William Bragdon

Follower of Jesus, husband of Linda, father of four, “Pops” of eleven, eternally blessed!

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

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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

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This young hero deserves unlimited reposts saving a life

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐏𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘

Congressman Burgess Owens just resurfaced a Thomas Sowell interview that condenses sixty years of American social policy into 𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬:

“𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦, 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 1960, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 100 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰-𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦-𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴.”

Sowell’s closing line on the historical record: “𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥.”

Read the receipts behind the claim. In 1960, the Black two-parent household share was approximately 𝟕𝟖 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭. By 1996, after a single generation of Great Society welfare incentives that paid more to single mothers than to married ones, that figure had collapsed to about 𝟑𝟔 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭. The data is from the U.S. Census itself, not a think tank.

On the policy mechanism that did it. The original 1965 Aid to Families with Dependent Children formula 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫-𝐟𝐨𝐫-𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞. The federal government, in writing, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧.

On who benefits from pretending the legacy of slavery did this. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 that wrote those welfare formulas, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 that has now run every major Black-majority American city for the last fifty years, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 whose entire electoral coalition depends on the broken household it created.

𝐒𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟎. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎. 𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤.
@BurgessOwens

[TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod]

Everyone should hear this at least once.

This is the best explanation of Western civilisation you’ll ever hear:

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@atensnut She’d pull me out, clean me off, and I’d immediately fall right back into the mud hole!
Sometimes that’s how it is with me and the Lord!!

[Robert Davi @RobertJohnDavi]

You decide!!!
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@RealJamesWoods SMILE!

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@eric_hz143 Why didn’t they just put 50 cents in and use the “Claw”?

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

https://t.co/fUeLKmfYJu

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@RickyDoggin Where was OSHA??!

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@VDHanson We’re praying for wisdom for treatment options, and for a sure recovery!! We love you VDH!

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

To all of the Mamdani voters 2 years from now…

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

A civilization is built on a set of internalized values. Numerous civilizations have developed radically different visions of how to organize societies, and these have competed in process akin to Darwinian selection in establishing which civilizational ethos permits for maximal flourishing. American exceptionalism is one such system and it has yielded the greatest society that the world has ever known. Suicidal empathy is going to destroy it because Western tolerance is its fatal Achilles tendon. Remember my words.

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@musk_news13 Hi! Keep up the good work.

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@ELonMuskNewssX Very subtle!

[William Bragdon @whbragdon]

@RealJoeBonanno @TheAliceSmith There’s a NEW sheriff in town!

[THE HUMAN LASCHAMPS EVENT @HotepGoldstein]

@MattWalshBlog Give this to your fellow lib. It's time to start the healing...

[Freed Ninja @freezymfe]

Monica Keasler is the one who filed the complaint on #Peanut the #squirrel. Let’s make her famous:

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

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