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Yes, we at Claremont oppose this “anti-discrimination” regime and will continue to do so until it is discredited, defeated, and purged from our national life. Our response to the
@nytimes
:
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@HawleyMO
&
@tedcruz
acted in perfect accordance with the supposed purpose of a senator: to represent the political concerns of their constituents and raise their serious questions in what ought to be the most revered forum for dispassionate political debate." -
@frankcannonAPP
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In the span of just two weeks this summer, 20 states across the U.S suffered the costliest string of riots in American history. The damage caused by this “tiny fraction” is estimated at $1 to $2 billion, similar estimates for a Category 1 hurricane.
.
@MichelleObama
on BLM riots: Trump is “pinning [violence] on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity; it’s true, research backs it up; only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all … What the president is doing is … racist.”
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How Trump voters formed an ugly—and accurate—view of America’s ruling regime. h/t
@martyrmade
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"America has not been a constitutional republic based on the consent of the governed for years. It has, in fact, been a thinly disguised oligarchy, dominated by ruling class elites in the media, academia, both parties, the bureaucracy, corporations, Silicon Valley..." -Ed Erler
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"When you tear down statues of Washington and Grant, it’s not about the Civil War—it’s because you hate America. And indeed, these rioters hate America." -
@SenTomCotton
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The Trump Admin accomplished many things, but perhaps most importantly it revealed how deep the rabbit hole now goes: the fight is both within the fed govt & without, & a cancerous corruption has penetrated the core of our political/cultural institutions.
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The 1776 Commission's report may have been taken down within the first few hours of the
@JoeBiden
administration, with many calling it "racist," but readers are likely to draw the opposite conclusion. We are re-publishing parts of the report here!
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"The ruling class’s hatred of the president, and its efforts to destroy him, were of course a proxy for its desire to destroy what he represents. What he represents is not just the policies it despises, but the people it despises." -
@bhweingarten
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Shared hotel rooms. Fake militias. Booze and pot. Planted evidence. Phony bomb makers. Criminal FBI informants. Wife-beating wife-swappers.
@julie_kelly2
breaks down the real-life drama of the FBI-concocted scheme to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
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@martyrmade
: “17-year-old boys should not have to take up arms to defend their communities from attacks incited by Democratic Party politicians & the corporate media & facilitated & carried out by organizations funded by multinational corporations.”
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As more companies begin ditching Silicon Valley to flee to Red States, remember they're bringing their progressive ideology with them.
@davereaboi
, a fellow of the
@ClaremontInst
, explains the ramifications.
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Ireland is being governed by elites who have little, if any, interest in protecting its citizens from dangerous threats.
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The 2020 election is not over. The fight has just begun. This is the moment that decides everything. Republicans must rise to the occasion. This means rallies and protests as well as investigating and ensuring that this election was lawful!
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Weaponizing the federal judiciary to advance radical “wokeism” would be disastrous to the American way of life. “It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to see how Republicans could one day recover from this,” warns
@josh_hammer
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“A person with an identity tied to nothing, not even their own biology, can be led to believe almost anything.” –
@AuronMacintyre
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Former President Trump’s Advisory 1776 Commission released its 1776 Report on Monday. The Commission is chaired by Larry Arnn, president of
@Hillsdale
&
@ClaremontInst
vice chairman. We are re-publishing the sections on the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution here.
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@realDonaldTrump
is not bound by calcified ideological frameworks. Contrary to his critics, he has been proven right about borders, China, trade/globalism. It’s time to lead America past the pandemic & political paralysis into a new century of greatness.
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“Weak and negligent, derelict in the most basic duties a leader has to his people, licking ice cream to delight reporters as his homeland falls apart, Joe Biden is happily at your service as the concierge of decline.” - Paige Willey
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WATCH: Dr.
@jamespoulos
, Executive Editor of the American Mind, delivers his testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee during a hearing on "Disrupting Dangerous Algorithms: Addressing the Harms of Persuasive Technology."
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The woke mob has “adopted the spirit of a Jacobin mob in the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror trying to completely erase our culture & our history. Unfortunately, many Democrats are vying to be the Robespierre for this Jacobin mob.” - Sen. Tom Cotton
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The 400 years narrative appears to stem directly from the 1619 Project. As we discussed, the goal of the 1619 Project is nothing less than the alienation of Americans from their country’s true philosophical and political founding in 1776.
