Stay-at-home dad. Iconoclast. Intellectual. Stoner. Yogi. Meat-eater. Runner. Beer-drinker. Unvaxxed. My freedom protects you; your freedom protects me.
Denver, CO
Joined April 2013
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I am not a Covid denier. I am a lockdown denier.
I deny the right of the government to lock down healthy people.
I deny curfews, and travel bans, and business closures. I deny shuttered churches.
I deny dying alone. I deny cruelty to children. I deny forced family separation.
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Incoming U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed, celebrated as America’s first Muslim senator, advocates cutting aid to Egypt and Jordan, sanctioning and downgrading ties with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, while treating Iran as a potential partner rather than a strategic adversary and adopting a strikingly soft approach toward the clerical regime in Tehran. He even declined to comment on the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, reportedly mindful that some of his constituents supported the Iranian regime and its doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih ("Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist").
This is not a serious framework for U.S. foreign policy in a volatile Middle East where long-standing partnerships remain essential to countering Iranian influence and growing pro-Russian and pro-Chinese alignment. Undermining key Arab allies while extending goodwill to the region’s foremost "revolutionary" regime reflects strategic naiveté, not realism. An Islamist-influenced foreign policy of this kind risks accelerating American retrenchment from some of the world's most critical energy, trade, and maritime chokepoints at a time when sustained U.S. engagement remains vital to its national security interests and those of its allies.
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There was clearly no racism here, but this apology statement was a TERRIBLE idea…
Inherent in the apology (to the liberal/media ear) is that she did something “racist,” but just didn’t intend it to be racist. You can’t give liberals an inch on this, they will take a mile.
The proper response here was “This was a misunderstanding and a rush to judgment which is now destroying my life over nothing. Please go fuck yourselves!”
Alaina Kunes, a University of Mississippi student who was captured on video walking past an apartment making monkey noises and gestures at the door, has issued a public apology cbs58.com/news/ole-miss-stud…
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Chappelle was always overrated. He was buddies with Norm and made fun of transgenderism, so conservatives buoyed him for a bit. He hasn't been all that relevant for a couple decades now. But inasmuch as a fading star can be "canceled," he should be. No big deal, no great loss.
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"Generation Covid" comes out this Friday November 13.
It's a feature length documentary film, more than 4 years in the making.
It will air on SalemNow. I hope you'll watch.
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Hey @JenniferSey! Look who I ran into today… @Riley_Gaines_ !!! 🤩
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Over Shabbat dinner last Friday in Las Vegas, a sweet lady turned to me and said: "So Rawan, your mother tongue is Farsi, right?"
I looked at her, speechless. Finally I said, "Why would it be? I'm half Syrian, half Lebanese. Arabic is my mother tongue."
"Okay, so these are two different languages," she said.
I would have thought that since 9/11, Americans knew Arabic is a language: the language of the Quran and of the Arab world.
I didn't like my reaction. Jet-lagged or not, I told myself, I should find the patience to respond gracefully. Then another American Jew asked me to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims. I told him to ask the internet.
I could be nicer, but I don't want to be. I am running low on patience.
Political Islam destroyed the Middle East we escaped, and it intends to take over the West where we settled. Every once in a while, a horrific attack makes the news. We watch the culture transform. We watch our backs, and we watch what our children are taught.
October 7 was a declaration of war on Western civilization. Yet most people still struggle to understand why the US attacked Iran. They can't connect the dots, not even between Hamas and the IRGC, or between Qatar and progressive students' support for the Palestinian cause. The masses are enchanted, and they are opening the doors to the enemy voluntarily. Across from the Bundestag, a German throws his flag on the ground and raises the Palestinian flag in its place. Across Europe, feminists side with the misogynistic regime in Iran.
And in our bastion of freedom, the United States, Mamdani is mayor of New York and El-Sayed has just been elected the first Muslim senator in American history. Many Michigan Jews refused to vote for him. But nearly six in ten of those who voted early still did. Atheists are siding with jihadists.
Since October 7, I have spent endless nights in dusty hotels around the world instead of in my comfortable home with my child. We are at war, and I owe him a fight for his future, and for the future of his children and their children. I am doing all I can to share my insights, raise awareness and say out loud what many won't. Including hundreds of hours on planes, in trains, on hair and make up. Trivialities, logistics, emails and comments.
So help me, will you? Since we are at war, at least take the time to learn the basics, so you can understand what is happening around us, to us, and ultimately to future generations.
Learn about political Islam and its history. Learn about the feud between Sunnis and Shia. Learn what happened in Iran in 1979. Learn about the Jews: their relationship with the Prophet Muhammad, their Temple, their Jerusalem. Learn about Al-Aqsa and why Islamists are obsessed with that mosque.
If I couldn't be bothered to learn, I would have supported the Palestinian cause. It's simple, easy, convenient and popular. It's also dangerous, because in the name of the Palestinian cause we will be stripped of basic freedoms you take for granted. Sooner or later, you too will lose the luxury of ignorance. By then, lamenting won't help us much.
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Americans, ICYMI (and please share liberally):
This guy has been a state Senator in CA for 10 years. In that time, he has done some truly vile things.
