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You know what's more expensive than $4 a gallon gas?
-Paying student loans I never took out
-Paying for free food for someone that shouldn't even be here
-Paying healthcare for people that jumped the border
-Paying for infrastructure in a country I've never been to
-Paying for military protection for people that hate us
THAT is costing me a Hell of a lot more than $4 gas!!!
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I didn't believe Donald Trump in 2016.
I didn't think he could deliver on half of what he promised.
Heading into his second term, I still had some doubts.
But with midterms just around the corner, I saw @BlakeSNeff’s scorecard, and I agree it's the perfect time to look at the actual record.
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@ByChrisMurray I do not like it
@mjfree, you called January 6 an insurrection. Here's what a science teacher can't get past: the party that tells everyone the Second Amendment exists to check a tyrannical government supposedly tried to overthrow that government and forgot to bring the guns. I graded the whole claim.
Start with the word you leaned on. Insurrection is a federal crime, 18 U.S.C. § 2383. Number of people charged with it for January 6, Trump included: ZERO. Not by Merrick Garland. Not by Jack Smith, who wanted Trump the way a toddler wants the cookie jar. The House impeached for "incitement of insurrection" and the Senate acquitted, 57-43. So the label is all hat and no cattle. It's an opinion wearing a judge's robe.
Now the guns. Roughly 1,500 people were charged. Prosecutors went through phones, hotel rooms, and trucks. They found a handful of people who carried a pistol onto the grounds, and they charged them. A handful. In a country with more privately owned guns than people. And the only person shot dead that day was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran, shot by a Capitol Police officer. The weapons prosecutors kept describing were flagpoles, bear spray, a fire extinguisher, and a hockey stick. Real violence against real cops, and those people earned their charges.
I spent two decades as a paramedic and deployed as an Army medic. I've seen what armed people do to a human body. It does not look like bear spray and a hockey stick. A coup kit it is not.
Think about who supposedly showed up to overthrow the government. These are the folks Obama said "cling to guns or religion." The folks who quote Federalist 46, where Madison counts on citizens with arms in their hands as the check on a federal army. Biden's Autopen told them they'd need F-15s and maybe nuclear weapons to take on the government. And your story is that they finally decided to do it... and left the rifles at home.
Morgan, gun owners don't forget their guns. I know these people. Some of them carry to the mailbox.
So by your logic, flagpoles and bear spray are now weapons of revolution. Fine. I propose the Flagpole Safety Act: every flag in America ships on an 18-inch dowel, and buying a pole at Hobby Lobby requires a background check and a 10-day wait. Fourth of July parades need an ATF permit. This is not a radical idea.
Now let's talk about the things your side DOESN'T call an insurrection.
May 28, 2020. Rioters burned the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct after officers evacuated it. A police station. Burned.
June 2020. Protesters took over six blocks of Seattle, including a police precinct, and declared it an autonomous zone. The mayor went on CNN and said it could be a "summer of love." People were shot inside that zone before the city cleared it.
Summer 2020. The federal courthouse in Portland got hit night after night for weeks with fireworks, fires, and lasers aimed at officers' eyes. A FEDERAL building. Attacked on purpose. For weeks.
August 2020. CNN ran a graphic reading "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" while Kenosha burned behind the reporter. I teach physics. Fire is not peaceful. That's an exothermic reaction.
Insurers estimated the 2020 riot damage at $1 to $2 billion, the most expensive civil disorder in American insurance history. Meanwhile, a future Vice President was asking her followers to chip in to a Minnesota bail fund for people arrested during the unrest.
October 2018. Kavanaugh protesters flooded the Hart Senate Office Building, and Capitol Police arrested about 300 people in one day. Nobody called it a coup.
October 2023. Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in inside the Cannon House Office Building rotunda, and Capitol Police arrested hundreds. Peaceful protest, we were told.
And since you like borrowing fights from overseas, France, summer 2023. After a police shooting in Nanterre, riots ran for nights. Rioters rammed a burning car into a mayor's home with his wife and kids inside. France's top leftist, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused to call for calm. He said he was calling for justice instead.
