Thorns and Thistles

I’m tired, but more than that, I’m angry and determined

@kingjoeX_ @infantrydort Sure, and someday those things alone may actually preserve a nation. Just because it’s never happened in the entire history of the world, doesn’t necessarily mean it never will.

@infantrydort I understand what he’s saying, but it’s a somewhat extreme view… Even if civilization reduces physical fighting ability, there are ways to protect a society through wisdom and culture. Fighting power alone isn’t everything.

“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.” -Teddy Roosevelt

@RepMariaSalazar Just stop it. You’ve already lost. It’s over. Not happening.

There’s a fundamental misconception about what “amnesty” really means. Amnesty is looking the other way: no consequences, no accountability, just more chaos. That’s the system we’ve had for decades. The Dignity Act ends it with enforcement, accountability, real penalties, and ZERO tolerance for criminals. That’s not amnesty. That’s law and order!

@JeffreymGourley @RoKhanna @TuckerCarlson @mtgreenee 1) he said “Trump backed down”. Reading comprehension, it’s a thing. 2) Nukes were never on the table, and if you think they were you are a bigger idiot than Ro Khanna.

I am neither a proponent or opponent of Ro Khanna; that being said. I'm dyslexic, and I understood Ro Khanna's point better than most of you apparently did. He is not criticizing Trump for backing down. He is criticizing Trump for starting something that stupid in the first place — and then having to back down. Now to the 'you're defending a regime that murders women for showing their hair' crowd: Do you hear what you're actually saying? Your solution to saving those women is to bomb them to death or vaporize them with a nuclear weapon. There is no logic in that. None. You cannot save a woman from a tyrannical regime by killing her first.

Trump backed down. No credit to Congress, which barely made a whimper. Credit to the American people—progressive activists & anti-war conservative voices like @TuckerCarlson, @mtgreenee, and many more. We need an anti-Epstein class, anti-war, pro-working class coalition.

@RoKhanna @TuckerCarlson @mtgreenee You are the literal embodiment of ignorance.

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@DataRepublican @PhoenixLady51 @RepMariaSalazar She knows it’s amnesty. She thinks people are stupid. She thinks that because SHE is.

Hello Representative Salazar, You probably don't even know this... but he word "dignity" in your bill's title carries decades of political science literature behind it. Dignity shifted from something that originates within the individual to something engineered from above by institutions. When the UN, NGOs, and multilateral bodies invoke dignity, they mean the replacement of organic, inherited civic bonds with managed, contractual ones administered by a professional class. That is the tradition your bill's language is drawing from, whether you intend it or not. On the substance: the DIGNITY Act is amnesty. Symbolic barriers to permanent residency do not change that the bill provides a path to legal status for tens of millions of people who entered the country unlawfully. Others have dissected the policy details thoroughly, so I won't repeat their work here. But I want to press a different question. Why the insistence that this isn't amnesty? The most straightforward explanation is that you know your constituents oppose it. They voted for enforcement, in the most demographically diverse Republican coalition in modern history. That coalition didn't ask for managed integration. It asked for sovereignty. The Founding Fathers built a republic from the bottom up, starting with human nature as it actually is: rooted in specific communities. The rules-based international order builds from the top down, starting with an abstract ideal and engineering populations to match it. Your bill, whatever its intentions, belongs to the second tradition, the one that is non-American. It assumes that cohesion can be manufactured through NGO programs... public schools, civic integration, managed assimilation... rather than protected through enforcement of the boundaries that a self-governing people chose to establish. That is not a conservative position. It is not a republican position in any meaningful sense. And your constituents can see it. We see you. You are a fraud, Representative Salazar.

READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH. Calling the DIGNITY Act “amnesty” isn’t just wrong. It’s a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you’ve defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago. No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That’s law and order. That’s DIGNITY.

@RepMariaSalazar Amnesty. Amnesty. Amnesty. It is, and it’s going nowhere.

