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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, Newsom took advice from CHP traffic safety experts to close I-5.

Then, mishap happened when shrapnel fell on a CHP vehicle.

Help me: HOW THE HELL with all of the billions spend by American taxpayers the precision of technology failed?

It just blows my mind!

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 11d

Did anyone do a welfare check on Trump since he is not recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize?

He gets mad at times from what we know! 🤭

a man is sitting at a desk using a computer while a woman stands behind him

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk using a computer while a woman stands behind him

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 12d

It is a FACT: 2024 was the closest Presidential Election 🗳️ of the 21st Century.

2004: 3,012,166
2008: 9,550,193
2012: 4,982,291
2016: 2,868,686
2020: 7,059,526
2024: 2,284,967

Numbers don’t lie.

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 12d

Good job Harvard Crimson:

“Before Pete Hegseth Joined Trump’s War on DEI, He Advocated for Educational Equity as a Harvard Student”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Before Pete Hegseth Joined Trump’s War on DEI, He Advocated for Educational Equity as a Harvard Student | News | The Harvard Crimson

In his first nine months as Secretary of War, Pete B. Hegseth has railed against “woke garbage” and diversity programs. But in 2013, as a Harvard Kennedy School master’s student, Hegseth advocated for...

www.thecrimson.com

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 19d

It is so cringy to hear MAGA loyalist Scott Jennings to paint Democrats as one broad brush:

“Democratic constituencies are principally immigrant populations and government workers…”

@finneyk.bsky.social interjects: “I am a Democrat, I am not an immigrant, I am not a government worker.”

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 19d

I am a Conservative Republican NEVER a MAGA Republican!

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 25d

The Club for Growth 990 filings can be viewed here.

app.candid.org/profile/703619…t.co/et0wlyUV3j

t.co

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 25d

It is easy for those whose take home pay is $200K+ to advocate and let ACA tax credits to expire that hurt working class Americans.

Per GuideStar 990 Filings:

ATF Grover Norquist CEO salary $250K
Club for Growth David McIntosh CEO salary $849K

thehill.com/policy/healt...

thehill.com

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · 27d

Socialism sucks.

What are people supposed to do when the free market economy is not working as intended?
What can we expect to narrow the obscene wealth gap?

Employees deserves respectable wages, pension and company paid healthcare.

Capitalism must have guardrails!

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Trust” is the hardest currency but so many cheapen that value in the name of greed!

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Sep 10

Capitalism has been the best to lift boats but it isn't working for everyone in the past 15 years.

The chart below from Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis shows Top 1% wealth has grown 4X since 2010.

We need to have serious debate on Capitalism vs Wealth disparities.

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Sep 8

I learned something from someone on the phrase “Fair-Weather Friend”.

I have been doing some examining because these past months have been leading me to those who are “Fair-Weather Friend(s)”.

putthekettleon.ca/fair-weather...

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can’t be a Conservative and support Trump for:
Crony Capitalism
Disrespect US Constitution
Undermine Article I
Rewards grifters w/govt jobs
Tariffs
Not allowing dissent
Autocracy
Theocracy
Weaponizing DOJ
Coercion
Rigging 2026 Election
Overturning 2020 Election

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Aug 17

Never forget:

The “defenders of democracy” Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and Legislative Democrats @assemblydems.bsky.social pulled a Karen by yanking an anti-tax measure from the California ballot last summer of 2024.

Political power for them not for us!

High court blocks anti-tax measure from California ballot

The state Supreme Court takes an initiative to make it more difficult to raise California taxes off the Nov. 5 ballot

calmatters.org

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Why be a Republican these days when something like this happens? 🤦‍♂️

Note: Tim Burchett is US Representative from Tennessee.

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 20

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt, POTUS 26, Kansas City Star May 7, 1918

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 19

Learning is researching and gathering information not by being lazy to ask a question then an answer to be fed to you.

Yes, thinking is hard but geez we have gullible 🐑 in our American society who forgets our country was founded on ideas and thoughts.

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 19

Someone just unilaterally criticized one of my favorite GOP Member of
Congress on social media platform.

Same individual preached “Thou shall not speak ill of another Republican” for years in GOP circles.

One has to ask: Why are there two-face people in the political arena? 🤔

a red emergency light with hypocrite alert written below it

ALT: a red emergency light with hypocrite alert written below it

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Too many Congressional Republicans are a bunch of chicken shits who don’t have any backbone to stand up to Trump on just about anything.

They care more about their political careers than our country.

Dissent is healthy.
Authoritarian is dangerous.

We don’t have King in USA.

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jul 14

Disgraced fmr Rep George Santos of New York spills the beans:

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep Elise Stefanik covering up and knew about fmr Rep Kay Granger dementia issues. 🤦‍♂️

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6LCjdH5/

TikTok video by @

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jun 29

It’s not a question of how many billionaires we should have.

Instead, we should throw billions of guilt conscience on the billionaires who refuses to pay workers with respectable wages, offer pensions and company paid health insurance.

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jun 19

Everyone is going to wonder why was traffic was very light going to work this morning: It is Juneteenth Holiday for government workers and banks are closed.

Let’s not forget the other private sector employees who are working on this holiday.

The holiday inequity is astounding!

Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jun 18

Governor @GavinNewsom boasts housing for government employees of San Francisco SD and SF Community College.

This is a step to Socialism for state government to take hard working California taxpayer $$ in the name of subsidizing government housing.

It’s for them not us!

#CALeg

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you, Ventura County Taxpayers Association.

Too many California lawmakers and local-county politicians thinks anyone owning property is well off which is not the case.

We know left leaning politicians want to raise taxes to bleed us dry in the name of Socialism.

#CALeg

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Allen Wilson 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 @allenjwilson.bsky.social · May 19

The subject line of Rep Brandon Gill of Texas taxpayer funded e-newsletter to e-subscribers:

“Illegal Aliens: Leave Now”
😬😳