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@UndercoverIndy You're a good Momma.

"My son crushed his first year of college. So I built him a little surprise. I took this mint 2017 Les Paul Traditional and gave it a full vintage makeover with a whole pile of hand aged Gibson OEM Custom Shop parts from my shop. It looks every bit as incredible as every reissue I've ever played. I think my son is happy his dad owns a guitar business LOL" ~ Vintage Voltage Guitars

The Yankee transplants, who will outnumber native South Carolinians sometime this year in SC, will be inclined to vote for fellow Yankee transplant in Pamela Evette. The women will be inclined to vote for her because she is a woman. A percentage of purported or actual conservative men will be inclined to vote for her solely because of the Trump endorsement (via backroom politics). Bottom line, Evette can continue ducking debates without consequence because her cake has already been baked. Welcome to SC politics in 2026.

I love President Donald Trump but many people disagree with his endorsement of Pamela Evette. It’s clear the deal was that Evette would get the Trump endorsement IF she would pick Henry McMaster’s son for Lt. Gov. This is what happened. South Carolina conservatives do NOT WANT Pamela Evette.

The invasion is exterminating South Carolina's wildlife as their habitat is rapidly diminishing by unsustainable development (asphalt, concrete, roads and subdivisions for the transplants). Does anyone give a damn about these poor, unfortunate creatures? Where are they supposed to go? We are supposed to be stewards of our natural resources but our leaders sacrifice them without a second thought for inflated dollars.

@ImFiredUp2 And they are driving our cost of living through the roof. Our salary base was not what theirs were up north so it is putting SC retirees in a big deficit. I have also been yelling this for years!!!

South Carolina is being invaded by liberals taking their retirement and coming to SC because their liberal policies made it impossible to live where they came from. SC is in big trouble. Been yelling this for years.

@DonnaMc60877365 @ImFiredUp2 Elect local government officials who will fight zoning and land use planning laws that encourage sprawl. That is, if you can find any that are in the pocket of developers.

@ImFiredUp2 What the heck can we do to stop this invasion

@ImFiredUp2 South Carolina is allowing the natives' quality of life, open space, and wildlife to perish because the State is owned by developers who are given the green light at every turn to exacerbate sprawl. And the legislature which is also owned by developers predictably does nothing!

@JeremyRyanSlate Excellent analysis but Rome ultimately fell because it ceased to be Roman.

🧵 By the 5th century, Romans didn't trust the army, the courts, or the emperor. So they stopped participating. Stopped paying taxes. Stopped calling themselves Roman. When people stop believing in the system, it's already dead. Signal 7: Collapse of Trust.

@revhannahking St. Paul valued women in the Church but he did not believe they should hold authority over men. Timothy 2:12: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.” St. Paul

I was raised Southern Baptist & had a clear call to ministry around age 8. Never dreamed I'd be a "pastor" one day, but that's what ended up happening-- in a different tradition. 🧵

Sierra Club founder, David Brower, resigned from the organization in 2000, citing the organization’s failure to confront immigration-fueled population growth. He stated: “Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.” Almost 27 years later, the large environmental organizations continue to ignore the disastrous environmental impacts of immigration-fueled population growth. The reason for taking such an absurd and astoundingly hypocritical position is inescapable. The Left-wing (Democratic Party) donors to these organizations are more interested in transforming America into a Marxist "paradise" than actually protecting the environment.

You are cheering for double digit inflation and loss of both houses of congress at the behest of a foreign power. George Washington, who warned of foreign entanglements would be flabbergasted at the degree of power wielded by the donor class, a class that foments perpetual war around the globe without the slightest care in the world for the will and welfare of the American people.

🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has made an UNPLANNED RETURN to Washington, DC, and his motorcade is racing to the White House President Trump has summoned his whole national security team to a meeting on Iran. POTUS is also scheduled to hold a conference call at 1pm ET with the leaders of several Arab nations.

@SenatorWicker "Endless money forms the sinews of war." Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are at a moment that will define President Trump’s legacy. His instincts have been to finish the job he started in Iran, but he is being ill advised to pursue a deal that would not be worth the paper it is written on. Our commander-in-chief needs to allow America's skilled armed forces to finish the destruction of Iran's conventional military capabilities and reopen the strait.   Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran's Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness. We must finish what we started. It is past time for action.

