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@RepPressley Maybe your deck should contain other cards than just 52 race cards, but I guess you'd have no idea how to play something else.

@jordanzakarin Denied due to pure political Democrat buffoonery

Supreme Court rules that Republicans can gerrymander as much as they want without any voter input, Democrats can’t change a map even if voters expressly approve. Sham of a democracy, institutionalism will kill us.

Moved here in 2013. Don’t know who Vin Scully and Chick Hearn were. Never ate at Tommy’s or Zankou. Wants to take away our cars. Wants to ban BBQs. I’m sick of these carpetbagger politicians who don’t know the place they represent.

@EthanLevins2 Dude, your communism is bleeding through

Trump arrives in China with more Billionare CEO’s than Government representatives. He’s not negotiating on behalf of the people, but instead for the billionaires who helped elect him. Xi must stand strong.

@Fahadnaimb 20 year time frame minimum , you will still need non-China certification to sell to the rest of the world

China just dropped a serious playbook to make its C919 jet basically sanction-proof. Zhang Yanzhong... the guy literally called the ‘father of China’s large aircraft’... laid it all out in a new paper. The C919 still runs on a ton of Western parts: LEAP-1C engines from CFM (GE + Safran), Honeywell APU and brakes, Collins avionics, Liebherr landing gear, you name it. Zhang’s blunt: geopolitical decoupling means the old global supply-chain party is over. His fix? A full on national program with stable funding, a ‘whole-nation system’ pulling in military + civilian resources, and COMAC/AVIC teaming up with hundreds of domestic companies in layers to build every single piece locally.... domestic chips, software, materials, the works. They even want to speed up the CJ-1000A engine that’s already in certification. He admits it’s going to be complex, long-term, and straight-up arduous… decades of work. This is China basically saying ‘we’re not getting caught out again.’ can China pull off a fully independent jet supply chain, or will they still need some global partners?

In a plot twist, the dems ask the court they say is illegitimate to rule against the other court they say is illegitmate.

@SprinterPress lol

Iran was "militarily defeated" Defeated Iran against US toys

@johnkonrad @instapundit The 2 best days of boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it

Used boat prices are collapsing. There are now insane deals on boats that only need a little TLC. So are people rushing to buy them? Nope. My brother spoke with a New York boatyard manager we've known for 35 years who specializes in 30-50 foot motorboats. When he started, most owners repaired and maintained their own boats. He says 2008 wiped those guys out. Today his yard handles 90% of the maintenance and repair. What’s fascinating is COVID brought in a younger generation willing to work on their own boats… but most failed. He says millennials have more theoretical knowledge than any generation before them thanks to YouTube. The problem is they can’t translate that knowledge into hands-on skill. First, they order the wrong parts. Wrong parts kill boat projects. With local chandlers gone, one bad screw means waiting 24 hours for West Marine or Amazon… and suddenly a Saturday repair becomes next weekend’s problem. He thinks AI maybe could help translating parts lists and scoping out projects. Second, they struggle with basic mechanical skills: how to hold a wrench at the right angle, back off a nut without dropping it into the bilge, or manipulate tools in tight spaces. Many get frustrated and quit too easily. Some try to jump into difficult projects that look easy on YouTube instead of starting with simple things like changing the oil or repairing a handrail. Worse, endless YouTube tutorials make them overthink simple problems. And because there are no DIY people left in the yard there’s nobody to share a beer with at lunch and trade advice. Meanwhile dock fees have exploded. Even if you get a steal on the boat itself, many middle-class buyers can’t afford to keep it. Regulations don’t help either. In the 1990s plenty of people impulse-bought boats and learned as they went. Today many states require online boating safety courses first. That friction kills spontaneity, and the courses often exaggerate danger enough to scare people away entirely. His yard is still full, but repair work is falling because people barely use their boats. Some come back at the end of the season with single-digit engine hours. Owners are terrified of scratches, docking mistakes, or becoming the next viral marina fail on Instagram. He said the best old school boat handlers he knows had the biggest fiberglass repair bills while they were learning. When people do shown up with damage today they are often embarrassed for no reason. But according to Chris, the biggest problem is simple: cheap travel. Why spend invest time in mastering a new skill when you can book a $199 flight to tourist destination where you learn nothing more than how to follow the herd to the next instagram photo spot?

@LarissaMVLopez @CarolinaLion2 @Catbias1 Yes delivering illegal drugs that kill innocent people

@inloworbit @CarolinaLion2 @Catbias1

Kind of telling about the true state of naval and air supremacy in the Gulf that the Iranian Navy is sortieing over 100 fast attack craft in broad daylight.

@shipwreckedcrew @drawandstrike Than they should go to the White House and work it out to get things moving

Because there are multiple members of his own caucus who do not want the WH making appointments for their states without their input.

@ITGuy1959 @TeamKClark Maybe they will want to federalize election laws now 😁

@TeamKClark Some States have different laws? Wow, who knew?

Let’s be clear: If this standard applies in Virginia, it should apply in Florida too. Two different standards for democracy is not justice.

And “Sentator”

@fortworthchris @DoubleWideCap And hopefully none are in cali

Apparently ~160 people in Austin, TX may make $100M+ from the SpaceX IPO. 12 will clear $1B. Don't sleep on Austin - that's a lot of capital formation, very quickly.

@RussiaIsntEnemy @MissJacque_line Ukraine just permitted Russia to have a parade in Moscow

Do not let them reformat your memory. “Who stormed Berlin? The Americans, perhaps? The British? The French? We lost one million one hundred thousand people at Stalingrad alone. How many did Great Britain lose? 400,000? Less than half a million for the United States as well. 75-80% of the Wehrmacht’s total strength was destroyed by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. Have you completely forgotten that, or what?” — President Putin

@SprinterPress You should focus on the fact that Ukraine is allowing a parade to take place in Moscow

Satellite images confirming that American destroyers were attacked by Iran last night.

Democrats: SCOTUS is partisan and illegal Also Democrats: Please uphold our attempted illegal and unconstitutional gerrymander SCOTUS likely reply: LOLOLOLOLOL

@AryJeayBackup @GeromanAT More fantasizing

Iran hit US destroyers !! Iranian Army Public Relations has announced that this morning, on Friday, May 8, Iran’s navy attacked 3 US destroyers leaving the Strait of Hormoz with 8 cruise missiles & 24 one-way attack drones. It says despite US denying claims, 1 cruise missile & 3 drones hit the destroyers, causing fires.

@GovernorVA You are not above the law

@GavinNewsom lol loser with fraud

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP) No vote in Florida (+4 GOP) No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP) No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP) No vote in Texas (+5 GOP) Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.