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[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

First it was fracking. Then it was 5G. Now it’s data centers.

What they all have in common:
1. Subject to enormous disinformation campaigns.
2. Critical upstream technologies that enable the rest of the US economy to function better.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

COVID didn't just expose a virus. It exposed how quickly Washington will strip away your basic freedoms the moment it's given an excuse.

Lockdowns that closed churches while liquor stores stayed open. Mandates that cost people their jobs. Restrictions with no science behind them, just fear and control. We cannot treat that as normal. Liberty doesn't survive if we forget how easily it was taken.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Hunter Biden.

Thank you for sharing your views on the oil and gas business.

We know you worked for foreign oil and gas entities primarily Ukraine’s Burisma and China’s CEFC China Energy.

This is interesting given your lack of measurable talent or experience in this business.

Burisma Holdings is the Ukrainian natural gas producer that put you on their Board of Directors in April 2014 - again despite your lack of talent or experience - while your father oversaw U.S. Ukraine policy as Vice President.

You earned approximately $1 million per year ($83,333 per month) but that was reduced to roughly $500,000 per year starting March 2017 when your father was no longer in office.

You served until April 2019 - which is surprising despite your lack of talent or experience - but it was a good gig while you had it.

You and your associates (including partner Devon Archer) earned approximately $6.5 million for being your father's son.

Not too bad for not having any experience in the energy sector or any discernible talent in deal making.

But lets not forget your work with the Chinese.

You worked for CEFC China Energy, the Chinese oil and gas conglomerate with reported CCP and military intelligence ties from 2017–2018.

CEFC and related entities paid approximately $4.8 million to companies controlled by you and your Uncle.

Your total work for for CEFC and related Chinese energy entities to the Biden family/associates was over $8 million.

These figures come from bank records, IRS search warrant applications, congressional memos, court documents, and contemporaneous reporting.

(We will leave out your work with Kahzhakstan and other questionable enterprises.)

And what is surprising to all of us is that after earning nearly $20 million working for foreign owned oil and gas companies when you post stupid things like this it is clear that after 10 years and $20 million dollars.

YOU STILL DON"T UNDERSTAND THE OIL AND GAS BUSINESS.

But thank you for sharing your views anyway.

Good luck on your comeback tour.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Americans buried parents alone. Children lost years of childhood. Families watched businesses they had built over a lifetime disappear.

And while the country suffered, Anthony Fauci was writing in his diary about becoming “the most famous and talked about person in the country” and marveling that his fame was “explosive and really unimaginable.”

There was no camera he couldn’t find. No interview he couldn’t give. No American life he wouldn’t micromanage.

He said one thing to the public, and would write the opposite in his diary.

Today, when the country finally demanded answers, the man who never stopped talking suddenly went silent.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Happy 250th birthday to the best country on earth! I was reading a book the other day and was struck by this paragraph. I don’t know who the author was but I thought it was brilliant and perfectly said…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Bernie Moreno @berniemoreno]

The ultimate elitist flex: driving around with a multimillionaire auto collector in a classic Corvette, valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, that gets 9 miles per gallon and emits more emissions than about two dozen modern cars ... bragging how he tried to kill the energy industry in America.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

The Obama presidency was an existential plague driven by immense psychological rot. This Ivy League–polished empty suit believed his teleprompter eloquence and Harvard credentials granted him divine right to fundamentally transform America against the will of its people. That towering vanity blinded him to historical reality. From the Wilsonian progressives who gave us the income tax and federal reserve to the New Deal architects who entrenched dependency, the smooth-talking intellectual elite has always paved the path to national decline.

Today, Obama’s cult followers still gaze upon him with messianic reverence while sneering at God-fearing, hardworking patriots with supreme condescension. He projected an aura of moral superiority, yet every major policy he touched collapsed into long-term ruin. He possessed an absolute deficit of wisdom, replacing empirical results with trendy academic theories designed to erode Western civilization and American sovereignty.

Obamaism is simply codified envy wrapped in silver-tongued rhetoric. His entire agenda mobilized the base passions of racial grievance and class resentment against productive citizens. Because he and his Chicago-machine cronies lacked the merit and discipline to build, they weaponized the power of the state to punish success and redistribute spoils to their political clientele. This greed was cloaked in the fake vocabulary of hope and change.

