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God, Family, Country

[mickrans @mickrans]

@maddenifico "As Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman's story"... Stopped reading after that intro 🤡

[mickrans @mickrans]

@RBReich " Berkely Professor" enough said......

[Eric Matheny 🎙️ @ericmmatheny]

Self-defense is the most misunderstood and conflated concept in criminal law.

Self-defense means you must act to protect yourself from imminent death or serious bodily injury.

Not having your fragile ego bruised because a high school kid asked you to sit somewhere else.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Mark it.

“Ladies and gentlemen, you will not hear a better argument for the President of the United States than those five minutes and twenty-five seconds right here:

Cut it. Mark it. Drop it in.

Are you a Leftist?
Are you a Communist?
Are you a Marxist?
Are you super Right-wing? Doesn’t matter.

You can’t disagree with that. That is the best argument you will ever hear—condensed, distilled, like proof alcohol—into why Charlie Kirk believes in this President.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Nothing says “neutral, nonpartisan expert” quite like a man who spent the last twelve years advising the Lincoln Project and National Security Leaders for Biden, then shows up in the New York Times wearing his old CIA costume like it still fits.

John Sipher didn’t retire from Langley in 2014. He just moved to the private sector version of the same job: professional concern-trolling about any Trump appointee who might actually try to control the intelligence agencies. The formula is so well-rehearsed at this point it’s almost touching. Open with the magic number ... “28 years!” ... invoke Iraq and WMD like it’s still shocking in 2026, warn darkly about “politicizing intelligence,” and then declare that this particular nominee is the one who will finally turn the DNI into the president’s personal detective agency.

He’s run the same script on Grenell, Ratcliffe, and Gabbard. Now it’s Bill Pulte’s turn. The only thing that changes is the name at the bottom of the column.

What the Times carefully omitted, of course, is that Sipher signed the 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation” ... the same laptop that turned out to be real, and whose letter was reportedly ginned up after Antony Blinken called Michael Morell looking for debate talking points. He also defended the Steele dossier back when that was still a respectable thing to do in certain circles.

But none of that made it into the byline. Just the 28 years. The credential does all the heavy lifting. The actual biography stays in the dressing room.

It’s not that Sipher isn’t allowed to have opinions. It’s that the New York Times keeps renting out the same retired spook costume every time they need to launder another partisan hit as solemn institutional wisdom.

At this point they should just list the dry cleaner on the masthead.
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[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

There's a phenomenon that has always got me thinking...

Before the internet, billions of people had very limited access to information.

News came from a handful of newspapers, radio stations, television networks, and whatever books happened to be available.

In many ways, it was understandable how populations could be misled, manipulated, or kept in the dark.

Today, we have the opposite problem.

For the first time in human history, more information is available to the average person than ever before.

Entire libraries fit inside a smartphone.

Government documents, historical records, academic studies, court filings, statistics, and multiple perspectives on almost every issue are available within seconds.

Yet many people still refuse to do even the most basic research before forming strong opinions.

We've created a culture where feelings often outrank facts, headlines replace investigation, and viral posts are accepted as truth without verification.

People will spend hours arguing online about a topic they have never seriously studied for even ten minutes.

The irony is that ignorance today is often a choice.

Not because every person has the time to become an expert on everything, but because the tools to learn have never been more accessible.

The barrier is no longer access to information.

The barrier is the willingness to seek it out, challenge our assumptions, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

A healthy society depends on citizens who ask questions, verify claims, and think critically.

Not people who blindly trust politicians, media outlets, influencers, activists, or even people they agree with.

The greatest threat in the Information Age isn't a lack of information.

It's the refusal to use it.

Knowledge is available to almost everyone.

Wisdom still requires effort.

[mickrans @mickrans]

💪💪🎯🎯 Well Said AJ !!

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

There's a phenomenon that has always got me thinking...

Before the internet, billions of people had very limited access to information.

News came from a handful of newspapers, radio stations, television networks, and whatever books happened to be available.

In many ways, it was understandable how populations could be misled, manipulated, or kept in the dark.

Today, we have the opposite problem.

For the first time in human history, more information is available to the average person than ever before.

Entire libraries fit inside a smartphone.

Government documents, historical records, academic studies, court filings, statistics, and multiple perspectives on almost every issue are available within seconds.

Yet many people still refuse to do even the most basic research before forming strong opinions.

We've created a culture where feelings often outrank facts, headlines replace investigation, and viral posts are accepted as truth without verification.

