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Troutbum55 retweeted
Byron Donalds announces he will EXPAND state investigation of Dr. Fauci’s crimes when he takes office as Florida’s next Governor
AG James Uthemeier has already started obtaining records from federal officials including his cellphone and text messages.
Fauci ruined the lives of millions and refused to answer questions before Congress.
Biden’s fake pardon won’t protect him against state charges.
Vote for @ByronDonalds
Troutbum55 retweeted
Jupiter Florida has a non profit organization called El Sol that rents a building where they help ILLEGAL ALIENS connect with employers and get work.
The building is rented for $1 a year from the city of Jupiter, the building was built and sustained by tax paying citizen dollars.
The police know that this is going on and so do the residents of Jupiter, why is nothing being done about this issue?
Troutbum55 retweeted
The body of John Paul Jones lay missing for over a century. Paved over by a growing city in a foreign land.
But he was never forgotten.
In 1905, after a six-year search, the American ambassador to France found Jones's grave buried beneath the streets of Paris, his body still preserved in a lead coffin.
The courageous captain sailed his final voyage home across the Atlantic, accompanied by an escort of warships from the Navy he helped create.
Today he is finally resting. In a marble tomb at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
And his legend sails on.
The USS John Paul Jones patrols the seas for the most powerful Navy in the world, carrying the relentless spirit of the man who once said:
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way”
His ship was sinking underneath his feet.
Burning in a dozen places. Water pouring into the hold. Cannons shattered. Dead bodies scattered across the deck.
Through the smoke, he heard the British captain call, asking him to surrender.
His answer rang across the water and into history:
"I have not yet begun to fight."
This is the story of John Paul Jones.
It's hard to believe we are on EPISODE 10 already!
Please enjoy the full episode.
Troutbum55 retweeted
🚨ATTENTION FLORIDA: Pinellas County just approved a mosque expansion 4-3.
3 of the 4 who voted yes are on the ballot for reelection:
Brian Scott
Dave Eggers
Kathleen Peters.
Election Day is November 3, 2026. Don’t like the direction your county is going? VOTE these people out.
ISLAMIZATION OF FLORIDA IS ADVANCING - AND THIS WEEK PROVED IT
In Gainesville, Alachua County sheriff’s deputies and the FBI arrested 15-year-old Jude Sleeper, a Buchholz High School student, after investigators say they found him communicating on social media with members and supporters of ISIS about how to build drones and explosives to attack people in an indoor location.
Deputies say his phone contained bomb-making instructions, chemical compound files, and ISIS propaganda. Two jars of chemicals he identified as used to make TATP - a highly unstable explosive - were found in his bedroom. He was charged with making or attempting to make a destructive device. The investigation is ongoing...
Meanwhile, in Pinellas County, the commission narrowly approved the expansion of Masjid Al-Rahman at 2577 Keystone Road while describing it only as a “community assembly facility.” Residents packed the hearing and said hell no. A burqa-clad woman blasted the adhan until she was escorted out. It still passed 4-3.
And the deeper infrastructure sits in Tampa. Magda Elkadi Saleh - daughter of Ahmed Elkadi, identified by investigators and journalists as a senior U.S. Muslim Brotherhood figure - has held leadership roles at American Youth Academy (the rebranded continuation of the Islamic Academy of Florida founded by Sami Al-Arian), Bayaan Academy, and Universal Academy of Florida, while also tied to ISNA networks.
Her father was the President of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). Anyone paying attention!?
SEE OUR LATEST REPORT HERE: rairfoundation.com/florida-a…
CAIR-Florida has long operated from the Tampa area; Governor DeSantis designated both CAIR and the Brotherhood under state law citing Holy Land Foundation records in which CAIR was listed as part of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee infrastructure.
One week. A high school student allegedly talking to ISIS about building bombs. A county greenlighting a mosque expansion under euphemisms. A documented institutional network with Magda Elkadi Saleh at its center operating in Tampa.
Red-state Florida keeps treating these as separate zoning or isolated cases. Residents in Pinellas already showed up. The question is when the rest of the state will stop ignoring the advancing threat.
Troutbum55 retweeted
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
Troutbum55 retweeted
Chuck Grassley won't abandon blue slips because GOP Senators don't want him to abandon it.
They are of this view for the same reason GOP Senators don't want recess appointments.
Senators zealously guard THEIR influence over appointments in THEIR home states.
So GOP Sen. XYZ is Ok with allowing the Dem Senators from California holding up nominees in California by not returning a blue slip, because GOP Sen XYZ wants to be able to hold up nominees by the WH is his home state.
The fear is that without a blue slip process, a President who has little or not interest in listening to and following the recommendations of Sen. XYZ for district judges or U.S. attorneys back in Sen. XYZ's home state is going to nominate folks that Sen. XYZ does not want in those positions.
A good example is Thom Tillis from NC. Completely at odds with Pres. Trump. If he didn't have a blue slip veto for nominees in NC, Pres. Trump could name whoever he wanted in NC even if the persons he chose were nowhere on a list of potential selections submitted by Tillis.
THAT is why the blue slip tradition exists, and THAT is why there have been no recess appointments.
You don't have to like it -- but the Senate has its priorities just like the White House.
Troutbum55 retweeted
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.
Troutbum55 retweeted
93 people lost their lives while in ICE custody during Obama and Biden's presidency.
67 during Obama's presidency and 26 during Biden's presidency.
Excluding the Catholic Church from paying federal income tax effectively denies them recognition as persons with any meaning and relevant opinion.
U.S. bishops are opposing proposed Census Bureau rule changes for the 2030 census, arguing that excluding noncitizens without lawful permanent resident status from the apportionment count would effectively deny them recognition as persons.
ewtnnews.com/world/us/u-s-bi…
Troutbum55 retweeted
Let me get this straight, SpaceX and Starlink are to be taken from the man who built them, and continues to improve because...check notes...he enforced Terms of Service? Did I get the right?
