Patrick Chovanec
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Private sector economic advisor. Author of the newly released book “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”. . #avgeek
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Molly Weasley: “What is your dearest ambition?”
Arthur Weasley: “To find out how aeroplanes stay up.”
Ever wondered if you could fly a plane? Or just what holds them up in the sky? Climb into the cockpit and find out what becoming a pilot is really like.
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The vaccine for monkeypox is the smallpox vaccine, which successfully eradicated a disease that killed 300 million people since 1900. It was one of mankind’s greatest achievements, comparable to going to the Moon - which Candace also believes never happened. Sigh.
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I tell you what: If Ukraine is auditioning for NATO, it’s doing one hell of an impressive job.
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It is rather amazing that yesterday the sitting President of the United States was fined $2 million for defrauding eight charities, and it barely registered as a scandal.
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According to the President, he has absolute power but absolutely no responsibility.
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Tillerson: Russia obviously poisoned the guy.
Trump: You're fired.
Press: You fired him for saying that?
Trump: No, I fired him on Friday.
Tillerson aide: He wasn't fired on Friday, it came as a complete surprise.
Trump: You're fired too.
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My suspicion is that Trump will fire Fauci when he thinks the epidemic is receding and believes he has no more need for him. Then he will proceed to badmouth and scapegoat him. The foundation has already been laid for this.
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I'm going to criticize Biden, then I'm going to vote for him, then I'm going to criticize him some more.
I can do this because I'm a citizen, not a team cheerleader.
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I continue to be stunned at how kooks, attention-seekers, and slime balls who would barely have been taken seriously 10 years ago have so quickly come to dominate our national stage. It's not even political. It's a kind of moral collapse.
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When you accidentally admit that 50k of your followers were bots.
Hey,
@jack
why have we lost 50,000 followers in the past week? We see this trend happening to other Pro-Trump accounts as well. Are you silencing conservatives? If so, stop. From, the silent majority.
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I used to regret leaving the Republican Party after 2016, because it is the logical vehicle for a lot of things I believe in. But I want absolutely nothing to do with the malicious craziness this party has come to embody now.
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All these politicians get the vaccine first, because they're "setting an example". Nice of them to start now.
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On this day three years ago, I couldn’t go to the grocery store without passing two refrigerated vans full of dead bodies outside the hospital. So yeah.
On this day three years ago, Fauci said it was “wise and prudent” to extend the national lockdown.
We won’t forget.
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Since Trump is not President, this is by definition a campaign event, and no one should be there in military uniform. Period.
Trump: You look at what this Governor New Scum from California. Is that his name? .
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I love how Trump's guy Oz came from behind as the votes were tallied and this time nobody breathed a word about the election being rigged.
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Rogan guest: The earth is flat.
Critic: That’s nonsense.
Rogan: Ok, debate him on my show.
Critic: That would only add to the stupidity.
Rogan: See, you’re afraid. Just more proof that geography has failed us as a science.
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Boris Johnson has escaped from Elba, has landed in Cornwall, and is marching on London.
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Biden campaign: Please take down dick pics that violate Twitter rules.
Musk: Censorship!
Turkey: Take down the political opposition’s tweets, or else.
Musk: What else could I do?
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The fact that any Republican would support Donald Trump after this happened is an absolute disqualifier for me, no matter how much I might agree with them about any other issue under the sun. In other words, America First.
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I’m a conservative and I will trust a liberal journalist over a right-wing shitlord any day. Why? Because even if the journalist is biased, they are at least trying to tell the truth as they see it, while the shitlord thinks it’s fun to lie and see if you believe them.
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The problem isn't one rude comment or display, which hardly matters. The problem is the ongoing corrosion of our culture into one where boors and bullies are celebrated as heroes. It's cumulative, like water on stone, and the damage is real.
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I've been a Republican all my life. I am a Reagan conservative, down the line. But it's become painfully clear to me that GOP officeholders today see the red hats as their base, and won't listen to people like me unless I deny them my vote, and persuade others to do the same.
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You may or may not agree with him about every policy issue you care about, but Mitt Romney would have made a good President.
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“The violence on 1/6 was all due to Antifa but if you indict Trump we’ll do it again.” 🤔
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Trump threatens insurrection if he is charged for threatening insurrection.
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If you're upset by Zelensky in his olive drab fatigues today, wait till you see Winston Churchill wearing his air raid outfit to the White House.
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Psst: almost all of the money was spent here in the U.S.
Imagine what $113,313,000,000.00 could have done for America instead of Ukraine.
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If the Arizona auditors find that the Biden ballots weigh less than a duck, that means they float and thus are made of bamboo, which means Biden is a witch.
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I’m struck by how many of our politicians, in the US, like to cosplay this kind of stuff. This is the real deal, and no one ever should wish for it.
