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"There's no secret to living...Just keep on walking” Mark Draughn from the Windy City. Talking classical liberalism, criminal justice, the drug war, free speech, free markets, sex work, technology, photography, immigration, and cats. windypundit.com

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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 23/09/2026
Texas Instruments TI 59 programmable calculator with a red LED display reading 0.0000, scientific and programming keys, and a magnetic program card protruding from its right side.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 02/09/2026
I’ve got to say, maybe Trump *can* destroy Iran. He’s real good at destroying things—casinos, football leagues, White House wings, the conservative Republican Party, government agencies—and in a perverse way, it’s kind of nice to see him using that power against some other country for a change.
Donald J. Trump * @realDonaldTrump
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I'm not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn't care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? President DJT
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9/1/26,8:13 PM
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 19/07/2026
I feel seen. This is exactly why I like explaining things. I am that toddler! I’m not trying to show you how smart I am. I’m trying to share something cool with you!
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 18/07/2026
Indoor air, on the other hand, is excellent. Benefits of a MERV 13 extended media whole-house filter plus multiple HEPA air purifiers. Buy the system for Covid, keep it for the allergies, win with it during wildfires.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 18/07/2026
Air quality around here, while not great, is still much better than it was a few days ago.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 17/07/2026
Tonight's air quality score is...holy crap!
A semi-circular dial labeled "Current Air Quality" and displaying the number 678 AQI With the arrow pegged all the way in the red. Below that, it says "Wildfires in Illinois," followed by "Bloomingdale, Illinois, 10 p.m. CDT, July 16, 2026."
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 25/06/2026
Actor Jim Caviezel as John Reese from Person of Interest, here depicted in a waist-up shot in his classic "man in a suit" guise, with a dark jacket over a tieless shirt.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 13/06/2026
Or this.
Musk deserves *more* than a trillion dollars: he deserves a heroic statue next to Miss Liberty, because his purchase of Twitter, something only he could do because he had money to burn, rescued free speech in the U.S. and open political discourse from censorship by the totalitarian Left.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 05/06/2026
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 08/04/2026
You just know that Trump is *this close* to literally doing the whole "mining our own harbors" thing.
Jonathan Karl @jonkarl
This morning, I asked President Trump if he's okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls:
"We're thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It's a way of securing it— also securing it from lots of other people."
"It's a beautiful thing"
4:22 AM • Apr 8, 2026 • 1.7M Views
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 26/01/2026
I keep seeing variations of this. Neither ICE nor DHS are established by the Constitution. The power to control immigration isn't even mentioned in the Constitution.
Screenshot of a social media post by Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) with a verified checkmark. The post reads, “I stand with ICE and their constitutional mandate.” Below the text is a timestamp reading “2:16 PM · Jan 24, 2026” and a view count of “564K Views.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 04/01/2026
What would you want in return? I think we’d be willing to give you SpaceX and Tesla…
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 31/12/2025
Among other things, Minnesota has had problems with Medicaid fraud for years. (E.g. this news story from 2015: www.mprnews.org/story/2015/0...) Trump and MAGA only care about it now because they get to do some bigotry.
This is a social media post from Donald Trump reading as follows: Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 16/12/2025
Elon's nuts if he thinks Starship can put 300 GW per year in orbit. My rough calculation is that a 300 GW array would require 210 square miles of solar panels weighing 2.4 million tons, which is 9300 starship flights, or one every hour. It's 100 times what humanity has *ever* put in space.
Elon Musk @elonmusk tweet:

Starship should be able to deliver around 300 GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit, maybe 500 GW. The “per year” part is what makes this such a big deal.

Average US electricity consumption is around 500 GW, so at 300 GW/year, AI in space would exceed the entire US economy just in intelligence processing every 2 years.

Solar cell production for terrestrial applications is already far above this number at >1500 GW of annual production capacity. 

Tonnage to orbit will be solved by Starship. 

Chip production is therefore the major piece of the puzzle to be solved. 

The Tesla Terafab is needed for this, as there is otherwise no solution at sufficient scale. 