You mean purge the Republican Party of any remaining actual conservatives who champion limited government and avoidance of foreign entanglements. That's not a political party I wish to part of. Unfortunately, for traditional Americans, the choice is between terrible and even more terrible when it comes to political parties.

After the shellacking of Thomas Massie, many of us are saying Rand Paul should be next. I have not yet given up completely on Rand Paul. He has done some good work on Fauci. I generally like Rand Paul. I used to generally like Thomas Massie, who I saw as quirky, but often interesting -- until he just became contrary to be contrary, and reflexively anti-Trump. It wasn't long before the most vocal voices supporting Massie were AOC, Chuck Schumer, Joy Behar, MOTHER JONES, and Code Pink. Rand Paul needs to get back on the Trump Team real quick and stop running his own plays. Politics is a team game. The enemy is the radical anti-America Left, which is highly organized. This means we must also be organized, and on message -- or we lose. I don't agree with every little thing President Trump does and says. But President Trump is the leader of our team. President Trump has single handedly transformed the GOP from what most people saw as the party of bankers and Wall Street into a populist "America First" party of the working class. Until Donald Trump launched his campaign for the Presidency in 2015, the GOP was a lost party -- going nowhere since Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump brought us back from the dumpster fire of Bush, Dole, McCain, and Romney. So if Rand Paul doesn't get back in line pretty quick, yeah, I'm all for giving him the Thomas Massie treatment.

@firestick_411 @JamesHu27192912 Your good intentions won't save the remaining open spaces, wildlife, sense of place, and traditions of the South. And ultimately, the invasion will tilt politics to the Left has has happened in Virginia and is well under way in NC.

I’m from Cali but I came for all the right reasons. Now I can see the changing of the guard looking like what I left! I love my mountains, my resourceful neighbors, hell I even refer to myself as a redneck. It’s acclimating to where you are without wanting to change it. The Floridiots love coming here and embed themselves in politics that don’t serve us well in the mountains. Although I want to change the fact we’ve got a million illegals here and a modern day Gavin Newsom Jr as a Governor, North Carolina is worth saving. Voting Red every election because our lives depend on it. Roy Cooper is an absolute DISASTER! And how the hell the state voted for Trump and Stein was elected? Audit the Governors race; he didn’t win. Illegals all voted; Change my mind 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Don’t California my North Carolina

North Carolina feels like a state standing in the middle of a four lane highway trying to remember the words to an old country song. Half of us are trying to hold onto the version we grew up with. The other half are arriving daily with Cali, Jersey, Texas and New York license plates and opinions about how things “should be done.” Small towns are becoming suburbs. Backroads now got traffic circles. Old tobacco fields got townhomes named after the thing they bulldozed to build them. Somewhere along the way, every town started getting: a brewery, luxury apartments, a boutique pet spa, and a place selling burgers for $19 with “aioli” on them. Meanwhile the old lady at the country diner still calls everybody “baby,” and somehow that feels more like North Carolina than half the new construction in the state. You can feel the tug of war everywhere right now. Old North Carolina. New North Carolina. One side wants growth. One side wants to recognize where they live again. And honestly? Most folks probably fall somewhere in the middle. Because we all want our kids to have opportunity. We just don’t wanna lose the soul of the place while it’s happening. North Carolina used to feel like a secret. Now it feels like everybody found it at once. What’s one thing happening in North Carolina right now that perfectly explains where we are as a state...

@JamesHu27192912 A swarm of locust destroying the South in the name of progress.

@NC_Governor In other words maximize the Yankee/third-would transplants to turn NC Blue and to hell with native North Carolinians, any sense of place, open spaces, wildlife and quality of life. Growth for growth's sake- the logic of the cancer cell.

People want to live in North Carolina, and our housing market is not keeping up. We can and must do more to increase housing supply and strengthen the construction workforce that will build it. Today I signed an executive order directing a whole-of-government approach and hired a Senior Advisor for Housing Policy to lead this work to make more homes of all types more accessible and affordable for all North Carolinians.