People will spend hours arguing online about a topic they have never seriously studied for even ten minutes.

The irony is that ignorance today is often a choice.

Not because every person has the time to become an expert on everything, but because the tools to learn have never been more accessible.

The barrier is no longer access to information.

The barrier is the willingness to seek it out, challenge our assumptions, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

A healthy society depends on citizens who ask questions, verify claims, and think critically.

Not people who blindly trust politicians, media outlets, influencers, activists, or even people they agree with.

The greatest threat in the Information Age isn't a lack of information.

It's the refusal to use it.

Knowledge is available to almost everyone.

Wisdom still requires effort.

[mickrans @mickrans]

@Rep_Stansbury @nytimes Congresswoman using th NYT as her source for outrage... my God how far we've fallen

[X22 Report @X22Report]

Trump attended the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. A small group of plants booed him. Left-wing bots immediately flooded social media claiming he was universally hated.

Then the crowd drowned it all out chanting USA, USA, USA. The rioters outside afterward proved who the booers actually were.

The White House then posted a picture of Trump saluting with one word — TRUST.

Patriots are in control. The world is seeing who the enemy truly is.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

It’s funny how we’re always told district lines are sacred when they benefit Democrats, but nobody seemed particularly concerned about Black political representation in states where there aren’t enough Black voters to create majority-Black districts in the first place.

Maybe the real fear isn’t the power of the Black vote.

Maybe it’s the possibility that Black voters might start exercising that power independently instead of automatically voting the way political operatives expect them to.

For decades, many politicians have spoken as though Black votes belong to them. They don’t.

Every vote is earned. Every election is a choice.

The moment people begin thinking for themselves instead of following Democrat political instructions is the moment political machines start getting nervous.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[mickrans @mickrans]

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@JoJoFromJerz Sorry about your nipples JoJo

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@timkaine How does Virginia compare to national averages?

[mickrans @mickrans]

@jaketapper @zerohedge Excellent News, Thanks Jake!

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

“Corrupt protecting the corrupt.”

Wet very Interesting phrase.

Where was this outrage when members of Congress were outperforming professional hedge funds year after year while writing legislation that affected the very industries they traded?

Where was this outrage when politicians became multi-millionaires on government salaries?

Where was this outrage when presidents from both parties issued controversial pardons, commutations, and clemency orders for political allies, donors, activists, and well-connected individuals?

The pardon power is literally written into the Constitution.

You can disagree with a pardon.

You can criticize a pardon.

But pretending presidential pardons suddenly became corruption the moment Trump used one is political theater.

The real issue isn’t whether a president exercised a constitutional power.

The real issue is whether Washington applies the same standards to everyone.

Americans are tired of watching one set of rules for political insiders and another set for everyone else.

If we’re finally going to have a conversation about corruption, let’s have the whole conversation.

Not just the part that’s politically convenient.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Let’s take a look back in time shall we. Let’s remind the Democrats what their leaders have said.🇺🇸

[mickrans @mickrans]

@igchampcom YEs we're fine with it. In fact it is already required. So lets all agree to add tis for voting now. See, we can all get along

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

She doesn't know what to do…well…Im here to help.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They spent years telling us the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had to look like a stagnant swamp because that was the price of being enlightened.

An Obama-era redesign turned it into a green, algae-choked mess that started blooming within a week of reopening. The official explanation from the National Park Service was delivered with perfect bureaucratic sincerity: “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project.” Another spokesperson added that “the conditions are pretty good for algae, once it gets in there.” It also leaked. And it smelled. These were treated as acceptable trade-offs, almost proof of moral seriousness.

The same people who designed buildings meant to dwarf human beings and make them feel small lectured everyone else about dignity and public space.

They replaced columns and ornament with Brutalist slabs and called the result progress. They let fountains sit broken and dry for decades, then acted shocked when the capital started feeling like a place people merely passed through rather than a place worth caring about.

Then Trump did the subversive thing. He looked at the reflecting pool and noticed the word “pool” in the name. Instead of convening another round of ecological theorists, he brought in people who actually fix pools. They sealed it, tinted the water blue, and ran it like a swimming pool. The algae vanished. The smell disappeared. The monuments stopped reflecting a swamp.

The absurdity isn’t just that it was broken for years. It’s that the people in charge had convinced themselves ... and tried to convince everyone else ... that fixing it would have been the extremist act.

All it took was refusing to treat basic maintenance as a political statement.
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