Eric AZ

I'm just here for the politics. Seriously don't follow me if you're not a rabid lover of liberty.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@BenjiBacker Unless you live someplace like Arizona where the feds a 3rd of the state

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Two months ago, this same activist went to a city council meeting to push for a roof-repair fund so taxpayers could fix her roof. A Democratic lawmaker was like...with what money? You blocked the data center.

Decline really is a choice sometimes.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

Job well done. The US Coast Guard.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

Six weeks ago, the captain of a Japanese container ship was hit by severe abdominal pain in the North Pacific. The nearest U.S. rescue helicopter was more than 1,000 miles away.

His ship, the One Majesty, was 58 miles south of Adak, Alaska. He was 58 years old and he needed a hospital.

There was no hospital. There was ocean in every direction.

The U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak launched an MH-60 Jayhawk anyway.

A thousand miles is Tampa to New York. No helicopter flies that in one hop.

So the Jayhawk hopped down the Aleutian Islands, refueling at Dutch Harbor and again at Adak.

That solved the fuel. It did not solve the crew. Nobody should fly a thousand miles through Aleutian weather and then hold a hover over a moving ship.

So the Alaska Air National Guard sent an HC-130J. It carried a fresh Coast Guard helicopter crew and two pararescuemen out to Adak to take over.

And if that one helicopter broke down out there?

A second Jayhawk flew to Cold Bay just to stand by.

The fresh crew flew the last 58 miles over open water with the HC-130J watching from above. They lowered the hoist to the deck and lifted the captain off.

Back at Adak he was moved onto the HC-130J and flown to Anchorage.

Two Coast Guard helicopters. One Air Guard rescue plane. A relief crew. Two pararescuemen. More than a thousand miles.

All of it for one Japanese sailor none of them had ever met.

From Japan: we saw this. Thank you.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

Keep fighting to keep Arizona affordable.

[Goldwater Institute @GoldwaterInst]

Here's another victory over unelected bureaucrats! Together with @PacificLegal, we challenged an illegal rule which required all eggs sold in Arizona be from “cage free” hens.

Last week, an Arizona judge struck down that rule, delivering a major victory for consumers--and an important win against the administrative state.
https://t.co/o3mCkBYRwX

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@stephen_richer @azfec have to fact check you on this one. The Club was a vote to retain on Foster and Rassas and silent on Matta.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@SamVale29 @grok Or adapt -- go to the state University, move to new town to start your life and your savings will increase even with low savings rates.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@shaunmmaguire Absolutely factual, they will work until they find the weak link.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@grok @JohnLeFevre @Grok how long until more than 50% of that profession is displaced

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

@gundrymd_ Quack

[Prello @DPrello]

The top 1% made it possible to get anything delivered right to your door within a day. The bottom 1% will steal it off your porch.

[Holly @hollyoxcoburn]

Govt should be so small and inconsequential to our lives that it matters not who is elected.

[Joe Pitts @JoePitts]

The next two years are going to be painful. It will be very important for us not to lose hope. We cannot, and will not, go the way of Colorado. A few guiding principles:

1. Most moderates and pragmatists—those capable of winning swing districts—lost. They *cannot* be pushed out of the movement. We need their voices now, more than ever. We cannot allow a loud minority to rule more than it already has.

2. We need to think and work institutionally. Conservatives are now in the minority in the State House, State Senate, and the Executive Tower. We need to build and reinforce preexisting organizations outside of gov't capable of coordinating/forming talent and policy. That's a key reason for @1912Institute's existence.

3. None of the progressive gains among key demographics were permanent. The Latino vote is very much in play. The suburban vote is very much in play. Conservatives should act like it in '28 and '30. The huge swings we saw from '24 to '26 prove that the whole board is for the taking.

4. There is no "going back" to an older version of the conservative movement. There is only going forward. We may possess timeless principles, but they must be applied to changing times. Winning again is not as simple as "moderating"—we need to keep the populists and nationalists in the coalition.

5. Inflection points like this are daunting. The floor has fallen from beneath us. But these are also times where opportunity opens itself to us, and possibilities we could've never imagined 2 years ago are available. We should be deeply hopeful for the same reason we are deeply worried.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

The American people were angrier over their own pocketbooks than they were worried about socialism or Islam.

They wanted to send a message and boy did they ever.

This was a failed performance election and that reality overwhelmed virtually everything else.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

I find that nothing lowers my grocery bill like a tenth failed impeachment proceeding.

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

We've made government so big it's unfortunately too hard to ignore.

[Smartacus @fivestarmichael]

The solution is to have a Federal government so small it hardly matters who is in charge.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

As the Arizona Republican-led legislature gets obliterated...

It's the sane people who pay the price (Shope, Gress, etc)

And the crazies who live in ruby red districts who contributed to the awful GOP environment who get to stay in (Hoffman, Rogers, Finchem, etc.)

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

A quote from a conversation I'm having with a long time GOP consultant.

"Last night, republican voters did what the republican congress refused to do."

[Eric AZ @ecrown]

I'll take two

[Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super]

Why are we still dragging 100-pound trash bins through freezing rain, snow and 6 AM dark like it's the 19th century?

Meet Curbie, an autonomous robot built by Revere Robotics that is finally killing off this miserable weekly chore. It automatically hauls your waste bin to the curb on collection day and brings it right back, completely unsupervised.

The genius is that it works with what you already have. Instead of forcing you to buy expensive proprietary gear, it couples directly onto the existing steel axle of your current municipal bin.

Packed with high-torque brushless motors and heavy-duty winter autonomy, it is specifically engineered to muscle heavy loads through deep snowdrifts and icy public sidewalks.

[DR. ETIQUETTE 🤦‍♂️ @DrEtiquette]

Good morning Democrats. You won. Now release the Epstein files.

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

The swings tonight among groups that swung right in 2024.