Ben Carpenter

Peony farmer. Veteran. Survived Juneau. Mission: grow food, conservatism, & prosperity in Alaska. Develop capable leaders. Be a Christ follower.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

EXCLUSIVE: O’Keefe Uncovers Unalaska Election Officials Contradicting Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s SAVE Act Claims, Telling O’Keefe That Island Residents Do NOT Have to Travel 800 Miles to Anchorage to Register to Vote or Obtain ID

O’Keefe asked an Unalaska local DMV employee, “We don’t have to go to Anchorage to get an ID?” The employee responded, “No, you can come here.”

An Unalaska resident confirmed voting takes place at City Hall and said residents “Don’t have to go to Anchorage [to register to vote or obtain ID].”

After visiting the library, DMV, City Hall, post office, and speaking directly with residents, O’Keefe reported: “Everybody here [Unalaska residents] are contradicting what Lisa Murkowski is saying [Have to travel to Anchorage to register to vote or obtain ID].”

@lisamurkowski @LisaForSenate

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

I don’t remember peaceful, respectful protests. I remember antagonistic, private property damaging, violent mobs. What’s a domestic enemy look like?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Secretary of State Marco Rubio CONFIRMS they have evidence that the mass protesters that come out for different protests like Anti-ICE, pro-Hamas and even the 2020 protests ARE ALL THE SAME PROTEST GROUPS

“There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized.” They just remake signs for each different protest

“They were the same people you saw on the streets burning things in 2020. They then flip it around and they become the pro-Hamas protesters, then they flip it around and within 48 hours of Maduro's arrest have pre-printed signs outside the courthouse demanding his release. Then they're out there doing the ICE stuff, attacking ICE agents.

There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized, and Cuba is a part of that network, and in some cases, a critical part of that network, and it's a network they will weaponize against us. And they talk about it openly, about how they will use that network to pressure American policymakers, not just here in the United States like Code Pink, but all over the world”

Here are just a few of the groups involved in the mass protest network. It’s so much bigger and organized than people realize

All of them should be arrested for intentionally setting up mass protests:

- Code Pink (CODEPINK)
- The People’s Forum
- National Network on Cuba
- ANSWER Coalition
- BreakThrough News
- Tricontinental Institute (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
- National Lawyers Guild
- Pastors for Peace / IFCO
- Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
- Black Alliance for Peace
- ICAP (Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples)
- Venceremos Brigade (historical)
- Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
- Workers World Party
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization

You should recognize a lot of these names because everything we have mass protests they are always filming and posting to platforms like Facebook

Now you know why they’re filming and posting. They’re literally paying for the protests and organizing them

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

@elonmusk Future Geiko claim: “My LunarX spaceship was sideswiped by a 2010 midnight cherry Roadster. Is this covered?”

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

Our nation doesn’t survive without a people of moral character.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Lauren Boebert requested that the House have everyone pray for Charlie Kirk

Democrats respond by screaming in opposition, Jasmine Crockett literally screeches

Democrats won’t even tolerate a prayer for a 31 year old family man, murdered on live stream

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

If we want things to change, it's 100% necessary to politicize the senseless murder of Iryna Zarutska because it was politics that allowed a savage monster with 14 priors to be free on the streets to kill her.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

#wearecharliekirk

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

Wouldn’t it be fitting for the murder of Charlie Kirk be the Turning Point in the moral decline of the USA. @TPUSA

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Gas cans used to POUR gas. Now they just DRIBBLE like a child's sippy cup. The Trump EPA’s message to gas can makers:

VENT THE DARN CAN and let it FLOW BABY FLOW!

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people.

When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us.

This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

You’re probably more read up on the bbb more than I but I think in this instance, gov’t isn’t driving the train. Industry is, and they’re building the tracks as they go. No one really knows where AI is going to take us but one thing is clear, an increasingly capable AI will demand more energy and more GPUs. That’s where the tracks lead us, for good or bad.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

Electrons = Knowledge. He who powers the most GPUs wins. Compare the lead time on new US power generation to GPU production. Power will be the bottleneck. Need firm energy-natgas, coal now. Nuclear, hydo, tidal, geothermal, or better ASAP. Nonfirm 🌬️ ☀️ is niche. Not sure where the AI race is going, but we surely don’t want to lose it by preferring the “right” energy.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Remember this chart

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

@bravenewak That’s kind of like saying “if we ended the mosquito, we could spend more time outside.” While I share your skepticism for the need for carbon footprint management (religion), I think it’s a distraction rather than the devil.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

HJR11

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

Queue the socialist sympathizers in #akleg. HJR11 fearful. Shortsighted. Unnecessary.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

@AKpublicnews The more newsworthy fact is that 3K positions are unfilled but they’re funded every year. Where’s the money spent?

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

@bravenewak You have a cmte because it’s a legislature, not a king’s court. And you avoided my question. Keep educating yourself.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

@GrumpOldGuy87 @JeffLandfield You have yer facts wrong. Most years the legislature has increased education funding above what the statute (BSA) requires… and most brick and mortar schools continue to underperform anyway. You are correct though, we spent most of our savings rather than make hard decisions.

[Ben Carpenter @realBenCarp]

Since you’re doing research & educating yourself, what is the significance of moving a bill from cmte without a do pass recommendation? Can you think of a reason why members of a cmte might want to remove a bill from their cmte and be on record opposing the bill in the process? Fri you will know if cmte members support the bill by listening to the cmte report recommendations as the report is read across the floor.