Robin B.

An Okie born and raised. Never lived anywhere else. My roots go deep. 🇺🇸

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

That‘s a wrap from Tennessee. We had the most amazing few days here. We would‘ve loved to stay longer, visit Memphis or the IndyCar race in Nashville tomorrow. But that‘s just gives us a reason to come back again for a visit, maybe next year already for the CMA fest which many told us about. Now it’s time to explore Kentucky!

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Imagine your boss not seeing you for 39 days…

Not even knowing if you’re alive.

That’s Mitch McConnell.

His constituents are his boss.

He works for us.

We have no clue if our employee is alive.

Insane.

[Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 @alexbruesewitz]

I’m hearing that the House is preparing to take a key vote this week to include as much of the SAVE America Act as possible in the budget bill. All Republicans need to vote YES on the budget resolution. While I can’t imagine any Republican would try to block this critical vote, stranger things have happened. Hopefully they get it done!

[Jim Verdi @jjverdi]

Holy crap! I don’t know who this is but it’s the biggest takedown of govt socialism and the fraud that is Bernie Sanders ever.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[MinerBob🟠⚫🇺🇸 ♠️♣️♥️♦️ @MinerBob00]

Ignore the noise. Trump is always right. He never states anything without knowing unequivocally that it's true. Remember 60 minutes and the spying on his campaign? The truth sometimes takes time, but it always comes out. Trust what Trump is saying no doubt it is true. The 2020 election was rigged. Biden got 81 million votes. Yeah right.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

It was fantastic seeing FBI Director Kash Patel in person, so we could thank him on behalf of all of America for the 125-year low homicide rate and the largest drop in violent crime in American history.

President Trump is letting "cops be cops" again!

📸-@dto_rok

[I love Tesla 🔋🚀 @JC70769]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 199 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

In case you missed this bombshell, this commie pictured below was part of the FBI top leadership in 2020 who hid from @realDonaldTrump the intelligence that China was intent upon interfering with the 2020 election. She declared herself “running a shadow government”.

She is now gone from the FBI. Thank goodness. To Microsoft. Big scary.

We are praying @FBIDirectorKash has no one like her still in the @FBI, stabbing him in the back - and if he does, I hope and pray he knows that he has many friends and supporters at the Election Integrity Network ready to ride to his defense and help him rid these dark blots from that agency.

There is no substitute for an honest, aggressive FBI acting as a law enforcement agency defending our voting and election rights.

Without that, our nation is doomed. @FBIDirectorKash is the right leader for such a time as this and @EIwatchdogs stands ready to help him however we can

@jsolomonReports @mrddmia

[Zayin - Faith & Freedom @Zayin_7_119]

I don't even know where to begin... ❤️

In just a matter of hours, our family's Amazon wishlist was completely fulfilled, including many of the little "nice-to-have" items we never expected anyone to buy.

I have tears of joy as I write this.

To every brother and sister in Christ who stood with our little family, thank you. Your generosity has overwhelmed us in the most beautiful way. Every donation, every gift, every prayer, every encouraging message, and every helping hand has reminded us that God provides, often through His people.🙏🏼

Over the past few months we've watched God answer prayer after prayer, and today is another reminder of His incredible faithfulness.

🇺🇸America, thank you for welcoming us with such kindness and love. We are so incredibly blessed to have each and every one of you in our lives. We will never forget what you've done for our family.

All glory to God. He is so, so good. ❤️🙏

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Democrats are terrified that we are deporting their voter base

& working to ensure that only Americans are able to vote in federal elections.

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. just announced we’re making orange juice healthier and more affordable again.

“Orange juice companies have had to import higher sugar content oranges, mainly from Brazil… in order to satisfy these outdated requirements.”

“The regulations hurt our economy, drove up costs, cost American jobs, and unnecessarily forced higher sugar levels in orange juice.”

“We’re lowering the minimum Brix levels from 10.5 degrees to 10 degrees.”

“This long overdue reform will reduce our dependence on foreign imports.”

“Unleash American agriculture.”

“And save the industry more than $60 million every year.”

“It strengthens American supply chains and levels the playing field for American citrus growers.”

“It maintains the safety and quality and taste of this American product.”

“That’s how we grow our economy.”

“That’s how we support our farmers and US businesses.”

“That’s how we give Americans access to real food that they can trust.”

[United Cajun Navy @Unitedcajunnavy]

***FRAUD ALERT*** The grifters and scammers are at it again! A group identifying as "Cajun Navy 2016" who is NOT authorized by any EOC in Texas is posting copied images to raise money pretending to be us. Please be aware, don't get SCAMMED! WE ARE THE ONLY LEGIT CAJUN NAVY!

[GretchenInOK @GretchenInOK]

Today’s TRUTH!

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

China has been committing massive amounts of fraud in the USA.

Why do we still allow 300,000 foreign students to have student visas here? Why do we allow 20% of all H1B visas to go to China? This is stupid.

[TinaSings @PeterTina973]

I want @ScottPresler and @nickshirleyy running the National GOP. I’m tired of the useless GOP.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

YOU DID IT ARKANSAS PATRIOTS!

Because Arkansans are speaking out and demanding accountability, our reports have reached your leaders.

Your clear stand - “We will not allow it [SHARIA]. Period.” - sends a powerful message to every state. We appreciate your leadership.

RAIR will continue this vital work to defend our Constitution and sovereignty.

@SarahHuckabee thank you for taking notice of our reporting and speaking out so forcefully against replacing American law with Sharia.

Over recent months, RAIR Foundation has exposed the accelerating Islamization of Arkansas:

The Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Center of Little Rock building a massive 10-acre Sharia-compliant campus (school, mosque, gym, fields) while receiving state vouchers.

Properties transferred to NAIT, Al-Azhar-trained leadership, and non-assimilation goals at Huda Academy.

Mass Eid prayers conquering War Memorial Stadium.

Church takeovers, the “New Africa” Sharia residential enclave with enforceable Quranic rules, voter harvesting at mosques, and youth trips to radical hubs like EPIC in Texas.

WE THANK YOU FOR TAKING A STRONG STAND!

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

My local police department started using camera surveillance in 2019. Since then, their annual budget has increased by 58.5%, and they've hired 12 more employees (26% increase.) The % of police reports resulting in arrests has gone down - from an average of 32% (before 2019) to 23% (after 2019.)

They use 4 modalities to spy on us:
- Flock ALPR cameras
- Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) intersection cameras
- Fixed real-time viewing cameras located along public rights-of-way, "providing continuous situational awareness in critical areas."
- Autonomous Drones as First Responders (DFR)

No, I don't live on Mexican border - I live in one of the safest neighborhoods in Houston (which earned that title before all this started.)
@therealdeflock