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Anytime someone prefaces a statement with “I’m sorry”:
1) they’re not
2) something shitty is going to come out of their mouth.
Desert Runner retweeted
Sens. Gutierrez and Menéndez filed SB 327 yesterday, an "assault weapon" ban for 18 to 20 year old adults. Selling or giving them a semi-auto rifle would be a state jail felony.
The 5th Circuit already struck down the federal under-21 handgun ban in Reese v. ATF.
We oppose SB 327.
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The grift continues on.
As you all know, I am currently in the process of suing Tiffney Billions for her extreme defamatory campaign against me during the Karmelo Anthony case and trial. She is losing bigly. And she might want to focus more on preparing for trial coming up in March instead of focusing on absolute nonsensical endeavors, such as requesting that the new Texas governor give a full pardon to murderer Karmelo Anthony.
Tiffney uses AI to write all of her appeals in our case. She also clearly wrote the full petition with AI but didn’t bother using AI to research how pardons actually work. Weird.
Bottom Line: This isn’t up to the governor. It’s up to the Texas Constitution and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. Under Article IV, Section 11 of the Texas Constitution, the governor must first receive a written, signed recommendation from a majority of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. And I can assure you, they would never consider this. The case was simple, cut-and-dry murder. You cannot stab someone for telling you to leave and lightly shoving you. Which is what happened.
ALSO! Texas generally requires a convicted person to complete or discharge their sentence before the Board will even consider recommending a full pardon. Its official guidance says a full pardon will not be considered while someone is incarcerated except under exceptional circumstances.
The governor could request that the Board consider the case, but even that would not bypass the constitutional requirement for a Board recommendation.
This will never happen, and the fact that they think their petitions with a couple thousand signatures from deranged racists will affect anything is laughable.
Ask Tiffney one question: Have ANY OF HER petitions ever accomplished their goal? Nope. They only served to get her own name out there.
End of story.
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This is the truth.
This is not about Hegseth.
It's about cowing the men and women in uniform into not following lawful orders because they might wind up in Leavenworth.
This is an extension of the Seditious Six ploy.
This is about co-opting the one American institution that has remained true to the Constitution: the U.S. military.
Hegseth stands between us and tyranny, which is why they hate him so and seek to destroy him.
.@SECWAR “MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. This is not about me.
Politicians in Washington have accused the sailors and pilots who struck narco-terrorist boats of WAR CRIMES for doing their job.
Senators in cute videos have suggested the same.
This resolution is the next step: put the Secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow.
IF THEY WANT TO COME FOR THE WARRIORS, THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO COME THROUGH ME.”
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We will have a fight on our hands next year. Every two years, I essentially shut down my law firm to focus on legislative priorities for @TXGunRights. We need your support now more than ever! Become a member at texasgunrights.com today!! Fund the fight!!
Texas voters handed every statewide office to the Democrats, including Gina Hinojosa for governor and James Talarico for U.S. Senate.
Democrats also flipped the Texas House...but the Texas Senate held.
That is the firewall now.
Gun registration through so-called universal background checks and red flag confiscation without due process are coming next.
Republicans: do NOT go looking for "common ground." Hold the line.
No compromise. Not now, not ever.
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Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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Hi dummy. When Elon tried to lead fraud elimination and cutting the funding, your team torched his dealerships. Stick that up your overused asshole
Desert Runner retweeted
No. You didn’t. You are absolutely 100% wrong. You did nothing of the sort. @NRSC Senate Republicans under YOUR “leadership” did nothing. Nothing.
You had the chance to begin the process of saving our election system from the radical left. By passing the SAVE America Act. But K Street either didn’t care or opposed it. So why bother, right?
Because the GOP Senate only does what can be monetized via those endless lobbyist dinners / fundraisers. If it can’t raise you money? Probably not worth doing.
And you BERATED @BasedMikeLee for trying to get you to work full weeks, to try to pass the SAVE America Act. Or to work a weekend sometime. Or not to recess for weeks in March and then again recess for a month in August. You and your fellow GOP Senators told him that nobody cared about the SAVE America Act. That he needed to sit down and shut up.
And the American people watched you, day after lazy, do-nothing day. And how you literally could not come up with a single idea to manage the Senate rules to get the bill passed. You just could not figure it out. Because you really didn’t and don’t care. And because you just are clueless.
What’s all the fuss, you say. It’s not a big deal to you that our election system has been taken over and manipulated by the left. That aliens by the hundreds of thousands are on our voter rolls, that there are illegal votes by the thousands in the election results…and that it matters. It matters to the USA. But not to you @LeaderJohnThune
So now, you don’t have to worry about it. You don’t have to be in charge of producing meaningful results for the American people. They just sent you to your room without any supper. I’m sure you must be relieved. You and your fellow GOP colleagues who just flat couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to save our elections.
Well done, you. What a waste of space you’ve been as a leader. That term should never be applied to you or to your inner circle.
Utterly disgusted by the lot of you. You did this. Tuesday was the Thune election. You own it. Hope you’re happy.
