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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
The America that was stolen from us. We will have it back.
Found slide. Dated January 1966. Dad at the wheel of a 1949–53 Studebaker pickup. All ten kids piled in the bed. Next to them, what look like a pair of early-1960s Chevy wagons. Mom’s cars, most likely. Mom’s probably the one holding the camera. Maybe they were headed out for ice cream. Rural house in the background. Pines. Dirt road. Ordinary Colorado afternoon. The plate on the Studebaker even reads like Larimer County. Families used to look like this. I was born two years after this picture was taken. I’m the oldest of eight. My parents raised eight of us. It wasn’t considered remarkable. A lot of families did. Four. Five. Six. Eight. The house was loud. The table was crowded. My dad worked construction. My brothers and I rode in the back of his truck all the time. We don’t live that way anymore. The average family got smaller. Then smaller again. Kids became expensive, complicated, delayed, optional. The culture shifted. The numbers dropped. Something got lost in the process. Not just the headcount. The unselfconscious pile-in. The assumption that there would be enough hands, enough room, enough future. These kids would be in their sixties now. Most of them probably had smaller families than the one they came from. Now if only we could get @elonmusk to pose in a Cybertruck with all 14 of his kids in the back.
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
Replying to @drawandstrike
Well said and thought out.
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One of the things I've become aware of over the years is the 'hidden hand' behind the scenes. Exuses and 'explanations' are proferred for all the negative changes to our American society over the past 50 or so years [you can go further back, of course, but it was 50 years ago that a lot of the agenda became more visible] Reduction of family size was a big goal of the people behind the 'hidden hand'. They have 5 main goals for any country they gain control of, but this isn't the kind of agenda you can enact in a year or even a decade, it has to be implemented very slowly and incrementally so as not to wake up or alarm the population about what is being done to it. 1. Demoralization policies. 2. Deculturalization policies. 3. Depopulaton policies. 4. Destabilization policies. All those first 4 makes the native population of the country far more easily controlled; keeping them demoralized, divided, weak, no sense of community or common national heritage, etc. That's when they roll out #5: 5. Denaturalization policies. They deliberately collapse the nation's borders and begin an influx of millions of foreign immigrants, legal or otherwise. When you observe what Trump has been doing since he first took public office in 2017 with all of this in mind, here's what you're going to realize: In just a VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, Trump and his administration are attempting to REVERSE **decades** worth of these 'hidden hand' policies. From Demoralization to REmoralization. From Deculturalization to REculturalization. From Depopulation to REpopulation. From Destabilization to REstabilization. From Denaturalization to REnaturalization [citizenship enforced] If Trump and his team pull this off, we're going BACK to being the America we always could have been, but were incrementally steered and guided and tricked away from being.
Found slide. Dated January 1966. Dad at the wheel of a 1949–53 Studebaker pickup. All ten kids piled in the bed. Next to them, what look like a pair of early-1960s Chevy wagons. Mom’s cars, most likely. Mom’s probably the one holding the camera. Maybe they were headed out for ice cream. Rural house in the background. Pines. Dirt road. Ordinary Colorado afternoon. The plate on the Studebaker even reads like Larimer County. Families used to look like this. I was born two years after this picture was taken. I’m the oldest of eight. My parents raised eight of us. It wasn’t considered remarkable. A lot of families did. Four. Five. Six. Eight. The house was loud. The table was crowded. My dad worked construction. My brothers and I rode in the back of his truck all the time. We don’t live that way anymore. The average family got smaller. Then smaller again. Kids became expensive, complicated, delayed, optional. The culture shifted. The numbers dropped. Something got lost in the process. Not just the headcount. The unselfconscious pile-in. The assumption that there would be enough hands, enough room, enough future. These kids would be in their sixties now. Most of them probably had smaller families than the one they came from. Now if only we could get @elonmusk to pose in a Cybertruck with all 14 of his kids in the back.
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Who still falls for this shit? This is a Cornyn / Bush boy GOP asshole butthurt by Paxton unseating his meal ticket.
