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Steve Adkins retweeted
Meet @ElaineLuria.
Elaine is a Democrat.
Elaine sat on the J6 Committee.
Elaine made it possible for Americans to be punished for protesting.
Elaine received a Biden pardon.
Elaine made MILLIONS trading stock in office.
Elaine is running in VA-02.
Elaine lives in VA-03.
Don’t be Elaine.
Steve Adkins retweeted
Years before Trump Derangement Syndrome, there was a longer-lasting and even more virulent strain of the phenomenon: Bibi Derangement Syndrome.
Americans, Europeans, and everyone else in the world—even Israelis—can suffer from it. And as Tuesday’s election in Israel demonstrates, BDS is a vision-impairing condition writes @DouglasKMurray.
thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-b…
Steve Adkins retweeted
Democrat strategists are now saying if Democrats take back political power, one of the first things they should do is "nationalize Starlink and SpaceX" to have the government seize the means of production from @elonmusk over his own companies... just because they hate Elon.
Whether it’s forcibly seizing Elon Musk’s companies against his will to “nationalize Starlink and SpaceX” or kicking anyone who voted for Trump off the Internet for 4 years, the quiet part is getting louder every single day…
Make a plan to vote. Bring a friend. Cast your ballot.
& believe who people are when they tell you.
Steve Adkins retweeted
JUST IN: Democrat operatives spent months finding Alaskans with the same name as Republican Dan Sullivan so they could confuse voters and help Mary Peltola (D), according to The New York Times.
A staffer was tasked with finding every voter named "Dan Sullivan" in the state and then contacting them and coaxing them to run for Senate.
The plan worked when a man named "Dan J. Sullivan," a retired teacher from a small fishing village that can only be reached by air or ocean, announced he was running.
He has held no campaign events, has given very few interviews, and has voted for Democrats in the past.
As The Times reported, the Peltola campaign claims it had no involvement in recruiting "Dan J. Sullivan"; however, documents suggest the campaign was actively involved and that the operation was "much broader."
"The endeavor, which was internally called the ballot composition project, involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs," the NYT reports.
Peltola was reportedly "definitely aware" of what was going on, according to Peltola's former campaign manager Elisa Rios.
Alaska is expected to be one of the closest elections this cycle, and as of now, Peltola is the only Democrat, while there are two Dan Sullivans and another republican named Gerald Heikes, who was also allegedly recruited to take votes from Senator Sullivan.
The New York Times reports that they have evidence from *12 people* who participated in the plot.
These communists will do something like this and then tell you they are defending democracy.
Steve Adkins retweeted
The biggest mistake tourists make in Japan is dragging a fifty-pound suitcase up and down subway stairs.
Watch how Japanese travelers board the bullet train. They walk on with a cup of green tea, a small shoulder bag, and both hands free.
Where is their luggage? It is already in the next city, waiting for them.
In Japan, the system is called Takkyubin, recognizable everywhere by a logo of a mother black cat carrying her kitten gently in her mouth.
When you check out of your hotel in Tokyo at eight in the morning, you hand your heavy suitcase to the front desk, fill out a tiny slip, and pay about twenty dollars. You can even send it straight from the corner convenience store.
Then you spend the entire day wandering through mountain temples or eating street food with nothing on your back.
When you walk into your traditional inn in Kyoto that evening, your suitcase is already standing neatly in your room, wiped clean, with the handle turned toward you.
In fifty years of handling millions of bags a year, lost luggage is virtually unheard of.
A society runs smoothly when you can hand your belongings to a stranger at a convenience store and know they will beat you to your hotel.
The Hidden Force Shaping Where Christians Worship
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Steve Adkins retweeted
Las personas más inteligentes tienden a preferir estilos de música como rock, música clásica, metal, soul, jazz, blues..., y las personas de inteligencia media-baja tienden a preferir estilos como hip-hop, trap, reggaeton...
Además, la música instrumental tiende a gustarle más a las personas más inteligentes, posiblemente porque se trata de un estímulo musical que para los humanos es evolutivamente más novedoso que el canto, y una mayor inteligencia ayudaría a una mejor percepción y un mayor disfrute.
Steve Adkins retweeted
Chaos on the streets of French cities has brought back the seductive notion that violence can set you free. It is a myth—and a recipe for civil war, writes Bernard-Henri Lévy. thefp.com/p/bernard-henri-le…
Steve Adkins retweeted
Gadi Eisenkot is a former IDF leader who rarely wears a suit, avoids political grandstanding, and says little about himself. And he’s leading in polls against Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, writes Neria Kraus. thefp.com/p/his-son-was-kill…
Steve Adkins retweeted
A brilliant @MattHennessey column from the word go: "Every few weeks I get a social-media reminder of a shocking factual reality: The U.K. is poorer than every American state. Think about that. It’s extraordinary." wsj.com/opinion/free-express…
Steve Adkins retweeted
David Friedberg: We’ve Lost the Plot on Immigration
“If you're providing social services to an immigrant population, then that's not necessarily a productive immigrant population in terms of being able to contribute to growing the economy and supporting civil society.
But if a population of immigrants come in and they're productive, meaning they can get jobs and they can work, and they can support themselves, that means they're adding something positive to the economy, to the civil society, and that is the sort of selection criteria that needs to take place.
So that's a simple framework for determining whether or not you should do this, and an easy way to solve it is get rid of social services for immigrants.
As soon as you get rid of social services for immigrants, then you self-select into the right population that's going to come in.
It's not about assimilating to society. It's about sharing the values of what makes the United States, the United States.
The values of, what do we actually care about, what are the principles that we all share as a civil society of the United States or a civil society of France, is a screening criteria that seems to have been thrown out the window.”
Jason:
“Do you believe in Freedom of speech? Do you believe in the Second Amendment?”
Friedberg:
“Do you believe that women are equal to men?
Do you believe that you should work for your money as opposed to take it from the government?
Do you believe in your individual rights?
Is your church paramount to the government and the laws of the state?
And do you believe that other people have rights that you don't get to trample on?
Those are the sorts of things that are, in many cases, counter to the cultural, religious, and other traditional beliefs of certain populations that end up causing the damage in the West, and I think that it's been kind of completely lost in the process.”
Steve Adkins retweeted
David Friedberg says this isn’t Suicidal Empathy, these are Armchair Do-Gooders.
He is referring to the French woman, who yelled “Do you know who I am? I am an activist who advocated for you all” as rioters destroyed her store.
FRIEDBERG: “The look on her face, which was like, ‘What the hell happened,’ is meant to be this moment that sort of captures the zeitgeist of what some people call Suicidal Empathy, but I think it’s much more about being an Armchair Do-Gooder.
An armchair do-gooder is someone who kind of sits at home in a nice home in the suburbs or wherever they live, and they say, ‘Let all the people in, take care of all the people.’ But as soon as the people show up to their front step and says, ‘Can I come and stay in your house?’ the answer is no, of course not.”
“Someone else has to deal with it. Someone else has to house you. Someone else has to feed you. Someone else has to give you a job.”
We’ve all seen this play out in the man-on-the-street interviews where people say they support policies that let immigrants in, but when it’s time to house them, suddenly they have no room.
JASON CALACANIS: “We called this Limousine Liberals.”
There have been many names for this. Rob Henderson calls them luxury beliefs… Open borders is one of his own examples.
Everyone always seems surprised to find out their actions have consequences.
Steve Adkins retweeted
This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues
Steve Adkins retweeted
"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.
The biggest mistake people make they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that @JeffBezos and @elonmusk somehow stole the money from the people.
They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.
All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.
Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.
This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."
— @iamjohnmackey