He co-sponsored SB132, which requires prison officials to house male convicted felons (regardless of crime of conviction, yes including rape, murder, and child sexual abuse) in the women's prison with vulnerable women.
He co-sponsored SB357, which decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution.
In 2023, Abigail Shrier wrote about he turned California into a "predator's paradise" and a "haven for human trafficking" (link ⬇️).
He has shown up to a variety of parades and events wearing leather gear, going so far as to publicly promote BDSM (screenshot and a link to a 2016 post that is still up ⬇️⬇️).
Those are just a few examples. The women of @WomenAreReals could provide many more.
All Americans deserve to know what he's about. He is utterly abhorrent. And now he's headed to Congress. 1/3
Just four days after the election, I’m heading to DC for freshman orientation! I’m so excited to get to work in Congress for San Francisco and for our country. We have the largest freshman Democratic class since the post-Watergate election. It’s a huge opportunity to put our country on a better path — one that lowers people’s cost of living, ends the war, strengthens democracy and civil rights, restores the rule of law, and puts an end to this national nightmare. I’m ready to fight for our future!
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I don't think Scott really pooped in his car.
You think he just squatted in the passenger seat and let loose? Then drove it to the buyer? The reseller? No way.
He thinks this is funny and edgy. He thinks poop jokes that a 6 year old would laugh at are the height of rebellion. He's a moron.
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.
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GENERATION COVID coming Friday November 13 on @WatchSalemNOW.
Featuring @DrJBhattacharya @davidzweig @galexybrane and children and families impacted by prolonged school closures.
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Girls' sports are for girls now -- even in deep blue Colorado & Washington! The people have spoken! No need to be shy! Wear it proudly!
And you can get up to 30% off right now (only 2 more days) on performance/workout gear. Try it!
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NEW U.S. SENATOR: “THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS MANDATE THOSE VACCINES”
“Your right to swing your fist ends where my face starts, right? And your right to choose not to get vaccinated ends where the breath that you're breathing out of your lungs is now going into my nostrils.”
“We have a responsibility to protect people from the unvaccinated.”
Will you comply?
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I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.
I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.
In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.
Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.
There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.
California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.
It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.
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I didn’t realize Gavin Newsom was still pretending to be Catholic!
Can you imagine the outrage if a conservative politician cited their religious convictions as their basis for subverting the will of the voters?
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Abdul El-Sayed and his wife.
He wears jeans and tight shirts, while she has to dress like a Bedouin from the 7th century.
This is what women’s oppression looks like.
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So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from a Buddhist winning an election?
Because Buddhism is a religion. Islam is a state.
Islam has a population: the ummah. It has a constitution: Sharia. It has courts, criminal law, family law, taxation, rules for minorities, doctrines of war and peace, and a foreign-policy framework governing relations between the land of Islam and the lands outside it.
The ummah is not tied to Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or any other modern country. It crosses all of them.
Islam's population "Muslims" belong to one political-religious community.
That is fundamentally different from Buddhism.
A Buddhist American may practice Buddhism faithfully, but Buddhism does not give him a second universal political order with its own law, sovereignty, territorial doctrine, and theory of government.
Islam does.
This is why reducing Islam to “just another religion” misses the point.
Muslim officeholders are literally citizens of another existing country, and their loyalties can never be American first, because the two projects are contradictory.
Add to that the religious hatred of Jews in Islam and the special relationship between Israel and America.
A Muslim in a position of power in America, with a religious mandate to hate Jews, will not approach Israel from the perspective of what is in America’s best interest, but rather from the perspective of what Islam commands him to do.
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Tomorrow California picks Gavin Newsom's replacement. Good.
I took this photograph of him almost 20 years ago. One night in February 2008 I ran into him in the Powell Street BART station. Mayor Newsom, a couple of staffers, no cameras, working the homeless panhandlers and selling them on his programs.
This was the guy who built his career on Care Not Cash. In 2004 SF cut homeless cash grants from $410 a month to $59 and promised shelter and services instead. He promised us back then a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.
It didn't last. Today San Francisco still loads cash onto EBT cards that homeless recipients pull out at ATMs. You only have to be here two weeks to qualify for it. Walk down Sixth Street at Market and see where the money goes. Straight into the pockets of the cartels.
Then he failed up to governor. He inherited a boom and ran it down.
California has 181,934 homeless people. That's more than any other state and nearly 1 in 4 homeless Americans.
1.7 million more people have left California for other states than moved here since 2020.
Only 19% of California households can afford a median-priced home. You need $228,000 a year just to qualify. The middle class isn't being squeezed. It's being evicted.
Gas: $3.16 a gallon when he took office. $6.06 last month, $1.75 above the national average. Our gas tax is the highest in America and goes up every single July.
PG&E: rates up 45% since 2021, double inflation.
Who knew back then how badly he'd mismanage homelessness, first in San Francisco and then across all of California?
I hope he never gets anywhere near the White House. If he mismanaged our country the way he's mismanaged our state, it would be an unmitigated disaster.
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This race is between Peggy Flanagan and me.
And only one of us let $9 billion fly out the door.
I’m an outsider, and I’ve never held political office.
When I get to Washington, I intend to right the wrongs that Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz have done to our state.
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.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
Completely unacceptable.
