Historian, educator, and author of "Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn", "Nellie Kenyon: Trailblazing Tennessee Journalist," & "The Biggs Machine."
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Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Bernie Sanders wants to raise taxes on “the rich.” If the goal is to reduce poverty, here’s a number worth considering.
A tenfold increase in the number of billionaires is associated with a 40% decline in poverty.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Tariffs are taxes on Americans.
If Congress repeals the Canada tariffs, that's a tax cut for families and businesses buying lumber, energy, cars, and groceries from one of our largest trading partners.
Republicans should support it. Congress should also take back the tariff power it handed the president.
Just don't use it as cover to raise other taxes. Pair it with spending restraint.
Let people prosper.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
In the six years of Trump’s two terms in the WH, republicans have lost:
2 Senate seats in GA
1 Senate seat in SC
1 Senate seat in NC
1 Senate seat in ME
1 Senate seat in OH
1 Senate seat in IA
1 Senate seat in KS
1 Senate seat in TX
2 Senate seats in AZ
That’s 11 seats. Had republicans simply held those seats, they would have a 64 seat super majority today.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
The assassination of Charlie Kirk caused so many people to reveal themselves as horrible human beings.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Charlie Kirk remains my litmus test for judging whether someone is good or evil.
Regardless of political views, if you openly celebrate his murder, you’ve lost your humanity.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Voters: We just want normal
Biden: I’m the next FDR
Voters: how about a normal economy
Trump: I’ll throw the system of global trade into chaos and annex Greenland
Voters: Normal. All we ask
Democrats: Show trials for billionaires and massive new entitlements
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
‼️Someone Who Was ACTUALLY In The Room At Dave Chappelle’s Show Has Now Released The FULL Context Of What Was Said About Charlie Kirk. 😱
In the footage and breakdown, Chappelle states that ever since Charlie was murdered he has felt better, adds that he knows Charlie is looking up at the audience from hell, and then goes into a rant calling Charlie racist based on a heavily clipped comment about black pilots as well as calls @RealCandaceO a "Scooby Doo Ass Bitch" who will not let the case go.
This was not presented as a setup or a punchline. It was stated plainly, with no bit attached, in front of a crowd that had already had their phones locked in pouches. The person who recorded it notes how awkward the room became and confirms that many people walked out mid-set. Dave Chappelle even got angry and made the comment that "This Crowd Sucks"
The breakdown includes Charlie’s original full comments on the pilot remark so viewers can hear the actual argument instead of the shortened version that has circulated. Be sure to watch the OP's FULL video linked down below for their perspective. 👇
From: @amirxodom FOLLOW Him
‼️Dave Chappelle Must Be Canceled After Saying He Feels Better Since Charlie Kirk Was Murdered😡
Dave Chappelle stood on stage at Madison Square Garden and told the audience“Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.” - Dave Chappelle
Those words are not edgy. They are not comedy. They are a public declaration that the assassination of a man who was speaking on a college campus and standing up for his freedom of speech made him feel better. Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. He was shot while engaging with students. Celebrating that outcome, or even admitting it brings relief, crosses a line that no amount of past comedic success can erase.
Every remaining date on Dave Chappelle’s schedule should be canceled. Venues, promoters, and sponsors who continue to platform someone who openly states he feels better because a political figure was murdered are choosing to normalize political violence. The audience that still shows up is making the same choice. This is not about hurt feelings. It is about whether society will continue to reward people who treat the murder of their political opponents as a source of personal satisfaction.
FUCK Dave Chapprlle
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
The same poll that shows Trump's economic approval rating had a question about foreign policy.
His economic approval *consistently* ranked worse than his foreign policy approval throughout the Iran war.
Tariffs were a more important factor in the midterms than Iran. QED.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
There’s no such thing as Democratic Socialism. Once you give the state all the power, resources, and assets with no accountability, the democracy part will quickly vanish.
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The gaslighting from the Vanceguard is intense.
Why didn’t his approval ratings suffer until the start of the war with Iran? All this coping and mental gymnastics to avoid the simple and obvious answer to why the Republicans got curb-stomped in the midterms.
“Biden is sharp as a tack” level of dishonesty and pandering. Keep this shit up and the democrats will have a supermajority and the presidency come 2029.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
How’s This for a Legacy?
A hundred years from now, historians may look back on the presidency of Donald Trump and conclude that 2026 was the year the Republican Party suffered an extinction-level political event.
Not simply a bad election. Not merely a temporary setback. But a catastrophic collapse of political power from which the party would not recover for a generation.
Think about that.
Fifty years from now, perhaps a hundred, historians may be able to write that under Donald Trump’s leadership, the Republican Party ceased to be a serious contender for national political power for twenty years. Maybe thirty. Maybe fifty.
Who knows?
Before dismissing that possibility as hyperbole, consider a little history.
Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in August 1974. Three months later, Republicans suffered another devastating electoral defeat, losing 43 seats in the House of Representatives.
Now, Republicans had already been out of power in the House since 1954. But Nixon and Watergate managed to take an already weakened Republican Party and drive it even deeper into the political wilderness.
It would be another twenty years before Newt Gingrich led Republicans back to a House majority in 1994. Forty years after they had last held it.
Forty years.
And yet, as catastrophic as Watergate was, Nixon’s political disgrace may ultimately pale in comparison to what Donald Trump has done to the Republican Party.
Because Trump’s legacy may not simply be that he lost Congress, alienated millions of voters, or presided over one of the most humiliating midterm defeats in modern American history.
His legacy may be that he so thoroughly corrupted the Republican Party’s political identity, so completely subordinated its principles to his personality, and so systematically drove away the voters necessary to build a sustainable governing majority that the party simply could not recover.
And here’s what really makes this historically extraordinary.
We are talking about the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln. The party of Dwight Eisenhower. The party of Ronald Reagan.
A political institution that survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, Watergate, and countless periods of internal division.
And it may ultimately be Donald Trump who destroys it.
Imagine that.
A man who promised to make America great again may be remembered by historians as the man who made the Republican Party politically irrelevant for a generation.
That is one hell of a legacy. Well done MAGA.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
The first negative approval poll of Trump's economic performance was on March 8, 2025. This was 4 days after Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect.
I believe you supported those tariffs at the time.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Multiple studies estimate that repealing the tariffs in full would immediately save every American about $100 per month. It should be one of the first things the new Congress does.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
Georgia starts off 2028 as Leans Dem.
We’ve been waiting for the shoe to drop for quite some time and 2026 likely marks that moment.
Demographics + suburban implosion for Republicans likely puts this state on track to undergoing Virginiafication.
Republicans in Georgia spent literally a decade or more mass importing Leftist industries like Hollywood, reducing politics to a complicated math problem, and trying to govern like apolitical technocrats concerned with only making sure the economy ran smoothly.
Well, congratulations on handing off a well-oiled machine to people who hate you and who make no qualms about declaring that their political project is for the benefit of some people at the expense of others.
It’s a tale as old as time. Republicans build up a state, turn its economy into a giant engine, forget about the essence of politics itself in the process, and then eventually lose everything and crumble into totally irrelevancy as Democrats sweep into power and convert that prosperity into a vote-buying machine to perpetually reward their various client groups.
Tyler L. Boyd retweeted
The government isn't supposed to solve every problem in your life.
That's what family, neighbors, churches, and communities are for.