These numbers are immense by earthly standards, but don’t register materially on the Kardashev II scale. For that, lunar production of solar-powered AI satellites is needed to take things to the 100+ TW/year level.
12:43 PM · Nov 19, 2025
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 11/11/2025
First of all, there’s no such thing as the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago. There is a shopping district called the Magnificent Mile. It’s not a high crime area, but like many central retail zones in the age of online commerce, it’s not doing very well.
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The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation's BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS 1OO LATE! "Just the News"
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11/10/25, 11:51 PM
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/11/2025
Don’t worry Mr. Musk, thanks to the hundreds of thousands who have died because you destroyed USAID, and the millions more to follow, no one will ever accuse you of having empathy.
Tweet from Elon Musk & @elonmusk

Western Civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival

11:08 AM • Nov 5, 2025 • 28.3M Views
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 05/11/2025
This would be a great argument for Republican superiority…if it wasn’t for the fact that the candidate that Republicans love is Donald Trump.
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Republicans simply won't turn out for candidates they don't love.
Democrats will vote for literally any pile of shit that runs with a D by their name.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 03/11/2025
Yes, those are the families we’re speaking of. Those are the ones most in need of help. And pretty much every Christian ministry that actually helps the poor would understand that.
Steven L Anderson
@sanderson1611
"But, but SNAP goes to FAMILIES with CHILDREN!"
You mean single moms who fornicated and produced bastard children with multiple dads? Are those the families you speak of?
People who legitimately need help should get it from family members and/ or churches, who will actually hold them accountable.
6:01 PM • 30 Oct 25 • 4,554 Views
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 23/10/2025
I find this kind of comparison really annoying. First, the $230 million Trump wants is less than 1/2 hour of total US healthcare spending. Second, you don’t need to contrast Trump’s corruption with anything else to know that it’s bad
Tweet from Mark Warner &
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Trump is now openly shaking down HIS OWN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT for hundreds of millions of dollars to line his pockets... while claiming there's not enough money for Americans' health care.
He has no shame. He is openly and boldly corrupt.

