Sarkis Koshkaryan

Christian ✝️ | Proud Armenian-American 🇦🇲🇺🇸 | Unapologetically Patriotic | Republican 🐘 | Faith • Family • Country

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

My Armenian grandparents and parents came to America over 30 years ago, worked hard, paid their taxes, and built their lives without expecting the government to provide everything for them.

Today, I’m a nurse working 5–7 days a week, earning what should be considered a good income, yet still living paycheck to paycheck like millions of hardworking Americans.

Meanwhile, I see newer immigrants receiving government-funded healthcare, food assistance, and subsidized services while families like mine, who have worked and contributed for decades, struggle to afford basic necessities.

My frustration isn’t with people seeking a better life. My family did exactly that. It’s with a system where working hard, paying taxes, and doing everything right doesn’t necessarily mean you can afford to live comfortably.

America should be a country where hard work allows families to get ahead, not merely survive.

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🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨

Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.

Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.

Marco Rubio said it out loud.

“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”

You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.

That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

"Not aware"? Spare us. UNESCO isn't blind. It's bought and paid for by silence.

The ICJ ordered Azerbaijan in 2021 to protect Armenian churches. Aliyev's regime answered by bulldozing Shushi's 177-year-old St. John the Baptist church in February 2024, on camera, from space. UNESCO's mission to investigate? Never set foot there.

563 sites counted in Ukraine. 164 in Gaza. Christian churches in Artsakh? Zero. Not one line.

The UN's interfaith envoy weeps over every mosque fire and synagogue attack, then shakes hands this week with the same regime erasing 1,700 years of Christian heritage.

This is cultural erasure of Christians, with the UN's heritage agency standing guard. Your silence is your signature.

@UNESCO @UNESCO_DG @UNAOC @MiguelMoratinos @CAIRNational

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

Not one of the 12 annual spending bills has even made it out of the Senate Appropriations Committee this year.

So Congress did what it always does: passed a stopgap. Government funding now runs out Dec. 11, conveniently after the election.

Working families have to make a budget every month.

Washington can't make one once a year.

Kicking the can isn't governing. It's hiding the bill until after they've asked for your vote.

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The state's own fiscal watchdog already said who broke it.

On Oct. 6, FCMAT rated LAUSD "high risk" for insolvency and blamed hiring while enrollment fell and raises that outran state funding. Bad decisions, not bad luck.

The sex abuse payouts run on $750 million in bonds. With financing, the district's own estimate tops $1 billion, paid out of the general fund for at least a decade.

And the cuts? About 4,500 of the 6,000 jobs come from ending extra money for the highest-need schools.

The adults who broke it keep their raises. The poorest kids get the bill.

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Raman doesn't get to run on fixing homelessness. She was in charge of it.

She chaired the City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee from 2023 until August, when the council voted 13-1 to take it from her. The council president said the committee was "behind in excess of more than 100 issues." Then she skipped her own last meeting as chair.

Since 2022 she has voted again and again against no-camping zones near schools, parks and daycares.

Bass broke LA. Raman wants a promotion for helping her do it.

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4/ Those are allegations. He denies them, and no one has shown he belongs to anything.

But when a Senate candidate answers a direct question with "Are you serious?" he hasn't answered it.

Asking is not bigotry. Asking is the job.

Healthcare promises are not a shield from scrutiny.

Michigan deserves a senator who answers questions about money, associations and judgment, not one who treats every question as an insult.

Read the record. Then vote.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

1/ Michigan votes Nov. 3, and Abdul El-Sayed leads Mike Rogers by about 3 points in the polling average.

Before Michigan hands him a U.S. Senate seat, look at the record. His own words, with sources. Thread.

Healthcare is the center of his campaign.

In 2020 he said Medicare for All "does away with the private insurance market."

Now his campaign site says it "does not have to ban" private insurance, only make it "redundant and unnecessary."

Which one is the plan?

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3/ Fairness matters, so here it is: El-Sayed has said 9/11 was not justified, Piker walked back his remark, and fact-checkers found no evidence El-Sayed ever said America deserved it.

Judge a man by his own words and choices. That is exactly what this thread does.

The Muslim Brotherhood question.

On Meet the Press he denied any family ties. Then 2012-13 posts from his half-sister surfaced claiming their mother was a Brotherhood activist in the 1970s.

Pressed by NBC's Tom Llamas, he called it "hearsay evidence from a tweet."

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LA doesn't need a new system to find out where the homeless money went. A federal judge already sent in auditors.

The court-ordered Alvarez & Marsal report in Judge David O. Carter's court looked at about $2.3 billion in city homelessness funding, including Bass's own Inside Safe program. The auditors couldn't verify the number of beds the city claimed, and the city couldn't tell them how much it actually spent creating them.