That's Quinn's Law Number Seven: it's different when you're a Democrat. Same broken windows. Same assaulted cops. Different jersey.
If you're confused right now, that's by design. Your side has been muddying the water for five years to make it look deep.
Next claim: he "refused to honor the peaceful transfer of power." Biden's Autopen was sworn in at noon on January 20, 2021, right on schedule, on the same Capitol. Congress finished certifying the count that same night of the 6th. Trump flew to Florida. That is what a transfer looks like.
And the speech everyone clips? Trump told the crowd to march "peacefully and patriotically." Yes, he also said "fight like hell." Senators say that about appropriations bills.
"Refused to accept defeat"? Let's check the other team's homework. On January 6, 2017, House Democrats stood up and objected to Trump's electors, Jamie Raskin among them, until Vice President Biden gaveled them down and said "It is over." Stacey Abrams lost Georgia in 2018 and made sure to tell everyone her speech was not a concession. Hillary Clinton called Trump an "illegitimate president" in 2019. Al Gore fought the 2000 result in court for over a month. In 2020 Democrat Rita Hart lost Iowa's 2nd District by six votes, skipped the state courts, and asked the Democrat-run House to overturn it, with Marc Elias as her lawyer, before backing down under pressure. Not one of them got called an insurrectionist. Slight oversight!
Want to talk about a side that wouldn't accept an election? Rewind to 2016. The FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane on the Trump campaign and got four FISA warrants to surveil campaign adviser Carter Page, leaning on the Steele dossier, opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The DOJ Inspector General found 17 significant errors and omissions in those applications. An FBI lawyer altered an email to hide that Page had helped the CIA, and he pleaded guilty. Special Counsel John Durham concluded the bureau opened the case without "any actual evidence of collusion." Page was never charged with anything. Then came the push to flip electors and impeachment talk before he'd even taken the oath. Nobody went to jail for an insurrection over any of that either.
Asking hard questions about an election isn't treason. It's homework. In New Jersey, a motor vehicle software error registered about 6,600 people who had told the state they were NOT citizens; the governor's own preliminary count says fewer than 400 of them voted. Ohio's secretary of state sent DOJ 1,084 apparent noncitizen registrations, 167 of whom appear to have voted in a federal election. Right now DOJ is in federal court asking California to set aside about 20,000 mail ballots it flags as likely noncitizens until somebody checks. That's an allegation, not a conviction. But the same party that calls every question "election denial" is fighting not to look. Quinn's Law Number Seven, back for an encore.
Since you brought up getting shellacked: 2024. 312 electoral votes AND the popular vote.
Now the part you left out. In December 2024 the DOJ Inspector General reported the FBI had 26 confidential human sources in D.C. that day. Three were tasked by the FBI to be there. Four went inside the Capitol. Thirteen more went into restricted areas. The IG found no undercover agents and says none of those sources were authorized to break the law or told to egg anyone on.
Fine. Then answer two questions. Why were grandmothers who walked through open doors charged while none of the sources who went inside were? And why did Director Wray, asked under oath whether he had sources dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol, tell Congress not to read anything into his refusal to answer? I teach teenagers. When a kid won't answer a yes-or-no question, I read something into it.
Then the pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC. Years of "corrupted" phone data and no suspect. The House Administration subcommittee report says the trail went cold within months. It took a new FBI director to arrest Brian Cole Jr. in December 2025, a man who showed up on cameras the bureau had the whole time and who, per the affidavit, bought bomb parts with a credit card. In April the Trump DOJ added terrorism and weapons-of-mass-destruction charges, and prosecutors say he confessed and claimed he did it for people who thought 2020 was stolen. His lawyers say he didn't do it, want Trump's January 6 pardon to cover him, and say the FBI once treated a former Capitol Police officer as a person of interest.
That's for a jury, so nobody gets a victory lap. But a bureau that needed five years to find a guy with a receipt wasn't protecting democracy. It wasn't looking.
