Angelo Codevilla famously described America's "ruling class."
To bust the D.C. Uniparty, we need "class traitors" who hold "ruling class" credentials, but whose hearts, minds, and sensibilities are with the country class.
My essay for
@TomKlingenstein
👇
Friendly reminder that the *only* explicit intention of the COVID lockdowns was to prevent hospital capacity overload.
That was literally it. That was the entirety of the implied deal, back in March, between citizens and governments.
And yet here we are...
Pete Buttigieg was, perhaps aside from Eric Swalwell, the single most insufferable member of the 2020 Democratic field. His smugness knew no bounds, his warping of Christian doctrine to suit his worldview was grotesque, and his incessant jihad against Mike Pence was simply gross.
I’m wearing one of my Project Veritas T-shirts and have now had three different people approach me today to say how much they love PV’s work.
@elonmusk
one of your first moves needs to be bringing PV and James O’Keefe back to Twitter.
I called my 91-yo grandma today to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She mentioned how much she enjoyed a recent
@TheLeoTerrell
appearance on Fox News. I texted Leo while on the phone with her. He asked me for her number. He called her right afterward to wish her a happy Mother’s Day.
Just a guess, but: The intense coordinated blowback against Hawley, which has all makings of GOP/Conservatism, Inc. provenance, has very little to do with the Electoral College challenge and everything to do with the threat he poses to donor class prerogatives on economic policy.
#NYC
Mayor Eric Adams brags about targeting White people when he was a police officer: “Every day in the police department I kicked those crackers ass”
If we are a nation that can pay baseball players hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we can't afford to pay teachers the salaries they deserve.
Real conversation with doctor today:
Doc: “So, you’re a lawyer, right?”
Me: “Yes, but I also do political commentary.”
Doc: “Which way do you lean?”
Me: “I’m a conservative.”
Doc: “So like
@benshapiro
?”
Me: “Yes, sort of like him.”
Doc: “I hear his wife is also a doctor."
Today I join millions around the world in celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth, who came into this world not in riches but in poverty, not as a citizen but as a refugee.
No matter where or how we celebrate, merry Christmas.
Some thoughts on Russia/Ukraine—a short 🧵:
First, it is true that the media's portrayal of a stark dichotomy between Russian imperialism and "liberal Western democracy" is overwrought. Ukraine is indeed a corrupt and oligarchic state itself.
Hunter Biden and Burisma, anyone?
Happy Constitution Day. Time to re-up this oft-repeated, but truly timeless, John Adams gem:
"Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Ron DeSantis has accomplished, in one term at a state level, the equivalent of what FDR accomplished at the national level in three-plus terms.
He has transformed the political landscape and has secured for his party a partisan advantage for an entire generation (or more).
Our mandate moving forward has to be for a single national voting day, with the sole exceptions for early or mail-in voting being those that are truly, strictly necessary (active-service military, bed-ridden elderly, etc.).
Republicans must pound this every day until it happens.
If Dobbs does indeed result in the overturning of Roe, then Donald Trump will be remembered as the greatest hero of the pro-life cause in modern American history.
Biden's FBI: The Islamist terrorist, who held Jews hostage at a Texas synagogue, on Sabbath, was “singularly focused on one issue” that was not “specifically related to the Jewish community.
He then adds “We are continuing to work to find motive.”
DeSantis using an old-school state fraud statute as a hook to bring suits against Big Tech is ingenious. I’ve had several discussions in the past with conservative lawyers who have made precisely this argument, but a major Republican politician taking up the mantle is a big deal.
Despite years of tarring Trump as a white supremacist and the GOP as the party for disaffected whites, Trump did better with minorities than any GOP candidate in 60 years. His vision is the GOP’s best path forward.
My column in tomorrow’s
@nypost
.
At a hearing on migrant children and border security,
@AOC
is sworn in for dramatic effect.
"We usually don't require a swearing in, but you want to be sworn in?" --
@RepCummings
"Yes."
@AOC
BREAKING: Gov.
@RonDeSantisFL
just called for Fauci to be FIRED and investigated for illegal gain of function research and PUPPY TORTURE.
WATCH.
#FauciLiedDogsDied
Killeen, Texas: A line of cars stretching for miles to attend the funeral of an Air Force Veteran with no family.. after fears he would be buried with no one attending.
Pardon me if I don’t immediately buy all the “unity” rhetoric from the party that’s been toppling statues of the Founding Fathers, burning down cities, and telling us all year that America is “systemically racist."
Of all the things Israel's haters claim about it, "colonizer" is the most laughable.
The word "Jew" comes from "Judea"/Kingdom of Judah, which existed thousands of years before Islam.
This isn't hard. But don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your bullshit narrative!
Nine months ago today - on Jan. 6, 2021 - an angry mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. I walked around the complex today and it was very calm. As you know, the perimeter security fence is gone - at least for now.
BREAKING: A massive PR firm that represents high-profile corporations like
@CocaCola
,
@Netflix
, &
@Starbucks
is privately advising its clients to avoid commenting on abortion rights, according to an internal email obtained by
🧵
The Milley news, if it weren’t all unfolding in the backdrop of the Afghan withdrawal debacle, would be a once-a-decade political scandal in its own right.
This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare.
They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.
You cannot claim to want deescalation and then announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response!
In Florida, Disney v DeSantis is the battle I want to see.
He's tough when it comes to shitting on local school boards and reporters...but watch him shut his hole on Disney mandating vaccines.
Sanders (1) is not religious, (2) is vehemently anti-Israel, (3) repeatedly lauded the Soviet Union at the time of the refuseniks, and (4) has welcomed leading Jew-haters like Sarsour and Omar to the ranks of campaign surrogate.
So what exactly is he "proud" of?
"If CIA or other intelligence operatives are using their access to sensitive information in order to interfere in our political process, then that is a lot more frightening than a President raising the widely-reported corruption ...
Get rid of all of what
@RaheemKassam
calls the "McLeadership": McDaniel, McConnell, and McCarthy.
They all need to go. All of them. (And *especially* McDaniel.)
This party is a mess.
I’m not entirely sure what the right thing to do is at this precise juncture, and this is of course a federal raid, but
@GovRonDeSantis
needs to do something about this utter outrage in Palm Beach.
Tit-for-tat. Mutually assured destruction. The only way out is through.
Why is it that every single time I put a fitted sheet on the bed, I guess wrong as to which is the long and which is the short side?
Every. Single. Time.
Biden tells
@NikolenDC
that GOP senators who supported election falsehoods, like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, are "part of the big lie," and references Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels