MatthewTolbertSmith

Marine Father Spouse and Hunter. Attorney Partner at Clark Hill PLC. Cleaner Protector Collector. I Resolve conflict and protect my clients.

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

A national vote counting disgrace.

20 hours after the polls closed, California still can't tell voters who won.

That's not democracy. That's dysfunction.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Time to get election results:

🇧🇷 Brazil: 2 hours (124M ballots)
🇫🇷 France: 4 hours (34M ballots)
🇮🇳 India: 24 hours (640M ballots)
🇩🇪 Germany: 8 hours (51M ballots)
🇦🇷 Argentina: 6 hours (25M ballots)
🇺🇸 California: 37 DAYS (10M ballots)

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

[MeatEater @MeatEaterTV]

Get out there.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. SEC. SCOTT BESSENT JUST WENT THERE 🔥

SEN WYDEN (D): We don't want ramblings about the most corrupt regime in history, we want facts

BESSENT: "And we'd like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey EPSTEIN talked about. Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. So, did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?"

ASSASSIN.

[Pat Fitzgerald @coachfitz51]

Thank you, Coach Mannie, for joining us at our staff retreat! You embody what it means to be a Spartan and we’re proud to carry on the championship standard you helped set at Michigan State.

[Mason Bulldogs Athletics @Mason_Bulldogs]

Baseball advances to Saturday's regional final at Northville! Go Bulldogs!

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Democrat Sen. Wyden: “Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history.”

Bessent: “Your son’s largest investment position was Rick’s Cabaret. Did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money?”

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan: "There’s no more American thing than having a UFC fight on the White House lawn. It’s so America. It’s so Trump… the fight card’s inredible.”

[Christian Tweets @JesusSavesUs777]

Trust the Lord!

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

The students heading to military academies, ROTC programs, or enlisting after graduation deserve more than a polite mention at an awards ceremony.

They're putting their country first.

That is the ultimate service to this country, and it should be recognized as such.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

God is trying to tell us something.

Maybe we should listen.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

— Adam Smith

[Papageorgio @gecffmn]

Hands down the best wrestling movie ever made! Vision Quest with @MatthewModine

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Dear son,

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecRubio: "We remain the world’s sole global superpower—the most powerful country on earth. We have the largest economy, we have the most formidable and powerful military ever known to man, by the way. Our dollar remains that reserve currency of the world. Our language is used extensively throughout the world... but all of this means very little if that power is not used to protect the people who built it."