Tryna Be Logical

If, in order for a war to be considered a success, that war requires an extraordinary number of unrelated and unplanned events to occur, I believe it is a stretch to consider that war a success. One can still certainly make the claim that things worked out well in the end. #strategery

At some point we are going to have to consider the idea that the war in Iraq was actually a success

My 5yr old popping back up after I just put his little ass to bed 15mins ago.

This would go so hard

@PaulHoagland11 @RichLowry OT hockey is fun to watch

@TrynaBeLogical @RichLowry Then put it on ice. Three periods, not two. Shrink the field. Give them sticks for multiple uses. And a clock that counts down. This maybe getting somewhere ...

I know countless millions of people love soccer, and it can be a thrilling game, as we witnessed repeatedly during the World Cup, but it suffers from a fundamental structural flaw. Because offense is in such short supply at this level, scoring is highly dependent on penalties. This means that scoring often comes outside the normal flow of play, and incentives flopping and pretend injuries that are unworthy of grown men—you think someone rolling around the turf in agonizing pain is going to have to be transported immediately to the hospital, then you look up and he’s played another 45 minutes, no problem. Then, there’s the courting of artificial penalties—a player steps in front of another, gets bumped, and proceeds to pretend he got shot. Whatever the other merits of soccer, this stuff is a blight on the game and brings an element of low comedy to even the highest-stakes competition.

Government has a reason to push feminism this hard. Orwell in 1984: "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party... the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy." 🧵

Wives anytime they see their husband relaxing:

Stop being afraid to tell the plain and honest truth. It takes courage to say it and effort to learn it, but it is our duty to love the truth enough to undertake both.

@HaikusFromUnder @PerryALPHA @grok help me out, who is in this photograph?

OMG.... is that... it can't be!?

Why did Gavin Newsom hide details of his "free diapers" scam? Corruption and cronyism? Or did he try to go around California's insanely bureaucratic procurement rules for his friends - instead of actually trying to change them for everyone? MUST READ report by @juliewattsTV 👇

Why does the return to republican (little r) principles require a defeat abroad? Jefferson successfully projected power abroad in support of legitimate US interests, but didn’t go Empire building in North Africa. He looked West instead. I feel like the US could/should run our empire in the Western Hemisphere. If we don’t, China will.

The rise of the Great American Empire was the death of the American republic. If the defeat of the GAE in the Middle East…and Ukraine…is the necessary first step in the restoration of the American republic, then it’s not a defeat for America, properly understood.

@entropyrian @ConceptualJames The procedural value of the MoU isn’t even 5D chess, it’s just basic “see, we tried 🤷‍♂️” JD getting weird

@ConceptualJames This part was always obvious to me. You can't just deal with Iran how it should be dealt with without demonstrating to your constituents that that is required first.

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@ItIsHoeMath @benshapiro That could be any number of concave head thingys

@TrynaBeLogical @benshapiro

I wanted to hold my opinion on “The Odyssey” until I’d seen it. I know, weird. So, here it is: it’s grand spectacle with a fascinating moral core. It’s extraordinary. Also, the actors shouldn’t have said “Dad,” and the casting of Elliot Page is a pebble in the shoe - irritating and bothersome and unnecessary. All my thoughts here, including my Zendaya and Lupita Nyongo takes. Check it out. youtu.be/MQrF748gmRg?is…

@ItIsHoeMath @benshapiro Source?

@benshapiro Jew

Paper ballots are the smartest, safest way to ensure your vote is secure against attacks by foreign actors. Russia can’t hack a piece of paper like they can a computer. We introduced the Secure Elections Act to ensure our elections are safeguarded. We must be ready.

The problem is not capitalism. The problem is not Israel. The problem is that too many people have decided evidence no longer matters. Every issue is immediately turned into a tribal test. You are not asked whether a claim is true. You are asked which side it helps. You are not expected to examine facts, weigh competing arguments, or change your mind. You are expected to choose a camp, repeat its slogans, and treat anyone outside it as an enemy. That is how a country becomes permanently paralyzed. Foreign interference becomes partisan. Election security becomes partisan. National defense becomes partisan. Religion becomes partisan. Even basic facts become partisan. Every serious problem is filtered through identity, grievance, and propaganda until citizens are no longer capable of reasoning together. And that division is not accidental. A people who cannot agree on reality cannot govern themselves. A people who have been trained to hate one another will never look closely enough at the institutions, adversaries, and political actors benefiting from their anger. The goal is to make persuasion impossible. It is to divide the country so completely that every issue produces outrage, every fact becomes contested, every opponent becomes evil, and the constitutional system grinds to a halt. And it is working. Much better than is comfortable for those of us who are sane.

