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Jan 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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China is American business' greatest global partner and our manufacturing "heartland." We don't just enable China, we enrich and empower it. Our economic way of life today depends on cruel oppressive regimes to enable "efficient manufacturing" and maximum Wall Street profits 2/5
Nov 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This article should be available by free syndication as the cover of every single newspaper in the United States. It represents a simple truth: consensus is possible, even among adversaries, when it comes to the fundamentals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We can come together as Americans. We will rise again together from all sides of blue and red. The world is falling apart without our leadership. We need to lead the world again, not just with military might. as we did in the previous century, but with wisdom.
Sep 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The greatest contribution of the Trump Administration has been to reveal the utter futility of our laws and our legal system in the face of anyone with any power.
A couple of weeks ago, a federal court says that Congress has subpoena power! law.com/nationallawjou…
Jul 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Just when you think it can’t get any lower, someone hands you a shovel. It does not matter who you are, or what you call yourself, or what box you check when you cast your vote on election day; you do not get to question the patriotism of a purple heart. cnn.com/2020/07/07/med…
They don't just hand those out; you earn them wearing the uniform of the military and then shedding your blood in combat while doing so.
Jun 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
San Francisco protesters topple statues of Ulysses Grant and other slave owners theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
From article: "As president from 1869 to 1877, Grant pushed through Congress legislation cracking down on the Ku Klux Klan. He also called on the army to help federal officials 'arrest and break up bands of disguised night marauders'"
Jun 20, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Yes @gregolear - by denying black history in its gruesome detail, we deny ourselves our own amazing history. Thus, the history of the United States becomes a history of denial.
But we have no choice. To go back and explain the reality of our history as intertwined with African and Native American history is to question the nature and quality of white American rule over this land.
May 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Will the Coronavirus Kill What’s Left of Americans’ Faith in Washington? nytimes.com/2020/05/23/us/…
Faith in government is not a thing that's gone. It's something we had built over time that the forces of corruption destroyed. It can be rebuilt. The NYT is part of the great failure of established mainstream media. They failed to inform and they...
Re: @GlennKesslerWP on washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
It always seemed that False Equivalency was a Fox News thing, but perhaps not.
It must be a current journalistic condition, especially on the left, where the Quixotic search for the great American myth of "balance" turns even great journalists into wild animals in their zeal for "balance" seeking.
Jul 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The problem is not Robert Mueller, or the Mueller Report, or even the GOP. The problem is the Democratic Party and its leadership. They have a job to do; they know exactly what needs to be done. They just refuse to do it; in case it proves unpopular.
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The Democratic leadership wanted Mueller to provide something visually compelling on air that would make the American people say “Wow! Yeah! Impeach Trump NOW!”
Jul 25, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Marine platoon commander, Captain Robert S. Mueller, was asked to step up for his country once again yesterday and he did so again with his characteristic dignity and understated valor.
Facing a throng of agenda-laden politicians, coolly hiding his contempt beneath his stoic expression, Mueller was magnificent and sadly unrecognizable as the ultimate lawman among showmen.
Jul 24, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The Soviets and other totalitarian systems had a societal vision too, for the “betterment of all,” and in the name of ideology, they recommended the sort of censorship Roy Chacko’s article seems to be recommending for Tarantino’s work. theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/…
“This” meaning Tarantino’s films, “has to stop,” Chacko says. Exactly how does one stop an artist from expressing himself, however vile someone else may find that artistic vision?
Jul 22, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
From @washingtonpostwashingtonpost.com/politics/democ…
The Democrats don’t need credence; they need cojones. Dems refuse to understand a simple fact. There are two Americas, the one that watches Fox News and listens to conservative talk radio, and then there is the other America.
Jun 21, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Will all those who believe Joe Biden to be a racist, please stand up, please stand up, please stand up? OK, now state your position. washingtonpost.com/politics/tensi…
Tell us what Biden should do? Should he walk away from the race because he failed the liberal police hygiene test?
Jun 13, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Freedom of the press is an absolute, non-negotiable right in a democracy. However, #JulianAssange is NOT the press. He’s not even a blogger. @arusbridger from the @guardian is struggling between those two poles like the rest of us.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…@arusbridger@guardian Describing what Assange and WikiLeaks did as journalistic inquiry is stretching the concept beyond its point of elasticity. We need to reflect on why our institutions cannot ascertain wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Jun 12, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Another day, another attack on a player and not the game. This time according to @TeeMcSee of the @guardian, it was Mueller’s fault for not being a lying sociopath, or a good game show host.
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McCarthy is blaming Mueller for failing to do McCarthy’s job! Dude, Mueller’s job was to investigate. He did it clinically; unequivocally. It’s YOUR job to construct the narrative. It’s the media who failed us, not Mueller.
If “the charlatan” was identified as such, had his/her license to practice medicine revoked, and was being pursued by authorities, the analogy would be complete.
Jun 6, 2019 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
We agree more than we disagree; we'll prove it to you. @DariusXCrow1
It is certainly difficult to ascertain what is more irritating, Trump, or the self-righteous suspirations of the mainstream media about their Trump-induced indignation. @BostonGlobe@reneeygraham@GlobeOpinion
The truth is not a casualty, nor is the population resigned; it is the narrative builders such as yourself in the media who are tired and resigned at your abject failure to shift the narrative of our age.
May 29, 2019 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I share @LeRoyFc's frustration, but I don’t think Mueller knows fear. Here’s what Ari Melberjust said and it makes more sense: “Mueller brought a book to a twitter fight.”
This entire day is about the failure of electronic media to nurture a winning rational narrative.
May 17, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Our laws are broken. #AlabamaAbortionBanchooseoneshop.com/what-if-they-g…
The best that our best legal minds keep giving us are 5-4 decisions. 5-4 might be a majority, but it it’s not a victory. It’s a goddamn stalemate! It means you have to go back to the drawing board not the champagne celebration.
