I care not what floats your boat so long as it does not sink mine! Chinese Proverb: "If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." Wine savant @manutd
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The health care crisis is ultimately one of the most important concerns for American citizens. to that end it behooves us all to be as informed as possible about it. Please check out the posts by @DutchRojas on this. It is a plethora of important information.
The Republicans should have run on what they themselves blocked in the last two years!🙃
Gov. @SpanbergerForVA at What’s Next: "Congress should pass bill after bill after bill that is broadly, very clearly popular... no pre-negotiations... and send it to the president's desk."
Make Trump veto popular bills on the record, then run on what the GOP blocked in 2028.
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To me, some combination of Rubio and DeSantis would be the dream ticket for 2028.
Some will say that that can't happen because both men are from the same state.
That's actually incorrect.
If they decided to run together, one of the men just needs to move their primary residence outside of Florida.
Bush and Cheney did it.
Brent Monday retweeted
Gas prices went from $5.79 to $3.99, and after visiting 14 stations across Buffalo, I have one question: Were American families paying the price of ordinary market forces, or was someone deliberately manipulating their economic frustration for political gain?
That’s the probative question nobody should be afraid to investigate.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
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Free federal scholarship money for Virginia kids.
Costs the state nothing.
Youngkin opted us in.
Spanberger just said no thanks. 🤦♂️
Why? It’s Trump’s program, and the teachers’ unions told her to.
So much for “affordability.” 🎥👇
Before posting, confirm the opt-out is official. I could only find coverage of the union pressure and a pending decision, nothing yet confirming that Spanberger formally opted out. If it’s official, link the announcement in the first comment. If it isn’t yet, change “just turned down” to “is about to turn down,” which is a safer claim for an elected official to make.
This is unfair comment and I am sure the WaPo knows it. Youngkin did not fully complete the enrollment because the required second step in the IRS process was not available during his time in office.
Now, Spamberger will make damn sure it never happens.
Exclusive: Despite months of former governor Glenn Youngkin (R) touting his decision to enroll Virginia in a new federal school voucher program, his administration did not complete the process, and his successor will reverse Youngkin’s decision. wapo.st/4kQRHGH
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Brent Monday retweeted
Let’s get the truth out: Pete Buttigieg left a ticking time bomb in our air traffic control system.
Instead of replacing L3Harris’s 1980s copper wires, Buttigieg and Biden obsessed over DEI, ESG, and a cozy $2.4B Verizon handout that barely moved the needle. Now Kathy Hochul wants Sean Duffy fired to cover for him.
And they want to run Buttigieg for President in 2028? He couldn’t even run the Department of Transportation. A Buttigieg presidency would just be a 4th Obama term—more failure, more decline, and zero accountability. 📉🤦♂️
“Instead, Buttigieg bragged about steering more than $80 billion toward projects that fit within the Biden administration’s DEI-inspired Justice40 initiative. The Biden White House said Justice40 would direct 40 percent of certain benefits to “disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.” Mr. Buttigieg bragged that his agency hit 55 percent, not 40 percent.”
The left is certain the low-information voters and most of those educated at elite universities will never question such statements in their left-wing publications.
This is a recurring phenomenon, not just among law professors but among the left generally. They come up with a narrative about something, like “muh oversight power is enumerated (which means listed) in muh Constitution,” and then, through sheer repetition, it gets accepted as fact. The same pattern plays out across all sorts of issues. It happens on the right too, but far less often.
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Apparently they forgot that the internet is forever!
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كلمة ماركو روبيو:
الحكومة تدير البلاد، لكن البلاد يقودها طبقة دينية شيعية من رجال الدين، وليس مجرد رجال دين شيعة، بل رجال دين شيعة راديكاليون، يحركهم اللاهوت والعقيدة.
إذا نظرت إلى الوثائق التأسيسية لهذه الجمهورية الإسلامية، فهي تقول إن المرشد الأعلى ليس قائد إيران، بل قائد جميع المسلمين، بما في ذلك السنة الذين بالمناسبة لا يوافقون على ذلك.
لم تنفق أي دولة في التاريخ وقتا أو مالًا أكثر مما أنفقته إيران على الإرهاب. هؤلاء توسعيون، ثوريون.
كل مشكلة كبرى في الشرق الأوسط - الحوثيون يهاجمون السعودية، الميليشيات الشيعية التي تزعزع استقرار العراق، العناصر التي دعمت الأسد ودمرت سوريا، حزب الله في لبنان - أينما التفتت تجد قاسما مشتركا واحدا: رجال الدين الشيعة في إيران وعقليتهم التوسعية.
هذا خطر تاريخي استثنائي لا يمكن تجاهله. أعلم أننا نظن أنه في نصف العالم الآخر، لكن لا شيء أصبح نصف العالم الآخر بعد الآن. سيصل في النهاية ويهدد بلدنا. هذا تهديد يجب معالجته.
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There seems to be pattern here.
Obama spent $2.1 billion to build a website that didn’t work.
Pete Buttigieg spent $8 billion to build 8 EV charging stations.
Gavin Newsom spent $16 billion on a train to nowhere.
Joe Biden spent $43 billion on rural broadband and connected zero houses to the internet.
$273 billion was thrown away on USAID in the past decade.
Sean Duffy is asking for an additional $30 billion to finish modernizing air traffic control, and these people are melting down.
