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Good news, everyone: I've decided I'm a constitutional lawyer.
I've read the Constitution more times than I can count, so the bar exam is just paperwork, right?
That's the logic in Michigan's Senate race. Abdul El-Sayed earned a real MD from Columbia, but he never did a residency and has never held a medical license in Michigan or New York, and Michigan's own licensing law defines a physician as someone licensed to practice.
As a licensed electrician, I can tell you the state doesn't care how many code books you've read.
So when a candidate leans on a title, should voters go by the diploma or by what the law says he can actually do?
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Congress passed 133 laws last year. Federal agencies issued 2,441 rules. That's about 18 rules for every law, and most of them were written by people nobody elected. New on Cincinnatus: who really writes the rules you live under.
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It isn't hard to see why the culture of truth telling eroded in the military.
The first time an officer doesn't turn the box on a slide green is when the transformation starts. Maybe he turned it amber, or god forbid... red.
That's when he got yelled at. "How come your unit isn't green but everyone else is? What's wrong with you? Why are you worse than these other commanders?"
Nobody likes to get yelled at. And most young officers don't want to rock the boat and hurt their career chances, so they play the game. The unit may not really be green, but by god, they are now on the slide.
The commander is now happy in the lie. And the subordinates are happy too. But now, since the first lie has been told, now it's a competition over who can tell the BEST lie.
This is where the officer transitions into a human LinkedIn post. Adding flowery language to terrible reports to make everything sound amazing.
Fast forward even further, and now you're a General. You've learned nothing but how to be a professional at perpetuating this folly. But the entire scheme is built on one load bearing attribute: hope.
Hope that the units they are reporting on won't get tested. Hope that America is strong enough to deter any would-be adversaries. And hope that even if our units are bad, that the enemy's are worse.
Hope has worked out from time to time. Unless you're a poor soul standing at Abbey Gate on 26 August 2021. Then hope straight up failed.
What you're seeing in the military is just a microcosm of the nation at large though. Maybe even western civilization itself. Look at who the majority of people love. The leader who can deliver bad news in the best way. The one who can twist the truth to make a horrible thing feel not so bad.
Conversely, look at how society responds to the blunt truth teller. They just want him to stop talking. Because living in a lie is more comfortable than facing the truth. It always is.
In order to fix the military, it must be radically transformed at the top. Not with civilians, with uniformed members. All it takes is one senior general infected with radical candor to force the rest of the uniforms in his image. Like a George Marshall.
But George Marshall would never ascend the military hierarchy in 2026. He didn't have the right "credentials". And therein lies the main issue.
You can skip a SECWAR from O4 to the top in a suit. But you can't take an O7 and turn him into an O10 like Marshall.
If we want radical candor back in uniform, the only thing left is to do something radical to achieve it.
An active-duty infantry lieutenant colonel says the officer corps' inability to tell the truth is the biggest threat to readiness. The Army War College found the same in 2015: 'filling a box on a slide.' #Army #Readiness
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I've decided the Color Revolution song works better with a 1980's ska beat.
"The Color Revolution Beat"
(I made sure to include @DataRepublican in the lyrics this time.)
Made with AI, obviously.
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Beware such tyrannical efforts to establish "democracy" that is striving to destroy our "republican form of government" which is guaranteed by Article IV Sect. 4 constitution.congress.gov/br…
🚨They’re not waiting for a red line to be crossed. They’re drawing it in advance. @DataRepublican
Seattle Strike (seattlestrike.org) + USA Strike (usastrike.net) is a national coalition of Indivisible, 50501, Evergreen Resistance, and others organizing a strategic general strike and civil disobedience across the top 10 GDP metros to “protect the midterms.”
Their own words: a “historic coalition” creating a “red line against authoritarianism” through economic blackouts, walkouts, and mass supposably “nonviolent” action explicitly tied to the 3.5% framework.
Seattle is one of these critical metro areas.
This is the operational layer of the same network DataRepublican has been documenting. Not reactive. Pre-positioned.
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One of the foundational components of the "Narrative" arm of the Color Revolution plot is for the complicit media to constantly state--usually gratuitously and where such commentary is unnecessary--that President Trump's concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election are "baseless" or some dismissive variation of such language.
They do this despite the very legitimate questions about ballot harvesting, universal mail-in ballots, electronic voting anomalies, states without voter ID, the improbable vote statistics and timings of that election and the many examples of voter fraud we see every day.
So I asked Grok this question:
"Grok, please identify 100 recent news stories in major media outlets where they specifically stated that President Trump's concerns about the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election are "baseless" or "without proof" or some similar formulation. Please answer without offering your own opinion on the validity of election fraud claims."
The answer is linked below.
Once you see the enormity of this propaganda technique, it's hard to unsee it.
All for the Color Revolution!
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For $10,000 to $17,000, you could skip nursing school entirely.
Federal investigators say more than 7,600 fake nursing diplomas and transcripts came out of a handful of Florida schools, and over 2,000 of the buyers passed the board exam and got licensed.
By that standard, I've sat in enough ER waiting rooms to be an RN. Adjacent counts now, right?
The exam tests what you know. The diploma was supposed to prove you did the work. Who's checking the paperwork?
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"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." Article IV Section 4. constitution.congress.gov/br… per @TX_Chief
Sorry you and your family went through that. Nobody should be targeted for following the money.
