Hey, remember when DOGE started finding fraud, several representatives all but painted a GUILTY sign on their foreheads with their screaming about it, and then a Republican-held Congress elected to neuter DOGE and hyperpump—instead of cut—the already obscene deficit?
Yeah, this is why: tribalism at the expense of justice because you think the people robbing you with your preferred color of tie on are on your “team.” Getting Us vs Them played like a fiddle by a uniparty that laughs at Our stupidity while dining together on the spoils of Our labor they’ve plundered.
A is A. Right is Right, regardless of who is at fault. That’s actual No One is Above the Law. That’s actual Liberty and Justice for All.
@RepThomasMassie 2028 🗽
It seems far too many people need to hear this.
Any positive inflation percentage is bad.
When you see people saying things like the economy is doing great because inflation is only 2.4%, that just means prices are up 2.4% from the previous year.
This means prices have not gone down at all under Trump. Prices are higher under Trump than they were under Biden.
And they have climbed every single year.
No president has ever “made your thanksgiving cheaper” it’s always more expensive compared to the previous year.
The cumulative inflation rate since 2016 is 40.63%. Notice how the cumulative inflation rate is never mentioned. Because in order for our lives to become more affordable, a yearly inflation rate would have to be a negative number.
@zubic_eth It’s rightish for the wrong reasons. FL will be hurt less than any other state during the inevitable real estate correction because of a) new legislation regarding property taxes and b) Texas flipping blue.
@TomZarebczan There’s meta going around that users hitting “Copy Link” (maybe even arrow) gives the post a huge boost in the algo, regardless if they send it anywhere.
@TocanoRR@libertylighthse One of the many reasons I’m so bullish on the wildcard pick of @jockowillink as the perfect VP is because it would invert the uniparty’s ability to leverage the veteran community. Instead of a warm-body puppet who won’t even debate, We have a well-spoken bonafide American hero.
They’ve already been employing the oxygen deprivation strategy. I was able to have an in-depth conversation yesterday with a Republican Boomer; being a close relationship helped get through the first round of knee-jerk programming.
When I asked her why she doesn’t like Massie, the first response that came with any substance (after a scoff and nebulous feelings) she brought up an article she just read about *Tucker* and conflated that with Massie.
After wading thru that, she said that he’d only sign a bill if he put his name on it. She said that was ridiculous. [I sarcastically pointed out that Trump would never do anything like that, which was met with denials of being a Trump supporter. To be fair, she has been more Rubio or DeSantis the entire past decade.]
The productive conversation concluded by her saying she doesn’t care about Massie, she doesn’t put that much energy or attention into supporting politicians [inaccurate], and it doesn’t matter.
It left me hopeful that Liberty supporters can flip light-blue and light-red Boomer relatives to Massie by 2028.
But red-gang has already been going hard in the paint against Our best congressman and potential presidential candidate.
I can imagine Massie as that type of President, especially with Jocko as his VP.
I’ve witnessed at least two embodiments of the ideal congressman you invite us to imagine.
The corrupt machine—in particular its propaganda arm called news—boxed one out of a fair race in 2008. It just spent $30 million to AI slop Boomers into getting the other one primaried.
Elsewhere in the world, wonderful things are happening.
@nayibbukele is now in a very strange position, almost a historically unique one. He is simultaneously a democratically elected leader and an absolute dictator. And El Salvador is simultaneously a democracy and a dictatorship.
He is a democratically elected leader, whose administration came to power in a free and fair election. And that administration wields power with the just consent of the people of El Salvador.
But is also dictator, because the consensus in support of him is so overwhelming, his mandate from the people is so total, that he has a completely free hand to set Salvadorean policy as he chooses.
And his choices have done nothing but strengthen that mandate.
Imagine, for a moment, being a Salvadorean right now.
Imagine knowing that, while your nation is not the greatest, richest, or most powerful on Earth, it is led by a man who, should you suffer harm or danger on foreign soil, will gather his men in their thousands, and send them forth with fire and sword to save you, or to avenge what cannot be saved.
Civis Romanus sum. I am a Roman citizen.
This phrase was once a strong guarantee of safety and fair treatment throughout most of the known world. Not because Rome ruled everywhere, but because Rome would avenge its own.
In a stroke, Nayib Bukele has elevated soy ciudadano Salvadoreño to a similar status.
Can you imagine an American president, elected by securing the support of an opaque and fraud-ridden political machine, making the same promise? Can you imagine him making good on it?
Can you imagine a United States senator representing the native American citizens living in the state that sent him to the senate house, instead of Silicon Valley, or Wall Street, or some foreign nation with deep pockets, or a consortium of H1-b slavemasters?
There is a lesson here, and it is a simple one.
The rules matter less than the character of those in office.
A democratic republic which elects corrupt bureaucrats is a nation ruled by liars and thieves. And the dictatorship of a just and unselfish man is a nation ruled by a just and unselfish man.
The only real purpose of a "system" of government is to place power in the hands of wise men of good character.
If the system does not do that, it has no merit, regardless of its form, or philosophy, or reliance on checks and balances.
If you brought Diogenes and his lantern to Washington DC to search by daylight, how many wise men of good character do you think he would find?
@TocanoRR@libertylighthse They’ll have to contend with him because the internet is at scale and no demo besides Boomers trust legacy media.
They’re still going to deploy the same box-out strategy. I’ve already observed it happening based on talking with Boomers close to me.
@JoseButWithPH@willchamberlain A faction of the authoritarian right are trying to co-opt the term libertarian by whitewashing the core collectivist ideology with wrapped-in-the-flag hollowed out 1776 rhetoric.
@willchamberlain Libertarians—including those in quadrant 4—stopped listening to red-gang rhetoric months ago, bro.
Give the guy who this admin campaigned like to win 2024 the ball or pound sand even harder in 2028.
It inverts the uniparty’s ability to leverage the veteran community, significantly boosts Massie’s safety when POTUS, and brings onboard a retired Navy Seal that has since become a popular author while also working with upper echelon businesses. Jocko’s what the ones who flex constantly pretend to be.
The fact he’s not seeking it is precisely why he’s the perfect VP to help restore the constitution and Our republic.