Randy Garrett retweeted
Randy Garrett
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Randy Garrett
@Kithron
Your imaginary friend is not my King. No government, lawfully elected or not, is my Ruler. In the face of tyranny, I aim to misbehave.
Lexington, NC Joined Nisan 2009
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Randy Garrett retweeted
“Freedom” now apparently means removing your ability to choose.
They’re not protecting freedom, they’re redefining it into compliance.
If childhood needs protection, parents already have that authority. A ban doesn’t empower them, it replaces them. And it does it while claiming the moral high ground of “freedom.”
You don’t preserve freedom by prohibiting peaceful choices. You preserve it by leaving those choices intact.
So what’s actually being offered isn’t freedom for kids.
It’s controlled access, branded as virtue.
Wab Kinew@WabKinew
Our kids are not for sale. We’re moving forward with a first-in-Canada plan to ban social media and AI chatbots for youth - because these platforms are built to capture attention, not protect it. Childhood should be about learning, growing, and being present. Not endless scrolling designed for profit. We owe the next generation something simple: the freedom to be kids. A lot done. A lot more to do.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
There are courts in this country that would rule this isn't protected by the second amendment.
Those courts should cease to exist.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
I love how my feed is full of posts about this AFTER it passed .
Serious WHAT THE FUCK??!!
I WILL NOT SUBMIT. I WILL BOYCOTT NEW CARS UNTIL THE AUTO INDUSTRY DECIDES IT WENT TOO DAMN FAR. MAJOR RIGHT WING BOYCOTT INCOMING!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪@VoicesUnheard
DYSTOPIAN doesn't even begin to cover it. You'll want to sit down for this one.. hopefully it's not in your new black mirror vehicle. 👇 In new patents filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (Serial No. 20250104469), Ford is envisioning a future where your pickup turns into a rolling police station. And we don’t mean just a bunch of new safety features; the new patents envision your truck as a 24/7 surveillance outpost. 👁️ Biometric Checks: From the comfort of your own driveway, your eyes will be scanned, and that iris and fingerprint checked against a database of criminals - real-time results received within seconds. 🧠 Did you know? Your car can put you in an Emotional Lockout! If your vehicle senses that you are in a “panic” driving state or have the “big eyes” (unintentionally locking onto an object for too long), the vehicle will determine that you are not fit to drive. The vehicle will remain in a Park state and will not allow the shifter to transition into the Drive state. 👂 Ad Spying – using acoustic waves to read your lips and display monitored conversations to you in order to serve you targeted ads for maximum monetization. 🚔 Law Enforcement: The live feeds in the footages "by Ford" are not encrypted and thus can be used for Law Enforcement Integration. Ford's own patent language for this feature describes the live feeds as "potentially useful for police". This isn't "coming soon" - it's already here. • Smart Eye monitoring software is already in use in over 4 million vehicles worldwide. • To comply with EU regulations such as the Future Truck 2025 concept, GSR, drowsiness system will be a mandatory feature on board. • Ford currently offers live in-cabin Ford Pro Telematics feeds to its fleet manager customers. The future is looking more like a world where you pay for your name and reputation , but everyone else profits off of your private information and influence. Surveillance society: It’s not just the new spying tech that’s the problem - it’s that all older vehicles are being gradually driven off the road and taken out of commission through legislation and a parts shortage, leaving drivers with a hollow choice. All is not lost. But we’re not just losing privacy. We’re losing the concept of an exit ramp. How long do you plan to keep your "analog" car on the road?
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Randy Garrett retweeted
Automobile kill-switches are coming soon to car dealerships near you.
I teamed up w/ Scott Perry & Chip Roy to defund this Orwellian mandate, but too many colleagues (Republican & Democrat) voted against us, so the federal mandate for every new car after 2026 is still in place.
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie
Federal law says new cars after 2026 must monitor drivers and shut down if the car disapproves. Your dashboard should not be judge, jury, and executioner. @RepScottPerry @RepChipRoy offered an amendment to defund the automobile kill switch mandate. Here’s our debate:
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Randy Garrett retweeted
@IngrahamAngle might want to take a lesson in economics.
Trump is not standing between you and socialism. He is driving you there on the same road in a different vehicle. The Democrats are just too ignorant to realize it.
Socialism is government control of the economy. It comes in two forms. The open form seizes ownership of private enterprise outright. The covert form, fascism, leaves the title in private hands while the government dictates what you produce, what you charge, and who you trade with. The result is the same. Every modern president has practiced one or both including Trump.
