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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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Here's a terrifying fact.

According to some estimates, America would run out of key munitions in “less than one week” in a major conflict with China.

Less than one week.

We can't keep fighting other people's wars. It's time for America to come home. 🧵 Image
A few quick data points.

As I mentioned above: In 2023, @CSIS ran a series of war games for a U.S.-China conflict in the Taiwan Strait. In every single scenario they ran, the U.S. ran out of critical munitions—such as long-range, precision-guided munitions—in less than one week. Image
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To make matters worse, China is currently acquiring high-end weapons systems 5-6X faster than we are.

Our stockpiles are depleted. Our industrial capacity is exhausted.

The hard truth that many in DC won't say: Replenishing these systems will take years—not weeks or months. Image
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It's official: USAID is dead.

This is a huge win — not just for America, but for all of Western civilization.

Here’s why. 🧵 Image
Much of this has already been documented at length: Through USAID, billions of U.S. tax dollars were funneled to radical NGOs, media outlets, "civil society" groups, and foreign bureaucracies that actively worked against both American interests and conservative values worldwide.
These left-wing systems operate across borders, through international bureaucracies and NGOs.

So the left-wing activism we fund abroad always comes home.

For example: The State Department dumped billions into refugee NGOs that facilitated mass migration in Europe AND America. Image
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Mar 28
Judge James Boasberg has now been assigned his FOURTH major Trump case.

This happens far too often. Big conservative cases magically end up in the hands of far-left judges. They tell us it's "random"—but it's not.

I'm demanding a full investigation, answers, and reforms. 🧵
Administrative court clerks’ offices assign cases to specific judges behind closed doors. Today, I wrote a letter to Judge Van Totenhove—the Chairman of the Rules Committee on the Judicial Conference of the United States—demanding a full investigation and reform of this process. Image
Administrative court clerks’ offices assign cases to specific judges behind closed doors. Today, I wrote a letter to Judge Van Totenhove—the Chairman of the Rules Committee on the Judicial Conference of the United States—demanding a full investigation and reform of this process. Image
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Across the West, our civilization is threatened by a radical network of NGOs.

These groups lie behind almost every crisis of our time—from mass censorship to mass migration.

Tomorrow, we're going to expose their war on freedom of speech. 🧵 Image
In the internet age, information is power.

The Left knows the stakes. That's why they've waged a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign to control what you see and say online.

I explained how their censorship operation works earlier this month:
This operation is a dangerous marriage of public and private power—a global system of security agencies, tech firms, activist groups, nonprofits, media orgs and government bureaucracies taking what they describe as a "whole-of-society" approach to censoring disfavored speech.
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Article II of the Constitution vests the power to execute the laws in its one officer, the President. For nearly the first century of the republic, the President could hire, fire, or appoint anyone who worked in Article II because the President has the sacred duty to "take care" that the laws of the US be “faithfully executed”
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The Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise.

A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the West.

Over the next four years, the GOP must expose + dismantle this system. 🧵 Image
The censorship-industrial complex wasn't built overnight. It's been festering for years.

But the Biden administration mobilized an unholy alliance of government power, taxpayer dollars, NGOs and Big Tech companies to build it into a global censorship powerhouse.
Seemingly every agency was a partner in building this system: FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, State Department, Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, USAID—even FEMA.

Through grants and partnerships, these agencies funneled countless tax dollars to censorship groups. Image
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