Greg Schepens

Financial Planner, Volleyball Coach and Political Junkie. Likes are my way to save posts and don't always equal a like.

[John McAfee 🇺🇸 News @mcafeenew]

🚨BRITISH POLICE WERE CALLED TO A HOUSE AFTER A NEIGHBOR HEARD SCREAMS.

They found a young girl with seven Pakistani men. The police arrested and convicted the girl for being drunk. They reportedly never even questioned the men.

This is what open borders and two-tier justice look like. The victim gets charged. The men walk. No questions asked. The neighbor heard screams. The outcome is on the record.

Protect the kids. Enforce the laws equally. Hold them accountable. Don’t let them import this here. Secure the border. Vote in the next one. America First. Stand strong. The fight continues. The report is out. The double standard is clear. Don’t ignore it. The fight continues.

[Greg Schepens @righttrackguy]

@AleshireLaw @BThompson_CI I still dont know why they didn't want to use the rail line which runs south of 71 to 183. Raise 183 and you can extend it to the airport. Maybe do a ballot initiative to cancel it until it finally passes similar to how they finally got it to barely pass.

[Matt Mackowiak @MattMackowiak]

More taxpayer waste.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Are you going to see two tier justice in the Russell Brand sentencing ?
What do you think ?

[Kelly Ryerson @GlyphosateGirl]

We were banned from the event right after we criticized the EPA for approving two new PFAS pesticides. We demanded fewer forever chemicals, not more.
At the time, we were also appalled that the EPA was preparing to re-approve dicamba, an herbicide that drifts onto neighboring farms, damages crops, and has been linked to cancer. Guess what? Dicamba was approved, even though federal courts struck down its approval TWICE, in 2020 and 2024.
Guess who lobbied hard for it? Kyle Kunkler, the former American Soybean Association lobbyist who now oversees pesticide regulation at the EPA.
But certainly decisions like these were made higher up the chain - have to keep the chem corporations happy.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

*New media hoax just dropped*

The “Des Moines man” who shot two McDonald’s employees over a wrong order is Hassan Mohamed, a Somali citizen from Kenya

Every time

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: In a MAJOR mask-off moment, incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D) is UNABLE to say which crimes are being committed by Trump allies and Stephen Miller — he's just investigating for a FISHING expedition ‼️

GARCIA: All those committing crimes need to be held accountable

BASH: Stephen Miller has to lawyer up? Did he commit a crime?

GARCIA: Miller is the architect of this [ICE] policy...

BASH: Anything was criminal?

GARCIA: That, look, we believe he's been at the center...

🤯🤯🤯

THE DEMS ARE ALREADY OVER-REACHING. They won Tuesday and view it as a mandate to try and lock up their political opponents!

This is what's coming in 2028. No crime, no evidence, just fire off investigation after investigation until their enemies are locked up

We can't let them win again!

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting.

My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives.

A culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. It threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that hold our democracy together.

You do not have to agree with someone’s politics to recognize the value of their life. This should not be so hard.

Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

YES. THIS.

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom.

@profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff.

Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.”

He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards.

He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss.

Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime.

Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros.

Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation?

But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants.

He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee.

The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities.

This is not some honorary title.

The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership.

You can unsubscribe from a podcast.

A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents.

UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens.

Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it.

Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor.

What does that say to our students?

That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern?

That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds?

This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me.

Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be.

But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement.

There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university.

The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust.

One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management.

His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.”

He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management.

Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents.

Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions?

Professor lecture thyself!

I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign.

I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university.

Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.

[Alladdin @Alladdin1983]

🚨Holy shit. So the pesticide industry funneled millions through Ballard Partners—the lobbying firm connected to Susie Wiles and Morgan DeWitt-Snow, a former employee—to help secure Heidi Overton's position within the administration. Meanwhile, the industry reportedly obtained liability protections while bypassing RFK Jr. and his agenda, with Susie Wiles' connections playing a central role.

[Politics1776 OP #007/92 @CaraGrace23]

Make your voices heard, contact Jennifer Welch’s sponsors, and explain to them why they shouldn’t be sponsoring such a hateful divisive person.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@MIT?

How does Kristin Knouse meet MIT’s standards for character, ethics and humanity?

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

The City of Austin paid nearly $1 million to an immigrant shelter whose residents mostly come from detention centers.

Casa Marianella calls itself "the only homeless shelter in Austin dedicated solely to immigrants." Its legal clinic files habeas petitions for people in detention.

Austin taxpayers have paid it over $5 million so far.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Punishing law firms for working with your political opponents are the tactics of dictators & tyrants. It is an outrageous abuse of power. This guy conspired against the American people & then carried out a Jan 6 witch hunt. He should have been held accountable by now. Instead he is free to damage this country further & torture people for the crime of not submitting to their political ideology & whims.

[Alex Nunn @AlexNunn]

Wow. For years, an official in Arkansas allegedly tampered with bar exam scores, pulling points from some test takers and giving them to others.

This caused numerous failing exams to pass, and resulted in "at least one instance" where an otherwise passing exam fell below the requisite threshold.

cc: @BarExamTutor

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Incredible, but not really. @MIT? @WhiteheadInst?

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

One home-state senator can block a federal district court nomination through the U.S. Senate’s 'blue slip' rules. This means Texas won't be able to get conservative judges. Grassley refused to end blue slips. Now this! All Senate leadership must step aside.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

[Greg Schepens @righttrackguy]

@CletaMitchell @LeaderJohnThune @NRSC She is spot on.