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Tommy Stafford retweeted
🚨Midterm Elections: Not a Mandate, Just a Rejection
Mark Mitchell and Rich Baris warned this was coming. The reasons were visible in the data long before Election Day. The economy for the average household remains the real problem. substack.com/@eddowdbeyondth…
Tommy Stafford retweeted
Election Day:
There's a major difference between abstaining from voting out of apathy and demoralization, believing we're all screwed and the future is doom and gloom no matter who wins,
and abstaining because you decline to outsource your energy, power, and authority to other men and women,
because you recognize that no one, regardless of title or supposed official position, has the right to dictate your life unless you contract with them or consent to it,
and because you're on the path to remembering who you truly are.
Tommy Stafford retweeted
If anyone guilts you for not voting today, just remember they're either gaslighting you, lying to themselves, or too blinded by institutionalized faith to understand that voting is an empty ritual designed to convince people they control a system that actually controls them.
Refusing to participate is not apathy. It's dissent.
Why Albemarle County, CPD & UVA Get It Wrong On Coming Police & Fire Radio Encryption (my story in the link) tommystafford.substack.com/p…
Solid, good data summation of the crash with no hyperbole.
Was a lifelong republican. Then independent, eventually quit voting altogether because they are all disgusting. Tucker is right. The ship eventually rights itself, not today, maybe not tomorrow. But it will happen.
Tucker Carlson just declared in no uncertain terms:
“There will be a third party.”
“The majority will get its way.”
“Most people are opposed to … the Republican and Democratic parties.”
“We need an alternative.”
This is why we’re building a new party movement to take back our country on behalf of We The People.
And we’re building it from the ground up, not the top down.
This new party cannot be built by the same elites who gave us the crisis we’re currently in.
Skyrocketing costs of living.
Record levels of chronic disease.
Mass surveillance.
Endless wars.
Instead of relying on the same elites who got us here, we’re building a whole new kind of movement.
We are recruiting candidates across the country to run in local elections and fight back in our own communities.
Why?
Because that is the only proven way we can win.
Local organizing is how We The People successfully cancelled Flock surveillance contracts in communities across the country.
Local organizing is how We The People successfully shut down data centers in communities across the country.
Local organizing is how medical freedom fighters successfully banned almost all mandates in Idaho.
Our principles are simple:
We are anti-corruption.
Anti-mandates.
Anti-corporate monopolies.
Anti-money in politics.
Anti-war.
Pro-decentralization.
Pro-transparency.
Pro-accountability.
Join us.
@TuckerCarlson
Tommy Stafford retweeted
The money is a problem, but it's not just the money. People are really tired.
They are tired of being tracked, micromanaged, and watched everywhere they go.
They are tired of being advertised to by their car, their gas pump, their TV, their email.
They are tired of their email, mailbox, text messages, and phone calls being flooded with non-stop spam, rendering them completely unusable.
They are tired of being lied to about everything, talked down to by by people unjustly lifted above them, and ignored by everyone in power.
They are tired of having to log in, sign up, and sync every everything with endless accounts, endless passwords, endless subscriptions, and endless data theft just to use their baking scale or toaster.
They are tired of being told that they don't know what their country is, they don't know who their people are, and they don't know what they want for their future.
They are tired of walking on eggshells to not lose their job, being incapable of asking someone out, being unable to have normal conversations with people like adults, having everything they do recorded.
They are tired of being told that they're entitled because they know that their ancestors built this country for them.
They are tired of being told that they just aren't trying hard enough, by smug elitists who have never turned in a day of real work.
They are tired of being blatantly lied to about the job market, about the economy, about immigration, about the reason behind wars and why their child came back in a coffin.
They are tired of putting in hundreds of applications and only to get responses in the single digits.
They are tired of watching useless incompetents be hired, promoted, imported and put in charge if everything. At the cost of a functional society.
They are tired of the quality of their food declining, the quality of their homes declining, the quality of their medicine declining.
They are tired of feeling unsafe in their house, in their neighborhood, in their airports, in their grocery stores, at their public events.
And most of all, they are tired of being ruled over by people that quite obviously hate them, despite the fact that they've held up and built this entire system, doing the hard work.
Tommy Stafford retweeted
A tad cooler today, winds turns a East=little upslope , 60s for highs. Ending wk on a warm note for the rest of the week as temperatures rise into the 70s to upper 70s by Friday .Weak Front cools us to 60s for wknd highs and for Chc rain early next wk rising as wk progresses-
Tommy Stafford retweeted
Turns out people don’t actually want to pay six figures for a rolling wiretap that paywalls its own heated seats. Bring back cars you can fix with a wrench, and watch the showrooms empty out.
TDOC has become a laughing stock nationally. Two botched executions and now this escape from NW TN Regional Prison - the public was left in the dark for 7 hours. All the while escapee steals a farm truck and drives away. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Tommy Stafford retweeted
A bit of a subtle change, but we are just a little cooler this morning and cooler this weekend with highs in the low 60s today to mid 60s tomorrow. Dry weather continues all the way through Halloween weekend and a warm-up for Halloween with highs near 70 by then=fantastic fall.
Tommy Stafford retweeted
News Bulletin : Rescue Underway Along AT In Vicinity Of Humpback Rocks (possible bear attack) @WTONradio @JTitMVirginia - blueridgelife.com/2026/10/22…
Tommy Stafford retweeted
Freeze Warning Mountains & West : Frost Advisory East Of BRP "Central Virginia Blue Ridge Area : By Tommy Stafford : If winds clam down enough tonight we could see the first widespread frost and light freeze. @WTONradio : blueridgelife.com/2026/10/17…
Tommy Stafford retweeted
🚨 #BREAKING: Flock loses its largest camera network in Virginia after Henrico county cancels 122 cameras due to public backlash & warrantless searches.
Tommy Stafford retweeted
In the last 47 years, the US has had 15 cases of pneumonic plague. 5 of those cases died. With antibiotics, most will survive.
Tommy Stafford retweeted
We are quietly isolating an entire generation of older people from society, and nobody seems to give a damn.
I took my 84-year-old grandfather to his local bank branch on Friday.
The exact same brick-and-mortar branch where he opened his first account in 1978.
We pull up to the front doors. They’re locked.
Inside is an empty lobby with a small sign: “Cashless Service Hub.”
A young guy in a polo shirt opens the door and tells us:
“We don't handle teller deposits or paper checks here anymore. You just need to download the mobile portal and scan your routing number.”
My grandfather pulls out an old flip phone with a cracked screen and a paper pension check from his coat pocket.
His hands were visibly shaking.
The employee just shrugs.
“You can do it on an iPad, or have a family member manage the app for you.”
This man worked forty-two years in a manufacturing plant. Paid his taxes. Fought for this country.
And now he is made to feel completely useless and stripped of his dignity because he doesn't own an iOS device.
Tech isn't making life easier if it completely locks out the people who built the world we’re living in.
Are your elderly parents or grandparents running into this wall too?
