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Bexar County, Texas
Joined November 2017
The very first task of any newly-established tyrant is to seize control of the secret police (there's always a secret police). The second task is to get rid of the Jews.
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Replying to @JohnCleese
What actually happened:
The internet: "Israel just destroyed a Palestinian well" The reality:
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I saw a post by someone complaining about having a lot of "right-wing" posts on their feed. That's funny. I notice that my feed is about 90% or more left-wing posts.
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The play is accountability, real accountability, not another D.C. cover-up. Now that alleged identity of the January 6th pipe bomber, Shauni Kerkhoff, is finally being forced into the light, every single person connected to that operation needs to be exposed and indicted. And let’s stop pretending this was some “lone actor.” Nothing about January 6th happened in a vacuum. There were networks. There were handlers. There were people who knew exactly what was happening and when. They inflicted psychological warfare on the American public. They weaponized chaos. They shattered lives, including mine. They do not get to walk away from that. No more excuses. No more “classified.” No more carefully scripted press conferences. Names. Charges. Trials. Now.
When it turns out the January 6th Pipe Bomber was a Capitol Hill Police officer watch how fast they claim it was a training exercise that just happened to be on January 6th. Of course it will be a lie. But that’s the play.
Absolutely no lies told! 🎯💯
I saw a post complaining about how X is favoring right-leaning posts. I sure haven't noticed that. Most of the posts in my feed are leftists.
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I think it likely that there would be a lasting peace if Russia wins. Ukraine has been part of greater Russia since the time of Catherine the Great.
Replying to @ReichlinMelnick
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Replying to @ReichlinMelnick
There's a difference in that the Irish, Italians, and Chinese didn't take over white collar jobs and discriminate even amongst themselves by caste.
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ICE doesn't need a warrant to round up those who are present in the country without permission. Nor does that deprive them of life, liberty, or property, so it's not a due process matter. Glad I could clarify this for you.
ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago
Though this person's situation is regrettable, if she is not a citizen, she is not your constituent. Glad I could clarify that for you.
I’m on my way back to the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona. I’m going to check on my constituent, Yari, who is sick with leukemia, and demand that ICE release the results of her October oncology visit. ICE refused to let her see a cancer specialist for months, until my office and our community pushed. Now they’re withholding her test results and delaying the treatment she urgently needs. More updates soon.
I would say that Democrats are lacking in shame, and that would be true. They, of course, would disagree and hold that they have the moral high ground. The real underlying reason for this is that they totally lack self-awareness. They say remarkable things with complete disregard for whether they are truthful, because the truth is such a malleable thing to them.
Sen. Rosen just torched Sen. Moreno on the Senate floor: “This is a Republican shutdown, my friend. You control the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of Mar-a-Lago, while people are starving, you might actually see your constituents. You are blind to the suffering.” That’s a public execution of hypocrisy. The party crying about “the economy” can’t even keep the lights on.
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Replying to @factpostnews
Here’s why that line is slick, selective, and misleading: Text vs. implementation. Yes—Article I, §8 gives Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises.” Nobody disputes that. But for over a century, Congress has lawfully delegated implementation authority to the Executive under intelligible-principle statutes. That’s not a loophole; that’s black-letter separation of powers in practice. The courts already blessed this—repeatedly. Field v. Clark (1892): Upheld presidential power to adjust import measures when statutory conditions are met. J.W. Hampton, Jr. & Co. v. United States (1928): The “intelligible principle” case—Congress can let the President vary tariff rates within statutory limits. American Institute for Int’l Steel v. United States (Fed. Cir. 2020): Upheld §232 (Trade Expansion Act of 1962) national-security tariffs; SCOTUS denied cert. Add the foreign-affairs backdrop from Curtiss-Wright (1936): the Executive has wider latitude externally (not a blank check, but real deference). Congress wrote the modern tariff levers on purpose. §232 (1962): President can act if imports threaten national security. §201 (Safeguards): Temporary relief from surges. §301 (1974): Retaliation for unfair trade practices. AD/CVD laws: Duties to offset dumping and foreign subsidies. Trade agreements authority (since 1934): Congress let the President proclaim negotiated rate cuts/changes. If you hate how these are used, your beef is with Congress’s statutes, not the Constitution. “Tariffs are taxes on Americans” is half the story. Tariffs are collected from U.S. importers; incidence is shared. Exporters often eat margin (price concessions), distributors compress spreads, and consumers see partial pass-through. Elasticities, market power, and terms-of-trade matter. Calling them “nothing but taxes on Americans” ignores the real (messy) incidence math and the strategic effects Congress explicitly contemplated. Separation of powers is preserved, not violated. Delegation ≠ surrender. Congress sets the policy, limits, triggers, procedures, and remedies, and it can amend or repeal those delegations tomorrow. Courts police the boundaries. That’s separation of powers functioning, not failing. Bottom line: Saying “only Congress can impose tariffs” and implying the President can’t act is ahistorical and legally wrong. Congress did impose tariffs—by statute—and told the President when and how to pull the levers. If you want fewer levers, rewrite the statutes. Don’t pretend the levers don’t exist.
Message to the people of New York City: You forgot.
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OK, I'm from Texas. Can I carry a gun in public, because it's my culture?
Replying to @DailyMail
Police and politicians are to blame
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BREAKING - A Gold’s Gym in the Bronx is under fire after staff revoked a woman’s membership and escorted her out with police after she bravely confronted a man pretending to be a woman in the women’s locker room. You know what to do.
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Retweet this post below. Schiff is tagged, so he’ll see every one of you who detests his lying, filthy existence.
Who’s ready to see Adam Schiff go to jail for the Russian collusion hoax, mortgage fraud, and J6 committee lies? He’s tagged in this post! Let him hear you.
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This is how someone who is guilty reacts to a question about their guilt. I sincerely hope this man spends the rest of his life in prison but ai seriously doubt that’s going to happen.
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We have known for a long time that Bill Kristol isn't quite right in the head. But this shows that he is far more gone than we had imagined. He must have totally, entirely left the rails a very long time ago, and we just didn't notice. cmcforum.com/post/bill-krist…
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Replying to @AndrewKolvet
Just say no to brown immigration.
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