Joseph Balcher

@JustinKatzRI The same slow process that cannabis went through to be legalized here!

The House passed H.R. 28—a bill to protect girls’ sports. The Senate let it die. Girls are still unprotected. And when given the chance to stand up for them, Seth Magaziner voted NO. He refused to protect girls. Girls are now forced to compete against biological males—and share locker rooms and private spaces. This is indefensible. It puts girls at a disadvantage—and their safety at risk. I will always fight for our daughters. — Vic Mellor 🇺🇸

"THAT priest didn't say hi to me and EVERYONE says hi to me, so I'm going to post that he didn't say hi to me because I am the cattiest catty school girl attorney general Rhode Island has ever had."

Hi there, Rep. Khanna. Retired Army JAG here & current prof of int'l law. And you are way out of your depth. You should consider sticking to legislating & leaving #LOAC commentary to actual specialists. Like me. Allow me to explain. First off, if a power plant is "dual use," then attacking it is, by definition, NOT an "indiscriminate bombing." Here's why. As DoD Law of War Manual notes, this term is often "used to describe objects that are used by both the armed forces and the civilian population, such as power stations" (pic 1). The Manual also correctly points out this term has no legal significance. Either something qualifies as a military objective such that directing an attack against it is permitted, or it's a civilian object such that it may not be made the object of attack. See the problem yet? That's right! If something is "dual-use," it qualifies as a military objective...and directing an attack against a military objective is, by definition, NOT "indiscriminate" (pic 2). Back to pic 1, the Manual also notes that when attacking "dual-use" objects, "it will be appropriate to consider in applying the principle of proportionality the harm to the civilian population expected to result from the attack on such a military objective." You might notice I emphasized "proportionality" & "expected" there, and I did so because it's a preview to your next massive error. Here's what you claim about proportionality in your 🧵: "Proportionality forbids attacks where expected incidental civilian harm including effects like loss of hospital power, water pumps failing, food spoilage or extreme heat or cold exposure. This is excessive compared to the concrete military gain per Article 51(5)(b)." We'll get to your selection of source (AP I) later. For now, let's focus on how badly you botched the proportionality rule. To describe what the actual rule is supposed to look like, let's go back to the Manual. As it observes, personnel engaged in hostilities "must refrain from attacks in which the expected loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, and damage to civilian objects incidental to the attack would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected to be gained" (pic 3). Now, I added bold text to the "expected" at the beginning & end because this highlights your next mistake. Yes you correctly note expected incidental harm is part of the equation, but you left out "expected" on the military advantage component. This is a massive error because you need to be able to tell what the expected incidental harm is & the expected (or anticipated) concrete & direct military advantage is for each attack in order to assess whether the former was "excessive in relation to" the latter. And, do you have any intel indicating what degree of incidental harm AND concrete & direct military advantage is for each attack you purport to be addressing? No, of course you don't. As such, you're not conducting a legitimate proportionality assessment. Which, is easy if you don't properly articulate law. Hell, you can make pretty much anything seem illegal if you can come up with any bullshit articulation of the legal standard you feel like fabricating. But we're not allowed to do that in actual practice. And so, you shouldn't either in public discourse, or else you're creating a false impression that potentially lawful conduct is illegal. And another thing - I noticed you left off the direct part of "concrete & direct military advantage" in your bullshit version of proportionality. That matters because remote harms need not be factored (pic 4). Some prospective harms you mentioned probably are direct enough, but others...not so much. Finally, I also noticed you claim AP I binds 🇺🇸 "as customary international law." But not all of AP I is customary, which is why I draw from the Manual instead. I'll finish off with a simple pro tip: stay in your lane. Leave LOAC analysis to @DeptofWar. And actual experts...like me.

The ‘crisis’ is the result of allowing illegal immigrants and healthy, working age, childless adults who simply don’t want to work to get free healthcare . Democrat politicians use our benefit programs as a magnet to entice more Democrat voters to their side. They do not care about the hardworking people who must give larger and larger portions of their paychecks to pay for their scheme. They need a permanent underclass to win.

