Dan Proft
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Dan Proft
@DanProft
Radio talker. Golf course walker.
Chicago, IL Katılım Aralık 2008
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Kristi Noem is so stupid— getting divorced in her 50’s? Where is she gonna find another husband with giant gazongas at that age? Foolish
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The NRCC would do well to push @DrZ4AZ and not in an idiotic, pandering identitarian way. Rather, in a "listen-up" way: this guy is a uniquely-talented, unquestionably-accomplished, all-in patriot with keen insight on the the rise of Islamism within the DSA Party ranks, a pressing issue of the day, who would immediately be an international spokesman for peaceful pluralist Muslims--and against expansionist Islamofascists--in America and the larger West.
To miss the opportunity to level Dr. Jasser up is live down to the myopic criticisms conservatives have of the party's leadership.
M. Zuhdi Jasser@DrZuhdiJasser
Always an amazing conversation with the brilliant @DanProft @MorningAnswer as we discussed the reality of the threat to Americanism coming from the Marxist-Jihadist “parasitic” movement embodied in the @DemSocialists takeover of the @TheDemocrats . @DrZ4AZ
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Like the Red Brigades in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s but slightly more Maoist and less fun-loving while better compensated...
Chicago Teachers Union@CTULocal1
Yesterday, educators, athletic directors, and librarians stood up one by one at the Board of Education meeting to describe exactly what the preliminary budget cuts will do to Chicago students. They will cut lead coach & mentor positions, eliminate high school Athletic Director roles, leave coaches without stipends they're owed, and shut down school libraries. We were loud and clear: CTU is calling on Governor Pritzker and Illinois lawmakers to convene a special session to pay the $2 billion owed to Chicago and fully fund schools statewide before these cuts hit classrooms this fall. 📢Our students deserve nothing less. Fully fund our schools!
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Dan Proft retweetledi
Always an amazing conversation with the brilliant @DanProft @MorningAnswer as we discussed the reality of the threat to Americanism coming from the Marxist-Jihadist “parasitic” movement embodied in the @DemSocialists takeover of the @TheDemocrats . @DrZ4AZ
Morning Answer@MorningAnswer
Dan Proft welcomed @DrZuhdiJasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, and a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona’s 4th District, for a wider conversation about the ideological currents he believes are reshaping urban politics.
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I haven't seen someone this mad at their penis since Barack Obama.
Max Lewis@MaxLewisTV
Investigators say a Fort Wayne man cut off his penis, lit it on fire and then used it to set his mom's garage on fire. Christopher Peden is charged with one count of Arson. Peden was arrested last week and his bond was set at $10,000. He has since posted that bond.
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One of the reasons we have so many droogs roaming the streets is because they don't/can't read and those who read just enough to get into Harvard need "A Clockwork Orange" "translated" into English.
Liza Libes@pensandpoison
The Atlantic’s new cover story on the decline of reading features a Harvard student who complained that he had to read a book written in "Old English." Now, you might be thinking that he was assigned Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales. Nope. This student was assigned A Clockwork Orange—and used ChatGPT to “translate” it. A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962 (not 1692, which is still modern English, by the way). This student’s grandparents were alive in the 60s. Is he also using a translation bot to speak to them? Yes, I had an easier time than most people with the novel's Nadsat slang because I speak Russian, but you catch on very quickly if you turn on more than two brain cells—and the entire point is to compel you to inhabit Alex’s deranged mind, which is cool! For the first time in my life, I feel bad for Alex from A Clockwork Orange for being so misunderstood.
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I'm looking forward to Gillum's Platner-like redemption story in a couple of election cycles after a very public conversion to Mandamism after a very public turn away from drugs.
His dalliances with male prostitutes will be his Nazi tattoo--just something a guy does when he's goin' through some stuff.
Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello
🚨ARRESTED🚨 Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who narrowly lost to Ron DeSantis in 2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges. Gillum was taken into custody Thursday night in Daphne, AL, and booked into Baldwin County jail for possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and marijuana. Daphne PD has not released further details. SOURCE: TMZ
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Honored to join my hometown @MorningAnswer to talk Iran, strategy, and modern war with @DanProft
morninganswerchicago.com/william-thibea…
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This week's installment of @MorningAnswer's "In Depth History" with Frank the History Teacher from Arlington Heights...because there's nothing new in this world just the history you don't know and Frank does.