And the committee's star witness? June 28, 2022, prime time, Cassidy Hutchinson told the country Trump lunged for the steering wheel of his SUV and then lunged at the head of his own protective detail. She wasn't in the vehicle. She said Tony Ornato told her the story. Sources close to Ornato and the agent said both were ready to testify under oath that it never happened. In 2024 the House Administration subcommittee released the driver's testimony: he never saw Trump grab the wheel or lunge toward the front seat, though he said Trump sounded irritated. The committee let that driver's offer to testify sit for months.
Even Jack Smith told the House her account was secondhand, and that if he were the defense attorney, the first thing he'd do is try to keep it out as hearsay. Per Jim Jordan, the committee's final report cited her 185 times. Reports this month say DOJ is asking a grand jury to indict her for lying to Congress. Nothing has been filed as of today, so she gets her day in court like anybody else.
A former ABC News president producing the hearings, a secondhand steering wheel, and a driver nobody wanted to hear from is not an investigation. It's a script.
And while you were worried about Trump grabbing power, here is who was using it. Jack Smith's team subpoenaed the National Archives and read text messages involving 44 members of Congress, per DOJ records released by Sen. Grassley. Arctic Frost put 92 Republican groups and people under scrutiny, Turning Point USA among them. Smith told the House he only sought toll records; his lawyers say that answer was truthful because the question was about toll records. On September 29 the Senate read him the receipts anyway. You wanted a government that went after its political opposition, Morgan? I found one. It just wasn't wearing a red hat.
One more receipt, and it's the one your side should frame and hang in the hallway. In February 2021, TIME ran Molly Ball's "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election." In its own words, it describes "a well-funded cabal of powerful people" working behind the scenes. The article lays out how they changed voting rules and laws, steered media coverage, leaned on Facebook and Twitter over what counted as "disinformation," and lined up labor bosses and business groups to manage the outcome. To be fair, it does not say they planned the riot. It says they told their own people to stay home that day.
Now look at that with a teacher's red pen. If a Republican group had bragged in a national magazine about secretly rewriting election rules and pressuring the platforms that control what you see, you would call it an insurrection before you finished the headline. When your side does it, TIME calls it saving democracy. A cabal working the refs is saving the election, and a grandmother with a flag is a coup. Your definitions need a recall notice.
So here is your graded paper.
Insurrection: never charged.
Armed overthrow: the only person killed by gunfire was unarmed, and police fired the shot.
Refused to transfer power: left on time.
Burning precincts, seized city blocks, and a federal courthouse under siege for weeks: "mostly peaceful."
"What will he try this time?" Probably winning again. He's done it twice.
Go sell your crazy somewhere else, Morgan. We're all stocked up here.
But what do I know, I'm only a retired Army medic who knows what an armed assault looks like, and that wasn't it.
So, Morgan: which one was the insurrection? The police station on fire, or the grandmother with the flag?
In 1976, an “emergency” swine flu vaccination campaign was launched despite warnings from the FDA’s own influenza expert, Dr. J. Anthony Morris, that it was unnecessary and dangerous.
Many were severely injured. Here, 60 Minutes investigates what happened.
Sadly, we've had patients who were permanently injured by that vaccine. For them, this history never ended.
As I've studied these disasters, I've repeatedly encountered the same pattern:
• Scientists raise safety concerns.
• Their warnings are ignored.
• The public is assured the product is “safe and effective.”
• Injured patients struggle to be heard.
• Accountability comes late, if at all.
• People forget, and the cycle begins again.
Understanding this history is essential to recognizing the warning signs when they appear again.
In this thread, I revisit the forgotten vaccine disasters, manufacturing failures, and regulatory decisions that shaped the system we have today. 🧵
4 Trump's Election Bombshell is Only Half the Story-follow: @QAwakening17
Obama: It's a "basic principe of democracy" to not prosecute the other party 🤡
When Trump suggested putting light inside the body to treat COVID, the discussion became a national punchline.
But few people heard the history behind it.
Decades earlier, American doctors were treating blood with ultraviolet light and reporting remarkable recoveries from life-threatening infections.
Then the American Medical Association helped drive the treatment out of hospitals. 🧵
Nineteen years ago this week @algore was chosen to receive the @NobelPrize for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased 22%.
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Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.
Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.
And then came Limoges.
A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.
The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."
That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.
None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.
Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.
My dear American friends,
I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.
