Quote of the Day
Bryan Adams, "Everything I Do, I Do It For You"
Quote of the Day
EMF, "Unbelievable"
Quote of the Day
Paula Abdul, "Rush, Rush"
Listening to leftists diss a principled, articulate woman they don't agree with, comparing her to an ill woman who literally held onto a lifetime appointment through a 2-term Democrat & another jurist who thinks you need to be a biologist to define a woman
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"Amy Coney Barrett"
The "free-stuffers" don't understand there is no Constitutional basis for the federal government to fund education, never mind nationalize college lending. The private sector can handle lending of all types. Maybe they wouldn't prop up unmarketable degrees like the federal govt. https://t.co/he96ijVTcU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
Lincoln signed the first federal income tax into law.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
Leftists need a reality check. Cheney was in House leadership under a Republican President, representing a pro-Trump state.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"Trump 93%"
So sad that unlike other states, NC did not protect against eminent domain abuse in the aftermath of the egregious SCOTUS Kelo ruling. https://t.co/2jLFl03uUL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
Maybe this is sarcasm over the fact that all surviving Presidents suck, but Ford died in 2006.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"After experiencing a series of health problems, Ford died at home on December 26, 2006"https://t.co/2nNsEbdJoE
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
The Federal Reserve? #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
You're showing your age when you instantly recognize a Simon & Garfunkel reference. And you demonstrate your geekness when you remember the Beatles earlier used it in "I am the walrus". https://t.co/sPRB7g1Eoq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
We need cool t-shirts for Edison or Tesla to contrast against Che. #sarcasm https://t.co/BIw8b0qgzJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
I wonder if Beyonce sampled it on her new album. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
Boy, did I misread the trend. I thought maybe Styles released a remake of "Paint It Black"...
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"Harry Styles is Rolling Stone's first-ever global cover star"
But who will check the fact checkers? Leftist "fact checkers" on the IRS hiring binge in the latest Dem Tax-and-Spending Spree Law dubiously dismiss concerns that new agents will pay attention to the low-hanging fruit of middle-class Americans.https://t.co/LWDyKtnFef
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Fauci announced that he would retire later this year. He will not be missed. Cue Steam: https://t.co/nudNmm85sf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"Dr. Fauci"
If the GOP loses the Senate this fall, the blame will fall squarely on the shoulders of the twice-impeached Sore Loser-in-Chief, for the second straight election. The fact Idiot Trump, an incompetent boss, is flaming Chao shows his lack of class and character.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
"Elaine Chao"
Oh, Jesus! Herschel Walker has spent too much time in GA-14 (MTG). If you're going to mock the Inflation Reduction Act, reference how many Georgians can afford to buy an EV or do solar paneling. https://t.co/DZHNhPoe0k
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 22, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Fauci is retiring this December. Cue Kool & the Gang:https://t.co/UJqik5l5ec https://t.co/B5AnalG09Y
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Just a reminder: Clinton had 87 secret or top secret documents on her email server, but others inappropriately sent them. Trump himself stole over 300, stored them less securely than Clinton's server, and knowingly excluded many of them in the NARA January pickup of 15 boxes. https://t.co/N2kOqZXUck
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Among the casualties of Trump's toxic, petty, undistinguished political career is chivalry. Back in 2016 he attacked Mrs. Cruz' looks after some unaffiliated PAC referenced past nude shots of Melania. Now Trump is attacking Mrs. McConnell, a former member of his cabinet, as crazy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Hypocritical jerk. Does the same clown ask whether Manning, Snowden or Assange read classified documents in their beds? We don't know what motivated the twice-impeached, incompetent buffoon--but as a former POTUS, he had no need to know and no right to possess them.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. As Fauci prepares for retirement with a 400K+/yr government pension, I need to write a Manilow parody with paraphrased Fauci's "I am science, and I write the laws."https://t.co/YIuHBy07ac
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
I'm personally opposed to medically unnecessary drug use. But Newsom's policy, perhaps reflecting national political ambitions, is wrong. Harm reduction policies like safe drug injection sites work.https://t.co/52WTcWHgbw https://t.co/LMlhZ1uvjN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Nope. About 87 secret or top secret.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Oh my God, that's how Ms. Marin acts when she's sober? Finland needs to elect more geeks. We never get invited to parties. #sarcasm https://t.co/m8LUbzRo9O
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Oh my God, that's how Ms. Marin acts when she's sober? Finland needs to elect more geeks. We never get invited to parties. #sarcasm https://t.co/m8LUbzRo9O
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
The Biden embargo on Russian oil is working #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
"Russia forecasts rising output & exports until the end of 2025, an economy ministry document seen by Reuters showed, saying revenue from energy exports will rise 38% this year, partly due to higher oil export volumes."
