Husband,Dad,Hunter,Gardener,Ex-GOP,Ex-
#arleg
I block
#MAGA
Politically Homeless Conservaterian
I try to follow Christ. I fail.
Verified pre-Leon
I ❤️ AR
Politicians are temporary.
Principles are timeless.
I'm a
#PrinciplesFirst
conservative because no position, money or privilege is worth the price of my integrity.
I speak up because silence is assent.
My Dad's condition deteriorated substantially today and he's been admitted to the hospital.. His lungs are in very bad shape with COVID-19.
Prayers appreciated greatly.
Since January 6th I've become a single issue voter.
Either you'll protect and defend our republic against all enemies, foreign AND domestic or you won't.
It's that simple.
We can debate policy once all the insurrectionists and their allies are defeated.
I was hard core
@GOP
for 34 yrs. 1st (R) ever elected to serve my home district in legislature, county chair, state committee, platform committee, campaign chair, caucus executive committee etc.
My party left me when it chose Trumpism over conservatism.
#RepublicansForImpeachment
@KariLake
@DonHuffines
That shotgun will reach about 150 feet above your head.
That balloon is about 59,850 above its reach.
You should stick to losing elections. You're pretty good at that.
Avoiding this type of government is precisely why so many Christians fled Europe and came to the Americas.
It's why the colonists rejected forced membership in the Church of England.
It's why we have the 1st Amendment.
This is as unAmerican as it gets.
Trump’s former (and future?) national security adviser Mike Flynn: “If we are going to have one nation under God which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God”
Nothing on earth has cost me more than my opposition to DJT & his nationalist fascist brand of populism.
I'd do it all over again but louder, more direct and with more urgency.
Our freedoms as Americans have NEVER been in more danger than it is right now.
#NEVERTrump
EVERY Arkansas teacher should take a few minutes next week to tell your students about the Elaine massacre. Tell them about Tulsa. Teach them about Jerome and Rowher. Teach them about Catcher. Teach them about sundown towns.
Speak up. Don't silently assent to this.
#arpx
Ask yourself this question:
Would someone who'd alter a weather map with a Sharpie to protect his own fragile ego falsify the transcript of a phone call to avoid being removed from office?
You already know the answer.
@realDonaldTrump
When you've spent the last year telling your supporters not to vote by mail or absentee, you don't get to be taken seriously when you whine because the margins of mailed in votes don't favor you.
Of course they don't. You told your supporters not to do it.
I'm a "gun nut." I'm pro-life. I'm a free market capitalist. I'm a Christian. I'm pro-police. I'm for low taxes and a tiny, very limited government.
I don't vote for liars or those who enable & excuse sedition.
I'm
#RadicalLeft
.
If true,
@ChickfilA
has badly lost its way. Millions of Christians have been proud of ChickFilA’s courageous stands for religious liberty. To fund those who hate your customers is just sad.
Arkansas, we get to decide if this is the kind of person we want as our Governor.
Mocking someone who stutters is utterly and totally disqualifying IMHO.
#arpx
#ARGOV
#bullying
Y'all, if the vigilantes who murdered
#AhmaudAubrey
aren't charged with his killing I'm going to be one of the protestors in the streets of GA and I live several hundred miles away.
This modern day lynching CANNOT be allowed to go unpunished in a free country.
The people who taught me the values that made me passionately anti-Trump are now the most
#ultraMAGA
people I know.
The people who taught me that ends don't justify means are now the biggest moral relativists I know.
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Seriously Arkansas, what else did we expect to happen when we elected a Governor who literally refused to answer questions from Arkansas reporters for the entire campaign?
We're getting exactly what we collectively allowed to happen.
I have 4 questions that I intend to ask every politician who asks for my vote.
1. Who won the 2020 election?
2. What happened on January 6th?
3. Is Kyle Rittenhouse a hero?
4. Why are gas prices high?
The answers are open ended. My reaction to them is too.
#Election2022
Thanks for your prayers. Y'all restore my faith in humanity..
Dad stabilized overnight. Oxygen sat is now 91 and fever is down from 104 to around 100. Both lungs are filled with "ground glass" but Drs. are saying he got there "just in time."
Long road ahead. Please keep praying.
What an insane and upside down world we're in. The "pro-life" community is suicidal and indifferent to death, the evangelical community is worshipping a perverted thief and the "patriots" are supporting overthrow of our constitutional republic.
Every Republican who votes to retain Trump today is saying they don't want him held accountable for inciting the attack on our Capitol last week.
Remember their names.
If
@arleg
guts
#FOIA
next week, I will immediately join with other Arkansans to form a ballot question committee.
We WILL put even stronger than current FOIA language in our Constitution along with clause requiring a vote of the people to modify state disclosure laws.
Let's roll!
Sarah Huckabee Sanders hits Vice President Harris for not having biological children:
"My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble."
In June of 2015, I walked away from
@GOP
because I refused to side with Donald J Trump.
It was the most costly decision I've ever made. It was also a morally necessary decision.
I was on the right side of history then and I still am today.