@EIwatchdogs @seanmdav @EricLDaugh @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Bannons_WarRoom @greg_price11 @RealAmVoice
Desert Runner retweeted
Many Texans are waking up today asking “How could this happen?!?” There is plenty of blame to go around for the results of last nights midterm election in Texas. This post might anger some, but guess what…we are angry too, and someone has to state the facts in hope some learn from this.
Greg Abbott-
• Invited H1B Visa workers to Texas.
• Took money from and welcomed islamist to Texas
• Took money from and welcomed India into Texas
• Failure to Push Property Tax Elimination
• Failure to Deliver Monument Protection
• COVID Mandates and Business Closures
• Failure to Secure the Texas Border
• Entertaining Red Flag Gun Laws After Santa Fe school shooting.
RINO’s IN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE
• You gave Democrats Committee Chair positions (which won’t happen for R’s now)
• Failure to Eliminate Property Taxes
• Failure to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
• Failure to Close Republican Primaries
• Failure to End Civil Asset Forfeiture
• Failure to Require E-Verify for All Employers
• Failed to pass Monument Protection
• Failure to Pass Priority Border-Enforcement Reforms
• Failure to Expand Attorney General Authority to Prosecute Election Crimes
• Failure to Deliver Requested Paper-Ballot and Precinct-Counting Reforms
THOSE WHO FLED BLUE STATES ONLY TO VOTE BLUE.
If you left blue states because you couldn’t afford to stay or were fed up with how those states were governed, then came here and voted like you did there, you are part of the problem. Moving solves your address, but voting for the same blue politicians brings the problems you left behind here with you. You are part of the problem!
SUPPOSED CONSERVATIVES WHO PROTEST VOTED, DIDN’T VOTE, OR VOTED FOR A DEMOCRAT.
Those who call themselves conservative but voted third party, stayed home, or voted for a socialist democrat need to own the consequences of their choices. Frustration with Republican politicians failures is understandable, but letting anger and disappointment outweigh a clear assessment of the outcome cost Texas dearly last night and it empowered the very policies you claim to oppose. What was at stake went beyond dissatisfaction with Republican politicians—it included Texas’s future, our ability to live to fight another day, and you spent that time trashing candidates and stroking your self-righteous egos. Splitting the conservative vote or refusing to participate helped Democrats win. You played a role in that. You had the opportunity to hold Republican leaders that failed conservatives Texans accountable in the primaries. You failed in the primaries, and should have voted red so you could live to fight another day (next primaries). You should have weighed the consequences before a protest vote or sitting this election out. Your frustration may explain your decision; it doesn’t erase its impact it had on Texas.
Those who voted for the enemy (socialist Democrats) directly strengthened their party and helped usher in these consequences. You cannot call yourself a conservative, you are a fake and a sellout. You flat out betrayed the principles you claimed to have and you should be ashamed of yourself.
[Final Note] I hope all of those listed above are happy with yourselves, and you don’t get to complain when these consequences start happening. This was your doing. Like the post began with, this may anger some, so be it, but the truth is the truth. No excuses will redeem yourself.
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Guys, we need to have an honest conversation about DEI. And some fellow conservatives aren’t going to like this.
My son attends @ERAU_Daytona, arguably the top flight school in the world. He earned a 4.0 GPA last semester and just scored a 97 on his commercial pilot exam.
He’s 6’3”, confident, and has sailed with me through ocean storms so violent I probably should have been arrested for bringing him aboard. We’ve hiked deep into the wilderness for days with nothing but backpacks.
I don’t say this to brag. I say it because the kid is a rock star.
He’s exactly the kind of young man you’d want to see at the end of the jetway.
Now let’s talk about the tragic Learjet crash that killed nine people.
The captain was Jeff Gregory, 55, a white man with decades of experience and the gray hair and seasoned appearance that inspire confidence.
His copilot was Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, a 20-year-old woman.
And immediately people started screaming DEI.
That makes my blood boil.
I’m DEAD set against DEI quotas. I believe cockpit seats should be earned through competence, judgment, and merit. Not race or gender.
But if you look at a female pilot and automatically assume she’s a DEI hire, YOU ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT YOU CLAIM TO OPPOSE.
Consider this:
My son is 20. She was 20.
My son has hundreds of flight hours. She reportedly had over 1,300.
My son is working on his commercial certificate. She earned hers as a teenager.
My son flies single-engine piston aircraft. She was flying a JET the military uses.
Put it in baseball terms: My son is the college phenom with every Major League scout in the stands, watching his every move and predicting a brilliant future.
But she? At the same age, she was already batting cleanup for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the New York Yankees’ Triple-A team.
A the same age, she was operating at an entirely different level of professional aviation.
Was she a great pilot? YES. You don’t move up that fast if you suck. The testing is just too hard.
Bringing DEI into this is just wrong.
YES there are DEI pilots.
YES some airlines have pushed mediocre women too fast and too far.
But Nathalia wasn’t one of them.
I’ve discussed this extensively with @JavonPrice. I’m a proud dues-paying member of the Organization of Black Maritime Graduates.
What I love about them is they don’t give a damn about your skin color when it comes to joining or getting a scholarship. They want outstanding mariners.
