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@RayLeo02

Kansas Citian, Proud Ford Driver. Fan of a great many things. Primary source of Pundus's retirement fund.

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Which Ambassador do you prefer?
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@JohnnyBrig72342 @Real_Politik101 Because it's not in his interest. Why would he leave the EU? It's his Golden goose. He gets to blame anything that goes wrong in his country on the EU, he gets all the advantages of EU membership and he has a veto over EU policy, so they have to haggle with him on everything.
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MJ@Real_Politik101·
This is Europe’s biggest attempt at stoking a maidan, color revolution since Georgia. After Romania, it’s imperative the EU face pushback. As the leader of the PfE, Orban will continue to do just that. Peace with Russia, access to cheap energy, and a future for a nationalist Europe where each country has sovereignty over their own nation not beholden to Brussels
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@JackPosobiec You can ask your bad faith question all you want. It's not going to change the fact that she's on the supreme Court
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Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·
I will ask this again: Was Ketanji Brown Jackson a legally-commissioned Supreme Court Justice if the person who appointed her lacked mental capacity?
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@DamianChavezArt Why can't two styles of architecture exist simultaneously? It's not my favorite style but there are positive qualities to brutalism if done right and it was in fashion back then. Why does everything have to be some sort of grand conspiracy?
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Damian Chávez - Artist@DamianChavezArt·
Postwar U.S. architecture didn’t shift 2 modernism by accident. It was driven by ideologues who actively despised classical architecture + *usefully idiotic* bureaucrats/politicians who bought the sales pitch about efficiency, progress, & democracy. Guys like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (who reshaped U.S. architecture schools at Harvard and IIT Chicago) taught that the decorative was “decadent,” classical design was a pre-war relic, & trad forms had 2 be purged for a hygienic future. Le Corbusier & *CIAM* pushed tabula-rasa “Radiant City” towers that erased old streetscapes. These ideas weren’t neutral preferences. They were ideological warfare against the Western past - “dust traps,” “bourgeois relics,” "fascist" enemies against "social progress". By the 1950s, modernist dogma dominated architectural schools & the entire field. Enter the *structural* machinery that amplified & entreched this ideology after 1945: A. Housing Act 1949 (Title I Slum Clearance + Title III Public Housing): 1,000,000,000s for federal grants for eminent domain “blight” clearance. Older/Classical/Beaux arts/Art Deco areas were bulldozed. Subsidies explicitly favored “new designs, materials, techniques” & "reduced costs" - just perfect for standardized modernist superblocks & high-rises for plazas. B. The Housing Act 1954 expanded it as full “urban renewal,” enabling more commercial clearance. For NYC, Robert Moses was a key player. C. Federal Property & Administrative Services Act 1949 created the GSA (General Services Admin). It centralized federal building design with outsourcing 2 private architects under efficiency mandates. Postwar industrial materials (glass, steel, cement) fit modernism like a glove. D. Federal-Aid Highway Act 1956: 90% federal funding tore expressways through old neighborhoods, clearing land for yet more modernist redevelopment. Indirectly against older styles but still devastating. E. NYC 1961: New policies like FAR for public plazas rewarded freestanding glass/steel tower forms (i.e.,Seagram Building). Classical buildings couldn’t compete for extra floor area. F. The culprit: 1962 Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture (drafted by Daniel Patrick Moynihan for JFK). Key line: 'Design must flow from the architects 2 the Government rather than vice versa'. When modernists proclaim that architecure is free without “official style", organic,etc its just subversive stage magic. It seems like democratic pluralism & anti-authoritarian freedom (vs. Soviet/Fascist), but the field was already ideologically captured by the avant-garde. Present day,etc = modernism exclusively. Peer-review panels & GSA boards filtered out classical/deco proposals as regressive & anti-progressive. Result: Brutalist HUD HQ, Mies’s Chicago Federal Center, + hundreds more. This was instituted authoritarian modernist entrustment at work. Ideologues provided the anti-classical worldview & literally redefined 'excellence', but useful idiots - Fair Deal political leaders chasing quick housing wins, GSA bureaucrats preoccupied by cost, Cold War liberals with short man issues wanting 2 look "modern" & "democratic" supplied the funding, eminent domain, & policy power. They bought the framing: modernism = efficiency + progress + democracy. Beauty? Classical/Art Deco = regressive + old + costly + fascism. The result: American cities & federal buildings got a de facto modernist status quo for 80 years. Classical & trad styles were marginalized by a handful little policy shifts & cultural capture by leftist ideologues, enabled by incentives that made more decorative styles uncompetitive.
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@GetOnTap For any territorial change between states you need the consent of both states involved and that of the Congress. So good luck with that.
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@MattWalshBlog Well we can all thank God that you are NOT in charge.
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@jondelarroz Only true Star Trek fans use the R word. Get lost.
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Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮
Starfleet Academy is written for retarded people. In the new episode they state there's 240 billion particles of this new super weapon that surrounds the entire Federation as a minefield. Particles are very small. That's amount could make a shell of 200 meters. They didn't bother to check.
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Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer·
VICTORY! @Netflix just announced they are pulling out of the Warner Bros. merger. This comes after @loomerunleashed led the charge in exposing the Obama infiltration of Netflix, including Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos being an @BarackObama mega donor and Obama chief spy architect and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice sitting on the board of Netflix. After seeing my X post last week, President Trump immediately called for Netflix to FIRE Susan Rice. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos refused to fire Rice, and today, Sarandos was at the White House meeting with President Trump. After the meeting, Netflix announced their decision to stop pursuing the Warner Bros. merger. This comes just days after @AmbassadorRice Susan Rice called for President Trump and his supporters to be investigated, resulting in Trump calling for Rice’s removal from the Netflix board. Netflix just FAFO!
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NEW: @Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos And Board Member Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice Continue Attacking President Trump While Seeking His Approval For Warner Bros Merger loomered.com/2026/02/25/net…