#IndictmentWatch
Republicans let a non-Republican con man corrupt and steal their party.
Democrats didn't.
As
@mattklewis
said, the country benefits because the Dems stood together to block a socialist from nomination.
Kudos and thank you!
If a small town mayor orders a police car from a friend without taking bids, pays 2X market value for it, his friend then goes to Europe with him on vacation and nobody can find the car 3 months later a reasonable person might conclude something unseemly happened.
#podiumgate
No serious person would believe you if you claimed
@JoeBiden
called our soldiers "losers" & "suckers."
It's easily believable about
@realDonaldTrump
.
Character matters.
Vote wisely.
I'd rather live in a democratic republic with elected leaders I profoundly disagree with than under a dictator who mandates that everyone must live the lifestyle I prefer.
The kind of inhumane cruelty that's necessary to do this to vulnerable people is beyond the pale.
Doing it on Christmas Eve as a political stunt just makes it even more vile.
It's evil on an unimaginable level.
Another bus just arrived outside
@VP
residence. One man tells me that traveled 2 days from Texas and he came from Ecuador. He said he was happy to be here. Bus includes children and women- moved to another bus by aid workers on ground after standing outside briefly in 14 degrees
My Grandma always told me to "consider the source" when someone attempted an insult.
I did.
I'm proud to be "human scum" considering the source.
#HumanScum
Dear
@GOP
,
I'd NEVER vote for a candidate who threatened me let alone send them my hard earned $. This sort of bullying is why this life long conservative is passionately
#neverTrump
. January 2021 can't get here fast enough.
For the first time in my life, I'm not voting for any
@GOP
candidates.
ZERO.
I'll undervote or choose between
@TheDemocrats
&
@LPNational
in every race on my ballot.
The entire Republican Party is a corrupt mess.
Those not willing to publicly stand against it are complicit.
@Redistrict
This is good news. Not so much that Dems have a bigger majority (I'm a conservative) but that a majority of Georgians recognized
@HerschelWalker
is unfit for office.
If you want vaccination rates to get near 80% in the south, require a vaccine card to buy deer hunting licenses.
Covid pandemic be over by early October.
@NoLabelsOrg
If you're standing against seeking the truth about an attempt to overthrow our government then you're not "No labels" you're seditionists.
"How the Right Lost It's Mind" by
@SykesCharlie
is a MUST read for every American
#conservative
.
It's not an enjoyable book. It's heart rending.
It's deadly accurate in its autopsy of the principled branch of Republicanism.
Read it and weep.
I'm doing great Charlie, thanks for asking. I can't speak for
@TheRickWilson
,
@gtconway3d
or any of their associates but I suspect they're doing OK too.
How are things with you?
Hard to imagine a more principled, true, and conservative statement in a more hostile setting.
Thank you for leading,
@AsaHutchinson
. The folks in that room may not appreciate you—but history will.
The former president isn't going to be on trial when his case is heard in the Senate.
The Republican Party is going to be in trial.
Will they say inciting insurrection is OK?
Will they reject accountability for the inciter in chief?
Those are the only pending questions.
While
@SarahHuckabee
is busy grandstanding at NASCAR in North Carolina, thousands of Arkansans are helping our friends and neighbors with storm recovery.
You can hear scores of chainsaws on every block in Bentonville and Rogers.
#arpx
Am I better off than I was 4 years ago?
You bet I am.
I have a President that I agree with on near zero policy BUT I don't have a traitor as my President today.
Our republic will survive bad policy. I can't long survive sedition and treason.
Dear
@SarahHuckabee
,
You signed a law that requires people to use bathrooms based on their sex at birth. You mandated a similar rule on drivers licenses.
Now you're attacking a woman because of her medical condition even though your own policies say she's FEMALE.
#ARLEG
I'm very proud that my representative in Congress honored his oath of office today and stood against putting a seditionist third in line for the presidency.
Thank you for choosing to stand for the rule of law and the Constitution today
@rep_stevewomack
!
Thanks to all who prayed for my Dad's recovery from
#COVID19
.
He spent several days where a good outcome seemed impossible but he's been steadily improving for almost 2 weeks now and seems on a path to full recovery.
He's still a little weak & on oxygen at night but doing GREAT.
Today in Arkansas, less than 5% of the population chose the winners of a bunch of important races, delegates for President and even a State Supreme Court seat.
This is how we lose our freedom.
#arpx
There is exponentially more evidence that
@realDonaldTrump
has been laundering Russian mob money since 1990 than there is that
@JoeBiden
sexually assaulted
#TaraReade
.
Guess which one Trumplicans are convinced is true?
#cult45
If you're using footage of
@JoeBiden
comforting his granddaughter and grandson at their father (his son's) funeral as "proof" he's a pedophile, youre the lowest form of human trash.
Deplorable doesn't come close.
A state employee recently told me there's a multimillion $ contract that was entered into by a state department without required RFP process and that agreement was reached during transition process.
I cannot yet substantiate this. If you have evidence, please reach out.
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I'm less concerned about the price of diesel and gas than I am about preserving our democratic republic and preventing tyranny.