5 Thomas Sowell Lessons the West Refuses to Learn 1. Poverty is not evidence of injustice 2. There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs 3. Decision makers must face consequences 4. It's not greed to keep what you earn 5. Don't replace what works with what sounds good

Since I just attended the @Freedom4Teachrs conference in Dallas and spent a couple days hearing, thinking, and talking about teachers' unions, I have a new appreciation for just how wrong-headed these things are. First, allow me a short diversion. I could make (and have made) the case against public-sector unions overall. I won't again here except to say that with a private-sector union, whatever you think of them, there's a fundamental difference distinguishing them from a public-sector union: the employer involved is for-profit. That is, the employer has an incentive that is eventually a hard line with regard to bargaining because the company must stay profitable to survive. This is not true with the government, where some bureaucrat or, maybe, a political apparatus (legislature, usually) has to approve some budgetary increase. Put plainly, there's no incentive on the side of "management" against a public-sector union not to give in to demand after demand after demand, and the only thing resembling an incentive (angry voters) is safely locked away behind multiple layers of bureaucracy. My point is: there shouldn't be public-sector unions at all, or, should they exist, their remit should be extremely narrow. That brings me to my main point. When we look at the purpose of education and we look at the purpose of a teachers' union (should they even exist), we find a profound mismatch that's located entirely in the assumed remit of the teachers' unions to begin with. Put plainly, the teachers' unions exert enormous control over the education and upbringing of our children, and they have absolutely no authority whatsoever under any theory anyone can imagine to claim that control, at all. None. But they have it. And we tolerate it. And it's insane. We have all seen huge problems with how corrupt the teachers' unions are. That's its own problem, and while it's a huge one and the center of much manipulation, control, abuse, and fraud, I won't get into it here. (And there are better people for the job than I am.) We have also seen how the things they force and push for politically, including eventually control of curriculum, school administrative policies, etc., and lobbying for state moneys, are all overtly (hard-Left) political projects. What we forget is that this has nothing at all to do with the purpose of a teachers' union, even in theory. The purpose of a teachers' union as a public-sector union (or even a private one or a public-private hybrid one) is to advocate for the employment conditions of teachers against their employers, who are most often the local and state governments. That's it. Nothing in their remit says anything about how kids should be educated, curriculum, administrative policies, school funding boondoggles, ideological visions, or anything of the sort. Teachers' unions exist to bargain on behalf of member teachers against their employers for adequate, good, or better working conditions, as the situation might be. The NEA, for example, therefore has absolutely no reason whatsoever to be pushing curriculum guides on "Education for Global Citizenship" or "Education for Sustainable Development," which they do, among so much more. Every theory of parental rights I'm aware of sees three fundamental entities in tension regarding the rights of a child, particularly where the issue of education is concerned: the parents, the children themselves, and the state. The teachers' union is not on the list, but they have assumed that authority in spades. Proponents of Natural Law and Biblical approaches recognize the effectively inalienable right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. Everyone with common sense knows that part of a parent's job is to judge for themselves in close contact with their children how the expansion of individualism (rights) will develop and expand over time under the auspices of the parent until legal adulthood. The state is regarded as a safeguard of last resort only in extreme situations of abuse, neglect, or being orphaned. On the Left, they try to increase the inherent rights of the child to work them as levers and wedges against the parent so that when a gap develops the state can fill it, very often through the schools and sometimes much more aggressively (child protective services). This has been a big controversy with gender trafficking problems in over a dozen states, where states consider it abusive not to "affirm" a child's chosen (fake) "gender identity" and step in as though there's real abuse, effectively kidnapping and/or trafficking the children out of their parents' care. Nonetheless, even on the Left, nowhere is there some theory that the UNIONS somehow have a claim to direct the upbringing and education of children. Unions, which are strongly favored by the Left, are a collective bargaining instrument for teachers (an instrument of the state) against their employers (other instruments of the state). Their purpose is not to have any direct hand in the upbringing and education of children, but because they exist to leverage instruments of the state, and the state is seen as a key object in the upbringing of the child, the unions have been allowed to usurp this role. It's insane. Imagine if you even can that the teachers' unions were doing exactly what they should be in a kind of idealistic way, no corruption and no political agendas. Even then, they should have no say in the upbringing or education of children. What I mean is that their bad behavior isn't the reason they're wrong to be controlling EDUCATION. It is their job to represent teachers in employment concerns. That's their whole job. It is, in fact, their raison d'etre. They have no other purpose for exiisting. At all. Why have we allowed them to become hugely influential lobbyists for the way schools are involved in our children's lives, upbringings, and educations, then? Why do we tolerate this? As I said at the start, I am against public-sector unions almost entirely, on principle, unless they have an extremely narrow permissible range of activities. I do not think the teachers' unions should exist, and I think we should seek to solve whatever real problems they exist to solve by other means entirely. That said, no one at all should be for a COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING ORGAN to be dictating the means, methods, and contents of a significant part of the upbringing and education of our children. It just IS NOT WHAT THEY DO. It just IS NOT WHY THEY EVEN EXIST. Total insanity.

@Robert_H55 @t_lorali @KatiePavlich Moo

@TrynaBeLogical @t_lorali @KatiePavlich You ignorant, lying cow. The people in charge were appointed by Trump, but i guess they were all incompetent.

Trump says China had plans to print fake ballots in favor of Joe Biden

@Eamon_USA Vance on Rogan was wild. I used to think we’d fine with either him or Rubio (assuming those would be the choice). He’s basically advocating for GOP-coded socialism. Guess I’ll for the Cuban that appears to be more hostile to Communism.

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