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Jimmy Nashville retweeted
The disposal of decorum goes way back to even before Bill and Hillary's, "It's the economy, STUPID!" destruction of a very popular George Sr.. Reagan and McCain were dismissed as senile warmongers with a creepy pervert vibe added against McCain. W got the bumbling "Bushhitler!" treatment. Romney was a vile misogynist with his "binders of women" and a dog abuser.
The common thread was that the Republicans never fought back. They were, "above it" and trusted the populace to see through the nonsense, choosing decorum over political viability.
George Jr. famously ruined the Republican brand by never responding to any of the ridiculous condemnations.
Trump saw these Alinsky tactics for what they were and turned them against the Democrats.
Now they all squeel like stuck pigs as if they hold some moral high-ground when all along they've been holding their enemy to a standards they never observed themselves.
Trump didn't "destroy decorum". He simply observed the Democrats were advancing on a completely different battlefield in the realm of public influence and then beat them at their own game... just as a common sense check against the leftist surge driving America toward a country ruled by the intel, enforcement, and bureaucratic state with the help of a supportive DC Uniparty.
And the reaction is just what you'd expect... like spritzing holy water on vampires... they writhe and accuse their tormentor of all the transgressions as if it they've not been a hundred times worse for decades.
Trump is simply a populist against the DC machine and unfortunately most people buy the machine's spin he is the problem.
Have whatever political view you want but don't try to hijack the righteousness of Jesus to do it.
Jesus never supported compulsory "giving". This is a huge distortion of the gospels for political gain.
James Talarico (a Texas Democrat and Presbyterian seminarian) has repeatedly made versions of this argument, including in a short video titled “What would Jesus do if he visited the United States Senate?” He paraphrases Matthew 25 and has Jesus condemning senators for cutting food assistance and Medicaid (and for deportations).
### What the text actually says
Matthew 25:31–46 is the famous judgment scene: the King says to the righteous, “I was hungry and you gave me food… I was sick and you visited me… whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” The parallel condemnation is for those who did *not* do these things.
Key context:
- The “you” are individual people (or the righteous as a group), not a legislature.
- The actions described are direct, personal acts of mercy.
- Nothing in the passage, or elsewhere in the Gospels, instructs the Roman state (or any civil government) to create or expand transfer programs. Jesus lived under an imperial system that already had a grain dole; he never called for its expansion or treated failure to do so as a failure to follow him.
### Explicit rejection of compulsion
The New Testament is clear that Christian giving is voluntary:
> “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, **not reluctantly or under compulsion**, for God loves a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9:7)
In Acts 5, when Ananias and Sapphira are judged, Peter’s point is that the property was theirs to keep or sell; the sin was the lie, not the failure to hand it over. Early Christian sharing (Acts 2 and 4) was voluntary. The Good Samaritan (Luke 10) is an individual who uses his own resources.
There is no command, example, or teaching from Jesus that equates failing to vote for a particular government welfare program with the sins condemned in Matthew 25. That is an anachronistic leap that collapses personal Christian obligation into state coercion.
### The political move
Talarico’s framing treats modern means-tested programs (SNAP, Medicaid) as if they were the direct equivalent of the personal charity Jesus described. Critics (including biblical scholars and commentators on the right) have pointed out that this reads a 21st-century policy preference back into a first-century text about individual discipleship and judgment.
Christians have long disagreed about the proper role and size of government, the effectiveness of particular programs, and whether large-scale transfer systems help or harm the poor over time. Those are legitimate policy debates. What is not legitimate is claiming that Jesus himself would walk onto the Senate floor and utter a specific endorsement of today’s Medicaid and food-stamp rules. The text does not support that.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Plenty of “right wingers” who were screaming “Fight! Fight! Fight!” after Trump was shot in Butler are now threatening to vote for Communists because gas is temporarily expensive.
Softest fucking people on the planet.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
It's was all getting better until Hurricane Katrina when the dividers got traction again. The kooks have been so dominant since then that they literally lose their minds now over anything that makes any sense now.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Yes. States should choose to prorated their electors based on the popular vote though to eliminate the swing state problem. That way candidates would have an interest in appealing to their voters in every state and it would make many votes they tale for granted more meaningful.
It would also break the two party lock and diminish the power of the DC uniparty.
I love how haters on X are rationalizing their vile reaction to Lindsay Graham's death with the idea that Trump disposed of decorum. This commonly held and repeated view is nonsense, of course.
The disposal of decorum goes way back to even before Bill and Hillary's, "It's the economy, STUPID!" destruction of a very popular George Sr.. Reagan and McCain were dismissed as senile warmongers with a creepy pervert vibe added against McCain. W got the bumbling "Bushhitler!" treatment. Romney was a vile misogynist with his "binders of women" and a dog abuser.
The common thread was that the Republicans never fought back. They were, "above it" and trusted the populace to see through the nonsense, choosing decorum over political viability.
George Jr. famously ruined the Republican brand by never responding to any of the ridiculous condemnations.
Trump saw these Alinsky tactics for what they were and turned them against the Democrats.
Now they all squeel like stuck pigs as if they hold some moral high-ground when all along they've been holding their enemy to a standards they never observed themselves.
Trump didn't "destroy decorum". He simply observed the Democrats were advancing on a completely different battlefield in the realm of public influence and then beat them at their own game... just as a common sense check against the leftist surge driving America toward a country ruled by the intel, enforcement, and bureaucratic state with the help of a supportive DC Uniparty.
And the reaction is just what you'd expect... like spritzing holy water on vampires... they writhe and accuse their tormentor of all the transgressions as if it they've not been a hundred times worse for decades.
