Phil Lerious

I appreciate clarity, aesthetics, moral truth, smart work, American liberty, and a stout beer.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

You will never meet a person who’s more anti-socialism/communism than someone who escaped it.

Every person who’s pro socialism/communism has yet to experience it.

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

The 17th Amendment has created a Senate that violates the intent of the Constitution—allowing senators to be more beholden to Washington than the states they claim to represent.

We need to repeal the 17th Amendment to restore the Constitution’s original balance of power, strengthen federalism, and make the Senate accountable to the states it was designed to represent.
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[@amuse @amuse]

SAVE ACT: Thune is in open defiance of the American people and our president. Immediately after this press gaggle he held a vote to send senators on a 19-day vacation with one senator holding 5 proforma sessions to block Trump’s recess appointments.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

You know she's talking about illegal voters getting disenfranchised, otherwise she would be referring to citizens.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon on the SAVE Act: "Here in Pennsylvania, we know people don't have Real ID. People don't have passports. About half our voters would get disenfranchised if this thing were to go through."

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

"Think of it like this: Your house is flooding. You don’t negotiate with the water, you turn off the hose first."
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[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

People keep asking:

“How did these hardcore radicals just sweep Democratic primaries in New York?”

Look at the winners.

One was raised in Turkey until adulthood.

The others come from Palestinian, Dominican, and Haitian backgrounds, and they’re running on “America is the problem,” “river to the sea,” and open hostility to our traditions.

Now look at who voted for them: their own communities turned out in heavy, coordinated blocs.

This isn’t random. This is what happens when you import millions from cultures that don’t assimilate.

“One man, one vote” stops working when the new arrivals outnumber the original Americans in district after district, and vote their tribe, not your country.

The result? Your neighborhoods, your schools, your future get reshaped against your will.

The only way to hit the brakes: Mass deportations of anyone here illegally, plus an immediate, total pause on legal immigration until assimilation actually happens again.

Think of it like this: Your house is flooding. You don’t negotiate with the water, you turn off the hose first.

This isn’t theory. It’s math playing out in real time. The demographic shift at the ballot box is visible. What are we waiting for?

[Islam Invasion 🚨 @IslamInvasion]

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Nigeria, and the list goes on, weren’t Islamic 50 years ago. Now they’re fully Islamic!

What ensures the West from suffering the same fate?! How are we protecting our way of life against their conquest?

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

"If this happens in the United States, there will be nobody coming to save us."
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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Before the weekend ends and America moves on to the next headline, we need to pause and look at a story that matters more than almost any other—the collapse of Venezuela, and what it warns us about if the last democratic superpower ever falls the same way.

This didn’t happen overnight. It happened step by step, over one generation.

