Steadfast

I didn't ask; you shouldn't've told me.

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

You want to know what's most chilling to me? At first I couldn't figure out what was going on with this post. Wildly disproportionate likes to views and almost no one was commenting on it. Very few were actually seeing it.

Then I started to look at WHO was liking the post.

Likes are anonymous. That's what was going on. It quickly became apparent the Northern Irish specifically and the British in general OVERWHELMINGLY were liking my post.

They couldn't comment on it and they couldn't share it.. for fear of crackdown. But the algo, recognizing that people liked it, showed it to friendly Americans who COULD share it. And did. By the hundreds.

The natives may only speak in support of their own suicide. That's all the government will let them do openly. If they speak in support of their survival they risk prison.

So they don't.

But they can, as a tiny act of subversion, like a twitter post that says exactly what they wish they could, if they only could.

That's what's happening. That's why everything seemed so wildly off.

Quiet Patriots clicking one button to show they love that finally, they are fighting back.

[Oversight Committee @GOPoversight]

ActBlue's CEO published an op-ed on why she's pleading the 5th today during @HouseAdmin's hearing.

They allegedly allowed foreign donations to Democrats. They lied to Congress about it. Now they want to stay silent.

We will keep digging for the truth.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

To all the kids who got screwed out of getting into top colleges, "sorry"

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

You had to go back four years to find a photo of it clear and clean. Biden had let it become filthy, green from algae and dirt.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Democrats: Here’s your evidence of fraud since you ignore simple math and common sense.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

This excerpt from the closing arguments really captures a big part of the cultural disconnect. “No legal right to eject him from the tent.” Think about how many public spaces it would be wildly inappropriate for a stranger to come up and occupy and refuse to leave. A table your eating with your family, a team’s bench during a game in the park, a sports field while you’re playing a game…

It’s a violation of social norms but sure it’s not illegal to do. You can go fuck with people, it’s not illegal. That’s what they tried to play on. This violation of social trust means you have no recourse, no matter how many times you ask them to leave. This obstinate racist asshole doesn’t have to go and if you try to make him he can kill you.

[Some Welder 🇺🇸 @SomeWelder]

Just a little American advice to all my friends in the UK:

It's only treason if you lose.

Godspeed.

[Phiophill @Phiophills]

@IzaBooboo I would respect these people more of they just admit "yeah I am voting for this piece of shit and I dont care about his victims" instead of this nonsense.

[Steadfast @Steadfasticon]

@japan_nobunaga Almond Delight.

Almonds, honey, granola and I forget what else.

They discontinued it when I wasn't paying attention.

[Frontierism @frontierism]

“Your honor, this is only his first murder”

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

I'm going to have to break with NRO on this because I fundamentally disagree with this sentence from the editorial:

"...Trump’s unworthy and abusive campaign to investigate and prosecute his political opponents."

Trump didn't make these individuals his "political opponents" -- that reverses the causation.

The fact that individuals launch misguided and/or illegitimate efforts at a sitting President, or at an individual out of office with an intent to run for office again, does NOT then become provide them with a cloak of immunity from their own potential criminal behavior.

To dismiss all the investigations as "retribution" - and declare them illegitimate based on that label -- is de facto immunity they purchased for themselves by going first.

The cautionary tale in this is as follows:

Do not employ the criminal justice system as a political tool to stymie the implementation of policies you disagree with after losing an election.

Political motives should not provide protection from an investigation as to whether your own conduct was, in fact, legal.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

The “Karmelo Anthony acted in self defense” thing only makes sense if you believe you’re entitled to kill people who insult you

A shocking number of people do, actually, believe this

[Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom]

The water was green. Now it's not. Hope this helps. 👍 @washingtonpost

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Homeless women living on Skid Row in Los Angeles says someone came and had her fill out a ballot for Karen Bass

They told her who to vote for and then paid her $2 for the vote

She says “they come out here all the time” to get votes for Democrats

“They told you to vote for Karen?”

“Yeah, had to sign a little thing”

“And how much they pay you?”

“Just like $2”

“$2 to sign off on a thing to vote for her?”

“Yeah. All right, so they do this for everybody out here?”

“Yeah, they come out here all the time.”

This is exactly what James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been exposing

Democrats have a massive voter fraud network in California

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

I want one journalist, just one, to read through the GOP platform as adopted at the National Convention item by item and ask if Cornyn, Tillis, pick em, agrees or disagrees with the official position of the party of which that politician is a member and, if not, why not.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

The masculine urge to bring this inside your city walls

[Holden @Holden114]

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Am I doing this right?

[John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC]

Watching Red Dawn as a teenager for the first time, what hit me most was that the first thing the invading Russians did was get a list of gun owners so they could disarm everyone.

Through art, Milius told a truth that hit hard. That’s how it’s done.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Tried to log into my bank this morning

Not a new bank. My bank. The one that has my money

First it wanted my password

Wrong

Tried the other one

Wrong

Reset it

"New password cannot match any of your last 24 passwords"

That is every password I have ever used

Created a new one that I will forget next week

Then it said "please verify you are human"

I am human

I have a mortgage

I paid $52.18 for bread, milk, and eggs last week

Only a human would do that

But the bank was not convinced

"Select all squares with traffic lights"

Nine squares

Three had traffic lights

One had the edge of a traffic light pole

Maybe two pixels of yellow paint

Stared at it for a full minute

Selected it

Wrong

"Select all squares with stairs"

Two squares had stairs

One had a ramp

Is a ramp stairs

A ramp is the opposite of stairs

I selected the two obvious ones

Wrong

It wanted the ramp

I am a CFO

I've fired people with more due process than this

But I cannot pass a test designed to keep bots out of my own checking account

"Click and hold until the image stops moving"

A jigsaw puzzle piece floated across the screen

Held it

"Verification failed"

Held it for thirteen seconds

My finger cramped

"Success"

Then a new screen

"Your account has been locked due to suspicious activity"

The suspicious activity was me

Trying to access my own account

Called customer service

The phone menu had ten options

None of them were "your website thinks I am a robot"

Thirty-seven minutes on hold

The same fourteen seconds of smooth jazz

Looping

Every ninety seconds a voice told me my call was important

It did not sound important

Finally a man answered

"Thank you for holding, my name is John"

That man's name was not John

We both knew it

I did not press the issue

John asked for my mother's maiden name, my first pet, and the street I grew up on

He unlocked the account in forty seconds

Forty seconds

The bank trusts John more than me

And John does not exist

Final tally

Nineteen minutes of captchas

Thirty-seven minutes of smooth jazz

One man who was not named John

To access money that is mine

At an institution that emails me every single day asking if I want a home equity line of credit

My wife walked in

She said "what are you doing"

I said "proving to a computer that I'm not a computer"

She said "are you winning"

I said "I just spent an hour deciding if a ramp is stairs"

She said "that sounds like something a computer would do"

She wasn't wrong

She usually isn't

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Really think that Dems trying to brand caring about safety and urban cleanliness as being an exclusively Republican and MAGA coded trait will work out great for them, most voters hate it when their civic public spaces are safe, functional, and aesthetically pleasing