Dan Reynolds

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[Dan Reynolds @dan_reynolds]

Growing up is realizing chicken tenders and fries is one of the healthiest items on the menu

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.

[Dan Reynolds @dan_reynolds]

@The_Wood95 You wrote this BEFORE going up at new way, too. Shit sucked

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

It would be far more illuminating to show the numbers annually going back 10 to 15 years. Then people can see the pattern of growth.

In any case, all this data is publicly available, and members of Congress and the president know the numbers, if nothing else, before each bill is passed and signed into law. They don’t care that what they’re doing is insane because they figure they’ll never individually be blamed for a debt crisis, but they will individually be blamed for holding up the goodies they promised constituents and interest groups.

[Hillsdale College @Hillsdale]

Yes!

In The Federalist it says that “it will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

True at America’s founding. True now.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

My kids are settling in to the Vice President's official residence, and I just want to say: thank you to the American people.

While we don't own this property, it is a beautiful home for our three little kids. We are grateful, and will take good care of it.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

When I started studying the Bible and learning what it means to be a Christian, I wondered if I was going to become sanctimonious and scornful of others.

Ultimately I'm willing to become whatever He wants, but I was genuinely curious where it would take me.

So far, it's been the opposite. I'm so focused right now on examining the sin in my life, removing it as best I can, and learning just how undeserving I am of His grace, which He has offered me anyway.

One of my biggest sins, and the one I will probably never fully overcome, has been to not love my neighbor as myself.

The way I'm trying to change this is by picturing every person I interact with as a reflection of myself, and trying to treat them the way I'd want to be treated.

I am NOWHERE near being good at this yet, and I suspect I'll always struggle with this one. But I'm trying my best.

If you see me failing to treat my neighbor as myself, please point it out to me. Thank you in advance, and God bless you.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

- Jesus, in Matthew 22

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

10 days ago, Biden said he will only pardon individuals who committed crimes.

Today he pardoned Fauci, Milley, Cheney, EVERYONE on the J/6th Committee.

[Tommy Christie @tommyswriting]

For context, no other singular book has shaped the path of Western thought, ethics, and literature as forcefully and directly as "The Bible."

It's not a "book" so much as it's a Library of scrolls, documents, history, and poetry from the ancient Middle East.

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

FAKE NEWS 🚨

DETROIT - Here's that "lush 22-acre haven along Detroit’s revitalized riverfront" that the NYTimes encourages you to visit as one of '52 Places To Go' on earth.

Call ahead. We still need lots of Miracle-Gro and donations to cover the $40 million that was embezzled.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but there will always be something to offend a feminist. 😆

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

40% of homicides in the US take place in districts with a Soros-funded prosector.

Biden gave him a Medal Of Freedom.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

"The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them." - St. John Vianney

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

I can’t watch my old favorite Christmas comedies anymore because I don’t have cable. Thankfully, I’ve got the buffoonery of Michigan politics. If you haven’t been watching, last week was a classic.

The Plot:

The Democrat-controlled state legislature—which takes a full-time salary but took half the year off—saved its dirty work for the “lame duck” session, which falls between the day after the election and the New Year. That way, no politician has to answer for the vomit of legislation they vote for that the public doesn’t want. It’s bad. Really bad. Almost as bad as Canada.

Thankfully, the whole scheme fell apart last week when a solitary Democrat and the entire Republican caucus refused to show up. Instead of driver’s licenses for illegals, $1 billion for a billionaire, and tampons for schoolboys, the Democrats got a pie in the face. It did make for an amusing theater, however, featuring a marquee cast of nitwits, nincompoops, and nutcrackers.

The Players:

The Gretch who stole Christmas — Democrats (and lobbyists) were fuming that their feckless leader was AWOL for much of the session. Part of her time was spent hiding out in her hole up on Mount Crumpit, add in another week for a “trade mission” to Spain. Either way, the citizens of Whoville failed to recognize Whitmer when she came down the mountain because her face had mysteriously changed once again.

The Bouncing Bumble — Poor House Speaker Joe Tate (D) was tasked with the job of the abominable snowman to herd the surly elves into the house for a vote. In the end, Tate got exposed as a toothless oaf whose future employment prospects appear to be in the field of janitorial services.

Cindy Lou Who Me? — Detroit Representative Karen Whitsett (D) starred as Cindy Lou Who Me, a conniver posing as a sweet and innocent school girl. Citing the lack of a “Black Agenda” as her reason for not showing up to work, the real reason why Whitsett skipped out may have been that Bumbling Joe would not bring legislation to the floor that would rain money upon her benefactors in the public-schools racket. Whitsett thus blew up the whole Democratic gift exchange and now finds herself friendless in Whoville.

The Bully — Attorney General Dana Nessel likes to stick her beak in places it doesn’t belong. This time, our keyboard bully took to social media with the threat of arresting Whitsett and the no-show Republicans. But everybody has seen “A Christmas Story” a dozen times. When Ralphie finally stands up to Scut Farkas, the bully runs away screaming and clutching his bloody nose. In our version, everybody simply ignores Nessel.

Burgermeister MeisterMikey — The biggest loser of the local political season may have been Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. It was proven once again that the jowly burgermeister has no coattails in Lansing. Duggan could not push through the $1 billion Renaissance Center redevelopment deal that would take from the city’s children while enriching his billionaire patron Dan “Scrooge” Gilbert. Enough is never enough for Ebeneezer Dan, even if Tiny Taysean has to go hungry.

Herr Duggan is so unpopular in the Motor City these days that he was forced to abandon the Democratic Party for his upcoming gubernatorial bid. It’s a race Duggan cannot win without mounds of Ebeneezer Dan’s misbegotten gold.

The Chorus — Finally, we visit the Land of the Misfit Media, where irrelevant “journalists” sit on an island reciting political talking points to themselves by a warm hearth. Among them are the writers who can’t write. The political bootlicker. The moralizing blowhard. And the guy who can’t stay off Twitter. Their fire is fueled by the pages of their unsold newspapers.
@mich_enjoyer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incredibly well said

[Tom Barrett @tombarrettmi7]

Thank you, Michigan! It is my honor to be your next Congressman from the 7th District! I’m ready to continue fighting for you and make you proud.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Let that sink in

[Dan Reynolds @dan_reynolds]

@MoMoneyMoFabbri @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump It’s stuff like this that Elon and others point out as worrisome. Normally, that 3-4% might balance out in the whole country. But stuff like this shows that it might not be.

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Increases in Illegal Immigration populations in Swing States under the Harris/Biden Administration

[Dan Reynolds @dan_reynolds]

@MoMoneyMoFabbri @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump Non citizens are counted in the census, and therefore counted for the electoral college and US House apportionments (aka, they are quasi voting; votes are done on their behalf). If they weren’t counted, states would have different EC votes and US Reps.