Patrick Henry

@Rach_IC As Thomas Sowell says: There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Government shouldn’t be making the decisions for us. Let me pick what kind of light I want.

Yet one more ridiculous Biden-era policy being overturned, the ban on incandescent lightbulbs. Mark Baker, president of the Soft Lights Foundation, a nonprofit formed in 2021 to push back against restrictions on incandescent bulbs said LED lighting sacrifices light quality and may pose health concerns, citing differences from incandescent bulbs such as the lack of infrared output, increased blue light exposure, directional lighting, and potential flicker. He contends that these factors outweigh claimed energy efficiency benefits and make LEDs an inferior alternative.

@DefiyantlyFree Because the preachers of the gospel of envy and jealousy, also known as socialism or Marxism, are successful with their message because it requires less of people.

How is it not common sense that a $20 minimum wage for fast food restaurants will kill the entire industry and end up bankrupting them and costing people jobs.

@royer4_royer @WallStreetMav Go back further. Think pre-Wilson and pre-FDR.

@WallStreetMav You say democrats are losing their grip on reality, implying that they had a grip to begin with? I don't think so. They haven't been grounded in reality in the last 40 years.

Democrats are in full panic mode as the changes at CBS News and 60 Minutes have become apparent. Under the new ownership of Paramount (and Larry Ellison with his son David), CBS News is now doing real reporting exposing government fraud in California. Now Ellison is also buying CNN along with all of the assets at Warner Brothers Discovery. The far left wing "reporters" are CNN are in a full blown panic that they will no longer be able to promote their radical left agenda. The far left was counting on their Obama allies at Netflix to purchase Warner Bros (and CNN). However the Ellison family outbid Netflix with $110 billion. Radical left wing senators like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are trying to claim "national security concerns" to block the merger. In reality, they are terrified at the though of the left losing their control on the media narrative.

@callmeshirlee @WallStreetMav Not at all. But I am for causing problems for the Leftists. Is there a better constitutional way to deal with this? 🤷 Bigger is almost never better.

@WallStreetMav So you guys are FOR consolidation of the media? Not very American of you, me thinks

@WallStreetMav Personally, I think they should all be broken up. These types of mergers almost always end up being worse for the consumer.

@DataRepublican @codeezra @WallStreetMav And institutions have been bought out. FIFY

@WallStreetMav Hopefully conservatives are starting to figure out that governance hasn't been happening through Congress for a long time... it's happening through institutions. Congress is merely downstream. And institutions can be bought out.

It’s an interesting commerce clause question. The original intent of the commerce clause is to make commerce between the states easier, not harder. So, having a single “standard” for AI could be good. The real challenge at the state and federal levels is having legislators who are capable of writing coherent law about AI.

Trump announced a federal AI policy that called on Congress to replace state laws. Will Congress pass Trump's artificial intelligence framework? | By @BrighamTomco deseret.com/politics/2026/…

@4thOfJuly365 @jefflindsay The mistake almost everyone makes is assuming that Social Security is a retirement program. It has always been a tax (Nestor v Flemming, 1960) with a vote buying “benefit” attached. Politicians use “I won’t touch your SS!” as a way to buy and secure Boomer votes.

He's got a point.

@HedgieMarkets @BluegrassPundit Every car reviewer should refuse to review any car that requires a subscription for anything. Give them 0 or 1 star reviews stating it’s policy to not review any car that has subscription based functionality.

🦔Honda's 2026 Passport removed the physical garage door opener button from the mirror and replaced it with a subscription service through MyQ. To use it, owners need to install a MyQ receiver in their garage, connect it to their home router, and pay either $129 for three years or $179 for five years. Owners who want to retrofit the original Homelink mirror instead can buy the part separately from Honda for $170. The previous generation of the same car had the button included as standard. My Take The garage door button itself is minor. What it represents is a deliberate strategy that automakers have been refining for years, testing how much friction consumers will tolerate before pushing back, and the answer keeps moving in one direction. BMW started with heated seats. Now Honda is removing physical hardware that existed in the previous model and replacing it with an app ecosystem that requires a subscription, a new garage receiver, and a home router connection to replicate what a button did. A car is a one-time purchase and a subscription is recurring revenue that scales with your installed base, so every feature that can be moved behind a paywall improves margins without additional manufacturing cost. The problem is that buyers paid for a car that is now functionally worse than the one it replaced unless they pay again. The only thing that changes that calculation is enough buyers deciding it affects their purchase decision, and so far the evidence suggests most don't until it's their car. Hedgie🤗

@JasonWHoyt @epaleezeldin Wickard v Filburn. Needs to be overturned.

