Lee Wheat

Proud American, Conservative, dog & cat person, Tea Party supporter, clinging to my guns, nerd, VaTech, Class 1986

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason Rome fell was because they stopped making Romans

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah, that was dumb

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Precisely articulated

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

A BAKER'S DOZEN OF MAXIMS TO LIVE BY ON POLITICS X

1. Yes, dark and scary secret government conspiracies exist. Most things are not dark and scary secret government conspiracies.

2. You don’t have to agree with everything a politician says to support him or her.

3. Disagreeing with a movement politician on a single, specific issue does not mean you must be exiled from that movement.

4. Just because an X user comments favorably on something somebody else says does not automatically mean that the same X user agrees with everything else that other somebody has ever said or ever will say.

5. If you want to accuse somebody of saying something bad, make sure they actually said it.

6. Government always looks out for itself first, regardless of what political party is in charge. This has always been true and will never stop being true.

7. Just because somebody disagrees with you does not make them a bot, nor does it mean they are being paid by Russia/Israel/Ukraine/Hamas/China/Qatar/etc.

8. However, bots do exist, and some X accounts are, in fact, being paid by Russia/Israel/Ukraine/Hamas/China/Qatar/etc.

9. It’s OK if your political views change over time as new information becomes available. That’s called being intelligent.

10. Just because someone supported something in the long ago past does not automatically mean they support it now.

11. There is no such thing as “objective reporting.” Every journalist has an agenda, and that agenda permeates everything they say or write.

12. Self-proclaimed experts usually are not.

13. Disagreement does not equal disrespect (unless the disagreement is done in a disrespectful way).

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[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

It's impossible to have a nuanced, conversation about data power centers on social media; the politics right now is to demonize them, call them predators rather than show there are also examples of good industry stewards.
Few have the courage to raise the consequences of that.
Except Fetterman.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Both Disney’s Silly Symphony and Warner Bros Merrie Melody series helped shape children’s imaginations well into the 70s (perhaps longer) without us really knowing at the time they had been made decades earlier.
Simply the best.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Much bigger than AIPAC, and it's just one of their many orgs.

[Lee Wheat @NumbuhOne]

@DLoesch First it’s getting rid of the Dollar as the reserve currency and now Huey Long? Not sure I want to find out the third part of this trifecta.

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

I know people who were dinged on security clearances given activities or statements by relatives that were far more innocuous by orders of magnitude than what Hasan Piker has been saying for years - America deserved 9/11, advocates for corproate and political assassinations, supports mass-murdering Mao and USSR, supports and promotes Hamas, denies atrocities like rape occurred on October 7, tortures his dog for his podcast audience, etc., etc.

It is shocking beyond belief that Hasan Piker's brother has a security clearance high enough that he can work as an engineer on Air Force One.

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

Retired Wilmington Police Department K9 Karson passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, following a period of declining health. The beloved Belgian Malinois was humanely euthanized to prevent further pain and discomfort from age-related illnesses, including severe muscle loss, weak back legs, and failing eyesight and hearing.

The Wilmington Police Department honored Karson's dedication with a formal police escort for his final ride to the Suburban Veterinary Clinic in Centerville, Ohio.
Before crossing the Rainbow Bridge, his longtime handler and partner, former officer J.J. Popp, spoiled him with a final meal of a New York Strip steak and donut holes.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Absolutely boggles my mind that 21-year-old investment bank interns are subject to stricter insider trading rules than members of Congress.

These guys have access to more material non-public information than anyone on Wall Street—legislative changes, pharmaceutical trials, classified military intel, defense contracts—and they’re using it to operate their own amateur hedge funds from the House cloakroom.

Pelosi and her serial drunk-driving husband consistently outperforming the market. Ro Khanna making thousands of trades every year. Hundreds of other examples, across both parties. It’s completely absurd.

If you want the extraordinary privilege of being one of the most powerful people in America, you—and all members of your immediate family—should be required to place your liquid assets in a trust that can only invest in the S&P 500, a bond market ETF, and a money market fund. You can change your allocation among the three choices quarterly, but that’s it.

