willcsquared

Conservative Christian, fairly open minded. Appreciate humor on either political side. Sic em.

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

No one is full of more false hope than a parent with a new summer chore chart.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨PRIDE MONTH🚨

The Texas Rangers are the ONLY MLB team not acknowledging “Pride Month.”

The Rangers are again not hosting an LGBT night event.

Instead, on June 18, they will be hosting a Faith and Family Night.

According to their website, the event will feature “personal testimonies from Rangers players Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, Cody Bradford, Jacob Latz, Jalen Beeks, and others, sharing how faith impacts their lives both on and off the field.”

[Handre @Handre]

The 1920-21 depression was the sharpest economic contraction in American history, yet you've probably never heard of it. Industrial production collapsed 32%. Unemployment spiked from 4% to 12% in twelve months. By every measure, this downturn dwarfed the initial shock of 1929.

President Warren Harding faced enormous pressure to "do something." Labor leaders demanded public works programs. Businessmen begged for bailouts and trade protection. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Harding to slash government spending and let wages fall. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (yes, that Hoover) pushed for massive federal intervention.

Harding chose Mellon. The federal budget dropped from $6.4 billion to $3.2 billion in two years. No stimulus packages. No bailouts. No alphabet soup of new agencies. Government employment fell 40%. When you let markets clear, they clear fast.

The recovery started in July 1921. By 1923, unemployment had dropped to 2.4% and industrial production reached new highs. The entire episode lasted eighteen months from peak to full recovery. Compare that to Japan's lost decade of intervention, or the European debt crisis that dragged on for years, or our own jobless recovery after 2008.

Most economics textbooks omit this episode because liquidating malinvestments and allowing price adjustments works exactly as free market theory predicts: a fact that destroys the Keynesian narrative that government must spend its way out of recessions. Politicians today claim they learned the lessons of the 1930s, but they studiously ignore the more important lesson of 1921.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."

Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

In a world that destroys children with Down syndrome, listen to this brave girl:

“You can try to kill off everyone with Down syndrome by using abortion, but you won’t be any closer to a perfect society. You will just be closer to a cruel, heartless one."  

Charlotte Helene Fien speaks before the United Nations

[Semperfi Virginia @fi_virginia2]

The seats are designed to recline. Perfectly legitimate to recline your seat.

[willcsquared @willcsquared]

@ocxg1958 So far yes. No evidence it will get much better. Probably trump will claim a great deal and let it go

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

You cannot claim that you’re aborting your Down syndrome child because you don’t want him to “suffer.” First of all, killing a child so they don’t suffer is psychopath serial killer logic. You’re on the same moral plane as Andrea Yates. Second, children with Down syndrome are famously some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet in your life. They are not in fact living in a state of perpetual torment. So what’s really happening is that you’re killing your child so that YOU won’t suffer the inconvenience of caring for him. This is about freeing yourself of your own perceived suffering. If you’re going to be a child killing sociopath, at least be honest about it.

[willcsquared @willcsquared]

@ocxg1958 I agree he could not accept anything obama did, but you know better then to assume it was a good deal and would have been followed.

[willcsquared @willcsquared]

@ocxg1958 That is possibly true but look how well Venezuela has gone. Dems were hand wringing on that and it has gone well

[willcsquared @willcsquared]

@ocxg1958 It has 100 percent chance of strategic success if we have the will power to do it. This is different then iraq. The majority, the great majority there want us to do it

[willcsquared @willcsquared]

@ocxg1958 @edwards21228 Still no pigs flying anywhere

[J Lory @J__Lory]

@libsoftiktok https://t.co/3ejY2gOMqk

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

Any pastor that tells you Jesus would approve of abortion is not getting their doctrine from the Bible.

They are in agreement with Satan, not Christ.

[Eric Towner @etowner5]

Miracles are real. Last week my Son graduated high school. He was born at 24 weeks. Today, he’s a healthy, awesome man with a bright future. 18 years ago, doctors questioned why me and my Wife felt so strong to continue life sustaining care. My Wife and I felt strongly that God was telling us to keep going. Marrying a strong woman who believes in prayer and has the courage to seek and follow inspiration is an incredible blessing

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith *UNLOADS* on Jill Biden💥

“This woman, his wife, the former first lady, goes out there in front of the microphones with the cameras working and say, ‘You were wonderful. You answered all the questions.’ Really?”

“And then now it’s almost two years later and what does she do? With a book to sell, she admits she thought he had a stroke. He was so awful. He was so bad that night. He was so unlike himself. She thought he actually had a stroke.”

“So, in other words, with gubernatorial races set to come about, mayoral races, the midterms, you gon’ go out there on center stage and admit on behalf of the Democratic Party that you and the rest of them were lying through their teeth. And you think that’s gon’ help y’all win?”

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Yes, the idea is that killing your children because they might have disabilities should not be normative and to see it announced like a job search decision is jarring and underscores that.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Here is what someone should tell the President, because it bears on his own political survival.

A well-armed tyranny ruling an unarmed population is remarkably durable under economic pain. The Iranian regime can starve its people and shoot the ones who object. It has done so for decades. It will absorb two-hundred-dollar oil and call it resistance.

A republic founded not on theocratic rule, but on rule of the people, by the people, and for the people is different. It answers to voters — and these voters elected a President on a promise to crush the inflation Joe Biden left behind. Instead, they have watched costs climb under tariffs, trade wars, and now an actual war that has sent energy prices soaring with no end in sight. The mullahs can outlast their economic misery. The coalition that put this President in office cannot. Mr. Trump is betting the American voter has the patience of a captive Iranian. That is a bet he will lose.

The honorable path is also the sound one: finish what we started, or get out of the way of the ally willing to. Reopen Hormuz by force if Iran will not do it by agreement. Stop calling a war a ceasefire and stop dignifying a rout as diplomacy.

Otherwise, the verdict will be brief and brutal. We had Iran beaten. We talked ourselves out of the win. And we let a regime that shoots its own citizens lecture us on what a ceasefire means — while we nodded along, shooting, as the President put it, “in a more moderate manner.”

https://t.co/5KOv5Nftwl

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Corporate America every June.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hunter Biden is on X challenging people to show when he and his father were ever engaged in corruption. Good for him, that's got to be a much easier grift than painting, especially now that nobody wants to buy his paintings because his father is out of office.

Here's something to remind people just how long the Biden Crime Family had been at it.

In 1996 Joe Biden sold his house to an executive from credit card company MBNA for 1.2 million. Middle Class Joe made out very well. It was the only house in the neighborhood to sell for full asking price. MBNA actually reimbursed the executive who bought Biden's house for some of the cost. Very shady stuff.

MBNA became Biden's top campaign contributor by far. A few weeks after Biden won re-election in 1996, MBNA hired Hunter Biden. After working at MBNA for a few years, Hunter left the company but remained on the payroll as a "consultant" for about five years. What a gig.

What did MBNA get in return? MBNA was a predatory lender and at the time, bankruptcies were soaring. MBNA wanted legislation passed to remove the tools people had to protect their assets from credit card companies. Joe Biden spearheaded the legislation on behalf of the credit card companies and against the American people.

In 2008 Tom Brokaw actually did some journalism and asked Biden about it.