He's dead, Jim🖖🏼

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Standard makes more sense.

@caroljsroth A series of military slip-ups ends badly for the USA and USSR, but a German guy sees the upside in the short term.

An Italian family business gets passed down from father to son.

@PolitiBunny The get up early and go to work lobby is losing out to the stay up late drinking all summer long lobby.

Is there anything more wonderful than the eyes of a child at Christmastime, squinting into the sunrise an hour and a half after school starts

Standard time would be smarter … we fall back in November and stay back. Why do they keep getting this wrong?

Good. Standard time is better. Fall back in November and then leave it alone - that way, kids aren’t going to school in the dark.

Ohhh my word. Instant tears. This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard someone say.

Hi @SethAMandel I love you 🥹

This does the OPPOSITE. You are destroying our grid and making us pay more for it. Please, stop being stupid to score political points with the climate change loons.

Imagine if you felt this strongly after an illegal killed a Virginian. Oddly enough, you don't.

@jtLOL Oh, you picked the wrong one.

RE: Credentialism I despise credentialism and believe it is a disease that is eating away at the soul of the USA in the same way that matters of class and nobility have festered in countries like England for centuries. I define “credentialism” as follows: A individual’s unwarranted belief that one is morally, physically and/or intellectually superior to others based solely on something written on a piece of paper (diplomas, resumes, etc.). When I speak on credentialism, I often have red herrings thrown in my face in a attempt to refute my position, so let me please make clear that there are two things that are NOT “credentialism”: 1. Indicators of basic competency are not credentialism. Certain fields require certain credentials to be trusted for a minimum level of competence. I WANT my dentist to have a DDS or a DMD. I WANT the guy servicing my A/C unit to have an HVAC certificate. I WANT my Army Infantry platoon sergeant to be a Ranger school graduate. These are all indicators of a basic level of competency in a chosen field, and a functioning society cannot exist without them. 2. Statements of lived experience are not credentialism. A survivor of a Nazi death camp possesses valuable views on the Holocaust that others do not. An experienced EMT has valuable views on the consequences of fentanyl addiction that others do not. An Olympic gold medal champion understands the discipline of athletic training better than most. When such people cite their lived experience to back up a claim directly related to that experience, this is not the same as credentialism. Credentialism eats away at our nation when presented as follows: -When a credential is presented as a marker of all-around intellectual, physical and/or moral superiority. -When like credentials are dismissed based on an unwarranted sense of superiority; i.e., a mistaken belief that a degree from Yale is somehow superior to a degree from Clemson. -When credentials are used as an unjust gating item to dismiss an otherwise highly qualified individual. -Credentials as exclusionary clubs—“Sorry dear, he’s not one of our kind.” -A mistaken belief that only one with a certain credential can understand certain things when knowledge about those things is generally available to all. -Dunning-Kruger credentialism: “Because I have credentials in one area, this makes me an expert in areas for which I have no credentials.” Put simply, credentialism is snobbery, and snobbery is antithetical to the American way of life. In America each of us can rise and fall on our own two feet based on what we demonstrate as INDIVIDUALS in our actual deeds, accomplishments and failures, and mere pieces of worthless paper do not change that. One last thing: nothing is more cowardly and despicable than the credentialist who trumpets their own credentials while dismissing the credentials they lack as being irrelevant. If one wants to commit the sin of credentialism, one also needs to accept that the credentials they lack are a mark against them, using their own standard. People who engage in such a practice are morally bankrupt, insecure, sniveling weasels. This was on my mind.

People keep asking: who am I? My name is Bert Mizusawa. I was born in Hawaii but raised and have lived most of my life in Virginia. I have a lovely wife and wonderful kids who have been supporting me graciously on this campaign. I got my education from West Point finishing first in my class. Then I attended Harvard Law School earning a Juris Doctor and a Master of Public Policy. I served in the army for 36 years, achieving the rank of Major General along with awards such as the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, and the Legion of Merit. I was also an attorney, giving me a background in law and politics. I've gained experience in legislative work when I was appointed the role of Professional Staff Member in the Senate for the GOP in the late 90s. My strength has been in foreign policy where I helped shape and author key elements of the Trump foreign policy doctrine, which became central to the administration's approach. Now I'm running for Senate to unseat a 17-year incumbent who promised to only run 2 terms.