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Passed Ball
Good Morning! “So goes Maine, so goes the nation.” was the old saying before WW2. And the earliest signal of how the Pine Tree State would vote in November was its early statewide elections held two months earlier. In 1932, it went Democrat statewide presaging FDR’s victory. But in 36 it reverted to electing Republicans so the GOP was optimistic they would take back the White House. Of course, Roosevelt beat Alf Landon 46 states to 2, one of which was Maine so the phrase then became “So goes Maine, so goes Vermont”.
Why were the Republicans so confident? Much had to do with the hits the New Deal took at the Supreme Court. In 1935, in Schechter Poultry Corp vs the USA the court unanimously struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act saying the Congress wrongly delegated its power to the Executive Branch and had exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause. This decision put on a check on the New Deal’s massive expansion of federal power.
But to me the most interesting case was Humphrey Executor vs the US. Mr. Humphrey, an FTC appointee of President Hoover was asked to resign by FDR because of his conservative views. Humphrey was fired, then died and his estate sued. And SCOTUS here unanimously rebuked Roosevelt and severely weakened the theory of the Unitary Executive in vogue since Andrew Jackson. Basically, the Presidency was weakened versus the bureaucracy.
Fortunately, reversing Humphrey has been a long-time goal of Chief Justice Roberts and President Trump rightly recognized the big win here. But contrast this with the completely wrong birthright citizenship decision, and one wonders whether Roberts will ever deliver a truly great term. Two reasons say no – first, Amy Souter Barrett has clearly had greater intellectual decay than we thought. And Roberts, who, in 2005 labeled himself as a judicial umpire calling the balls and strikes, appears to be no better than one of those middle aged prima donna little league umps who take every count full just to make themselves the center of attention.
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"What makes America great — prepare for a searing insight — is Americans. I don’t mean American politicians; I mean everyday, hardworking, generous, friendly, decent Americans, who I believe greatly outnumber the idiots. I mean the people who hold the door for you, and say 'thank you' when you hold the door for them, and buy Girl Scout cookies even though they already have some at home, and never butt in line, and will lend you their jumper cables...and all the other millions of small but good things that millions of Americans do every day. Which is not to say we can’t be better. But I sincerely believe — and I’m a professionally cynical old guy of 79 — that we’re pretty good." - @rayadverb
As I agree with the great humorist Dave Barry--the above is no joke--keep sending in your stories of unsung Americans (in or with a nexus to the Chicago DMA) who lived lives that made and make America great and I'll keep sharing them on @MorningAnswer. My email: dan@danproft.com.
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So good. Just wish it was a real artist rather than AI. We could use some more such humans. It's an instructional if nothing else.
Heavy Pulp@heavypulp
Sweet Land - an ode to America's 250th year. 🇺🇸
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Good grief.
To compare Hammer in Citizen Vigilante to Eastwood in Josey Wales is to compare Queen Latifah as The Equalizer to Denzel Washington as The Equalizer.
Armie Hammer provided all the depth of a cookie tray with his cardboard cut-out stolid demeanor. The only consideration I give him is the putrid script he was assigned in which his character was at least as concerned about tenants paying their rent as he was meting out street justice.
Of course there are quality revenge movies. Did I say they weren't? No. Straw man.
What the good ones usually include, inter alia, is a personal wrong suffered by the anti-hero that provides the basis for the score-settling, don't you find? And it's usually a bit weightier than a prostitute with mold on her walls or a motorist who stays in his lane. It almost gets there when he visits the tape victim in the hospital but the die was cast for that film long before.
Furthermore, in the good ones the violence is targeted not indiscriminate as in Citizen Vigilante so as to retain some ethical basis for it.
The whole thing is just a ham-handed grift as canned as the cut-and-paste, pandering monologues Citizen Vigilante uploads online in the film.
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@DanProft I thought Armie Hammer played the character perfectly. Not great but I doubt a revenge flick has ever won an Oscar, did "the searchers" or "josey wales" win anything, do those count as revenge flicks? They're the best ones I could think of.
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Don't buy the hype over it being banned in Germany or the disparity of the reviews on rating sites like Rotten Tomatoes between the Hollywood critics and the public, "Citizen Vigilante" is an insult to the "thousands of rape and murder victims in Europe who were betrayed by our legal system," as per the dedication at the end of the film.
Citizen Vigilante should've gone straight to MST3K for unrelenting mockery.
It is a cynical attempt to cash-in on a legitimate scourge (open borders) by slapping together an illiterate, plot-free, exploitive mess that caricatures the audience it seeks to attract while imposing the additional punishment of the acting of Armie Hammer who portrays he worst anti-hero in the history of the silver screen and who should immediately return to hawking real estate in the Cayman Islands for fear of losing his day job.
Don't waste your time or money.
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