POLITICO: Texas Republicans are already bracing for a Talarico win. “It’s going to take a Herculean effort to hold the seat,” one veteran Texas GOP operative told Playbook. “The Monday morning quarterbacking is going to be biblical. The hand-wringing and the blaming. Paxton will blame Cornyn. Trump will blame Paxton — Trump should blame himself.” politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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Before this gets anymore traction, I can essentially guarantee you that this “veteran GOP operative” is one of these Cornyn acolytes who has been butthurt since the runoff. They love to run to CNN, Politico, or wherever it is to get some air time. None of these “veteran GOP operatives” wanted to discuss the 2020 election at all. One of the only GOPers with clout who did want to, and actually did something about it, was KEN PAXTON.
POLITICO: Texas Republicans are already bracing for a Talarico win. “It’s going to take a Herculean effort to hold the seat,” one veteran Texas GOP operative told Playbook. “The Monday morning quarterbacking is going to be biblical. The hand-wringing and the blaming. Paxton will blame Cornyn. Trump will blame Paxton — Trump should blame himself.” politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
States with higher ICE illegal immigrant deportations are seeing the largest rent decreases, according to DHS.
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Most people at this point still don't understand why getting control of the SSA and most importantly, finding and removing and cataloguing all the FAKE SS#'s was so vitally important. Don't worry. Its going to be increasingly OBVIOUS why MUSK and the DOGE BOYS went there so early in the new Trump administration to shut down the fake SS# structure and remove it and set the stage for prosecuting it. And yes, this has to do with a key component of election fraud.
🤔In 1986, the federal government built a system called SAVE. It stood for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. Its job was simple: when a noncitizen applied for public benefits, the government could check whether they were legally in the country. It worked. It was quiet. Nobody talked about it. For 39 years. In March 2025, the President signed an executive order expanding it. The order told DHS to use the same system the one that's been running since 1986 to verify the citizenship of registered voters and people registering to vote. It told the Social Security Administration to share its records with DHS for that purpose. Two months later, DHS launched the modified version. Two changes. First, it now checks Social Security numbers against SSA databases. Second, it allows state and local authorities to run bulk searches not one person at a time, but entire voter rolls at once. Today September 25, 2026 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling on whether that expansion can continue. The case is DHS v. League of Women Voters. Per curiam. No. 26A308. Now step back and look at the pattern. The system was built in 1986. It ran for 39 years doing one thing. Then an executive order expanded what it could do using the same infrastructure, the same databases, the same legal framework to do something much bigger. No new law was needed. No new agency was created. No new database was built. The system was already there. The records were already there. The connections between DHS, DOJ, the State Department, and SSA were already there. All they did was turn the dial. This is the same pattern that shows up everywhere in the enforcement architecture. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996 and never used. Last week it was activated for the first time. Section 338 tariff authority existed for decades and had never been tested. This year it was activated. IEEPA had never been used for tariffs at this scale. It was activated for tariffs. IEEPA had never been used for the power grid. It was activated for the grid. The OFAC sanctions architecture was built after September 11, 2001. Twenty-five years later it's running the largest simultaneous enforcement operation in modern history. The tools were already on the shelf. The databases were already connected. The legal authorities were already written. The infrastructure was already built. Every time someone asks "how did they do this so fast?" the answer is the same. They didn't do it fast. They built it decades ago. They just turned it on. SAVE was built in 1986 for benefit verification. In 2025, one executive order turned it into a voter roll auditing system with bulk search capability across every state in the country. The building was already there. They just opened a new door. That's what the Supreme Court is deciding today. Not whether the building exists it's existed for 40 years. Whether the new door stays open. I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
