David Larson
@DavidLarson83
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Managing editor at Carolina Journal covering #NCPOL.
Hillsborough, NC
Joined March 2022
A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family.
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Reminder: Twitter isn't reality.
🚨 54% of GOP voters say US should support Israel. 10% say US should support Palestinians. ✅ Dems are divided. 23% say we should support Israel, 24% the Palestinians, and 29% say neither. ✅ Support for Israel is highest among Trump base at 57%. Among Traditional R's it's 46%.
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In the 60s, @NRO founder Bill Buckley worked to expel fringe, isolationist, conspiracy nuts called Birchers from conservatism. A line was drawn & "fusionists" won. With the rise of the "Groypers," it's time to draw a line again. https://t.co/F3W7wXEz4u
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If the right fails to police their side and lets it be conquered by white nationalism and conspiracy madness, we will be dragged down the same way the left has been by "woke." And we will have nobody...
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The “intellectual backbone of the conservative movement” is only as strong as the values it defends. Last I checked, “conservatives should feel no obligation” to carry water for antisemites and apologists for America-hating autocrats. But maybe I just don’t know what time it is…
There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:
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JUST IN: Ted Cruz BLASTS Kevin Roberts’s Tucker Carlson defense: “Now is a time for choosing. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very cool and that their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit
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Let's make some things clear. Nick Fuentes is NOT a conservative. He admires Stalin, denies and laughs about the Holocaust, is an explicit White dupremacist, and despises interracial marriage. It is not "cancel culture" to not be associated with this person.
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Our movement is being destroyed.
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Good news. If you're one of these new Tucker/Candace/Fuentes "conservatives" that are big on antisemitic conspiracy theories, isolationism, protectionism etc, the left is ready to embrace you when the right kicks you to the curb.
Israeli goons have been trying to cancel me, @AnaKasparian, @TuckerCarlson and @RealCandaceO for quite some time now. And we're still here. The power to bully and intimidate is slipping. It's no longer career suicide to criticize Israel. A Great Awakening has begun on both sides!
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OPINION | Look to Singapore, not Canada, as the model of healthcare success @DavidLarson83 #ncpol #nchealth
https://t.co/ZnmwcdMxc0
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It's true that our health care system is a big complicated ball of interconnected knots. But the benefits of solving it, and the consequences of not, are too large to ignore.
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Thanks, @NC_IOPL Duke University & Spectrum News, and to my fellow panelists Rep Campbell, Rep Crawford, and Prof Boucher, and host @sarahrudlang, for the engaging discussion on health care last night. For those interested in watching, Spectrum will air it twice Oct 26.
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Thanks to Rep. @sarahcrawfordnc , @CampbellforNC , @DavidLarson83 & Dr. Nathan Boucher for a great conversation at Duke on “Is Free Health Care Really Free?” 👏 Big thanks to @SarahRudlang, @TheBigI_NC & @HCAhealthcare for making the #HometownForum Series possible!
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In case of emergency: Protect norms https://t.co/khLOHmewgv via @CarolinaJournal h/t @DavidLarson83 #ncpol
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National Guard deployments to the Tar Heel State, or any state, over the objections of the governor, unless there is imminent catastrophe, violates the spirit, and maybe even the letter, of emergency...
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We can't fill the manufacturing jobs we currently have (400k openings & growing), and we have a worker (not job) shortage overall in NC. If we artificially force manufacturing jobs back by bullying trade partners, who will fill those jobs? #ncpol
Thank you, @realDonaldTrump! The loss of manufacturing jobs devastated our state. I'm glad to have a President who understands how important the furniture industry is to North Carolina. #ncpol
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The @NCGOP's new political position - "we were absolutely joking about being in favor of small government. Sorry for the last 65 years of messaging. XOXO"
@donaldbryson Obviously would love for that to be case but if your choices are: 1) Shrink government and show the Left you'll play by their rules or 2) Wield power to make real changes I'll take make real changes. Otherwise you're leaving everything in place for to pick up where they left off.
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David Larson discusses Cooper joining the Senate race, NC lawmakers looking to overturn Stein's vetoes and more on the Carolina Journal News Hour
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David Larson discusses Cooper joining the Senate race, NC lawmakers looking to overturn Stein's vetoes and more on the Carolina Journal News Hour
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Inaccurate take here by Senator Everitt, and I urge him to read the bill that he voted against. This bill prevents state employees from compelling nonprofits to disclose their donors. This will not actually change what nonprofits report currently. #ncpol #NCGA
Today the #NCGA passed SB 416 — a bill that lets politically connected nonprofits take public money and hide their donors. Agencies can’t even ask who’s funding them. No transparency. No accountability. This isn’t privacy. It’s a shield for corruption. #ncpol
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How is seagull a drink? How did he eat human for years and not know? What was he cured of? AI is still working out some kinks I guess
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I've been messing with ChatGPT for the first time, and, over all, it's mindblowing and awesome -- like having easy answers to almost any question you can think of. But... then I asked it to tell me a riddle, and it presented me this insane, twisted, nonsensical fever dream ha
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‼️Party Switch‼️ Robeson County Commissioners Judy Sampson and Lance Herndon, two democrats, have joined the Republican Party! @RobesonNCGOP For the first time in history, the Robeson County Board of Commissioners will be majority Republican at 5-3!
Robeson shifted further right than any other NC county in 2024, yet Dems still control the Board of Commissioners. 4/5 democrats on the Board represent districts that Trump won. District 2, where Black + Lumbee voters make up 78% of the electorate, flipped for Trump. #ncpol
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