And before anyone screams "you're calling Trump Hitler," understand what fascism actually means as an economic system. Fascism is NOT concentration camps. It is the government telling private businesses what they can produce, what they can charge, who they can trade with, and what conditions they must meet to operate, WHILE ALLOWING them to keep the illusion of ownership. You "own" your business. The government runs it.
Now let's examine Trump's record.
• Tariffs on nearly every major trading partner. The government deciding what you can buy, from whom, and at what price. That is not free trade. That is central planning applied to imports.
• The federal government has taken equity stakes in at least 10 private companies. 10% of Intel. 5% of Lithium Americas. 10% of Trilogy Metals. 8-16% of USA Rare Earth. A "golden share" in US Steel giving the government veto power over company decisions. A $10 billion fee extracted from TikTok investors for the privilege of doing business. 15% of Nvidia and AMD's chip sales to China demanded by the administration. Government ownership of the means of production is the textbook definition of socialism.
• "Don't touch Social Security. Don't touch Medicare." These are the two largest socialist programs in American history and they are driving the country toward bankruptcy. Trump has promised to protect them both.
• $28 billion in farm subsidies during his first term and another $12 billion in December 2025 to offset the damage caused by his own tariffs. $40 billion to compensate farmers for a problem the government created. Farm bankruptcies doubled in 2025. The government broke the market, then paid farmers with taxpayer money, and called it "putting farmers first."
• Ethanol mandates forcing fuel producers to blend a product the market would not choose voluntarily.
Trump is not standing between you and socialism. He is practicing it.
This has been standard American policy for decades regardless of party. Obama mandated that every American purchase health insurance from private companies under penalty of law. Bush created Medicare Part D, expanding the entitlement state while funneling the spending through private insurers. Clinton imposed the Family and Medical Leave Act on every business with 50 or more employees. Nixon imposed wage and price controls, literally dictating what private businesses could charge and pay. LBJ created Medicare and Medicaid, the largest socialist programs since Social Security. Reagan talked about free markets while expanding farm subsidies.
Every modern president has practiced economic fascism, economic socialism, or both. The difference between them is not principle. It is degree. None of them defended capitalism. None of them understood it nor the philosophy required to defend it.
Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle
At this moment, Donald Trump is the only thing standing between America and socialism. That’s why the hard Left wants him gone by any means necessary, and why they’ve bred and fed countless “recruits” to answer their twisted call.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
If you actually believed this, you’d just ignore billionaires and build your own co-ops.
You wouldn’t be obsessed with their bank accounts or demanding their money.
You claim you don’t need them, while organizing your entire politics around extracting from them.
If they were irrelevant, you’d be independent. Instead, your model depends on them existing and producing so you can redistribute it.
By your own standard, you’re proving dependence.
Michael F Ozaki MD@brontyman
General Strike May 1st No school. No work. No shopping.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
When you’re a tribalist you lose the capacity to think. Let me help you. 1) Dems and Reps have created recessions (the Great Recession caused by Clinton and bush era home financing schemes and prolonged by Obama era restraints). 2) Inflation caused by financing a burgeoning public debt increased by wild spending from BOTH parties. 3) home ownership declines are created by local and state housing regs that restrain building and create scarcity. Most of the worst regs are in blue states and districts. 4) insurance premiums are high largely because Dems have killed markets and competition in insurance and created mandates that drive up demand. 5) high interest rates are the way the fed fights inflation caused by an irresponsible gov that can’t stop spending on social welfare (a democrat dependency scheme adopted by republicans) 6) broken banking system is also a dem phenom (as was the creation of a federal reserve) caused by ridiculous regs 7) low gdp growth also the result of gov funneling capital away from the private sector to fund welfare schemes and centralized control.
Stop your tribalism. It’s lame.
The Green Dragon Tavern@greendragonhq
Almost everything wrong with our country can be drawn back directly to a Republican President. Recessions, inflation, home ownership declines, insurance premiums, high interest rates, broken banking systems, low GDP growth, declining employment… Literally almost everything.
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Yea we need a BALLROOM:
Ban
All
Lethal
Loopholes,
Restrict
Ownership
Of
Military-grade weapons
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Randy Garrett retweeted
Randy Garrett retweeted
‘Everyone should be anti-capitalist’ sounds rebellious, but look who actually pushes it.
It isn’t workers building things. It’s politicians, academics, media figures, and NGO types whose power comes from controlling systems, not producing value.
Communism doesn’t come from the working class. It’s sold to them by a new bourgeoisie that lives off administration, redistribution, and influence.
Under capitalism, you have to earn by serving others. Under communism, you rise by gaining control over others.