🤔In 1986, the federal government built a system called SAVE. It stood for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. Its job was simple: when a noncitizen applied for public benefits, the government could check whether they were legally in the country. It worked. It was quiet. Nobody talked about it. For 39 years. In March 2025, the President signed an executive order expanding it. The order told DHS to use the same system the one that's been running since 1986 to verify the citizenship of registered voters and people registering to vote. It told the Social Security Administration to share its records with DHS for that purpose. Two months later, DHS launched the modified version. Two changes. First, it now checks Social Security numbers against SSA databases. Second, it allows state and local authorities to run bulk searches not one person at a time, but entire voter rolls at once. Today September 25, 2026 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling on whether that expansion can continue. The case is DHS v. League of Women Voters. Per curiam. No. 26A308. Now step back and look at the pattern. The system was built in 1986. It ran for 39 years doing one thing. Then an executive order expanded what it could do using the same infrastructure, the same databases, the same legal framework to do something much bigger. No new law was needed. No new agency was created. No new database was built. The system was already there. The records were already there. The connections between DHS, DOJ, the State Department, and SSA were already there. All they did was turn the dial. This is the same pattern that shows up everywhere in the enforcement architecture. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996 and never used. Last week it was activated for the first time. Section 338 tariff authority existed for decades and had never been tested. This year it was activated. IEEPA had never been used for tariffs at this scale. It was activated for tariffs. IEEPA had never been used for the power grid. It was activated for the grid. The OFAC sanctions architecture was built after September 11, 2001. Twenty-five years later it's running the largest simultaneous enforcement operation in modern history. The tools were already on the shelf. The databases were already connected. The legal authorities were already written. The infrastructure was already built. Every time someone asks "how did they do this so fast?" the answer is the same. They didn't do it fast. They built it decades ago. They just turned it on. SAVE was built in 1986 for benefit verification. In 2025, one executive order turned it into a voter roll auditing system with bulk search capability across every state in the country. The building was already there. They just opened a new door. That's what the Supreme Court is deciding today. Not whether the building exists it's existed for 40 years. Whether the new door stays open. I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume its expanded voter citizenship verification program, which lets states use Social Security records to check voters' citizenship. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
I'm seeing lots of folks talking about whether or not to vote this November. It's fascinating to watch this unfold and the different variations of it. There are lots of folks using Pres Trump as a crutch to support their opinions on vote/don't vote. You shouldn't have to use President Trump's name at all. President Trump didn't run in 2016 on a third party or as a democrat. He chose the GOP for a reason, broken as it may be. He didn't advocate for anyone not to vote if they didn't like the progress being made at any time since 2016. He actively endorsed candidates for republicans to vote for in 2026, if he was disinterested in the 2026 election, why would he bother doing that? I personally think many of his endorsements sucked and said as much but I voted for the ppl I felt best represented my interests. What I don't hear most ppl talk about in the vote/don't vote conversation is that there is much more at stake in elections than the GOP. Your non partisan school board members, sheriffs, judges will be elected this November. Your mounting an effort to boycott the GOP and tell ppl to sit it out doesn't mean the election won't happen, it doesn't mean school board members and judges won't be elected, it basically means, if successful, there will just be significantly less 'conservative' voters and therefore less conservative school board members, sheriffs and judges. Are we all frustrated with the elections, fraud, etc? Yes. But in the midst of all that fraud, cheating, somehow President Trump still got elected bc we didn't sit home. Did he get elected bc of you did not participate? The majority of the ppl talking about setting this one out, that I've seen posting that message, are not the ones that have blood sweat and tears working election integrity issues and being attacked non stop. Not to say they don't make other contributions but if the ppl fighting the hardest for election integrity aren't sitting out the election, why would you listen to ppl who chat ppl up on social media about other topics? I spent decades in the military fixing things from the inside and encouraging others with integrity to join and do the same. At no one did I consider leaving, taking my toys and going home thinking that would somehow make the institution better or that anyone would even notice my absence. The Air Force didn't blink when I was medically retired. My absence wasn't institutionally noticed by anyone and neither will your vote be...that's not how things work in the real world. In the real world, a 'don't vote' campaign would have started in the immediate aftermath of 2020, but it didn't. They had another chance in 2024, but how could you do that when Trump won? Well, you couldn't...because your vote actually mattered and he won. I'm sure all the Trump fans that are advocating you don't vote all didn't vote in 2024 after 2020 was stolen, right? Right? That's what you'd do if you believed the election system is rigged and not voting somehow is important in addressing the rigged system because there is a principle involved. So why wait til September 2026 to tell folks you're not voting? If done in mass, it will change one thing for sure: the face of your school board, judges, sheriffs and not for the better.
