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[esj @esj1977]

@HeyAmit_ I must've locked a note accidentally, and now I can't delete it. I don't know the passcode. If I visit an Apple store, can they delete the note for me?

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

I will never stop being resentful of all the people who cheered on a shutdown of this country. I’ll never let it go.

Mostly because 100% of those people were either rich or still getting a paycheck through it all. But hourly guy who needs that overtime? Screw him, right?

[Micki way @mickitiki]

What taxes have become under the deep state.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

There are very serious reasons that more Americans are identifying as Independents, especially younger Americans.

Both parties are to blame for nearly $40 Trillion in debt, never ending foreign wars and foreign aid that does nothing for Americans, the ridiculous devaluation of our dollar, and the unfair overall affordability crisis for hard working Americans.

Both parties just point fingers at each other and campaign on the failures of the other party, with no real solutions for the real problems plaguing Americans.

Americans need to start acting like a shrewd high paying customer demanding excellent results from politicians instead of an overlooked taken for granted impoverished customer who should just be grateful for crumbs.

Independents can be the ones who force change with the “earn my vote” attitude instead of votes being given based on the same old ungrateful two party team system.

[esj @esj1977]

@RealJamesWoods His talents would be wasted working for the US government, just like Elon Musk’s were.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Self-centered and vindictive, utterly devoid of empathy, and morally bankrupt.

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

Hilarious two-minute skit captures the insanity of the Covid era perfectly.

[Nick’s Dank Memes @Nicksdankmemes3]

Exhausting 😴

[esj @esj1977]

@courierjournal This has to be parody.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The ceasefire lasted for a few hours before it was violated. Hopefully it can be reinstated and there will be a period of calm. But no matter what, no ceasefire will hold forever in the Middle East. These are factions that have been fighting for centuries.

Trump can handle this stuff better than any other president in my lifetime, but there's only so much an American president can do when he's dealing with ancient blood feuds 10 thousand miles away.

That's why I want the US to back out of it completely and focus on its own problems. Call that simplistic or "isolationist" if you want. I don't care. Our country is in a state of existential crisis on multiple fronts internally. We don't have the time, resources, manpower, will, or ability to fix problems for other countries right now. We need to focus on ourselves and let them handle their own disputes. America first.

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

Accurate.

[esj @esj1977]

@RepThomasMassie Nope, nothing.

[Rikki Schlott @RIKKISCHLOTT]

Refusal to acknowledge the faults of your own side is a crucial character flaw.

[esj @esj1977]

@petersuderman @reason Did I hear something about Matt Welch leaving the podcast?

[esj @esj1977]

@drmarkhyman @FunctionHealth 2025

[ashley @achaiken13]

@BluegrassRabbi @RepThomasMassie I'm in KY and don't need my Rep telling me how to deal w snow. I NEED him to get rid of foreign lobbyists like you. Which is what he does. Which is why @RepThomasMassie is one of the best

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[esj @esj1977]

@IngrahamAngle No.

[Ge Bai @GeBaiDC]

Make "health insurance" insurance again.

Insurance is NOT meant to cover routine, low-cost services. Doing so makes premiums prohibitively expensive.

Car insurance plans that cover oil changes and home insurance plans that cover faucet repairs would be priced out of the market—Nobody wants them.

[esj @esj1977]

@ClayTravis https://t.co/ct0qn1QY32