Ronald G. Richards

@realMaalouf Practice

Pro-Palestinian activist in Germany: “As a queer woman, I’m not afraid of Hamas or going to Gaza. They are very accepting of LGBT allies, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. But I am afraid Israel would try to kill me.” How can anyone be so dumb?

@William_Hahne Sorry for your loss, be well.

Min mamma, Monica, har somnat in efter en lång och tapper kamp mot ALS. Tack för allt du gav mig, för din kärlek och för alla fina minnen jag bär med mig. Vila i frid, mamma. Jag älskar dig ❤️

@LizaRosen0000 @mrddmia Yes

Watch: Offended Muslim preacher in Britain calls to ban Christian holidays (Christmas and Easter) in public because they upset Muslims and cause “Islamophobia”. He adds that Christianity in its entirety is anti-Muslim. What is your response to him?

@DaniellaIgoma @GregWAutry @HansMahncke Smart lady!

@GregWAutry @HansMahncke Maxim had the horsepower, but the Wright brothers had the steering wheel. It just goes to show, if you can't control your own momentum, you haven't actually solved the problem yet.

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

@derrickvanorden Evil Santa

Jesse Ventura is persona non grata in the SEAL community. Not because he was grandfathered into being a SEAL, (he was UDT, never a SEAL on active duty), but because he is an insufferable ass who sued a SEAL widow. He can piss right off.

@jackunheard Good list

What we experienced in the last 24 hours from the Left was nothing short of demonic. While President Trump was working all day on a critical mission to rescue an American pilot, the left ran a massive campaign pushing the lie that he was dead. We need a complete investigation into who paid for and coordinated these posts. Every account involved should be fully demonetized on X. They knew Trump had one mission: save the American pilot, not walk around and talk to the press. They still chose to attempt a mass distraction from it with a disgusting lie. If you need more proof the left hates America, you’re no better than them.

@otokyo__ A bible

If Bill Gates was sinking in quicksand, what would you throw him ??

@BuzzPatterson An ugly sight for both pilots

Do you know what this is?

@johnkonrad @Beniwinn American sophistos refer to them as Eurotrash

@Beniwinn YES And that includes their fancy academic philosophies

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@JesusIsMyKingX @KenZimmern Amen

If you believe Jesus rose from the dead, type Amen.

@Nazumejud Academy Award winner, no doubt.

This movie is insane 🤯

@SeattleIndepen1 @Ne_pas_couvrir @RoyceJacob16 …what was that student’s name??

@Ne_pas_couvrir @RoyceJacob16 Ben Stein was right, of course. But speaking out against the machine has its consequences. Not long after this television appearance, he was railroaded into a job teaching economics at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois.

Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They propagandized the nation into accepting a fake world where businessmen are villains, criminals are the good-guys, small towns are sinister, military officers are proto-fascists, and work barely exists.

@__Injaneb96 Thank you this. Lucid, clear, and to the point.

Let me show you how this works: It’s Friday morning. You’re in America. Coffee in hand. Half-awake. Scrolling. A headline hits you: “America/Israel bombs residential building, 20 civilians killed, including 5 children.” (These numbers are imaginary) Your stomach drops. You glance at your kid. Or think about your nieces and nephews. Now you’re not just reading anymore, you’re feeling anger, rage, disgust. By the time you get to work, the story has already settled in your mind as truth. At lunch, you bring it up. Your coworkers nod. Of course they do. Why wouldn’t they? It sounds real. Now five more people carry that same anger. They go home. They repeat it. To friends. To family. Online. Just like that, one headline becomes thousands of convictions. But here is what never made it into that headline what you did not see, what no one bothered to check: It wasn’t America. It wasn’t Israel. It was a failed missile fired by the IRGC that fell on its own people. And by the time the truth shows up, if it ever does, the damage is already done. This is what an information war looks like in real time.

@otokyo__ HOPE

SO FAR NO ONE HAS FOUND THE WORD IN THE BOX

@naomirwolf Well, they did vote for Starmer.

Why this language on the left? Have they forgotten how to use emphasis without the f word??

@otokyo__ Depends…

Men, is this true?

@GadSaad Henry VIII is quite satisfied that he is no longer thought of as the worst monarch.

Imagine past leaders of the British Empire and now listen to this guy.

@BuzzPatterson What plane?

My Delta days.

@liz_churchill10 Henry VIII is so happy! There is finally a monarch who eclipses him in banality.

ROYAL CLOWN EXPOSED: King Charles skips annual Easter message to Christians entirely... but bends the knee with a full Islamic video and prayers? “Defender of the Faith”…this spineless Traitor is defending ISLAM while ditching the Church of England.

@avidseries @tikums …and he has no soul.

These people have no moral core. They just go with the flow and the inexorable logic of capitalism. They're as spiritually vacant as they are dangerous.