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@EthicalSkeptic Oh good!!! I’m anxiously awaiting my copy😎

Signature backlog is down to 721 books! Wife can finally put her car back in the garage. Be patient... Print 4 order issues to the plant tomorrow. 👍 UPS store manager: "Several authors live in this area, but not with this volume. I am buying this book now..."

@DataRepublican It just feels like everything boils down to envy. Those who don’t have want what those who do have but are not willing to work for it. Then they rename it equity/equality. It really is just envy.😔

Communists = Strive for a classless society with common ownership of production. Marxists = Communists who believe in a classless society as the end of history. Leninists = Those who idolize the man who operationalized Marxism to its logical conclusion. Socialists = Fake meaning (Berniebros): Kids who like free stuff. Real meaning (PSL, DSA): Communists who pretend to tolerate dissent. I am not interested in the difference between PSL and WWP. They're all the same to me, because their common goal is revolution and they end up collaborating with hostile states over America.

I've been relatively quiet on the subject of right-wing influencers who defected from MAGA. But if they are actually proposing unity with left wing populist movements, then they are proposing unity with Communists. That is the red line for me.

@BowTiedDaddy @KacyJDixon Amazing accomplishments- and such a handsome guy to boot! Would rather see someone like this in a Hollywood film then all the soy boy types

The “top grad” for this week’s graduating class of Airmen. Bro ran his 1.5 mile in 8:24 and had 75 PUs/72 SUs in 1 min. Chads like this join the military every single day across every branch and specialty. Not SF/SEALs/CCT, just regular dudes. This kids an AMMO troop 🤝

@EthicalSkeptic I ordered mine- looking forward to reading it

Get your copy while you can - Author's Founding Edition Print 3 is dwindling in unit reserve now. theethicalskeptic.com/2026/03/25/inv…

@data_republican Loved MacGyver series. Teaches so many things- if he will read, the series by David Eddings called the Belgariad- fantasy but story of boy his age-

Good morning, X Patriots. Does anyone have a great movie or tv series that you can recommend that would be appropriate for a 12 year old boy? He's very into tech, but likes all genres. No animated stuff please unless you think it's 5⭐ quality and not to be missed. Old stuff is great; new stuff I'm not sure about... So much of it is garbage imo, but I'm willing to hear your opinions. Thank you!

@EthicalSkeptic Would like to order but am often overwhelmed by the technicality of your language in your posts. Will I be able to understand it? 🧐🤞

Inversion — ECDO Theory - The Hidden Mechanism Driving Cataclysm, Cultural History, and Climate TES's workstation, ensuring the proper signature and serialization of every outgoing copy. Signed with my favorite pen, hand made in western NC from amboyna burl. - Author's Founding Edition - signed 'to buyer' by author - serialized copy - protective waterproof sleeve - luxurious-feel soft matte cover - heavy paper stock - high-density printing for graphic precision Unlike an e-book which is one-done-and-lost, this is a desk reference go-to monograph with 400 recitations and 136 analytical figures. You will keep this for the rest of your life - and go to as thoughts/events unfold over time. theethicalskeptic.com/2026/03/25/inv…

@HansFiene @MZHemingway My Gosh!!! These are just the whiniest women- there is always a “but”. As in nothing will ever be good enough- such narcissistic behavior. Had a mom like this- eventually drove everyone away

By and large, using pop psychology terms like “mental load” and “trauma” and “boundaries” is merely an attempt to blame other people for the fact that life is just sort of hard some times. And the more you do this, the more your relationships will suffer.

@McAdooGordon Hey Leslie. You’ve been very quiet lately. Everything ok? Miss your insights on SCOTUS rulings

Maybe “We’re not going to let you get The Bomb” is fully clear to everyone now.

@DrJStrategy @BillAckman Basically, Atlas shrugged!

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@Kronykal OMG!!! Nailed it🤣🤣🤣

Was this before or after he tried to kill Batman?

@SunWeatherMan If you want your followers to take you seriously with regards to your specialty, you should separate out your personal bias through a different account. Just like musicians and actors, your political views are of no interest.

Imagine you are about to get drafted and you just spent the evening watching the White House post videos with audio reversed, and cartoonish pixelated images. Imagine your kid is about to get drafted by that administration to go die for Israel.

Presidential Message Celebrating the Life of Harriet Tubman "Today, in her honor, we renew our resolve to uphold the courage, conviction, and faith that she lived by and that have defined our Nation for 250 glorious years." - @POTUS whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…

@CynicalPublius @infantrydort I’m so sorry for you loss🙏❤️

I lost my brother today. Saw him at Thanksgiving, he was just fine. 3 months later he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer with "too many tumors in his lungs to count." Two weeks later he was gone. Please, if you have cancer in your family, get screened. This is the second brother I have lost to the Big C. I'll link one below to a good comprehensive test for cancer screening. I'll be on X less for a while. Or maybe more to take my mind off it. I don't know. I'm knackered at the moment. Thanks for listening.

@johnkonrad So now it’s your job, right? I’m pretty sure failing on purpose is a male strategy, just sounds like it was used against you🤣🤣

Me explaining to my wife how she loads the dishwasher improperly.

@ChrisKindaReads Count is a book I read to my youngest daughter as one of our nightly bedtime readings- she loved it You need to also read Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand- will open your eyes- just a great story

1.) The Count Of Monte Cristo 2.) The Brothers Karamazov 3.) Stoner 4.) Lonesome Dove 5.) Crime And Punishment 6.) Rebbeca 7.) Fellowship Of The Ring 8.) The Hobbit

@ProfMJCleveland You should write for the Babylon Bee🤣🤣🤣

Bill Clinton says he can prove he was never on Epstein's island because his name doesn't appear in the guest book that was kept in the foyer on the teak end table with the coral lamp.

@TheCinesthetic We play this soundtrack every time we drive thru the great smoky mountains outside Gatlinburg. Truly captures the essence of the mountains❤️

The use of “Promentory” in The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is one of the most powerful pieces of music ever paired with action on screen. Pure cinematic adrenaline.

@Brad4Georgia No, absolutely not!!

As Governor, I won't chase headlines and play politics. I'll put hardworking Georgians first and tell the truth - every time.

@JoshuaLisec @DataRepublican I got mine! Can’t wait to read and share with all my friends who aren’t on X or following DataRepublican!

We wrote the book to be one thing above all (besides true & correct): NORMIE-FRIENDLY. Buy a copy for family and friends who still “don’t get it” — and then they will!

@CynicalPublius Agree! There was such passion in her voice- the artists tonight had “soy boy” vibes- way too soft for our 250th celebration

Nice National Anthem and America the Beautiful. But they don't even come close to this. youtube.com/watch?v=_n9bxf…