Sam Overly

Raised in the Cornfields of Indiana.

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@piersmorgan Allowing polling to drive foreign policy generally isn’t the best idea.

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@KatieMiller Allowing children to have unrestricted and unsupervised access to technology is detrimental. Parents need to parent.

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@SecretaryWright Unless of course it’s renewable energy… then screw market competition.

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@NewReaganCaucus Ignorance may be a seemingly innocent excuse for something more concerning.

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@IndyBlue100 @GovBraun @Ben_Inskeep I’m all for competition!

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@KatieMiller Looks like the CCP is funding opposition and pushing social media disinformation about data centers and energy projects… I wonder why 🤔

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Vance is polished on TV, no question. But his Iran MOU press tour this week has been a disaster.

Shilling for a vague 1.5-page “framework” that immediately lifts the U.S. blockade, reopens the Strait of Hormuz, and hands the terrorist Iranian regime shipping/oil flow + sanctions relief, all for 60 days of “negotiations” and vague promises.

That’s not standing firm. That’s classic appeasement dressed up as realism. If Ro Khana is happy with this MOU, probably a good indicator it’s not conservative.

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@SethDillon Gore’s been Lucy with the football for two decades. Keeps yanking it away every time the doomsday deadline arrives, then claims the scientists were ‘right all along.’ Hard to have a serious conversation when the goalposts are constantly moving.

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@MattWalshBlog It’s remarkable how often the proposed solution to every problem is: “Give the government more money.” Washington already spends trillions a year. If outcomes don’t improve, why is the answer always higher taxes rather than asking whether government is the right tool for the job?

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Technological advancements displace jobs in the short term but create new industries, higher productivity, and a better quality of life in the long run. We don’t protect workers by freezing innovation in place. We protect them by ensuring they can participate in the prosperity innovation creates.

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Hamas slaughtered ~1,200 Israelis on Oct 7 (babies, elderly, Nova festival), took hundreds hostage, and uses human shields. AIPAC is a legitimate American pro-Israel lobby, not a conspiracy. This plays into antisemitic tropes about “Jewish money” while excusing actual terrorism. Disappointing.

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@bslotterback Sadly, federal permitting reform wouldn’t be a silver bullet.

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They do have benefits. Often, these are generational farms struggling to get by and trying to figure out how they can pass their farm onto the next generation at a time when farmland is being consolidated or bought by foreign countries. Additionally, much of the land isn’t being used for food production. It’s going towards ethanol/biofuels (highly subsidized), animal feed, exports, and industrial uses. You may not like how it looks, but at the end of the day, landowners should decide, not me or you or the government.

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The irony is striking. Washington and the Founders designed the Constitution with enumerated powers, separation of powers, and federalism specifically to limit federal power and protect liberty. Yet you consistently advocate for dramatically expanding that power far beyond what they intended.

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This is a lazy strawman.

Nobody serious is demanding “every Iranian dead” or bombing until there’s nothing left. What critics actually want is a strong, enforceable deal, not another framework that gives Iran sanctions relief and asset releases while kicking the hard nuclear/missile/terrorism issues down the road for 60 days.

Iran has a decades-long record of lying in negotiations, cheating on agreements (including the JCPOA), and sponsoring terror groups that kill Americans and our allies. Pretending they’re suddenly trustworthy partners because we signed a short, yet to be seen, MOU is not realism.

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As a Gen Z voter, this is deeply troubling. Politicians refuse to have an honest conversation about Social Security’s insolvency, yet seem perfectly comfortable sending the bill to younger Americans. We’re being asked to pay higher taxes to preserve benefits we may never receive ourselves. This is redistributionism at its finest.

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@JonahDispatch Vance’s whole press circuit defending this MOU they haven’t felt obliged to release just felt like a tour of placating and appeasement.

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The government’s real job is to aggressively prosecute child predators and online criminals to the full extent of the law.

Forcing every adult to hand over ID to protect kids creates serious privacy problems. It also gives governments a system ready for free speech suppression and more regulation. They have already shown they are quick to use such powers.

Leave actual parenting to parents.