Bob Runyan

Father of 4, blessed beyond what I deserve. Conservative and proud of it. MAGA supporter #TrumpTrain

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

Accurate

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

@IfindRetards this real?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Look at the crowd at today's DSA event.

They tried to delete this. Too late.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Correct 💯

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.

1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.

2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.

3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.

4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.

5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.

6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.

7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

Fact check true. Happening now. Everyday. All the alerts on your phone. Constant manipulation.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Propaganda 101

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Communists always pay themselves first.

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

Wow!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Gavin Newsom's CA State Park employees destroyed the Palisades & Malibu, they mocked residents in leaked texts as their homes were burning. Now, on Independence Day 250, they're hanging the American flag upside down, in full view of the burned out Malibu lots. Unreal.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

https://t.co/iXIcTCIGOR

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

Rules for thee, but not for me.
Happens in every socialist/communist state.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

NYC City Hall is kept as low as 54°F, despite Mayor Mamdani’s demand that residents raise theirs to 78°F, per Fox.

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

We don’t hate the mainstream media enough.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

The Daily Beast says President Trump has a “shockingly lazy schedule.”

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud?

You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever written.

At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand:

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it.”

The power of that line isn’t just what it says. It’s how it’s said.

Jefferson wasn’t writing from a place of outrage. He was transmitting conviction—moral clarity delivered from a steady frame of mind.

It’s said Jefferson revised the Declaration of Independence with the help of Franklin and Adams dozens of times before it was finalized.

And that deliberate, cutting language, paired with emotional steadiness, is precisely why the words still land 250 years later.

Today, we’re blessed to be the inheritors of the great nation those steady hands wrote into existence.

Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

Worth the read.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The best evidence that @NYCMayor Mamdani has not held a job is the fact that he is sitting on the wrong side of the desk.

And listen to his words. On a day when we, and in particular, our leaders should be celebrating the 250 years of our nation’s history, he attacks us and what makes our country great.

Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists are grave threats to our present and our future.

[Ted Nugent @TedNugent]

#america #usa #250th #4thofjuly

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Pacific Palisades - 18 months after the fire.

Don't let communists run your city.

[Ben Bergquam - Real America’s Voice (RAV-TV) News @BenBergquam]

To all the idiots out there upset about the Supreme Court upholding the law and sending Haitians and Syrian illegals back home… listen up.

And the fake news, stop lying!

The vast majority of Haitian illegals that came across were actually from Chile and Brazil. They had spent years there and only came because of the open borders left who invited them. If you want to be upset at anyone for illegals being deported, be upset at the Democrats and the NGO’s who invited them in and profited off of the undermining of America.

Law & Border @RealAmVoice

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

@grok for the win!

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

AI is indoctrinating Americans

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

The world finally gets it.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. 🇺🇸🦅

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Newsom would rather tax billionaires than:
- Figure out where $24 billion for the homeless went
- Stop funding California’s NGO scams
- Waste $14 billion on a train to nowhere
- Continue using your tax dollars for illegals’ healthcare

Billionaires aren’t the problem, you are.

[Bob Runyan @robertrunyan]

It’s pronounced bankruptcy

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Imagine if they did this to every sector? @ChefGruel what happens if they freeze the price of your burgers at $4? Hey, burgers are a human right! But inflation is 5% & you still have to pay employees $20/hr and that goes up every year, but you CANNOT raise your prices. Then...?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

OMG! Can you believe the Democrats are actually just Communists!?

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