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Husband, Father, Business Owner, Firefighter, and Space Nerd

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Joined November 2019
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I got a happy surprise last night when I logged in to 𝕏 and found I had surpassed 5,000 followers. Thank you to everyone who follows this account, replies, quotes and reposts. Your interactions and engagement really brighten my day.
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@TexasLindsay_ “Just turn around with him and pretend it was planned.”
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@JordanBowenFOX @FOX13News They were warned and chose to ignore those warnings. I hope they have a viable story when they go home this week and tell their parents to cancel the graduation party.
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@MarioNawfal So that’s what they ask for in the plea deal? They never really cared about the “national security” documents. It was the DNC stuff all along.
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@JohnStossel @wil_da_beast630 Slavery has existed for thousands of years. Every race on earth has been enslaved at in point or another by every other race.
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@kylenabecker It sure looks like a coup. At the very least it’s underhanded and dirty.
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@Teslaconomics What’s even crazier is that the “plaintiff” who sued only owns NINE shares of @Tesla and overruled 76% of shareholders who voted for this.
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A Delaware judge just ruled in favor of the investor plaintiffs who challenged @elonmusk 's $56 billion Tesla pay package, that was offered to him by the @Tesla board and voted on by the shareholders. How can a handful of investors reverse something approved by the other 99%?
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@elonmusk @paulg That really sums it up well. Those who think your first statement is hyperbole are looking only at the 2024 election but this will play out over the next 4-6 years. Some of it will likely happen regardless of who’s in office but there is no doubt it will all be accelerated
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@MyLordBebo We used to have real journalists in America who would have been all over covering a story like this. Legacy media has devolved into a protection racket where if you buy enough ad time they will leave you along. They are a digital mafia.
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@Travis_in_Flint Wow. How is that not racist? A prime example of the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.
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@SethDillon It’s impossible to compare. The most luxurious first class experience can’t hold a candle to your child coming up to you and showing you their love or an accomplishment.
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@MarioNawfal It’s a shame. They had a change to unite and chart a new path but Macron chose political gamesmanship over the will of the people.
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@MyLordBebo Wow. American journalists used to do stories like this but then the big companies realized they could protect themselves with large ad buys just like paying the mafia for protection. The legacy media is just a protection racket for rich and powerful.
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@RadioGenoa When good men are prosecuted to stepping in to protect the innocent more people will choose not to get involved.
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A Judge just denied Marine veteran Daniel Penny's request to dismiss his case where he protected subway passengers from a deranged homeless man. These charges are a waste of valuable time and money when he will almost certainly be found innocent.
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@kylenabecker When CNN is knocking out key parts of your platform, you know the timeline isn’t going your way.
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@ajtourville @SpaceX This is asinine. 100% of their competitors crash their boosters into the ocean but because SpaceX tries to land them, they have to do an investigation?
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@ScottAdamsSays If you’re taking flak, your over the target. Keep up the great work.
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@kylenabecker Nobody has had an issue with this for years. Most Americans never did. Why does the left take so much joy in playing victim cards?
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@EndWokeness Well done and good call @soundthinking_ . No company should sit back and let themselves be the brunt of political smear campaigns just because politicians don’t like the outcome. This is an unbiased system that literally just triangulates the sound of gunshots.
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@reddit_lies They are blind. Pattern recognition is a basic Kindergarten skill in most places.
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@PirateWires Tens of thousands of kids will be less capable of higher math in later years just because she doesn’t want students who don’t want to learn algebra to feel left out. All why she’s paying nearly $50k a year to make sure her kids get the head start on advanced math.
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@WesternLensman This video was spot on when you posted it and is even more important in the light of recent developments. This is a must watch.
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@dantypo So true. It’s hard to believe that his speech writers would put something this decisive together and no one would stand up and say anything about it.
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@CollinRugg This is horrible. I've watched interrogation videos on YT and seen some crazy stuff but this is next level evil to gaslight a guy into confessing to something he didn't do. Imagine if all that effort was spent on actually catching criminals.
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@DefiantLs When people ask how could Germans have fallen for and supported the Gestapo efforts… This pic shows you all you need to know.
