joe Miller but managed (for only the second time in U.S. Senate history) to win the general election by write-in campaign—by 10,252 votes.

– In 2016, you won by 47,324 votes when Alaska registered 51,083 new voters between 2014 and 2016, and none of the 51,083 new voters required proof of citizenship to register to vote.

– In 2022, you won by 18,796 votes when Alaska registered 45,400 new voters between 2020 and 2022, and again none of the 45,400 new voters required proof of citizenship to register to vote.

@lisamurkowski

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@bren45000 That eye brow raise tells you everything you need to know…she couldn’t bring herself to say “Jews” but she certainly implied it — in the moment, she forgot that she normally uses the term “Zionists” as a safe way to disguise what she really thinks.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mamdani Clarifies That His Wife Only Celebrates Terrorism In Her Capacity As A Private Citizen https://t.co/ZySTxTInIO

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@MOSSADil The irony of Tucker saying this while clearly being under the “spell” of anti-semitism is hilarious — projection at its finest!

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@GovPressOffice Perhaps you could help your constituents by lowering the state’s gas tax instead of posting AI photos?

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

Don't let her bother you.

Today's meltdown is just classic Candace.

She makes charge after charge after charge and places the burden of proof on the accused - as if 'guilty until proven innocent' is a reasonable standard, and as if I have any reason to defend myself against her in the first place.

As with all conspiracists, she relies on what I call the Preponderance of False Evidence. It's an incredibly effective persuasion tactic because it makes it seem like her case is irrefutable simply because of the sheer volume of her claims. The number of charges becomes a substitute for actual evidence, as though accusing someone of MULTIPLE crimes evidences their guilt of ANY crime.

Of course, it does not.

It does make it difficult to ever defend against her onslaughts, however. Even if you refute one of her accusations with undeniable evidence, it doesn't matter because there are still so many other charges! Surely you're guilty of some of them...

You see this with, for example, the Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy. Conspiracists will say, "If there is no atmosphere on the moon, why did the flag wave?"

If you reply with facts -- the flag did not wave, it oscillated expressly because the lack of atmosphere means there was no friction to bleed off the energy from twisting the flag into the lunar soil -- the conspiracist, rather than admitting they were wrong, just hard pivots to another charge: "Why are there two directional shadows when the only light source on the moon is the sun?"

That's the power of the Preponderance of False Evidence. It seeks to bury you not only without actual evidence, but in contravention of it. Erika Kirk isn't just accused on one thing, she is complicit in her husband's murder. And the coverup. And alleged financial malfeasance. And child trafficking. And is a lesbian. And had a bad haircut in third grade...

And, and, and...

This isn't the only one of Candace's tools on display, of course. Her manipulation arsenal is formidable.

Most all of her charges rely on Bare Assertion Fallacy, Esoteric Knowledge, Big Lie techniques, Red Herring, and just about every other trick in the conman's book.

Even the threat that implies I’m afraid of being exposed by her: “Shall I share the demented 5 page email you wrote to the staff…” Perfectly crafted audience manipulation. Guaranteed to keep people tuned in for episode two.

Of course, she is savvy enough to use just a little bit of truth here and there to ground her manipulations.

For example, I did have quite a nice wardrobe at Daily Wire -- sports coats and suits, mostly. And I did have exactly one Gucci Jacket -- made famous in the Jeremy's Razors Commercial. I did not, however, have ‘a wardrobe closet filled with tailored Gucci suits.' But the charge feels credible because some of the words weren't completely made up. It's a truth-adjacent claim. And if any claim sticks, every claim sticks in the game of character assassination.

Oh, and she loves to employ projection. Projection most of all.

"Jeremy was obsessed with the spotlight!" Certainly I am not immune to ego -- an occupational hazard for everyone in public life. But Candace has literally spent the last decade in front of the camera, on stage, in documentaries, in interviews, and on her myriad shows. Are we to assume she ISN'T obsessed with the spotlight?

Jeremy is trying to “centrally cast [himself] in everything.” Has Candace ever produced a show she wasn't the star of?

Jeremy is “the rich wife with the Amex.” Um...

Of course, Candace has never met a standard she thought should be applied universally.

Everyone who criticizes her is "obsessed," even though she has now gone six months without a single episode that didn't focus on Charlie Kirk, almost as many focused on Erika Kirk - a woman whose sole crime seems to be that she dared to become more important to Charlie and then to the entire Conservative Movement than Candace herself -- and two years fixated on a small tribe of people that represent 0.2% of the global population.