@Complex I totally agree…Tennessee is the worst!! Please tell all of your woke leftist friends what a terrible place it is and that they should never move here under any circumstances.

This will be a long one. But since I'm an active duty officer addressing another higher ranking one, I have to be respectful. That being said, General Montague is correct that the Army needs thinking officers. I believe he is wrong to assume that sending them to Harvard necessarily accomplishes that purpose. The Harvard he entered in the 90s is not the Harvard officers enter in 2026. His article invokes George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard’s war dead and generations of citizen Soldiers to defend an institution that has spent decades consuming the inheritance those men created. The issue is not whether Army officers are intelligent enough to resist indoctrination. Indoctrination is rarely a professor hypnotizing a helpless student. It is an institutional environment in which one set of political assumptions governs admissions, hiring, instruction, social acceptance and administrative protection. The whole gambit. Dissent remains technically possible. But it now becomes professionally expensive. Ask me how I know... The results are no longer theoretical. For years, elite universities built an ideology that judges human beings first by racial, sexual and political category, then insists this is the cure for prejudice. Harvard’s admissions system was ultimately struck down because it used race as a negative, relied upon racial stereotypes and reduced the number of Asian-American students admitted. That was racial discrimination administered by people who had renamed themselves experts in inclusion. The prejudice did not end there. Harvard’s own reports documented Jewish and Israeli students facing hostility and exclusion, while Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, Black students and South Asian students described being harassed, misidentified, called terrorists, spat upon, doxxed and intimidated into silence. The university that promised safety through identity politics produced an environment in which nearly every identity group had reason to fear another. That is the verdict on DEI. It didn't teach students to see one another as individuals. It trained them to organize humanity into competing tribes, assign innocence and guilt by category, and determine whose suffering deserved institutional protection. At Columbia, students were pressured to profess political positions they did not hold, silenced or humiliated in classrooms, and subjected to faculty activism masquerading as instruction. Columbia’s own task force eventually had to warn professors against ideological litmus tests and remind them that students must not be coerced into conformity. When a university must formally instruct its faculty not to politically condition its students, the indoctrination is no longer an accusation. It is an internal finding. These habits are directly hostile to military values. The Army cannot function through racial preferences, collective guilt, ideological litmus tests, selective discipline or separate standards for politically favored groups. Soldiers must be judged as individuals. Standards must be common. Discipline must be impartial. The mission MUST outrank identity. Commanders must tell the truth even when the truth violates the reigning political fashion. The uniform is designed to subordinate tribe to country! DEI restores the tribes and places the institution between them as judge. The general argues that officers are intelligent enough to resist indoctrination. That misses the point. The Army does not owe public money, officers or prestige to institutions that reward conformity, excuse disorder, discriminate by race and turn classrooms into political organizing spaces. Officers SHOULD encounter hostile ideas. They should study Marxism, radical Islam, critical race theory, revolutionary movements and every ideology capable of shaping the battlefield. They should study them as objects of analysis. They should NOT be sent into institutions that have adopted their premises as articles of faith. Harvard once educated men who built and defended the republic. Its age does not grant it permanent immunity from judgment. Neither its war memorials nor the patriotism of its dead can excuse the ideological conduct of its living. The Army does not fear education. It fears an education system that calls racial discrimination equity, political conformity scholarship, selective prejudice inclusion, and institutional disorder courage. I hope this makes sense. Submit this to the general, with my compliments. -Dort

The Freddy Saga is a good reminder both of why normal, well-adjusted people often end up ceding the public square to a handful of deranged, overly online individuals and of why it is so important for normal folks not to do so.

I guess I need to update my "stages of socialism" tweet

Socialism starts with a guy in fatigues promising free stuff for the people. Socialism ends with a guy dressed like Captain Crunch fleeing on his private jet.