T1 diabetic. Widower. USAF vet. Working on the next, better version of myself. Dogs, brisket, fitness, self-defense, stoicism
Southern Oregon. For now.
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This is a terrific graphic. It’s very likely that my late wife was undiagnosed cluster B. I know a fair amount about it now, but I’ve never seen a graph is useful as this.
if you haven’t already, go sign up for the GOTV effort that @Oregon_GOP is running. It seems like it’s legit. I had a solid call with someone today about next steps.
It’s not just enough for you and me to vote. We have to make sure like-minded people around us are also voting!
This vile wretch is getting rightfully bodied because she clearly, directly threatened those who hold different views than her—specifically young people.
Glad to see it.
I have been clear for some time on where I stand on prosecuting corruption and illegal acts.
In a speech a few weeks ago, I said we need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people. And we need a list of signature cases that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars.
If Kristi Noem steered $200 million in taxpayer dollars to a friend's company to make her TV ads, as GOP sources suggest, she should be held accountable.
If Doug Burgum gave a $13 million no-bid contract for the reflecting pool, he should be held accountable.
And if Jeanine Pirro used the Department of Justice to go after the president's enemies without any legal basis, she should lose her law license, in line with the law.
it’s great to see awesome people get huge wins. I can’t wait to see what this insane dude does moving forward!
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I just voted Republican all down that ballot. I may not be feeling the current GOP but I ain't voting for crazy socialist and amnesty
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I was a senate staffer. I couldn’t imagine being a staffer for @SenatorSlotkin
Platner had a Nazi tattoo. And Elissa was fine. Peltola called her staffers faggot and N word in anger, and Elissa is fine. El-Sayed won’t disavow the muslim freaking brotherhood, and Elissa is fine.
But if you have an R next to your name, Elissa will use government to come after you. Not the Nazi. Not the racist & homophobe. Not the muslim terrorist. The Republican. That’s how low she’s sunk just 2 years on the job. She’s literally becoming Gollum as evil consumes her.
I’d be ashamed to work for such a vile person.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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Our response to @ElissaSlotkin's threat to conservative staffers:
“We are going to help them get jobs, we are going to put them to work, and if anyone comes after them—they’ll have a fight on their hands.”
I am so blessed that my tiny little HOA of nine houses is full of awesome people.
When Covid hit, I started smoking brisket and sharing it with my neighbors. All of my neighbors are in their 80s, they take good care of me, and I take good care of them.
I wish all HOAs could be the same as mine.
Hey @Oregon_GOP : I submitted for two volunteer times with the GOTV site. I've heard nothing back.
What should I expect as far as support materials or direction?
absolutely weird. I checked on my profile timeline, and I’ve had four interactions with him over several years, and all seemed pleasant.
whatever.
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“Women talk a lot about how scared of male violence they are, but from their behavior it's clear they never actually consider it a possibility”
When I was eighteen I was out for the night with my bf and some friends, we were barhopping in Kings Cross. I was tipsy & occasionally lippy & obnoxious towards strangers (who were asking for it!).
My bf quietly & discreetly at one point during the night said “babe, I love you, but fuck sometimes I worry that you’re writing cheques I won’t be able to cash, if it comes to and I’m on my own”. I was like “wtf are you talking about?”
He literally had to explain to me that if I was being a fuckwit starting trouble, he’d obviously have to defend me if anything went down, and if I’m being a massive smart ass and it’s just like him & me & my best girlfriend, then he’s going to be in a fight on his own. All because I was being an antagonistic smart ass to some strangers who couldn’t take a joke.
The idea that I needed to be able to back up my words with violence if it came to it, was something that had literally never occurred to me. Ever.
It was a total revelation. Suddenly i realised talk wasn’t “cheap” in this context, it was expensive. The idea that I could effectively get him beaten up, or put him in real danger, by being a precocious little shit arguing with idiots because I could, was horrifying.
From then on I was extremely reluctant to ever argue with strangers or act like a smart ass unnecessarily, because I was suddenly keenly aware that the guys we were with could potentially be expected to pay with their lives for any poorly received flippant comments we made.
