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Commentary and debate explaining the ideas currently driving American political life. A publication of @claremontinst.
Joined March 2019
đ§”1/4: Itâs now established that the primary results can be voided if poll numbers of the nominee are not sufficiently robust. Primary votersâ choice will turn out to be mere suggestion, reversible by party insiders depending on their political judgment. This is not democracy.
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".@HawleyMO & @tedcruz acted in perfect accordance with the supposed purpose of a senator: to represent the political concerns of their constituents and raise their serious questions in what ought to be the most revered forum for dispassionate political debate." - @frankcannonAPP.
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In the span of just two weeks this summer, 20 states across the U.S suffered the costliest string of riots in American history. The damage caused by this âtiny fractionâ is estimated at $1 to $2 billion, similar estimates for a Category 1 hurricane.
.@MichelleObama on BLM riots: Trump is âpinning [violence] on whatâs been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity; itâs true, research backs it up; only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all ⊠What the president is doing is ⊠racist.â
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How Trump voters formed an uglyâand accurateâview of Americaâs ruling regime. h/t @martyrmade
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"America has not been a constitutional republic based on the consent of the governed for years. It has, in fact, been a thinly disguised oligarchy, dominated by ruling class elites in the media, academia, both parties, the bureaucracy, corporations, Silicon Valley. " -Ed Erler.
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"When you tear down statues of Washington and Grant, itâs not about the Civil Warâitâs because you hate America. And indeed, these rioters hate America." - @SenTomCotton
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The Trump Admin accomplished many things, but perhaps most importantly it revealed how deep the rabbit hole now goes: the fight is both within the fed govt & without, & a cancerous corruption has penetrated the core of our political/cultural institutions.
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The 1776 Commission's report may have been taken down within the first few hours of the @JoeBiden administration, with many calling it "racist," but readers are likely to draw the opposite conclusion. We are re-publishing parts of the report here!
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"The ruling classâs hatred of the president, and its efforts to destroy him, were of course a proxy for its desire to destroy what he represents. What he represents is not just the policies it despises, but the people it despises." - @bhweingarten
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Shared hotel rooms. Fake militias. Booze and pot. Planted evidence. Phony bomb makers. Criminal FBI informants. Wife-beating wife-swappers. @julie_kelly2 breaks down the real-life drama of the FBI-concocted scheme to âkidnapâ Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
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.@martyrmade: â17-year-old boys should not have to take up arms to defend their communities from attacks incited by Democratic Party politicians & the corporate media & facilitated & carried out by organizations funded by multinational corporations.â
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A new study estimates that 10â27% of noncitizens are registered to vote illegally, with 5â13% expected to cast illegal ballots in 2024. @bhweingarten dives into the looming threats to election integrity.
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As more companies begin ditching Silicon Valley to flee to Red States, remember they're bringing their progressive ideology with them. @davereaboi, a fellow of the @ClaremontInst, explains the ramifications.
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Ireland is being governed by elites who have little, if any, interest in protecting its citizens from dangerous threats.
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The 2020 election is not over. The fight has just begun. This is the moment that decides everything. Republicans must rise to the occasion. This means rallies and protests as well as investigating and ensuring that this election was lawful!
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âA person with an identity tied to nothing, not even their own biology, can be led to believe almost anything.â â @AuronMacintyre
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Weaponizing the federal judiciary to advance radical âwokeismâ would be disastrous to the American way of life. âIt is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to see how Republicans could one day recover from this,â warns @josh_hammer.
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Former President Trumpâs Advisory 1776 Commission released its 1776 Report on Monday. The Commission is chaired by Larry Arnn, president of @Hillsdale & @ClaremontInst vice chairman. We are re-publishing the sections on the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution here.
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.@realDonaldTrump is not bound by calcified ideological frameworks. Contrary to his critics, he has been proven right about borders, China, trade/globalism. Itâs time to lead America past the pandemic & political paralysis into a new century of greatness.
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âWeak and negligent, derelict in the most basic duties a leader has to his people, licking ice cream to delight reporters as his homeland falls apart, Joe Biden is happily at your service as the concierge of decline.â - Paige Willey
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WATCH: Dr. @jamespoulos, Executive Editor of the American Mind, delivers his testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee during a hearing on "Disrupting Dangerous Algorithms: Addressing the Harms of Persuasive Technology."
