You really didn’t need to add the word “cunt” because I appreciate civil debate, but sure, I will write a rebuttal about Ralph Norman. Election: He objected to Arizona and Pennsylvania the way members of both parties have objected for decades when they thought the count was dirty. That’s the process. The Meadows text was January 17—after the vote, after the riot, three days before inauguration—written in frustration over Dominion lawsuits and questions nobody would answer. He later said martial law was never warranted. Misspelling “martial” is not a coup. Gun Stunt: He put a loaded .38 on the table, pointed away from people, in a restaurant that allows concealed carry, to make the point that guns don’t shoot people. People do. Prosecutors looked at it and did not charge him because it was not a crime. A legal gun on a table is not “intimidation of people who came to talk about dead kids.” It’s a demonstration. He’s pro 2A. That’s his record. Do as I Say: 2006: Charlotte Observer found three employees on sites his company was developing who said they were here illegally. He said they didn’t work for him, because they didn’t. And that the person who hired them has to deal with it. It was proof that Washington had already failed. The employees on paper were identified as contractor/subcontractor employees, not Norman’s own payroll. He kept the border ads running. That was is the whole story. Call it deniability if you want. He was a developer in an industry that ran on a broken federal system. Once he got a vote he used it: NumbersUSA A+ / 100% current, 97% career — no amnesty, border, interior enforcement, work visas. The headline is 20 years old. The roll call is the record. PPP vs Student Loans: The PPP loans went to separately organized hotel LLCs (FM Hotel LLC, GBC Rock Hill LLC, and Catawba Hotel Associates II) in which Norman held membership interests, not to Warren Norman Company itself as the operating parent. The PPP loans were to pay hotel staff. Congress wrote PPP loans to be forgiven during COVID if you kept people on payroll while the government shut the economy down. Keeping working people employed is not the same as transferring other people’s student loan debt onto taxpayers who never went to college. He called the comparison a special kind of idiocy because it is. Show-up Record: He missed more votes than average in the COVID circus year - ok. But Ralph Norman was the only one to stand with American Frontline Doctors during COVID — he introduced them on the Supreme Court steps in July 2020 while Stella Immanuel said she’d treated hundreds of COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine and Twitter locked her account, Facebook and YouTube yanked the video within hours, and the FDA, CDC, and Fauci’s shop spent the next two years treating that treatment protocol like heresy anyway. Yes, standing on principle does look like defending doctors and breaking Pelosi’s mask rule after the CDC said vaccinated people didn’t need one, then getting fined $500, Pelosi deserved the lawsuit. Meanwhile Lindsey Graham was sitting quietly, doing nothing, just voting yes. Money: He’s a developer who got rich building things. Campaigns always hit developers over land deals. That’s the business. He lectures about debt because he has signed notes and met payroll. Sitting on a fortune does not disqualify you from noticing the country is $42 trillion in the hole. Politics: He endorsed Nikki Haley in 2023 because they came up together in the state House and she helped him win the 2017 special. It was about loyalty. He called Trump before he did it. The day she suspended—March 6, 2024—he told reporters he was “100 percent” with Trump, “it’s time to unite,” and he planned to call him that day. He flew to Manhattan to defend Trump during the hush-money trial. Meanwhile Lindsey Graham was calling Trump names and that’s apparently fine, while Ralph never did that. 🧵