It really was totally novel to me. This isn’t how women see the world, at all.
Ideally, he wouldn't have reacted like this
But any guy is aware that when you shove another man, getting lightly swatted (or more) is 100% on the table, so they won't do it unless they're being intentionally aggressive
Women talk a lot about how scared of male violence they are, but from their behavior it's clear they never actually consider it a possibility
We don't live in the 60s. You're shoving a steroid user on an athletic scholarship in the middle of a football game. You have to understand that this inherently comes with a degree of danger
My late wife and I were married at a remote cabin in the high Sierra Nevada wilderness. It was a two-mile hike to the cabin, or a 15-minute boat taxi. We had 25 people in attendance, including the minister and bagpiper.
We spent $30(ish) on brats, and the cake was maybe $100.
I can't fathom fancy weddings.
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I honestly do not understand how any American who is not already a literal Communist or a literal Jihadist could vote Democrat after hearing what Slotkin said below.
This is LITERALLY totalitarianism. It's not the fake "fascism" the Left likes to accuse the Right of, it is the REAL THING.
Undeniably.
Irrefutably.
This is a sitting member of Congress who was in the CIA saying that dissent from what she believes will result in imprisonment.
This is straight out of Solzhenitsyn. Straight out of Orwell. This is something an early Nazi would have said in 1932 under the Weimar Republic.
Please please PLEASE share her words with everyone you know. The Democrat/Media Complex will try to bury this. It is up to us on social media, on blogs and via texts and emails to get the word out.
The only way to stop these monsters is to make sure that voters who don't really keep up on politics understand the actual threat, see it with their own eyes and hear it with their own ears.
Please. Spread the word to anyone who will listen. And even those who won't listen.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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When I say that women lack the concept of an honorable enemy, this is what I’m talking about.
Obviously a lot of the Democrats’ new vindictiveness is Trump derangement, but the Great Feminization is part of the story, too.
Men understand that the other guy is a professional just like me, and we should have an open fight by fair rules and both go home at the end of the day.
For women, conflict isn’t over until the other side is gone and they never have to talk to them again.
Men believe in hierarchy, so a fight is about establishing dominance within the hierarchy and making the other guy subordinate.
Women don’t, everything is egalitarian and consensus-driven, so if you do get conflict, the only possible outcome is total exclusion from the group.
It makes sense that the Democratic Party is abandoning old-fashioned ideas about honorable conflict as it becomes more dominated by women.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
The need for larger text on Tesla displays isn't just for old women with bifocals.
Pointing this out for a friend. A male friend. Definitely not me.
Demonstrating a @Tesla with FSD to an elderly neighbor. She’s a perfect candidate: rich, lives alone, no longer drives at night due to poor vision. FSD would change her life.
She would write a check for one today EXCEPT the text on the screen is too damned small. Even with the display adjusted to large print.
Tesla, you’ve got 100 square inches to play with. Create an optional “old fogey” UI with minimum 48-point type.
Remember, as @tom_peters says… women over 50 have All The Money and control all the car purchases. And they mostly wear bifocals.
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Lots of talk about the gun policies of other countries following the terrible shooting in Oregon.
We actually have a perfect case study with our neighbor to the north.
Canada has always had a much lower homicide rate than ours, even when their gun laws were much more similar to our own.
Beginning in 2019 though, Canada massively cracked down on guns. Among many other changes, in 2022 the country banned the sale of new handguns. That's the longtime dream of the American antigun movement.
Also in 2022, the US went a very different direction, as the Bruen ruling forced several large states to finally begin issuing carry permits. Around the same time, many large states like Florida and Texas went even further and embraced permitless carry. The antigunners all predicted doom, as usual.
And the result?
Homicide has fallen faster in the US than Canada since 2019, and the difference is even more dramatic if you start counting in 2022. We are also set to decline even more in homicide this year, based on FBI data for the first six months of 2026.
In fact, Canada only finally saw a decline below the 2019 level in 2025. Every other year was above the 2019 baseline.
The gun control movement's core premises are bullshit.
