Pat Smith

“Whatever happens, think of me.”

[snowblinder76 @snowblinder76]

If you remove 9/11, you can argue this is most important photograph and defining moment of the 21st century so far.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

Whatever Hoover’s problem is, it’s a problem for sure.

[Jacob Savage Hive @hoosiercommish]

I’ve been been doubting my eyes all season cause the advanced analytics said otherwise, but I’m now confident this team is a QB away from being unstoppable. Frustrating

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Max Engling is the only choice for Indiana Secretary of State!

Far-left extremist Beau Bayh worked in the Biden White House, shares donors with Socialist mayor Mamdani and the squad, and is bankrolled by millions from the Far Left including Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. He is a Trojan horse for radical Democrats to destroy election integrity and launch a takeover of Indiana.

Max Engling represents the next generation of Republican leadership. He is the only candidate running to protect the integrity of Indiana's elections, require individuals to provide photo identification when they vote, and ensure American elections are for American citizens.

He has my complete and total endorsement.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

You will get the parish you want, even (especially?) if you don’t know you want it.

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

Parishes have very little for men

Largely because the people who come up with ideas for men's events don't understand men

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

Why is he such a terrible candidate? I mean, golly, how hard is it just to keep saying “Trump Endorsed” and take pictures walking in a cornfield with “Ohio Values” on the screen?

[Iacobus Novus @SeamusNua]

"We need some considerations of transmission of the Faith in an epochal change"

"We have 'considerations of transmission of the Faith in an epochal change' at home"

Considerations of transmission of the Faith in an epochal change home:

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

This is what $40 trillion in debt, forever wars, open borders, woke bureaucracy, and offshoring of our jobs and industries looks like.

In other words, substantial failure.

[Luke Thompson @ltthompso]

The debate took a turn when the moderators asked about Free Silver and the Irish.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

The Democrats are even now making very public plans to build on Jack Smith's work and engage in a brutal campaign to punish Trump supporters and former Administration officials beginning on 1/20/2029, should they get the opportunity.

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

Until Jack Smith Goes To Prison, His Dragnet Will Keep Punishing Conservative Orgs And Donors
https://t.co/HZr2N4tTrp

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

@jimmy_esq $200?! Do you get Tom Goldstein’s Lock of the Week picks or something?

[Jude Russo @juderusso94]

I was trying to explain why C-SPAN is great to my wife and all I could do was dig out the video of Gerald Ford eulogizing an onion.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

"When we say we want 'uniformity in liturgy' what we mean is we want the groovy Day-Glo macramé liturgy that our seminary professors told us was good."

[Iacobus Novus @SeamusNua]

Glad to see bishops wanting uniformity in liturgy. So which of the 3 introductory rites, 3 penitential act, 2 creeds, multitudinous prefaces, 6 primary Eucharistic prayers, and 4 Memorial Acclamations do they want to mandate next?

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

On this analogy, Michigan and Ohio State are stuffing and mashed potatoes and Indiana is some preparation of, I dunno, Brussels sprouts that is suddenly good and makes you reconsider your hatred for them.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

It’s okay, though. We all know that Notre Dame is in the conversation largely out of a sense of nostalgia. It’s like Thanksgiving without Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce. You know it’s not that good, but it’s not Thanksgiving without it.

[Chris Fallica @chrisfallica]

I did not expect to go down a Notre Dame schedule rabbit hole yesterday, but a friend who is a ND supporter had reached out wondering what ND SOS might be since Marcus Freeman took over. I couldn't generate that for them, but I did dig this up for them...

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

@praesto04 You’re reading my question wrong. My point is, as you say, there hasn’t been such a mandate really since 2006.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

What harsh and broad retaliation? Some deep state characters like Jack Smith have been mildly embarrassed. But Trump has been, if anything, too restrained.

[Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith]

My thoughts on Senator Slotkin’s U of C remarks and Republicans’ hypocritical reactions. "Trump won the election and could have stopped the cycle. But that was contrary to his vengeful nature and, in any event, would have been seen by his side as unilateral disarmament. And so he engaged in astonishingly harsh and broad retaliation for what the Biden administration did, in order to deter rivals on many dimensions. The Democrats are now contemplating whether and how to respond when they gain power. The incentive for brutal retaliation will be overwhelming, especially since it will be argued, just as Vance argued, that the other side has already done it, will do it again if possible, and thus must be maximally deterred.
And so on.
It’s a bleak future."
https://t.co/tL80BYhofp

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

The Lindsay coalition—and others I could name besides—relies on leftist tactics for leftist ends. It might be simpler to acknowledge that they’re leftists.

[Bradley Devlin @bradleydevlin]

To no surprise, James Lindsay has taken the side of @ElissaSlotkin after she called to prosecute essentially everyone who has worked for and alongside MAGA!

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

An excellent review that does what a good review should: it made me want to drop everything and buy the book under consideration.

[Rubicon @Rubicon_Press]

Every Civil War general wanted to be Napoleon. Almost none understood what Napoleon actually did.

Frederick Metzen reviews Timothy B. Smith’s forthcoming book Napoleon’s Long Shadow, and the one American general who came close to matching him.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

@Kyle_Carlson_19 Remember when Grigson and Pagano had a disastrous falling out, which Jim Irsay tried to mediate by keeping both of them after two or three bad seasons?

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

Perhaps Todd Rokita’s worst opinion, and I’ve got a bunch of complaints about the AG’s office.

[AG Todd Rokita @AGToddRokita]

They’ll never admit it, but they screwed up when they fired Ryan Grigson, who never had a losing season, always had the team in the hunt, and was only given one head coach. Ballard was allowed to go through several. They anointed Ballard the “greatest GM hire of the 21st century,” but they failed to realize that acquiring talent means nothing without accountability or a culture focused on winning. Instead, they focused on media access, being popular, and being politically correct. Ten years with zero to hang their hat on. Not even a single division title. Here's a prediction: they’ll now ask for a new stadium or threaten to leave.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

Various groups—Bushite nostalgists, libertarian cranks, etc.—have some money, sure. But have the American people said they want that sort of thing in twenty years?

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

I asked the question several times, but has there been a clear national mandate for Bushism or Romneyism-Ryanism since the 2004 election?

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

If anyone “lost the argument”—an incredibly goofy phrase, to be clear—it’s @JonahDispatch and other disgraced anti-Trump conservatives whose milquetoast politics have been rejected by Republican voters for nearly a decade. Bush era conservatism isn’t making a comeback.