Donald Stockton

I have over 10 years of experience in veteran outreach and support, working with on campus services, the VA, and veteran service organizations.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@DKThomp Social security isn't an earned benefit. The contributions that currently retired people paid were immediately dolled to retirees. Its an unsustainable pyramid scheme

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@esjesjesj @philthatremains We can have all the LEDs we want. The ones on the buildings in China provide ZERO utility to the residents. Its just a power draw and marketing stunt to make it seem like they have a superior system.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@ericmmatheny Our debt is so astronomical that neither solves the existential problem thats stacking up every second the federal government decides to take on tasks that it was never authorized or prepared to take on.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@HouseDemocrats Strong response.

[reason @reason]

Trump’s tariffs raised enough revenue to fund the government for 12 days. https://t.co/iDJu9aVlUJ

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@1776Diva Unfortunately, the flat tax wouldn't be the revenue generator the country needs to pay down the debt. There are no guard rails to what the highest earners have now where they pay themselves modest salaries and borrow against their valuations.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“Every just view that can be taken of this subject, admonishes the public, of the necessity of a rigid adherence to the simple, the received and the fundamental doctrine of the constitution, that the power to declare war including the power of judging of the causes of war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature: that the executive has no right, in any case to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war: that the right of convening and informing Congress, whenever such a question seems to call for a decision, is all the right which the constitution has deemed requisite or proper: and that for such more than for any other contingency, this right was specially given to the executive.

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture of heterogeneous powers: the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man: not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle. The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

“Hence it has grown into an axiom that the executive is the department of power most distinguished by its propensity to war: hence it is the practice of all states, in proportion as they are free, to disarm this propensity of its influence.”

—James Madison

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@nickimoraa Shakespeare isn't taught and Ceasar is a hotel, a dressing, and a pizza chain. And though the ides of march are come, they are not yet gone, perhaps the educated hold outs can preserve the arts just because. Everyone else is content with War Machine.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@cafreiman Most developed countries are currently seeing historic populations decline and influx of migrants to account for population increases. Culturally, overpopulation has diminished globally with pockets where culture, religion, and governance do not discourage population growth

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@HLC_actual X is not the only platform with this problem. There isn't a peer reviewed gathering place for google crosschecked hot takes. I met yet another student at my university who couldn't name the 3 branches of government or their function. Thankfully he was good at math.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Free speech protects every other freedom.

It’s a principle our Founders fought for 250 years ago, and one we still defend today 🇺🇸

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@FightWithMemes In the case of this vehicle, a reliable drive train would be a welcome improvement.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

In 35 states, you need permission from your competitors to build a hospital.

Congress studied this.
Called it anticompetitive.

Repealed the federal mandate in 1986.
35 states kept it anyway.

In finance, a board that includes your competitors approving your market entry is called collusion.

In healthcare, it’s called a Certificate of Need.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@PaulRieckhoff Political statements from the entertainment class do not have the impact you think. I, like many other people, did not watch an award ceremony for an industry i dont work in, presenting awards for content I did not see. They can say whatever they want, it wont move the needle.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@scottlincicome The word we're looking for is REPEAL.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@mitchellvii Because oil is a traded commodity and the price is set by the market. If our producers didnt adjust accordingly theyd be actually stupid. In the short run, these companies should be using profit generated right now to increase domestic production. We're gonna need it.

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@Logically_JC Because he has a nasty habit of pointing out when the executive branch is in violation of the Constitution.

[Matt Kibbe @MattKibbe]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[Donald Stockton @WallaceTheRed]

@ick_real Cultural and religious differences being inflated by the strategic use of global media.

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@abc15 Great idea.