@epaleezeldin —> WHERE in the Constitution did the federal government get the authority to do this in the first place??? —> And WHY did any automaker follow along??? Same with MPG requirements, et al, and now the “kill switch.” 🚨 Dear automakers, DO NOT COMPLY!!!!

The start/stop concept in vehicles is almost universally DESPISED. So, the Trump EPA has now REMOVED the ridiculous climate participation trophy the Obama Admin created to get this hated feature installed. The incentives for manufacturers to make your car die at every red light and stop sign have now been ELIMINATED!

@JohnCleese I’m really trying to understand exactly how Trump is a dictator. He’s lots of things, but dictator really doesn’t fit. Can you give an example of something dictatorial he’s done? Please provide an example that is unique to him - something not done by another president.

It's becoming a war Russia, Hungary, Belarus and the USA ( aka the dictatorships ) versus European democracies All because Trump is a Russian agent...

@theblaze 🤣🤣🤣 "I represent the economic future” 🤣🤣🤣

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna on why he would consider potentially running for president in 2028: "I represent the economic future and I believe that we need to move beyond a colonial model of the world. America will become a nation of people with all backgrounds."

@SenSusanCollins @NRSC Well past time for you to retire, Senator. None of this is a federal responsibility. Ostensibly, you’re a Republican and should know this.

I know that our gratitude must go beyond just words. It must be accompanied by the resources that help our firefighters and the EMS personnel carry out their crucial duties as effectively and safely as possible.

The American people get the government they deserve. We vote, every 2 years. We have the opportunity to toss them out. We know they lie to buy our votes. We’re like Charlie Brown thinking this time Lucy won’t pull the ball away. We know better, but we vote poorly anyway. We get the government we deserve.

I am sick of serving in Congress with immoral freaks who abuse their office and bring dishonor to the institution. Congress is rotted to the core and it needs a complete overhaul. The American people deserve better than this.

@ennui365 @DaveMalby Wickard v Filburn needs to be overturned. Congress needs to stop deficit spending. Big business is just as bad as big government.

@ForAmerica @SusanHW Evidence that a convention of the states (only 20 more to agree!) needs to be held to repeal the 17th.

YOU HAVE FIFTY THREE SEATS. You can't pass an 85% issue. PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT FIRST.

@Yamapama @xdNiBoR It’s not pandering, it’s propaganda.

@xdNiBoR It's all parasite DPG Media Group. Same in The Netherlands. This kinda shit is all they can write. They all have EDS/TDS and pander to libs & lefties. It's best to ignore them *and* their readers.

I promise you this is the craziest article you will read today. Belgian court physically lost a CD-ROM (?!??) containing evidence of a r@pe video that was posted online on multiple social media sites. It's 2026 and we are still saving critical pieces of evidence on a fucking CD. Truly a clown show. Also, this article comes from De Morgen and is supposed to be a high quality newspaper, but still, they obviously had to use this as a hit piece against Elon. In 2020 (2 years before the takeover), the video was posted online and Twitter did not remove it immediately, they waited until 2021 to do so (which is super bad obviously). Basically everything happened before the takeover, yet they have to mention Elon multiple times and use his picture lol. Apparently the 8 million Euro fine doesn't even go to the victim, it goes to the Belgian state. So I don't even care about what the verdict of this case will be tbh.

@theblaze Now do the Democrats. Actually, they do have principles. 1. Tell the marginalized they’re going to use government to make things fair. 2. Take from the productive. 3. Keep most of it and spread the rest thinly to those in #1. 4. Repeat until there’s nothing left.

Chris Christie: “I think anyone that follows politics can tell there are no principles left in my party.”

@johnkonrad @somethingfishie One more thing to add: Nobody thinks Biden actually did any of it. It was all done by the leftists that surrounded him. His cognitive abilities weren’t capable of doing all these things even if he was guaranteed to F things up.

Look, I get it, Dems. You think buying Greenland is dumb. You think trash-talking NATO is dumb. You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb. You think bombing Iran is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it. But that’s not the point. Every administration in American history has done dumb things. Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy. LBJ had Vietnam. Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1. W. had “Mission Accomplished.” Obama had…. where do I even begin? Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions. What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for. That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for. A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency. That’s the new threshold, Democrats. That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible. Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland. But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care. Zero F’s given by me.

@mack1412 @Milajoy @1sgPatriot This. We get the government we deserve. We believe the lies told to us to buy our votes or don’t vote at all, especially in the primaries where we have the chance to toss out the incumbent.

@Milajoy @1sgPatriot We stopped paying attention to what politicians at all levels are doing. All of these problems are because we were distracted by the theater created by politicians. We need to get involved or lose our way of life.

INTERESTING: If the Supreme Court overturns the law that only ballots received on or before Election Day will be counted then 29 states are affected and have to change state law. How did we get to a place where 29 states are counting ballots AFTER Election Day?