SpaceX and Starlink must be nationalized. There is no way around it. Such critical infrastructure cannot be left in the hands of a private individual, let alone a morally depraved ketamine-addicted scumbag.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i…
You should repost this. It's true.
This is actually true—
Duke Energy guaranteed a $10 million line of credit so the Democrats could hold their 2012 convention in Charlotte.
The host committee never paid it back. Duke simply wrote it off. Shareholders (and ultimately ratepayers) ate roughly $6 million of the cost after taxes.
Jim Rogers, Duke’s CEO at the time and a co-chair of the host committee, shrugged it off as a contribution “for the greater good.”
Years later Lynn Good collected $20–21 million packages—mostly stock and incentives—while North Carolina families watched electricity prices climb and the company sought rate hikes.
A regulated monopoly underwriting one party’s convention, absorbing the loss, then handing its top executives eight-figure pay.
That’s the arrangement.
Troutbum55 retweeted
This motherfucker has lost his goddam mind.
What happened to you @GeraldoRivera?
Troutbum55 retweeted
🚨WOW!!!
Astonishing video footage shows of a group of 50 Amish men and their kids carrying a small barn over a mile down a dirt road in Pennsylvania.
According to locals, the move took less than an hour.
No large machinery was used.
Better than robbing you at gunpoint I guess.
Europe is warming at double the global rate.
To become truly climate resilient, we need to adjust and learn along the way.
Our European Climate Resilience Framework will help us anticipate, prepare for, and manage climate risks.
By including climate resilience in policies across the Union, supporting investment, innovation and long-term growth.
link.europa.eu/QfFKKh
Troutbum55 retweeted
No one should be surprised by this. Not because Bolsonaro would be better for business, though he may be, but because this type of blatant election stealing is NOT the hallmark of an emergent first world country
Investors understand this and move their money accordingly
Brazil cannot ignore the rule of law like this and be expected to be treated like grownups.
Troutbum55 retweeted
You save up $6,000 of your own post-tax income, buy lumber, and spend three weekends building a deck in your back yard.
A county assessor drives past your house, notices the wood, and re-evaluates your property.
Your property tax bill goes up by $600 a year. Forever.
Did your new deck put $600 more wear and tear on the county roads? Did the fire department need a new engine because you have a place to put a grill? Did the local police deploy an extra cruiser to your street?
No.
You paid for the materials. You did the labor. You improved the neighborhood.
We don’t talk enough about how outrageous property taxes can be!
Very Well Written.
Elon Musk called for Robert Reich to be jailed on Sunday after Reich called to seize Musk’s property. Musk is right. Reich said Democrats should start laying the groundwork to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX and turn them into a public corporation if they take the House or Senate. Musk responded: “Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich.”
More Democrats are openly embracing communism now, and it needs to be legally responded to seriously. Anyone promoting communism and the taking of private property from law-abiding citizens as a penalty for success should be jailed or lose their citizenship.
Reich is a former U.S. Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, a longtime Berkeley professor, and a frequent MSNBC commentator who has spent decades pushing higher taxes and expanded government control. He framed the nationalization call as a response to Musk supporting Trump and cutting into USAID spending. He also called for canceling federal contracts with Musk’s companies, breaking them up, and applying a wealth tax. That’s not regulation. That’s confiscation of private property because Musk backed the candidate Reich doesn’t like.
The same government that needed SpaceX to bring astronauts home is now being told to take the company. Reich has pushed this kind of economic intervention for years. This is the same playbook, just said out loud. Nationalizing private companies because of political disagreement is the core of how socialist and communist systems operate. They start with “public good” language, then move the assets under government control. Once the state owns the means of production in a sector, the owner loses the company and the public loses the competition that built it. Reich is treating Musk’s success as the problem and state ownership as the solution. Calling for the government to seize private companies over political disagreement is an attack on the right to own what you build.
Democrats used to at least pretend they supported private enterprise with rules around it. Reich is dropping the pretense. If taking Starlink and SpaceX is on the table for a midterm majority, every business owner who crosses them should expect the same treatment. That isn’t policy. It’s a direct threat to private ownership. Anyone who openly calls for seizing private companies over politics is an enemy of the country and should be legally treated as one.
Troutbum55 retweeted
86 ARRESTED. 766 TRUCKS PULLED OFF THE ROAD. Nearly $1 MILLION in stolen cargo recovered. All in 3 DAYS across 4 STATES.
Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Ohio.
Operation Highway Shield just exposed what's really happening on our highways.
This wasn't a routine DOT check. They targeted driver qualifications, CDL fraud, and unsafe operations — and what they found should alarm every driver and every family on the road.
The results:
51 people detained for being in the country illegally.
21 of them were behind the wheel with non-domiciled CDLs issued by California and New York.
36 drivers failed basic English proficiency requirements.
766 drivers and vehicles placed out-of-service.
86 operators arrested — for offenses including road rage and domestic violence.
Nearly $1M in stolen freight recovered.
In THREE DAYS.
Now think about this:
When a driver gets arrested mid-run hauling 80,000 lbs, what happens to that truck? That load? Who's paying to recover it? Who's liable if something goes wrong?
Because here's the question nobody wants to answer:
Somebody hired them.
Somebody handed them the keys.
Somebody was supposed to verify they were qualified, legal, and safe to operate that rig.
Pulling dangerous drivers off the road matters. But does accountability end at the steering wheel?
After 86 arrests and 766 out-of-service orders — should trucking companies face real consequences for putting unqualified drivers on the highway, or is it all on the driver?
Credit: David Harris Jr.