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@EndWokeness Agreed. Not only was he sent out there to take the bullet himself, the reporters were told they could take the gloves off. This was the most aggressive questioningI have seen since Trump was in office. So who is really calling the shots and what is their plan to replace him?
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@anammostarac Exactly right. Gemini is a viewport into the culture and groupthink embedded in the Google ecosystem. How their AI processes requests is truth leaking out unintentionally because within the echo chamber of @Google this type of thinking is pervasive and goes unchallenged.
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@MarioNawfal Elon is right. There are tons of breakthroughs and cutting edge advancements that never get published. To dismiss anything that’s not published as not science it’s what’s wrong with science today.
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@stillgray You get more of what you incentivize in society and less of what you don’t.
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A Judge just denied Marine veteran Daniel Penny's request to dismiss his case where he protected subway passengers from a deranged homeless man. These charges are a waste of valuable time and money when he will almost certainly be found innocent.
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@anymanfitness @AbigailShrier This is such a fantastic summary. It covers all the main points while still making me want to read the book. Congrats on the quote post from Elon. I was already following you, but this would’ve got me to click that button if I wasn’t already here.
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@tedcruz The fact that she felt the need to tell developers that this was an isolated witch hunt and no other witches would be hunted in the future should send a chill up everyone’s spine.
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@MarinaMedvin This is a travesty and will on serve to de incentivize Good Samaritan from stepping in to protect innocent people.
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A Judge just denied Marine veteran Daniel Penny's request to dismiss his case where he protected subway passengers from a deranged homeless man. These charges are a waste of valuable time and money when he will almost certainly be found innocent.
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@robbystarbuck If this flight crew is proud of being social justice warriors then they have put themselves on the front lines and should be happy to have their names shared as the people who made this attack possible.
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@Rothmus When you take 2/3rds of anyone’s money they will begin to look for ways to avoid it, restructure it or move it. It’s only the innovators, producers, and investors who are affected. When they eventually vote with their feet and leave, Canada will be left with no one to pay the
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@StephenM @ylecun @dvorahfr @elonmusk @ibeckermayer2 Well said. These arguments are silly when you consider that there is no way to know how many people use this “attestation” in order to vote because election officers are legally barred from doing so.
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@stevenmackeyman @DrREpstein You are probably right. When you control the information people see you can control the opinion they have on it.
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@eyeslasho The crazy part is that this person wants to know if someone will falsify the DNA results so as not to hurt their friend’s feelings. That is definitely not “trusting the science “
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@fentasyl Wow. That seems pretty blatant and lines up with Elon’s theory that this was done to cancel out republican voters.
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@elonmusk @BehizyTweets @yehuda_miller I’m sure you have some people on your team that could help. This may be key to our elections being fair in November.
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@EndWokeness How does it target minorities? Does it not detect gun fire from Caucasian own weapons? The TRUTH is it “targets” gunfire from wherever it originates, regardless of race.
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@MoreBirths This is a beautiful tradition. We should find ways to honor mothers in America and show them the respect they deserve. .
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@charliekirk11 But what if he made the phone call to Mexico? 😉
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So… If Biden can talk to “Mexico” and get them to open up the gate with “Israel”, can he talk to Mexico about closing the gate to the U.S.?
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@VivekGRamaswamy The audience doesn’t know what to do when they hear raw unadulterated and unapologetic truth. The silence is telling.
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@SERobinsonJr @nytimes Agreed. There were so many ways this could have been confirmed and verified but they weren’t interested in the truth. The @nytimes wanted to run a hit piece on Starlink and Elon and they were so eager to run it they didn’t care if it was true.
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@eyeslasho The greatest cost has never been the doctors delivering the healthcare but the administration of the services. Cut the bloat and we would have affordable healthcare overnight.
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@kylenabecker That wasn’t even an attempt at the question. The rambling incoherent answer made all of us dumber for having listened to it. Why, Kyle? Why did you subject us to that?
