GOPProsperity

Professional, Catholic, Conservative. I need economic prosperity, not a president who wants to trade my freedom for a handout. #AntiWoke

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

[Bullish @bullishbruk]

Let us never forget: ANKTIVA is the ONLY drug that has fully cleared the spike protein — completely. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong offered it to the FDA for FREE, and they refused.
Think about that. Lives on the line, a proven solution on the table, and bureaucracy said no.
This is exactly why we fight for faster access, real FDA reform, and putting patients before politics. ANKTIVA Army — keep shining the light. @LoriMills4CA42 @DrPatrick

[GOPProsperity @GOPProsperity]

@Remisagoodboy Beatrice and Edo are a lovely pair today for this happy occasion!

Is that Eugenie behind her in black?

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

NEW: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) tells colleague @kayleighmcenany live on @FoxNews that if Graham Platner can prove all of the people he was chatting with on Kik & “sending dick pics to” were adults and there were no minors, he will wear a suit every day.

[Kelly Jane Torrance @KJTorrance]

To be fair, the NYT couldn’t publish 11 paragraphs about Graham Platner’s work history because he barely has one.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

RFK Jr: Fauci FORCED AIDS patients onto the deadly chemo drug AZT and KILLED 330,000 people.

Fauci STOPPED any treatment alternative other than AZT.

Exactly like during COVID. Fauci STOPPED Ivermectin & Hydroxychloroquine...and ONLY allowed deadly Remdesivir.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

How the Democrats have turned the State of California into a one-party corrupt rule:

Bill Essayli, United States Attorney for the Central District of California:

“This idea that you’re not allowed to register to vote unless you present some sort of identification is not accurate. It’s not true.”

Gavin Newsom allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses through California and the DMV.

Based on audits, Gavin Newsom registers illegal aliens to vote. And yes, it is a felony for a non-citizen to vote in a federal or state election in California.

And it gets worse—there is immunity in place so that when DMV officials register illegal aliens to vote, they are immune from prosecution.

📝 This is precisely why Democrats rush to give illegal aliens driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers.

The illegal-alien industry pushed by the Democrats has a single purpose: to overthrow the Constitutional Republic of the United States and turn it into a one-party corrupt rule.

Pass the SAVE Act. It’s a matter of national security.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Just a reminder that the ONLY Republican running for Mecklenburg County (Charlotte NC) District 1 dropped out of the race...

...BECAUSE NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS ARRESTED FOR FIRING SHOTS AT HIS HOME WHILE HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE INSIDE!!!!!

Local police SPECIFICALLY CONFIRMED the attack was targeted at Aaron Marin.

Bullet holes can be seen in trees, cars, mailbox, and his kid's basketball hoop. Marin's ENTIRE FAMILY was forced to leave their home and Aaron says they live in, "constant fear."

He says his kids no longer even feel safe to play outside and they are moving now.

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY ZERO MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET COVERED THIS??????!!!!!!

REPUBLICANS ARE LITERALLY BEING SHOT AT AND THERE IS SILENCE FROM THE MEDIA!!!!!!

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?!!!!!!

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

Just so we're clear, physically restraining your partner and forcibly confining her to a bedroom against her will isn't an "HR lady politics" problem.

It's domestic violence.

And it constitutes several different layers of a "criminal law" problem.

[Melissa O'Connor @Melissa_in_CA]

Funny how same-day election results by 8:53 p.m. are possible when it’s 2021 and the whole state is voting on whether to recall Gavin Newsom.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I also just fundamentally reject that Graham Platner, the oysterman, can hang around DC for a decade going to GW, in the same circle as all the “operatives” he’s definitely not like at all, and mistreat as many women as he wants as long as they’re Republican bc their concerns can’t be real. Not a great standard.

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

Graham Platner today falsely claimed to “make a living on the sea.” That’s not true. He lives almost entirely off his VA disability payments and he bought his house with $200,000 from his dad, as we’ve reported @FreeBeacon

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The California government is such a dystopia that they are denying our lawful records request on the argument that "the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record."

They've gone full Orwell.

[GOPProsperity @GOPProsperity]

@lyndseyfifield @sunsettinglibs2 This is the best part of the story! Your perspective will be an inspiration and change the lives for the better for many women.

Praying for you!

[Rob Bluey @RobertBluey]

It took a tremendous amount of courage for Lyndsey to speak out. Having worked with her for many years, I urge you to pray for her today. She deserves respect and admiration for sharing this troubling chapter of her life.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

For those of you who think I should've said something at the time, let me remind you of DC's culture for women — and sadly nothing has changed.

When I sent this tweet 13 years ago about a Republican staffer, the next morning my boss at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pulled me into his office and told me "Congressional affairs" was furious and that I could get fired if I spoke to reporters.

I had tweeted a photo of the staffer's business card (which I *did* agree to delete) but I refused to delete this.

Everyone at Tune Inn was mad at ME for talking about it. Kicking the man out was sufficient, I didn't need to "try to get him fired" they said.

THAT was the culture I was in while I was dating Graham.

And frankly I'm just done. I'm so done. This just cannot keep happening. I will not one day send my daughters to go work in a congressional office if this culture is not radically transformed.

People need to know they can and should speak up when they're abused or when they see abuse—and know there will be no point scoring about what party affiliation they have.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

I like how it doesn’t even occur to these grandstanding “believe all women” hacks that a woman might be against the weaponization of low/no standard accusations *because she herself was a victim*. That actually, as people like @lyndseyfifield (and I) have been repeating endlessly for about a decade now, the casual way the left has decided to throw due process and evidentiary standards in the trash hurts the credibility of women who really have these kinds of experiences. For the hacks, it’s all a cheap political game, and they couldn't care less about making it harder for real victims to come forward.

Lyndsey isn’t asking anyone to believe her warnings about a man who appears to be a volatile, violent, pathological liar on mere accusation. She brought the exact kind of evidence that fair-minded people would ask for, the kind of evidence the lawyer gently cross-examining Christine Blasey-Ford asked Ford to produce (she couldn’t).

She brought specific dates and places, contemporaneous messages to third party witnesses, friends willing to sign their names to corroborate that she told them these things happened years before anyone but her group chat knew the name “Graham Platner.” All those things make her story very credible.

I’ve tried hard to hold consistent standards about these kinds of accusations across party lines. To date, I’ve publicly argued that the accusations against Al Franken (remember him?) and Andrew Cuomo were unserious, and that the most grave accusations (meaning beyond womanizing) against Swalwell lacked credibility. I also thought Tara Reid, Biden’s accuser, lacked credibility. Anyone can check receipts on this.

@krystalball (who retweeted this, and hasn't bothered to tag me) knows this btw because, among other venues, I did so on her show. Unlike Krystal’s cheap play now for bipartisan respectability on this issue regarding accusations against Biden, which everyone with an IQ above 85 knows fits her anti-establishment politics perfectly well and was a politically easy concession to make, I have actually defended even people whose politics I revile from these kinds of attacks because I believe in holding a high and consistent standard.

Holding these standards matters EXACTLY because things that by nature tend to happen in private are hard to prove, but they do happen. Abuse and assault are real and serious, not to be handled cheaply for political advantage. And immoral people use the left’s destruction of due process and evidentiary standards, which inevitably erode the credibility of ALL women who come forward with these stories, as a shield behind which to commit real abuse and assault.

I don’t “believe all women”, but because of the convincing evidence she has brought forward, and also because I know her personally to be a woman of good and honest character, I do believe Lyndsey.