The cancellation of student debt sets a bad precedent and is fiscally ruinous, immoral, divisive, politically corrupt, discriminatory, inflationary and morally hazardous. The federal government has no constitutional authority in the education market, never mind monopolizing loans
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Well, that explains why he was a featured guest on FNC today. He's still a member of his father-in-law's Kiss My Ass club.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Socializing private debts is intrinsically immoral. It enslaves others who have their own expenses to pay.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. The Babylon Bee won't back down against the tyranny of Twitter Mommy. https://t.co/scCy72Vw3l
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Where were you when the Obama's vacationed in Martha's Vineyard?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
I'm sure he's stolen documents he can't read.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
It's Biden trickle-up economics. https://t.co/In1o2kstao
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Wrong, as Summers and others point out. There are at least a couple of reasons. Loan cancellation effectively lowers the price of college exacerbating its already inflation-prone cost problems. Second, the economy is already inflationary, not counting the servicing of debt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Sad to see the tax-and-spend Dems see a trillion dollar deficit as progress vs. an abomination. https://t.co/qtImBKTgWe
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
Apparently, this doesn't have to do with individual scores, etc., but their common skin color, which is beyond their control and individual merit.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 23, 2022
"Konnor McClain, Shilese Jones, Jordan Chiles Just Made US Gymnastics History"
Economic illiterate leftist trolls shouldn't tweet and expose their ignorance. The point is, inflation is already aggressive without loan forgiveness. The net effect of forgiveness is to free up consumer spending chasing a limited quantity of goods and services.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Some leftists aren't smart enough to know the Democrats have been scamming voters for decades fearmongering senior seniors. There are no such plans, period. The real enemies of seniors are Democrats, who have done nothing to shore up unfunded liabilities underlying the programs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Interesting point by some leftist trolls arguing loan forgiveness won't be inflationary given previous deferments. They forget the role of expectations; I may choose to save my income knowing deferments come to an end and I've got a debt hanging over my head.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
ZERO chance the USG will return its property to Trump, not to mention as ex-POTUS, Trump has no "right to know". Even cleared personnel don't have access without right to know. https://t.co/zwTadejGc3
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
The real reason Trump called his former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao "crazy" is that Mrs. McConnell resigned in protest the day after Trump's dereliction of duty on Jan. 6, 2021.https://t.co/qI4s1E9JIL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
The Trumpkin's primary win just goes to prove sometimes poop floats to the top of the bowl.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Gaetz
As the late Meat Loaf sang, "Two out of three ain't bad."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Biden and other Dems are trying to buy the votes of those who ran up their college debt on the backs of American taxpayers. Cue ABBA: https://t.co/2UBizHaX9p https://t.co/W635MVHUVL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Are we seriously going to engage in collateral damage to innocent Mexican civilians? Not to mention an act of war against Mexico?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Biden is up to 41.2 in RCP. That's still Trump territory. https://t.co/BtxpguGyGc
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Just a reminder: Crist has lost to both US Senators (FL) in past statewide races. https://t.co/66jbJLx352
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Weird tweet. NARA picked up 15 boxes of USG property from Mar-a-Lago in January. The FBI was trying to access classified documents in the retrieved materials. Trump was attempting to assert executive privilege over documents not at his home, not as current POTUS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
LMAO. This is sarcasm. Goldman was House lead counsel in Trump's first impeachment. Trump has sought to end the careers of any Republican who supported either impeachment or conviction. https://t.co/UYz8ukQ8bL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
No. McConnell won't bring up Melania's nude photo shoots, but I will. https://t.co/2ymfjMynT5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