I learn to use
#Kalashnikov
and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our
#women
will protect our soil the same way as our
#men
. Go
#Ukraine
! 🇺🇦
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The worst thing Trump did was convince a large number of Americans that they are completely justified in acting like assholes.
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Changed my voter registration from Republican to No Party today.
I didn’t leave the GOP. The GOP left me.
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I am dismayed by the devolution of Congress from a real legislative body into an open mic night for attention-seekers, which basically abdicates all serious decisions to the President. It's a problem that transcends party.
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I’ve watched “normal” Republicans go from saying “Look, everyone knows Trump lost, just let him talk” to saying “Look, everyone knows there was something wrong with the election.”
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Biden could do a lot of stupid stuff and it wouldn't come close to Trump trying to ignore an election and hold onto power by force.
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I'm a conservative in favor of lower taxes and regulations. But it is factually untrue that the US "experienced record growth" under Trump. We experienced growth roughly on trend with the previous 8 years - until the bottom fell out.
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The widow of the Indian man murdered in Kansas in February anti-immigrant hate crime now faces deportation from US.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla murder: Widow faced deportation from US after losing resident status
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And amazingly, they got the entire rest of the world to go along with the scheme.
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Not sure "RDS is as faithful to his wife as JFK" is the winning line of argument you think it is.
DeSantis is our generations JFK
He’s
- A family man
- Faithful to his wife
- Young gun who brings energy to the party
I see no reason why we shouldn’t nominate DeSantis
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If you’re a Republican who can’t muster the courage to call 1/6 what it clearly was - a riot provoked by the President of the United States to try to intimidate Congress to overturn his election loss - then yes, I question whether you have any business holding political office.
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I’m sorry, but if you’re comparing this to Tiananmen Square, you have no idea what happened in Tiananmen Square.
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When Members of Congress who voted to let President Trump get away with withholding military aid from Ukraine to extort personal political advantage now turn around and tell you that he and they would have done more to help Ukraine, don’t believe them.
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I mean, if we hand out too many ventilators, people might prefer it to breathing on their own.
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FBI put Manafort under surveillance well before he met Trump or joined his campaign. So no, Obama didn't "put a wiretap on Trump."
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I don't feel bad for all the Trump defenders desperately spinning his nauseating insults to our troops.
They knew what they signed up for.
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I'm never going to get used to or stop calling out the fact that the President of the United States is a raving lunatic.
A blow to her head? Body found under his desk? Left Congress suddenly? Big topic of discussion in Florida...and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). Keep digging, use forensic geniuses!
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Poor George P. Bush. At least Stormy Daniels got paid.
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@HawleyMO
@simonschuster
This is terrible, Senator. Perhaps you can rename your book "My Struggle".
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I see a lot of “constitutional conservatives” today muttering about how some people are so hung up on the Constitutional transfer of power and honoring oaths of office when there are more important issues people care about like the price of gasoline.
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You’re right. The plan was to get stuck outside of Kyiv for weeks, leave Odesa completely alone, and lose at least one general per day. It’s going swell.
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The only thing I saw was a middle-aged woman being dragged away because she was wearing the wrong t-shirt.
President Trump: "We had some very bad people outside. They were doing bad things."
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China, you are digging a hole so deep with this, you have no idea.
Central China TV
“Expert” : “The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic.”
Host: “So we can conclude that the US had this virus in their possession long ago”
CCP nonstop smear campaign
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What is remarkable, yet rarely remarked upon, is how no country right now is looking to the US for leadership in this crisis.
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Lawyer: Have you ever engaged in rebellion against the United States?
Robert E. Lee: Never, sir!
Lawyer shows video of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Lee: Oh, well THAT. Of course if you mean that.
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This is the most important chart in the country right now, out of New York City, and I'm going to keep posting it until people get what it's saying.
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1. I knew Eddie Rickenbacker was an American flying ace in World War I, and won the Medal of Honor, but I didn't know that much about the rest of his life until now.
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So have my parents, Donald Trump and Mr. Rogers.
Ok I’m ready to take a bold stand: I’m officially coming out against the Oxford comma.
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The real reason NeverTrumpers have a relatively high media profile is that the GOP has either lost or expelled its intelligentsia. They may be a small portion of the party, in absolute numbers, but they are disproportionately its former thinkers, writers, and policy experts.
Say this for being Never Trump. It’s a great way to gain media cred.
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The funny thing about this cartoon, which the cartoonist obviously doesn’t know, is that the first war the US ever fought was with the Arab states along the coast of North Africa, under Ottoman suzerainty.
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Donald Trump is a sociopath. I don’t even see this as a political statement, per se. Regardless of your politics, if you can’t see this, I don’t know what movie you’ve been watching.