Still, taken in sum, these techniques Candace employs, coupled with her incredible instinct for marketing and "it" factor, make her an incredibly effective manipulator. I've never seen better. She has earned her success, for all the good it will do her.

I will clarify one thing, though: I have never once said that I "created" Candace.

I certainly did not create her.

I didn't write the headline of the Daily Mail piece, though I did give all of the ensuing quotes.

One of those quotes is, "I'm not the cause of Candace's talent or fame, but I did play a role."

And so I did.

I invested heavily into Candace during my tenure at Daily Wire. We expended millions and millions of dollars on her and her brand, just like PragerU and TPUSA before us.

Of course, we have all paid a price for that investment -- and indeed, we should. We should have shown more discernment, and we deserve to take some lumps.

But our failures do not justify Candace's treachery. That she has betrayed most everyone who ever invested in her is, like her talent, her narcissism, and her deep dishonesty, all Candace.

No one created her but her.

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@BarackObama California literally just did the same thing (Prop 50), so it’s a bit disingenuous to frame this as a Republican-controlled state issue.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Seeing a plethora of low IQ “Israel FORCED the US into war” takes. Xi thanks you for helping to unwittingly launder CCP propaganda btw.

The US strikes come down to Iran and China having engineered a mathematically unwinnable war of attrition for any purely defensive strategy. In other words, they can replace missiles faster than the US can replace the interceptors needed to stop them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated this week that Iran is now producing over 100 ballistic missiles per month, while the US can manufacture only 6–7 relevant ballistic-missile interceptors per month (the high-end systems actually capable of reliably knocking down Iran’s advanced threats).

Even the broader Patriot PAC-3 MSE line is only at ~45 per month today and THAAD/SM-3 production is even tighter at under 10 per month before emergency surges. Surely you can see how this is a giant problem.

And what is China doing? China is deliberately supercharging this imbalance. Beijing has been caught shipping dual-use propellant ingredients, planetary mixers, and components that let Iran rebuild its munitions factories at breakneck speed.

Reuters released a report on Feb 24 revealing that Iran was days from sealing a deal with China for CM-302 supersonic anti-ship missiles capable of evading defenses, sinking US carriers / destroyers from a distance of 290 km, which turns the Strait of Hormuz into a lethal kill zone. If this doesn't strike you as a red line that should galvanize action now rather than later, then you are unable to handle the reality of geopolitical survival.

Why is China doing this? Because a cheap, endless Iranian missile barrage that forces the US to expend $4-million interceptors against $20K Shaheds (or $200K ballistic missiles) is Beijing’s perfect trap - keep America’s navy, aircraft and industrial base tied down in the Middle East burning through stockpiles. Basically, keep America busy and out of the West Pacific.

The imminent arrival of a Chinese-backed “gamechanger” would have rendered America’s naval supremacy obsolete and provide an anti-access shield over the Gulf, Iranian nuclear sites, and every proxy from Hezbollah to the Houthis. This is why the Gulf States are also aligned with US action.

The US needed to restore deterrence against a regime racing toward nukes, and send an unmistakable message that the United States will never cede the Gulf to a Sino-Iranian nightmare.

I highly recommend listening to the latest episode of @triggerpod and @havivrettiggur. These guys provide the best analysis of the situation.

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

If true, the US & Israel need to keep after it — a son who lost his father in such a way is bound to be radicalized & follow in his father’s footsteps, likely even worse when all is said and done.

For a free and successful Iran, there needs to be an unrelated moderate in power.

[New York Post @nypost]

Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is frontrunner to succeed dad as Iran’s new supreme leader: report https://t.co/j0hRUQlDQu

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Netanyahu: "You see the difference. The tyrants of Tehran target civilians, we target the tyrants of Tehran to protect civilians."

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@Sassafrass_84 I think the crazy level of engagement is also due foreign money buying bot farms, probably without some of these influencers knowing, causing real users (and the influencers themselves) to think their opinions are more popular than they really are. China, primarily.

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@MaxNordau He has cold, dead eyes….those are the eyes of a sociopath or worse.

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

Can I get my $7K now?

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

The US & Israel are on the right side of this war.

[SNEAKO @sneako]

It’s very annoying that now 90% of commentators on this app are so clearly funded by different intelligence agencies, everyone knows it, yet they keep on talking.

[damndrewby @damndrewby]

@amiKozak @MaxNordau @jakeshieldsajj Jake has been hit in the head one too many times, I think his brain is more mush than anything else.