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Jan 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If I'm following Charles correctly, then there's no question of what happens next. This wraps around to my thread of last week (next post), where I said the Rubicon had already been crossed by the Dems

By threatening mass arrests they ensure battle, that die has already
1/ been cast. As covered in that thread, the Dems are threatening to arrest the Administration, ICE agents, likely Border Patrol, and any in the military who follow orders that the Left doesn't like. Unprecedented, we've never seen anything like this.
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Jan 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The relationship between Trump & the RW base is complicated, and has always carried dangers for both sides.

Trump is a billionaire elitist who saw an enormous opportunity, a veritable crown in the gutter, in terms of average RW Americans in the Heartland,
1/ whose interests were not being served by RINOs.

Trump is a natural showman, a good marketer, and he created the MAGA branding strategy, as the core of his running as a populist, telling us what we wanted to hear. He did a masterful job.
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Jan 20 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The core issue between the US & Europe is that as a Trump voter, I would be jailed for my beliefs in Europe. No party with our political beliefs is allowed to win.

That means we're not allies or friends. This is non-negotiable for the EU. Treaties are therefore irrelevant.
1/ There was an underlying premise to the West, over the last 80 years. We were the "good guys", meaning we were the alliance of democracies.

The EU has been redefining what a "democracy" is. Certain political beliefs & parties are forbidden.
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Jan 18 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The current anger between Europeans, Canadians & Americans is the result of the artificial world order of the last 35 years. This was not a natural state, but the result of American military hegemony. As that hegemony ends & the world fractures into geopolitical blocs,
1/ then many imbalances, weaknesses and vulnerabilities are being revealed. Oh, they were there the whole time, but nobody thought about them as the US maintained order.

A declining empire is naturally a time of chaos - when imbalances are corrected & weaknesses are exploited
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Jan 18 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
European history is one of warrior nations. But, that was generations ago. The supposed purpose of the EU is to make sure there will never be another WW, and they have effectively neutered their men to make sure this happens.

I'm curious - who will be the new Euro legions?
1/ When I say "neutered", I mean they have been deliberately raised from a societal perspective to be less masculine, in the troublesome sense. They are raised to be non-violent, to have zero experience with weapons, and to passively accept what is increasingly feminine authority
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Jan 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Iran update. We now know what happened.

On the afternoon of Jan 8, the protests were peaking. That evening, the IRGC & Basri did follow their orders, they fired their Kalashnikovs into the crowds, thousands died - and the protests ended right there.

Tragic, and it breaks the
1/ Color Revolution narrative, because that only happens with when liberal Western nations are in charge.

The Iranians are like the Chinese, and when faced with popular revolt, the security forces will follow orders and will kill.
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Jan 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People wonder if & when Trump will cross the Rubicon. They're watching the wrong bank.

The Dems are crossing the Rubicon in great numbers. Jeffries is threatening the entire administration - and ICE - with jail time, less than a year into office. America as we knew it is over
1/ That may sound like hyperbole, and I wish it was, but it is not. We have not seen anything like this since the Civil War.

A league of Blue states has agreed to ignore election results, ignore federal law, and label Trump a tyrant while calling US law enforcement agents thugs.
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Jan 15 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
QT of my thread on HSI as a parallel FBI 👇(drill down).

The split between security forces that is what matters here, it is new, and a lot is happening - fast.

Homeland security vs state govts. Disputes over control of the National Guard. Threats against US military service
1/ members if they follow orders from their chain of command that the political opposition disagrees with.

What we are seeing from the Dems is unprecedented. Homeland Security, consisting of ICE (including HSI) and the Border Patrol is the largest US law enforcement agency.
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Jan 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Trump humiliation of Russia goes further than I thought. I had thought the ship was seized before the Russian escorts got there. No, per the WSJ the ship was actively under escort. The surface vessel & submarine were right there, when the US military went ahead & seized it
1/ From the article:

"The U.S. accelerated its campaign against a shadow fleet of tankers that ship Venezuelan oil, with the military forcibly boarding a ship being escorted by the Russian navy"
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Jan 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Another important point has to do with the increase in autism diagnoses. On the surface, a highly gifted child can show what a 105 IQ social worker might mistake as Asbergers.

In point of fact, a highly gifted person can do many things a legit autistic never could.
1/ The highly gifted are fine with unstructured situations, nonverbal cues, aware of the emotions of other people, have Theory of Mind, understand metaphors, and are capable of normal social intersections - but only with a small group of people they find sufficiently interesting
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Dec 31, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Minnesota is a good place to make or break the reform of America, because it is so isolated, and can be targeted.

