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Ben Potter

@BenPotter0701

Christian, husband, father, pastor, conservative American, Republican-in-exile

LaSalle, IL Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Ben Potter
Ben Potter@BenPotter0701·
It will never cease to amaze me... My political philosophy is the median Republican voter from a decade or so ago: socially conservative, pro-small government, pro-free trade, pro-national defense with a muscular foreign policy. And there's no place for that in today's GOP.
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Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
When you listen to Trump talk about Taiwan (or many other topics) it’s the stuff he doesn’t say that is more revealing. Asked about Taiwan he blathers on about how big and strong China is, how tiny Taiwan is, about tariffs and dumb American presidents who didn’t use them. What doesn’t he talk about? Alliances, obligations, democracy, values, honor, etc. Keep in mind, if you don’t care whether Trump throws Taiwan under the bus, that wouldn’t be the only betrayal involved. We’d be screwing Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia too. I’m not saying we should get into a shooting war over Taiwan. I am saying Trump shouldn’t betray our allies, our values, and our national security and national honor just because he’s got a man crush on Xi.
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Ben Potter@BenPotter0701·
Unfortunately, this is 100% correct. (Even most of the people sharing Rubio memes are insiders.) Average MAGA voters, sadly but predictably, like Vance. If they even remember who Rubio is, they view him with suspicion because he wasn't always very pro-Trump.
LoLNothingMatters@DastDn

Rubio is liked by insiders. They pay attenton to what he's doing & his professionalism; are tired of lunacy/incompetence, & understand that Vance representsents both. Normal voters are not paying attention to Sec of State. They know who the VP is & that's who they'll vote for.

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Ben Potter@BenPotter0701·
Anyone on the Right who thinks this bodes well for '28 should be very afraid. In '28, the GOP nominee will (unfortunately) most likely be JD Vance, a historically unpopular VP. Everyone will be even more exhausted by Trump than they already are. As voters in '20 and '24 proved, they have mostly been voting against the current administrations out of protest, not for any candidate out of enthusiasm.
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz

AOC is very popular among Democrats. I spoke with @LelandVittert about whether that could translate to a successful nationwide campaign.

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Jordan Klein
Jordan Klein@dodgersjordan·
@KenGardner11 I think generally 30-40% of each party is conspiracy brained at this point. Which is a pretty bad place for this country to be
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Justin Stapley
Justin Stapley@JustinWStapley·
Has Rubio navigated the Trump era in ways that I think are unfortunate? At times, yes. But if you don't think that getting Rubio nominated over Vance would be a momentous victory for renewing conservatism in the Republican Party and the selection of hands down the best candidate either party has produced in a decade, then I'm afraid you may not be a conservative anymore.
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to you like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to you like this.
Acyn@Acyn

Trump: Gas prices are way down. Have you looked?

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Ben Potter@BenPotter0701·
Cynical America-hate has become the norm on both the JD Vance/Tucker Right and the AOC/Bernie Left. We've grown so accustomed to negativity that Rubio rattles off what would have been a boiler-plate response 10 years ago, and it's a breath of fresh air. More of this.
National Review@NRO

WHAT IS YOUR HOPE FOR AMERICA?: .@marcorubio gives an A+ answer that millions of people in this country need to hear.

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Sarah Isgur
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons·
Indeed our whole system is designed to prevent a bare or fleeting majority from getting stuff done. It’s built to force negotiation and compromise.
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Joel Mowbray
Joel Mowbray@joelmowbray·
Key to Tucker Carlson's "Israel controls the US" narrative is that the Jewish state & "neocons" forced/tricked us into the Iraq War. Yet Tucker did not raise the Iraq War with Wilkerson, who was CENTRALLY INVOLVED. Why? Because Wilkerson has long said that Israel did NOT want the U.S. to take out Saddam Hussein, preferring instead to kneecap (or topple) the Iranian Mullahs. This isn't even a controversial take, of course, but Tucker knows that his entire house of cards conspiracy about Israel-as-puppetmaster collapses if his audience realizes that the U.S. invaded Iraq DESPITE Israel's objections. (Never mind what it does to the supposed hero narrative of Tucker's Great White Hope, Joe Kent.) Wilkerson, who is no friend of Israel — in this same interview, he praised Hezbollah's now-unalived leader, Hassan Nasrallah (see quoted post below) — would be seen as almost uniquely credible in bursting the "Israel pushed the U.S. to invade Iraq" myth. That's why Tucker was willing to ask Wilkerson about Charlie Kirk's murder, the JFK assassination, and even about how AI might impact our future. Again, Tucker took the time to ask an 81-year-old about AI — but not about his insider knowledge on the very war that Tucker claims as the seminal event in shaping his understanding that Israel is the greatest threat to America. Of course, the greatest threat to Tucker is simply... the truth.
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Joel Mowbray@joelmowbray

🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker Carlson now believes that Lebanon should be run by Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorists who have murdered hundreds of Americans. Tucker teed up his guest to say that Hezbollah are "the right people" to "consolidate" power to "have a government that the majority of Lebanese could support." Worse, now-retired Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, explicitly blamed Israel for denying the Lebanese people the gift of living under Hezbollah when it killed the terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah. The whole theory is as jaw-dropping as it is insane. Not least because Hezbollah has had effective control of Lebanon's government for most of the past two decades. Hezbollah is a gruesome and violent proxy of Iran, whose whose central organizing principle for nearly 50 years has been "Death to America." Hezbollah has also helped drive down the Christian population of Lebanon over the past two decades by an estimated 20 - 30%. And Hezbollah has intentionally put Christians in harm's way by, among othe things, placing rocket launchers inside residential areas in Christian villages. Never mind the fact that there has never in history been a Christian population that has prospered under Islamist rule — let alone under the thumb of Islamic terrorists. Of course, Tucker knows all of this. He just doesn't care. Because why else would he be willing to sacrifice Christians just to install terrorists bent on destroying Israel?

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Maggie
Maggie@maggiemoda·
If you paid the Delta CEO $250,000 you would get an airline worse than Spirit Airlines. Some of you are not putting on the thinking cap for 5 seconds. He’s paid $27M because that’s his value in the marketplace. If it was yours, you’d be making the same.
Andrew Lokenauth@FluentInFinance

BREAKING: Delta Air Lines will no longer offer free snacks or drinks on all flights starting May 19th (under 350 miles). Meanwhile, Delta CEO Ed Bastian received $27.1 million in 2024. Consumers lose, every single time.

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Ben Potter@BenPotter0701·
@WalshFreedom Anyone running on that platform will never be President. I don't love the ballroom - and I hate the idea of Trump just unilaterally remaking the architecture of DC on a whim - but that's not an issue that brings people out to the polls.
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
As President, I’ll tear down Trump’s ballroom on Day One. And rebuild the East Wing on Day Two. I mean it. This country cannot and will not move on as long as that ballroom exists.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialcont…
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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*
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