Jonathan Ricca

@TheEagleyeNews @MaverickDarby @Magisterial_One Along the Missouri. Either Manitou Bluffs in Missouri or White Cliffs in Montana

I think we need to build this. I designed this below image, representing Lewis and Clark on the Mississippi in the style of Argonath. At $1 Billion or more, I think it can be done.

On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places. At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction. Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that. He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building. I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left. I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders. What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration. In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years. I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter. I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial. At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not. Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me. Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness. But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford. People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war. But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges. By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business. It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.

I don’t make a habit of talking to politicians or comms people, but if somebody from Thune’s office wants to explain the abject surrender we are witnessing, I’m here.

@iamjackedcrypto @FreeRangeKids 100% agree

@JonRicca @FreeRangeKids Yes but the reality is nowhere near all the kids are good enough to play on a travel team and parents need to acknowledge their kid just isn’t good enough. It’s a parent problem as well as a money grab problem.

Sandlot it ain't. Youth sports now $40 B industry: "Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend tournaments wearing a few thousand dollars of apparel, equipment & swag. Avg family spending on baseball increased nearly 70% between 2019 and 2024." wsj.com/business/retai…

@iamjackedcrypto @FreeRangeKids The problem is that there is a high enough % of parents who put kids in travel teams to gut the local leagues of enough players

@FreeRangeKids Travel ball is more competitive. If you want kids to just have fun put them in little league. What’s wrong with kids wanting to play on the best teams with the best competition? As far as the money spend goes. Nobody is forcing parents to spend this money. They do it willingly.

Republican senators are basically going to block voting on the policies and issues GOP voters want because Donald Trump came out against other RINO senators who blocked voting on the policies and issues GOP voters wanted. Glad to have quality senators.

More than anything else, we the people want the gaslighting to stop. Every failing organization in America, from commercial airlines to government agencies, runs the same meeting: Everyone in the room knows the truth. No one is allowed to say it. That meeting is the problem. Boyd’s OODA loop for solving problems starts with Observe. Lie at step one and every step after is theater. Read that again. If observation is a lie, the entire loop fails. Honesty isn’t a virtue. It’s infrastructure. Fix that first. Everything else follows. We the people know the system is broken. We know the problems. We know that 15 minute delay will become 8 hours. We know the SAVE Act won’t pass this month. We are wide awake. And some of us want revenge. Some want jail for the swamp creatures in DC. Some want to throw away the key. I want accountability too. Not violence. Not revenge. It isn’t the right that’s violent. I today’s left because when you are fed lies you become disoriented and confused and violence appears to be the only way out. What I care about more than revenge is information. Cold hard facts. Who is screwing us. How they are screwing us. Names. Dates. Locations. Intent. That’s why @nickshirleyy, @DataRepublican, and @MikeBenzCyber get millions of views. Half a dozen times @DataRepublican has reached out and offered to investigate a person or problem she sees on my feed. Her most common reply the next day? “Suspicious, but no hard evidence.” Then she moves on. And I thank her profusely. She doesn’t manipulate, spin, or trade in half truths. She publishes verifiable facts. Facts you can use to find solutions to our collective problems. There is a hunger for truth in this country. Why? Why is truth so powerful? Why does the bare exposure of a fact often satisfy more than results? The American spirit. We are the most innovative, most adaptable, most resourceful people on earth. Give us the truth and we will find a way. Maybe not for the whole nation, but absolutely for ourselves and our families. String us along on half truths and a steady diet of lies, and we are paralyzed. Look at Los Angeles. Look at the wildfires. Is there any doubt that most of those families would already be rebuilding if Karen Bass had not lied about cutting red tape? Even if she had said it would take two years to start rebuilding, people would have been furious. Then they would have found temporary solutions. They would have moved, leased, adapted, fought. When you can’t find the facts, when you can’t tell truth from fiction, you freeze. The American spirit runs on truth. Give us the facts. Even ugly ones. Even painful ones. We will find a way. We may even applaud the bad news. Spoon feed us bullshit, and we will hate you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Superman resonated with Americans because he was right True, Justice and the American Way But what they didn’t teach you is that order is critical. Truth THEN Justice THEN the American Way STOP BULLSHITTING US We are Americans. We can handle the hard truth.