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@KanekoaTheGreat @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @charliekirk11 When you’ve lost CNN’s senior legal analyst, you know you lost the crowd a long time ago. Point number four is 🔥.
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@Not_the_Bee There is no expectation or right people have to a store being open. Why not banks. I’ve need a bank open on a Sunday far more often than one of many fast food restaurants I can pick from.
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@eyeslasho Wow. Exactly. How many of those degrees even had the potential to pay off the debt they created.
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@CollinRugg This man does not know how defamation works. Unless Lewandowski knowingly spreading something false it’s not defamation.
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@CollinRugg I don’t care how scared you are. If you’re able to get out of the house you have a duty to your children to say something regardless of personal risk.
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@CollinRugg @gatewaypundit This was over a year later. They could have asked him to turn himself in. This put both the agents, him and his family at an unneeded risk for nothing.
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@MarioNawfal How many people even saw the post? Who reported him? This sounds like someone was trying to get even with him and screenshot a comment on a post no one saw.
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@robbystarbuck This will protect the lives of both the teachers and their students and I welcome it. There won’t be many teachers who take the training but those that do may end up as hero’s.
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@Cernovich Is this why they are considering authorizing the start of WWIII to distract everyone?
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@RealKiraDavis This is as predictable as a B rate romcom and yet district after district just have to try it themselves in order to virtue signal to all who are watching.
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@KanekoaTheGreat He is exactly right. Decisions like this and Delaware’s against Elon Musk will cause an exodus of smart businesses to places where the laws are predictable and uniformly enforced.
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@NJBeisner 1. I don’t believe you. 2. Not even Kamala can tell you what her platform is.
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@stclairashley Most doctors solve any issue they are presented with by adding more drugs. Very few ever consider removing a prescription unless it’s to replace it with something else.
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@nypost This will be the biggest event on social media and it will be funny to watch all the legacy media reports dusting off their 𝕏 account in order to log in.
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@CollinRugg Most people have know clue how dangerous beach sand can be. Once a collapse happens, is almost impossible to dig it out in a reasonable amount of time.
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@elonmusk This would be catastrophic to the future growth and innovation in our country and abroad. This is a long held wish of Kamala and her father and she’s never been closer to seeing it become reality. If we want America to continue to lead the world innovation, we can’t let this
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@stclairashley @elonmusk @jk_rowling Exactly right. There is a short list of just over 100 people who commit the vast majority of these crimes but NYC keeps letting them out to hurt more victims.
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@jappleby I hear you on this one but I still think State Farm’s was better.
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What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year? 2024 had a lot of weird cameos and cringey ads but a few were memorable. The one I liked best and had everyone at our party laughing was @StateFarm ’s Arnold Shwarzenegger commercial.
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@CollinRugg It’s all performative theater when they are on air. They are just so used to getting away with it because nobody ever calls them out like this.
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@eyeslasho This is unsustainable. When these kids enter the workforce they will be so disadvantaged by their lack of basic skills and education that many will likely never find a meaningful job and end up on permanent public assistance.
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What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial this year? 2024 had a lot of weird cameos and cringey ads but a few were memorable. The one I liked best and had everyone at our party laughing was @StateFarm ’s Arnold Shwarzenegger commercial.
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@shaunmmaguire There is such a small inter connected group of players in the intel/press/political community. They all run in the same circles and think the same way. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this connection exists.
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@TheChiefNerd @elonmusk So true. People are so shocked when their here truth proclaimed unapologetically. It’s so rare these days.
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@stevenmarkryan Don’t try none, won’t be none. CN doesn’t mess around.
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@elonmusk @ScottAdamsSays Agreed. This was put together by someone else and handed to them to tweak and turn in. Who’s really behind this joke of a bill?
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@TaraBull808 I know a guy who challenged his political opponent to a debate and ended up proving to the world he was unfit even for his current job.
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@CollinRugg It’s great to see someone like this get a little justice. The best part is that we know the driver had to be pissed but couldn’t get out of the car or do anything her car was already on the track and taking her down the line through the car wash. 😂
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@bennyjohnson This is how you do it with class. Many would get defensive and lose the moment. Trump simply turns the tables on her and moves along.