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The woke mob has âadopted the spirit of a Jacobin mob in the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror trying to completely erase our culture & our history. Unfortunately, many Democrats are vying to be the Robespierre for this Jacobin mob.â - Sen. Tom Cotton
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The 400 years narrative appears to stem directly from the 1619 Project. As we discussed, the goal of the 1619 Project is nothing less than the alienation of Americans from their countryâs true philosophical and political founding in 1776.
Bill Whitaker: This virus of racism and injustice has threatened and infected America for 400 years
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The gory details and irreversible horrors of "gender affirming" surgery laid bare. Read @TTExulansicâs latest essay at American Mind.
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"Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it." @martyrmade explains:
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.@JDVance1âs victory in last nightâs Ohio Republican Senate primary is an important and hopeful sign for the future of the GOP. 1/
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âIt was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history.â - Calvin Coolidge
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"Votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth." #Debates2020
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"Cancel culture, whether in its Maoist or its Jacobin forms, ultimately is animated by a single ideaâthat America at its core is fundamentally irredeemable and wicked. I reject that claim fully, wholeheartedly." - @TomCottonAR
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"No Borders, No Taxesâ is an argument with a logical structure. It says, 'If you're going to run a country without defending the borders, then we the people shouldnât have to pay any taxes.'" ~ @SethBarronNYC
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"Americaâs corporate press is out of control. it routinely seeks to pull the nationâs politics leftward by using defamation to render prominent figures on the right odious to the public. The case of Congressman @mattgaetz is only the most recent example."
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Trump still has a path to victory, although admittedly thin. But it requires the courage few politicians possess. âIn this pivotal hour, Donald Trump must not flinch." - @molmccann.
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"If it sounds alarmist to say that 'gender theorists are coming for your children,' good. They are coming, and it is alarming." @SpencerKlavan on manhood:
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"No matter how the presidential election ends, one of President Donald Trumpâs myriad achievements stands above all others: he has exposed the unprecedented degree of rot and corruption that pervades the American system." - @bhweingarten
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.@DineshDSouza: "I believe that even if itâs establishment Republicans or RINO Republicans, you play the movie & ask them what they think when they see the credits, they'll be blown away. And they'll realize something is wrong and something must be done."
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The @JoeBiden admin was quick to disband the 1776 Commission, and remove its 1776 Report from its website, but we're re-publishing parts of it on our website, with the full report available at @ClaremontInst. Learn about the Meaning of the Founding below.
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There is nothing to lose, and everything to gain, from a full-on @realDonaldTrump offensive. As @molmccann writes, "Mr. President, Attack."
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With a recruiting shortfall of 25%, the U.S. Armyâs total force will be undermanned by 15,000 soldiers. Leadership needs to be held accountable.
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As Americans concerned for the common good of the nation, we reject the following tenets of âCritical Race Theoryâ as directly opposed to the fundamental principles of American government and political order:
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âPence was simply asked to provide the state legislatures in the contested states with the time necessary to properly assess the legitimacy of their electoral votes.â @DrJohnEastman sets the record straight.
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Get ready for a fight. The 2020 election wonât be over on #ElectionDay. What happens this week might lead the nation into a protracted political war, but the Constitution of the United States provides for such a scenario. The American Right needs to hold fast & fight accordingly.
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âFentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl. ItâŻkilled more people last year than suicide, car accidents, or gun violenceâŠâ 1/2.
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The Whitmer fednapping exposes moral rot of the FBI.
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âEach one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage & it will roar ever more loudly. " - Churchill.
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"The best way to describe what Wokeness has actually become is Christianity without Christ." - @SpencerKlavan
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The Virginia school district is the tip of the spear in the nationwide fight over critical race theory.
The Loudoun County sheriffâs office declared the school board meeting an unlawful assembly. Everyone told to get out or will be trespassing. Two arrests made #CriticalRaceTheory
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âThe virus has revealed an American economy built on consumption, reliant for production on regimes either indifferent or actively hostile to our national interest.â. @JDVance1 explains:
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America is quickly becoming two nations occupying the same country. The @ClaremontInst's Glenn Ellmers explains why a counter-revolution is needed with @TuckerCarlson on #TuckerCarlsonToday.
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"Tucker Carlson may have kicked a hornetâs nest by pointing out that the U.S. military is captive to a cultural program that most Americans do not agree with. But the military serves the global economic order, not the average American," Frank Bennett says.
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Michael Anton: "Understand this: the regime hates you and want you cancelled and ostracized, or at least utterly subservient and obedient. You owe them no consideration. Their every argument, every sentence, every word are proffered in bad faith."