Bill Whitaker: This virus of racism and injustice has threatened and infected America for 400 years
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The gory details and irreversible horrors of "gender affirming" surgery laid bare. Read
@TTExulansic
’s latest essay at American Mind.
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"Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it."
@martyrmade
explains:
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@JDVance1
’s victory in last night’s Ohio Republican Senate primary is an important and hopeful sign for the future of the GOP. 1/
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“It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history.” - Calvin Coolidge
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"Votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth."
#Debates2020
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"Cancel culture, whether in its Maoist or its Jacobin forms, ultimately is animated by a single idea—that America at its core is fundamentally irredeemable and wicked. I reject that claim fully, wholeheartedly." -
@TomCottonAR
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"No Borders, No Taxes” is an argument with a logical structure. It says, 'If you're going to run a country without defending the borders, then we the people shouldn’t have to pay any taxes.'" ~
@SethBarronNYC
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"America’s corporate press is out of control...it routinely seeks to pull the nation’s politics leftward by using defamation to render prominent figures on the right odious to the public. The case of Congressman
@mattgaetz
is only the most recent example."
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Trump still has a path to victory, although admittedly thin. But it requires the courage few politicians possess. “In this pivotal hour, Donald Trump must not flinch." -
@molmccann
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"If it sounds alarmist to say that 'gender theorists are coming for your children,' good. They are coming, and it is alarming."
@SpencerKlavan
on manhood:
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"No matter how the presidential election ends, one of President Donald Trump’s myriad achievements stands above all others: he has exposed the unprecedented degree of rot and corruption that pervades the American system." -
@bhweingarten
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@DineshDSouza
: "I believe that even if it’s establishment Republicans or RINO Republicans, you play the movie & ask them what they think when they see the credits, they'll be blown away. And they'll realize something is wrong and something must be done."
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The
@JoeBiden
admin was quick to disband the 1776 Commission, and remove its 1776 Report from its website, but we're re-publishing parts of it on our website, with the full report available at
@ClaremontInst
. Learn about the Meaning of the Founding below.
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With a recruiting shortfall of 25%, the U.S. Army’s total force will be undermanned by 15,000 soldiers. Leadership needs to be held accountable.
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There is nothing to lose, and everything to gain, from a full-on
@realDonaldTrump
offensive. As
@molmccann
writes, "Mr. President, Attack."
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As Americans concerned for the common good of the nation, we reject the following tenets of “Critical Race Theory” as directly opposed to the fundamental principles of American government and political order:
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Get ready for a fight. The 2020 election won’t be over on
#ElectionDay
. What happens this week might lead the nation into a protracted political war, but the Constitution of the United States provides for such a scenario. The American Right needs to hold fast & fight accordingly.
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“Pence was simply asked to provide the state legislatures in the contested states with the time necessary to properly assess the legitimacy of their electoral votes.”
@DrJohnEastman
sets the record straight.
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“Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl. It killed more people last year than suicide, car accidents, or gun violence…” 1/2
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The Whitmer fednapping exposes moral rot of the FBI.
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“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage & it will roar ever more loudly..." - Churchill
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"The best way to describe what Wokeness has actually become is Christianity without Christ." -
@SpencerKlavan
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The Virginia school district is the tip of the spear in the nationwide fight over critical race theory.
The Loudoun County sheriff’s office declared the school board meeting an unlawful assembly. Everyone told to get out or will be trespassing. Two arrests made
#CriticalRaceTheory
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“The virus has revealed an American economy built on consumption, reliant for production on regimes either indifferent or actively hostile to our national interest.”
@JDVance1
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"Tucker Carlson may have kicked a hornet’s nest by pointing out that the U.S. military is captive to a cultural program that most Americans do not agree with. But the military serves the global economic order, not the average American," Frank Bennett says.
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America is quickly becoming two nations occupying the same country. The
@ClaremontInst
's Glenn Ellmers explains why a counter-revolution is needed with
@TuckerCarlson
on
#TuckerCarlsonToday
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Michael Anton: "Understand this: the regime hates you and want you cancelled and ostracized, or at least utterly subservient and obedient. You owe them no consideration. Their every argument, every sentence, every word are proffered in bad faith."
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Big Tech has infiltrated the American homeland and is imposing speech laws that resemble those of Europe, challenging the authority and longevity of the First Amendment.
@molmccann
explains the Big Tech occupation.
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"We don’t lock people down in the state of Florida, we lift people up."
