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Jul 5 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Was the American Revolution sinful?

Many Christians wrestle with Romans 13 (“obey the authorities”) and wonder if the Founding Fathers rebelled against God when they broke with King George.

The answer is no — and here’s why. 🧵 Image 2/ Romans 13 requires obedience to lawful commands.

Unlawful orders — even from duly constituted authority — may never be followed.

In Acts 5, the Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop preaching Christ. Their reply: “We must obey God rather than men.”

The same principle applies when a king commands tyranny.Image
Jul 4 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The Declaration of Independence is one of the most Christian documents in human history.

Its famous line — “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — is widely thought to be secular Enlightenment philosophy.

But that's only half true. It actually reflects a deeply Biblical worldview.

Here’s why. 🧵Image 2/ The founders asserted these rights as “self-evident” and “endowed by their Creator.”

They saw rights as prior to government — not granted by it.

If rights come from God, no government can legitimately take them away.

Senator Tim Kaine’s recent claim that rights come from government is the precisely opposite Marxist view — and antithetical to the American idea.Image
Jul 3 7 tweets 3 min read
Five myths about America’s Founding Fathers.

Much of what we’re taught about the men who created the Declaration, the Revolution, and the Constitution is simply wrong.

Here are the biggest ones. 🧵 Image 2/ Myth 1: They wanted a secular nation.

The founders saw religion and morality as essential supports for liberty.

Jefferson asked if liberties could be secure without “a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God.”

Washington and Hamilton agreed: religion and morality are indispensable.

They demanded tolerance, not secularism.Image
Jun 27 4 tweets 2 min read
🧵Are you tired of winning yet?

Trump just scored huge victories: the biggest trade deal in history with the EU, a Lebanon-Israel peace deal, and more.

The world is being reordered in America’s favor — and it’s only getting better.

🧵 Image 2/ Just 11 months ago, Trump signed the largest trade deal ever with the EU.

This week, the EU ratified it. For the first time in history Europe charges us ZERO. And we charge them 15%!

Europe buying $600 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investment and $750 billion in American energy over three years.

The establishment on both sides of the Atlantic said it would never happen, that the whole world would isolate and gang up on America.

Kind of like they told you Hillary would win by 12 points.Image
Jun 26 7 tweets 4 min read
🧵Nationalism is not empire. It’s the opposite.

Nationalism is the right of peoples to rule themselves. Empire is one nation ruling others.

The people who demonize “nationalism” don’t hate bad nations. They want to replace nation-states with a new global empire of unelected elites.

Don't fall for it. 🧵Image 2/ The American Revolution was nationalist — rejecting rule by distant strangers.

So were the Latin American revolutions against Spain. And decolonization around the world.

America has always defended national self-determination through the Monroe Doctrine and beyond. Image
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Jun 25 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Treasury @SecScottBessent just laid out Trump’s vision for 21st-century American economic statecraft.

It remakes the global order of the last 80 years.

It’s a masterclass in disciplined power: using America’s economic strength to serve our sovereignty — not globalist elites. 🧵 @SecScottBessent 2/ For decades, we assumed openness had no downside.

We tolerated massive imbalances, supply chain dependence on adversaries, and unfair practices — all while believing integration would magically align interests.

Those assumptions failed. Bessent is correcting them. Image
Jun 24 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The world is significantly greener than it was 40 years ago — thanks to rising CO2.

Satellite data shows almost all ecosystems have grown greener by about 15% in 33 years. Crop yields are up. Reforestation is accelerating. Even marine ecosystems are benefiting.

So why isn’t the “green” movement celebrating? 🧵Image 2/ This greening effect is massive — equivalent to adding an area of green vegetation about twice the size of the mainland U.S.

CO2 is plant food. With more CO2, plants grow faster, use water more efficiently, and thrive even in arid areas.

Commercial greenhouses pump in extra CO2 for this exact reason.Image
Jun 24 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Schedule F is back.

Trump is resurrecting the most important executive reform of his first term — and it’s aimed directly at the Deep State.