"The ex-president has been demanding that his team find a way to recover “all” of the official documents that Trump has long referred to as “mine” — including the highly sensitive and top secret ones."https://t.co/yFSfZBOXEw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Apparently, the value of a (former) college student deadbeat's vote is $10K. It's difficult to believe that the Congress provided the kind of discretion Biden is asserting in terms of nature and discretion of taxpayer exposure; I expect a court challenge.https://t.co/twgrUDWppV
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
I didn't know what MTG meant, but I imagined my high school gym teacher using his paddle with drilled air holes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Swatted
Did MTG visit Missouri? She did mention getting swatted. https://t.co/zG8HxK02oR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Do leftist trolls ever learn? It's bad enough they have short-term memory when it comes to industrial policy like the semiconductor bill, 1001 "buy American" policies, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Oh, come on! Stop acting like gullible Trumpkins for a miserable hypocritical wannabe authoritarian who started trade wars, assassinated an Iranian government figure, used American aid to extort a foreign government for personal political gain, outbombed Obama in the Gulf Region
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
@mehdirhasan
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Economic illiterate rubbish. We don't have a revenue problem--we have a spending problem with a spendthrift Dem-controlled House since 2019. Before long-overdue tax reform, we had globally high, noncompetitive business taxes that discouraged domestic investment.
Ms. Biden is an EdD, not an MD. Yeah, I realize you were trying to be sarcastic. You don't do it very well.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Sometimes leftist hubris bites them on the ass. Like the Germans were scheduled to mothball their last nuclear power plants, and then the Russian natural gas supply problem surfaces. California has had brownout issues for years, and that's before the EV initiative. https://t.co/BELU85gMow
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
I take it we aren't talking gender identity....
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Castration
Joe: SHOW ME THE MONEY!https://t.co/XlLCMdM93g https://t.co/Yxy3L14cix
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Biden is a perverse Robin Hood: he steals from people who pay their own expenses to give to those who make more than the median household income, including others who are able to pay off their own debts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
"President Joe Biden announces student loan forgiveness plan on Wednesday"
Nope. There's a reason he has an abysmal job approval of 41.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Together the Biden's are giving Dennis Rodman tips on rebounding. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
At least they didn't have taxpayers pay for their McChickens. Dude, in the 70's, you couldn't find jobs and apply in a split second, no search engines, research material, tutorials, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
Leftist hypocrites like you created big government, big taxes, big spending, big regulations. Without big government, there would be no corruption.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 24, 2022
You sound like an anti-vaxxer crackpot. You didn't bother reading the article, did you, bozo? The treatments that the crackpot Trump regime pushed were like hydroxychloroquine. If you read the part about the vaccines, you'll see Trump wanted the vaccines approved before election
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Unlike the incompetent, unprincipled, self-serving, twice-impeached Sore Loser-in-Chief, McConnell is highly effective in his role and managed to get him 3 SCOTUS picks. I don't know anyone else who could put up with Trump's BS. https://t.co/UljDFUsSLL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
At least someone is being held responsible for the failed public safety response. https://t.co/PR76fRQxR6
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
The "let them ride bikes" Dems. https://t.co/5ZwuFkAcua
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
What's this bit about grants? I didn't think grants had to be paid back. https://t.co/iO33MRCH0w
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
We who paid our own way think it's immoral for deadbeats to socialize their expenses on the rest of us taxpayers. We know there's no constitutional authority for involvement of the federal government in education, never mind establish a monopoly on college lending.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Just wondering: how do economically illiterate leftists fail to understand that globally noncompetitive business taxes discouraged domestic investment and a higher standard of living for Americans?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Businesses pay all sorts of taxes, which are de facto costs passed along .