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Big Tech has infiltrated the American homeland and is imposing speech laws that resemble those of Europe, challenging the authority and longevity of the First Amendment. @molmccann explains the Big Tech occupation.
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"We donât lock people down in the state of Florida, we lift people up." @GovRonDeSantis details how his state has resisted federal overreach in his speech delivered at the @ClaremontInst Gala.
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In the U.S., as in Japan, young men are retreating en masse. We are witnessing the rise of the American hikikomori. @ghlionn explains:
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âAntifa is an anarcho-communist movement, whose goal is to use physical violence and intimidation to terrorize American citizens into disengaging from the political process.â - @ShidelerK
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âCounting noncitizens in the census erodes sovereignty and undermines law. It definitionally creates foreign influence over our political system.â - @bhweingarten
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"Even if the steal can be made to stick, half the country wonât accept it. That is, theyâll accept the reality that power is now in the hands of a party that took it by fraud. But they wonât believe that the election was fair or the outcome real." -Michael Anton.
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It is long past time to end the globalization gravy train and reform our system in a way that would do damage to Chinese leadershipâand the American elites who profit from them. h/t @JDVance1
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âIf you donât fight critical race theory, soon there will be nothing good, true, or beautiful to defend. We will be ruled by lies & power while being told weâre progressing toward truth & justice. Fighting lies is always preferable to being ruled by them.â
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What We Saw Coming. The @ClaremontInst's pre-election war games have proven prescient so far. Read the 79 Days Report.
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Read the excerpt from the 1776 Commission's report. The Biden team may have scrubbed it from its website and 'officially disbanded' the Commission, but you can read the major parts parts of the 1776 Report on our website.
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The Antifa/BLM Industrial Complex. Their entire rotten network must be exposed.
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âThis what $693B a year buys you: unbridled arrogance from the leaders of a military that canât win against third world tribesmenâŠA significant portion of our military leaders, like @PatDonahoeArmy, are totally detached from reality.â - @jlippincott_ 1/3
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âOne can reasonably expect that soon the Biden Administration will add opposition to Critical Race Theory to its list of domestic-terrorism-inciting conspiracy theories.â @ShidelerK called it back in July. Read his piece here:
BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing "threats." . The letter follows the National School Board Association's request to classify protests as "domestic terrorism."
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âThe fight of this election is as much existential as it is political; it is between a party that will defend our way of life, however imperfectly, and a party that has every intention of crushing it.â - @rachelbovard
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It is an incredible stroke of luck that we happen to have a president who is not interested in surrendering to the virus or âmanaging our decline.â
We are marshalling the full power of government and society to achieve victory over the virus. Together, we will endure, we will prevail, and we will WIN! #CARESAct
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âTrump represents the first time in the post-Cold War era that Republicans actually pushed back against the relentless cultural onslaught.â - @InezFeltscher
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The Haunting of the American Mind. In the days to come, we will publish discussions of @DineshDSouzaâs new documentary 2000 Mules. Here we present a conversation with DâSouza about his own hopes for the electoral process and the movieâs impact.
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"Itâs tempting to call 'democracy' meaningless in todayâs parlance. Except it has a meaning: the opposite of what its dictionary entry says. 'Democracy' now means not the rule or sovereignty of the people but the fiat of elites & 'experts.'" -Michael Anton
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"The mission that the United Statesâor, to be more precise, the George W. Bush Administrationâset for itself in #Afghanistan was doomed from the beginning." Michael Anton explains why in his latest essay for the American Mind.
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Republican weakness is enabling the radical Left. Capitulation and cowardice will only embolden the mob. @jeremycarl4 explained on @TuckerCarlson last night. Read his latest essay here:
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"The real cost of Bidenâs free college plan is vastly greater than he is willing to admit. an honest account of his free-college plan would force him to admit that he is going to raise middle-class taxes in a major wayâprecisely what Biden says he will never do." - Stanley Kurtz.
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âThese buffoons are the âenemies of the peopleââthe one thing they do not want is for Americans of any color or political persuasion to come genuinely to grips w/the facts on the ground, to recognize the complete failure of progressivism. â @SpencerKlavan
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.@ShidelerK: "We are in a period where some Americans are displaying the flags of countries they cannot even find on a map, while accusing fellow citizens who hesitate to take a side in a distant conflict of being agents in the service of a foreign power."
