The View from Afar: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tweets#

Deep-seated rot.#

Much to undo, and some can never be undone. — PROF. JACOBSON: DEI and the Metaphor of the Boiling Frog: DEI ��didn’t come out of nowhere. It https://t.co/8W2veJJUSM [Link]#
Victor Davis Hanson writes with compelling reason. — Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public https://t.co/H4sd6z8aFr [Link]#

Success starts at an early age.#

Back to the Science of Reading. — MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Getting better: How Louisiana is raising reading and math scores. https://t.co/liNv7K7xUz [Link]#

Things journalism should unwind for us.#

Since Lewis Carroll’s 1871 Humpty Dumpty, postmodernism in government has been waiting to be exposed for its very expensive cheap word games. — We are the Resistance Sounds Incredibly Stupid When You’re Making Demands for the CIA https://t.co/ZFc0U1WQ4j [Link]#
The battle for your minds, hearts, and money—populist nationalism vs global socialism. — Trump‘s War on Global Socialism (Part 2) — Canada https://t.co/pCu7vPA8AQ [Link]#

Still unified, but paying attention.#

Sensible growth and development. — Flemish Nationalist Sworn in as Belgian Prime Minister https://t.co/usfGeB2txg via @BreitbartNews [Link]#

Retweets#

What USAID reaction really means.#

RT @Geiger_Capital: Someone’s been robbing the bank and stealing our money and you‘re outraged about who found it on the security footage?… [Link]#

The USAID rot goes deep.#

RT @elonmusk: What Raskin actually means is that he wants his kickbacks and bribes to continue. ... ... US lobbying/law firms who launder foreign… [Link]#
RT @JMichaelWaller: Congressman Jamie Raskin, speaking at 0:40 on this video, represents the second largest USAID contractor, taking in $16… [Link]#
RT @themarketswork: @elonmusk @DOGE We‘re still at the beginning stages and already massive fraud and misdeeds have been uncovered at USAID… [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters.... ... This is the one shot the Americ… [Link]#
RT @WesternLensman: 🚨RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under… [Link]#
RT @charliekirk11: Secretary of State Marco Rubio just absolutely RIPPED the deep state slush fund known as USAID: ... ... "I am the acting direc… [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Only with public support can @DOGE succeed. ... ... The bad guys will do anything they can, legal or otherwise, to stop us. [Link]#
RT @MZHemingway: This is an important point. We saw so much resistance of constitutionalism during the first Trump administration and almos… [Link]#
RT @NoahPollak: The way Democrats ran USAID is the same way they run every institution: hijack it for leftist political goals and then blam… [Link]#

Back to its stated purpose. Democrats take note.#

RT @BehizyTweets: BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that Army recruitment numbers just hit a 15-year high since Preside… [Link]#

So the tolerance of rot goes deep.#

RT @EndWokeness: HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.... ... 39% of t… [Link]#
RT @julie_kelly2: The ongoing bloodbath at the FBI has agents feeling a sense of “terror” about being fired and unemployable.... ... Ain’t it a s�� [Link]#
RT @RealStevefriend: The former @FBI director, FLEOA, Society of Former Agents, and FBIAA didn’t lift a damn finger for any of the whistleb… [Link]#
RT @julie_kelly2: Association representing FBI employees is so concerned about the potential firing/reassignment of thousands of agents tha… [Link]#

As simple as that.#

RT @jasondebolt: Elon is attacking corruption, and corruption is attacking Elon.... ... It’s as simple as that. [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Oh look, an “insurrection”!!!... ... The radical left put a lot of innocent people in prison for exactly this behavior. [Link]#
RT @JackPosobiec: Odd timing... [Link]#

Tentacles.#

RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨🇬🇧🇺🇸 BBC TOOK $3.3 MILLION FROM USAID?!... ... BBC Media Action, a charity tied to the BBC, received $3.3M from USAID in 2023-2… [Link]#
RT @themarketswork: @SenSchumer Eight years ago Chuck Schumer said “the Intelligence Community has six ways from Sunday at getting back” at… [Link]#
RT @nicksortor: 🚨 DEM REP ANDY KIM: “If we allow this to happen [to USAID], it’s going to just start to happen at other departments and age… [Link]#

