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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 4, 2025
MY CONGRESSMAN:
And this is:
United States Representative Tim Burchett drops a truth bomb.
Where did all of your tax dollars go?
“I guarantee you it goes from the American taxpayer’s back pocket to the back pocket of politicians in Washington DC.
And if it’s either party, I don't care they… pic.twitter.com/mK0z4VYIkF
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) August 4, 2025
NOT GOING ALONG WITH ANY STUNTS: Greg Abbott Drops Bombshell on TX Dems Who Fled State: Return Today or Be Removed, Face Felony Charges. “Abbott, in his statement, cites a 2021 Attorney General opinion (KP-0382) that could let him petition a court to declare their seats vacant. On top of that, he’s dangling the sword of felony charges, alleging their fundraising to cover $500-a-day fines might violate bribery laws. . . . His statement outlines the legal consequences that House Democrat members face for breaking quorum, including the potential loss of their seats and felony violations. Abbott further explains, as RedState’s Bonchie reported Sunday evening, that the Texas state constitution allows for such actions – including tracking down and arresting House members – to combat their politically motivated stunt.”
Pretty much every legislature has rules that allow absent members to be forcefully retrieved to make a quorum. In Tennessee, Democrats opposed to the ratification of the 14th Amendment were famously chased down across the state by the Sergeant At Arms and deputized Pinkertons, until a quorum was obtained.
THEY WANT YOU POOR AND WEAK:
And this is why Democrats do not want men eating meat and lifting weights
It makes challenge corrupt government https://t.co/hpuyw6hRsa
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 3, 2025
I HEARD THAT DEMO YEARS AGO, AND FRANKLY I’M NOT SURPRISED DECCA PASSED: Why Decca Didn’t Sign the Beatles (and Why That Was Really a Lucky Break). “For the most part, the band on the Decca audition tapes doesn’t even sound like The Beatles.” Or anyone good. It was truly awful.
WHEN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS YOUR TOP PRIORITY, OTHER PRIORITIES WILL SUFFER:
Seems like a real problem. What’s weird is why UCLA would rather this happen than to obey civil rights laws. https://t.co/N41p7vovIZ
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 3, 2025
There's been some griping here on X recently about Terrence Tao losing his research grant. And yes, I think this is a shame – I have enormous respect for the man.
But. If you stand idly by as an academic while your university engages in illegal and immoral racial…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 3, 2025
To be fair, it’s the Daily Yeast.
JAPAN DESERVED WHAT IT GOT, JUST AS GERMANY DID AND AS GAZA DOES NOW: 80 years ago, the A-bomb saved countless lives.
And yes, now we must defend against nukes, which is why Iran can’t have them, and why Pakistan shouldn’t have been allowed to get them.
WHEN THEY RIOT, ROUND THEM UP AND LOCK THEM UP: Think the George Floyd ‘Racial Injustice’ Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
But is Obama really worth rioting over?
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK:
Have they considered just not violating civil rights laws? https://t.co/hLbFlEro2N
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 3, 2025
But we can’t expect them to follow the law. They’re Harvard, and laws are for the little people.
August 3, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
OUT: SHARKS WITH FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS IN THEIR HEADS. IN: Mind-Blowing Discovery: Peacocks Have Lasers In Their Tails.
FIGHT THE POWER: Anti-Illegal Protests All Over Britain Today.
“The Starmtroopers have moved in to shut them down and forbid them completely.” Starmtroopers. Heh. Good luck with that.
RICHER PEOPLE LIVE LONGER, AND TEND TO LIVE ON THE BEACH: New Research Reveals Living by the Ocean Could Add a Year to Your Life.
FOOLS. EVERYONE KNOWS YOU USE THAT TO MAKE YOUR ENGINE GO FASTER. Fatal risks from ‘laughing gas’ use climb among youth.
SCARED GOVERNMENTS SHOW IT. BUT THEY ALSO DO DESPERATE THINGS.
The government is afraid. Only a scared government turns to totalitarianism and removes the rights of citizens over the feelings of foreigners. Trouble is coming for us because we rejected our responsibility to the country. https://t.co/1lGRxEUVeY
— Nick Buckley MBE (@NickBuckleyMBE) August 3, 2025
Related:
And there we have it: protest works, so ban protest.
The state has finally hit on a way to use the hostile environment strategy to address illegal migration: create one for the current population. https://t.co/6Wvjd1kr0Z
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) August 3, 2025
The purpose of “hate speech” laws is to stop people from criticising the negative impact of various failed government policies.
— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) August 3, 2025
UPDATE:
Countries that ban protests against government policies.
▪️North Korea.
▪️Iran.
▪️Belarus.
▪️Afghanistan.
▪️Britain.Not a great list to be on.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 3, 2025
The Met Police took the knee for BLM, even when anti-white race communists formed mobs to chase their officers down the street.
The Met said, "Jihad has a number of meanings" when pro-Hamas protesters called for "Muslim armies to rise up" after October 7.
But when worried mums… https://t.co/XfdXJs11jq
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) August 3, 2025
Anti immigration protests in Britain threaten the state because they are an explicit rejection of the universalist ideology of the elite. Once we recognise an Eritrean cannot be an Englishman (nor a man a woman) the creed of the regime collapses. It will be like glasnost and… https://t.co/HbjP9XxjgG
— Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@DouglasCarswell) August 2, 2025
WHAT DO TSA SCANNERS ACTUALLY SEE. “Airport X-ray imaging can detect all sorts of threats, along with the water bottle you forgot to trash.”
WAGES OF DISTRUST: Vaccination rates of U.S. kindergartners down, measles cases up.
YEAH, IF THESE CONSULTANTS’ EMPLOYMENT WERE DEPENDENT ON SHAREHOLDER VALUE PROVIDED THEY’D HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS DECADES AGO: AI will not kill McKinsey: A lot of people don’t understand what elite management consultancies actually do.