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Patrick Chovanec
@prchovanec
Private sector economic advisor. Author of the upcoming book “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”. Visit me at patrickchovanec.com. #avgeek
New York, NYJoined August 2009

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The vaccine for monkeypox is the smallpox vaccine, which successfully eradicated a disease that killed 300 million people since 1900. It was one of mankind’s greatest achievements, comparable to going to the Moon - which Candace also believes never happened. Sigh.
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It is rather amazing that yesterday the sitting President of the United States was fined $2 million for defrauding eight charities, and it barely registered as a scandal.
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Tillerson: Russia obviously poisoned the guy. Trump: You're fired. Press: You fired him for saying that? Trump: No, I fired him on Friday. Tillerson aide: He wasn't fired on Friday, it came as a complete surprise. Trump: You're fired too.
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My suspicion is that Trump will fire Fauci when he thinks the epidemic is receding and believes he has no more need for him. Then he will proceed to badmouth and scapegoat him. The foundation has already been laid for this.
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I'm going to criticize Biden, then I'm going to vote for him, then I'm going to criticize him some more. I can do this because I'm a citizen, not a team cheerleader.
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I continue to be stunned at how kooks, attention-seekers, and slime balls who would barely have been taken seriously 10 years ago have so quickly come to dominate our national stage. It's not even political. It's a kind of moral collapse.
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I used to regret leaving the Republican Party after 2016, because it is the logical vehicle for a lot of things I believe in. But I want absolutely nothing to do with the malicious craziness this party has come to embody now.
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The fact that any Republican would support Donald Trump after this happened is an absolute disqualifier for me, no matter how much I might agree with them about any other issue under the sun. In other words, America First.
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Rogan guest: The earth is flat. Critic: That’s nonsense. Rogan: Ok, debate him on my show. Critic: That would only add to the stupidity. Rogan: See, you’re afraid. Just more proof that geography has failed us as a science.
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I’m a conservative and I will trust a liberal journalist over a right-wing shitlord any day. Why? Because even if the journalist is biased, they are at least trying to tell the truth as they see it, while the shitlord thinks it’s fun to lie and see if you believe them.
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I've been a Republican all my life. I am a Reagan conservative, down the line. But it's become painfully clear to me that GOP officeholders today see the red hats as their base, and won't listen to people like me unless I deny them my vote, and persuade others to do the same.
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The problem isn't one rude comment or display, which hardly matters. The problem is the ongoing corrosion of our culture into one where boors and bullies are celebrated as heroes. It's cumulative, like water on stone, and the damage is real.
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Biden campaign: Please take down dick pics that violate Twitter rules. Musk: Censorship! Turkey: Take down the political opposition’s tweets, or else. Musk: What else could I do?
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If the Arizona auditors find that the Biden ballots weigh less than a duck, that means they float and thus are made of bamboo, which means Biden is a witch.
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I’m struck by how many of our politicians, in the US, like to cosplay this kind of stuff. This is the real deal, and no one ever should wish for it.
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I learn to use #Kalashnikov and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our #women will protect our soil the same way as our #men. Go #Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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I am dismayed by the devolution of Congress from a real legislative body into an open mic night for attention-seekers, which basically abdicates all serious decisions to the President. It's a problem that transcends party.
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I'm a conservative in favor of lower taxes and regulations. But it is factually untrue that the US "experienced record growth" under Trump. We experienced growth roughly on trend with the previous 8 years - until the bottom fell out. t.co/ooXYdYWHfX
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I’ve watched “normal” Republicans go from saying “Look, everyone knows Trump lost, just let him talk” to saying “Look, everyone knows there was something wrong with the election.”
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If you’re a Republican who can’t muster the courage to call 1/6 what it clearly was - a riot provoked by the President of the United States to try to intimidate Congress to overturn his election loss - then yes, I question whether you have any business holding political office.
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When Members of Congress who voted to let President Trump get away with withholding military aid from Ukraine to extort personal political advantage now turn around and tell you that he and they would have done more to help Ukraine, don’t believe them.
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I'm never going to get used to or stop calling out the fact that the President of the United States is a raving lunatic.
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A blow to her head? Body found under his desk? Left Congress suddenly? Big topic of discussion in Florida...and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). Keep digging, use forensic geniuses! twitter.com/RealMattCouch/…
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I see a lot of “constitutional conservatives” today muttering about how some people are so hung up on the Constitutional transfer of power and honoring oaths of office when there are more important issues people care about like the price of gasoline.
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China, you are digging a hole so deep with this, you have no idea.
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Central China TV “Expert” : “The US pushed out the vaccine so quickly, that only means they have been working on it way before the pandemic.” Host: “So we can conclude that the US had this virus in their possession long ago” CCP nonstop smear campaign
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You’re right. The plan was to get stuck outside of Kyiv for weeks, leave Odesa completely alone, and lose at least one general per day. It’s going swell.