New York State has its own rot.#

RT @Riley_Gaines_: When a sitting attorney general tells her entire state to defy federal law, she stops being an attorney and becomes an a… [Link]#

Definitions.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: It‘s not a coup when someone is dramatically reducing the power of the central government. https://t.co/GN96FywYxJ htt… [Link]#

Friendship.#

RT @aelfred_D: My friend came up to me & said “Are you ok?”... ... And I laugh/yelled “No!”... ... And we looked at each other for a few beats.... ... And he… [Link]#

Sen. Chuck Schumer exposed.#

RT @catturd2: Destroyed. https://t.co/qUUBTSIiIP [Link]#

Communism in Europe.#

RT @PeterSweden7: The BBC is now reporting that Britain will have to get rid of 9% of all it‘s farmland in order to meet government Net Zer… [Link]#

Cleaning up from Democrats.#

RT @akafaceUS: BREAKING: Flights full of illegal aliens are on their way to Guantanamo Bay! Lets go!... https://t.co/KHWk615zxx [Link]#
RT @SharylAttkisson: USAID is notorious for waste and some fraud. There‘s just so much $$ involved. I reported a major scandal at CBS tha… [Link]#

Making government affordable.#

RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 #BREAKING: 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump‘s "buyout-to-resign" offer so far - Axios [Link]#

Salute them.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: Every normal American should vow to have these men‘s backs for the rest of their lives given their sacrifice and servi… [Link]#

North Carolina meant nothing to Democrats.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: Letting North Carolina residents suffer was always a policy decision. [Link]#

The Military/Industrial Complex. Eisenhower was right.#

RT @MZHemingway: @JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @GSDeutch For the one-billionth time, opposing wars with no strategy for success that are not fo… [Link]#

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tweets#

Deep-seated rot.#

Much to undo, and some can never be undone. — PROF. JACOBSON: DEI and the Metaphor of the Boiling Frog: DEI ��didn’t come out of nowhere. It https://t.co/8W2veJJUSM [Link]#
Victor Davis Hanson writes with compelling reason. — Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public https://t.co/H4sd6z8aFr [Link]#

Success starts at an early age.#

Back to the Science of Reading. — MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Getting better: How Louisiana is raising reading and math scores. https://t.co/liNv7K7xUz [Link]#

Things journalism should unwind for us.#

Since Lewis Carroll’s 1871 Humpty Dumpty, postmodernism in government has been waiting to be exposed for its very expensive cheap word games. — We are the Resistance Sounds Incredibly Stupid When You’re Making Demands for the CIA https://t.co/ZFc0U1WQ4j [Link]#
The battle for your minds, hearts, and money—populist nationalism vs global socialism. — Trump‘s War on Global Socialism (Part 2) — Canada https://t.co/pCu7vPA8AQ [Link]#

Still unified, but paying attention.#

Sensible growth and development. — Flemish Nationalist Sworn in as Belgian Prime Minister https://t.co/usfGeB2txg via @BreitbartNews [Link]#

Retweets#

What USAID reaction really means.#

RT @Geiger_Capital: Someone’s been robbing the bank and stealing our money and you‘re outraged about who found it on the security footage?… [Link]#

The USAID rot goes deep.#

RT @elonmusk: What Raskin actually means is that he wants his kickbacks and bribes to continue. ... ... US lobbying/law firms who launder foreign… [Link]#
RT @JMichaelWaller: Congressman Jamie Raskin, speaking at 0:40 on this video, represents the second largest USAID contractor, taking in $16… [Link]#
RT @themarketswork: @elonmusk @DOGE We‘re still at the beginning stages and already massive fraud and misdeeds have been uncovered at USAID… [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters.... ... This is the one shot the Americ… [Link]#
RT @WesternLensman: 🚨RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under… [Link]#
RT @charliekirk11: Secretary of State Marco Rubio just absolutely RIPPED the deep state slush fund known as USAID: ... ... "I am the acting direc… [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Only with public support can @DOGE succeed. ... ... The bad guys will do anything they can, legal or otherwise, to stop us. [Link]#
RT @MZHemingway: This is an important point. We saw so much resistance of constitutionalism during the first Trump administration and almos… [Link]#
RT @NoahPollak: The way Democrats ran USAID is the same way they run every institution: hijack it for leftist political goals and then blam… [Link]#