Twitter Mommy is unhappy with my occasionally politically incorrect choice of language, rubs my nose in the pee, and makes me sit in the corner for 12 hours.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
You have every right to pay more taxes than you owe. You do not have a right to demand others to do the same.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
I had to work my way through 4 college degrees (I'm the oldest of 7 NCO military brats, no financial support, and 4 other siblings paid their way). I had one $1600 loan during my undergraduate program at a Catholic college, and I paid it off. No to socializing your expenses.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Apparently not having sex or getting an operation is less convenient than murdering your baby.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Spoken like a goddamn professional politician who couldn't meet a payroll if his life depended on it. Screw the jerk,
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Notice how all the economically illiterate leftist trolls are echoing Biden's tax-business talking point in defending his illegal, unconstitutional,corrupt student loan forgiveness scheme? The Democrats are all about spending other people's money and taking credit for free stuff.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
I have a liberal accounting professor friend in San Diego. He was all about paying more at Taco Bell if the employees got a "living wage". I'm sure he would volunteer to pay that $2K but would have us pay it, too. https://t.co/8aXPF3pZNd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Oh, Jesus! I'm so sick and tired of hearing this "poor poor pitiful me" propaganda. If there is any profession that gets pandered more to by politicians than teachers, I don't know what it is.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
"Tax breaks for the wealthy" is rubbish. There are risks for investing in the economy, improving worker productivity and standard of living. The progressive income tax is anti-growth policy, pure and simple. Higher income taxpayers pay disproportionate taxes. Envy is a vice.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
I don't think constitutionally Florida can interfere with federal tax authority.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Leftists are upset organizations they don't support took advantage of PPP under the Cares Act. A reminder that Pelosi and the Dems passed the Cares Act. Many of us opposed the Cares Act and aren't hypocrites.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
"Joel Osteen"
Leftists are upset organizations they don't support took advantage of PPP under the Cares Act. A reminder that Pelosi and the Dems passed the Cares Act. Many of us opposed the Cares Act and aren't hypocrites.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
"Joel Osteen"
Birth control is an ordinary expense, not a relatively rare catastrophic condition/event for which we share risk. It is more expensive to procure birth control through insurance. In theory, women have more control over possibly cheaper birth control post-insurance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
"Hobby Lobby"
Spot on. I remember teaching 2 classes a semester as a doctoral student for a modest stipend of a few hundred dollars a month. I celebrated passing my comps at a dollar cinema. I was ABD #16 in my discipline, defended my dissertation #4. Others chose to earn more money.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
I'm sure he's proud of setting the noncompliance record over 44 years of different Presidents.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Sad to see CDC still hasn't updated vaccine policy for foreign visitors at the State Department, even though COVID-19 testing is waived. https://t.co/sismC8M1SQ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. MTG is facing gender identity blowback. Time for some classic Kinks:https://t.co/A613mG9Phg https://t.co/X8Hop7UPIq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Republicans have been condemning the FBI search of FBI as unprecedented. We had an unusual, unprecedented transition with Trump in state of denial and a rush move, including Presidential records which are under custody of NARA. I respond to Crenshaw.https://t.co/TOtErPbr0z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
I don't disagree that Novak should be allowed to play but his stand against vaccination is a self-inflicted wound and incompetent.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
You are wrong about breakthrough infections. The latest NY stats I've seen are about 16% for fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated ratio 4-1, hosp 8-1.
