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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Over seven centuries ago, Thomas Aquinas summed up what western civilization understood to be the natural debt of gratitude all human beings owe to God, family, and country:
“Man becomes a debtor to other men in various ways, according to their various excellence and the various benefits received from them . . . the principles of our being and government are our parents and our country, that have given us birth and nourishment."
"Consequently man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God. Wherefore just as it belongs to religion to give worship to God, so does it belong to piety, in the second place, to give worship to one’s parents and one’s country.”
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23 Nov
There’s almost no connection between most large donors and foundations on the right and actual power, significant political action, or results. Now is a good example. There’s a fight on re the presidency and the senate. It’s the organic MAGA movement that has all the energy.
But there is no infrastructure of non-profits, foundations, activists, media groups, etc. common to the left but needed on the Right. But much is now possible—IF you understand the landscape and how it’s changed and how we should change accordingly.
This is a transitional time in which money used rightly could wield great influence and move the dial. Some get this. Most don’t.
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20 Nov
No one should be getting angry at @TuckerCarlson or friends like @davereaboi at aiming at truth in regard to the election. The goal should simply be to ask and answer valid questions. The media is full of garbage, yes, but bold claims require solid evidence.
The truth, it seems to me, is that they made the illegal legal, or created a gray area to harvest and avoid disqualifying mail-ins.
Stuff like this happened and in many cases was technically legal and some not. Shady either way. Should be fought. But likelihood of proving it is slim to none, sadly.
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20 Nov
This is the unassailable anomalous tell for anyone knowledgeable on the topic. The expert knock on mail-ins up until Nov 3rd was that they lead to lots of disqualified ballots. But Democrats fought to allow & harvest them en masse & then count them all at world historical rates.
This isn't complicated. It's a bloody obvious question to ask: all of a sudden these states allowed exponentially more harvested mail-ins than in past years and the ballots were all counted at a-historical rates in a way that obviously favored Biden.
Read @josh_hammer at @theammind and ask yourself: has anyone adequately answered these valid questions? Is any Democrat or anyone now calling themselves a moderate even trying to answer them?

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19 Nov
It was totally legit for mainstream to accuse & investigate the President for 4yrs for stealing 2016 election by supposedly manipulating tech & being a Russian agent but constitutionally investigating the bizarre way the 2020 election played out is a dangerous conspiracy theory.
Anyone who cares about democracy will seek to allow a process to play out that proves that this one - in which the rules were changed last minute before it unfolded in whip-lash inducing manner - was legit for the sake of half the nation that is now plausibly concerned.
Showers of fact checks wildly claiming there's NO FRAUD EVER & all voting software/hardware that even libs were worried before last month are TOTALLY FINE doesn't cut it.
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17 Nov
The idea that Trump has finally been vanquished politically, culturally, and on every other level & we can finally move on back into a glorious Obama-era managerial-class normal is just as insane now as it has been the last four years.

The "civic unrest" is just beginning.
The overly-swift jump into BIDEN WON (ANYTHING ELSE IS A CONSPIRACY THEORY) NOW WE WILL BUILD BACK BETTER & MAKE RESETS GREAT AGAIN FAST is a see-through psychological tell. Yrs of denialism & now a kind of rabid clinging to Biden win as faux-evidence their denial was correct.
BIDEN WON - NOW LET'S DO OBAMA THINGS AGAIN FAST FAST FAST QUICKLY NOW. Please. This denialism, as I've said for years, will only make the road even rockier than it has to be in the coming months and years.
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16 Nov
Gonna create a voting software company called Authoritarian with all my Right leaning friends for use in swing states and third world countries alike and it’s gonna be totally lit and legit.
I’ll get @JackPosobiec and @RaheemKassam to do sales, @peterthiel to invest & chair Board, @ClaremontInst to provide expert political expertise. And as CEO of Authoritarian I guarantee it will provide only the best results to voters worldwide using most robust tech available.
“But Matt, aren’t a lot of Trump supporters and shadowy right-leaning figures and orgs involved with Authoritarian?”

Yes. All the best people who believe in the best things. But also YOUR DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY THEORY SUBVERTS DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW, FRIEND-O.
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