🧵 1. McConnell’s attacks on Donald Trump & Rick Scott are indefensible
Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this & commit never to sabotage Republican candidates & colleagues—particularly those who are less than two weeks away from a close election
2. We must have clarity from the candidates running to replace McConnell on where they stand on these attacks. They must be clear on how they plan to lead the conference, and on the role of its members
3. The Senate Republican leader is supposed to help Republicans, not undermine them
Sadly, we’ve had too much of the latter
That must end now
4. Remember: McConnell’s superpac has withheld campaign support from Ted Cruz and Rick Scott this election season, an incomprehensible move for a Senate GOP “strong leader” who wants to keep Texas and Florida and gain a majority in the Senate
🚨🧵🚨 1/10 Government shutdowns aren’t a bug—they’re a feature of a system that’s grown too big and too expensive
They illustrate why James Madison insisted the federal government’s powers must be “few and defined”
Let’s break it down
2/10 In Federalist 45, Madison wrote:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
He wasn’t being poetic
He was drawing a line in the sand
3/10 “Few and defined” includes:
• National defense
• Foreign affairs
• Interstate & foreign commerce
• Coining money
• Post offices & roads
There are a few others, but that’s most of it
Everything else?
Left to the states—“or to the people”
But today?
The feds touch everything—including education, healthcare, light bulbs, toilets, and your kids’ lunch at school
At the “No Kings” rallies, we saw countless, open calls for violence against President Trump and other Republicans
When pressed, some Democrats will shrug and insist that “both sides have bad apples who sometimes say bad things, but that doesn’t mean they reflect the views of their party as a whole”
That sounds like a good argument—and in the past it might have been
But open calls for violence among Democrats have recently become so common, widely accepted, and even celebrated—as they certainly were at the “No Kings” rallies—that this argument rings hollow
Those engaging in such behavior over the weekend appear to have done so with full, unbridled approval of their fellow protesters
And this happened in so many times—and in so many different locations—that it’s impossible to dismiss them as one-off exceptions
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This guy’s promoting the killing of federal law enforcement personnel—with the apparent approval of the crowd
Dick proudly announces that he wants to “kill the president”
I’m not sure why, but “F the Mormons” chants have become far too common at BYU’s away games
Funny thing—the host schools generally don’t seem to be the least bit concerned about it, even though all of them have many Latter-day Saints enrolled as students
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How Democrats Are Trying To Enlist Republicans In The Dem Effort To Move America Toward Socialized Medicine
1. Dems enact Obamacare “to make healthcare affordable”—with *every* Republican opposing it and warning that Obamacare will make healthcare more expensive, not less
2. Obamacare makes healthcare *less* affordable, with premiums going up every year, even as coverage and quality steadily diminish
Meanwhile, huge healthcare companies get rich as they consolidate and minimize competition, facilitated by Obamacare’s onerous regulations
3. Trying to hide Obamacare’s failures, Dems extend and expand Obamacare premium subsidies—again with every Republican in Congress opposing that move
🧵 1/ No other success a country enjoys—economically, intellectually, technologically, or otherwise—can compensate for a collapse in that country’s birth rate, which culminates in unmitigated societal demise
2/ Low birth rate and population collapse leads to extinction
3/ Human extinction cancels all other human advances—in knowledge, wealth, prosperity, and every other achievement