Look at the devastating economic data. After inheriting a recession, Obama exploded the national debt by nearly $9 trillion, doubled food-stamp rolls, and oversaw the weakest recovery in modern history. His regulatory jihad crushed small businesses while green-energy scams like Solyndra looted taxpayer dollars. This economic vandalism systematically transferred wealth from the middle class to union bosses, coastal elites, and crony capitalists.

While working-class families lost homes and wages stagnated, Obama and his celebrity courtiers wallowed in luxury, jetting between Martha’s Vineyard and multimillion-dollar compounds. They preached wealth redistribution while ensuring their own fortunes—book deals, Netflix contracts, and speaking fees—remained untouched. Their philosophy was a toxic mix of gluttony for federal power and total sloth regarding genuine productivity.

Having abandoned traditional faith, Obama accelerated a new secular religion based on the idolatry of government and identity. He weaponized the IRS against conservatives, spied on journalists, and lectured Americans about clinging to guns and religion. This spiritual vacuum bred misery. His administration’s embrace of radical gender ideology and the war on police coincided with spiking urban crime and the erosion of the nuclear family, a deliberate rebellion against the natural order fueled by moral nihilism and cultural Marxism.

The defining trait of the Obama machine is blatant, unadulterated hypocrisy. This Nobel Peace Prize–winning charlatan preached unity while spending eight years dividing America by race. He demanded open borders and sanctuary cities for working-class communities while his family enjoyed private security and elite protection. His administration’s lax immigration policies and DACA gambit flooded communities with unvetted migrants, straining welfare systems and public services. He railed against carbon while vacationing on carbon-spewing private jets and golf courses. His entire worldview rested on deceit—Benghazi was a video, Fast and Furious was a gun-walking “oops,” the IRS scandal was “fake outrage,” and Obamacare’s promises were outright lies.

[Chris Hassel @Hassel_Chris]

I am so glad Keith Murphy is back as the host of the Coaches vs. Cancer event and that Andy Fales called out the McCaffery family for who they are. An absolute abomination what they did to my great friend Keith who is world class in every aspect of life.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I want to apologize for not responding to any of the 22 thousand comments my last post inspired. I’ve been filming all week and just noticed my observations about Jimmy Kimmel and a former plumber named Markwayne Mullin have gone viral. I've also noticed that many of the comments are from people who genuinely seem to believe that Jimmy wasn’t belittling plumbers at all, but was instead, simply trying to point out that Mullin is not qualified to lead the DHS. Here's a small smattering...

Roger Bicknell...
Mikey stop. Kimmel wasn't making fun of plumbers he was making fun of Mullin.

Rebecca Piatt Gonzalez...
Dearest Mike, it's not anything to do with his being a plumber. It's him NOT being skilled in Homeland Security.

Patrick Wise...
Being a plumber qualifies you to be a plumber. Period. The issue Jimmy and the rest of us at the adult table recognize is that jobs require certain training and experience and being a plumber does not qualify you to be Sec of DHS.

Had Roger, Rebecca, Patrick and all the others who rushed to Jimmy’s Kimmel’s defense actually read what I had written, they would see that I did not suggest - even remotely - that a plumber was inherently qualified to hold a cabinet position. What I said was that being a plumber should not disqualify a person from holding such a position. Big difference. Doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, fireman, and university professors are no more or less qualified to run the DHS than plumbers, electricians, or carpenters – but should they all be dismissed as “unqualified” simply because they made a living in some other vocation?

As I wrote in my original post, credentials and diplomas are great ways to bolster a person’s credibility, especially if we’re talking about mastering a specific skill. I think we can all agree that plumbers, accountants, mechanics, and surgeons should all have to prove themselves competent before hanging out a shingle. But what do their credentials and diplomas have to do with their actual competency? Are we not already surrounded by a legion of perfectly qualified experts who don't know what the hell they're doing? Moreover, what do credentials and experience have to do with wisdom, honesty, common sense, integrity, courage, the ability to lead, or any other virtue we’d like to have in our elected officials?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question Mullin’s suitability for this role. But there’s no legitimate reason to disqualify him simply because he used to be a plumber. Just as there was no legitimate reason to dismiss AOC because she used to tend bar. As for the joke itself, here’s an honest question. If Senator Mullin was a retired doctor instead of a retired plumber, do you believe he would have would made the same joke?

Roger, Rebecca, Patrick...be honest. Do you really think Jimmy would have said to his audience, "So, now we have a DOCTOR in charge of protecting us from terrorism? Hey – it worked for Dr. Suess – maybe it’ll work for Markwayne!"