If the President can't fire policy makers, why'd we have an election at all?

This is about restoring power to the voters by restoring Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.

🧵Image 2/ Schedule F creates a new category for policy-making and policy-implementing federal employees.

These positions will no longer have near-ironclad permanent employment.

The President, as head of the executive branch, can once again hire, manage, and remove people who "resist" the agenda voters chose...or who are just bad at their jobs!Image
Jun 19 14 tweets 6 min read
🧵Juneteenth: No, America Wasn’t Built by Slaves—Slavery Held Us Back

Let’s talk about what really made America rich, and why the Left keeps lying about it.

Hint: it wasn’t forced labor. It was freedom. Image 2/ Today, we rightly celebrate Juneteenth: the day in 1865 when Texas slaves learned they were free.

That freedom was secured by Republicans, at gunpoint, from the same Democrats who enslaved them in the first place.

The narrative needs a correction. Image
Jun 18 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵We could have had cell phones 40 years sooner.

The technology existed by the 1940s. The holdup wasn’t engineering — it was government regulation, spectrum hoarding, and cronyism.

What else are we missing today because of Washington? 🧵 Image 2/ In 1945, the head of the FCC promised Americans would soon have “handie-talkies.”

But the FCC prioritized broadcast TV over mobile phones. They gave TV massive needless spectrum — most of it left unused — while starving “land mobile” services.

Cellular networks were proposed in 1947. Approved? Not until the 1980s.Image
Jun 11 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced.

Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune.

SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over again.🧵Image 2/ Facebook dominated the social graph. SpaceX is organizing the economic graph of a multiplanetary civilization, and remaking intercontinental transport at the same time.

It launches ~85%+ of the whole world's payload mass to orbit. Starlink connects the planet. Starship slashes costs 95% and enables orbital data centers, lunar industry, Martian cities, point-to-point Earth transport, and military logistics at unprecedented speed.Image
Jun 10 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The USS Nimitz — America’s oldest aircraft carrier, laid down in 1968 and scheduled for decommissioning this month — just showed up off Cuba’s coast instead.

Raul Castro better watch out. There's a cell beside Maduro's!

Trump isn’t letting old ships rust. He’s using them to project power. 🧵Image 2/ The Navy extended the Nimitz’s service life by ~10 months.

Now the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is in the Caribbean, sending a clear message to Havana.

“Welcome to the Caribbean, Nimitz!” — U.S. Southern Command.

Jun 10 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵 "Horse paste" wins again!

The New World screwworm — a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the U.S. in 1966 — is back.

Confirmed cases now in Texas and New Mexico. It burrows into open wounds and consumes living tissue.

But the good news is, Ivermectin is proving highly effective against it in both animals and humans. 🧵Image 2/ The USDA confirmed the first U.S. case in decades on June 3, 2026, in a Texas calf. More cases followed in Texas counties and a dog in New Mexico.

This parasite has been marching north from Central America. Unlike regular flies, screwworm larvae are obligate parasites that destroy living flesh.Image
Jun 10 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Calling Israel a “European colonial project” may sometimes be ignorance. But it’s a lie.

Mizrahi Jews — who never lived anywhere but the Middle East for 2,500+ years — are the largest group in Israel (between half and ~61%).

They weren’t colonizers. They were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands in the 20th Century.

The colonial myth requires erasing them. 🧵Image 2/ These communities predated Islam by 1,500 years. They wrote the Talmud in Iraq. Maintained ancient traditions in Yemen. Formed a third of Baghdad’s population.

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews lived across the Arab world.

Today? Fewer than 10 remain in Iraq, Yemen, or Libya. Image
Jun 9 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵A single uranium pellet the size of a gummy bear equals the energy of 140 barrels of oil.

Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy source on Earth. And now, it can be produced with zero chance of meltdown or radiation leaks.

So why isn’t it powering everything? We buried a miracle under 50 years of regulation. That’s changing fast. 🧵Image 2/ From 1974 to 2025, the NRC approved zero new reactor designs.

Only two reactors came online in that entire period.

