David Skeen

If you fight fire with fire, everything burns; fight fire with the water of forgiveness and grace

“So, if you had to guess, roughly when do you think you’ll be home from Troy”

@opensrcdefense @Guntalk Would it be constitutional for a state to levy a higher tax on magazines with greater than n rounds?

In a few years, magazine bans will be one of those things where looking back, it baffles everybody. “You’re saying they just picked an arbitrary number of rounds where a magazine suddenly becomes a felony?” If a magazine of capacity n is constitutionally protected (and almost everybody agrees that there is some number n for which that is true — i.e. the only people left who’d ban a 2-round magazine are the ones who’d just ban guns altogether), then it’s just silly to say that at n+1, the magazine flips from being constitutionally projected straight to being a felony.

@ByronYork USSR vibes

The perfect world of the DSA. "You have no debt. You don't need health insurance. You don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren't for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities." washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/465…

Trump lost fair and square in 2020. Only women can get pregnant. The Trump assassination attempts were real. Mitch McConnell is alive. Michelle Obama is not a man. Barack Obama is a citizen. America is less racist than most countries. Police stop crime. Tariffs hurt the economy.

This is a great lede by @MichaelRWarren

Lindsey had a series of repeatable riffs. My fav—> On my weekly commute from Nebr to DC, I often had one of my kids in tow. My youngest grew from age 3 to 12 over my tenure. Whenever LG would approach me at Judic or ArmedServices, he’d first pretend not to notice Breck, and just dive into his topic. But then, one sentence in, he’d interrupt himself & turn to fist-bump my kid with: “Oh hey dude. Sorry about your social security. You’re screwed!”

The first time I met Lindsey Graham, I was 11 years old in a hotel lobby and he had just attended a political event with my Dad. He sat down next to me and told me that he loved my Dad. I remember liking his deep southern accent and smile and immediately felt comfortable around him - he somehow seemed younger, hipper and more interesting than most of the political figures that rotated around my Dads orbit. From the time he met my Dad they were fast friends and political comrades. In fact there are few memories I have of my Dad's political career and my life accompanying it that don't somehow involve Lindsey. He and Senator Joe Lieberman spent decades of their lives traveling together, fighting for the same causes on the Senate floor, spending holidays together and fighting for their version of the American dream. Those who followed them know they affectionately referred to each other as "The Three Amigos". My Dad was the soul of the group, Joe was the heart of the group and Lindsey was the fire and humor. Their combination bonded them as friends throughout their lives. That friendship is something that is so rare in politics, it is nearly extinct but I got to witness it first hand. They spent their lives united as friends and allies. They were brothers.  The memories I will hold dear of Lindsey is that was always the person you hoped you sat next to at a dinner party. Charming, very, very, very funny - like so funny he truly could have had a career in stand up comedy. He had an acerbic quick wit and he could win over even his deepest distractors. He was always full of stories that were always engaging and entertaining. He was literally never, ever boring. At his best he was filled with light and was always the last person to leave any table for work or fun. In fact, I used to joke with my Dad that I couldn't go out to dinner with him and my Dad as an adult unless I didn't have work the next day because they would always stay so long at the table and shut down the restaurant. Lindsey and my dad were also both Hams and would take every selfie, talk to every waiter and person in the place. Life around them was a big and alive in every possible way humans can be. Lindsey brought humor and loyalty to my Dad's political defeats and was a constant source of support for my mother after my Dad's passing. As a politician his skills were unmatched which is why he won so many elections and was well on his way to winning another. When he spoke to voters he was direct, straight and felt their pain. He also loved people. He wasn’t one of those politicians who had to fake it, he loved being in elected office and serving our country. The news of his sudden passing is shocking and deeply saddening for me and my family. Like many relationships in life, mine with Lindsey was complex in later years. I choose to remember the endless laughter and joy he brought to my family so many times, in so many ways. These memories are some of the most precious of my life. I hope that he is at peace and I hope he is in heaven drinking a white russian and fishing with my Dad and Joe.  "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." — Philippians 1:21

@michaelbd If a normie responds with extreme measures, he is no longer a normie

This has not ever been true. In the last decade normies have routinely responded to normal events like “lost elections” or their own policy failures with extreme measures. It fundamentally results from the tension between their pursued desire of expert technocracy and their (increasingly empty) profession of democracy.

A fine Christian man. A credit to his home church @Prestonwood

@JohnCornyn @BasedMikeLee wants to nuke the filibuster, then progressives/socialists will never take advantage of that. Fantasy.

Then show us the votes!

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

Tom Brady with a really solid list of top moments of 250 years of America.

All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

Reminder that by late last year, even @AnnCoulter judged that “this is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history…It is so blatant, it’s right in front of our eyes,” and @Cernovich noted: “During recent visit in DC, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It's at levels you read about in history books. In nearly every department.”

There are only 2 ways to allocate capital: 1. The market 2. Politicians If you believe that a former senator from Ohio knows how much to spend on data centers v. automakers v. mining and so on, option 2 is for you. I don't. Therefore, it's not for me.

@AmicoHoops A frontcourt of Giannis, Bam, LeBron ... could work

Warriors, Cavs, Heat viewed as potential LeBron James destinations hoopswire.com/warriors-cavs-…

@chiproytx Amend. The. Constitution.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court - led by Chief Justice Roberts - failed the American people, the Constitution, and the rule of law today - not to mention endangering the national security of the United Statres. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in no way stands for the proposition that we must permit a dangerous cottage industry of traveling to our soil to manufacture United States citizenship. That's insane. The Court today should have said so explicitly and ended this damaging exploitation of our laws. Congress must now immediately do at least two things it should have done long ago. First, define the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ very specifically to make clear that citizenship is tied to the citizenship of the parent, not the soil. Second, completely restrict funding from DHS or any other agency or state that provides documentation and status to anyone not subject to the ‘jurisdiction thereof.’ In other words, Congress must act immediately and must not hide behind the fiction that it must amend the Constitution to fix this abuse of our laws. To do otherwise would be an abject failure of the United States Congress.

@Guntalk We are at a high level of concealed carry. Last year and this year the entire US has had a very low murder rate. Perhaps RAND should reconsider their assessment.

Sophistry! “it will also constitute a loss for gun safety as the empirical literature has established-at the highest level of evidentiary support according to a RAND assessment—that expanding concealed carry increases homicide and overall violent crime” law.stanford.edu/2026/06/26/sta…

The Russians need to figure out why their windows are so dangerous

Admiral (ret.) William H. McRaven: "In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation." Read the whole piece: theatlantic.com/national-secur…