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“What’s next for you, other than being a celebrity now?” Laura Ingraham asked state trooper who quit rather than get the vaccine. The answer turned out to be dying of Covid.
Robert LaMay, the anti-vaccine state trooper who recently died of COVID, was praised as "a celebrity" by Fox's Laura Ingraham on 10/19/21. She also said she "hoped" they'd awoken "a sleeping giant." (LaMay also used that term previously in the interview.)
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% of people who say they attend church weekly: US 36%, Hungary 9%, Russia 9%.
Pray daily: US 55%, Hungary 16%, Russia 18%
Say religion is very important to them: US 53%, Hungary 14%, Russia 16%.
Data from Pew.
Tucker: "They hate Hungary because it's a Christian country. Nobody wants to say it, but it's true. That is enough to incite our policymakers in the United States and that is exactly why they hate Russia, by the way."
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The Republican Party became a joke when it started describing people like me - who voted Republican, worked for Republicans, and donated to Republicans all my life - as part of the "Radical Left".
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The odd thing about DeSantis sending Venezuelans like unwanted garbage to "liberal enclaves" is that they are refugees from actual Marxism. They are the real victims that right-wing cosplayers claim to be.
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1. I had a conversation a while ago with a longtime friend, a conservative, who used the word "unhinged" to describe my concerns about Trump.
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No one will care, but this is insane.
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"THEY WON'T TEACH YOU THIS IN SCHOOL" is always a prelude to something they did teach you in school, you just weren't paying attention.
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I used to be a grown-up. But my party’s voters want a petulant child, so I became one.
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Of course, the fact that this didn’t happen proves Biden isn’t up to the job.
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Noam Chomsky praising Trump over Russia should make everyone rethink any admiration they had for either of them, but it won’t.
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Imagine if we had more Republicans like this.
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China was never going to vote to condemn Putin at the UN. But the fact that it abstained, and left Russia on its own as the only “no” vote, shows some real discomfort at how things are going.
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That's why he's valedictorian.
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GOP small donors ordered to pay $83 million to Jean Carroll.
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I’ve just spoken to the Kaiser in Holland and he expects to be reinstated by August.
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"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you."
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I feel a chill down my spine when I hear this, because it’s exactly how the German “establishment” talked in 1932.
"I don't like how Trump said things, but he wasn't wrong about those critical issues. That's why they're voting for him. People should be more respectful of our fellow citizens," says
@JPMorgan
CEO Jamie Dimon. "I think this negative talk about MAGA will hurt Biden's campaign."
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We could pass the time by telling old Soviet jokes.
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If you think the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy didn’t cry, when the rush of battle was over, or when they woke up in the middle of the night years later, you’re kidding yourself.
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True populism is sneering at people who didn’t go to an Ivy League school like you did.
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You know, plenty of Americans disliked and disagreed with FDR, and were still on his side against Hitler in WW2.
You can dislike and disagree with Biden without making excuses for Putin.
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"Our country is full" is the cry of a defeated nation, afraid of the future.
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Because it was in February 2020, he was saying the exact same thing publicly at the time, and he later very publicly changed his mind. None of this is either new or shocking.
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I’m all out of sympathy for voluntarily unvaccinated people.
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I just saw ad from Russian state TV on NY subway, telling viewers to trust them not corrupt US media.
It's like a dystopian novel.
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Um ... this IS Donald Trump's America. You don't have to imagine it.
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I do wonder, from a psychological point of view, why some people see Donald Trump as so attractive and compelling, and others - politics entirely aside - see him as so transparently full of bullshit. It's like a prism into such different realities.
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Trump could shoot Fauci during a live press conference and they'd start rationalizing why it was okay.
Also, I will say this: Trump can fire Fauci and the GOP in the House and Senate won't do a damn thing.
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Over the past three weeks, my 11-year old son and I traveled the full length of Oregon Trail, as faithfully as possible. What follows, with somewhat minimalist explanation, is a Twitter slideshow of some of the more memorable sights we saw along the trip.
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He endorsed Trump today.
The 6 Jan attack on the Capitol was far more dangerous than most realize
And we have a criminal justice system in place to address it
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7. And what I see instead is people playing with matches in a puddle of gasoline, and other people dismissing it as no big deal.
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In March 2020 I was stockpiling food in case the entire city was cut off. By April I had to walk past refrigerated morgue trailers filled with bodies to get to the grocery store. I’m not sure Trump is to blame or Biden deserves the credit, but yeah, I’m way better off today.
Stefanik: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The answer is a resounding no
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What a devoted husband. I wonder why he’s in court?
Trump claims he would be with Melania for her birthday but he has to be in court
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My advice to young people, and to young conservatives in particular, is to turn off cable TV and read. Read history, read philosophy, read biography, read economics. Read authors who inspire you, and authors you disagree with. And travel. Travel to a country outside the US.
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