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[peg @pegj_]

Progress!

Now can we ban pit bulls?

[peg @pegj_]

Listen, I know that there are big problems that need to be solved, but if there’s any way we can bring back incandescent bulbs I would be so grateful.

[Zeroxy @Zeroxy_]

Can someone who lives in the kansas area please forward this to the authorities, i don't know what I'm able to do from Norway but this person randomly said this in my twitch chat and didnt comment further. RTs appreciated as I really need someone from kansas to see this.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”

https://t.co/x00baUJNoo

[peg @pegj_]

@sappholives83 I am transphobic.

Those men scare the hell out of me.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

For the record, Drag Queen Story Hour now receives more city funding than the Department of Veterans Services.

Understand where we are.

[peg @pegj_]

@Haleaziz Arturo committed a felony by re-entering after deportation.

[peg @pegj_]

So it’s a bipartisan bill!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. @BernieMoreno pledges to run former Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid’s EXACT 1993 bill ELIMINATING birthright citizenship for children of illegals

Harry Reid NAILED it 🔥: "If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee FULL ACCESS to all public and social services this society provides."

"NO sane country would do that, right?! Guess again."

"Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to ILLEGAL ALIEN mothers?" 🎯

(GREAT job finding this bill @BillMelugin_)

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

If you were born in America, you’re an American. You have a right to live here. Unless of course you’re American. In which case you’re living on stolen land.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Being a leftist in America means you fervently support birthright citizenship, but not necessarily birth.

[Jeremy Redfern @JeremyRedfernFL]

“SCOTUS ruled that anything TPS is not subject to judicial review.”

But that’s not what “SCOTUS ruled.” That’s what Congress passed into law, and SCOTUS told judges they must follow.

[peg @pegj_]

@TristanCPDT @BillMelugin_ You’re in Canada. Why is it your concern?

[peg @pegj_]

@ianmiles That’s the attitude when they drive in the left lane too.

[peg @pegj_]

@nytimes It’s not called Forever Protected Status for a reason.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

What a headline. Democrats hate when good things happen to America.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

It started in 2018 when Trump Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was denied service at a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. No D leaders condemned what happened. They enjoyed it.

They should have spoken out then. Their chickens have now come home to roost.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Democrats are electing America hating Communists and the Republicans are worried about the Filibuster Rule.

Think about that…

[James Klüg @jamesklug]

Why is a homeless tweaker allowed to vote to raise my taxes

[peg @pegj_]

The Americans that are demanding USAID be reinstated are the same people who denounce their country because it’s an imperialist nation.

USAID funds imperialism.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

How many people has Elon Musk personally murdered via his work helping defund USAID? I've run the numbers.

USAID, as people outside of CNN's viewership already know, operates largely as a CIA cutout, placing assets on the ground in countries where the U.S. govt is intervening politically.

USAID was instrumental is helping seed the following revolutions/coup d'états/civil wars:

Serbia — Bulldozer Revolution (Oct. 2000)

Venezuela — coup attempt + sustained OTI funding (April 2002)

Georgia — Rose Revolution (Nov. 2003)

Ukraine — Orange Revolution (2004)

Haiti — Ouster of Aristide (Feb. 2004)

Lebanon — Cedar Revolution (2005)

Belarus — opposition funding, "Jeans Revolution" and after — attempted, failed (2006)

Honduras — Coup against Zelaya (Jun. 2009)

Cuba — ZunZuneo / "Cuban Twitter" — attempted, failed (2010–12)

Tunisia — "Arab Spring" (2011)

Egypt — "Arab Spring" (2011–12)

Ukraine — Euromaidan / Revolution of Dignity (2014)

Bolivia — anti-Morales funding; 2013 expulsion; 2019 ouster

Kyrgyzstan — Tulip Revolution (March 2005)

Without U.S. intervention, it's hard to see how any of these would have gotten off the ground. Some back-of-the-envelope math on these conflicts' bodycount:

Venezuela (2002): 19

Haiti (2004): ~300

Maidan event (2014): ~100+ killed.

Bolivia (2019): 36

Donbas war (2014–2022): 14,200–14,400 military & civilian deaths.

Ukraine full-scale war (2022–present), deaths, both sides, mil + civ: roughly 350,000–500,000 killed.

So far we're up to somewhere north of 365,000 deaths, more likely north of 500K.

What else do we have?

USAID also helped fund poppy (heroin) farmers in Afghanistan. Unfortunately I haven't seen estimates of how many have died as a result of this taxpayer funded drug dealing, but I'm assuming they're not small numbers.

USAID also worked with groups sexually abusing/trafficking children in Kenya (2021), and the Central African Republic (2013).

Much earlier, during Vietnam, USAID helped the CIA arm & feed Hmong guerrillas fighting communist forces (not the worst thing). USAID also helped the Hmong militia & other warlords smuggle opium (a far less forgivable thing).

While the final tally is hard to properly calculate, if past is predicate, in helping shutdown USAID, @elonmusk could be saving hundreds of thousands of lives, thousands of African children, & millions of people around the world susceptible to opiate addiction.

Get this man a Peace Prize, @NobelPrize

[peg @pegj_]

@JCeacc @AutumnRustics @TheEconomist You should come see it for yourself 😉