Star Rover

kindness truth prayer introspection meditation integrity respect honesty love simple living and wooden boats...these are a few of my favorite things...

[Star Rover @starrover23]

Happy birthday you old United States!!!❤️🇺🇸🎉

[Star Rover @starrover23]

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[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@BrianRoemmele Oh man, i was hoping it was going to be 45min of that simple idyllic life...😧

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@benwehrman

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@iamjaneandrews @AshtonForbes

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@iamjaneandrews @AshtonForbes Someone find the brass plates from... Florida?
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[Star Rover @starrover23]

@OliLondonTV Remember ladies, more dangerous than a bear...

[Costa Kapothanasis @CostaKapo]

The first trillionaire was the U.S. federal gov. The irony is, it actually has the liquidity that Elon doesn’t have. It actually has the mandates to solve problems and it doesn’t. There is no one more pro trillionaire than the left

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@AdamsUnchained One of my favorite rivers! Such amazing geology to explore and play in!

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@TaraBull Tall whites

[Star Rover @starrover23]

The satanic overlords are chuckling with glee as we fall into their trap of increasing race hatred and violence...

Just love God and stay away from everyone else as much as you can.

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@BookerGWash @CartierJ45942 White jurors are more likely to convict white people than black people.

Black jurors are WAY more likely to convict white people than black people.

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@CartierJ45942 Can you imagine the outrage if the roles were reversed????

"White boy asked to leave multiple times then indiscriminately stabs black boy in the heart and is justly convicted of murder. "

There'd be no end of the rage.

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@BretWeinstein Perfect analogy

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH — DAY 8

He had a clean shot.

He didn't take it.

The attack ended anyway.

Nobody covered it.

December 11, 2012. Clackamas Town Center mall. Portland, Oregon. Two weeks before Christmas, packed with families and strollers and shopping bags. Nick Meli, 22, was there with a friend and her baby. He also had a legally permitted .40-caliber Glock 22 under his jacket because he is an Oregon concealed carry permit holder who takes that quietly and seriously.

At 3:28 PM, a man in a hockey mask walked in with a stolen AR-15 and opened fire.

Nick got the friend and baby down, repositioned behind a pillar, and drew his weapon. The shooter — Jacob Tyler Roberts — was fighting a jammed rifle. Pulling the charging handle. Hitting the side. In that ten-second window, Nick took aim.

They made eye contact.

Nick did not fire. There was a bystander standing directly behind Roberts and the sight picture was not clean. So this 22-year-old kid, Christmas shopping on a Saturday afternoon, held his shot because he was afraid of hitting an innocent person behind the man he was aiming at.

Roberts saw the weapon. Roberts retreated to a back corridor. Roberts shot himself.

Two people were murdered that day — Cindy Ann Yuille, 54, and Steven Matthew Forsythe, 45. Nick Meli's words to KGW News Channel 8, the only major TV outlet that thought his role was worth covering: "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."

Seventy-two hours later — December 14, 2012 — Sandy Hook.

The same national media that gave Nick Meli thirty seconds of coverage on a Friday afternoon ran wall-to-wall Sandy Hook coverage for weeks, and used every hour of it to advance gun restrictions that had been sitting on legislative shelves waiting for the right emotional moment. Nick Meli was erased. The story of an armed civilian who stopped a mass casualty event by exercising exactly the restraint and judgment the gun control lobby insists civilians are incapable of — gone.

What are they going to do next — bury a story about an armed citizen stopping a massacre and then use the next shooting three days later to argue people should not be armed... wait. I was just told they already did that.

Day eight of National Gun Violence Awareness Month, and I am asking directly: WHAT EXACTLY IS THE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN NOT MAKING YOU AWARE OF?

On January 10, 1963, Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. read 45 Communist Goals into the Congressional Record. Goal 3: develop the illusion that total disarmament is the only moral option. A nation that only ever sees the shooting and never the stopping is what Goal 3 requires. The Nick Meli story is a refutation of Goal 3, which is exactly why it disappeared.

— THE DATA THEY SKIPPED —

John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" — 3,054 counties, 18 years — found that one additional woman carrying a concealed handgun reduces the murder rate for women THREE TO FOUR TIMES more than one additional man carrying reduces it for men. Because the crimes committed against women almost universally involve a physical size disparity that a firearm eliminates completely. The policy that removes that firearm from a woman does not protect her. It takes away the best equalizer she has ever been offered and calls it safety.

Lott also documented the substitution effect: when carry laws pass, violent personal crimes fall because criminals shift to property crimes where the victim is not present. They would rather steal your car than confront you. Deterrence is real. It is visible in the behavior of the people it deters.

Two Supreme Court cases belong in every gun control conversation. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989): the government has no constitutional duty to protect you from private violence. Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005): you have no constitutional right to have a protective order enforced on your behalf. The government that produced both of those rulings wants to remove your Nick Meli. Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.

But what do I know — I am only a combat medic who knows exactly how hard it is to move toward gunfire instead of away from it, and who has spent eight days of National Gun Violence Awareness Month making you aware of the things the awareness campaign decided you should not be.

@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

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[Star Rover @starrover23]

@RealFamilyCrete Sir, what you are proposing is THE DEFINITION of racism.

[Star Rover @starrover23]

PSA: if anyone uses the phrase "baby ticks" they don't know what the hell they are talking about.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,

You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.

But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:

You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.

Let me explain - off the top of my head.

You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.

USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.

So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.

You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.

You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.

You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.

https://t.co/vMml22uCbu

[Star Rover @starrover23]

@dadeclue @christopherrufo He renounced socialism towards the end of his life and made fun of himself for supporting it. He was only 40 when he passed. I can forgive him for it. He hadn't seen the dozens of horrific failures socialism has provided us in the century since...