Open source, kubernetes, cloud native. Dad to Shiba Inus. Husband to @crcovill. Time waster and Netflix binger. He/him.

Appleton, WI
Joined April 2008
This is an attempt to carpet-bomb the social contract, and even half-measures in a similar direction are incredibly destructive. If you cannot afford your property taxes then you cannot afford your home and need to downsize.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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I can't adequately explain how fucking mad it fucking makes me that the entire fucking 2024 campaign was fucking about fucking affordability and now we're fucking being told to fucking stop whining about fucking everything being fucking unaffordable
Roger Marshall: I'm sorry gas prices are going up but your national security is more important than your pocketbook
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The most consistent theme of conservatism is being completely unable/unwilling to understand how a thing is bad until it happens to you.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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This is absolutely authoritarian. Stop making excuses for this behavior. Professional law enforcement would never do this. We must enforce the laws and regulations not because we are anti-police but because we want good police to not be thrown into the dirt with these thugs with badges.
🚨BREAKING: An ICE/Border Patrol agent approached a U.S. citizen at a gas station, in Lake Worth, Florida, demanded his ID, and when the U.S. citizen asked why? … The agent’s said, “Because you’re an immigrant.” Except that is not how the Constitution works. In the video, the U.S. citizen is standing at a gas station when an agent walks up and says, “Let me see your ID.” The man asks a completely reasonable question, “Why?” The agent responds, “Because you’re an immigrant.” And before the man has even been identified, the agents grab his hands and puts him in handcuffs. People standing around immediately start questioning what is happening…asking the agents how they can arrest someone when they haven’t even identified who he is… But the agents ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court has held that roving Border Patrol agents need reasonable suspicion, based on specific circumstances, to stop someone and question them about immigration status. And apparent ethnicity, by itself, is not enough. So, what was the actual legal basis for demanding this man show his ID? Because if the answer is literally… “because you’re an immigrant,” that should piss off every American. You should not have to prove you’re a U.S. citizen before the government decides it has the right to put you in handcuffs. And this is just another reminder that constitutional rights don’t mean anything if federal agents can violate them, over and over again, with no accountability.
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Man, I gotta say, as an american. I love how trump illegally taxed us and now the biggest corporations in the country get a free check. Awesome stuff from the don't tread on me, taxation is theft crowd. Appreciate it. You guys are killing it. Also cool that Trump tried to ruin an Olympian's life because his buddy he gave a no bid contract too fucked up a pool. Again, incredible stuff from the small, limited government, 2A bro gonna take on a tyrannical government, freedom loving, constitutional #1776 patriots. You guys are on a roll. Really bringing back the patriotism and love of country. I can feel the red, white and blue flowing through my veins. Watching a country we are at war with hack our water systems and then watch the president blame americans for it. Just a real chefs kiss. Makes me want to listen to the national anthem over and over.
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Many police are defending Flock cameras & other AI tools saying, “It makes our job easier.” News flash: Your job isn’t supposed to be EASY! It’s supposed to be restrained, heavy, and encumbered by the burden of proof, probable cause, the presumption of innocence, and always subject to OUR civil liberties!!! A free society is not about making things convenient for the state, it’s about protecting the individual FROM the state. So many people have forgotten this.
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You mean it wasn't antifa with snorkel and a box cutter but instead shoddy work from a contractor who was in over his head and should never have been awarded a no bid contract of this size but got the job because he was Trump's pool guy? I'm shocked.
Breaking news: The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to experts and a Post analysis. wapo.st/4fDZGnB
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This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation. Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention. In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust. But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming. American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time. Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical. Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself. Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office? This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest? Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse. This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price. The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most. So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television. History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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This is cliched, but just imagine the outrage if someone on the left said Americans should stop buying real Christmas trees so farms close to help the economy. Weeks of coverage. Adults on TV crying that Christmas is lost. Red states would ban fake trees from government buildings
Fox tells Americans to buy artificial trees so Christmas tree farms can be used for data centers: "Everybody needs to get on board."
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Republicans went from “Don’t tread on me” to “if the secret police ask for your papers you better have ‘em” in record time
🚨This is terrifying. ICE illegally broke into a home in Burnsville, Minnesota, without a warrant, searched the entire residence, broke down doors, and detained U.S. citizens. According to the family, everything started when a couple renting the basement was followed home from the grocery store by ICE agents. Ring footage shows agents detaining the man while the woman ran into the house with her 7-year-old son. That’s when the chaos began. Angel, the owner of the house, says ICE agents forced their way inside without showing a warrant, then took his sister, mom, daughter, and niece into the kitchen, made them hand over their phones, and pointed guns at them, telling them not to move. He says all four are U.S. citizens… and only after they were terrified at gunpoint did they finally get the chance to show their paperwork. And to make this even worse, the man detained outside the house had a work permit, which is more than Melania Trump had when she came to America, and allegedly worked without a work permit. This raid raises urgent questions: if ICE can allegedly storm the homes of U.S. citizens without a warrant, what protections do any of us really have?
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When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian.
Under pressure from White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. Now the text reads that "only 3 presidents seriously faced removal," meaning A. Johnson, Nixon and Clinton -- not Trump. wapo.st/3HhfyxU
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They're bragging about how much they're taxing Americans, which is, I gotta say, something I've literally never seen a politician do.
WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE ✨ Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS, the U.S. has generated over $150B in tariff revenues within the past 6 months. 💸
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This is part of the reason why racism festers. The confederacy should’ve been utterly crushed and marked as a period of shame for this country. Instead we honor those who committed treason
The confederate flag is officially back up at the South Carolina Capitol. What’s your reaction? xitter.cf/mespo2006/status/19441…
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It is fucking wild how quickly the party of free speech immediately started persecuting people for thoughtcrime
🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 BREAKING: TRUMP has announced the 'CRITICISM OF ISRAEL' now makes you INELIGIBLE for US citizenship.
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An innocent man was “mistakenly” taken and sent to a foreign prison. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 he must be brought home — yet he’s still there. Every day this administration shows just how vile and lawless it remains. Bring him home!
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last chopper out of foxconn
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Apple $AAPL flies in 5 planes full of iPhones to avoid US tariffs.
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Replying to @BulwarkOnline
If someone can't be fired for inadvertently revealing classified info re: attack targets and sequencing to a journalist all the while sharing this info on a civilian app that deletes messages in defiance of the Federal Records Act... ...then what can someone be fired for?
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Stephen Miller and Tom Homan should both go to prison over this.
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So even if you came here the "right way" you're still getting deported. See? We told you it was racism.
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Detaining and threatening to deport a permanent US resident because the government disagreed with his speech is one of the most dramatic attacks on freedom of speech I have seen in years
Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today. Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers. 1/15
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