VENEZUELA: HOW A PROSPEROUS NATION COLLAPSED

1992
Venezuela is the 3rd richest country in the Western Hemisphere, powered by oil and a growing middle class.

1997
Venezuelans become the 2nd largest buyers of Ford F-150s—a sign of widespread prosperity.

1998
Hugo Chávez is elected, promising to “redistribute wealth” and fix inequality.

2001
The country votes again for socialism, framed as compassion and fairness.

2003
The government imposes price controls and currency controls.
Black markets appear. Shortages begin.

2004
Private healthcare is fully socialized.

2006
Inflation rises sharply as massive welfare programs expand without real economic backing.

2007
All higher education becomes “free.”

2008
Key industries—oil services, steel, cement, telecom—are nationalized.
Production drops almost immediately.

2009
Private gun ownership is banned.

2010
The currency is devalued by 50%, crushing savings and accelerating inflation.

2011
Oil production begins a steady decline due to mismanagement and lack of investment.

2012
American politicians, like Bernie Sanders, publicly praise Venezuela’s model.

2013
Chávez dies. Nicolás Maduro takes power and tightens state control.

2014
Opposition leaders are arrested or silenced.

2015
GDP collapses. Hyperinflation begins.

2016
Severe food and medical shortages spread nationwide.

2017
The constitution is suspended. Elections are no longer meaningful.

2018
Inflation exceeds 1,000,000%. Maduro “wins” a widely fraudulent election.

2019
Unarmed civilians are killed by their own government.

2020
More than 8 million people flee the country to escape hunger and repression.

2023
Minor economic improvements fail to relieve mass poverty.

2024
Disputed elections trigger protests and global isolation.

2026
Maduro is removed by force. Venezuela is liberated after decades of ruin.

THE HARD TRUTH

It took one generation of “progressive” leadership to turn one of the richest countries on Earth into a nation defined by hunger, fear, mass graves, and mass migration.

This is the lesson history keeps teaching:

You can vote your way into socialism.
But history shows people only escape it through collapse, violence, or foreign intervention.

And here is the part Americans must understand clearly:

If this happens in the United States, there will be nobody coming to save us.

No outside superpower.
No rescue force.
No second chance.

Freedom is fragile. Prosperity is not guaranteed.
And once lost, they are brutally hard to recover.

Venezuela’s people paid the price.
America cannot afford to learn this lesson the same way.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

Living (and suffering) with Democrat mayors.

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

Chicago mayor is blaming Trump and racism for the crime happening in Chicago.

Is this guy delusional?

Brandon Johnson needs to stop making excuses and start taking responsibility for the city he was elected to lead. Young people are dying, families are suffering, and violence continues to destroy Chicago communities while he points fingers at everyone except himself.

He needs to look in the mirror, crack down on crime, and do his job.

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 Wanna puke? Do you want to see the ugly underbelly of how your money is being spent by the Department of Education?

You know — the Department that was supposedly on its way out but was given $79 BILLION in taxpayer funding 6 months ago?

In 2025, they gave the University of Texas at Dallas $113 MILLION in federal funding. They'll get even more for 2026-2027.

These mugshots are professors and students (many are here on visas) who were arrested at the pro-Palestine rally last summer on campus.

Students called for a global intifada against Jews and Israel.

Some of them screeched their brains out in Arabic, chanting for the destruction of America.

One foreign professor fought the cops as they attempted to disband the riot and arrest students.

Not a single one of these individuals has been fired, expelled, or lost their visa. NOT. ONE.

🔎 For transparency, I monitor this specific group and check with the State Dept, the Visa Consular office in DC, DHS, and the university itself, every single month.

They're all still here, still employed, still enrolled, with the exception of one student, who now works for 'American Muslims for Palestine,' a national (and dangerous) Palestinian lobbying group whose co-founder was recently arrested by ICE for terror ties and visa fraud.

Your tax dollars are funding this.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

"Mass deportations are not happening, and communists have already succeeded in driving ICE out of major cities."
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[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

Republicans wait until communists win elections, then shine a national spotlight on the problem.

They offer little to no preemptive action to prevent those victories in the first place.

Meanwhile, the federal government openly acknowledges the coordinated effort to undermine the country through communist immigration, yet takes no meaningful steps to counter it.

Mass deportations are not happening, and communists have already succeeded in driving ICE out of major cities.

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

Most people are taught a very simple story about American slavery.

But history is messier.

Anthony Johnson, a Black man from Angola, arrived in Virginia in 1621 as an indentured servant. He gained his freedom, became a landowner — and in 1655 won a court case to keep his

Black servant John Casor as his slave for life. This helped set an early legal precedent for chattel slavery.
In 1830 there were 3,775 free Black slave owners holding ~12,760 enslaved people.

Did you know this part of the story?
Does it change how you see the “simple” version we’re usually taught?

Share it if you’re tired of slogans and want facts instead.

Tag someone who needs to see this.
Facts > slogans.

#Virginia #slavery #HistoryMatters #enslavedpeople #AnthonyJohnson

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

There is no fight here. There is only a reversal of the truth, and a dishonest one.

