Absolutely Phenomenal video!
250 years ago we declared independence from the British Empire.
125 years later, they stole it back—and erased the evidence.
Then, 125 years later, TODAY. This Independence Day, President Trump, by the grace of God, is reclaiming what McKinley died for: the American System.
The Republican Senate just performed its own public execution in a hotel ballroom in Rapid City and then had the audacity to act surprised when the body twitched.
They did not simply deny Scott Presler entry to their little donor dinner at the South Dakota state convention.
They revealed the clinical truth of what they have become: a cartel of status-anxious narcissists so pathologically terrified of autonomous effectiveness on their own side that they will slam the door on the single most productive grassroots operative this movement has fielded in a generation rather than risk him demanding they actually do the job they were sent to Washington to perform.
This was not an administrative fuck-up.
This was a calculated act of social dominance…a textbook display of malignant group pathology in which the only acceptable response to loyalty that becomes demanding is erasure and humiliation.
The message they broadcast was not subtle.
It was neurological.
It was delivered straight into the attachment systems of every volunteer, every small-dollar donor, every door-knocker who still believed the Republican Party existed to fight rather than to manage.
Shut the fuck up.
Know your place.
We do not work for you.
We work for the donor calendar, the cocktail circuit, the administrative-state equilibrium that keeps our sinecures intact.
Your effort, your results, your inconvenient insistence on proof-of-citizenship and borders that actually function are now classified as threats to our comfort.
The base is no longer an asset to be mobilized. It is a liability to be contained.
This is betrayal trauma made visible and it carries a clinical cost these cowards have not begun to calculate.
Trust does not erode under these conditions.
It calcifies into something colder, more precise, more lethal.
The high-agency citizens who built the turnout machines are not becoming more moderate.
They are becoming more diagnostic. They are running new simulations in which the men in bespoke suits are no longer allies who occasionally disappoint.
They are obstacles that must be removed or bypassed if anything resembling the republic is to survive.
History has already written the next chapter for men who mistake their insulation for invulnerability.
The Roman optimates told the populares to sit down and accept their station.
The French aristocracy responded to the cahiers de doléances with procedural contempt and donor-class disdain.
The British Tories spent a generation triangulating while assuring their base that the institutions still functioned.
Every single time the result was the same: the base did not become more compliant.
It became more accurate in its assessment of who actually serves whom.
The Senate Republicans who participated in or permitted this public degradation of Scott Presler have just accelerated that process by years.
They have handed the base fresh data and fresh rage wired directly into the nervous system.
They will not sleep cleanly again.
Every future closed-door meeting, every donor dinner, every primary challenge will carry the ghost of that slammed door in Rapid City.
The calculation has changed.
The men who thought they could silence the most effective soldier on their own side without consequence have just taught the entire base a lesson in institutional betrayal that no amount of campaign rhetoric can unteach.
The full forensic dissection of this pathology…the neurological rewiring, the historical pattern, the terminal arrogance of a leadership class that fears its own base more than it fears the enemy…is now live.
Read it. Let it cut.
The reckoning they triggered is no longer theoretical.
It is already counting.
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.@SecScottBessent: We can't say "let them eat flatscreens." I think people would rather have their communities back, would rather have the dignity of work, than cheap gadgets.
"The stock market can do great — but it is time for Main Street to do better."
In just under a minute, Scott Jennings delivered a masterful breakdown of why Republicans are winning the argument heading into the midterms.
Kaitlan Collins was forced to sit there and listen to every word of it.
JENNINGS: “Look, gas prices are not up. They’re down. Below $4 a gallon nationally, oil is trading at $71 a barrel.”
“We don’t run the gas price tracker on the screen anymore for a reason. You know, I mean, it’s because it’s a non-story.”
“The pool was vandalized. You keep bringing up the pool. It was vandalized by people who were so broken brained about our politics, they went out there and vandalized the pool. It’s in the court documents, which you can read yourself today.”
“And as it relates to cost, the Republicans cut taxes. Working people all over this country got major tax refunds. We have a booming job market. We have a stock market that’s up.”
“Right now, we have an economy that’s on the upswing because of Republican policies. And we’ve got insane Democrats winning primaries, promising socialism all over this country.”
“Those are the facts and that’s the argument that will be carried to the election.”
@forestfrank Totally healed at age 3 and started walking. ( I’m 61 with a loving husband 2 boys and 3 grands) I’ve been blessed with a career with kids with different abilities and give them the hope of Christ ) God is so good!
Personal News: I am writing as a mother and living organ donor.
Twenty years ago this month, our youngest son Peter received a life-saving liver transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh @ChildrensPgh
With Peter’s permission, I’m sharing a photo taken with his older brother a few weeks before his 2006 transplant, when he was in liver failure.
Four years later, he won gold at the U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wisconsin. And here he is today—healthy, strong, and thriving.
What I didn’t fully appreciate in 2006 was that Peter and I were part of pioneering research aimed at reducing the risk of organ rejection in pediatric patients.
Even though I donated a segment of my liver to Peter—and as mother and son we are genetically similar—the new testing protocol still helped lower his chances of rejection.
Peter and I participated in a research project that developed a simple blood test called Pleximmune @plexision
It predicts the likelihood of rejection in pediatric patients by analyzing the unique immune chemistry of both the child and the donor.
The test also helps doctors determine exactly how much immunosuppression a child needs to keep rejection at bay.
Our family knows firsthand how valuable this early warning system truly is.
When Peter hit his growth spurt in his early teens, like so many pediatric transplant recipients, he needed increased immunosuppression.
The Pleximmune test predicted this need months in advance, giving his doctors time to adjust his care before problems arose.
The threat of rejection is a cloud that hangs over every transplant patient and family.
This test is making a real difference. It helps prevent rejection and can save tens of thousands of dollars for families and insurance companies.
This is where common sense matters.
In early July, the research team is preparing an appeal to Medicare @MedicareGov to price the Pleximmune test "fairly and consistently" with similar diagnostic tests.
Right now, only a small percentage of the cost of the test for pediatric patients is being reimbursed.
As the team told me, “Fair pricing is the lifeblood of a company’s ability to provide patients with more informed care and continued innovation.”
Today, Pleximmune has been used to test roughly 10% of children under age 21 who have received liver or intestine transplants in the U.S.
If you want to support this important work and help more pediatric patients and their families benefit...
Send a note to your senator, let them know to escalate the matter with Medicare so the appeal gets a fair hearing.
Catherine
@C__Herridge@ChildrensPgh My coworkers twin 14 month old daughter just got a donated liver in Cincinnati from a deceased adolescent. 🙏🏻 momma couldn’t be more thankful Her twin brother is fine.