Bob Strong

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Bob Strong

Bob Strong

@rstrong55

Husband, Dad, Recovering Gunner

Utica, OH Katılım Temmuz 2007
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Yogi
Yogi@Houseofyogi·
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@10TV So the king will be the first monarch to address Congress since...the previous monarch? Way to put a fine point on it, @10TV
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10TV@10TV·
King Charles will be the first British monarch to address Congress since his mother, Queen Elizabeth, in 1991. 10tv.com/article/news/n…
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M.A. Rothman
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman·
𝐍𝐎, 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐈. 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. I see it constantly now. Someone reads a post or an article and spots an em dash — that long horizontal line — and immediately declares it was written by AI. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓. You know who else uses em dashes? People who actually learned how English punctuation works. I don't normally step on this particular soapbox — and I commit authorial malpractice by never trying to sell you my books — but I've authored over 30 of them. Many have been international bestsellers. Well over 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬 in print, translated into 7+ languages, sold around the world. I am, amongst many other things, an actual author. So let me give you a quick education your grammar teachers apparently skipped. The em dash — this thing right here — is one of the most versatile punctuation marks in the English language. It's called an "em dash" because in traditional typesetting, it was the width of the capital letter M in whatever typeface you were using. It serves three primary functions. First, it sets off a parenthetical statement within a sentence — like this one — when you want more emphasis than commas provide but less formality than parentheses. Second, it signals an abrupt break in thought or a dramatic pivot. Third, it introduces an explanation or amplification of what came before it. Writers have been using it for centuries. Emily Dickinson used em dashes so obsessively her manuscripts look like they were attacked by a horizontal line. Mark Twain used them constantly in dialogue. So did F. Scott Fitzgerald. None of them had access to ChatGPT. Now for a bit of trivia most people never learn. There's also an 𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 — slightly shorter, the width of the letter N. The en dash has a narrower purpose: it connects ranges. Pages 12–44. The years 1941–1945. The New York–London flight. It's the dash between two things that are connected but distinct. Most people have never heard of it, and most fonts render it just barely shorter than an em dash, which is why almost nobody notices the difference. Both have been part of formal typography since the invention of movable type in the 15th century. Gutenberg's typesetters used varying dash lengths to organize text. By the 18th century, printers had standardized the em and en dash as distinct glyphs with distinct grammatical functions. This isn't some modern AI invention — it's older than the United States. And if you use Microsoft Word, they're trivially easy to type. An en dash is Ctrl + Minus on the numeric keypad. An em dash is Ctrl + Alt + Minus on the numeric keypad. Word also auto-converts two hyphens (--) into an em dash if you have autocorrect enabled. That's why you see me use them in my books and in my posts — because I know they exist and I know the keyboard shortcut. The reason AI chatbots use em dashes frequently is because they were trained on well-written text — books, journalism, academic papers — written by people who knew the rules. The AI learned proper punctuation from proper writers. That doesn't make proper punctuation a sign of AI. It makes it a sign of 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲. For the record, the only things I use AI for are conjuring up a quick graphic — like the image on this post — or as a shortcut for preliminary research. Think of it as a Google accelerator. The writing? That's all me. It has been for 30+ books and countless social media posts such as this one. If you've reached the end of this post, you now know more about dashes than most people who graduated with an English degree. And the next time you see an em dash and your first instinct is to scream "AI" — maybe consider that what you're actually looking at is someone who paid attention in class. Or someone whose grammar teachers didn't fail them quite as badly as yours failed you. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬.
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Matt Forney
Matt Forney@mattforney·
We didn't get a forever war. You weren't drafted to die for Israel. Gas didn't go to $6 a gallon. We didn't put boots on the ground. We didn't get a flood of refugees. None of your predictions came true. And yet none of you will admit you were wrong.
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@RepMariaSalazar Sounds like you should call it the "Who is going to pick our cotton" Act. Deport the illegals. All of them. Illegal immigration at this scale is a net drain on our economy. Get 'em out.
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David Harsanyi
David Harsanyi@davidharsanyi·
The same midwits who were sure Trump was going to nuke Iran a few hours ago are now sure that Trump is going to give Iran everything it demands.
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@10TV "Went missing"? He was evading, like he was trained to.
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10TV
10TV@10TV·
The U.S. airman who went missing Friday after the fighter jet he was in was shot down in Iran has been rescued. Here's what we know so far about the operation. 10tv.com/article/news/n…
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@Arrogance_0024 Because it's the people, not the parts, that make a military great. SMDH
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@10TV The Space Shuttle program alone had 135 crewed missions between 1981 & 2011. Add Soyuz, Skylab & ISS, it's almost 200 crewed missions AFTER 1972. Artimus is far from the first crewed mission since 1972.
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10TV
10TV@10TV·
Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed mission since 1972, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey beyond Earth’s orbit. Meet Specialist Christina Koch, who holds the record for longest spaceflight by a woman. DOWNLOAD TO WATCH LIVE: 10tv.com/stream
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DataRepublican (small r)
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican·
Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@10TV It is not "NASA's first crewed mission since 1972." Maybe first crewed mission beyond Earth's orbit since 1972...but the comma between "1972" and "sending" separates the clauses and makes your headline unclear. Commas matter, editors.
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10TV@10TV·
Artemis II will be NASA’s first crewed mission since 1972, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey beyond Earth’s orbit. Meet Commander Reid Wiseman, who says his toughest mission has been raising his two kids as a single parent. DOWNLOAD TO WATCH LIVE:
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Clay Travis
Clay Travis@ClayTravis·
Holy crap @abbyhornacek getting suplexed like this on live TV and hopping up to close the segment is a heck of a comeback.
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Kyle Becker
Kyle Becker@kylenabecker·
There you have it. Democrats won’t fund DHS/TSA until it’s clear ICE agents won’t show up at polling places to stop illegal aliens from voting. They might as well announce they’re cheating with a bullhorn.
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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@AlexBerenson Never explained? DJT laid it out on like Day 1, and has been consistent since. I get it, you don't want another war, but to say he's never stated the objectives is just disingenuous.
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Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson·
What are we finishing, remind me again, since our President has never explained Regime change is off the table Getting rid of all the drones is impossible Are we trying to grab the HEU in Ishafan? Or are we down to reopening the strait that was open before we started the war?
Charlie Graves@fresh420now

@AlexBerenson @Mark_Penn Maybe calm down a tick and muster the resolve to finish this once and for all🤷🏻‍♂️

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Bob Strong@rstrong55·
@SouthwestAir So, military on Active Duty get to board with priority...bravo! But their family travelling with them...nope! Make that policy make sense.
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Andy McCarthy
Andy McCarthy@AndrewCMcCarthy·
This is a penetrating analysis. Not sure I agree that the political objectives were clear from the start, and if the admin could have explained them as @SpencerGuard has, it would have more support now. But what’s done is done. Point is we’re winning, not losing.
John Spencer@SpencerGuard

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