Ben Dickinson

Entrepreneur on the move. Seeking diverse cultural experiences. I love America, but living in other countries is amazing too

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 Friedberg on Los Angeles ‘Elections’

“Your rights to have an election are gone. You are a citizen of those who tell you who your overseers are … So enjoy the ones that have been made appointed by those who have constructed the matrix.”

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

I have just been arrested by the police in Madrid, Spain.

My phone and passport have been seized but I had a second phone in my pocket so I’m writing this from the back of the police car.

I was at Puerta del Sol for just 5 minutes.
Police told me I cannot have conversations in the public square. I researched the law and spoke with a lawyer and.they are wrong.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The El Segundo Times were very eager to dox where my children sleep; they thought that was newsworthy. Have they reported on the arsonists who set fire to my office in the middle of my election?

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

The hosts of The Gin & Juice Podcast are openly teaching people how to commit perjury in order to rig juries based entirely on skin color.

"Damn near half of the black people who could have been on the jury canceled themselves out... Don't do that. When you go up there, say, 'No, I have never heard about this case. I can be fair.' Say that. Okay? And then mean it. Believe it a little."

This is exactly how trust in the justice system gets destroyed.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Leftist publication The Intercept blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for multiple bomb threats on Jewish institutions in February 2017. It turned out the threats came from one of The Intercept's staff reporters, Juan Thompson. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 months in prison.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

America is such a rich country that “mere” half-billionaires like Ro Khanna (wife’s inherited family fortune) and Dan Goldman (Levi Strauss heir), and “down and out” decamillionaires like Liz Warren accuse OTHER PEOPLE of being too rich!

[Ben Edtl @benedtl]

I just want you to see the propoganda.

There is no evidence VBM is secure. No evidence VBM is safe. And no evidence VBM is transparent.

With vote by mail it cannot be confirmed that a single valid elector casts a single valid ballot.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is possibly the most alarming act of treason since the Lincoln assassination. For an outgoing president to engineer a coup against a succeeding president is unthinkable in America.

I knew Tulsi Gabbard would be the most effective Cabinet member.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

What was the percentage mail-in/absentee ballots in 2016, 24%? That number nearly doubled in 2020 and still wasn’t a majority practice. Until very recently most people voted in person, and that system worked a lot better than the current clusterfuck

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

I grew up hating white people, and the scary part is that millions of young Black men are being brainwashed into that exact same mindset today.

The education system feeds Black kids a steady diet of historical resentment until their undeveloped brains start picturing every single white person as the enemy.

Blaming the white man for modern community struggles is a trap that keeps people broke and angry.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Don Lemon claims the Karmelo Anthony trial had “an all white jury.”

The video was posted to his YouTube Thursday evening. Still running with this false narrative.

This is the same guy constantly whining about misinformation and right wing propaganda.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

The evidence Tulsi released today proves that Mitt Romney is a neocon shill who should not be trusted in the GOP.

Isn’t it interesting the entire Democrat party (and uniparty shills like Romney) and the media and intel community tried to paint @DNIGabbard as a Russian asset? Meanwhile they were the ones trying to destroy US foreign policy using Russia as a scapegoat. All in the name of power… gross.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

@SenWarren Elon Musk has already paid the largest tax bill in American history: $11 Billion

And what did you and the government do with it?

Probably gave it to illegal aliens or Somali fraudsters.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

These are the exact same people who made “countering hate” their entire identity.

They were the first to plant “Hate Has No Place Here” signs on their lawns.

They insist “hate speech isn’t free speech.”

They proudly fund groups like Hope Not Hate and Stop AAPI Hate

They still chant “Love Trumps Hate” like it’s scripture.

Yet here they are, in the pages of The Globe and Mail, publishing a guide on “how to properly hate” Elon Musk for the crime of building SpaceX into a company that could make him the world’s first trillionaire.

Proof positive that their “anti-hate” crusade was never about hate.

They are, in reality, full of hate. It was always about who they’re allowed to hate

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?

You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.

I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.

In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.

I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.

Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.

Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).

His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.

Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Father has epic response to this lady 😭🔥

“I also have five boys.”

“Boys, when you go out into school, don’t stab any other kids. You think you guys can do that?”

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Austin Metcalf is dead.

Let’s stop dancing around the obvious.

Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.

Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.

One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.

Save the faux outrage.

The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.

The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.

This was a track meet.

A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

NOT violence.
NOT murder.

And spare us the racial narratives.

Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.

Austin Metcalf lost everything.

His family got a life sentence of grief.

And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.

Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.

Never forget that.