Trump’s executive orders are blowing this open: goal to quadruple America’s nuclear fleet by 2050, 18-month licensing timelines, and three new microreactors online by July 4, 2026.

Nuclear entrepreneurs say regulation is finally becoming a solved problem.Image
Jun 8 7 tweets 4 min read
🧵 China’s population collapse is now mathematically irreversible.

There simply aren’t enough women left of childbearing age.

Even if the fertility rate magically returned to replacement level (2.1 children per woman) tomorrow, the country would still lose more than 40% of its population by 2100.

It won't. The real number is 75%. There's nothing like it in history. 🧵Image 2/ Official estimates say China has only ~190 million women of childbearing age. That number is much higher than reality.

The One Child Policy (1980–2016) and its echoes slashed entire generations. Sex-selective abortions made it worse.

The cohorts now entering prime childbearing years are themselves the children of the one-child policy — already a drastically smaller group.

Each generation compounds the previous deficit.Image
Jun 6 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵84 years ago this week, the Battle of Midway changed history.

But what if America had lost — as it very nearly did?

People have no idea how close we came to a Japanese victory that would have cost the Allies both the Pacific and Europe.

It was that close. 🧵 Image 2/ Had Japan won at Midway, they would have destroyed three U.S. carriers while keeping their fleet intact.

Nothing could have stopped them from seizing key South Pacific islands, building airfields, and creating an impregnable defensive perimeter from Samoa to Midway to the Aleutians.

U.S. supply lines to Australia would have been severed. A Pacific offensive delayed until mid-1943 or later.

But that's just the beginning....Image
Jun 4 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The EU is finally waking up: Donald Trump was right about China.

Europe’s industrial base could be obliterated in less than a decade by China’s predatory export machine.

Brussels ignored the warnings. Now they’re facing the consequences. 🧵 Image 2/ China is doubling down on massive over-investment and dumping excess capacity on the world while pursuing autarky at home.

Effect: it's exporting deflation and unemployment as a means to stay in power by destroying your job.

The Rhodium Group warns this “China Shock 2.0” is bigger and more sophisticated than the first one that hollowed out America’s Rust Belt.Image
Jun 2 7 tweets 4 min read
🧵Leftist, progressive lawyers are fleeing the Trump administration in large numbers.

According to the NYT, more than 10,000 have left federal agencies since the beginning of 2025, according to a New York Times analysis.

The federal government has lost an incredible 17% of its civilian lawyers in just 15 months. Bwuhahahahahaha!

This isn’t random attrition. It’s a self-revelation. 🧵Image 2/ The numbers are stark.

The Department of Education lost more than half its lawyers. The Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Energy, and Agriculture all saw steep declines. DOJ is down 24%.

The Deep State saboteurs are leaving. Trump is getting to replace them. But he's hiring fewer.

Despite agencies hiring about 3,200 lawyers during this period, departures still vastly outpaced recruitment.Image
Jun 2 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Is Scott Bessent working to crash the yuan?

He helped break the Bank of England in 1992. Now Trump’s Treasury Secretary is using that experience against China — and Beijing should be terrified.

THREAD🧵 Image 2/ In 1992, Scott Bessent was part of the Soros team that broke the pound.

Britain was defending an exchange rate reality no longer supported. The speculators attacked. The Bank of England lost.

Trump watched. He learned the lesson.

Governments don’t lose currencies because traders are clever. They lose them because they defend lies too long.Image
Jun 1 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵New Orleans just proved failing schools can be fixed at scale.

It became America’s first all-charter school district.

The results are staggering:

• 99th percentile nationally in reading growth
• 98th percentile in math growth
• The only state in America beating pre-pandemic levels in both subjects

This is what real reform looks like. THREAD 🧵Image 2/ Before Hurricane Katrina, the system was a disaster.

Over 60% of New Orleans public schools were rated failing. Kids attended chaotic, dangerous schools where constant disruptions made real learning almost impossible.

A generation was being failed by design.

Then the storm hit — and everything changed.Image
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