Van Milder

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Van Milder

Van Milder

@TXCriswell

Reformed small town boy. Dreamer, adventurer, bull runner, audiophile, Jeopardy wizard and Faithful Niner fan. Fuck the orange cult.

Lubbock, TX Katılım Ocak 2012
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Byron@Byronplx·
@InformedMama209 @RichardGrenell This is very encouraging. My research shows that millions of Democrat voters are feeling the same way. They are actively changing their voter registration.
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Denise Aguilar
Denise Aguilar@InformedMama209·
We were lifelong Democrats. We are lifelong Californians We will never again vote for a Democrat. Their policies have ruined our livelihood, ruined our state and pander to our community expecting our loyalty. Trippin. Never again
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Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@InformedMama209 You’re a fucking moron. Trump would drop you into El Salvador so fast your head would spin if he could. Just say you’re ok with rape and sexual assault and fuck off.
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John Rich🇺🇸
John Rich🇺🇸@johnrich·
Just received word from NextEra that they are officially abandoning the windmill project in Rice County,KS. Congrats to the farmers who stood their ground, and thank you to NextEra for listening to We The People concerning this matter. @SecRollins @realDonaldTrump @USDA
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‘Merican AF 🇺🇸
‘Merican AF 🇺🇸@mericanaf7·
My husband and I are both J6ers. For four years, we endured hell starting with an early morning raid, arrests, pretrial supervision, dozens of court hearings, house arrest, and prison time. We lost the business we built from the ground up. Our families suffered right alongside us. We’re far from alone. 1,600 of us had our lives completely upended by the January 6 prosecutions. I speak for many when I say we want restitution for the homes, businesses, savings, and years stolen. President Trump @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, you’ve already delivered justice through pardons. Now please make restitution happen for those of us who sacrificed everything.
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Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@elonmusk Gonna be pretty hard to find 12 people that don’t mock you.
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Sean Hannity 🇺🇸
Sean Hannity 🇺🇸@seanhannity·
.@GavinNewsom you do make me chuckle. Not only are you the worst no show governor in the country, you're also the dumbest governor in the country. In case you're not watching the news because you're too busy tweeting, traveling the world, stalking me and President Trump and writing a book no one will buy and podcasting - Irans military and its nuclear program have been obliterated. Trump did what every other democratic president you supported promised to do, but never did. The world is a safer place.
Gavin Newsom@GavinNewsom

Hey, @seanhannity — remember your years of rambling about Obama's fake “pallet of cash to Iran?" Your silence is deafening.

