🚨 Sec. Marco Rubio just NAILED IT:
"One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is that it 'sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.'"
"That's actually NOT TRUE. Communism does NOT sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul."
"The world that envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes, or glory, or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things."
"And the world communism envisions is a world without God."
"For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy." 💯
Nixon was the last great man of the West.
Endowed with profound political intelligence, a deep historical, philosophical, and literary culture - he read Machiavelli, Hobbes, Hegel, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and others - and a genuine will to drive transformations, acting sovereignly as a leader.
He did not fall merely because of his ideas and values, but because of the kind of man he was: a remnant of an era that understood authority and responsibility as inseparable.
After him came the triumph of the partisan careerist, the puppet of the elites, and the opportunistic populist adventurers.
That is why his career ended in a tragedy that was not only personal, but civilizational: the West had become too small for a soul like Nixon’s.
One of the underrated cultural impacts of Trump is a clear repudiation of safetyism.
Refusing to let a rain storm cancel his 250th address may not seem like a big deal. But you know Trump had to override a a swarm of panicked administrators to do it.
Trumps response to death is literally to fight, or quip that you “have to go sometime”. Maybe in your bed, many years from now, but not at the cost of the fight as Mel Gibson once said.
If George Washington walked through bullets we can stand in the rain.
If we want to reclaim our country we have to be able to handle the most modest expressions of courage.
It’s time to build, it’s time to live, even if it costs “just one life”. If we don’t we will wither to nothing from a lack of meaning. Trying to avoid all uncertainty will cost you everything you care about.
It’s time to dance in the rain again.
"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
- George Washington, July 2, 1776
Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out.
And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins.
Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year.
But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community.
The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get.
Staring down the actual Declaration of Independence before stepping into the octagon as an underdog to beat the piss out of an undefeated fighter in front of the world is an extraordinary level of legendary
California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls
California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:
-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)
Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8
This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.
We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.
On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.
For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.
@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.
What are they afraid of?