Amphibious Rodent

Lockdowns suck.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
- F.A. Hayek

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@KenGardner11 I was deemed a "mathlete" in the local paper. I was more than a bit of a nerd.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

Just in case it wasn't clear before, politics is the religion of the left. Their principle is winning and they are willing to throw their morals under the bus to win an election.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@Timodc Yeah, but the last one was true and got past that, so...

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@ClayTravis @willcain Let's be honest, a lot of Americans are looking for a reason to root against the US.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@PpollingNumbers Lol, the Dems are cool with the Nazi tattoo, so it's something worse than that? Knowing Dems, they probably dug up a quote where he condemned Hamas.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

If you want to go live in equal poverty, please feel free to go to the one of many places that allows you to do that and stop trying to f*ck this place up for the rest of us who want to enjoy the benefits of free choice and free trade.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@redsteeze As opposed to the other exciting strategies?

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@Heminator

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

We might need to have a conversation about being ruled by people that can't run their own lives.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

She has a law degree from Notre Dame, was fired from her law firm for publicly calling them out for not supporting Palestine after October 7, and at 29-years-old, made a total of $30K last year while being $250K in debt. And Democrats elected her to Congress.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@FoxNews Ok, but what about the power of love of power?

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@axios We should be scared of socialism.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@MattWalshBlog "The other side doesn’t believe their own bullshit."

It feels like that's most of our political discourse. You can't convince me the left actually thinks men can be women.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

This is the blueprint.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Finalizing budget review/vetoes and I can report:

FY 26-27 will be the fourth straight year that Florida has reduced its budget.

Rainy day fund = full (and more than triple the size from 2019).

The budget represents 44% of the size of the budget of New York (the state closes to FL in population, with NY having between 3 and 4 million fewer residents).

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@BarbMcQuade

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@instapundit @awstar11 Wait, the guy that wrote a whole article about how there were no anarchists in the demonstration, even though he admitted there were anarchists there, isn't a trustworthy source???

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@jessesingal That's not what he said at all.

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

@capttomrath @AGHamilton29 Sure, valid point, but her record does not even give the facade of competence. I get that they wanted certain politics/demographics, but it should have been easier to find someone with some modicum of credibility. 🤷‍♂️

[Amphibious Rodent @inthecitylimits]

Yep, it's all about politics, not health.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

During Covid, we made old people die completely alone in the hospital. People who had been married 50 years weren’t allowed to hold their life partner’s hand during their final moments on this earth.

But sure, let’s bring back the bathhouses that were ground zero for HIV/AIDS.