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@EricLDaugh Orr... The Democrats vote it down publicly. Everyone forgets about it by November and you guys get annihilated anyways.
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Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune confirms HE'S FORCING A VOTE on the SAVE America Act, he will put Democrats ON THE RECORD opposing the 85-15 issue This MUST pass! Voter ID, citizenship — common sense 🇺🇸 "We will put the Democrats on the record! [...] We'll get it on the floor, have a vote, we will make sure the Democrats are ON THE RECORD." "It's a stark contrast between Republicans and Democrats on how they want to handle elections." "This is gonna put them in a VERY difficult position. If I were running as a Democrat in the 2026 midterm elections, I would NOT want to have to defend that position!" @LeaderJohnThune
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@AlBuffalo2nite Donald Trump shows absolutely nothing but contempt for the people who didn't vote for him. He's not the president of the United States. He's the president of the people who agree with him. It's only natural that he be snubbed in return.
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A Gene Robinson
A Gene Robinson@AlBuffalo2nite·
🚨THIS GOES FOR EVERY PERSON THAT WILL NOT ATTEND THE 🇺🇸STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS🇺🇸 Refusing to attend the State of the Union is not “resistance.” It is institutional contempt. The State of the Union is not a campaign rally. It is not a fundraiser. It is not a party convention. It is a constitutional obligation under Article II, Section 3. The President reports to Congress. Congress represents the people. All of the people. When elected officials boycott that address, they are not snubbing a man. They are signaling disdain for the office. They are signaling disregard for procedure. They are signaling indifference toward the citizens who voted differently than they did. More than half the country voted one way. The other half voted another. The State of the Union is one of the few remaining civic rituals where all branches assemble under one roof. It symbolizes continuity of government. It symbolizes peaceful transfer of power. It symbolizes unity under law even when policy divides us. Skipping it is not bravery. It is performative tribalism. If you were elected to represent your district, your job is to show up. Show up. Listen. Disagree afterward if you must. Debate on substance. But absence communicates something else entirely. It communicates: “I do not recognize the legitimacy of this administration.” That is a dangerous precedent in a constitutional republic. If Republicans had done this under a Democrat President, the media would frame it as anti-democratic sabotage. Consistency matters. Disagreement is healthy. Boycott as branding is not leadership. Public office requires maturity. Not social media theater. If you want to amplify it even further, add this closing line: If you can’t sit in a chamber for one hour and listen to a President you oppose, you are not ready to govern a divided nation. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
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@mmullins001 @HBRabinowitz When you do things solely to make other people unhappy, generally it means you're just a fucking asshole.
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Hannah Rabinowitz@HBRabinowitz·
New banner went up at DOJ headquarters this afternoon
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@BasilTheGreat Rupert Lowe is a nobody. He is one MP out of 650. "Deportation NATO" Please.
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Basil the Great
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat·
🚨RUPERT LOWE ANNOUNCES DEPORTATION NATO He doesn't just want to save the UK He wants to save Western Civilization All of us working together to Restore our Nations ✈️ 🇬🇧UK 🇺🇸United States 🇨🇦Canada 🇦🇺Australia 🇳🇿New Zealand 🇫🇷France 🇩🇪Germany 🇮🇹Italy 🇩🇰Denmark 🇳🇱Netherlands 🇬🇷Greece 🌍And others ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO DEPORT MILLIONS Any country that refuses to take back their migrants will receive sanctions not from one but ALL TOGETHER Crippling that country's economy "If a country persistently refuses to accept its own nationals, the coalition will move through a pre-agreed escalation ladder: (1) naming-and-shaming (2) moving quickly to visa restrictions (3) suspension of non-essential travel (4) trade and tariff measures (5) restrictions on remittances/dividends (6) diplomatic pressure (7) for the most intransigent states, coordinated refusal to admit nationals into coalition territories. Sounds like a plan. Let's get this started.
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@VinceDaoTV It really is guys like you who are going to be the death of us all.
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Vince Dao@VinceDaoTV·
Honestly, I like self-driving taxis. It’s hard to argue about “saving jobs” when most uber drivers are illegal aliens who don’t speak English and can’t drive. Like sorry, I trust an AI supercomputer to drive much more than an illegal alien. Nor do I care about their “jobs.” Self-deport. Go home. Lear to code. Until American companies show they’re serious about hiring American citizens, why should we be against replacing illegals with robots? The robots are smarter. Maybe the TechBros have a point. Seriously.
Pop Base@PopBase

