Today is Constitution Day. 235 years ago in Philadelphia, 39 men signed the document & sent it to the various states for ratification. It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, political documents ever written. Out of it came the world’s longest lasting Constitutional. . . Republic. The founders of the Republic understood that inherent rights had been granted to every individual. They constructed the machinery of the Republic to in fact protect those rights and take none of them away. That is why the machinery of the Republic was based on the. . .

1776 was about principled defiance in the face of authoritarianism in which the powerful British Empire suspended many of the rights of the English colonists in the American colonies and began implementing taxes and other policies. The colonists, after years of appeals. . . Finally realized their last recourse was armed resistance. But they based their resistance off really a fundamental belief: they had been endowed by a Creator w/ unalienable rights; life, liberty, etc. and out of those fundamental rights the ideas/beliefs in self-governance. . .

I think the only thing Conservative Inc. is good at conserving is their sinecures with nice buildings & paychecks. Because they're not conserving much of anything else. At what point does the donor community wake up and realize it's also part of the problem? By funding weak. . . And ineffective think tanks, donors are only making the situation even worse by creating opportunity cost. Continuing to put money into the wrong places & wrong people will continue to lead to the wrong results. Ask yourself: do you think that the “conservative movement”. . .

Here is what I was going to say tonight on Fox: 19 gutless Republicans just helped sell out the American people w/ this abominable infrastructure bill.
This bill adds anywhere from $256 billion to $400 billion to our $30 trillion deficit. But more than that, it’s not really. . . infrastructure at all. When you add in roads, bridges, airports, major projects, you might get to 23% of this bill being about infrastructure. The rest is basically a Leftist wish list. This is a gateway bill to the Green New Deal. . .

A little history lesson: Hugh, Lord Percy, who features in my new book, The Adversaries, was one of the senior British officers in Boston in 1774-1775. In Sept 1774, he wrote back to England: "What makes an insurrection here always more formidable than in other places. . ." "is that there is a law of this Province, which obliges every inhabitant to be furnished with a firelock, bayonet, & pretty considerable quantity of ammunition. Be sides which, every township is obliged by the same law to have a large magazine of all kinds of military stores. . .

246 years ago today, a young Boston physician by the name of Dr. Joseph Warren took the pulpit of the Old South Meeting House. He’d come to give the oration for the 5th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre. As the anniversary had fallen on a Sunday, the oration was scheduled. . . For the next day. It was said there were 5,000 in attendance that day in a building built more for a much smaller crowd. Forty British officers came, seating themselves on the pulpit stairs, come to intimidate Warren. But he looked over their heads and spoke to the gathered. . .

Have to confess many in the base/grassroots have failed to do what I’ve been encouraging them to do the last decade or so: make a party a creature of your own creation. A party is what people say it is, and the people who say what it is are the ones who win primaries. . . And show up and conventions. But that takes real, systematic work and discipline, along with a certain amount of endurance. So don’t bitch and moan because you left those things undone which you should have done. The best time to have done this work was ten years ago. . .

Guys, listen: I am one of Trump's biggest fans & supporters. There were many ducking MSNBC & CNN hits the spring and summer of 2017 at the height of collusion conspiracy madness. I was not, even doing on-set hits. But I was confronting crazy; trust me. As absurd as it seems. . . Now, there were A LOT of people absolutely convinced collusion was real. It was almost a loyalty test as well for the left: if you dared question it you were disloyal. I would strongly caution us in this moment to not do some stupid loyalty test based off suspicions. . .

On Constitution Day, good to remember many things that have made the American Republic the greatest constitutional republic in history. But at the foundation, one of the most fundamental concepts the Founders got right was a correct understanding of human nature . . . The Founders believed that we are imperfect human beings in an imperfect world who had been endowed by God with transcendent natural rights of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, etc. So how to solve this conundrum: imperfect human beings do what they can, not what they. . .

There’s this little thing called the constitution and constitutional order. By the means laid out by the constitution, @realDonaldTrump is the duly elected President of the United States. He decides domestic & foreign policy inside of his administration. Not these dumbasses. . .

