JR Shortall

SQL Dev-DBA, CrossFitter, Manchester United fan, and father of 2 little girls. KCCO

[Libby Emmons @libbyemmons]

The Turks laid siege to Constantinople in 1453 and should probably give the land back to the Christians they stole it from.

[Andrew Wimsatt 🖐 @ajwimsatt]

Here is Bret Stephens talking with @MattWelch @mcmoynihan and @Kmele about the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and related topics.

From the latest @wethefifth members only episode

https://t.co/mMdPh5fjwQ

[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?

Because I do.

My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.

You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.

You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.

You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.

You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.

You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.

I have.

And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What the AirCon Debate Says About Britain's Climate Insanity

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sheridan Gorman's angel mom just dropped this raw truth nuke straight to Democrat members of Congress

"I don't understand why it's only the REPUBLICAN side that cares about our American children!"

"Basically what you just did, what you said was, 'I'm so sorry for your loss. I have a daughter too. I have a son. I feel your pain...'"

"You DON'T feel my pain. Because the next words out of your mouth were, 'BUT.'"

"There's no 'BUT' when your child is in a coffin!"

"And I need you to understand that. And if you ever want to talk about it, I'm here, I'm going to buy you a bench. I'm going to buy. You can put that on the record. I'm going to buy Congress the bench. And they can come and sit and hold my hand and look me in the eye and explain to me why illegal immigrants are more important than my daughter. I really want to know what because I don't understand!"

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

White people are terrified of being seen as racist.

If white guilt permeates the online world and our schools, then our adults will feel guilty too.

This helps neither whites nor ethnics.

My ARC speech:

[BLAIRE WHITE @BlaireWhite]

All you hear about is right wing violence, and all you actually see is left wing violence.

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

🚨 Democrat Senator Harry Reid introduced legislation in 1993 to end Birthright Citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.

"No sane country would do that — No sane country would give illegals citizenship"

“If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. Citizenship and a guarantee to have full access to all public and social services this society provides.”

https://t.co/mh4CCCGA7v

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Dear @UN,

Oldest slave trades:

1. Africans enslaving Africans: Thousands of years to today

2. Arab slave trade: 1000+ years to today

British Empire slave trade? 1555 - 1807

Should Europe claim reparations for the Barbary Slave Trade in 1M+ WHITE SLAVES?

North Africans enslaved at least 1 Million white Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade, which lasted longer than the British Empire's trans-Atlantic slave trade.

If the Caribbean and Africa want reparations, why is Europe also not entitled to reparations?

Where does this end? Should Italy pay reparations for slavery in the Roman Empire?

Me on @GBNews with Jacob Rees-Mogg:

[Stuart Powell @stuartpowell]

The wind turbine uses more energy in its construction that it gives back in the whole of its working life. You are being conned - there is nothing green about wind turbines.

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

“If there was an island in the pacific, and the indigenous population was being actively replaced by White people, and the number one new name in the country was Tom, the UN would be there immediately saying this is outrageous…”

[MAVERICK X @MAVERIC68078049]

A two-megawatt windmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It hold 700 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like car these need to be replaced every 9 months.

People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, it could spin until it falls apart over and over again and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

78 female Democrats in Congress BLOCKED the release of sexual misconduct reports.

The same ones yelling about Epstein 24/7.

The irony is wild.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr shared a brutally honest take on life without kids that will hit hard for anyone who's ever weighed the choice:

“Not having kids was like living life with a cheat code on the video game. Super easy. Low stakes. No real skin in the game.”

He continues:

Once you have children, your heart literally lives outside your body.

You worry about mortality differently — because now dying means saying goodbye to them.

Suddenly you're not playing on easy mode anymore. You're at the high-stakes table.

And his final word? “It’s very joyful.”

In 54 seconds he captures something profound:
The deepest fulfillment often comes from the highest risk — the one where you have everything to lose.

Parents: Does this perfectly describe the shift you felt?

Child-free: Does it change how you see the trade-off?

[Based Bandita @BasedBandita]

Ten neutral reasons why we need TERM LIMITS in Congress:

1. Nancy Pelosi - 85
2. Maxine Waters - 87
3. Bernie Sanders - 84
4. Mitch McConnell - 83
5. James Clyburn - 85
6. Angus King - 81
7. Chuck Grassley - 92
8. Hal Rogers - 88
9. James Risch - 82
10. Steny Hoyer - 86

Agreed?

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization.
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[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

John Quincy Adams on Islam:

“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.”

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

����NEW: @elonmusk reflects on what DOGE taught him🤣🐼

"It was like a very interesting side quest."

"Fraudsters necessarily will come up with a very sympathetic argument. They're not going to say, 'Give us the money for fraud.'"

"It's going to be like the 'Save the Baby Pandas' NGO, which is like, who doesn't want to save the baby pandas? They're adorable."

"But then it turns out no pandas are being saved in this thing. It's just corruption, essentially."

"And you're like, 'Well, can you send us a picture of the panda?' They're like, 'No.' 'Okay. Well, how do we know it's going to the pandas then?'"

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