Gas prices fluctuate.
If we lose self government here, freedom has no home on this globe.
12 Americans, vetted by both sides for impartiality, heard all the evidence and reached a unanimous decision 34 times, KNOWING that decision placed themselves and their families at grave risk of violent reprisal.
I'm gonna trust them.
#guilty
Anyone using the terms "Russia hoax" or "coup" in the context of current events cannot be trusted with ANYTHING.
Both are being used to mislead and help a disloyal criminal avoid accountability for abuse of power.
If you'll laugh and sneer about a violent hammer attack on the spouse of a politician you don't like, you'll cheer and smirk about gas chambers and crematoriums for "illegals" and dissidents.
House Republicans think they marginalized
@Liz_Cheney
today.
What they ACTUALLY did is made her a movement leader in lieu of holding an insignificant title that doesn't even matter outside the beltway.
Americans aren't simply going to forget the Big Lie and GOP incited violence.
Legislators, here's the political risk the Governor is asking you to take on by helping her hide her ridiculous travel expenses.
We're going to pass a referendum overturning the law if you pass it. THEN the truth will become known anyway and YOU will be accountable for hiding it.
EVERY tick of the clock makes me more certain that casting my vote for
@Evan_McMullin
was the principled conservative choice in 2016.
As the
@realDonaldTrump
#MAGA
scam unravels, all of USA needs to stand together for the rule of law & Constitution.
We MUST put country>party!
This
#grifter
wants Americans to believe that a
#PrinciplesFirst
Congressman with a 100%
@ACUConservative
rating and
@Heritage
top 5 is seeking affection from the left.
If you'll buy that, come see me about a bridge. I'll make you a great deal!
I am so SICK of Republicans endorsing positions simply to appease the media and the left
The media loves Republicans that turn their back on our amazing President
These Republicans want to be loved by the left more than what is best for America
I think I'll have a nightcap of some fine Kentucky bourbon tonight to celebrate our corrupt AR Governor being called out in
@AndyBeshearKY
's victory speech.
#arpx
Dear
@GOP
,
A woman born female with female parts who happens to have a hormonal disorder is NOT a man.
Y'all are vile and inhumane.
I hated bullies in school and y'all are worse.
Y'all, this is getting ridiculous.
Another friend in his 50s, lifelong state trooper, in great physical condition is in ICU with Covid-19.
GET THE SHOT. DON'T BE STUPID!
Any member of House GOP who votes for Jordan for Speaker needs to be defeated in 24.
His conduct on
#January6th
alone disqualifies him to serve in ANY office, let alone 3rd in line for POTUS.
I live in AR
#3
& I'm asking my
@rep_stevewomack
to vote NO.
#SpeakerOfTheHouse
1st he got you to justify mocking disability.
Next it was belittling of captured heroes.
Then you excused sexual assault as normal male behavior toward women.
Then he asked you to OK extorting our allies.
Then it was sedition.
Now it's
#TRE45ON
& you're STILL following.
#MAGA
AR has a Governor who admitted under oath that she routinely lied in her last job.
We now know that she & her staff are willing to lie with impunity about a lectern purchase.
There is no reason anyone should trust her on ANYTHING now.
Sadly, many
#arleg
still don't get it.
Talk about the lynching of Pete Berryman & how the tree he was hung on has been protected for a century. Talk about Little Africa, a thriving community destroyed by racism.
TALK ABOUT OUR HISTORY, even the ugly parts.
They'll accuse you of
#CRT
.
Do it anyway.
I've been swamped with work so maybe I missed an announcement but I'm hoping our Governor finds it in her heart to move our
@arkansasguard
detachment from her grandstanding border deployment to assisting our fellow Americans who've been devastated by
#Helene
.
Priorities!
#ARpx
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley says he will object to the Electoral College results, which would force a vote and delay the inevitable affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's win
Don't tell me "let the voters decide." They did in 2020 and we already know what happened.
Trump is getting disqualified BECAUSE the voters decided and THEN he tried to overturn the result and install himself as the unelected dictator in place of the duly elected President.
In Arkansas we have a constitutionally enshrined right to direct democracy via citizen ballot petition.
We have a legislature, executive branch and Supreme Court that have functionally eliminated that right.
#arpx
Trump: “Christians, get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian”
For the 3rd straight year, I don't have the stomach to watch
#SOTU
. It breaks my heart to see my former party turned into a cult of personality deifying a truly evil man.
Tonight, I'll write instead.
I've watched many issues develop over the last 40 years of political involvement.
There aren't many times I've heard about those issues at the auto parts store etc.
When totally non-political people are aware of & mad about the hubris of those involved, it's not going away.
Oregon has a state law specifically barring "discrimination in public accomodation" against 18 year old adults.
@Walmart
&
@DICKS
are flagrantly violating it.
DJIA=all time high.
Fed announced interest rates will decline next year.
Gas=$2.36
Unemployment=3.7%.
USA is worlds largest oil producer.
Total employment=highest EVER.
Inflation=3.1%.
When you tell me the economy is terrible, I wonder what alternate reality you live in.