Is Ms. Jean-Pierre on drugs or is she merely incompetent? The national debt when Biden took office was $27.8T. It's currently $30.7T. https://t.co/ZBlfUzSOT1
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Not even a drunk sailor is as spendthrift as Biden. Just a reminder, it's only because of Republicans that Biden didn't spend trillions more in BBB and infrastructure.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 25, 2022
Of course the Demagogue in Chief didn't pay for his illegal, unconstitutional bribe for student debtors. https://t.co/9I4GYXiwRe
I recently responded to an anti-vaxxer tweet arguing Pfizer had short-shrifted safety protocols on its COVID-19 vaccine. I was unaware of Dems in panic over a prospective Trump election eve vaccine surprise.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Nate Silverhttps://t.co/E5711yinGM
There is no constitutional justification for our military intervention in Syria. Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan is not enough, and Biden's actions are impeachable.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
"President Biden orders airstrikes on Syria after drone attack on US base"
It's bad enough Pelosi has flip-flopped on Biden's illegal, unconstitutional student debt forgiveness, which has the effect of spending $300B+ without a single House vote as power of the purse. But now the Biden regime is trying to compare the Cares Act PPP provision.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
As against the Biden regime's "all-in fascism". Fascism is a soft version of socialism where you can keep your property so long as the State controls it. Hitler and Mussolini's regimes were anti-capitalist and embraced the social welfare net. https://t.co/fF8yeP1UUf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
I was Never Trump before it was ever a thing. But Biden's McCarthy-like MAGA obsession is just as divisive and polarizing as Clinton's attacks on "deplorables" or Obama's confusion over midwest voters clinging to their guns and Bibles. https://t.co/1sjWEfaXPj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
He thought you were a Trumpkin. You know, the dude who wanted churches open the first Easter in the pandemic.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
The whole 21st century sucks.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
#WorstPresidentEver
The pro-aborts haven't figured out yet Dobbs restored abortion as state-regulated. Masters is running for federal, not state office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
"Blake Masters"
The fact Palin has been harshly critical of ranked voting seems to suggest she is not confident of getting enough of fellow Republican Begich voters' second choice votes to prevail.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Palin
This is Soft Rock America. Apparently, Drew Barrymore's video of her enjoying life in the rain is regarded by some as "racist". Time for some classic Neil Sedaka:https://t.co/BL8qIkEovb
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
It was going to happen sooner or later. Pompeo finally wrote something I agree with. https://t.co/BdQFX7KibC
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Wow. LPNH celebrates the fourth anniversary of John McCain's passing. Other than creeps like Donald Trump, I don't know anyone who would celebrate this tragedy. The man served his nation as a POW. He embraced some bad interventionist policies, but this is a contemptible tweet. https://t.co/Y1Dye52g17
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Fourth, the Presidential Records Act does not specify any enforcement actions, an honor system that Trump blatantly abused, but theft of government property is covered elsewhere. It's not clear what privileged documents Trump meant: attorney/client? Those will be returned.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Second, the passport nonsense. Trump claims to hold 3, 1 expired. All passports are USG property, full stop. His second passport was likely a diplomatic one which expired when he left office and needed to return. I read somewhere his real one was going to be returned.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Biden's demonization of his political opposition is a threat to our constitutional republic. https://t.co/7pXUH0oKrR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Oh, Jesus! This is yet another fifth-grader attempt to tag Ayn Rand, a principled opponent to the welfare state, a hypocrite. Yes, she collected some social security, but the government stole from her in the interim. https://t.co/DK8XVvfqs6
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Fed Reserve Chair Powell hints at future rate hikes necessary to tame inflation. Apparently, he's not buying into dimwitted Biden's "0% inflation" hype.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Fourth, I've had enough of this hype of how Trump was playing nice with NARA. It wasn't until NARA threatened to escalate to Congress or DOJ, that Trump finally let NARA pick up 15 boxes in January. We know he held stuff back, some of it surrendered in June, others recently.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Second, Bonehead Trump is still lying about the magistrate judge who approved the search warrant. Magistrate judges are not nominated by POTUS but are selected by other federal judges.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
This spawn of Satan is gaslighting the gullible. The classification system is guided by executive orders. If Trump conveniently "declassified" documents, where's the paper trail? The classification system does not depend on any one person. A post hoc rationalization is BS. https://t.co/AQuAbYVpX3
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Biden is having a senior moment, not recalling some woman's name. Maybe Lynyrd Skynyrd can help:https://t.co/IsaRoAtwE3 https://t.co/VEY5JQvIUW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Well, Pearl is full of crap. As you implicitly point out, a magistrate judge is selected by federal judges.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Leftists love a socialist dude who plays Santa Claus and honeymooned back in the USSR. Time for some Beatles: https://t.co/F8yPVHUrqr
