Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960

Wordsmith, retired chef & general know-it-all. Writing on life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

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[Scott G @scttfrnks]

The Appalachians are 480 million years old and predate the formation of the Atlantic Ocean

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

One of the earliest Thirteen Star American Flags.

Likely made in Rhode Island between 1777-94, this is a rare five-pointed variant of the "great star pattern."

@Sothebys

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The entire supplement industry is one animal, taken apart and sold back to you a jar at a time.

Steak is full of creatine. They tub it and sell it as a breakthrough.

Red meat is full of carnitine. Capsuled, sold as a fat-loss aid.

Beef is full of carnosine. Sold as beta-alanine, for the tingle.

Butter and egg yolk carry K2, which puts calcium in your bones. Capsuled.

Egg yolk carries choline, which builds your brain. Capsuled.

Bone and skin give you collagen. Forty quid a tub.

A cow's first milk is colostrum. Freeze-dried, sold to biohackers.

Then look at the names, because the names are a confession.

Creatine, from the Greek for flesh.

Carnitine and carnosine, from the Latin for meat.

Taurine, in your energy drink, named after the bull it came out of.

Butyrate, the gut-health darling, named after butter, where it lives.

The protein powder is just milk, dried and stripped.

The D3 they push each winter is scraped from sheep's wool.

The retinol in the ninety-pound face cream is the yolk you were told to bin.

So the supplement aisle is less a pharmacy than a butcher and a dairy, taken apart and marked up forty-fold.

Sold to you by the same people who spent fifty years telling you not to eat the animal it came out of.

Eat the animal. It arrives with everything already inside, for the price of dinner.

The capsule was always just the cow, with a middleman.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@wil_da_beast630 If by "bold" you mean typical female histrionics.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Remember a few months ago when @DefiyantlyFree and I, among others, with Barbie taking the lead, called out SSPX as schismatic, and a bunch of Catholics got mad and said we were attacking Catholics? The Pope excommunicated them for being schismatics this past week.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

They pasteurised milk to fix a problem that was never about the milk.

Raw milk from a pasture-fed animal:

- Lactase cultures and lipase intact, the enzymes that teach your gut to digest milk
- Vitamin C, B12 and folate present and correct
- Lactoferrin and immunoglobulins still folded the way the animal made them
- Fat and fat-soluble A, D and K2 undamaged
- A taste that reminds you milk was once food

The pasteurised version:

- Enzymes cooked to death, so your gut is on its own
- Lactoferrin denatured, good bacteria killed with the bad, a lucky few sold back in a separate tub
- Vitamin C largely gone, folate and B12 knocked down
- A month of shelf life and the honest tang of the plastic it lives in
• Approved. Standardised. Embalmed.

Raw milk didn't turn dangerous. Cities did. Pack animals into filthy urban sheds, feed them distillery slop, milk them into open pails, and yes, you get something that can put a child in the ground. The fix was never to clean the shed. It was to heat away the evidence and call it progress.

The living version teaches your body to handle milk, then they sell "lactose free" back to the people they disarmed. They made it half-illegal too, so drinking what your great-grandmother poured every morning now takes a farmer's phone number and a bit of nerve.

We industrialised the filth, pasteurised the proof, and pinned it on the animal.

[Don Marshall @RealDonMarshall]

Irving Berlin "God Bless America" on The Ed Sullivan Show https://t.co/lYUGn6j1xr via @YouTube

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@brettachapman Yes, but that's because you're exactly as dumb as you sound.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

"Substantive", muppet.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

@zakavkaza I’ll wait by my phone for substantial rebuttals.

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

The kids are okay financially. Each generation richer than the previous one.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@scttfrnks There you go again ...

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

PSA

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

It is far MORE important for a country to have war planes than health care for hobos.

[Barn Finds @barnfinds]

This 1968 Plymouth Satellite presents well as a driver-grade classic, with air conditioning for added comfort. https://t.co/mfvV6rItDG

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

Patriot Front are losers, but they hold zero power and have to wear masks in public.

Actual communists and Islamists are winning Democrat primaries.

I would suggest you prioritize the real threat accordingly.

[Bill Roach @billroach_]

America was founded on the conviction that there is liberty and justice for all. Those aren't empty slogans. They reflect the belief that every person possesses God-given dignity and should enjoy freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and equal justice under the law.

For years, we've watched many on the Left work to erode those freedoms through ideological coercion, censorship, compelled speech, identity politics, and the expansion of government power. Liberty is replaced with conformity.

But there is an irony that many conservatives fail to recognize.

Some who identify as Christian Nationalists have begun undermining the very freedoms they once defended. In reacting against the Left's authoritarianism, they have adopted authoritarian instincts of their own. Rather than defending liberty and justice for all, many have embraced forms of neo-integralism and post-liberal thought that look far more like state-enforced orthodoxy than the American experiment.

It is a political form of Stockholm Syndrome. After spending years opposing ideological coercion, they have begun imitating it.

This has been one of the central themes of my lectures:

• The answer to left-wing authoritarianism is not right-wing authoritarianism.
• The civil government exists to administer justice—not to compel faith.
• Christianity advances through the proclamation of the Gospel, not through state coercion.
• Freedom of conscience is a biblical principle because genuine faith cannot be forced.
• Equal justice under the law applies to every citizen, not merely those with the correct political or religious commitments.
• Both woke ideology and neo-integralist political theology elevate political power above individual liberty—they simply seek different ends.
• Christians should defend truth through faithful witness, persuasion, and justice, not by granting the state greater authority over matters Christ entrusted to His church.

America doesn't need to choose between progressive authoritarianism and conservative authoritarianism.

We should reject both and reaffirm the enduring principle that there must be liberty and justice for all.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@politicalmath @Theo_TJ_Jordan The key: All such acts must be voluntary.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@walterkirn For the usual reason.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@_Billy_Beck_ @UnmitigatedAss Don't even have to care to work that out. Sigh.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The Romans understood something about cheap carbohydrate that we pretend not to.

Panem et circenses. Bread and circuses. The emperors kept the vast restless population of Rome quiet with two things. Free grain, and entertainment. Fill the belly with cheap bread and fill the day with spectacle, and a mob that might otherwise turn on you stays docile and manageable.

They knew, instinctively, that a people kept full of cheap starch and distraction is a people who do not make trouble.

It is not a conspiracy to notice that the modern arrangement rhymes with it rather neatly. The cheapest calories on every high street are the refined carbohydrates, the bread and the sugar, subsidised, everywhere, filling. And the circuses now fit in your pocket and glow at you all evening.

A population fed on cheap starch and endless spectacle is sluggish, docile, and too tired to ask difficult questions. The Romans did it on purpose and wrote it down.

We drifted into the same thing and call it convenience.

[Martine Torres-Aponte, thought criminal since 1960 @la_smartine]

@IMAO_ Your proposition is unconstitutional, to say nothing of ridiculously short-sighted. I mean, if the answer is "revoke citizenship for thought-crime", wtf is the question?