@GovRonDeSantis
details how his state has resisted federal overreach in his speech delivered at the
@ClaremontInst
Gala.
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In the U.S., as in Japan, young men are retreating en masse. We are witnessing the rise of the American hikikomori.
@ghlionn
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“Antifa is an anarcho-communist movement, whose goal is to use physical violence and intimidation to terrorize American citizens into disengaging from the political process.” -
@ShidelerK
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"Even if the steal can be made to stick, half the country won’t accept it. That is, they’ll accept the reality that power is now in the hands of a party that took it by fraud. But they won’t believe that the election was fair or the outcome real." -Michael Anton
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“Counting noncitizens in the census erodes sovereignty and undermines law. It definitionally creates foreign influence over our political system.” -
@bhweingarten
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It is long past time to end the globalization gravy train and reform our system in a way that would do damage to Chinese leadership—and the American elites who profit from them. h/t
@JDVance1
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What We Saw Coming. The
@ClaremontInst
's pre-election war games have proven prescient so far. Read the 79 Days Report.
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“If you don’t fight critical race theory, soon there will be nothing good, true, or beautiful to defend. We will be ruled by lies & power while being told we’re progressing toward truth & justice. Fighting lies is always preferable to being ruled by them.”
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Read the excerpt from the 1776 Commission's report. The Biden team may have scrubbed it from its website and 'officially disbanded' the Commission, but you can read the major parts parts of the 1776 Report on our website.
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The Antifa/BLM Industrial Complex. Their entire rotten network must be exposed.
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“This what $693B a year buys you: unbridled arrogance from the leaders of a military that can’t win against third world tribesmen…A significant portion of our military leaders, like
@PatDonahoeArmy
, are totally detached from reality.” -
@jlippincott_
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“One can reasonably expect that soon the Biden Administration will add opposition to Critical Race Theory to its list of domestic-terrorism-inciting conspiracy theories.”
@ShidelerK
called it back in July. Read his piece here:
BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing "threats."
The letter follows the National School Board Association's request to classify protests as "domestic terrorism."
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“The fight of this election is as much existential as it is political; it is between a party that will defend our way of life, however imperfectly, and a party that has every intention of crushing it.” -
@rachelbovard
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It is an incredible stroke of luck that we happen to have a president who is not interested in surrendering to the virus or “managing our decline.”
We are marshalling the full power of government and society to achieve victory over the virus. Together, we will endure, we will prevail, and we will WIN!
#CARESAct
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“Trump represents the first time in the post-Cold War era that Republicans actually pushed back against the relentless cultural onslaught.” -
@InezFeltscher
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The Haunting of the American Mind.
In the days to come, we will publish discussions of
@DineshDSouza
’s new documentary 2000 Mules. Here we present a conversation with D’Souza about his own hopes for the electoral process and the movie’s impact.
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"It’s tempting to call 'democracy' meaningless in today’s parlance. Except it has a meaning: the opposite of what its dictionary entry says. 'Democracy' now means not the rule or sovereignty of the people but the fiat of elites & 'experts.'" -Michael Anton
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"The real cost of Biden’s free college plan is vastly greater than he is willing to admit...an honest account of his free-college plan would force him to admit that he is going to raise middle-class taxes in a major way—precisely what Biden says he will never do." - Stanley Kurtz
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Republican weakness is enabling the radical Left. Capitulation and cowardice will only embolden the mob.
@jeremycarl4
explained on
@TuckerCarlson
last night.
Read his latest essay here:
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"The mission that the United States—or, to be more precise, the George W. Bush Administration—set for itself in
#Afghanistan
was doomed from the beginning." Michael Anton explains why in his latest essay for the American Mind.
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“These buffoons are the ‘enemies of the people’—the one thing they do not want is for Americans of any color or political persuasion to come genuinely to grips w/the facts on the ground, to recognize the complete failure of progressivism...”
@SpencerKlavan
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“After years of meetings b/t the U.S. government, extremism academics, and tech giants to discuss how to counter extremism online, somehow Hamas, the Taliban, and Antifa always remain active, while
@prageru
struggles to avoid being banned.” -
@ShidelerK
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@ShidelerK
: "We are in a period where some Americans are displaying the flags of countries they cannot even find on a map, while accusing fellow citizens who hesitate to take a side in a distant conflict of being agents in the service of a foreign power."