You speak of "wealth and power" as though they were one thing. They are opposites. The billionaire's wealth is the record of value he created and others freely paid for. It buys him goods. It buys him nothing from you that you do not choose to give. He cannot tax you, jail you, conscript you, or command you. His only weapon is an offer you are free to refuse.

Power, real power, is force. The power to seize what a man earns, to dictate what he may build, to punish him if he declines. And that power does not sit in any fortune. It sits in exactly one place: the government office you, and those like you,occupy.

So look at what you have done. The man who can only persuade you is branded the tyrant. The man who can compel you, who writes the laws and aims the guns, calls himself your protector.

You are not standing up to power. You are power, pointing at the producer to keep all eyes off your own hands.

[Morgana Le Faye *Patriot *America 1st* 🇺🇸 @Keltic_Spirit]

Here's the problem - and I've been warning about this for years: When the left says, "That's our democracy. If people vote for socialism, that's democracy," they reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how the United States was designed to function.

The Founders did not create a democracy. In a pure democracy, 51% can vote away the rights, property, and liberty of the other 49%.

The United States is a Constitutional Republic.
Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution guarantees every state a republican form of government. The Constitution itself places limits on what majorities may do. Individual rights do not exist at the pleasure of a temporary voting majority.

That distinction matters.

A majority cannot legitimately vote away free speech. A majority cannot legitimately vote away due process. A majority cannot legitimately vote away the right to keep and bear arms.

The Constitution stands between the individual and the passions of the crowd.

This is why I encourage anyone attracted to "democratic socialism" to read F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Hayek's warning was not that people would be conquered by force, but that free societies often surrender liberty gradually through democratic processes in pursuit of promises that sound compassionate and harmless.

The greatest threat to liberty is often not tyranny imposed upon a people. It is tyranny voted for by a people who no longer understand the limits their Constitution was designed to impose.

America is not a democracy.

America is a Constitutional Republic - and that distinction is one of the greatest protections of liberty and the individual, ever devised.

[Brianna Lyman @briannalyman2]

It's almost as if they never cared about black people and simply cared about power!

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

"The left believes it can control Islam. But history shows that every time Islam allies with a non-Islamic force, it ultimately turns against its so-called allies."
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[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

The Left and Islam, these two ideologies should be at war, one claims to fight for feminism, LGBTQ rights, secularism, and equality, while the other is rooted in medieval theocracy, submission, and absolute control.

Yet, they’ve formed a perfect symbiotic relationship, using each other for power, influence, and the destruction of Western civilization from within.

For the left, Islam is a weapon.

It is the ultimate tool to dismantle Western values, weaken national identity, and push their own radical agenda.

They don’t care about Islam itself, they exploit it, knowing that the ideology carries a powerful victim narrative that they can weaponize against their political enemies.

The left thrives on oppression narratives.

Islam, with its deep-rooted sense of historical grievance, fits perfectly into the intersectional hierarchy of the “oppressed.”

The left despises Christianity because it upholds traditional morality. But they need a battering ram to dismantle it.

Islam, with its aggressive opposition to Christianity, becomes a convenient ally.

The left knows that Western-educated, patriotic voters won’t buy into their radical agenda.

So they import millions of people from Islamic countries who are more likely to vote for big government, hate Western traditions, and demand “tolerance” while refusing to assimilate.

The more chaos, the better, because a broken society is easier to control.

The left thrives on censorship.

What better way to shut down debate than by labeling any criticism of Islam as “hate speech”?

The left uses Islam as a shield, calling any factual discussion about jihad, sharia, or terrorism “racist.”

But Islam is not a passive tool, it is using the left just as much, if not more.

While the left believes it is controlling Islam, Islam is infiltrating and manipulating the left to expand its dominance.

Islamic jihadists understand that they don’t need a military conquest to take over the West, they just need to infiltrate.