Uber, Lucid, and Nuro have unveiled their self-driving robotaxi, which is aiming to become available to the public later this year. The autonomous vehicle is designed to operate without a human driver, with passengers able to contact Uber support and request the vehicle to pull over. If approved by regulators, the service would begin in the Bay Area in late 2026.

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Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman·
If I was the Leader of the Senate, I’d tell the Democrats to fck off and nuke the Filibuster, open the government up and go full throttle passing Trumps agenda. All of it.
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@GuntherEagleman Look on YouTube. It was watched by a few hundred million people.
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@CynicalPublius Democrats don't hate America. They hate Donald Trump and his administration. Those things are not the same. And Europeans (and most other countries in the world) have many and varied reasons to hate Trump's guts.
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Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
RE: Vance Getting Booed at the Winter Olympics So a bunch of Eurotards from Europe’s fashion capital booed our Vice President and Second Lady at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Democrats, of course, are thrilled by this because they too hate America. I, of course, could not care less. But let me tell you what is really going on. The USA is Europe’s Daddy, and has been for 80 years. Europe is the stumblebum adult male child in his 30s living on Daddy’s couch. He can’t hold a job, all of his relationships are disasters and he depends on Daddy for all sustenance and protection. One day Daddy gets fed up with Sonny’s unwillingness to pay his own way. Daddy is also pissed because Sonny does not support free speech or free markets, and because Sonny fails to protect himself from Muslims who beat him up in the street daily. Daddy finally says: “ENOUGH! You are on your own. Get out of my house. No, I will NOT lend you more money.” So Sonny has to finally stand on his own two feet and he resents it. So the next time Sonny sees Daddy, he boos him. That’s what happened in Milan.
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@tedcruz You started this. You launched this redistricting war.
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Ted Cruz@tedcruz·
A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)
Townhall.com@townhallcom

VA Gov. Spanberger (D) laughs, smiles, and signs the redistricting bill that will disenfranchise about 48% of Republican-leaning voters by packing them into one district. It proposes a 10-1 Democratic advantage. Great stuff, Virginia.

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Gunther Eagleman™
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman·
The @NFL having Bad Bunny do the halftime show for the Superbowl shows just how out of touch they are with their fans. I will not be watching.
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@libsoftiktok Why exactly do the Republicans hate ranked voting so much?
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Libs of TikTok
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok·
BREAKING: House Republicans just introduced the “Make Elections Great Again” Act. The MEGA Act would: - Require photo ID to vote - Require citizenship verification to register to vote - Require states use paper ballots for federal elections - Voter roll maintenance requirements - Requires mail in ballots be received on election day - Bans ballot harvesting - Bans ranked choice voting - Bans Universal vote by mail - Bans partisan voter initiatives
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