Back to its stated purpose. Democrats take note.#

RT @BehizyTweets: BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that Army recruitment numbers just hit a 15-year high since Preside… [Link]#

So the tolerance of rot goes deep.#

RT @EndWokeness: HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.... ... 39% of t… [Link]#
RT @julie_kelly2: The ongoing bloodbath at the FBI has agents feeling a sense of “terror” about being fired and unemployable.... ... Ain’t it a s�� [Link]#
RT @RealStevefriend: The former @FBI director, FLEOA, Society of Former Agents, and FBIAA didn’t lift a damn finger for any of the whistleb… [Link]#
RT @julie_kelly2: Association representing FBI employees is so concerned about the potential firing/reassignment of thousands of agents tha… [Link]#

As simple as that.#

RT @jasondebolt: Elon is attacking corruption, and corruption is attacking Elon.... ... It’s as simple as that. [Link]#
RT @elonmusk: Oh look, an “insurrection”!!!... ... The radical left put a lot of innocent people in prison for exactly this behavior. [Link]#
RT @JackPosobiec: Odd timing... [Link]#

Tentacles.#

RT @MarioNawfal: 🚨🇬🇧🇺🇸 BBC TOOK $3.3 MILLION FROM USAID?!... ... BBC Media Action, a charity tied to the BBC, received $3.3M from USAID in 2023-2… [Link]#
RT @themarketswork: @SenSchumer Eight years ago Chuck Schumer said “the Intelligence Community has six ways from Sunday at getting back” at… [Link]#
RT @nicksortor: 🚨 DEM REP ANDY KIM: “If we allow this to happen [to USAID], it’s going to just start to happen at other departments and age… [Link]#

New York State has its own rot.#

RT @Riley_Gaines_: When a sitting attorney general tells her entire state to defy federal law, she stops being an attorney and becomes an a… [Link]#

Definitions.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: It‘s not a coup when someone is dramatically reducing the power of the central government. https://t.co/GN96FywYxJ htt… [Link]#

Friendship.#

RT @aelfred_D: My friend came up to me & said “Are you ok?”... ... And I laugh/yelled “No!”... ... And we looked at each other for a few beats.... ... And he… [Link]#

Sen. Chuck Schumer exposed.#

RT @catturd2: Destroyed. https://t.co/qUUBTSIiIP [Link]#

Communism in Europe.#

RT @PeterSweden7: The BBC is now reporting that Britain will have to get rid of 9% of all it‘s farmland in order to meet government Net Zer… [Link]#

Cleaning up from Democrats.#

RT @akafaceUS: BREAKING: Flights full of illegal aliens are on their way to Guantanamo Bay! Lets go!... https://t.co/KHWk615zxx [Link]#
RT @SharylAttkisson: USAID is notorious for waste and some fraud. There‘s just so much $$ involved. I reported a major scandal at CBS tha… [Link]#

Making government affordable.#

RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 #BREAKING: 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump‘s "buyout-to-resign" offer so far - Axios [Link]#

Salute them.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: Every normal American should vow to have these men‘s backs for the rest of their lives given their sacrifice and servi… [Link]#

North Carolina meant nothing to Democrats.#

RT @ProfMJCleveland: Letting North Carolina residents suffer was always a policy decision. [Link]#

The Military/Industrial Complex. Eisenhower was right.#

RT @MZHemingway: @JoshKraushaar @J_Insider @GSDeutch For the one-billionth time, opposing wars with no strategy for success that are not fo… [Link]#

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