It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.
Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.
France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.
My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.
Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.
To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
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“There will be no art, no literature, no science… There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.”
Orwell, 1984
We underestimate the role public education has played in preparing the ground for all manner of demagoguery to take root.
To be sure, pointing and yelling “antisemitism!” is no longer effective because antisemitism has become part of mainstream discourse.
But I do not think that better Jewish messaging will turn the tide, because it wasn’t a failure of Jewish messaging that brought us to this point, but the success of decades of left-wing race essentialism and identitarianism, particularly in public education.
You simply cannot send a generation through a public school system that puts racial pride (except for whites/Europeans) at the forefront of students’ understanding of themselves and their place in America and teaches them to understand their world and the dynamics of power through a racial lens where one racial group is designated as an oppressor and the rest as the oppressed, and not expect that framework to transmogrify.
The very cognitive frameworks young people applied to understanding Black-white relations in their English class have now been adopted to “understand” alleged Jewish and non-Jewish power imbalances. The racial pride that certain groups were allowed to express in school has now been adopted by young whites who ask, “Why not me?” And if white people can be villains for their disproportionate wealth and achievement in society, why can’t Jews be “ultra-villains” for doing even better?
In today’s antisemitism, we are reaping what we allowed to be sown in our schools for years. And as those of us who warned about this possibility years ago predicted, once this ideological virus begins replicating, mutations are inevitable, and containment becomes exceedingly difficult.
Antisemitism is our warning-our canary in the coal mine-because it is one of the earliest signs of social cannibalization; an angry society’s appetite is rarely sated by cannibalizing the smallest of minorities.
This is not a problem that will be easily solved-once these ways of thinking are entrenched, it becomes exceedingly difficult to free people from them. But in order to mitigate the damage, we must treat the divisive and demagogic ideologies polluting our public schools as a national security threat. If our schools do not instill in our children a shared civic identity that transcends ethnic factionalism and impart to them a renewed understanding of individualism, we are truly doomed.
United we once stood, and divided we will fall.
This BS so tiring.
I am not sure how many more times this needs to be explained this to you, Seth Borenstein (@borenbears), but climate change is not a fuel or physical force that causes things to happen.
Climate change does not “turbocharge” the weather or cause hurricanes to intensify either. There is no such thing as “climate-fueled” weather; that's not at all how this works. Change is an outcome, it is not a cause.
Oh, and the World Weather Attribution (WWA)?
Please quit citing their garbage papers. They receive funding from left-wing environmental groups including the Grantham Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund. Their job is to pay scientists to “find” proof that climate change was the cause or accelerant behind a particular weather event, and their findings are intended to be used in litigation against oil and gas companies.
Those are two major conflicts of interest, but for some reason you routinely fail to mention that part of the story in your pre-canned, copy-paste articles that are essentially press releases from WWA.
Seth, I'd encourage you to put your degree to good use and actually do some actual investigative journalism for a change instead of being a parrot. 🦜
Bedtime Verses for A Restful Night Sleep.
1. Isaiah 41:10 - "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
2. Psalm 4:8 - "In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.”
3. Proverbs 3:24 - "When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.”
4. Psalm 3:5 - "I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.”
5. Psalm 63:6-7 - "On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.”
6. Psalm 42:8 - “By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.”
7. Isaiah 26:3 - “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You.”
8. Psalm 27:1 - "The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?”
9. Psalm 51:10 - “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."
10. Lamentations 3:22-23 - “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
11. II Corinthians 10:5 - "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
12. Psalm 136:1 - "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.”
13. I Peter 5:6-7 - "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
14. Philippians 4:4-7 - "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
15. Zephaniah 3:17 - "The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
16. Matthew 6:34 - "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
17. John 14:27 - "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
18. Psalm 1 (the whole Psalm).
19. Jeremiah 29:11 - "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
20. Deuteronomy 33:26 - "There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in His majesty.”
21. Psalm 31:15 - "My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.”
22. Revelation 21:4-6 - "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.”"
23. I Samuel 26:12 - "So David took the spear and water jug near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.”
24. Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
25. Philippians 4:6 - "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Peace and be prepared.
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