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Brent Monday retweeted
Governor Hochul, before you demand Sean Duffy’s resignation, perhaps you should explain why the chronic problems in America’s aviation infrastructure suddenly became his personal creation.
Air traffic controller shortages didn’t begin with Trump. Aging radar systems didn’t begin with Trump. Communications failures didn’t begin with Trump. These are longstanding federal problems that survived multiple administrations.
You want accountability? Excellent. Let’s have it.
Let’s examine the FAA’s staffing levels, infrastructure expenditures, modernization contracts, and congressional oversight during the Biden administration. Let’s establish precisely when these deficiencies were identified, what corrective measures were funded, and why the vulnerabilities persisted.
Your argument suffers from a rather conspicuous chronological fallacy. You describe longstanding institutional failures and then assign responsibility exclusively to the current secretary.
And Governor, since you’ve established that executive officials should resign when government systems fail, shall we apply that same standard to New York’s public education, infrastructure, public safety, and affordability under your administration?
You don’t get to demand accountability in Washington while treating accountability in Albany as an optional inconvenience.
Investigate the aviation failures. Publish the findings. Hold whoever is responsible accountable, regardless of political affiliation.
But spare Americans the selective outrage. Accountability is a principle, not a partisan weapon.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
Sean Duffy must resign, or President Trump must remove him immediately.
America’s airspace ground to a halt yesterday, leaving thousands of flights canceled and travelers stranded across the country. More than 3,500 planes were already in the air as radar and communications systems faltered. We’re fortunate no lives were lost.
From chronic air traffic controller shortages to repeated communications breakdowns, serious lapses in our aviation system have become a pattern on Sean Duffy’s watch.
Through it all, he’s been more focused on starring in his own reality show than addressing the crisis at his agency.
With millions of Americans preparing to travel for the holidays, families deserve answers and confidence in the safety of our skies. Congress must launch a full investigation to determine what went wrong and ensure it never happens again.
Brent Monday retweeted
The Electoral College reflects the fact that the US is a republic. The Founders wanted a constitutional system based on the consent of the governed, but they wanted filtering mechanisms so that the will of the people would be channeled towards the public good. And they wanted the role of the states respected.
The EC also guarantees that in an “extended republic” like the US, a candidate cannot just run up the score in one region of the country.
In our time, the EC serves to produce a clearer and more decisive winner (see, eg, Bill Clinton winning 43% of the popular vote but a strong majority in the EC) and focuses election administration in individual states, which reduces complexity in a close race.
We should be doing more to bolster federalism and the role states play, not further weaken them.
There is no reason to change the Electoral College.
Seems that money might have been better used...for infrastructure perhaps!
Short memories:
Buttigieg’s DOT prioritized $80B in DEI grants over air traffic control upgrades -
per records and industry insiders.
July 21, 2025
nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-new…
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Brent Monday retweeted
Nonsense and the actual record proves otherwise. You people should check your own premises and facts.
What Rand refused to accept was a false premise, not a conversation. Look at her actual relationships. Isabel Paterson, a devout theist, was one of her closest friends for years, and Rand spent countless nights at her home arguing God and politics until dawn. She exchanged warm letters with Rose Wilder Lane while disputing her premises. She dined with Henry Hazlitt and his wife for years despite rejecting his utilitarian ethics. She promoted Mises as the greatest living economist for decades while openly rejecting his entire philosophic framework. She corresponded and debated at length with the academic philosopher John Hospers, who disagreed with her constantly. And she took hostile questions from left-leaning audiences at the Ford Hall Forum for twenty years and became their favorite speaker. Is that intolerance?
As for Friedman, her verdict came from reading him closely, not from refusing to. When his 1946 rent control pamphlet argued pure economics while conceding the collectivists' moral premises, even calling the free market a system of rationing, she wrote a point by point analysis and called it the most pernicious thing ever issued by an avowedly conservative organization. What she would not do is compromise on a principle to stay agreeable, and Friedman built a career on exactly that compromise.
She listened to everyone and sanctioned nothing false. Men who repeat what they hear instead of checking the facts call that intolerance.
Milton Friedman on Mises & Ayn Rand:
“Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand were remarkable individuals and have made great contributions, but both of them had one defect.”
“They were, from my point of view, intolerant. They were not willing to listen to ideas that didn’t conform to their own. They demanded that people be disciples, not simply learners.”
THIS is the final, damning proof...federal money in higher ed has become a corruption machine and is indoctrinating our kids by design. It’s long past time to cut the federal spigot to uni and smash the public-school monopoly with real school choice.
nypost.com/2026/11/11/us-new…
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We can all hope the Democrat push these issues with all the gusto they can manage. If so, it should be a very good year for the GOP in 2028.
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I have issues with the way French has expressed his views in the past, but he makes a very good point here.
The people and their progeny that created and built the culture that has existed in the United States for 300+ years HAD THE RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY in the cultural changes what would were likely be brought about by unchecked migration of persons from the third world when NO DEMANDS being made upon them to change their traditions rather than expect the U.S. to change for them.
The Dems, after being border hawks for 50 years to protect organized labor, have set the U.S. on the path towards cultural destruction in their quest for power which they have calculated will come faster from imported voters than persuaded the citizens already living here.
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So simple, even the Washington Post editorial board gets it:
"If a chemical plant closes in Germany and reopens in China, Earth’s atmosphere has not necessarily been spared any carbon. But Germany has fewer jobs, less industrial capacity and a smaller tax base."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