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The real reason NeverTrumpers have a relatively high media profile is that the GOP has either lost or expelled its intelligentsia. They may be a small portion of the party, in absolute numbers, but they are disproportionately its former thinkers, writers, and policy experts.
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Say this for being Never Trump. It’s a great way to gain media cred. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/
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Lawyer: Have you ever engaged in rebellion against the United States? Robert E. Lee: Never, sir! Lawyer shows video of the Battle of Gettysburg. Lee: Oh, well THAT. Of course if you mean that.
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Donald Trump is a sociopath. I don’t even see this as a political statement, per se. Regardless of your politics, if you can’t see this, I don’t know what movie you’ve been watching.
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The Republican Party became a joke when it started describing people like me - who voted Republican, worked for Republicans, and donated to Republicans all my life - as part of the "Radical Left".
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“What’s next for you, other than being a celebrity now?” Laura Ingraham asked state trooper who quit rather than get the vaccine. The answer turned out to be dying of Covid.
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Robert LaMay, the anti-vaccine state trooper who recently died of COVID, was praised as "a celebrity" by Fox's Laura Ingraham on 10/19/21. She also said she "hoped" they'd awoken "a sleeping giant." (LaMay also used that term previously in the interview.) twitter.com/HelenKennedy/s
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The odd thing about DeSantis sending Venezuelans like unwanted garbage to "liberal enclaves" is that they are refugees from actual Marxism. They are the real victims that right-wing cosplayers claim to be.
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1. I knew Eddie Rickenbacker was an American flying ace in World War I, and won the Medal of Honor, but I didn't know that much about the rest of his life until now.
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Imagine if we had more Republicans like this.
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Sidney Powell lied to you. Rudy lied to you. Fox and Newsmax lied to you. Congressional R's lied to you. The president lied to you. Hate me if you want, but I’m the only Republican in this race who respects you enough to tell you the truth. And I always will. #TX06 #GOP
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China was never going to vote to condemn Putin at the UN. But the fact that it abstained, and left Russia on its own as the only “no” vote, shows some real discomfort at how things are going.
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% of people who say they attend church weekly: US 36%, Hungary 9%, Russia 9%. Pray daily: US 55%, Hungary 16%, Russia 18% Say religion is very important to them: US 53%, Hungary 14%, Russia 16%. Data from Pew.
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Tucker: "They hate Hungary because it's a Christian country. Nobody wants to say it, but it's true. That is enough to incite our policymakers in the United States and that is exactly why they hate Russia, by the way."
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Just 16% of Russians say that religion is very important to them and just 7% attend worship services weekly. Meanwhile less than 19% of Hungarians say that religion is very important to them and less than 19% attend worship services weekly. pewresearch.org/religion/2018/…
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If you think the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy didn’t cry, when the rush of battle was over, or when they woke up in the middle of the night years later, you’re kidding yourself.
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Because it was in February 2020, he was saying the exact same thing publicly at the time, and he later very publicly changed his mind. None of this is either new or shocking.
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You know, plenty of Americans disliked and disagreed with FDR, and were still on his side against Hitler in WW2. You can dislike and disagree with Biden without making excuses for Putin.
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America isn't blood. it isn't soil. It's a state of mind that makes extraordinary things possible.
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1st Sikh mayor in NJ history says his election win 'represents the American dream.' "If you work hard and you’re qualified - the sky is the limit and you can do anything." abcn.ws/2yP7nEH
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I do wonder, from a psychological point of view, why some people see Donald Trump as so attractive and compelling, and others - politics entirely aside - see him as so transparently full of bullshit. It's like a prism into such different realities.
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Over the past three weeks, my 11-year old son and I traveled the full length of Oregon Trail, as faithfully as possible. What follows, with somewhat minimalist explanation, is a Twitter slideshow of some of the more memorable sights we saw along the trip.
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My advice to young people, and to young conservatives in particular, is to turn off cable TV and read. Read history, read philosophy, read biography, read economics. Read authors who inspire you, and authors you disagree with. And travel. Travel to a country outside the US.
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Joshua Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine held the Union left flank at Little Round Top at Gettysburg, would hang his head in confusion and shame.
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That’s the stars and bars greeting President Donald Trump on his visit to Guilford, Maine today.
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My 10-year old son is the shortest kid in his class at school. It infuriates me that he might find out the President of the United States is among the bullies who would pick on him for that fact.
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Many tweets reflect a difference of opinion or interpretation. This one is, in fact, an outright lie. Every President in my lifetime, before Trump, eventually made a concession speech and attended the inauguration of his successor.
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