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KnVA retweeted
French journalist Paul Amar:
“They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.
In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t”
KnVA retweeted
There are reasonable people who didn’t like Lindsey Graham, but there are no reasonable people celebrating his death.
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The "yes" vote has won Va's redistricting referendum — but the legal fight is just beginning. Four Va Constitutional challenges are now teed up:
THREE challenges to the amendment process itself:
1️⃣ First passage was invalid. The amendment was taken up during a special session convened in 2024 for budget purposes. The General Assembly's own call to the Governor (under Art. IV, §6 and Art. V, §5) and its governing resolution (HJR 6001) limited the session's scope. Expanding it to include a constitutional amendment on redistricting required a two-thirds vote that never occurred. A Tazewell County judge found this action "void, ab initio."
2️⃣ Art. XII, §1 requires that after first passage, a proposed amendment be "referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates." An election must intervene between first and second passage. Here, first passage occurred during an election cycle — not before an intervening one.
3️⃣ Art. XII, §1 requires the amendment be submitted to voters "not sooner than ninety days after final passage by the General Assembly." The timeline from second passage to the April 21 vote did not satisfy this requirement.
Plus ONE challenge to the proposed maps:
4️⃣ Art. II, §6 requires that "every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory." The proposed congressional maps violate this contiguity requirement (rather badly).
Next stop, court. Stay tuned.
KnVA retweeted
This is Tehran.
“Hit them, Israel. Iranians are behind you.”
Iranians stand with Israel against the Islamic regime!
KnVA retweeted
Speech in Oslo, Norway:
I would like to send my message to the people in the back who are yelling “Intifada! Intifada!”
Do you know that you are supporters of terrorism? Do you know that “intifada” means the bombing of innocent children and people?
How dare you scream “Intifada” in Norway? A country based on equality, peace, and tolerance?
This is not the 1930s anymore. The Jewish people have a state. They protect themselves — and they will continue to protect themselves.
That is why they are angry. They don’t want the Jewish people to have self-determination, rights, peace, and love.
They feed off fear, antisemitism, terrorism, and “intifada.”
I come from Yemen, and the Houthis who are attacking Israel — their slogan starts with “Death to America.”
Because this war is not about Israel. It’s about the destruction of Western civilization as we know it.
The destruction of human rights, women’s rights, gay rights, and everything that the West has built and fought for, for centuries.
How DARE you scream “intifada” in Norway?
You are a shame. Not only to Oslo, but to the Middle East, and the human species as a whole.
And finally, I’d like to say: AM YISRAEL CHAI.
KnVA retweeted
This is going to be unpopular but we should get rid of Daylight Saving Time and be on Standard Time year round.
Standard Time and earlier sunrises are better for our health and circadian rhythm.
KnVA retweeted
NFTs, sneakers, pieces of his suit. Can you believe the stupid people that buy this garbage? Trump has cast a spell on his followers, the leader of a once great party. They have done nothing but lose since 2016 and will do so again this year. Will it be enough to end this cult?
KnVA retweeted
As someone who is still a fan of the Daily Wire crew, most especially @MattWalshBlog and @benshapiro, I have to say I was disappointed by their performance in this Primary.
Here's the problem; anyone on the Right who was around in 2008 remembers the 'Journolist'. (1/)
KnVA retweeted
Nothing can stop what’s coming
♦️Judge Chutkan issued her ruling tonight. Huge blow for Trump. He’s in deep shit. This is why Trump has run the most unethical nasty primary campaign in history against DeSantis. Trump desperately thinks winning the primary will keep him out of jail, it won’t. #DumpTrump
KnVA retweeted
“Hold my juice box”
- Mason DeSantis
Donald J. Trump: the most athletic President in US History
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
President Gerald Ford was an All-American football player at Michigan.
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KnVA retweeted
Did Trump's endorsement make DeSantis❓
I keep seeing this, that DeSantis owes his political career to Donald Trump... therefore he betrayed Trump by running for President. 🤔
Let's examine the FACTS.🔎
To answer the question of Trump's influence on DeSantis' political career, let's look at what DeSantis did BEFORE Trump endorsed him for governor...
🔥 World Series baseball team & later top-scorer & all-star of varsity team, then Captain at Yale ⚾
🔥 99th percentile on SATs 📝
🔥 Magna cum laud at Yale 🏆
🔥 Honors at Harvard Law 🏆
🔥 Distinguished JAG officer 🎖️
🔥 Wins 1st attempt to run for Congress by nearly 15 points. 🥇
🔥 Wins reelection by 25 points 📈
🔥 Wins a 3rd time and ends his time in Congress voting more constitutional than 80% of his peers. 🇺🇲
At his point DeSantis decides to run for governor and Trump endorses him with a tweet in the primary.
Which of course he did. It was against Putnam who was not in Trump's political lane.
DeSantis was really the only option.