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"Equality of outcomes can only be brought about through totalitarianism. Hence, the Left’s ever-more illiberal policies on race." - David Azerrad
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"If Republicans conceived of their mission as preserving the American way of life, they would pay more attention to the institutions that nurture the foundations of that life—family, religion, education, & community. All else rests on those foundations."
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The FBI long ago "replaced the distinctions by which they had previously operated with the classic bureaucratic imperative: look out for yourselves by making sure to please the powerful."
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The story of America is the story of a proud people with a boundless desire to leave for their posterity a more just and free society. This is the inheritance of all Americans. This is the inheritance of 1776.
#ConstitutionDay
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“Understand what time it is in this late-stage republic. The oligarchs of our ruling class are not going away, and they have seized an enormous amount of control over what was once our robust system of government. The hour is very late.” -
@josh_hammer
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Any conservative worth his salt should defend senators against baseless and dictatorial attacks.
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Flashback from
@martyrmade
: "Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, & will observe no limits to keep them from getting it."
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"Remember that in 2022 and 2024 when they call you a fascist or a bigot or a domestic terrorist or whatever: these are people who think
@jrpsaki
is a good person. Their opinion about your morals literally doesn’t matter at all." -
@SpencerKlavan
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The Anti-Defamation League must confect a rising tide of antisemitic fervor or else go out of business.
@JohnJKline99
explains:
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Carson Holloway: "All too often the American press seeks not to facilitate democratic deliberation by informing the voters but instead to shape political outcomes by dealing in hysteria and misinformation."
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Reminder: “The Intelligence agencies were the key element of the ruling class’s support of the Democratic Party in the 2016 election. Its senior officers, regarding themselves as guardians of their class’s right to rule, waged war on Trump’s candidacy.”
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Rush was the actual “conservative movement” for a long time, putting into words what millions felt & thought of as common sense. Conservative intellectuals, think tanks, & other leaders were often carried along by him without even knowing it. May he RIP.
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"If Jan. 6 is exposed as a Fedsurrection, so goes the pretext the regime has been counting on to weaponize the security apparatus against its opposition, and there goes the pillar the democrats are leaning on to deprive Trump a fair shot [this November]."
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“The Census added 2.5 million persons to blue states above the December population estimate. Many state estimates were entire percentage points off from the Decennial Census, which is an unusual margin of error…”
@RealAdamK
explains:
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“Non-essential,” in crisis parlance, is not defined by whether your customers need your work, or whether you need to pay your bills/make payroll. It is defined by a government list. Of course, government is on the government’s own list of “essential” work.
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"The coming presidential election is perhaps the most important since 1860 because what is at stake...is not a minor argument over habits and lifestyles but a 'regime change' conflict between two fundamentally antagonistic visions of America and our way of life." -
@FonteJohn
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“Does coronavirus vindicate the importance of scientific expertise and its institutions? Or does it offer yet more evidence of the dangers of scientific elitism?” - Tony Mills. h/t
@RSI
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Gaslighting getting you down? Feel like the regime has dialed the Megaphone up to, and past, eleven? You’re not crazy. To help you navigate the twitstorm, read Michael Anton’s guide to seven of the regime’s most common, oft-deployed lies.
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“The degree to which the governing bodies of the United States and other Western countries are actively involved in vilifying and replacing the very people who constitute their core demographic is unprecedented in human history.” -
@emeriticus
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No ‘expert’ can decide the proper balance b/t safety, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. American people have every right, even a duty, to resist the abuse of state power in defense of their God-given natural rights.
@RpwWilliams
, Pres. of
@ClaremontInst
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Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress…enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” Absent congressional authorization, these interstate agreements/pacts are prima facie unconstitutional.
Today, Colorado and Nevada joined CA, OR, and WA in our Western States Pact.
The West Coast is -- and will continue to be -- guided by SCIENCE. We issued our stay at home orders early to keep the public healthy. We’ll open our economies with that same guiding principle.
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@KeenanPeachy
: "What is Kyle Rittenhouse's crime? Refusing to die at the hands of armed criminal psychopaths. Saying no to their deranged street justice."
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"Given the problems in the Chinese economy that arose as a result of the ongoing trade war with the United States and Donald Trump, the CCP and Xi Jinping appear to have made the calculation that a crisis caused by the
#coronavirus
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Republicans need a serious counter-offensive if they want to stand a chance.
@Heminator
and
@MZHemingway
explain in the American Mind:
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