Daniel Harper Sims

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."

An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

[RandyGoat 🐐 @RandyGoat]

Thomas Massie just got immunity for glyphosphate manufacturers removed from the farm bill but you'll still say he sucks because Trump told you so.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends.

Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat.

I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes.

Is it because I "need" a gun?

No.

I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City.

Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human.

So why do I do it?

Why do many other people who live around me do it?

Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear.

In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite.

So.... why?

Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt.

He didn't expect to be attacked.

He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time.

No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword.

By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman.

In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was.

So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right.

Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman.

When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside.

Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset.

Thus began several years of war.

And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people.

No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not."

Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave."

We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American.

I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day.

If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there.

Because that is who we are.

We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up.

But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@SenRandPaul @SenHydeSmith @SenatorWicker why the no vote for continuing welfare to refugees?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas & home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Mississippi went from having the 2nd worst ranked reading scores in the entire country to almost the best

Here’s how

“How did America's poorest state Mississippi go from being ranked 49th in the nation for reading in 2013 to 9th in 2024 while spending just $32 per student? In 2013, Mississippi passed the Literacy based Promotion Act and started investing in the building blocks of education, systematically phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

They based their approach on research by IES, which showed kids need explicit, carefully sequenced phonics instruction, teaching the relationship between letters and sounds, not just guessing words from pictures and context clues.

Mississippi also focused on training K-three teachers and put literacy coaches in struggling schools.

They even started to hold back third graders who couldn't read proficiently, paired with intensive support to catch up.

The results speak for themselves. Between 2013 and 2024, reading scores declined by more than 10 points in nearly every state except Mississippi, the only one that improved.”

[Murray 🇺🇸 @Rothbard1776]

The last time I checked:

🇮🇷 Iran hasn’t stolen any of my freedoms.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t run up $38 trillion in national debt and destroy our standard of living.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the Patriot Act to spy on Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass the income tax.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t establish the IRS.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hand over full control of US monetary policy to a private banking cartel with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t force the NIH to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan China.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t lock down American cities, businesses and schools.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t pass experimental and deadly mRNA “vaccine” mandates.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t print $7 trillion during the COVID Plandemic and destroy the American economy.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hosting drag queen story hour in our elementary schools and libraries.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t promoting destructive life altering transgender surgeries and medications to children.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t flooding American airwaves with pharmaceutical products.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t trying to block out the sun or spraying harmful chemicals all over our skies.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t spraying all our crops with cancer causing pesticides.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t give glyphosate manufacturers immunity from poisoning Americans.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t accuse a Supreme Court Justice nominee of being a gang rapist.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t spend $8 trillion invading Iraq and Afghanistan, only to hand the latter back to The Taliban after the government collapsed in 3 days following 20 years of occupation.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t steal the 2020 election.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t open America’s borders and flood the country with 40 million illegal immigrants.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t to start a race war by spreading hate-crime hoaxes all over our cable news and social media networks.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t hiding the Epstein documents and failing to prosecute corrupt billionaires, politicians and royal family members.
🇮🇷 Iran isn’t forcing Americans to pass hate-speech laws and tear down the 1st amendment.
🇮🇷 Iran has never attacked us on American soil.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t authorize Operation Fast & Furious to allow weapons to be illegally purchased and taken back to Mexico, only to be used to kill US border patrol agents.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t overthrow Gaddafi and destroy the country of Libya where they now have modern day slave markets.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t hide the contents of Anthony Weiner’s laptop with over 340,000 emails from Hillary Clinton, including a files labeled “Crimes Against Children”.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t use America’s intelligence agencies, FISA court, media organizations or political class to frame Trump for treason.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t draw up plans to assassinate Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes in the Middle East.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t exile Edward Snowden for revealing the widespread illegal surveillance being conducted on American citizens.
🇮🇷 Iran didn’t assassinate JFK, RFK or Charlie Kirk.

The US government did all of those things on behalf of subversive domestic and foreign influence.

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@BasedMikeLee Concur. The burden of proof is now placed on those who want to remain. No more No votes. Delegitimize and exit.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

When George Floyd died, BLM organized riots nationwide that killed 25-40 people, injured 900 cops & caused $2 billion in damages

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, people organized prayer vigils & millions of dollars were raised for his wife & 2 children

We are not the same

[Barchart @Barchart]

U.S. Dollar Decline since the 1913 creation of the Federal Reserve 🚨🚨🚨

[Theo Von @TheoVon]

Is this bill just big beautiful bullshit?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@great_martis Financing wars has consequences

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

When people say that the economy is super strong, please understand…

We are running a HISTORIC deficit.

6.3% of GDP. Never seen before outside of WW2, the GFC or Covid.

If we weren’t running this deficit and balanced the budget, or even got close, GDP would collapse.

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@Rothmus @JoelBomgar @JoelBomgar couldn’t agree more. We need to end the endless wars.

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@JustinPetersMin @MikeJohnson Do you honestly expect any different…..he is looking at political career not eternity

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@matt_vanswol Can others verify this?

[Daniel Harper Sims @dhsims]

@BRICSinfo It’s sad that this isn’t parody