And then DeSantis is the Republican running against a highly progressive Andrew Gillum. And Trump gave him a full endorsement in June.
The question here is this:
Did Trump's endorsement help DeSantis?
Many argue it did. Some say it didn't.
Opinions abound.
What do the numbers say?📊
There were 2 polls conducted prior to Trump's full endorsement in June 2018. Both showed Gillum in the lead, one by 3 points, the other by 4 points. An average of 3.5 points.
Then Trump endorsed DeSantis.
37 polls were taken after that endorsement before the election.
Gillum was beating DeSantis in 34 of them by an average of 3.6 points.
Statistically, Trump's endorsement made absolutely no difference whatsoever in the polls.
It can be argued that DeSantis did win and perhaps Trump's endorsement motivated some of his supporters to show up & vote.
I believe that is likely the case.
I also believe his endorsement discouraged some to show up & vote as well. Plenty of "never Trump" GOP out there.
In fact, nation-wide, Trump on average lost voting share in nearly every state, and had a lower percentage of his endorsed candidates win than those endorsed by Obama or even Biden.
I'd also note that DeSantis won by a larger margin than former governor Rick Scott did for his senate seat. Both were endorsed by Trump.
All of this together demonstrated Trump's declining overall popularity & the rise of an anti-Trump movement, which played out spectacularly 2 years later.
However, DeSantis did win & Trump did endorse him.
And DeSantis valued & recognized that.
He responded in kind to Trump by:
☑️Helping Trump raise millions in FL for 2020 election
☑️Defending Trump repeatedly on multiple issues
☑️Initially backing Trump's "rigged election" claims & taking action to help him.
☑️Even remaining kind towards Trump throughout Covid despite receiving pressure from Trump's task force to reinstitute lockdowns & mandates all the up to January 2021.
👀The divergence between DeSantis & Trump began to happen with Covid.
💉Trump repeatedly downplayed Covid via tweets & even some press conferences, but at the same time funded & supported his Covid task force & gave them unprecedented control, especially Fauci.
🛑DeSantis initially complied & demonstrated caution, but after research came out, he changed course & took a stand against lockdowns & mandates.
And he stood against Trump's task force as respectfully as he could.
🚨And then Trump lost the election, couldn't prove enough election fraud to overturn, & Jan. 6th happened.
Yet DeSantis continued to defend Trump, saying "it was not an insurrection".
In fact, the only thing DeSantis did "wrong" against Trump was to become more popular while Trump because less so.📈
This all culminated in the 2022 midterm elections where Trump began lashing out at DeSantis 3 days before the election. Also before Trump had announced a run for President.
🔥Yet DeSantis still won in nearly a 20-point landslide.
In contrast, Trump's endorsements & especially the stolen election claim seemed to kill what should have been a red-wave.
The contrast was clear.
DeSantis won big. Trump effectively lost, again.
And with the possibility of DeSantis entering the race, Trump revved up his attacks. Relentless & mostly baseless.
For 6 months before DeSantis entered the race, Trump attacked him hundreds of times, calling him dozens of names.
Here are just some of the blatantly FALSE attacks that came from Trump & his surrogates:
🚨RINO / Establishment
🚨Paul Ryan's disciple
🚨Backed by Bushes
🚨Might have killed his own sister
🚨Wife faked cancer
🚨Globalist
And more.
All this & DeSantis barely responded.
So I'll just pause right here and ask...
👀Who turned on who here❓
Yes, Trump endorsed DeSantis.
But DeSantis repaid Trump in kind through years of helping & defending him.
It was Trump who drew first blood. He attacked first, and hard. Right before an important election.
That garners no continued loyalty in my book.
And like DeSantis has said since, "Trump should not be running again".
Trump lost in 2020. And he's far less popular nationally than he was then.
He somehow has to win over MORE people, which is not happening.
Trump has no realistic path to electoral victory in 2024.
DeSantis knows this.
I suspect Trump does as well, but that's a post for another time.
Many of us who previously voted for Trump see this same reality. He simply cannot win in 2024. Not even to bring in all the likely convictions & what they would mean.
We need a new standard bearer who can win.
DeSantis is that guy.☑️
Regarding this whole loyalty issue, DeSantis has said "I'm loyal to God, my country, & my family".
Like him, our loyalty must rise to something higher than any one politician.
We're America-first patriots who need to win 2024 & advance policies that benefit our country.
Every patriot must decide where his or her true allegiance lies.
To God, country, & family?
Or to Donald Trump & his quest for vengeance?
Because even if those allegiances used to be aligned, they are no longer.
Ron DeSantis sees this & it's why he's running.
Many of us see it as well.
It's time to move on.
For America 🇺🇸.
KnVA retweeted
Why do the cattle keep repeating the false claim Donald Trump had zero wars when he spent 4 yrs fighting the Bush/Obama war in Afghanistan, the illegal war in Yemen, & had more drone strikes than Obama?
