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Mar 20 10 tweets 5 min read Read on X
The Tesla attacks are getting worse.

Arson. Molotov cocktails. Bouts of gunfire.

This isn't new. The Left has used violence as a political tool for decades.

Only one thing can stop this. In the words of Pat Buchanan: "Force, rooted in justice, and backed by moral courage." 🧵 Image
Since January 6, 2021, we've been fed round-the-clock hysteria about "domestic terrorism" from the Right.

This is what the kids like to call "gaslighting."

The truth is, since the 1960s, political violence has overwhelmingly been a product of the Left.
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Make no mistake: This isn't just a few fringe radicals. Sure, they're the ones who are out there tossing Molotovs in the streets. But the entire institutional Left—from the media to the education system to the Democratic Party itself—colludes to encourage, justify and excuse it.
In 1971, the Weather Underground—a far-left terrorist group—actually bombed the Capitol building, planting an explosive device in a ground-floor bathroom.

In 1983, another left-wing militant group called the Armed Resistance Unit detonated a bomb outside the Senate chamber. Image
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In 18 months from 1971-72, we had 2500 domestic bombings—more than 5 a day.

But most Americans don't remember this. Why? Because the Left controls the schools, the press, the whole system of organized culture—so it's been erased from our popular memory.
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We've seen the same thing with the Tesla attacks today. Most respectable voices on the Left won't go so far as to outright ENDORSE the violence, of course—but they'll distract, equivocate, and soft-peddle it.

Here's a textbook example of how that works:
Oh, they'll walk right up to the line—but always with just enough plausible deniability.

As deranged leftists open fire on Tesla dealerships, they'll post articles titled "Kill Tesla" with pictures of burning cars, and then claim that they were just talking about a boycott. Image
But this is how the playbook always works. From the BLM riots, to the mob harassment of Supreme Court justices, to assassination attempts against Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump, the violent radical arm of the Left always gets the wink-and-a-nod from the "respectable" liberals.
In a healthy political system, this lawlessness would be equally unacceptable to both sides. It would be good for America to have a Democratic Party that didn't encourage, excuse, and make common cause with violent leftists—let alone actively try to bail BLM rioters out of jail. Image
But that's not what we have. So we must respond to this new era of political violence with the full force of the law. The decades-long practice of coddling leftist terrorists has been a disaster for our country. It taught the Left that these tactics work.

That has to end.

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May 7
And there it is: Proof that the FBI covered up the political motive behind the 2017 congressional baseball shooting.

The shooter was a left-wing extremist who explicitly set out to kill GOP congressmen. The FBI knew this. But they told the public it was just “suicide by cop.” 🧵 Image
This stuff isn't "incompetence." It's specific, intentional ideological corruption. The FBI—like so many other institutions in American life—has become a vehicle for manipulating and shaping public narratives to serve left-wing interests.

And the media is eager to help: Image
The new House GOP report shows, in detail, how the FBI actively sought to suppress the overwhelming evidence that the shooter was acting on explicitly political motives—including concealing his handwritten list of Republican targets.

They insisted it was just "suicide by cop." Image
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Apr 29
Amazon spent decades profiting off of America Last trade policies.

First, they tried to attack President Trump's trade policies with this silly stunt. Then, they got hit for it. Now they're trying to back-pedal.

But it's too late. 🧵 Image
Amazon refuses to tell its users where most of their products are made—or if (and when) they’re made in foreign sweatshops. I bet you can guess why.

But NOW, you see, they're all about "transparency"!

That's really what they want us to believe?
Other countries have been ripping America off on trade for years with tariffs and illegal trade practices. Where was Amazon then? Silent.
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Apr 25
It's impossible to overstate how absurd this is.

You can't serve in the military if you have asthma.

But because of two federal judges, we have to bend over backwards to accommodate a "condition" that requires lifelong hormones and multiple surgeries?

We need to fight this. 🧵 Image
At the outset of his administration, President Trump signed a common-sense executive order barring transgender military service. In February, the Pentagon issued a memo affirming that people with a history of gender dysphoria are "incompatible" with U.S. military service. Image
Two federal judges didn't just block the policy—they ordered the Pentagon to immediately resume providing "gender-affirming medical care" to transgender military service members.

That includes hormone therapy and sex-change surgeries. Image
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Apr 24
The Supreme Court just heard arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor—a case about whether public schools can force kids to learn radical transgender ideology, even over parents' religious objections.

The Justices are likely to deal a blow to this woke ideology.

Here's what happened. 🧵
In 2022, the Montgomery County public school system introduced a series of "LGBTQ-inclusive" storybooks to be taught in pre-K to 5th grade.

When hundreds of parents raised religious objections, school bureaucrats eliminated parental notice and the ability to opt-out.
These books taught kids to:
(1) view pronouns and gender as arbitrary choices;
(2) reject those who believe in traditional marriage; and
(3) find terms like “drag queens,” “leather” in a sexual context, “non-binary,” and sex workers in image searches.
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Apr 22
The Supreme Court bypassed normal appellate procedure to halt President Trump's deportation of more illegal aliens.

There a lot of misinformation floating around about judicial rulings, the Alien Enemies Act, and immigration law.

Let's clear a few things up.🧵
On Apr. 7, SCOTUS held: 1. Judge Boasberg had no jurisdiction over the Tren de Aragua deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; 2. Those TdA thugs must seek relief under "habeas" where they are confined (Texas).

This takes the AEA cases from DC to TX.
Last Wednesday, the ACLU filed, in NDTX before Judge Wes Hendrix, a habeas petition and a motion for an ex parte TRO, asking the court to enjoin the Trump Admin's deportation of TdA members confined in NDTX without giving the Trump Admin notice or opportunity to respond.
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Apr 17
Until yesterday, the Biden Administration's "Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism" was classified.

Now, thanks to @DNIGabbard, it's public.

It's a roadmap for left-wing ideological warfare. 🧵 Image
In June 2021, the Biden admin released its public strategy for "countering domestic terrorism."

In a lawsuit, @America1stLegal discovered that there was a separate, classified version of that plan.

But the private version wasn't public—until now.
This was written in the early months of the Biden presidency. But it lays out, in detail, exactly what they would go on to do—and how they justified it.

By adopting the framework of "domestic terrorism" (DT), they could effectively treat their critics as enemies of the state.
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