With leftist backing, they gain positions in politics, media, academia, and law enforcement, where they can quietly reshape policy in their favor.

The left’s obsession with open borders and unrestricted immigration is Islam’s golden ticket.

Once a Muslim population reaches a critical mass, it doesn’t assimilate, it dominates.

London, Paris, and Sweden’s no-go zones are the results of Islam using democracy to establish enclaves where sharia law reigns supreme.

Islamic jihadists have learned to disguise their theocratic ambitions under the language of human rights.

They attach themselves to LGBTQ movements, feminist causes, and racial justice protests, even though Islam itself stands against everything these groups claim to support.

It’s a calculated move, gain leftist support, then turn against them when power is secured.

The left believes it can control Islam.

But history shows that every time Islam allies with a non-Islamic force, it ultimately turns against its so-called allies.

The communists in Iran learned this the hard way when they helped overthrow the Shah in 1979, only to be executed en masse by the same Islamic jihadists they had supported.

The same fate awaits the left.

Radical feminists think they’re empowering women, until they’re forced into hijabs.

LGBTQ activists think they’re fighting for equality, until they’re thrown off rooftops.

Socialists think they’re creating utopia, until they find themselves living under the Caliphate.

Islam is not here to be anyone’s pawn. It is here to conquer. And the left, in its blind hatred of the West, is paving the way for its own destruction.

[Adam Johnston @adamkjohnston]

Saving America initially rests on five things:

1. A decades long immigration moratorium like we had from 1924 - 1965. (See chart)

2. Forced “Americanization” programs similar to those that existed 100+ years ago.

3. Ending Birthright Citizenship.

4. Mass deportations.

5. Remigration initiatives.

Though there are more, enacting these five will lay the necessary groundwork to reverse some of the damage from mass immigration, and then allow for a reforging of a cohesive nation.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

True.

[Mick Milee @MickMilee]

Muslims in Christian countries:
build mosques ✅
preach Islam ✅
open businesses ✅
demand rights ✅

Christians in some Muslim countries:
build churches ❌
preach openly ❌
own a Bible freely ❌

You can't demand tolerance you won't give.

If your religion is true it doesn't need to silence the competition.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

History is hard for Democrats.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

During the Iranian Revolution, leftist students, communists, and Muslims were all united in overthrowing the Shah.

The leftists celebrated when Khomeini returned in 1979. They thought they defeated capitalism and imperialism. It didn’t last long.

Around 30,000 leftists who helped the Islamic regime consolidate power were soon executed. That’s where the term “useful idiot” comes from.

They served their purpose and were no longer needed. Muslims had always despised their progressive ideals and couldn’t wait to get rid of them.

One of the women celebrating in the picture was killed, the other fled the country for her life.

It’s bizarre that almost 50 years later, Western leftists are making the exact same mistake and allying with Muslims. They will have the same fate.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

"Want less chaos?
ENFORCE the law.
Want safer communities?
ENFORCE the law.
Want to preserve national sovereignty?
ENFORCE the law."
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[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Zohran is running the oldest play in the Left’s playbook: scream “racism” whenever someone enforces the law.

ICE agents didn’t write the laws.
Congress did.

They’re not targeting people because of their race. They’re enforcing immigration law.

As a combat vet, I have zero patience for leftists who smear the men and women in uniform to score cheap political points.

The truth is simple: the Left calls border enforcement racist because they can’t defend the consequences of open-border policies.

Want less chaos? ENFORCE the law.
Want safer communities? ENFORCE the law.

Want to preserve national sovereignty? ENFORCE the law.

A country that refuses to defend its borders is a country surrendering its sovereignty.

[Phil Lerious @phil_lerious]

Questions smart people ask.

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

IF IT TAKES 60 SENATE VOTES TO REMOVE ILLEGALS FROM MEDICAID, WHEN DID THE SENATE GET 60 VOTES TO PUT THEM ON MEDICAID?