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Starbucks ain't coffee, bro. Those are milkshakes. You literally RUIN the effect of coffee the more milk, sugar or sweetners you dump into it.
I read about the study that just came out saying people who drink 5+ cups of coffee a day have higher muscle mass and testosterone and a lower body fat percentage than people who drink less or none. I read this while I was sitting in a Starbucks. I immediately looked around the room and thought, "Not so much." 😂The thing that was really funny was that after scanning the room, an obese woman with blue hair, a septum nose ring and eyeglass lenses in the shape of cat heads walked by me on her way to picking up her order. Now do a study on coffee consumption and mental disorders.😂
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
I read about the study that just came out saying people who drink 5+ cups of coffee a day have higher muscle mass and testosterone and a lower body fat percentage than people who drink less or none. I read this while I was sitting in a Starbucks. I immediately looked around the room and thought, "Not so much." 😂The thing that was really funny was that after scanning the room, an obese woman with blue hair, a septum nose ring and eyeglass lenses in the shape of cat heads walked by me on her way to picking up her order. Now do a study on coffee consumption and mental disorders.😂
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
Replying to @erikec17
That study was about coffee. And men. You were sitting in a milkshake factory with a green logo. Five cups of black coffee a day is a working man's fuel. Five cups of soy-boy slush with seven pumps of syrup, cold foam, caramel, and a personality crisis in the cup is not. That's not coffee. That's a calorie bomb with your name on it. Looking around that room and being shocked is the whole punchline. We both know the blue-hair, nose-ring, cat-head glasses type - and she ain't been in a 'health' study of any kind. She can start with mental health. 😏
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Replying to @drawandstrike
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Replying to @drawandstrike
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. He knows so much he has held them ALL accountable….. Oh wait….🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
Replying to @drawandstrike
I'm not reading all that Pudge. Enjoy your $6 diesel and $7 ground beef. Keep telling people elections are fake out one side of your mouth then how they should continue participating in them out the other.
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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit retweeted
Found slide. Dated January 1966. Dad at the wheel of a 1949–53 Studebaker pickup. All ten kids piled in the bed. Next to them, what look like a pair of early-1960s Chevy wagons. Mom’s cars, most likely. Mom’s probably the one holding the camera. Maybe they were headed out for ice cream. Rural house in the background. Pines. Dirt road. Ordinary Colorado afternoon. The plate on the Studebaker even reads like Larimer County. Families used to look like this. I was born two years after this picture was taken. I’m the oldest of eight. My parents raised eight of us. It wasn’t considered remarkable. A lot of families did. Four. Five. Six. Eight. The house was loud. The table was crowded. My dad worked construction. My brothers and I rode in the back of his truck all the time. We don’t live that way anymore. The average family got smaller. Then smaller again. Kids became expensive, complicated, delayed, optional. The culture shifted. The numbers dropped. Something got lost in the process. Not just the headcount. The unselfconscious pile-in. The assumption that there would be enough hands, enough room, enough future. These kids would be in their sixties now. Most of them probably had smaller families than the one they came from. Now if only we could get @elonmusk to pose in a Cybertruck with all 14 of his kids in the back.
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Free speech is a 2 way street. You’re allowed to criticize this idiot.
What happens if we all come together and decide to not vote? The conversation changes. The ideas change. The system changes. The system responds to your attention. Your time. Your energy. There are more of us than there are of them. We have them in sheer numbers alone. They'll have no choice but to pivot.
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