During my announcement speech more than a year ago, I said that I have so many skeletons in the closet that if they could vote, I would be king of the world. I knew much would be made of my past. I have been around politics. I know of its hazards. I also knew that my vision and policies would inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you declare yourself foe to widespread corporate-government corruption and declare yourself counter-friction to a runaway war machine (a war machine killing innocents and draining our country’s coffers), you will inspire resistance in the establishment. (Put another way, many powerful people want to make sure the gravy train never stops. And I derail gravy trains.)
When you point out the morbidity of our two-party system -- a system that our first president warned us about, a system that is now largely predicated on hating fellow humans -- you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you’ve spent much of your life successfully fighting against our biggest corporations and worst polluters; fighting against mining, timber, hydroelectricity, and oil industries on behalf of the voiceless and the indigenous; fighting against agribusiness barons blithely ravaging the lives of small farmers and small towns, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you remind Americans that censorship and other curtailments of our civil liberties always arrive burnished with a moral and patriotic gloss, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you invoke our crisis of meaning, our deaths of despair, the addiction, and the many children lost to screens, ill health, and ennui, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you are wary of reductive partisan ideology and group-think; and when you refuse the common coin of today’s public discourse -- a glib second-rate cruelty delivered via the screen -- you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
When you assert that to better our country we must work toward a politics that heals this divide and affirms our mutual belonging, you will inspire resistance in the establishment.
As you perhaps know, I am used to such resistance -- used to the bile and malign distortions that accompany speaking out on high-stakes issues. And I know that the establishment’s treatment of me -- while challenging -- makes perfect sense.
The dark and elaborately refined arts of partisan politics deployed to end my campaign (the documented censorship and shadowbanning; the out-in-the-open, anti-democratic, and well-funded attempts to keep me off ballots through expensive, complex, time-consuming legal challenges; the thwarting of debate access; the withholding of secret service protection; the paid staged protests; the sundry campaigns of defamation and scandalmongering) are the logical reactions of a threatened -- and very unwell -- status quo.
And underneath all of this -- underneath much of this election cycle, underneath much of this moment in our nation’s politics -- is a sort of destitution. A destitution of heart. It’s no small wonder so many people have withdrawn from civic life and democracy altogether.
A broken bond needs to be reestablished in our country. We need more soul-searching and less partisan warfare. Our work as Americans, whether we like it or not, transcends all labels and all parties. It seems we will recognize this reality and act accordingly; or be broken into it. History is not made occasionally on great stages by the privileged few but made daily in the depths of each human soul.
Ours is a beautiful nation, still. According to the Internet, our country (and our world) founders in chaos. But in post offices, parks, grocery stores our beauty still heartens and shines. We all see it every day.
It is in the name of that beauty that I work.
It is in the name of that beauty that I run to be your next president.
The true power of America is not its comfort, wealth, or military might, but its ideals of liberty, democracy, and
generosity.
This campaign is about honoring and restoring those ideals -- regardless of the defamation, evasion, and trickery. We knew those were coming.
We will not be deterred on this necessary journey.
On the birthright citizenship issue, constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz thought he'd "never say this," but "President Trump proved to be a better constitutional lawyer than Chief Justice John Roberts."
🚨 BREAKING: It was just revealed that the Chinese suspects who tried detonating an IED at a US Air Force Base were BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENS of ILLEGAL ALIENS
Omg. This is EXACTLY what Justice Sam Alito tried telling everyone at the Supreme Court!
Haley Stevens TEARS into Abdul El-Sayed for not releasing his tax returns: “Abdul, you talk about getting money out of politics and putting money in people’s pockets. But who is putting money in yours? What are you hiding?”
With Mike Rogers filing his PFD disclosure last night, Abdul El-Sayed is the ONLY candidate in the Michigan Senate race who has not disclosed his personal financial information
What is Abdul hiding?
Mitch McConnell has been MIA for WEEKS after he was found unconscious.
His staff are completely silent. His libtard daughter deactivated his social media accounts. His CCP wife has fled the United States. AND The Hill just accidentally dropped a pre-written “lookback” memoriam on Mitch McConnell — classic premature obituary move.
Which begs the question: Is he even ALIVE?
Are they just trying to hide the body to sneak past Kentucky’s August 3rd cutoff?
After that date, McConnell’s establishment cronies can block a pro-Trump America First candidate from taking the seat and instead ram through one of their own RINO picks.
This is a morbid, yet classic swamp move to screw over the voters.
Kentucky deserves the truth NOW.
My activities are still very limited at the moment. I have been doing some writing, however–thank God.
I'm so relieved to be once again doing something creative and useful.
I have also been watching Professor Paul Kengor's The Dark Side of Marxism from @petersonacademy.
It does not feature the Marx portrayed by the woke university socialist acolytes (to put it mildly).
I interviewed @DrPaulKengor a year ago or so ago on my podcast. He's a truly engaging, creative and witty storyteller and lecturer.
It turns out that Old Karl was quite the satanic soul.
He was a parasite economically all his life, extorting continual support from his long-suffering relatives.
He wrote (and admired) purposefully demonic poetry and drama.
Most disturbing, however, was his choice of favorite quote. From Goethe's Faust, it's a line I have quoted many times, in consequence of its sheer existential horror.
It's Mephistopheles presenting his identity and central credo:
“I am the Spirit that endlessly denies!
And rightly, too; for all that comes to birth
Is fit for overthrow, as nothing worth;
Wherefore the world were better sterilized;
Thus all that's here as Evil recognized
Is gain to me, and downfall, ruin, sin.
The very element I prosper in.”
I wonder if Zohran Mamdani @NYCMayor knows of the inclination of his apparent intellectual hero?
Here is a question every Senator should be able to answer without flinching: Should only U.S. citizens be allowed to vote in U.S. elections? If the answer is yes, then there is no reason to oppose the SAVE America Act. It puts a real proof-of-citizenship requirement in place for federal elections.
Senate leadership needs to bring this bill to the floor for a vote.
Abdul El-Sayed stated he never called to defund the police.
In a new audio, he said: “I believe that we do need to defund the police.”
https://t.co/FccD9jWKOe
@JoeMiller4547@libsoftiktok@AGJamesUthmeier@RepLuna I live in Tallahassee and I can tell you; as a Mayor - Gillum was terrible!
Tropical Storm Hermine hit, and most of our county was without power - Mayor Gillum TURNED AWAY help from other counties and said we could do it ourselves… My home was without power for ELEVEN DAYS.
@piersmorgan Because THAT wouldn’t have been fair.
What he requested, WAS fair - it ‘righted a wrong’ - but I guess you Europeans aren’t accustomed to that concept.
You believed. You filled stadiums. You brought the game into homes and communities across the country.
Most of all, you showed everyone what this crest means. Thank you.
🚨 Marco Rubio Predicted the Rise of ‘Democratic Socialism’ Back in 2020
“At the core of democratic socialism is Marxism. And at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security … and you don't get it back just because the security they promised you didn't happen. That's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country.”