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
SHOCK. The Dems wasted taxpayer money by writing crappy laws being bankrolled by future taxpayers. And somehow it's the fault of qualified private organizations, not politicians... https://t.co/QYmecikzLG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
As someone who is a skeptic of interventionist policies, I had some respect for you, but scapegoating one senator and dancing on his grave is a step too far.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
So sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad in 2014. I can't understand the evil of someone who would celebrate your father's death; it's inhumane and an abomination.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Maybe Laura Branigan can give Joe some pointers:https://t.co/bcj2cEDaeC https://t.co/KdBuGFMnsA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 26, 2022
Trump's desperate attempt to explain away his criminal theft of stolen national secrets by trying to turn tables on the FBI is pathetic. Only Trumpkins who have drunk the Kool Aid are brainwashed enough to believe anything he has to say. https://t.co/wuIApnz0YA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
No one buys the fiction that Hunter Biden's laptop was going to make a difference in the 2020 election. https://t.co/dxxlxg5Rbo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
Novak has shot himself in the foot. No one has a "right" to spread his disease to others. Evidence shows vaccination improves any natural acquired immunity. I have not heard of any vaccine intolerance issue for Novak. He decided it was more important to pass up a Grand Slam event https://t.co/QZ0o1BkarD
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
Oh my God! I agree with a second Pompeo tweet. Has hell frozen over? https://t.co/AriKYi8kYj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
We should never have been in Afghanistan in the first place. I remember the thousands of Americans who died under Bush and the rest.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
It's not just documents. Trump recklessly and incompetently mixed government-owned classified documents, including our nation's secrets, and insecurely stored them. In the wrong hands, that could endanger personnel, infrastructure or missions.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
Mulvaney https://t.co/umlQQO8PcH
I seriously doubt Trump ever got past fifth grade. https://t.co/0IDGXcBUK7
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
I seriously doubt people needed Facebook to decide whether or not to reelect Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
You're not smart enough to know it's US travel policy to enforce vaccination, not the tennis tournament and its sponsors. And Novak decided it was more important not to vaccinate, unlike hundreds of millions of intelligent people, than to play in a Grand Slam event.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 27, 2022
While Confederate garb has recently become politically incorrect, Mastriano could have dressed up as General/President Grant (R), one of the most corrupt politicians in American history. https://t.co/zZGavvtzks
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Nope, not insurrection.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
The last time I checked there was a tag on the State Department website saying the webpage on vaccine guidance was under review. They recently waived COVID-19 testing. It could be they are concerned with hospital capacity and vaccinated folks are at much lower risk for hosp.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Oh, I might try to trigger them saying, "Bambi's mom is delicious barbecued. Care for a taste?"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
We don't win people to the cause of non-intervention by scapegoating McCain or dancing on his grave. What we need to show is that Meghan McCain's grief for her father is shared by other families affected by our interventions. One fellow military brat's Dad was killed in Vietnam.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Well, this should have been done at the start. Taint teams aren't enough given past history with Trump. https://t.co/mYAO3JlVzM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Public health issues.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Yeah, especially your privacy on the Internet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Your parents sucked. Two wrongs don't make a right. The Dems passed PPP into law. They didn't pass loan cancellation into law.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Not so. You spend more time finding your pew in church than Trump spent inside Stormy Daniels.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
First, we need to challenge Biden's illegal, unconstitutional student debt cancellation. There was no vote in Congress on spending over $300B in loan forgiveness.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Second, corrupt politicians like Cherokee Lizzie don't have a clue how government exacerbates inflation. https://t.co/39AZL1lnvw
I'm getting annoyed at how many times I'm running into paywalls clicking on tweet links. Twitter Mommy needs to start charging these Twitter users promotional fees.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
I love misunderstood songs. "Happy Together", a song about unrequited love, became a love song, "Born in the USA", a protest song, became a patriotic anthem. Performers become enraged when their political opponents find meaning in their songs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
No. And I'm more Never Trump than you ever were.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Biden is painting his opposition as MAGA cultists and fascists just like Clinton's deplorables and Obama's midwesteners. It's intrinsically divisive from a phony career politician who ran for POTUS on being a centrist and unifier.
