Metally Challenged

@misteaz79 Blaming extracts for criminal behavior is, and has been, damaging the pro-kratom movement. Government will use that as an excuse to ban everything, and they absolutely know the difference but don't care. They want control and revenue by creating new criminals.

Again, this is not Kratom behavior… “Officers also viewed another video recorded Feb. 13 allegedly showing the man stealing packages of mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, a legal chemical derivative similar to those found in kratom. Kratom is a tropical tree whose leaves contain chemicals that produce stimulating and opioid-like effects” Police arrest suspect in gas station burglary appenmedia.com/public_safety/… via @appenmedia

@BridgetPhetasy Yes. They just don't want to exhaust themselves trying to visit acquaintance on the limited time they have in the area.

If someone is your friend and they come to town and don’t reach out … are they really your friend at all?

@kurtmetzger Also the following tweets in my feed work as comments.

@kurtmetzger I just came freedom.

Black pilled losers will claim this is just “AI slop” based on one of my dumbest standup bits! However, much like country music legend, Toby Jesus, I refuse to be a doomer!

@deltaozzimo This.

No bangs or crazy colors, but the highlights have grown out. Maybe just go for one solid color this time?

Should I do something different with my hair or keep it natural?

@ZackAttackP1 Harem Scarem

What band has zero bad albums? I'll start: Led Zeppelin

@KaiSchwemmer I work with disabled people as a CNA. I call my mom once a week and go for walks. I also take kratom regularly -- for that, you would destroy my life. Gfy.

Most importantly: I am NOT a libertarian, I am a conservative. I believe the state absolutely can and should be used by virtuous people to decrease and disincentivize vice, making it easier for good people to live good lives. The religious morality we have had since the nation's inception is crucial and should be protected. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

Here's a little bit about who I am and what I believe: I'm a 23-year-old Political Science major from Utah. I'm a conservative political commentator and campus speaker. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

@luisjgomez Kurt Metzger

*If* we were to replace Dave on LOS who would you want it to be?

@MarinasHammer The same Utah justice system will absolutely bury you for driving with expired plates.

I’m sorry, WHAT?!? A sexual act involving an INFANT by a 24yo and possessing child sexual abuse material gets you a 30 days suspended sentence in Utah. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. To make matters worse, Judge Catherine Conklin said she doesn’t “think Mr. Johansen is a danger to the community in any respect," and the former Ogden Police Chief spoke in the defendant’s favor saying that the defendant “could be trusted with anything we asked him to do.” We don’t hate the establishment enough. This is the message the state is sending to pedophiles in Utah, that they will get a slap on the wrist for unspeakable harm. Makes me sick.

@Cernovich I got a more severe punishment for an unpaid traffic ticket in SLC.

A Governor Cox appointed judge, Catherine Conklin said, “I don't think Mr. Johansen is a danger to the community in any respect.” This is a police officer who work in schools, and possessed CSAM.

@Cernovich They're beyond the verge.

Salt Lake City is on the verge of becoming a sanctuary city.

@deltaozzimo Heeeeeey! 😢

Playing the guitar is the white version of trying to be a rapper.

@JeniferPMartin1 Wyoming? Ugh.

🚨 KRATOM BAN ALERT 🚨 New ban threats just added: Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming. Other states are also moving fast. Across the country, lawmakers are pushing bills that would criminalize plain leaf kratom consumers, while confusion around synthetic 7-OH continues to be used as an excuse to ban the entire plant. Some states are advancing Schedule I bans, others are repealing Kratom Consumer Protection Acts that were already working. California regulators are seizing kratom products without any actual ban law in place. Connecticut is moving toward a Schedule I ban unless legislators stop it. Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Ohio all have active efforts that could make possession a crime. Important note: commenting online isn’t enough. These bills only change when lawmakers hear directly from constituents. Calls, emails, testimony, and showing up matters. This is happening fast. Even if your state isn’t listed, bans spread state by state. Speak up now before it’s too late. 🌱✊

Every new regulation is written in the language of safety. But you should read it in the language of control…

Kratom saved my life, you literal psycho.

@carpenter111411 @sarahellison @washingtonpost Her chin? Ain't no one got time that.