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If you were sum up the last four years and everything that has taken place, from Russian collusion fairytales, to Ukrainian quid pro quo hoaxes, etc. it comes down to this: who decides. In a constitutional republic the people’s elected representatives, who are the stewards. . .

A history lesson from the 1930s: massive unrest in Germany, fallout from the Treaty of Versailles, etc etc. The Nazis and Hitler are on the rise. There is violence in the street between the Communist Party of Germany (KDP) and the Nazis AND the Social Democrats (SDP). Each . . . Has their own paramilitary arm; KDP's is the Antifaschistische Aktion, commonly known as Antifa, Nazi's have the Brownshirts, the SDP has the Iron Front. There is continual violence and upheaval in the streets. It is basic human nature to desire peace, prosperity & stability. . .

I sent a letter to Dean Baquet the other day regarding the NY Times piece on Sean Hannity. I got a robo response. So I figure I'll just tweet thread the letter out: "Mr. Baquet: On April 18, 2020, the NY Times published a story by Ginia Bellafante which claimed Mr. Joe Joyce. . . "of the coronavirus because, his daughter said, he “watched Fox and believed it [COVID-19] was under control,” and thus it was safe to go on a cruise to Spain. Your reporter wrote, “Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didn’t like the way the American. . .

I don’t believe at all that the Chinese Coronavirus or Wuhan Flu is “The Big One.” But it has highlighted some major problems with US policies on two fronts: immigration and manufacturing. First, on immigration: ask yourself, if there was a truly devastating virus. . . That could kill tens of millions like the Spanish flu, do you think our current porous borders would in any way have the ability to protect US citizens ? Short answer: hell no. Second, with the overwhelming percentage of our antibiotics (97%) and drug materials (80%) being. . .

I've said it before but I'll say it again: Dems have created a trap for themselves w/ impeachment & demand for witnesses in Senate trial. The goal shouldn't be to simply acquit Trump. The goal should be to crush Dems in a trap of their own making; make it painful, devastating. Let them call Bolton & Mulvaney. Trump likely to invoke Executive privilege. But open the witness can of worms, let’s dance: Hunter Biden, Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, Comey, Brennan, McCabe, etc. That happens and I can almost assure you this trial spins out of control for Dems.

OK, so @realDonaldTrump has played the Dems and MSM again. The transcript is now in the open. After congratulating Zelensky on his win, and ripping on Germany and EU for a bit, Trump asks for a favor of Zelensky; no "You have to do this or else" quid pro quo absurdity. . . @realDonaldTrump Trump asks a favor: : "I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike. . . The server, they say Ukraine has it." Trump then mentions wanting to have AG Barr call, try and get to the bottom of it all. Zelensky mentions. . .

I think there is some misunderstanding as to the intent of the 2A. Remember our Founders had just faced down an oppressive government that had infringed upon & disregarded natural rights. The foundational thinking of 2A is that as a last recourse in defense of natural rights. . . In the face of oppressive threats, both foreign & domestic, a citizenry must be armed; when all rational debate had failed, it was time to take up arms in defense of natural rights. Therefore, the American people, as a defense mechanism for their natural rights, should never. . .

Need to flesh this out in an op-ed, but one of the reasons we're seeing this upheaval is because generations have now been raised in the self-esteem culture, that everyone is a winner. What those generations on the Left are struggling w/ is getting smacked in the face. . . By the sobering reality of what the real world looks like: there are winners and there are losers. People that have been taught they’re all winners throw temper tantrums when they realize they’re losers, that they actually lost. . .

We have to discuss our farce of a legal system. It is trifurcated: one set of laws, more like suggestions to be ignored for powerful elites with the right political connections. Then there’s the powerful federal bureaucrat, DOJ/FBI who are seemingly considered untouchable. . . And then there’s the rest of us who go to jail for one violation or have KGB-like pre dawn raids conducted against them. The people conducting political warfare by means of the law should be very careful. When the American people truly and fully wake up to what is happening. . .