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âAfter years of meetings b/t the U.S. government, extremism academics, and tech giants to discuss how to counter extremism online, somehow Hamas, the Taliban, and Antifa always remain active, while @prageru struggles to avoid being banned.â - @ShidelerK
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"Equality of outcomes can only be brought about through totalitarianism. Hence, the Leftâs ever-more illiberal policies on race." - David Azerrad
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"If Republicans conceived of their mission as preserving the American way of life, they would pay more attention to the institutions that nurture the foundations of that lifeâfamily, religion, education, & community. All else rests on those foundations."
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The FBI long ago "replaced the distinctions by which they had previously operated with the classic bureaucratic imperative: look out for yourselves by making sure to please the powerful."
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âUnderstand what time it is in this late-stage republic. The oligarchs of our ruling class are not going away, and they have seized an enormous amount of control over what was once our robust system of government. The hour is very late.â - @josh_hammer
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The story of America is the story of a proud people with a boundless desire to leave for their posterity a more just and free society. This is the inheritance of all Americans. This is the inheritance of 1776. #ConstitutionDay
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Any conservative worth his salt should defend senators against baseless and dictatorial attacks.
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Flashback from @martyrmade: "Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, & will observe no limits to keep them from getting it."
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"Remember that in 2022 and 2024 when they call you a fascist or a bigot or a domestic terrorist or whatever: these are people who think @jrpsaki is a good person. Their opinion about your morals literally doesnât matter at all." - @SpencerKlavan
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Carson Holloway: "All too often the American press seeks not to facilitate democratic deliberation by informing the voters but instead to shape political outcomes by dealing in hysteria and misinformation."
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The Anti-Defamation League must confect a rising tide of antisemitic fervor or else go out of business. @JohnJKline99 explains:
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âThe Census added 2.5 million persons to blue states above the December population estimate. Many state estimates were entire percentage points off from the Decennial Census, which is an unusual margin of errorâŠâ @RealAdamK explains:
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Reminder: âThe Intelligence agencies were the key element of the ruling classâs support of the Democratic Party in the 2016 election. Its senior officers, regarding themselves as guardians of their classâs right to rule, waged war on Trumpâs candidacy.â
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Rush was the actual âconservative movementâ for a long time, putting into words what millions felt & thought of as common sense. Conservative intellectuals, think tanks, & other leaders were often carried along by him without even knowing it. May he RIP.
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âNon-essential,â in crisis parlance, is not defined by whether your customers need your work, or whether you need to pay your bills/make payroll. It is defined by a government list. Of course, government is on the governmentâs own list of âessentialâ work.
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"If Jan. 6 is exposed as a Fedsurrection, so goes the pretext the regime has been counting on to weaponize the security apparatus against its opposition, and there goes the pillar the democrats are leaning on to deprive Trump a fair shot [this November]."
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"The coming presidential election is perhaps the most important since 1860 because what is at stake. is not a minor argument over habits and lifestyles but a 'regime change' conflict between two fundamentally antagonistic visions of America and our way of life." - @FonteJohn.
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Gaslighting getting you down? Feel like the regime has dialed the Megaphone up to, and past, eleven? Youâre not crazy. To help you navigate the twitstorm, read Michael Antonâs guide to seven of the regimeâs most common, oft-deployed lies.
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âDoes coronavirus vindicate the importance of scientific expertise and its institutions? Or does it offer yet more evidence of the dangers of scientific elitism?â - Tony Mills. h/t @RSI
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No âexpertâ can decide the proper balance b/t safety, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. American people have every right, even a duty, to resist the abuse of state power in defense of their God-given natural rights. @RpwWilliams, Pres. of @ClaremontInst
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Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution: âNo State shall, without the Consent of CongressâŠenter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.â Absent congressional authorization, these interstate agreements/pacts are prima facie unconstitutional.
Today, Colorado and Nevada joined CA, OR, and WA in our Western States Pact. The West Coast is -- and will continue to be -- guided by SCIENCE. We issued our stay at home orders early to keep the public healthy. Weâll open our economies with that same guiding principle.
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âThe degree to which the governing bodies of the United States and other Western countries are actively involved in vilifying and replacing the very people who constitute their core demographic is unprecedented in human history.â - @emeriticus
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.@KeenanPeachy: "What is Kyle Rittenhouse's crime? Refusing to die at the hands of armed criminal psychopaths. Saying no to their deranged street justice."
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