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Van Milder
Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@MarshaBlackburn You are such a lying cunt. You’re a garbage human and you are part of the reason for the downfall of the GOP.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Sen. Marsha Blackburn@MarshaBlackburn·
An illegal alien who was let off the hook by Joe Biden and sanctuary politicians was just charged with the murder of a young woman in Chicago, but Democrats are STILL refusing to fund DHS. They’ll do anything to protect illegals. You can’t make this up.
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Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@BuzzPatterson Fuck off dirtbag. God damn you have fallen. Not a shred of dignity and integrity left in you.
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Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@Notwokenow What part of the Easter bunny and Easter eggs is related to Christianity?
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Kentucky Girl
Kentucky Girl@Notwokenow·
Cadbury has changed Easter to “This Season.” But they’re still profiting from selling Easter Eggs. Christianity is not shameful. It is not offensive. Not another dime should be spent on Cadbury products by any Christian. Anywhere. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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FreeThinker
FreeThinker@wla1103·
I am over armchair quarterbacks. I’m not listening to experts who’ve been wrong on everything. Not listening to partisan influencers who have already written the narrative and ending 3 weeks in. It’s easier to debate the future. You don’t get hindered by facts. I’m going to patiently wait for Trump to execute and months from now have yet another proof point of how wrong they are. After 3 yrs of it, their credibility will be shot. We’ve never had an administration so transparent and with X. It’s all exposed now…no legacy media to gate-keep & censor anymore.
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Ilan Goldenberg
Ilan Goldenberg@ilangoldenberg·
Three weeks into the war with Iran, a number of observations as someone who spent years war-gaming this scenario. 1. The U.S. and Israel may have produced regime transition in the worst possible way. Ali Khamenei was 86 and had survived multiple bouts of prostate cancer. His death in the coming years would likely have triggered a real internal reckoning in Iran, potentially opening the door to somewhat more pragmatic leadership, especially after the protests and crackdown last month. Instead, the regime made its most consequential decision under existential external threat giving the hardliners a clear upperhand. Now we appear to have a successor who is 30 years younger, deeply tied to the IRGC, and radicalized by the war itself – including the killing of family members. Disastrous. 2. About seven years ago at CNAS, I helped convene a group of security, energy, and economic experts to walk through scenarios for a U.S.--Iran war and the implications for global oil prices. What we’re seeing now was considered one of the least likely but worst outcomes. The modeling assumed the Strait of Hormuz could close for 4–10 weeks, with 1–3 years required to restore oil production once you factored in infrastructure damage. Prices could spike from around $65 to $175–$200 per barrel, before eventually settling in the $80–$100 range a year later in a new normal. 3. One surprising development: Iran is still moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz while disrupting everyone else. In most war games I participated in, we assumed Iran couldn’t close the Strait and still use it themselves. That would have made the move extremely self-defeating. But Iran appears capable of harassing global shipping while still pushing some of its own exports through. That changes the calculus. 4. The U.S. now finds itself in the naval and air equivalent of the dynamic we faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a recipe for a quagmire where we win every battle and lose the war. We have overwhelming military dominance and are exacting a tremendous cost. But Iran doesn’t need to win battles. They just need occasional successes. A small boat hitting a tanker. A drone slipping through defenses in the Gulf. A strike on a hotel or oil facility. Each incident creates insecurity and drives costs up while remind everyone that the regime is surviving and fighting. 5. The deeper problem is that U.S. objectives were set far too high. Once “regime change” becomes the implicit or explicit goal, the bar for American success becomes enormous. Iran’s bar is simple: survive and keep causing disruption. 6. The options for ending this war now are all bad. You can try to secure the entire Gulf and Middle East indefinitely – extremely expensive and maybe impossible. You can invade Iran and replace the regime, but nobody is seriously going to do that. Costs are astronomical. You can try to destabilize the regime by supporting separatist groups. It probably won’t work and if it does you’ll most likely spark a civil war producing years of bloody chaos the U.S. will get blamed for. None of these are good outcomes. 7. The other escalatory options being discussed are taking the nuclear material out of Esfahan or taking Kargh Island. Esfahan is not really workable. Huge risk. You’d have been on the ground for a LONG time to safely dig in and get the nuclear material out in the middle of the country giving Iran time to reinforce from all over and over run the American position. 8. Kharg Island can be appealing to Trump. He’d love to take Iran’s ability to export oil off the map and try to coerce them to end the war. It’s much easier because it’s not in the middle of IRan. But it’s still a potentially costly ground operation. And again. Again, the Iranian government only has to survive to win and they can probably do that even without Kargh. 9. The least bad option is the classic diplomatic off-ramp. The U.S. declares that Iran’s military capabilities have been significantly degraded, which is how the Pentagon always saw the purpose of the war. Iran declares victory for surviving and demonstrating it can still threaten regional actors. It would feel unsatisfying. But this is the inevitable outcome anyway. Better to stop now than after five or ten more years of escalating costs. Remember in Afghanistan we turned down a deal very early in the war with the Taliban that looked amazing 20 years later. Don’t need to repeat that kind of mistake. 10. The U.S. and Israel are not perfectly aligned here. Trump just needs a limited win and would see long-term instability as a negative whereas for Netanyahu a weak unstable Iran that bogs the U.S. down in the MIddle East is a fine outcome. If President Trump decided he wanted Israel to stop, he likely has the leverage to push it in that direction just as he pressured Netanyahu to take a deal last fall on Gaza. 11. When this is over, the Gulf states will have to rethink their entire security strategy. They are stuck in the absolute worst place. They didn’t start this war and didn’t want it and now they are taking with some of the worst consequences. Neither doubling down with the U.S. and Israel nor placating the Iranians seems overwhelmingly appealing. 12. One clear geopolitical winner so far: Russia. Oil prices are rising. Sanctions are coming off. Western attention and military resources are shifting away from Ukraine. From Moscow’s perspective, this war is a win win win. 13. At some point China may have a role to play here. It is the world’s largest oil importer, and much of that supply comes from the Middle East. Yes they are still getting oil from Iran. But they also buy from the rest of the Middle East, and a prolonged disruption in the Gulf hits Beijing hard. That gives China a real incentive to help push toward an end to the conflict.
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Growth Labs
Growth Labs@growthhub_·
This man literally tells Neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Sen. Marsha Blackburn@MarshaBlackburn·
By defunding DHS, Democrats are stalling investigations into the known or suspected terrorists Biden allowed to enter our country. We can’t afford to hold back these investigations. American lives are on the line.
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Van Milder
Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@AUgirl2831 @PaulRieckhoff 9 billion huh?😂😂 So are you just as upset about the Florida guy who committed more fraud than the entirety of the Minnesota issues combined that Trump pardoned? Or is your outrage selective and purely aligned with your political views?
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ShannonB
ShannonB@AUgirl2831·
@PaulRieckhoff Are all the people in this thread as upset about 9 BILLION in fraud in MN as they are about a 100k piano??? I mean really??
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Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦
Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦@PaulRieckhoff·
You know I’m no fan of Hegseth. And there’s PLENTY to hit him on. He’s disgraceful. But paying for lobster and steak is not some frivolous DoD expanse. Same with ice cream and doughnuts. It’s a standard way of taking care of troops and giving them a nice meal to boost morale—often during a long deployment. Like the USS Ford that is gone for 11 months: wavy.com/news/military/… And there are ~4,500 personnel just on that one ship. And there are many ships deployed right now—and they have been for much of the last year. A good meal is one of the few nice and celebratory things for them to look forward to. They’re missing countless birthdays, weddings, funerals. Deployments are hard. Food is often a rare highlight. And not frivolous.
Molly Jong-Fast@MollyJongFast