It's true that the Presidential Records Act did not specify sanctions but we know that Trump knowingly violated policy, having been specifically counseled multiple times. Trump had no legal right to the documents he stole, no "need to know" as ex-POTUS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
STOP BEING IDIOTS! You're embarrassing the rest of us. Seriously: "global mass murder"? Are you seriously comparing collateral damage to gas chambers?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Don't be stupid. This is the kind of BS promoted by meatheads like the self-important, overrated Scott Horton.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
The US is NOT targeting civilian populations, e.g., like Russia is doing in Ukraine. You lose credibility with BS rhetoric.
What political party passed PPP into law? Hint: Not the GOP. I'm more concerned about Biden's illegal giveaway to student loan deadbeats. Not one vote was cast for this $300B expenditure at taxpayer expense.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
42.1 at RCP, but nice try. Almost catching up to Trump's. As I recall, Trump's midterm did not go well.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
In most states, state tuition is below 5 figures a year & your grandfather's dollars then were worth more than in today's dollars. One of my siblings lived at home for college & worked part-time. But make no mistake: colleges take advantage of financinghttps://t.co/meMLejgIcK https://t.co/2Aw0pMFpIL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
There are no Trump libertarian policies.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
No, the FBI and DOJ have not violated Trump's rights. If you reviewed the facts, Trump was supposed to surrender Presidential documents at the end of his term. He stole them, including classified documents he no longer had right to access
In case you thought the leftist troll was referencing Solyndra, IRS, GSA, etc., nope: his tan suit. I guess I was too bored to notice at the time.https://t.co/Kj9OU3VvfI https://t.co/P3FQOokqOq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Given the known conflicts of interest between Trump and the FBI, I think justice would be served by a special master vs taint team.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Yes. The problem, though, is Trump considered himself as being above the law. He considers the documents "his", which he was seeing himself as the rightful custodian for his eventual Presidential library. We know he had been counseled many times over the Act.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Blunt https://t.co/zR2mENntp6
My latest rant takes on the evil tweet from the NH LP dancing on McCain's grave on the anniversary of his death. I've been a critic of McCain, but this was a step too far.https://t.co/KwWFwGBtMz
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
This is pretty stupid. We know the classified documents that Trump stole and had no "need to know" or possess had not been declassified, retaining original markings. Don't you think the twice-impeached bozo had every incentive to declassify BEFORE the failed reelection?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Trump had illegal possession of classified materials collected on 3 occasions. Trump knew for 18 months what he stole. The documents had special markings. Reportedly Trump himself went through them, and it wasn't until the search the government got possession of all. https://t.co/HPJgebCTxZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Spoken like an economic illiterate who hasn't noticed 2 consecutive down quarters. Inflation is an artifact of State policy and adversely affects our standard of living. https://t.co/tLMSoygQxH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
No. The only win that counts is on the court. Novak decided it was more important to be a scientific illiterate than to play in a Grand Slam event. He's already a loser.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022
Happy Holidays pic.twitter.com/ueTMW3Dgcj
— Libertarian Party NH (@LPNH) August 25, 2022
The Libertarian Party has had more than its fair share of colorful characters and weird moments that are embarrassing for the rest of us. The following moment from the 2016 convention, the year I switched from being a nominally registered Republican, unhappy that Trump had clinched the nomination. One of the candidates for a party leadership position had decided to strip on stage, and it wasn't a pretty sight.
