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Ken Cuccinelli II

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46th Va A.G. A.Dep.Sect. DHS 2019-21 Leads Election Transparency Initiative: @ETI_now Sr. Fellow, Immigration & Homeland Security: @AmRenewCtr. RT=interesting

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Ken Cuccinelli II
Ken Cuccinelli II@KenCuccinelli·
1/x Latest update on the Va. Redistricting Referendum. #SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts presides over the 4th federal circuit, which includes Virginia. That means that he is the Justice to whom requests for emergency stays flow through to the full US Sup Ct.
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The Husky
The Husky@Mr_Husky1·
Jeff Bezos Responds to Seattle Officials After Leaving For Miami Over Wealth Tax Seattle’s political elite may have just received the most devastating financial reality check in modern city history after Jeff Bezos quietly confirmed that Washington’s aggressive new tax structure played a major role in his decision to flee to Florida, a move that reportedly saved the Amazon founder close to $1 billion while leaving Seattle staring at a collapsing revenue model built around billionaires who can leave faster than lawmakers can pass another tax bill. What makes the situation even more humiliating for city leaders is that Bezos did not scream, threaten, or launch some dramatic billionaire rebellion against Mayor Katie Wilson after she publicly laughed, waved “bye,” and dismissed concerns about wealthy residents leaving the city. Instead, he simply ran the numbers, changed his address to Miami, sold billions in Amazon stock, and calmly pointed out that the tax revenue Washington expected from him no longer exists because he no longer lives there. “Apparently, telling the richest man connected to your city that he’s irrelevant works slightly worse when he takes half your projected tax model with him.” As Starbucks founder Howard Schultz escapes to a $44 million Florida penthouse, Amazon shifts workers out of Seattle, downtown vacancy rates explode, and lawmakers double down on even higher millionaire taxes despite a near 50% drop in capital gains revenue within a single year, critics are now warning that Seattle may have become the most terrifying live experiment in America showing what happens when ideological politics collides headfirst with economic math and the people funding the system quietly walk away. “Seattle’s $1B mistake revealed 👇”
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Ken Cuccinelli II@KenCuccinelli·
Just an old thought that is still relevant: Thomas Aquinas on Foreigners Becoming Citizens Aquinas drew heavily from Aristotle and the Old Testament. He believed political communities exist for the common good, and citizenship therefore required more than simply residing in a place. He distinguished between: temporary visitors or resident foreigners, and people fully incorporated into the political community. For Aquinas, full membership required: Loyalty to the common good of the community Participation in civic life Time and assimilation Trustworthiness across generations He approved of the biblical and Aristotelian idea that political communities should be cautious about admitting outsiders too quickly into full citizenship. His Most Famous Passage Aquinas cites the Old Testament rule that some foreigners could join Israel only after several generations. He interpreted this as politically prudent: foreigners who have not yet developed love for the common good may not exercise full civic authority wisely. His concern was not race in the modern biological sense. It was primarily: political cohesion, moral formation, shared customs, loyalty, stability of the regime. He thought citizenship depended partly on shared participation in a moral and cultural order.
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Creative Deduction
Creative Deduction@CreativeDeduct·
By the 1930s many Western intellectuals reluctantly realised that classical Marxism had failed and the proletariat wasn’t revolting. But then a group of exiled German Marxists led by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse decided to change the battlefield. Instead of economics, they targeted the “cultural superstructure”: family, religion, tradition, sexual norms and the very idea of objective truth. Their weapon was Critical Theory - a relentless campaign of negative criticism designed to portray every Western institution as inherently oppressive and capitalism as not just economically flawed, but psychologically and morally corrupt. Marcuse gave the strategy its most powerful tactical manual in his 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance”: true liberation, he argued, required “liberating tolerance” - tolerance only for progressive ideas and outright intolerance for conservative or “regressive” ones. Free speech, in other words, was only legitimate when it served the revolution. The intellectual poison of the Frankfurt School was extraordinarily influential and as its graduates and intellectual heirs colonised universities, media, NGOs and corporate HR departments, Critical Theory evolved into today’s identity politics, DEI mandates and cancel culture - a cultural Marxism that attacks the individual in the name of group grievance. What began with a small circle of German émigrés in the 1930s now shapes the moral vocabulary of much of the Western elite. The result has been a softer, more pervasive authoritarianism: the dictatorship of the politically correct.
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Handre
Handre@Handre·
The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output. This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest. Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose. You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes. Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning. Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.
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Nick Minock
Nick Minock@NickMinock·
🚨New: Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis torched Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano for not listening to his police department’s warnings about how dangerous illegal immigrant Abdul Jalloh was before he was arrested for murdering Stephanie Minter at a bus stop. Instead, Descano’s office dropped charge after charge and let Jalloh return to the community despite being arrested more than 30 times. "It's totally unacceptable, never should’ve happened and the criminal justice system will learn some hard lessons from this," Davis said. "There’s never a state of utopia there’s always more to do and more improvements to be made. My own department needs to make improvements as well in other regards to public safety and we’re willing to do that. Sometimes we have to look ourselves in the mirror and say I have to start getting it right more often."
Nick Minock@NickMinock