@BasedMikeLee “Give women equality and they will seek to dominate you.” Cato

Women earning 62% of all degrees. Is this “equity”?

Notwithstanding the socialist name, the NS regime did not confiscated the means of production in Germany. It was in fact a corporatocracy wherein corporations willing cooperated with the political leadership in furtherance NS policies. The arrangement was eerily similar to corporations pushing anti-White and anti-male DEI policies under the Biden regime.

Every socialist state operated differently. Venezuela, for example, is clearly distinct from the USSR or Cuba. However, the fact that Nazi Germany functioned as a type of socialist state – where the government controlled EVERY ASPECT of the production of goods and services, including PRICES and WAGES - is indisputable. Even Hitler himself openly declared that he was a socialist. “I am a socialist. I see no class and no social estate before me, but that community of the Folk, made up of people who are linked by blood, united by a language, and subject to a same general fate..." – Hitler “Zweites Buch”

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

You mean, the "good" Grant and his fellow war criminals did in waging an immoral war against the men, women and children of the South in order to punish them for wanting their own country? And please don't tell me Lincoln invaded the South to free the slaves. As Thomas J. DiLorenzo writes in THE REAL LINCOLN, "Lincoln's position and the position of the Republican Party-was that Southern slavery was secure. He had no intention of disturbing it. The Republican Party, lead by Lincoln, was in favor of Southern slavery because its leaders feared the spectacle of emancipated slaves residing in their own Northern states. Lincoln's own state of Illinois had recently amended its constitution to prohibit the emigration of black people into the state, as had several other Northern states." Isn't it amazing that after devastating the South and deriding Southerners for decades as racist hillbillys, Yankees are moving in droves to the South and away from their own progressive haunts without the slightest bit of shame for their morally superior hypocrisy.

Winston Churchill was an awful person in many ways, like Grant. But he stood up to Hitler. It's not that the personal politeness that Lee excelled at is unimportant. But it pales in comparison with the evil he did. And Grant's sins pale in comparison to the good he did.

@FischerKing64 What your describe as "throwing in a splash of red" is actually the artist playing the color wheel as red and green are opposites on the color wheel. As complementary colors, they intensify each other.

This is kind of interesting. The British painter John Constable did this - he would throw in a splash of red just to liven things up, draw the eye. Like in this painting The Lock - you notice the lockkeeper’s jacket:

Every immigrant group coming into the country leans Democratic, virtually ensuring future race-Marxist, single party rule in every state. The only solution at this point is a lawful and peaceful separation by remaining Red states similar to Albertans' attempted separation of their province from Canada. Unfortunately, separation is highly unlikely as SCOTUS closed the door on that remedy in Texas v. White, an 1869 case that held states could never leave the union no matter how tyrannical the federal government might become. The majority (5-3) opinion flies in the face of Founders’ view of the Constitution as a voluntary compact. Three states, Virginia, Rhode Island and New York even put the right to secede in their articles as an exclamation point on what everyone at Philadelphia in 1789 understood to be a fundamental right. After all, they had just fought a bloody war to separate from Great Britain and were not about to enter into some perpetual compact from which there could be no escape. The majority also failed to cite any clause in the Constitution that actually forbade unilateral withdrawal by a state or states. The opinion was simply a political decision designed to rubber stamp the outcome of Lincoln's unlawful war against the Southern states after the fact. So even if the citizens of remaining Red states had the resolve to leave Lincoln’s perpetual union at this late stage of federal imperium (highly doubtful), the court would have to overturn Texas v. White. As unlikely as that outcome might be, there will be no chance of critical review once the race-Marxists pack the court.

Democrats are discussing plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose it again. Carville (curiously on a national podcast) told Democrats to keep the plans quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.” ... jonathanturley.org/2026/04/17/fk-…

@Megatron_ron So starving Iranian civilians is acceptable as a strategy to harm another nation? What an immoral and uncritical rationalization.

NEW: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Senator Rick Scott says he wants to destroy the Chinese economy so much that he is fine with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the high oil prices: “I think blocking the Strait of Hormuz is fine from my standpoint If no oil ever goes to China again, and their economy is destroyed, that would be a really wonderful day for me.”