dickthedog

Powerfully thoughtful, gently caring. Constitutional conservative.

I screen followers before following back. If you're immediately in my DMs, block-a-roo.

[dickthedog @DickKrase]

@drawandstrike Suppose Gates is funding the cartel cattle smuggling to crash the beef industry....

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@AVGirl4Life Cuba!

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@AnnaKKraken Hat!

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@realofficers Also me, in corporate America.

I harbor no ill will, but it should have been different.

There were some despicable individuals who spread deceit and I do hope it comes back to bite them. They've earned it.

[Ryan Spoon @SpoonForIdaho]

Hey @GovernorLittle, let's work to eliminate ALL non-US immigration into Idaho, so that we can MAKE IDAHO AFFORDABLE AGAIN.

Eliminate all the H1Bs from Micron, all the H2As from seasonal AG, all of the "refugees" from Chobani, and all of the illegals from EVERY industry. 🇺🇸

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🗳️ Many have been asking me describe the potential signature verification loophole for Los Angeles mail in ballots.

It says: “If a voter is unable to sign, the voter can make a mark witnessed by one person.”

Here, the person drew a happy face & “witnessed” it with a scribble. That scribble isn’t validated as being a real person. No name, nothing.

While a happy face may draw scrutiny, a plain line would not.

This could hypothetically enable mass harvesting where the voter never fills out, signs or even sees their own ballot.

We should be told how many ballots show up without the voter’s signature.

[dickthedog @DickKrase]

OK, @MikeCrapo and @SenatorRisch, this week I gave you credit for not participating in Thune's 'gavel in obstruction' game, but leadership is more than sitting on the sidelines.

Time to get out front and be proactive and actually bring a coalition together to oust the man. NOW.

[TMK @themagaking]

Complete list of Republican Senators who have NOT called for the removal of John Thune as Senate Majority Leader:

Katie Britt (AL)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)
Dan Sullivan (AK)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
John Boozman (AR)
Tom Cotton (AR)
Ashley Moody (FL)
Rick Scott (FL)
Mike Crapo (ID)
Jim Risch (ID)
Jim Banks (IN)
Todd Young (IN)
Chuck Grassley (IA)
Joni Ernst (IA)
Jerry Moran (KS)
Roger Marshall (KS)
Mitch McConnell (KY)
Rand Paul (KY)
Bill Cassidy (LA)
John Kennedy (LA)
Susan Collins (ME)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
Roger Wicker (MS)
Eric Schmitt (MO)
Josh Hawley (MO)
Steve Daines (MT)
Tim Sheehy (MT)
Deb Fischer (NE)
Pete Ricketts (NE)
Ted Budd (NC)
Thom Tillis (NC)
Kevin Cramer (ND)
John Hoeven (ND)
Bernie Moreno (OH)
Jon Husted (OH)
James Lankford (OK)
Alan Armstrong (OK)
David McCormick (PA)
Lindsey Graham (SC)
Tim Scott (SC)
Mike Rounds (SD)
John Thune (SD)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Bill Hagerty (TN)
Ted Cruz (TX)
John Cornyn (TX)
John Curtis (UT)
Mike Lee (UT)
Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
Jim Justice (WV)
Ron Johnson (WI)
John Barrasso (WY)
Cynthia Lummis (WY)

53 Republican Senators. Not one has called for John Thune's removal. Not one has demanded new leadership. Not one has fought to force action on the SAVE Act. They're either all lying to us, or they're all in on it. There isn't much room left for a third explanation.

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@RupaliChadhaMD @Gimme4USA Hardly. That distinction probably belongs to State Beach at the bottom of Santa Monica Canyon, though there were dozens of other spots, too. I remember playing for $50 and a six-pack at State. Got freebie Lakers tickets from Wilt the Stilt, too.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

A staggering 7 to 8 billion solar panels have been deployed globally—but up to 90% of them are currently on a direct trajectory toward disposal.

While modern solar panels are technically made of roughly 95% recyclable materials (glass, aluminum, copper, and silicon), recycling currently runs at a steep economic loss.

* The cost: Processing runs $500–$1,000 per tonne ($10 to $40 per panel).
* The yield: The value of recovered materials doesn't even cover the transport fees.