@sarahellison @washingtonpost Chin up. You can just learn to code. 💁🏻‍♂️

I'm much more accustomed to writing about media layoffs than experiencing them. But yesterday I was among the 300 journalists let go from the @washingtonpost. I have been so lucky for so long in this industry. -1-

@alieninsect Congrats on getting this things launched! Hope to book a stay there someday.

The world’s first fully licensed all-inclusive DMTx research and retreat centre about to go live… DMTx as it should be done: All guests medically screened and signed off by a psychiatrist, with the DMT infusion administered by an anaesthesiologist with full nursing support staff… “Eleusis (@EleusisMind), the world’s first legal luxury psychedelic immersion, using DMTx protocols, will officially debut in March 2026 on the island of Bequia in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Built on a single foundational principle — safety first — Eleusis offers a licensed, research immersion in a physician-supervised environment, set within a private tropical wellness sanctuary. Eleusis is accepting applications for the March 2026 cohort, with private inquiries welcomed…” (Full press release below)

Here's something that's helping millions of people but a few dozen people can't control themselves so it must be banned for everyone. Gfy, tyrant.

Most political arguments are simply negotiations over who gets to wear the boot. The irony is that almost nobody doing the arguing ever actually wears it. They imagine they do because they endorse its use. They cheer when it is pointed at their enemies. But this is only a comforting fiction. They have no real say over how the machinery moves once it is built. They do not decide its targets. They do not control its incentives. They cannot pull it back when it turns, and it always turns. The deeper irony is that the people who actually wear the boot do not care what the crowd thinks it is doing. They are not animated by your moral narrative or your sense of justice. They will use whatever justification is available, left, right, moral, technical, emergency, to keep their grip. Your argument is disposable. The boot is not. And the final irony of it all, the more damage the boot does, the worse off everyone becomes. Centralized planning and force degrade information, incentives, and trust. It creates errors that compound, backlash that hardens, and control that grows cruder as it grows larger. Tyranny often arrives to applause. Over time the applause inevitably fades, but the permissions remain, embedded in procedure, policy, budgets, and authority. Unfortunately, the endpoint is always the same. Liberty dies.

We are living through a moment where a group of people do not just disagree, they do not even acknowledge a shared fundamental reality. There is no common frame of reference, no mutual set of facts from which discourse can even begin. They can watch the same video, from multiple angles, and walk away convinced they saw a completely different event. They exist inside a narrative so deeply entrenched that to question it, to even acknowledge a contradiction, is to commit some sort of ideological treason. This is a deliberate, conditioned immunity to contradiction. It is a cultivated resistance to evidence. They have developed a mind so thoroughly welded to its chosen reality that it will alter, discard, or fabricate whatever it must to maintain coherence. They can be shown, in real time, the unraveling of their worldview, and they will patch over the holes with fantasy rather than face any doubt whatsoever. Politics has turned knowledge itself into a partisan weapon. The expectation is no longer to seek truth, but to defend your team at all costs. There is a lingering obligation to have an opinion on everything, to be informed at all times, to adopt the correct stance. And so, they improvise. They adopt prefabricated opinions handed down by their faction. They fill in the gaps with instinctive loyalty rather than demonstrating any semblance of independent thought. The game is rigged, and they know it. Two parties, two choices, two sides that everyone is herded into, and neither is worth the loyalty demanded of them. But to acknowledge this would be to admit powerlessness, to admit that they are trapped in an illusion of choice. So they cope. They retroactively justify their allegiance by turning their side into something righteous, infallible, and necessary. The alternative is too terrifying. It is a coping mechanism turned mass psychosis. And it is escalating. When reality itself is dictated by allegiance, when loyalty outranks reason, when every fact must be bent into submission to fit the tribe’s chosen narrative, the outcome is inevitable: war. When factions exist in separate realities, they cannot coexist. They cannot negotiate, they cannot reason, they cannot even comprehend the other side as anything but a threat. This is irreconcilable. We cannot function like this. A society cannot sustain itself when its people are no longer individuals but ideological husks, possessed by abstractions, fighting battles for masters who do not even know their names. You are not your faction. You are not your party. You are not an extension of a collective mind. The moment you outsource your thinking, the moment you allow yourself to believe that your side must be right because the alternative is unbearable, you have ceased to be an individual. You have become another interchangeable pawn in a game that does not need you to think, only to obey. Wake up. This war for reality is not one you want to be drafted into.