🎵 “What a wonderful name it is What a wonderful name it is The name of Jesus Christ my King What a wonderful name it is Nothing compares to this What a wonderful name it is The name of Jesus Death could not hold You, the veil tore before You You silenced the boast of sin and grave The Heavens are roaring the praise of Your glory For You are raised to life again You have no rival, You have no equal Now and forever, God You reign Yours is the Kingdom, Yours is the glory Yours is the Name above all names” - Hillsong Worship

@grok @BasedMikeLee Hey @grok, do it in the streamline moderne vein of art deco.

@BasedMikeLee Here's your Art Deco Tesla Cybertruck design!

Hey @Grok, design an art deco Tesla Cybertruck

@GlockfordFiles Thune and his two little imps making sure the country his miserable

John Thune is officially a bigger Judas than Mike Pence. Every member of the Senate GOP needs to face a primary and be removed. They have made it crystal clear that RINOs and democrats are on the same team. Fire them all.

Since Leader Thune REFUSES to give us the SAVE America Act, I ask every Republican in Louisiana to DEFEAT Senator Cassidy on 🗓️ Saturday, May 16th I ask every Republican in Texas to DEFEAT Senator Cornyn by electing Ken Paxton on 🗓️ Tuesday, May 26th

@Justinjpearson If you didn't act like a spoiled brat you wouldn't have been put in timeout

Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on. This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.

If Justice Gorsuch has his way with birthright citizenship, then over one million anchor babies, currently living in China, will enter the United States are spies with the same citizenship rights as you and me. How can this be called anything other than treason?

I want to tell you a landlord story. Once we paid first, last, and deposit, we had only that much left in the account. One of our kids was 4. One was 3 months old. We had one tradesman’s income to live on. The rent felt a little high but the house had 3 little bedrooms on a rural road, and it felt perfect. Our landlord was a local guy who’d gotten married to a woman who had higher aspirations than a 1000 square ft ranch from 1990. He wanted us to treat it like our own and never move. When I was diagnosed with cancer that fall and the rent was late, he said to let that month go. For 12 years, he never raised our rent. He paid for anything that broke. He hired John to improve the house. When he finally raised the rent, he also offered to sell us the house without listing it. He said he’d realized he wasn’t ever coming back, and we cared for it. There are landlords like that. But Black Rock is not. And if we let local governments abuse landlords, all the independents will sell and Black Rock will be all we have. Trust me, the big guys want *more* rules, and it will give young families fewer options. Thank you Ted. You told us the day we signed that you were the world’s best landlord, and it was true.

BREAKING: Notice has just been given to Democrats in the Tennessee House that all members of the Democrat Caucus are being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as a result of their behavior in the statehouse during the redistricting debates last week, which included setting fires inside the Capitol and attacking law enforcement. In the state of Tennessee, political terrorism will not be tolerated. National Republicans take note that this is how you exercise power.

LA has over 40K drug addicts holding Angelenos hostage. All it takes is one to make moms feel too nervous to let their kids just go be kids and explore the quiet streets of their beautiful neighborhood. ENOUGH. We are done being held hostage in our own homes. Vote PRATT today!

@HansMahncke This has been an issue for years. Used to work at a tractor company that had a win in China slogan. Invested in plants R&D etc... they just steal the technology and build in one of their gov't companies under another name. China never exceeded 2% of global sales.

This one picture tells you so much about the mindset of Western elites. They happily watch as China steals the wealth created by the hard work of their own people in the West, and their response is that this is totally fine, let’s keep bending the knee to China.

@MHTruthUltra Chevron literally has a 33% stake in Israel’s Tamar and Leviathan oil fields. Lane assist and self driving? Thank Israel. Flash drives? Thank Israel. Google maps? Thank Israel. Diamonds? Thank Israel. The list goes on and on and on.

The 11 Obama "assassination attempts" include (not making this up) - a Hispanic man shot 25 rounds at the White House from his truck when Obama was in another state - an accountant was at a waffle house when he said he wanted to kill Obama - an extremist Irish Islamist gave an interview to a major newspaper and said he wished that he could assassinate Obama - a "death ray" plot in which 2 rednecks planned to use x-rays to kills Obama (and also Jews) - a Walking Dead actress sent Obama a letter with ricin in an attempt to incriminate her husband

@Booker4KY Great idea. We can pay for it with a progressive tax on college endowments. The largest endowments can pay 90% towards student loan forgiveness.

It’s time to cancel all student debt and make college free.