Patrick Chovanec

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Private sector economic advisor. Author of the newly released book “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”. . #avgeek

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1Oct 27, '24I want a US President who I can entirely forget about for days at a time.114×6.6M161k9.3k1.4k
2Nov 1, '24Buying Microsoft stock, because it’s 1984.87.3×5M203k5.5k1.4k
3Jul 9, '24I keep encountering the question "If Trump is really a wanna-be dictator, why didn't he do it during his first term? You're just fearmongering." I have three simple answers to this86.6×5M27k4.1k4.2k
4May 25, '24As those who follow me here already know, this past week I drove in a convoy that delivered ambulances to Ukraine. In this thread, I’d like to share some impressions from the very 74.9×4.3M18k2.6k1.5k
5Jul 15, '24George Bush was one of the youngest Navy pilots in WW2 and survived getting shot down and floating in the Pacific for four hours. His crew was killed, and his fellow pilots were ca70.3×4.1M28k1.7k2.5k
6Feb 29, '24Since Trump is not President, this is by definition a campaign event, and no one should be there in military uniform. Period.43.3×2.5M18k1.8k360
7Oct 5, '24How it started. How it’s going.38.1×2.2M35k6k1.2k
8Dec 22, '22If you're upset by Zelensky in his olive drab fatigues today, wait till you see Winston Churchill wearing his air raid outfit to the White House.36.2×2.1M13k2.7k280
9Sep 14, '24As Jesus said, make sure you hate the right people.30.5×1.8M58k4.1k842
10Mar 30, '23On this day three years ago, I couldn’t go to the grocery store without passing two refrigerated vans full of dead bodies outside the hospital. So yeah.26.1×1.5M19k1.7k132
11Jun 18, '23Rogan 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 24.9×1.4M16k2.1k151
12Feb 17, '24Psst: almost all of the money was spent here in the U.S.23.7×1.4M12k1k319
13May 25, '22The 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,21.6×080k9k1k
14Sep 16, '24Voters should really take a moment and watch this. This isn’t a long-time Trump critics. It’s his own chosen Secretary of Defense. For God’s sake, people!18×1M12k4.6k1.6k
15May 14, '23Biden 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?15.4×889k16k2.7k135
16Dec 12, '19It 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.14.7×040k14k260
17Jun 14, '24At the risk of highlighting complete goofballs, let me answer this question:14.2×821k7.1k485890
18Jun 8, '24It really is amazing how this has been whitewashed and memory-holed as no big deal.13.7×794k14k5.4k743
19Oct 2, '24There is not a single person who would voluntarily go back to the real standard of living that existed in the U.S. in the 1950s, 60s, or 70s, as opposed to their nostalgic image of13.3×767k6.8k476296
20Mar 13, '18Tillerson: 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 Friday11.6×029k12k35
21Oct 26, '24Now do how many were called that by their own top advisors.11.2×649k27k1.3k375
22Nov 22, '23Not sure "RDS is as faithful to his wife as JFK" is the winning line of argument you think it is.10.4×601k5.6k38237
23Feb 25, '22I tell you what: If Ukraine is auditioning for NATO, it’s doing one hell of an impressive job.10.2×040k3.9k145
24Apr 14, '20According to the President, he has absolute power but absolutely no responsibility.10.1×033k6.6k162
25Sep 14, '24"Denaturalization" means stripping legal immigrants of their citizenship. How can I not see this as a direct threat to my own family?9.7×562k16k2.8k685
26Nov 7, '24I no longer feel like I belong in this country. On a deeply personal level, its values are no longer my values, as they once were. My persistence in it feels increasingly strange a9.1×527k3.7k311177
27Oct 24, '24The lesson of “the boy who cried wolf”isn’t that there are no wolves.7.7×443k13k635266
28Oct 25, '24Yes, we did.7.6×441k17k1.5k387
29Aug 23, '24Can anyone explain why Trump is suddenly and bizarrely pro-Maduro?7.4×427k4.2k361163
33Oct 2, '24This is a bizarrely CCP vision for America.6.9×397k3.6k698301
34Apr 12, '20My 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. The6.8×022k4.1k119
35Oct 6, '24I am very tired of relatively wealthy middle-aged men thinking their own midlife crisis should plunge the nation into civil war.6.6×381k13k1.4k225
37May 24, '20I'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.5.9×022k2.6k78
38Jul 22, '18When you accidentally admit that 50k of your followers were bots.5.8×019k3.9k16
40Nov 21, '23The funny thing about this cartoon, which the cartoonist obviously doesn’t know, is that the first war the US ever fought was with the Arab states along the coast of North Africa, 5.6×323k3.8k271133
41Jan 16, '22I 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 stag5.5×019k2.6k144
42Oct 6, '24Too many American men: "My ex-wife got half my assets and my kids don't like me. What this country needs is a revolution."5.0×289k7.2k549176
44Oct 20, '22Boris Johnson has escaped from Elba, has landed in Cornwall, and is marching on London.4.9×018k2.3k179
45Dec 21, '20All these politicians get the vaccine first, because they're "setting an example". Nice of them to start now.4.9×019k2k39
46Sep 27, '24Dan, sorry to break it to you, but the college-educated voters leaving the GOP aren’t recent graduates. They weren’t “indoctrinated” because they haven’t been in school for years. 4.8×276k3.4k50251
47Dec 14, '20I 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 malicious4.8×019k1.6k36
48Aug 28, '18I'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, an4.7×013k3.7k24