🚨WATCH: I spoke with the mother of a single mom who was murdered at a bus stop in Fairfax County, Virginia. The suspect is a violent illegal immigrant who Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano let back into the community several times. Stephanie Minter’s mother filed a DOJ complaint with the help of @VictimsRightsUS arguing if Descano was not intentionally lenient on illegal immigrant criminals, her daughter and other victims would still be alive. The DOJ is now investigating Descano.

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Bob Woodson
Bob Woodson@BobWoodson·
I spent years inside the systems designed to help the poor. The Urban League. The Unitarian Service Committee. Child protective services. And everywhere I looked, he saw the same pattern: 70 cents of every dollar raised to fight poverty going not to the poor, but to those who serve them. In Episode 2 of Resilience and Renewal, I name it. Document it. And show how it started. Watch the episode → youtu.be/Q2uaX1wCZeM?si…
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Collin Rugg
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg·
Chicago woman mocks Democrats by speaking in a squeaky, high-pitched voice, who say black people's voting rights are in danger. The woman also called out the commissioners one by one to their faces. "I'm 63 years old. I've been voting since I was 18. I have never had a problem voting..." "So now you're all gonna drag black people in here, definitely some senior citizens, and gonna have them come up here and talk about how they're scared to vote... all that junk, when you know it's not true."
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Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY·
"Scott, are Christians really being silenced? I have not seen that in any way, shape or form." Perhaps we should consult the slaughtered Christians in Nigeria or the nuns that Biden wanted to throw in JAIL. My full answer on @CNN last night 👇
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Ken Cuccinelli II@KenCuccinelli·
I have always believed that there is not a person on Earth that I can't find SOMETHING with which I agree with them on. I agree with @SenLouiseLucas on this one. No special breaks for any industry
L. Louise Lucas@SenLouiseLucas

With all due respect to any members of the General assembly who feel otherwise, I believe there should be an expiration date for data center sales and use tax exemption. Those companies can afford to pay their fair share.

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Ken Cuccinelli II@KenCuccinelli·
And on the anti-trust (and concert-going) front: thehill.com/opinion/judici… I'm a real fan of the jury's verdict in the Ticketmaster case :). Now it's time to leverage it for permanence
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Rand Paul
Rand Paul@RandPaul·
DOGE found the waste, but Big Spenders in both parties put it right back in. Zero of it became law. Zero. The debt is still climbing, interest payments are approaching $2 trillion a year, and both parties are to blame.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Senator Rand Paul drops a massive bombshell. He confirms Washington completely ignored Elon Musk's DOGE findings and secretly re-spent all the identified waste. He warns the US adds $2T in debt annually, passing $39T, with interest alone soon hitting a staggering $2T!

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