Kevin Craig

In "The Princess Bride," Inigo Montoya says: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." He might've said this about Trump's (mis)use of socialism! Here's why: Trump's having government take stakes in companies IS socialist, and bad:

Senator John Conness, during the debates on the 14th Amendment: "The proposition before us, I will say, Mr. President, relates simply in that respect to the children begotten of Chinese parents in California, and it is proposed to declare that they shall be citizens. We have declared that by law [the Civil Rights Act]; now it is proposed to incorporate that same provision in the fundamental instrument of the nation. I am in favor of doing so. I voted for the proposition to declare that the children of all parentage, whatever, born in California, should be regarded and treated as citizens of the United States, entitled to equal Civil Rights with other citizens."

Trump’s Executive Order Diverting Border Security Funds to TSA Is a Blatantly Criminal Act open.substack.com/pub/theunpopul…

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

I've never sen anything more accurate

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war. The stupidest war in history.

@Guntalk I hear plenty of whining and complaining and victim mentality at gun stores. It’s just of a different flavor.

A thought for the weekend.

@paleoliberal @brandan_buck You don't understand how contracts work?

@brandan_buck It’s not a truly voluntary military if you can’t quit more or less at will. Indeed it’s indentured servitude and I’d say arguably a violation of the 13th amendment.

My “radical” position: service members’ lives should be treated with the same respect as if they were conscripted. Too often, the fallback from chickenhawks is that war X isn’t a problem because “they volunteered.” It’s gross.

Coming up on 1-year anniversary of Liberation Day tariffs. 3 things that tariffs accomplished: $5 billion reduction in ag exports 100,000 fewer manufacturing jobs $25.4 billion increase in goods trade deficit

@ChrisMaidmentNH They don't, except that they believe they're morally superior to you.

@bound4NH I just don't see how they have this authority regardless

Where does Peterborough think it gets the authority to do this?

@ChrisMaidmentNH "We're better than you. That's our authority!"

@MichOpenCarry @gunpolicy @2Aupdates I moved from TX to NH, and I laugh every time someone says Texas is a pro-gun state.

@gunpolicy @2Aupdates Texas is overrated. New Hampshire is the gold standard. AL, GA and UT are up there as well.

FPC LEGAL UPDATE: A Texas federal judge has upheld the state's ban on carry in bars, racetracks, and sporting events while saying that Texans are "arguably among the most prominent protectors of our Second Amendment liberties." You can read it here: firearmspolicy.org/ziegenfuss

The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.

Donald Trump said that voting by mail has to be banned or Democrats will win Then he voted by mail, and a Democrat won Really makes you think

“Those are the words of a potential war criminal.”

LMAO

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A buff.ly/Iw7aIth

It's like... every possible blue collar populist talking point.

"The administration seems to be fighting its own policy." "Yes."