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Anyone who grew up in the Vietnam era and trusts the Federal Gov't, either Party, or the legacy media... wasn't paying very good attention.

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi...so here it is... Pam Bondi, in my opinion...was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department of Justice’s internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that. To mistake her fifteen-month tour for failure is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself. Bondi entered the DOJ in February 2025 after Matt Gaetz’s nomination collapsed under its own weight. She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities. Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials. It was to do the lethal, invisible labor: purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and...most critically...build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted. That is precisely what she delivered. Under her watch the DOJ secured historic gang and cartel takedowns, first-ever Antifa terrorism convictions, and a string of Supreme Court victories that rewrote the operational rules of engagement. Murder rates plunged to levels unseen in over a century. Those are not the metrics of a lightweight. They are the metrics of someone who understood that the real war is won in the grand-jury rooms and the classified briefings long before any defendant ever sees a courtroom. The public theater...the Epstein files fiasco, the congressional grillings, the slow-bleed perception that “Trump’s enemies weren’t being prosecuted fast enough”...was the predictable noise generated by an entrenched apparatus that weaponizes leaks, redactions, and procedural sabotage the moment it senses its own exposure. Bondi absorbed that fire so the next occupant of the office would inherit dockets already primed, evidence chains already hardened, and a bureaucracy already blooded and compliant. She was the breaching charge. The follow-on force...now under acting leadership that can move with fewer Senate constraints and fresher political capital...gets to deliver the kill shots. This is not speculation; it is the pattern of every high-stakes Trump DOJ transition. First-term chaos taught the lesson: the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball. The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled. Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters. She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department. She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire. The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments. That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft. And the critics who cannot see the difference have no business commenting on power at this altitude.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💀⚖️

Happily Married 40 years this year. Other driver is in jail, just banged up. A pedestrian was also seriously injured.

My wife was killed today in a car crash. The other driver was going 110mph on a street with a 25 mph speed limit.

@ManOfFocus_ @gary_jaen 6 getting punched in the mouth and punching back until they give up

5 events that change a man's life forever; 1. Being broke. 2. A friend betraying him. 3. The death of his father. 4. Getting his heart broken. 5. Realizing nobody is coming to save him

@eikibiana @jchasedavis @waitbutwhy @grok He would refuse

@jchasedavis @waitbutwhy @grok I think Jesus Christ would press the blue button 😄

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

@waitbutwhy Just say no

@Devon_Eriksen_ Just say no

You are offered a pill. Anyone who takes the pill, dies, unless over 50% of humanity takes the pill. Obviously, you cannot be affected by the pill if you don't take it. Is the same moral scenario as the red and blue buttons?

@BobMurphyEcon Just say no

Sorry folks I said I was moving on, but this framing is quite clean, and the (angry) responses to him are revealing. I’m doing a podcast episode on this stuff so I want to keep my eye on this one.

@DasWryte @ATRightMovies That’s who I was thinking of. I remember watching him play on Tv when I was a kid.

@ATRightMovies Andrés Segovia (1893-1987)

Between Virginia doing a mid-decade gerrymander with absurdly shaped districts after having just set up a “nonpartisan commission” a few years ago using on a laughably-worded ballot provision to give a +5D state a +82D advantage in the House And The Southern Poverty Law Center literally bankrolling the extreme right in order to have a windmill to tilt at, potentially being primarily responsible for the toxicity of our modern politics And Cheering on explicitly partisan jurists who ignore the law to simply vote to have their own personal political preferences jammed through a judiciary made of unelected lawyers in the name of “democracy” And The importation of people from socialist and tribal cultures en masse for the explicit purpose of having them maintain their cultural assumptions and align with the Democratic Party (although, ask the UK Labour Party how that’s working out) …the cynicism of the left has gone way too far.

@JackPosobiec Typical

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@carbon15lifer @WEschenbach Filibuster of replicant is hilarious

@WEschenbach cup of meat ? wtf bowl of tea ? side of walrus ? haunch of beetles ? saddle-bag of euphemisms ? trouser of echoes ? filibuster of replicants ? artifice of engagement ? Willis von Eschenbach !

I just noticed I have reached 20k followers. My thanks to each of you. I understand I'm not everyone's cup of meat. I do my best to tell the unvarnished truth, which isn't always popular. In any case, know that your support keeps me going. Much appreciated, w.

@dbenner83 $1,794,000. 4 weeks in a burn unit, 1 in rehab.

Correct.

@TB1Kinobe Been there buddy

25 years ago after engineering school I was involved in a residential construction project where speed was the focus. I did not know the scale or how widespread it would get. None of us did We were young. I have been out of it for over 10 years now with the deepest regrets of contributing to this process at a high level. I don't care if anyone sees this or even gets one like I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

@BlondeOfWar I watched him religiously. He just had a humble way about him that I admired very much.

Desert Drifter Andrew Cross and his wife, Evelyn, hiked a desert canyon and found an oasis with running streams, blooming cacti, and signs of ancient people left behind. While exploring a cave, they found a statue carved from the rock that depicted a face with birds and branches. They left everything as they found it, wanting to conserve the natural state of the area. Sadly, Andrew was injured in a car accident in January 2025, and didn’t survive. His YouTube and TikTok channels, Desert Drifter, still exist and showcase his hikes throughout the American Southwest. Part 2 in comments.

@CynicalPublius Excellent idea!!!

Trump and the Pope need to agree to a face-to-face summit ASAP. As we all know as X randos, it's easy to have a flame war online, it's not so easy to do that face-to-face. A summit could defuse this situation, a situation that benefits no one but Barack Obama. Plus, Trump could give His Holiness a classified briefing on Iran's nuclear capabilities and their intent as to precipitating Armageddon so the Twelfth Imam can arise from a well in Qom. Win-win.

My high school talent show was a juggler, a crappy magician, and a lame comic. They have definitely evolved over the years. These kids rock out to Boston so well. Its great to see them playing real instruments. 🤟🎸🥁

After three years of writing, four months of editing, and two months of publishing work, my book is finally complete. "American Incarnate: What is an American?" Is out now on Amazon.

@BishopBarron With a great deal of respect, the leadership has and does lean left on many fronts, mostly excluding abortion. This is naive. Get some discipline within the church leadership (Fr. James Martin et al) and stay out of mosques (you know better than I why).

The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media. I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.