She's been mayor since December 2022. That money moved on her watch with records so bad the auditors couldn't trace it. Now, days before an election, she discovers transparency.

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Agreed. Merkel opened the doors in 2015 without asking anyone, and Germany has been paying for it ever since, from the Solingen festival stabbing to the Mannheim officer killed in the street. That was a disaster, and nobody should defend it.

But Spain isn't only regularizing Catholic Latin Americans. Look at who is crossing illegally right now. Algerians and Moroccans make up more than half of the irregular arrivals, followed by Senegal and Mali, and crossings into Ceuta and Melilla have more than doubled. That's the same mass migration from North Africa that broke Germany, just coming in through a different door.

Germany's mistake doesn't give Spain a license to repeat it.

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Laken Riley was 22, out for a morning run on a college campus. The man who killed her crossed illegally in 2022 and was released into the country to wait on his case. ICE says New York arrested him in 2023 on a child endangerment charge and let him go before a detainer could be filed.

Two chances to stop him. Both thrown away.

You don't get to call that compassion. Catch and release isn't mercy. It's negligence, and Laken's family paid for it. He's serving life without parole. She's still gone.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

The biggest one-year drop in violent crime since the FBI started counting in 1936. Murder down 18% in 2025, and the murder rate tied 1955 for the lowest ever recorded. First half of this year: murder down another 23%.

That's what happens when you let cops do their jobs and stop treating criminals like victims.

Remember it in 10 days. The people who spent 2020 chanting "defund the police" don't get to take credit for the lowest murder rate in 70 years. Back the ones who backed the badge.

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Nine charged in Pennsylvania. Ten arrested in North Carolina. One woman allegedly voted in eight general elections going back to 2004. One man allegedly voted in seven. Another allegedly crossed the border illegally in 2022, got released, and was voting by 2024.

For years we were told this doesn't happen. It only got caught because someone finally checked.

You don't get to fight every citizenship check on the voter rolls and then swear our elections are airtight. Proof of citizenship to vote isn't suppression. It's the bare minimum for a country that wants to stay one.

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Alaska's own Division of Elections put it in writing in June: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. filed for Senate "with a purpose to confuse or mislead" voters.

He switched to Republican right before filing, asked to be listed as "Dan Sullivan," a name he'd never used, ran a website that looks like the Senator's, and worked with a consultant who backs Democrats. He told the New York Times he voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections and for Peltola. The courts put him on the ballot anyway.

That's not a candidate. That's a decoy. You don't get to win a Senate seat by tricking people into voting for the wrong man. Alaska, read your ballot twice. The real Dan Sullivan is the one marked Incumbent.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

In 2023 Talarico voted against Texas SB 14, the law that stopped puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for minors. It passed 87 to 56, and he was one of the 56.

A child can't consent to that. A child can't sign a contract or buy a beer, but he wanted the door left open to permanent medical transition.

He called border walls and bathroom bills a dishonor to Texas. The real dishonor is a lawmaker who won't protect children from adults who should know better.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

Every time a patient slides into an MRI, they're benefiting from the work of an Armenian-American.

Raymond Damadian, son of an Armenian immigrant, patented an NMR method for detecting cancer in tissue in 1974 and built the first full-body MRI scanner in 1977. That original machine is in the Smithsonian.

The 2003 Nobel Prize for MRI went to two others. History still remembers who built the first one.

Armenian-Americans have been building this country for more than a century. Damadian is one name. There are thousands more.

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@Pedrofmc050262 @MarioNawfal You're right, there's no rule against it. There should be. When countries share open borders and crossing is that easy, one country's amnesty becomes everyone's problem. Sovereignty means something different when there are no borders between you.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

@Jamesd6kz @Rs_gonzs @MarioNawfal On paper, sure. But a rule only works if people follow it and someone enforces it. America has the same rule, and millions come on a visa and overstay it. A Spanish work permit doesn't stop anyone from getting on a train to France or Germany, and nobody checks at the border.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

@Rs_gonzs @MarioNawfal Fair on the amnesty. Most applicants were Latin American. But look at who's coming illegally. Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mali. Crossings into Ceuta and Melilla more than doubled this year. That's not Latin America, and Schengen hands every one of them the rest of Europe.

[Sarkis Koshkaryan @sak0_na]

@Rs_gonzs @MarioNawfal If a Swedish 18-year-old flew in and allegedly gunned down a surgeon in his own Marbella clinic for hire, Sweden has questions to answer too. That's the problem with open borders. One country's failures land on another country's streets.