Lutheran | Software Developer | 🇺🇸 One plot of American land, homestead or grave.
Houston, TX
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A modest proposal. All indexed values in the Federal Register be switched from CPI to M2.
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
In the 1912 essay “The Barbarians” Belloc says the mark of the barbarian is that he wants the goods of civilization without the hard virtues and discipline that created them:
“The Barbarian hopes—and that is the very mark of him—that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is for ever marvelling that civilisation should have offended him with priests and soldiers.”
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
Governor @GregAbbott_TX, will you call for a special session & use the time you have left in office to pass legislation?
🚨 I call on Gov. Abbott to IMMEDIATELY convene a special session to REIN IN EXECUTIVE EMERGENCY POWERS… before Gina Hinojosa is sworn in!
Republicans lost last night, but Democrats were not sworn in.
We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat.
I’ve warned since I was first elected that NO governor, Republican or Democrat, should have unchecked emergency powers!
Now that Texas has elected a Democrat Governor, the urgency is undeniable… and inaction is intolerable.
Without action, Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a DICTATOR.
Due to the absurd (and almost certainly unconstitutional) Texas emergency powers laws, Gov. Hinojosa will literally have the power to modify laws, ignore laws, or create and enforce laws – including criminal laws – on a whim!
Today is a day for ACTION, and bold leadership.
The Texas Legislature must immediately pass, and Governor Abbott must sign, legislation like HB911, which I filed in 2022 and warned at the time, that “Never ending emergency powers are antithetical to representative government and render people powerless. Legislative bodies allowing a single executive branch official to both write and enforce laws is the biggest threat to our constitutional system of divided government and should be opposed irrespective of which political party runs the executive branch.”
My legislation would protect liberty from executive fiat by, among other things, taking the following actions:
1. Prohibit the Governor from suspending or modifying statutes
2. Sunset emergency orders in 30 days if the legislature does not ratify the order
3. Prohibit the governor from reissuing emergency orders that expired or the legislature rejected
4. Require emergency orders to be narrowly tailored
5. Subject emergency orders to expedited judicial review
We have TEN WEEKS LEFT to protect Texas from near total Democrat rule.
I encourage every elected Republican in Texas to join my demand for Gov. Abbott to call a special session.
The future of liberty in America is literally on the line in Texas, and Texans deserve leadership that acts accordingly.
@GregAbbott_TX
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
New Texas election numbers out and every Republican is SMOKING the competition in EARLY, ABSENTEE, & ELECTION DAY votes.
Kendal County, Texas:
🟥Paxton: 70.56%
🟥Teixeira: 74.63%
🟥Abbott: 73.15%
Montgomery County, Texas:
🟥Paxton:
- Early: 60.02%
- Absentee: 55.42%
- Election day: 61.61%
🟥Abbott:
- Early: 61.93%
- Absentee: 59.36%
- Election Day: 65.06%
🟥Huffines:
- Early: 62.88%
- Absentee: 59.78%
- Election Day: 66.47%
On top of the all of this, every other Republican candidate for other official positions in these counties are leading on these recent officials polls highlighted in red by well over 50% to 60%+.
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
In Galveston County official results show Ken Paxton beat the freak. Many Texans are now looking to Govt Abbott & LTG Dan Patrick to hear them & do a statewide audit - not a risk limiting audit that only counts a fraction of the votes but a real 100 percent audit that includes the cast vote records and verification of citizenship. If the leaders still in power do not do the right thing, if they ignore what is blatantly obvious & once again bury the fraud, then are we to understand that they have been bought off? Why else would you cower when your entire state & the Republic is at stake?
Nothing like watching a loser get triggered 😭 😭 😭
Verified Galveston County results (U.S. Senate, Nov. 3, 2026):
- Ken Paxton (R): 52.0% — 69,943 votes
- James Talarico (D): 46.1% — 62,051 votes
- Ted Brown (L): 1.9% — 2,561 votes
- Total votes: ~134,598
- Precincts reporting: 100% results.enr.clarityelections…
These figures are consistent across official-style county election night reporting (Clarity ENR), Texas Secretary of State unofficial returns, local coverage (Galveston-area reporting), and aggregators. Galveston voted Republican at the top of the ticket while the statewide result went the other way (Talarico ~55%, Paxton ~43%). texpolls.com/counties/galves…
Results remain in the standard post-election canvass process (unofficial → official certification). No public reports indicate DOJ involvement or special pre-verification of these specific county tallies. The numbers match across independent sources.