49May 18, '22I love how Trump's guy Oz came from behind as the votes were tallied and this time nobody breathed a word about the election being rigged.4.3×016k2.1k74
50Jul 27, '21The 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 und4.1×015k1.7k41
51Jul 17, '21I’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 tru4.0×014k1.9k183
52May 31, '24Counterpoint: I think it’s good that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is being put on trial for the bribes he allegedly took.4.0×234k7.3k37266
53Sep 13, '17The widow of the Indian man murdered in Kansas in February anti-immigrant hate crime now faces deportation from US.4.0×05.7k5.7k0
54Nov 6, '24Two things can be true: 1) Democrats need to jettison policies and attitudes that repulse the average voter, and 2) Electing Donald Trump - for a second time - represents a profoun4.0×230k5.1k600230
55Dec 26, '21The 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. 4.0×014k2k116
56Jul 17, '24I know supporters who she told, to their face, that she would never do this.3.9×227k6k53569
57Aug 29, '22“The violence on 1/6 was all due to Antifa but if you indict Trump we’ll do it again.” 🤔3.8×012k2.4k89
58Jan 30, '22Trump threatens insurrection if he is charged for threatening insurrection.3.8×012k2.7k46
59Feb 11, '21You may or may not agree with him about every policy issue you care about, but Mitt Romney would have made a good President.3.7×014k60214
60Oct 1, '24This Longshoreman union leader guy is making the most compelling arguments for automating our ports that I've ever heard.3.7×212k7.9k63593
61Mar 26, '21The mask is really off.3.5×011k2.1k161
62Sep 14, '24"we hate the right people" If you're saying this, something is profoundly wrong with your moral compass.3.4×195k6.1k96795
63Jun 14, '24"I could set another mob on you tomorrow, and you wouldn't lift a finger to stop me."3.2×187k3.3k70669
64Nov 5, '24Elon Musk should absolutely NOT face any retaliation for supporting Donald Trump. He should face the same scrutiny anyone else would for arguably violating election laws, and the s2.9×165k3.4k53167
65Jul 26, '24I think “technically she wasn’t actually Border Czar” is a losing argument. I think “we could have had a border security deal but Republicans blocked it because Trump told them he 2.6×152k7.2k567124
67Jun 4, '17It's June 4 in Beijing. Never forget.2.4×04.7k3k2
68May 5, '21If 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.2.2×08.1k88127
69Feb 25, '22I’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.2.1×07.6k95380
70Feb 27, '211. 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.1.9×04.2k1.1k312
71Dec 27, '21The worst thing Trump did was convince a large number of Americans that they are completely justified in acting like assholes.1.8×06.6k66746
72Oct 14, '20I'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 w1.8×05.5k1.2k76
73Sep 19, '17FBI put Manafort under surveillance well before he met Trump or joined his campaign. So no, Obama didn't "put a wiretap on Trump."1.8×04.2k1.8k0
74Sep 10, '21I 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 Presid1.6×05.9k70455
75Feb 26, '21Changed my voter registration from Republican to No Party today. I didn’t leave the GOP. The GOP left me.1.6×06.4k4497
76Dec 19, '21This is the most important chart in the country right now, out of New York City, and I'm going to keep posting it until people get what it's saying.1.6×03.8k1.3k249
77Dec 19, '20He is who we warned you he was. - #NeverTrump1.6×06.5k4588
78Aug 15, '17Monday was a script. This is the real Trump.1.6×03.9k1.7k0
79Dec 3, '221. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded1.6×03.6k767696
80Mar 19, '20China, you are digging a hole so deep with this, you have no idea.1.5×04.3k1.1k86
82Apr 10, '22I’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.”1.5×05.3k71746
83Aug 21, '21Biden could do a lot of stupid stuff and it wouldn't come close to Trump trying to ignore an election and hold onto power by force.1.5×05.5k63628
84Apr 21, '20And amazingly, they got the entire rest of the world to go along with the scheme.1.5×05.3k65544
85Feb 27, '22When 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 th1.5×04.6k1.1k36
86May 1, '21If 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 overtur1.4×05.3k53612
87Mar 20, '20What is remarkable, yet rarely remarked upon, is how no country right now is looking to the US for leadership in this crisis.1.3×03.7k93421
88May 24, '20I'm never going to get used to or stop calling out the fact that the President of the United States is a raving lunatic.1.3×04.5k7146
89Jan 29, '22“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.1.2×03.3k83775
90Sep 5, '20I don't feel bad for all the Trump defenders desperately spinning his nauseating insults to our troops. They knew what they signed up for.1.2×04.3k6155
91Jul 27, '21Poor George P. Bush. At least Stormy Daniels got paid.1.2×04.3k4826
92Jun 21, '20The only thing I saw was a middle-aged woman being dragged away because she was wearing the wrong t-shirt.1.2×03.6k81510
93Jun 10, '22I 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 a1.2×04k58151
94Jan 29, '20The 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 abso1.1×03.3k50239
96Mar 25, '22You’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.1.1×04k40330
97Dec 15, '20So have my parents, Donald Trump and Mr. Rogers.1.0×03.8k30429
98Apr 22, '22Lawyer: 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 yo0.9×03.5k40721
99Aug 7, '21Donald 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 watchin0.9×03.6k2788

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