#libertarian Party chairman candidate strips on stage at national convention: https://t.co/gxYAJJmr4R #LibertarianConvention
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 29, 2016
Now before getting into the politics of non-interventionism, let us recall the infamous feud between Trump and McCain. It seems to have started when Trump and McCain ran campaigns for POTUS, Trump for Perot's Reform Party, a short-lived unsuccessful effort. Trump attacked McCain's Vietnam experience, arguing that being captured as a POW was nothing to be proud of. (Trump, of course, never served in Vietnam, having obtained deferments.) McCain. who had co-led bipartisan immigration reform, particularly during Bush's and Obama's second terms, took exception to Trump'a inflammatory rhetoric about Mexico dumping violent criminals across the border. There were other incidents, like Trump's slam of the late husband of a war widow at the Democratic convention and Trump's sexist language about treating women. McCain also threw a monkey wrench in Trump's ObamaCare repeal and replace priority. It had become so contentious that Trump was explicitly excluded from McCain's funeral. (McCain died from brain cancer.)
There has been, in my view, a perverse sympathy for Trump from libertarians, which I've referenced in multiple occasions in past posts. I think part of this of this has to do with antipathy of leftism, particularly embedded in the government, the so-called Deep State, the entrenched unaccountable bureaucracy, e.g., the whole Russiagate investigation. There are still libertarians who buy into Trump's first impeachment defense, that his extortion of Zelensky was really aimed at getting Ukraine to investigate alleged wrongdoing by the Biden's, who targeted the (corrupt) Ukraine prosecutor for investigating him. [I've written multiple posts on this. I'll point out the target of the investigation in question was the oligarch owner of Burisma, not Hunter; Shokin (the prosecutor) had cleared the oligarch of a British money laundering charge; and other parties (the IMF and EU, not to mention anti-corruption locals) had sought Shokin's termination.] A lot of libertarians were obsessed by the leaker of the incriminating "perfect phone call", who they considered to be an internal saboteur against an elected Presidency.
More recently, many libertarians (e.g., Napolitano here) saw the recent FBI search at Mar-a-Lago as a violation of Trump's fourth amendment rights. Not to mention there is a history of alleged FBI bloody interventions thought to violate civil liberties.
But for me, the most contentious part of libertarian empathy has to be with Trump's purported America First policy which they have tried to link to their non-interventionist policies. If not for the entrenched neo-conservative interventionists, Trump would have restored us to our neo-isolationist roots. This is a fantasy on so many levels: Trump was pushing for record DoD budgets; he outbombed Obama in Afghanistan; he shot missiles into Syria, assassinated an Iranian government official, tried to suppress information on civilian casualties, hired neo-cons as National Security Adviser and Pentagon chief, etc. He didn't want to scrap NATO, just get rid of the "freeloaders".
Now the above tweet doesn't reference the McCain/Trump feud, but for less familiar reader. August 25 was the fourth anniversary of McCain's death. The NH LP is indirectly referencing casualties of America's wars during McCain's political tenure, scapegoating him, and effectively dancing on his grave. Exploiting daughter Meghan McCain's grief is unusually cruel and unnecessary. I myself have been critical of Bush and McCain's interventionist advocacy, but there are better ways of making the point. For example, I would point out that fathers on both sides of our wars have been lost, leaving behind grieving family members, just like Meghan.
It went beyond this tweet, of course; Scott Horton (who I've sometimes clipped over the life of the blog) more explicitly pointed out America's interventions during McCain's tenure, but I personally consider any attempt to defend the evil tweet as itself evil.
Finally, while writing this essay, the LP wrote a tweet on a similar theme, not referencing McCain this time, but terming our policy as "mass murder". I rebuked the tweet as presented below, and my reply tweet went "viral" (as I write, over 7300 impressions). The LP Mises Caucus snapped back at me, not unexpected. Maybe I'll respond in a follow-up post.
STOP BEING IDIOTS! You're embarrassing the rest of us. Seriously: "global mass murder"? Are you seriously comparing collateral damage to gas chambers?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) August 28, 2022