Do not scroll past this. I am forcing this VPN connection through the blackout because the White House and the free world need to hear the absolute reality from the streets of Iran, not from out-of-touch analysts. To President Trump and the US war rooms drawing up strike targets: let me make this devastatingly clear. There is no price too high to pay for the complete eradication of this terrorist occupation. We want their military apparatus crushed. But as you calculate your next move, get this straight we need some of their dingy shit left standing so we can actually rebuild this country when the smoke clears. #SpareIranPowerPlants Hitting our civilian grid does not punish the regime. The Islamic Republic does not give a rat's ass about our infrastructure. They don't care about Iranians, and they despise this country with every fiber of their miserable existence. Obliterating our power plants doesn't hurt the clerics hiding in their deep underground bunkers; it only cripples the very citizens who are locked, loaded, and ready to rise up. And make no mistake, we are absolutely ready to take our country back. You want to solve your global shipping headaches? You want to ensure the Strait of Hormuz is ripped open and never held hostage by a terror syndicate ever again? There is exactly one easy way to guarantee that: help the Iranian people finish this rescue mission, take our country back, and make Iran great again. When this regime collapses, do not let your foreign offices try to pick our future for us. Crown Prince @PahlaviReza is our leader. We signed his name across the walls of this country with our own blood. Listen to him, because he is the absolute only person Iran will listen to. From the markets to the university campuses, his is the only name the streets have called for. We know exactly how to end this. Support our fight, spare our grid, and watch us finish them. Long live Iran.

Exactly!👏🏾 PASS THE BILL!

🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal is facing mass calls to RESIGN after he accused ICE agents of planning to "shoot and KlLL" American families as they travel Are you freaking KIDDING ME, @SenBlumenthal?! You won't fund TSA, now you slander ICE? RESIGN.

All states issue Drivers Licenses to non-citizens. 19 states issue them to illegal immigrants. Some have already legalized non-citizen voting at the local level. There are 30 million non-citizens in America. This is all headed in one direction. Unless we SAVE America.

DOUBLE BREAKING: Markwayne Mullin's nomination has just ADVANCED through another vote and Senator Kennedy started to ROAST Dems just moments later. "There are TWO THINGS that can be done to prevent Democrats from using the PAIN of the American people to use as leverage against Trump." "If I were a King for a day- I‘m not and I don‘t aspire to be- and I wanted to avoid shutdowns. I would do two things." "I would provide that members of Congress CAN‘T BE PAID during a shutdown and I would provide that members of Congress CAN‘T LEAVE Washington, D.C. during a shut down." This is something EVERY AMERICAN would support. It's common sense and makes them think twice before fcking the American people.

This morning at PIT, so many TSA employees expressed their appreciation for standing with them and shared their financial hardship. End this ridiculous DHS shutdown NOW. Pay these hardworking TSA agents and all DHS employees who collectively keep our country more secure.

This is 100% true, and he's tried to do this at least four times. What kind of a man does that?

Nasty man. .

Rhode Island needs schools that prepare kids for real life. Strong reading, strong math, safer classrooms, honest standards, and more career paths. Good people are trying, but the system is still not delivering enough for too many families. open.substack.com/pub/clarkespea…

@CoachReiss32 @universityofri Congratulations on a great season with your ‘family’! Thanks for all you ladies have done this season.

Incredible journey with an amazing group of young woman❤️Never been prouder to call myself their coach! Go Rhody💙🐑

What a season for this team! Proud of the #A10WBB champs for fighting to the end in Louisville! 👏👏

THREAD CONCLUSION: You don't have to support the Trump administration's efforts in Iran to understand that we aren't fighting domestic enemies. This is a global war that has been waged for a long time on multiple fronts. Congress didn't decide mass migration was a winning strategy; UN and technocrats did. Grassroots didn't create those protests; foreign-trained revolutionaries did. Activist judges didn't develop their ideology on their own; they were cultivated through pipelines set up by globalist technocrats. (Much more on that coming.) Rogue officials didn't start get obsessed with censoring us; it is a transatlantic project as @pepesgrandma has been demonstrating. Regardless of your feelings on the Iran conflict - we will have to confront the world in order to take back our country. Thread end.

Now, 5 months too late, this comes out. The media protected this anti-American during his campaign. Now NYC is in the crosshairs for radical leftist policies.

ICE Activity caught in Providence! We should support the law-enforcement. We are not against immigration, but they have to come from the front door with proper background check. #rinews #ICE #legalimmigration @PVDMayor @GovDanMcKee

This is incredibly generous. TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by. I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid. It should never come to this point.