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@VivekGRamaswamy This is a bold move. It doesn’t matter what your opinion of Trump is, this action is a blatant attempt to remove an opponent from the ballot by any means necessary with no regard for the legal precedent it would set. All freedom loving candidates should oppose it.
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@greg_price11 Wow. That’s in such poor taste. How do people live with this much hate in their souls for someone they don’t even know?
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@BrianEntin I have been told that convicted felons would never violate the law and could not own a firearm as felons. 😉 Are you telling me that bad guys can always get guns if they really want them?
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@CollinRugg I’m glad she was removed and that law enforcement is taking it seriously. There is a basic contract that you make with the whole plane when you sit in that seat. Anyone who is unwilling should simply choose another spot.
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@LoFiRepublican I respect her for sticking to her guns but by 15 it’s obvious this has worked in the past or she wouldn’t be trying it for the first time at 15.
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@GadSaad All cloaked in compassion and kindness.
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@TRHLofficial You may not think female prisoners have many rights, but they all have the right to not be placed general population with 6’2” serial r*pists.
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@mazemoore She was far more honest about her real beliefs back then. Since then she has learned to say nothing.
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@CollinRugg But she said this was just a r*cist witch hunt and 100% political. Now not so much???
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@Not_the_Bee Your right. It’s not hyperbole. A Harris/Walz administration would be happy to let other countries imprison their political opponents. It would be a win/win for them.
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@dom_lucre Track these swatters done and put them in prison.
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@CollinRugg @WesternLensman This is such a clear case of projection. He’s accusing Trump of wanting to do everything that his side is already doing.
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@sentdefender The fact that this bridge is the only designated HAZMAT route in and out of the city is going to be a much bigger deal than people would think.
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A Delaware judge just ruled in favor of the investor plaintiffs who challenged @elonmusk 's $56 billion Tesla pay package, that was offered to him by the @Tesla board and voted on by the shareholders. How can a handful of investors reverse something approved by the other 99%?
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Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware
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@CollinRugg Apparently not so sweet if he was willing to do this. I don’t care how bad your life is, it never justifies taking an innocent life.
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@MarioNawfal @elonmusk If you “testify” to something without any evidence or a single actual example you should be laughed out of the room. This is politically driven and everyone should be able to see right through it.
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@susancrabtree This does not pass the smell test. There are so many videos that show local law enforcement were running around trying to engage this guy. If USSS didn’t know… they were oblivious on purpose.
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@elonmusk @ylecun @jeremymstamper @bneiluj @how_many_roads_ Wow. There are so many people doing such great work across the globe. The vast majority of it never gets published. What an out of touch elitist view.
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@elonmusk @ID_AA_Carmack Does it increase it enough to make the cost of powderizing diamonds worth it?
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@RealSpikeCohen This is a big deal and about time that we allowed common sense and the rule of law to prevail. I’m happy to see the court end this nightmare of a decision.
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@RadioGenoa That sounds like hate speech, no?
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A Judge just denied Marine veteran Daniel Penny's request to dismiss his case where he protected subway passengers from a deranged homeless man. These charges are a waste of valuable time and money when he will almost certainly be found innocent.
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@ScottAdamsSays Well said, Scott. You spot on. Simply put. Trump is more likely to get out of the economies way and let entrepreneurs do what they do best.
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@EndWokeness Based on this clip, we may have just solved the border crisis tonight.
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So… If Biden can talk to “Mexico” and get them to open up the gate with “Israel”, can he talk to Mexico about closing the gate to the U.S.?
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@stillgray Surely this isn’t in their designated protest zone… Why aren’t the Capitol police taking action. J6 saw tear gas fired into peaceful crowds but with violent protestors, nothing?
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@fentasyl Wow. That’s insane. Why would people accept this treatment from their own governments? They could change this in a single election cycle.
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@shaunmmaguire This is lost on a lot of people. Elon processes data in a very different manner than the vast majority of people. Whether it is because of his Asperger Syndrome or something else, he possesses a unique perspective that can’t be ignored. I trust his analysis far more than any
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