And you're right about the word games. The Constitution never promises "democracy." It guarantees every state a republican form of government: elected representatives, bound by written law, answerable to voters. Madison drew that line on purpose.
Praying with you.
A University of Michigan student told Fox News socialism is "basically like spending more money on helping society." In Fox's poll, nearly half of voters 18–34 view socialism favorably. Those two facts are connected. This isn't a story about dumb kids. It's a story about what we stopped teaching.
The Founders built the opposite on purpose. Our rights come from our Creator, not the state, and government exists to secure them. Its powers are few and written down. A system where the state owns what you produce turns that upside down. You can't defend a Constitution you were never taught to read.
Two grand jury stories this month, and they teach the same lesson.
Comey: DOJ skipped the grand jury and filed a criminal information on the last day of the 10-year clock.
Cassidy Hutchinson, yesterday: DOJ took its case to a D.C. grand jury, and the grand jury said no.
The Fifth Amendment puts ordinary citizens between a prosecutor and a felony charge. In fiscal 2010, federal grand juries refused to indict just 11 times out of roughly 162,000 prosecutions.
That check almost never fires. When it does, the question isn't who won. It's what the citizens in that room saw.
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🚨 EXPOSED: The University of Houston-Downtown SGA held an official campaign rally with Bernie Sanders.
That is a DIRECT violation of Texas law and UH policy prohibiting state resources for partisan campaigns.
Hold them accountable! @KenPaxtonTX
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HOLEE sh*t.
When I received a message from a former Trump administration official in August, asking me to meet with his team at a prestigious think-tank, I never could have imagined I was conversing with an Iranian intelligence agent.
It was the start of a two-month sting - described by ASIO chief Mike Burgess as "sophisticated and targeted" - that ended with the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gaining access to my personal emails and details in a major security breach.
The message from a former senior Trump administration contact I forged through my Wuhan reporting, who has a prominent profile with hundreds of thousands of followers, came on August 18 this year.
I had worked with him on my investigation into the origins of Covid-19. I trusted him and had met him in person during one of his visits to Australia.
Unbeknownst to either of us, his genuine X account had been infiltrated by an Iranian operative, using the ‘delegate feature’ on X, which gives a third party access to manage and operate your account.
Full story here:
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
The Constitution in 5 Sentences: the Compact Clause.
1. Article I, Section 10: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State."
2. In Virginia v. Tennessee (1893), the Supreme Court said that covers deals that build up state power at the expense of the federal union, not every boundary survey between neighbors.
3. The National Popular Vote Compact now has 18 states plus DC, 222 electoral votes, 48 short of the 270 it needs to switch on.
4. Congress has never consented to it, yet once it switches on it would hand the presidency to the national vote winner no matter how the other 32 states voted.
5. If the Electoral College should go, Article V is the road. Why build a detour?
Read the charging paper before you celebrate or cry foul on Comey.
DOJ didn't get a grand jury indictment. It filed a criminal information on Oct. 5, 2026, exactly 10 years to the day after the alleged leak, the last day on the Espionage Act's 10-year clock.
The Fifth Amendment says no one answers for a serious crime without a grand jury indictment, and a felony can't go to trial on an information unless the defendant waives that right. Comey hasn't waived it, and he's already moved to dismiss.
So this filing is about stopping the clock. Whether it actually does is the whole fight.
Due process protects the people we can't stand too. That's what makes it due process.
CNN says the Supreme Court "rewrote the rules" for the midterms. The actual orders tell a different story.
Maps: the Court let Texas use its Republican map and let California use its Democratic map. It turned down Missouri Republicans' map three times and declined to rescue Virginia Democrats' map. Same rule every time: partisan line-drawing belongs to voters, legislatures, and state courts, not federal judges.
Mail ballots: 7-2 against the administration's Postal Service ballot rule, and 5-4 to let states count ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive a few days later.
TV ad rates: the October order didn't decide who gets discounted rates. It stopped an appeals court from giving the FCC 48 hours to finish its ruling.
Criticizing the umpire is fair game. But when the same rules produce wins for both sides, is that rewriting the rules or applying them?
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The Constitution in 5 Sentences: Article I, Section 5.
1. "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members."
2. That final word got tested in 1974, when New Hampshire's Senate race went from Wyman by 355, to Durkin by 10, to Wyman by 2.
3. A Senate with 60 Democrats still couldn't settle it, so in July 1975 it voted 71-21 to declare the seat vacant, and Durkin won the September do-over by about 27,000 votes.
4. States run and count the vote, and in Roudebush v. Hartke (1972) the Supreme Court said a state recount is fine because the Senate still keeps the final word.
5. And under Powell v. McCormack (1969), "Qualifications" means only the ones the Constitution lists: age, citizenship, and residency.
Retired doesn't mean civilian. Something most people don't know:
Retirees from the regular force drawing retired pay are still subject to the UCMJ, enlisted and officers alike. Article 88 goes further for commissioned officers, chief warrant officers included: no contemptuous words against the President. It doesn't stop applying on retirement day.
That doesn't mean retirees lose their voice. Disagreeing with policy, criticizing decisions, and voting your conscience are all fair game. The line is contempt, and conduct that undermines good order and discipline.
Mark Kelly is the test case. He was censured in January and referred for a review of his retired grade. A federal judge blocked it in February on free-speech grounds, and the appeal is pending.
Fellow retirees: did anyone ever brief you on this when you got out?