Kirk Townsend

Jesus Christ, family, Baylor sports, cigars and all politically conservative topics

[Shaun @shaunvlog_]

As a Scot in America for the World Cup, I can safely say that the beauty of the South is astounding 🤩

[Alexander Duncan @AlexDuncanTX]

Islam must be removed from America.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Say what you want about us, but at least we've never been confused about what gender we are, and we'd never marry our brother.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Anyone who doesn't know the difference between their brother and their husband probably shouldn't be serving in our government.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We made it to the sea🌊

[Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3]

Islam is basically a religion that was invented as an excuse for grown men to have sex with little girls and farm animals.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

There is no reason to have Somalis in America.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[Kirk Townsend @ktownsendBU]

@FreddyLA7 Waco texas baby!!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts So, how about the SAVE America Act?

[spor @sporadica]

.@realDonaldTrump just give this guy a passport at this point, he passed the test he’s one of us now

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

Last night, @POTUS invited the hardworking men who renovated the Reflecting Pool to the Oval Office ❤️

Every man received a signed hat and a presidential challenge coin!

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

“I'd rather be called racist all day long than stand back and watch my fellow people get their heads hacked off by a 50 IQ foreigner from an African shithole.”

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Do you guys in the Senate, where you are the MAJORITY, ever actually do anything about this overt criminal behavior?

Rhetorical question, of course.

No, you just talk and talk and talk and…

DO NOTHING.

[Douglass Mackey @douglassmackey]

CBS News hired an interesting journalist once, Catherine Herridge. Scott Pelley ran her out of there for not heing a libtard.

They also ran Sharyl Attkisson out of CBS News for accurately reporting on Obama.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

The @nytimes reported late last summer that Broadway was dying.

Ticket sales were in the tank - and the general public wasn’t supporting the shows. It’s true.

For Broadway shows to succeed they must appeal to *everyone* - including the millions of tourists from America visiting New York.

Tonight, @Pink opened with:
“Broadway is brave.” (but it isn’t brave - it is typical and intolerant towards people who believe differently than they do).

Pink also said:
“We go to Broadway to find different perspectives on life.” (But that’s not true either because they only celebrate one perspective, the far Left woke one, and mock traditional commonsense beliefs).

If @CBS and @TheTonyAwards really wanted to celebrate differences then they wouldn’t just have Megan Thee Stallion and Dylan Mulvaney in the opening number.

Why only have famous Lefties and no famous Conservatives?

This is one of the reasons why Broadway is dying.
It regularly mocks conservatives while claiming “diversity”.

Broadway is for Lefties, sadly. It needs to be for everyone.

People want to be entertained - not mocked.

The hypocrisy is real.
And so is the financial turmoil.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

She trusted the New York Times with her account of her abuse at the hands of Graham Platner. She paid the price.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

SB2420 takes Texas closer to dystopian DIGITAL IDs and social credit scores.

It should be repealed.

I’m fed up with big government “conservatives” in TxLege colluding with big government liberals to destroy LIBERTY.

I’ll file legislation to repeal this digital ID law.