Yet whenever I promote an exceptional Black graduate, someone inevitably says:
“We don’t need another DEI hire.”
Or, “Don’t tell me to hire him because he’s Black.”
I’M NOT.
I’m telling you to hire him because he’s a damn good mariner.
Here’s what conservatives need to understand:
You cannot demand a meritocracy while refusing to recognize merit because liberals have rigged the game.
You cannot condemn identity politics and then judge someone by their identity.
You have to be color blind but also make absolutely certain you give everyone a fair assessment and don’t swing the other way.
And if your first thought when you see a woman or minority is “DEI hire,” that does NOT make you racist. DEI has created legitimate concerns about merit. But it DOES mean you have a bias and it’s YOUR responsibility to recognize it, challenge it, and judge the individual on merit.
Do not compensate by giving the person extra points on their job interview but 💯 DO spend a little more time digging into their resume to see if they are a rockstar.
As a ship captain, I don’t care whether the officer standing watch beside me is Black, white, male, or female.
I care whether they can do the damn job.
ONE STANDARD. FOR EVERYONE.
Nine people died in that crash. Their families deserve answers, not political accusations.
The ocean doesn’t care who you are.
Gravity doesn’t care who you voted for.
If we’re going to fight for meritocracy, we’d damn well better defend merit wherever we find it.
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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GoFundMe removals of conservative-linked campaigns
- Freedom Convoy (2022): Cited law-enforcement reports of violence, harassment, and an “occupation” violating terms against promoting violence/harassment. Funds refunded after backlash.
- Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense (2020): Policy ban on raising money for the legal defense of someone charged with a violent crime. Ban lifted after acquittal.
- Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakers (2015): Involved “formal charges” and “discriminatory acts” after they declined a same-sex wedding cake on religious grounds. Policy later expanded to cover such claims.
- Arlene’s Flowers florist (2015): Same “discriminatory acts” terms violation for refusing flowers for a same-sex wedding.
- “Puberty is not a medical condition” billboard campaign (2020): Removed for violating user rules (promoted Abigail Shrier’s *Irreversible Damage*).
- Support for Vancouver Rape Relief (biological-women-only center, 2021): Taken down; linked to “Super Straight” donors and gender-policy conflicts.
- Anti-mask mandate campaign (Alaska, 2020): Generic terms-of-service violation (content questioning mask science).
- Texas nurse anti-vaccine-mandate lawsuit (2021): Suspended for “misinformation” after page updates.
- ASU conservative students harassed on campus (2021): Removed for alleged “prohibited conduct” (fundraiser for students with “Police Lives Matter” sticker and anti-Biden shirt).
GoFundMe says all decisions follow its “Terms of Service (hate, violence, discrimination, misinformation, violent-crime defense, etc.).” Critics point to uneven enforcement versus left-leaning causes.
This is why I created a GiveSendGo for the Red Baron employee. We don’t forget what GoFundMe did.
For those who keep asking and don’t understand. I’ve watched GoFundMe consistently target conservatives and their beliefs/values. So here is my answer.
Donate though GiveSendGo. Link in thread.
Desert Runner retweeted
Chuck's hackery can be seen from space, but this example is particularly fun. Today I learned that Florida Republican Frank Artiles once pulled a stunt like this, and I also learned that he went to jail for it.
And now Chuck's defending the same tactic. #journalism
Careful assuming only one side does these things. See FL GOP and the state senate in 2020. The question is whether there is a big enough constituency that either believes politics should be better than this or whether most folks assume politics is this cut throat and it’s just part of the “small d” democratic bargain. I imagine quite a few folks see this thru their red or blue glasses more than there are folks who see this thru purely ethical glasses. But in a close race, everything will be seen as mattering.
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So this moron made a stupid decision based on an internet rumor that wasn’t even true.
Race hustling thrives on misinformation and people who lack the critical thinking skills to question what they’re being told.
EXHIBIT A. 👇
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Pure theatrics.
She doesn’t address a single fact about the case. This child’s life is over because of the actions of the MOTHER.
Stop letting your children watch this propagandist.
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Christine Wells Wonsley has now joined the cause to help fund the legal defense of content creators facing defamation lawsuits connected to the Nolan Wells case.
Keep in mind, several of these creators have publicly accused the boys of MURDERING Nolan Wells, insisting that his death was part of some massive conspiracy. Some have even gone so far as to accuse the boys’ legal representation of being involved in the “murder” and placement of Nolan’s body.
And now Christine is publicly pledging financial support to help defend creators facing lawsuits over their statements.
A grand jury declined to indict anyone in Nolan’s death, and law enforcement reported finding no evidence of foul play.
At what point does seeking justice cross the line into destroying innocent people’s lives?
We need you to help support the boys against this dishonest and diabolical campaign against them. If they’re allowed to get away with the extreme defamation and lies that caused so much havoc, this will get worse. There will be another case, another race baiter, and another narrative, and if they get away with the lies they spread about this case, next time will be worse.
The defamation in this case had real consequences. The boys’ lives were threatened. Their families terrorized. Their homes vandalized.
I don’t have one ounce of sympathy for Christine at this point. Please donate to these young men’s fundraiser for their legal costs.