So the pitch is simple: Stop letting producers decide. Let us decide instead.
It doesn’t abolish the elite. It installs a different one.
Surmulot@SurmulotsNews
« Tout le monde devrait être anticapitaliste ! » déclare Lucie Castets.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
The attempted assassin was a California liberal who bought firearms not banned there, or anywhere else for that matter.
He went through every one of your laws in your “#1 for gun safety” state without issue. He then broke every law in the Capitol in his attempt.
Nothing you advocate stopped this. They all failed.
Everything we advocate did.
Are you finally ready to admit you just want a total ban on civilian gun ownership?
Brady | United Against Gun Violence@bradybuzz
The U.S. has always accepted more political violence than similar democracies, with threats rapidly growing. But we cannot stop at condemning political violence alone. Too often, there is one thing at the root of these horrific acts: our nation's easy access to firearms.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
Many contemporary firearm regulations are premised on the notion that restricting lawful access will meaningfully reduce criminal misuse. That premise, however, reflects a superficial understanding of criminal behavior. In practice, these laws primarily regulate compliance. They determine which citizens can legally purchase, possess, or carry firearms rather than meaningfully constraining those already predisposed to violate the law.
This distinction is critical. Individuals engaged in criminal activity do not operate within a framework of legal adherence. They operate within a framework of risk reward calculation. The deterrent effect of firearm prohibitions is therefore limited, particularly when the perceived benefits of offending such as status, economic gain, or coercive power outweigh the risks of apprehension. Empirical patterns in criminal behavior consistently show adaptation. When access is restricted through formal channels, illicit markets expand and acquisition pathways shift rather than disappear.
Moreover, the regulatory structure itself can produce disparate impacts. Licensing fees, administrative hurdles, and subjective approval standards may appear neutral on their face, yet functionally impose greater burdens on economically disadvantaged individuals. Historically and contemporarily, such mechanisms have the capacity, whether by design or consequence, to disproportionately affect marginalized populations or those outside prevailing political norms. This raises legitimate concerns about equity and the selective distribution of a constitutional right.
It is also important to recognize that most firearm statutes are reactive rather than preventative. They attach penalties after a violation has occurred, serving as instruments of punishment rather than proactive deterrence. For individuals already willing to engage in violent or illicit conduct, the marginal addition of another legal prohibition is unlikely to alter behavior. In some cases, it may even reinforce asymmetric dynamics, where offenders exploit the predictability of law abiding citizens who comply with regulatory constraints.
In sum, a more rigorous analysis of firearm policy requires acknowledging the adaptive nature of criminal behavior, the limited deterrent effect of compliance based regulations, and the potential for unequal application. Without addressing these underlying dynamics, such laws risk regulating the law abiding more effectively than they restrain the lawless.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
Ok, like you’re 5.
No one is backing billionaires except those clamoring for more central planning.
There are two ways people get rich.
One way is by making things people want. You can say yes or no. If you don’t like them, you walk away.
The other way is through government. They take your money and give it to people you didn’t choose. You don’t get to say no.
The first one is choice. The second one is force.
People aren’t defending billionaires. They’re defending the first system over the second.
Claire 💙@clairebubblepop
Can someone on the right explain to me like I’m 5yr, what’s your fascination with backing £Billionaires like they give a fuck about you? I don’t get it.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
If you actually believed this, you’d just ignore billionaires and build your own co-ops.
You wouldn’t be obsessed with their bank accounts or demanding their money.
You claim you don’t need them, while organizing your entire politics around extracting from them.
If they were irrelevant, you’d be independent. Instead, your model depends on them existing and producing so you can redistribute it.
By your own standard, you’re proving dependence.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
“Not even controversial” is doing a lot of work here.
Calling voluntary trade and property rights “the Beast” requires you to treat production, profit, and success as morally suspect from the start.
But capitalism doesn’t demand worship or submission. It requires consent.
If anything fits the “Beast” frame, it’s a system that claims moral authority to control speech, seize property, and command obedience in the name of righteousness.
Freedom becomes evil.
Control becomes virtue.
That’s moral inversion.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
John Stossel exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center for actually being a hate group back in 2018.
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@TRHLofficial We will probably need another Gary to do the right thing here.
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*Read at your own peril:
Davey suffered 40 internal & external injuries including severe bruising to the back of the throat. It was found he died of acute upper airway obstruction after being smothered.
These phagettes orally raped this baby to death.
A new jury will be sworn in.
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Randy Garrett retweeted
We don’t want people getting killed by the feds for owning inanimate objects.
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