The fraud isn't even Minnesota, but the Twin Cities metro area. A stinking cesspool of corruption surrounded by cleaner Red counties (including outstate MN).
1/ Yes, yes, while the level of fraud is staggering, it is likely tiny compared to what is happening in CA & NY, let alone the entire nation. That's the problem - the numbers, scale & complexity of theft, fraud & corruption are such that the eyes blur.
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Dec 31, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
There was an entire governmental & banking ecosystem of corruption needed to make the Somali frauds happen. Those are where the arrests need to happen, not just the individual Somalis, and we're seeing zero of that so far.

Minnesota law requires regular & thorough physical
1/ inspections of daycare facilities. I've known someone who ran one, the inspectors were hardasses who were difficult to deal with.

A whole network of people - this runs up to Walz - had to direct State of Minnesota employees to not enforce the law in order to facilitate fraud.
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Dec 28, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Almost 600k views, and the debates in the replies are fascinating. This isn't a gender war, it's often mothers debating with other women.

I believe the fundamental issue is that individual female empowerment leads to societal outcomes that many aren't intellectually capable
1/ of understanding, or that they refuse to consider because they don't like it.

Feminism has conquered much of humanity, and the fundamental tenet is "choice". Women are not obligated to bear children for men, but can choose not to - hence the central importance of abortion.
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Dec 27, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I previously written about childless career women as being "Brides of the State". They don't need a man for money, security, food or shelter - so they never marry.

However, they are still in lifetime "marriage" but it is to the State. That inherently means a lot of risk.
1/ If the State fails, or has to slash expenditures, or they lose political control of the State - well, then those women are totally at risk, and this particularly true as they get older. This necessarily comes with the territory of being a Bride of the State.
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Dec 27, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This thread has gone semi-viral, and whoo boy, are there some mad people in the replies (though the ratio is still 40 to 1 in my favor).

The core issue is that people think they can make binding contracts that later generations will HAVE to honor, even if they are impossible.
1/ No impossible promises will be broken, and this can be stated with 100% certainty.

The specifics of how the promises will be broken are what we don't yet know.

There is so much anger already about the Boomers, but this is still very early stage.
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Dec 26, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
More than that. In the olde days, mortality would occur earlier and often very fast. There were no cures with heart attacks, strokes, cancer, etc. A man would work a physically demanding job to 55 or 62, and then drop dead on the spot.

People in their 70s and particularly 80s
1/ start to become very frail, and are incapable of working after a certain point in jobs requiring physical labor. I don't know how many little old ladies you, but those tough old birds often make it well into their 90s, and may not have been able to really work in 25-30 years.
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Dec 26, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What the endless anti-Boomer tirades come down to is two things: people live much longer on average than they used to, and the birth rate has slowed way down.

None of this supporting the old was a problem when most people had 3-4 children, before dying by age 60.
1/ Yes, yes, I get it, screaming about evil Boomers using anecdotal examples is a popular meme / hobby here.

But, for things like the wealth concentration & homeownership rates, well those have always been natural trends over time, but they were exaggerated by people living so long
Dec 24, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I was thinking about the CHIPS Act when writing the shipbuilding threads.

No nation can be globally competitive while mandating that most jobs be awarded in a racial & gender-based spoils system. A nation that doesn't do that - like China - will outcompete them every time.
1/ The new semiconductors plants are in fact a massive, patronage-based looting of the American people. The national debt is being increased by what can be millions of dollars per new job, with the substantial majority of the new jobs being reserved for nonwhites & women.
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Dec 24, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
How do we regain the skilled labor force that can build battleships in 2.5 years?

1. Start with a motivated young American
2. Hire him - and all his co-workers - strictly on merit
3. Provide the needed training
4. Give him lifetime job security - so long as he excels,
1/ then his job that is vital to national security will never be offshored
5. Pay him well, enough so that with a few years experience he can buy a home & support a family (this won't be in a super-expensive metro area)
6. Let him spend 5-10 years becoming a true master
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Dec 24, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As I've often written about, a nation can't be a military superpower without being an industrial superpower. In every war since the Civil War, the defining characteristic of the US military has been overwhelming materials superiority. The Civil War was the 1st major Industrial
1/ Age war, with mass production from Northern factories overwhelming what the primarily agrarian South could produce. Given the manpower & industrial differences, it's amazing the South lasted as long as it did.

The issue today is that the same poisonous elites who offshored
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Dec 22, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The heart of the Heritage American debate is often a denial that is "for you but not for me"

You are not allowed a distinct cultural identity from which I am excluded. However, I am absolutely allowed as a special cultural identity as a Canadian, Mexican, Somali or whatever.
1/ This is arguably not just a side effect, but one of the enabling mechanisms for American empire.

The American culture, money and military are supposed to dominate the world. So, all are encourage to believe they are part of that, and that they have full knowledge of America.
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