James Andersen

Politically incorrect father of five boys

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Most prominent terrorist attacks since 1970 and their religion:

1. Munich Olympics massacre (1972) - Islam
2. Beirut barracks bombing (1983) - Islam
3. TWA Flight 847 (1985) - Islam
4. Rome & Vienna airport attacks (1985) - Islam
5. Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) - Islam
6. World Trade Center bombing (1993) - Islam
7. Paris Metro bombings (1998) - Islam
8. US Embassy bombings Kenya & Tanzania (1998) - Islam
9. USS Cole bombing (2000) - Islam
10. 9/11 attacks (2001) - Islam
11. Bali bombings (2002) - Islam
12. Istanbul bombings (2003) - Islam
13. Madrid train bombings (2004) - Islam
14. London 7/7 bombings (2005) - Islam
15. Fort Hood shooting (2009) - Islam
16. Toulouse/Montauban shootings (2012) - Islam
17. Boston Marathon bombing (2013) - Islam
18. Brussels Jewish Museum shooting (2014) - Islam
19. Ottawa Parliament attack (2014) - Islam
20. Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher attacks (2015) - Islam
21. Paris November attacks (2015) - Islam
22. San Bernardino shooting (2015) - Islam
23. Brussels airport/metro bombings (2016) - Islam
24. Nice truck attack (2016) - Islam
25. Berlin Christmas Market attack (2016) - Islam
26. Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (2016) - Islam
27. Westminster Bridge attack (2017) - Islam
28. Manchester Arena bombing (2017) - Islam
29. London Bridge/Borough Market attack (2017) - Islam
30. Barcelona/Cambrils attacks (2017) - Islam
31. Strasbourg Christmas market attack (2018) - Islam
32. London Bridge stabbing (2019) - Islam
33. Samuel apart beheading (2020) - Islam
34. Vienna shooting (2020) - Islam
35. October 7 Hamas-led attacks (2023) - Islam
36. Arras school stabbing (2023) - Islam
37. Solingen knife attack (2024) - Islam
38. New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (2025) - Islam
39. Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack (2025) - Islam
40. Winterthur train-station stabbing (2026) - Islam

I couldn’t list them all, obviously, but let’s put it into perspective.

Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979:

1979–April 2024: 66,872 attacks

By period:

1979–2000: 2,194 attacks
2001–2012: 8,265 attacks
2013–April 2024: 56,413 attacks

Total Deaths: at least 249,941

Now, who is the biggest threat to the world, again?

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

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[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

"Fair share" - the phrase every looter uses when he wants what he didn't earn.

You call them "oligarchs" while proposing to seize 5% of their wealth by force. Who is the one wielding state power here, Senator?

You just proposed a moratorium on AI data centers - literally trying to freeze the most productive technology of our era. How many jobs, how much wealth, how much human progress does YOUR agenda cost Americans? No one tallies that bill.

California's billionaires are already fleeing to Nevada. The Hoover Institution estimates this tax will cost the state $25 billion net. You would destroy the golden goose and then call it justice while ignoring the price paid in blood, sweat and tears because of your policies.

"The people want it" - 54% voting to confiscate another man's property doesn't make it right. Two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner is not moral governance. Rights are not subject to majority rule. That is why we are a republic.

You have spent decades producing nothing, creating nothing, building nothing - while demanding an ever-larger share of what others build. That is not fairness. It is the plunder of a man who knows too little.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@VinnysCorner1 Rusty Staub

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@deepwebslinger They don’t care because they know when they control the Federal government they’ll just bail out failed blue states, effectively forcing their bad policies on all states.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@MikeBales Love me til my heart stops. Love me til I’m dead.

[Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt]

NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.

In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Honestly, why is this a story? This happens in the private sector every single day.

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

The Mets are now 0-10 since this happened.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@Y0K0S0N @Logically_JC This is true in nearly every state not just California. I vote for retarded.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

Yes. More of this please. Teachers Unions have been a disaster for America’s children.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

So many of our problems could be fixed by eliminating teachers unions.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@JamesSurowiecki Following your argument we should abolish the senate and just have the House of Representatives.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@Jason @SenWarren Nothing she has ever said or will say is credible.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Perhaps my favorite Supreme Court exchange in recent memory:

Solicitor general: “It’s a new world."

John Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

Into my veins 😌

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@ccmembersonly The Iron Giant

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

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[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

FBI agents have to retire at 57, air traffic controllers at 56, and pilots at 65. But somehow demented 70 and 80 year olds running the country is totally fine. Make it make sense.

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

@tigerwrestling why is Chris Ayres not at the mat for the Valencia match?

[James Andersen @jggrumpy]

For the record, all the Red Hen did was change its name to ZunZun. Same owners. Same ridiculous intolerance.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

A croissant shop in Little Rock just asked the Governor of Arkansas to leave because her presence made employees feel “uncomfortable.”

She was having lunch with two other moms.

She had already eaten. Already paid. Already tipped.

And they still asked her to leave.

Then as she stood to go, someone shouted at her group and made an obscene hand gesture in her direction .

The “party of tolerance” strikes again.

Here’s the thing. They have every right to refuse service. This is America. Private businesses can make their own decisions.

But decisions have consequences.

Ask the owners of The Red Hen how this works.

In 2018, The Red Hen in Virginia kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders out while she was still eating because the owner opposed the Trump administration .

The Red Hen closed in late 2023 .

The Croissanterie has every right to ask the governor to leave.

And every customer in Arkansas has every right to never walk through that door again.

When did we, in America — the home of capitalism, the birthplace of “the customer is always right” — decide that the smartest business strategy is to alienate half your potential customers over politics?

You run a croissant shop. You sell pastries and lattes. Nobody walked in asking for your political position on the LEARNS Act.

They wanted a croissant.

And instead of selling them one, you turned your bakery into a political statement.

They’re already getting destroyed on Yelp .

The Red Hen learned this lesson the hard way. The Croissanterie is about to learn it the same way.

You have the right to refuse service.

You also have the right to go out of business.

The market doesn’t care about your feelings either. 🦋

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

She represents everything that’s wrong with modern society

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

https://t.co/DCEmjoJD0L
Flashback: UN’s reputation got completely destroyed by Argentine President Milei during his speech at the general assembly:

“[…] At a certain point, this organization stopped upholding the principles outlined in its founding declaration […] In this very house that claims to protect human rights, they have allowed the entry of bloody dictatorships, such as those of Cuba and Venezuela, without the slightest reproach […] In this very house that claims to defend the rights of women, it allows countries that punish their women for showing skin to join the committee for the elimination of discrimination against women […] In this very house, there is a systemic voting pattern against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East that defends liberal democracy, while simultaneously demonstrating a total inability to respond to terrorism.”