Compared with minimal landfill fees, economics dictate that burial is the default option. But the world is rapidly running out of room, and governments are beginning to panic.

We are already seeing a preview of this crisis in the wind sector, where an expected 43 million tonnes of turbine blade waste by 2050 has led several European nations—including Austria, Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands—to actively ban decommissioned blades from landfills.

Solar is hitting the same wall. Panels built over two decades ago are reaching the end of their 20-to-24-year lifespans, while many more become economically obsolete and are replaced long before that.

This has created a massive regulatory catch-22: To prevent heavy metals like lead and cadmium from potentially leaching into groundwater, jurisdictions like Victoria, Australia, have implemented strict bans on putting solar panels into landfills, classifying them as hazardous e-waste.

Yet, with recycling remaining economically non-viable, we are creating an impossible bottleneck. While industry bodies like the IEA maintain that leaching risks from broken panels are negligible and within safety limits, the sheer volume of impending waste tells a different story.

If it costs too much to recycle, and it is illegal to landfill, where do several billions of panels go?

The 'clean energy' solution is rapidly staring down the barrel of a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

Image: Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined - Shutterstock.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

A couple of skate punks showing more spine than 96% of the chest thumping “MAGA patriots.”

When regular people start doing this, we don’t just reclaim our privacy... we reclaim the country.

[Patrick Colbeck✝️ @pjcolbeck]

BREAKING: Sheriff Dar Leaf has made a criminal referral pertaining to Non-Citizens on our voter rolls.

Turns out, our voter rolls are used to determine jury pools.

So...not only are our elections compromised by illegal voters on our voter rolls, so is the criminal justice system.

Which means, many of the trials which have been conducted in Michigan may have significant grounds for mistrial if it is determined that an illegal immigrant served on a jury.

Pandora's box has been opened.

Defense attorney's seeking to overturn convictions for their clients will be flooding the judicial system with motions.

This is what happens when MI SoS Jocelyn "we will come for you" Benson engages in willful neglect of duty regarding the integrity of our voter rolls.
@HarmeetKDhillon @EdMartinDOJ @AttyStefLambert @SidneyPowell1 @RealLindellTV @EmeraldRobinson @VanessaBNews @realMikeLindell @MrJustinBarclay

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@jimmy_rustlin @DataRepublican Apparently, that's part of the news that isn't fit to print.

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@kimmie_c_ They were huge and the 'coffee' was disgusting. Maxim, too.

Every morning when I pour my coffee, I remember Dad saying "If you pour from higher so there are lots of bubbles, the coffee tastes better."

Me: Dad, just drink better coffee.

[Catherine @RagingBull767]

I thought President Trump was going to change things, but apparently it’s just too big even for him. I was never a political person until I started to see what was happening to my country and I’m worried about my kids. “Biden” let so many illegals come over the border and they are now sucking us dry. And I see it every single day at my job. Today I had a patient that “immigrated“ here on January 25, 2026. On January 26, 2026 he immediately started dialysis. The hospital made sure he got  immediately got  Medicaid. And now his sister is making sure that he has hearing aids. I read the referral report it’s all there. American citizens have to pay out-of-pocket for hearing aids and for their health insurance. But not this guy. I had to pay $17,500 a year for health insurance. When Rob lost his job I had to go on Obama care. When I didn’t include his income, which I didn’t know I was supposed to because I was the only one applying, I was penalized by the IRS. After working my whole life, I now owe the IRS $11,666 most of it because of healthcare. I am pissed off and disheartened because no one seems to understand what is happening to American citizens like me. I can’t pay the IRS that amount of money. I filed but didn’t pay. But if I was an illegal, I’d have free food, free housing and free medical, and if I committed a crime, I’d probably get off. This is America now. My kids don’t have a chance. I apparently I never did.

[Handre @Handre]

Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.

The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.

Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.

The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.

After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.

Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.

[dickthedog @DickKrase]

@haveaconcern And my list is getting longer...

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My respect 96 years .
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The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

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@Amer1can_Barbie Good heavens 😳

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@femalebodybuil6 Nah, I'd scalp 'em for big bucks to some weirdo.

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@LuckyMcGee Intriguing, yes?