Amnesty is a free pass. It is what exists now. With the DIGNITY Act, you come forward, you face the law, you pass background checks, you pay what you owe, and you earn your place or you get deported. Criminals? Gone. 
American workers? Protected. Our national security depends on it. Our economy demands it. Our communities need it. And yes, our faith calls us to do this the right way, with order and accountability. That’s enforcement. That’s DIGNITY. Calling this amnesty is a lie that keeps a broken system alive and Americans paying the price.

@RepMikeQuigley I’m officially calling for you to stop being an idiot. We have about equal chance for our “officially calling” to succeed.

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center/p…

@RepMariaSalazar That’s amnesty. You’re fooling no one, and your amnesty bill is going nowhere.

@TaraBull Nearly everything about polymarket is fake and gay.

Do you think this will come to fruition?

As a former Democrat, let me be clear: It is INDEED too late. The Democrat Party Machine is the most racist, elitist, anti-Semitic, anti-middle class political entity in this country. They are against ALL forms of individuality and normalcy, even to the simple act of buying a car and driving yourself to work. They hate God. They hate children. They hate heterosexuality. They hate REAL MEN. They hate homeownership. They hate self-sufficiency. They have decided it's far easier to stay in power by extracting the MAXIMUM amount of taxes from Americans, then funneling that money to politically aligned nonprofits and bringing in infinity illegals. The Democrat Party Machine is objectively and entirely a COMMUNIST entity, and unless we recognize this reality, we will NEVER defeat.

@JamieBonkiewicz From the party of Clinton, Swalwell, and Schiff, that’s legitimately hilarious.

This photo is the reason women cover their drinks

@BJDeming @ChrisVanHollen They’re not going to do anything. But you, I am certain, will cry harder.

@ChrisVanHollen Stop at the first sentence. What is Congress going to do on Monday morning, April 6th, to remove this unfit president? That's the first business day after a post from a POTUS that shows he clearly is insane. DO SOMETHING! NOW! PLEASE.

Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less.  We cannot let Trump normalize this.

@ChrisVanHollen You work for a political party that openly serves Satan. Nobody is interested in your opinion on what’s appropriate on Easter. Go ahead and prove me wrong. Reply “Jesus Christ is risen.” I’ll wait.

@Arrogance_0024 Literally nobody called it that. Weak, scared, and ignorant is no way to go through life, son.

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@KimKatieUSA @maziehirono Patty Murray would like a word.

@maziehirono Stop Democrat Mail-in Ballot Fraud is more like it. We know your game and it's over. Keep panicking Crazy Mazie. Dumbest member of the senate hands down and embarrassment to Hawaii.

The SAVE Trump Act should be called the "SAVE Trump's A** Act." Because Trump is the only person it saves. Not America. Not our elections. Not YOU. Just Trump and the right's overt abuse of power, corruption, and total disregard for our democracy.

@malstar79 @LvL99Bard @SamanthaTaghoy If by "the issues remain" you mean "a minority of the issues remain" ... then yeah. Otherwise you're just a liar.

Once again, little boys are being targeted while the British State ignores the obvious problem. British boys aren’t gang-raping little white girls above kebab shops. British boys aren’t forcing 6 year old girls to marry them. British boys aren’t stabbing little girls to death at a dance class. British boys aren’t flogging, beating, torturing, and stoning women for daring to show their hair. British boys aren’t banning girls from going to school or getting a basic education. British boys aren’t forcing kidnapping women and forcing them into sexual slavery. British boys aren’t stripping away women’s basic rights, freedoms, and autonomy. British boys are NOT the problem.

@BoSnerdley "Mitch McConnell, when asked, could not state what the acronym NATO stood for".

McConnell joins Democrats to defend US NATO membership thehill.com/homenews/senat…

@ComicDaveSmith Can't stand the idiocy anymore. Bye.

If Trump appointed a good AG, they would arrest everyone in this administration.

@TFTC21 So while Luke may be making a valid point, he is contending that Iran is 1) controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and 2) therefore controlling the world. Um .. OK.

Luke Gromen: "The very nature of warfare has fundamentally changed in a way that has arguably not happened since black powder rifles were used to take down heavy cavalry 400 or 500 years ago." "You control naval choke points, you control the world. That's been enforced for 400 to 500 years. Iran, probably not even a top ten military, is now doing that to the United States Navy."