Trump is simply a populist against the DC machine and unfortunately most people buy the machine's spin he is the problem.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Hello Mrs. Owens,
You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk."
He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it.
You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it.
You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days.
You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater.
You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu.
You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name.
And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely.
Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him.
So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath.
Every single one failed.
I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow.
The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts.
I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
You'll notice that accusations against Trump are based on repetition and public certainty, not any real evidence. People simply demand it's true and never stop repeating it.
I have little love for the man, but if I thought any of it was true, I'd say so.
There's just nothing there. The left/Democrats believe collective emotional outrage is proof.
Those 13 women appeared then disappeared when the political tactic failed. A large number of politically convenient accusations is not overwhelming proof.
The one case they cling to was a civil trial about money. He wasn't convicted of rape.
The Epstein stuff is pure JFK conspiracy idiocy at this point.
Most of them just pretended to be outraged at Trump existing until it became their sole purpose for living.
What is really on display in the Platner case is overt politically motivated hypocrisy they simply refuse to acknowledge.
They think their collective assertion of damnation is sufficient to shield them from any criticism.
They are the ones who smugly, indignantly, passionately chanted 'believe all women.' They accepted 13 accusations without scrutiny. They declare those accusations 'credible,' today without evidence.
They set the standard and then instantly abandoned it the moment it became politically inconvenient.
That's the story here.
The Democrats and the left are willing to do whatever it takes to win. They have absolutely no standards or morals. We are required to be spotless before God and mankind, however.
They won't acknowledge any of this. They are certain they're morally superior and above comparison. They assert 'I will not be lectured by a Trump supporter!,' and move on feeling satisfied and confident in their moral standing.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
WHY AMERICA WILL LAST ANOTHER 250 YEARS, AT LEAST
There’s a popular theory, posited by British historian Sir John Glubb, that empires last around 250 years.
It’s not perfect, of course, as the feats and failures of man rarely, if ever, fall neatly into mathematical timelines. But as a general rule it works pretty well.
Just ask the Romans, Ottomans, and the British.
Which makes one wonder, on this the 250th anniversary of America, if the greatest power the world has ever known is in its twilight years.
It’s entirely possible; we are $40 trillion in debt and about as politically divided as possible.
But I wouldn’t count us out yet, and here are 3 reasons why:
1. Tradition is back en vogue: the leftist Leviathan that began with Marx, accelerated postmodernism, and eventually conquered America’s institutions is in retreat. People are finally waking up to the horrors of unbridled secularism, and as a result church attendance is up, wokeism is in retreat, and right-wing political movements are gaining traction both at home and abroad. America can only be saved by restoring her root principles to modern policy, and our current traditional renaissance presents the perfect opportunity to do exactly that: RETVRN!
2. Our enemies aren’t any better off: ever since I was a child China has been years away from either conquering the world or completely collapsing (Schrodinger’s China, anyone?). That’s still the case today, as very few people know the reality of what goes on inside the borders of our biggest geopolitical foe. But here’s what we do know: due to demographic imbalance China is experiencing plummeting birth rates and, by extension, a shrinking population; its economy is highly unstable due to reliance on exports and an upside down real estate market; and it faces increasing political unrest as people grow more prosperous yet continue to lose more freedoms. In short, China may not be approaching collapse, but it has a massive suite of problems that increasingly look unsolvable and threaten any plans for sole superpower status. Europe is no better, of course, as its mass importation of migrants has permanently altered the continent’s demographics and put unprecedented strain on its countries’ socialist safety nets. And Russia? Well, if they couldn’t topple Ukraine good luck with world’s most powerful military.
3. The world needs America now more than ever: no one knows what the future holds, but there’s no doubt that the world ten years from now will look very different than it does today. Technologies such as A.I., quantum computing, and bioengineering will give governments unprecedented surveillance power over their citizens and what remains of individual liberty will be at risk of extinction. If America doesn’t lead in every regard, the planet faces a very dystopian future. While our moral compass isn’t perfect, it’s exponentially better than everyone else’s. Period.
In short, while on paper America looks quite vulnerable to decline, in reality we may well be on the upswing.
This country has always run on optimism, and as it stands we are sitting on a full tank.
So here’s to another 250 years, at least!
For our own sake and the rest of the world’s.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Yes, strong confirmation bias on display. Republicans will beat the political precedent in the midterms (to the degree they don't undermine themselves). With the exception of a brief honeymoon period after COVID before Biden's excessive spending brought on the inflation wave, Trump's Right Direction numbers have far exceeded Biden's; despite the war and relentless national media bias.
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Our 10 days in the Midwest come to a close. Now we move on to Texas for the next part of our great US World Cup Road Trip 🇺🇸
Things I’ve learnt along the way:
- Your weather is not to be messed with
- Your sunsets are stunning
- Your beer is fantastic
- Your barbecue is delicious
- Your scenery is beautiful
- Folk have STRONG opinions on barbecue and gas prices
- Biscuits and gravy are definitely
NOT scones and mushrooms
But above all… the people are amazing, true salt of the earth folk and remind me of back home in Yorkshire (a high compliment)
Thank you Midwesterners 🤍
Jimmy Nashville retweeted
Housing market is jacked up now based on institutional buys and interest hikes necessitated by Biden continuing to spend at COVID crisis levels during a recovery for 2 years after the COVID crisis was over.
That is the root of the inflation problem too. It's going to take a little while to grow out of this. If you have a 401K with employer match throw it all into growth funds. Eventually the log-jam government created in housing will break and entry level housing and interest rates will be affordable again.