Personally, I don't. Not in a million years. Why? Because no one would have found it funny, that’s why. Even though doctors are no more “qualified” to protect us from terrorists than plumbers are, Jimmy knows that doctors are widely respected in society, and that plumbers are not. He knows that medical degrees and doctorates are aspirational credentials, whereas plumbing certificates are not. The entire premise of his joke was based on a personal bias that he knew his audience shared – a bias that presupposes plumbers are uneducated, one-dimensional workers who never made it to college, and are therefore "unqualified" to do anything but plumb.

Jimmy is entitled to his opinion, along with anyone else who believes that Mullin is unqualified to lead the DHS. The Constitution, however, says otherwise, and so does the Senate. Likewise, reasonable people can disagree as to what is funny and what isn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. What I do care about, is the extraordinary shortage of plumbers and electricians our country is facing, and the longstanding stigmas and stereotypes that continue to discourage people from considering a lucrative career in the skilled trades. Jimmy’s joke – and his audience’s reaction to it – is proof positive that those stigmas and stereotypes are alive and well.

PS. We have a lot of money set aside to help train the next generation of plumbers. Apply for a scholarship at https://t.co/vidLSYXCf6 Who knows? Could be the first step on your road to President..

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

You know what? When there are terrorist attacks in the US by extremists I’d prefer that the same politicians and podcasters who egg them on with non stop inflammatory rhetoric and by endorsing Hamas rallies and who refuse to condemn phrases like “Globalize the intifada” and who blame everything on Jews don’t then try to act surprised or sympathetic when these attacks happen. It’s insulting and you’re not fooling anybody. I’d rather Mamdani be more like his wife who probably already smashed the like button a billion times and threw a party at Gracie Mansion. At least she owns it. Give me the straight forward hatred rather than the hypocrisy.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Oklahoma City Thunder are signing Payton Sandfort to a two-way NBA contract out of their OKC Blue G League affiliate, Ross Aroyo and Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Sandfort joined the OKC program after being undrafted from Iowa last June.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

What if I told you our national debt is the tab for the mass looting of the American economy and the mass theft of the American dream?

[Ajit Pai @AjitPai]

As Gordon Gekko might say, looking at how far mobile communications have come since 1987: “Wireless, for lack of a better word, is good. Wireless is right. Wireless works. Wireless clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once you understand the incentive, the reason for the behavior becomes obvious: they are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts.

A prominent example of this in America is Ilhan Omar and her Somali voting bloc in Minnesota, an area which used to be primarily Nordic-German.

Importing voters is a CERTAIN path to a single-party supermajority and has ALREADY happened at the state level in California and New York. It also explains why those states have BANNED VOTER ID in order to accelerate a permanent socialist supermajority, destroying any semblance of democracy.

We stand on the precipice of disaster, an end to America.

[Michele Tafoya @Michele_Tafoya]

Let’s see if I can one-up Kamala Harris…

“Some people have said I was the most stunning, voluptuous blonde ever to roam the sidelines.”

🤣😂

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

You know what I've learned as a dad?

Sometimes your kids don't follow the path you walked. And that's exactly how it should be.

My son Christian retired from baseball at the age of 4. He's now in culinary school.

When I talk about pastries and baking with him, it's like when my dad talked to me about playing catch or hitting.

His eyes light up. His heart starts beating.

If he had a tail, I could see it wagging. He absolutely loves it!

What do you want as a father for your kids?

You want them to find something they love, that they can hold on to and pour themselves into.

God put all three of my kids in my life to transform me.

They didn't come here to be mini versions of Clint. They came to show me what surrendering looks like. What unconditional love means.

Being a dad taught me more about leadership than any dugout ever could.

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

As someone who knows all about getting punished by Disney/ABC/ESPN…my take on Jimmy Kimmel.

[Michele Tafoya @Michele_Tafoya]

Clearly, it is dangerous to be an outspoken conservative in America.

Charlie Kirk is a courageous voice who has inspired many and changed many minds.

Praying. Unapologetically.

[Hawkeye Football @HawkeyeFootball]

Droppin' dimes and tappin' toes 🎯

#Hawkeyes

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Most people still don’t get what Russiagate actually was, so here it is in one sentence: The Trump–Russia narrative was a Clinton-manufactured smear that Obama officials and intelligence agencies turned into an operation to sabotage and ultimately unseat a duly elected president.