No more call options on biotech companies that just told the FDA about a medical breakthrough. No more short-selling defense contractors that just briefed the Armed Services Committee about production delays. No more fake “blind trusts” whose rules aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

Show up, do your job, and faithfully serve the American people. If you don’t want to do that, go study for the CFA exams and test your mettle against Ken Griffin and Steve Cohen in the trading world (for some reason, I don’t expect your streak of beating the market to continue once you and your staffers are no longer getting confidential briefings).

But no more of this Capitol Hill Wolf of Wall Street bullshit. It’s corrosive to good governance, it undermines democracy and trading markets alike, and we, the American people, are done with it.

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

He shot down four enemy aircraft in a single mission and was given the Distinguished Service Cross for it.

Seven weeks later he did exactly the same thing again.

They gave him a second one.

This is the story of Jay Robbins..🧵1/4

[Lee Wheat @NumbuhOne]

@caroljsroth And I’m sure they have a plan regarding which local grocers will and will not qualify for these grants. I wonder if it’ll be based on campaign contributions, level of effusive praise, or both?

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Need the @TheJusticeDept’s help in Virginia.

Notice @AGJayJones isn’t helping remove dangerous illegals from our state, he’s going after a sheriff for doing his job.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Imagine this.

It's late May of 1944. The Stars and Stripes editor in chief insists on publishing stories that are harmful to the morale of the US troops poised to invade continental Europe.

The President, the Secretary of War and General Eisenhower tell the editor to stop, and he refuses.

So they fire him.

Then the national media on the homefront goes crazy acting like the national leaders did something wrong.

Kind of hard to imagine that, isn't it?

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I'm thinking about writing an article that explains in broad terms--for the benefit of non-veterans--why most GWOT veterans have such loathing for the senior uniformed leadership that Trump and Hegseth have run off.

Major reasons I can think of so far:

1. Eagerly implementing the racist, sexist, esprit de corps-destroying policies of DEI across the force.

2. Creating and endorsing restrictive ROE that valued the lives of terrorists over the lives of American servicemen and women.

3. Never telling the President "Sir, we will never be able to transform the 8th Century savagery of tribal Afghanistan into a modern, liberal society no matter how hard we try. It's a fool's errand."

4. Forcing troops to take an experimental COVID vaccine whose risks were deliberately hidden, and then conducting life-destroying Salem witch trials on anyone who refused.

5. Never resigning in protest over any of the above and instead protecting their potential for post-retirement, lucrative service on the boards of directors of the only groups profiting from the GWOT.

I know there are lots of smaller issues, but I'm trying to capture the really, really MAJOR ones that most of us agree on.

Did I miss any?

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

If you want to understand why Data Republican is such a constant target of obsessive leftist lunatics, this is a must watch.

It takes bravery to do what she does.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Two days after @JoshShapiroPA did a 180 on data power centers he released an attack ad labeling Stacy Garrity "Pennsylvania's #1 fan of data centers"

Garrity called for a pause on major AI data center development projects on May 28, 2026; long before Shapiro did.

The ad is materially misleading by omission. Garrity’s older comments show she saw places for properly sited data centers and acknowledged their enormous power demand, but by late May she had publicly called for a statewide pause; Shapiro, meanwhile, had actively promoted and fast-tracked major projects until his August 18 executive order imposed far tougher controls.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

“These are contracts for very important purposes, helping kids, helping seniors. It targets the minority community substantially, and these services are not being provided. So far what we’ve seen, the money was spent not for the purpose it was lent, but it was spent."

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

As a rule of thumb: nuke every captured institution and strip leftists of every lever of power they hold.

The American Bar Association has abused its monopoly on law school accreditation for far too long. It is one of the primary reasons the justice system is failing.

And if the purpose of a system is what it does, then they have effectively turned the legal profession into leftist political activism.

>directed schools to work around laws prohibiting affirmative action hiring and diversity goals
>required teaching on bias and racism
>long history of pressuring schools to abide by their political agenda
>defied the SC ruling against race based admissions
>amicus supporting abortion rights
>opposing expansions of 2A
>supporting trans policies
>soft on crime reforms

They’re unworthy.