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton
Attorney General Ken Paxton@KenPaxtonTX·
John Cornyn is a coward. He is SILENT about abolishing the filibuster and actually fighting to pass the Save America Act. He's an unserious establishment politician who doesn't care supporting the President, election integrity, or stopping child mutilation surgery.
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Van Milder
Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@KenPaxtonTX Says the embezzling philanderer criminal. I hope you do win the runoff so you can get embarrassed.
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Grant Cardone
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone·
@jasonjosephlee I lived in LaJolla for 12 years & Beverly Hills for 13 years. They were amazing for weather & humidity, terrible for family, schools, business, real estate investments & any moral compass
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Jason Lee
Jason Lee@jasonjosephlee·
No matter how much shit California gets, it is still the best state in America. Three of my neighbors are from Texas, Florida, and Illinois. We have the best weather with no hurricanes and no unbearable humidity. It's easy to talk shit about a state when you know its the best. If you talk shit, you're just jealous. Come to San Diego and try to talk bad about it.
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Van Milder
Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@DanCrenshawTX How’d that work out for you Dan? Look at it this way, taking some time off might help you regrow your spine and integrity.
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Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw@DanCrenshawTX·
Tomorrow is Election Day. “Every vote counts” may sound cliché, but this time it’s true. Polls are open 7 AM–7 PM, and you can you can confirm your polling location at VoteTexas.gov
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Van Milder@TXCriswell·
@GrovesPK @davidrocknyc You mean they’ll temporarily prop up rural America while they strip what’s left of rural resources until they are uninhabitable.
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RevivalTx
RevivalTx@GrovesPK·
@davidrocknyc Rural America is bouncing back. And mark my words, in conjunction with data centers- rural America will lead the re industrialization of the US from the towns and places once forgotten. Or we will die trying.
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drock@davidrocknyc·
Love this platform and I always have. What’s something you want others to know about you? Share below 👇
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TheRealThelmaJohnson
TheRealThelmaJohnson@TheRealThelmaJ1·
@AndrewKolvet Yeah we'll get physicists and chemists from Christian grade schools I guess. Turning Point is a cult.
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