Go kick rocks 🪨
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
The judiciary can be checked and balanced just like any other branch.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to get a radical leftist judge IMPEACHED after she RELEASED a known predator who went on to kill an innocent 5-year-old girl
YES!! Start a nationwide trend! 🔥
DeSantis is petitioning the State Legislature to impeach Judge Tiffany Baker: “Until you start holding these judges ACCOUNTABLE, they are going to continue to find ways to benefit the criminal element!”
“This was an outrage. This was such an easy call to make sure that this guy was put behind bars, and this judge refused to do it!”
IMPEACH HER, and start impeaching nationwide 🇺🇸
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING
Why shouldn’t they destroy the GOP? What have the Republicans done for them? Jobs? No. Gone to the H1-Bs or offshored. College admissions? Given to lesser DEI candidates. Protect their religion and culture? Not at all.
You think they should work to reform from within? Look at how that turned out with the Tea Party and MAGA. The first gave us Ted Cruz and likes of Greg Abbott. The second gave us Vivek in Ohio, Susie Wiles in the WH, and the Iran War.
The GOP doesn’t patronize their causes with financial or even moral support. The one thing the GOP has consistently done is rollover and send them to fight foreign wars.
It’s a corrupt club for do nothings and war mongers. They have every right to turn their back on the party that turned its back on them. We should be helping them.
If you’ve got a good argument for why they shouldn’t be angry and eager to destroy, ignore, or reform the GOP, make it. Facile criticism does nothing but prove you’re out of touch with their plight.
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
.@StephenM: “The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids, that goes to church every Sunday, and is filled with a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy — and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering.
It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who are assembled — to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They’re all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerisms...
Their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred.”
Follow Sama, even if you're not in to the carnivore diet. You'll pick up a lot of great info on diet, metabolism, and medical mistakes we live with today.
A koala's brain fills about 61% of its skull, and the rest is fluid, because a diet of leaves could not pay for the rest of the brain.
Eucalyptus is close to the worst food a mammal could choose. Low in energy, high in fibre, and laced with oils and compounds that poison most animals that try it.
The koala made it work by cutting costs. It sleeps 18 to 20 hours a day. Its metabolic rate is half that of a typical mammal its size, and its body runs cooler than its neighbours'. It moves like a pensioner on a cold morning, because it cannot afford to move any faster.
And the brain went. The brain is the most expensive organ any animal carries, and the koala's has shrunk to about 0.2% of its body weight, one of the smallest relative to body size of any mammal, smooth on the surface, sitting loose in a skull it no longer fills.
A koala joey cannot even start on the leaves by itself. Before it leaves the pouch it eats a special soft dropping from its mother, called pap, to take on the bacteria it will need to digest them.
Now run it the other way. The human brain is about 2% of body weight and burns around 20% of everything you use at rest. It tripled in size over the long stretch in which our ancestors went from cracking bones for marrow to hunting big animals, and our gut shrank to pay for it.
The koala and the human are the same experiment run in opposite directions. One animal chose leaves and spent its evolution trimming the brain to afford them. The other chose fat and meat and built the most expensive brain on the planet out of the proceeds.
One of them is still up the tree. The other is being told to eat like it.
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
This 1879 painting by Pierre Jean Van der Ouderaa looks like a forced,awkward romance.
But look closer. The man is barefoot and wearing nothing but a plain white nightshirt. The woman is in heavy black mourning clothes.
He’s a murderer, and this kiss is a legal punishment. 🧵1/
How is it we pull more rare earths out of the ground than silver or gold? The answer is they're not rare as in short in supply. When they were first identified in the 18th century "rare" meant new or unfamiliar. It's simply an older name that we now recognize as a misnomer.
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
reminder that across the west, men have been doing more housework and childcare for decades while fertility keeps collapsing
maybe the problem was never that men weren't doing enough laundry
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Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
More women were killed during the French Revolution just for being religious in 3 years (hundreds of them) than all the Spanish Inquisition's witchcraft trials in 300 years (6).
From World War 1 to the Vietnam War, some 615k Americans died fighting overseas. Another ~10k through today.
From 1974 to today 60+ million Americans were aborted.
The U.S. government and your neighbors killed the men and women who really would’ve made America great. For what?
Aaron Poffenberger retweeted
Houston is a nationally recognized human trafficking hub. If you're proposing restrictions on HPD's cooperation with ICE, what specific safeguards will ensure those restrictions don't interfere with joint investigations into human trafficking, child exploitation, and organized crime? Or does that not matter to you? What safeguards will remain in place so another family doesn’t lose a child to someone who wasn’t supposed to be here to begin with? Y’all looked super cute for your photo opps putting “I voted” stickers on a memorial but none of you showed up for Jocelyn. Frauds.