That is responding to this:
The New York Times ® @nytimes • 1d
Breaking News: President Trump wants
$230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior departm...
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 21/10/2025
Honestly, among other things, i’m a little disappointed that this was so easy to do. I’ve always kind of assumed the building was armored.
A photo of the east wing of the White House in which a crane is tearing apart one of the walls
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/10/2025
Man, it must take some crazy stupid level of homophobia to make someone tear up pavement with heavy equipment just because it has rainbow colors.
The image shows a tweet from Secretary Sean Duffy, who posted a clapping hands emoji in response to another tweet. The quoted tweet from the account “End Wokeness” includes a short video still of construction machinery tearing up a crosswalk painted in rainbow colors. The caption of that tweet says, “LGBTQ crosswalk in Miami Beach torn up by Florida DOT.” The image shows the machine lifting and breaking apart rainbow-painted bricks while construction workers and orange safety barriers are visible in the background.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 04/10/2025
JD, if you were a real free-market capitalist like Republicans used to be, you’d know that Joy Reid is wealthy because she provides a service that our fellow Americans believe improves their lives. Maybe that’s something for which *you* should show a little gratitude.
JD Vance @JDVance
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Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 16/09/2025
Corollary: People who like Donald Trump aren’t smart. He said it, not me. Of course, if he’s right, then they won’t understand why his statement implies the corollary is true.
President Donald Trump, speaking to several people:”Smart people don’t like me.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 14/09/2025
“Radical left wing transgender terror cell.” Okay… Are any of the radical left wing transgender terrorists in the room with us right now?
Elon Musk (@elonmusk on X) tweeting “Seems likely” quoting Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics on X) tweeting “I am now 100% confident that Charlie's assassination was carried out by a radical left wing transgender terror cell.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk supported the drone strike that killed 11 civilians on a Venezuelan boat. He supported sending troops to Washington D.C. and Chicago. He like changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Charlie Kirk wanted war. And I guess he got one.
Video of the U.S. drone strike on the Venezuelan boat that killed 11 civilians, who the Trump administration says were smuggling drugs. Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 quote-tweets and comments: "May the entire Western Hemisphere be on notice: If you try to smuggle drugs into America to kill our people, America may kill you first."
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 28/08/2025
Here's a black-and-white photo taken from Surveyor 3 during the April 24, 1967 lunar eclipse, showing the faint ring of light from Earth's atmosphere.
Black and white image of the Earth as seen from the moon during the April 24 lunar eclipse. The Earth is only visible as a faint ring with a bright spot in the upper right.
By NASA, Surveyor 3; Acknowledgement: R. D. Sampson (ECSU)
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 28/08/2025
I've been seeing this Blood Moon hype a lot. But unless you travel to a dark area and let your eyes adapt -- or take pictures with a long exposure -- all you're going to see is a dim, discolored moon.
A digital illustration shows a huge blood-red full moon in the sky over the Colosseum in Rome at night. The text at the top reads: “Don’t Miss the Night of September 7. The Moon will transform into a glowing blood red during the TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 19/07/2025
What? No way! I’m sure there’s nothing homoerotic going on here:
Screen capture of a post by Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA • Sep 5, 2024) depicting three smiling men with similar hair and facial hair sitting in a hot tub, leaning in together, captioned “We had several extremely attractive women begging to join us. I told them to get bent. The hot tub is for alpha males.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 14/07/2025
This is what I call a blowjobs-for-cancer argument. “Giving blowjobs cures cancer, so any woman who won’t give me a blowjob must want people to die of cancer!”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 10/07/2025
There is so much wrong with this, but my pet peeve is people who call themselves “alpha males” without understanding the original research: In any group, there can be only one alpha. So if you’re hanging out with your alpha buddies, all, but one of you are actually betas or below.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 23/06/2025
Trump thinks he can jawbone the world wide oil market into ignoring the laws of supply and demand. Damn, that is just an incredible level of economic ignorance. And ego, let's not forget the ego. God, what a stupid, stupid human being.
Screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated June 23, 2025, at 9:35 AM. The post reads: "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I’M WATCHING! YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON’T DO IT!" The post has 67 ReTruths and 278 Likes.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/06/2025
Motherfucker, it’s not political rhetoric that causes anti-ICE sentiment. It’s ICE that causes anti-ICE sentiment. And the folks you’re grabbing off the streets are *also* “real people with real families.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 05/06/2025
Do it you coward! Don't TACO this!
A social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) reads: "The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!"
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/04/2025
I'm no expert on asset pricing theory, but this does NOT look like normal stock market behavior. That's a system swinging back and forth due to overly-large control inputs...such as alternating good and bad news...
Stock chart for 4/7 showing distinctive up and down swings in the S&P 500.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/04/2025
I guess it's time to put this out there again...
Meme based on a still from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK with Indiana Jones and Marion tied to a post and squeezing their eyes closed as flames from the ark swirl around them. Caption: Marion! Don't look at the retirement accounts!
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 06/04/2025
American streets are filled with cars from Europe and Japan because your fellow Americans want to own those cars. Why isn’t that enough for you? Why do you think you know better than we do? Why do you think it’s OK to threaten us for not doing what you want?
Tweet from Stephen Miller @StephenM: Why are American streets filled with cars from Europe and Japan but their streets are empty of American cars? Even as we provide defense and security for both?
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 28/03/2025
Numerius, the governor of Narbonensis, came to trial before the Emperor Julian. There, Numerius simply denied his guilt, offering no proof of his own. In response, his adversary, Delphidius, realizing that he was not going to win a conviction due to his own insufficient proof, exclaimed, ‘Oh, illustrious Caesar! if it is sufficient to deny, what hereafter will become of the guilty?’ To this, the emperor replied: ‘If it suffices to accuse, what will become of the innocent?’
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 27/02/2025
Awesome idea Mr. President Sir! Social Security fraud by illegal aliens is our #1 problem! Don't let the deep state cucks tell you otherwise! Make all ICE Enforcement and Removal officers do this right now! Anyone who wants to work on something else is a lazy moocher who should be DOGEd immediately!
Captured tweet from Carter Hughes @itscarterhughes reading "HOLY COW: President Trump announces he will be REMOVING ALL illegal aliens that are currently on Social Security.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 15/02/2025
Does he honestly not realize that both people who tried to assassinate him probably believed this? If you want another nutcase to take a shot at you, this is how you get another nutcase to take a shot at you.
A tweet from Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 1:32PM 2/15/25 saying "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 15/02/2025
And so another week comes to an end... Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!
A red, white, and pink Valentine's Day themed image, with a portrait of JFK Jr., and text that says 'There's no safe, effective vaccine for my love'
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 14/02/2025
Other people have debunked this, but the thing that gets me is that Musk is just reading the one-line award summary description. He didn't even bother to have someone read the actual contract documents to see what it was really about. This is incredibly stupid. Or a lazy attempt at deception.
Tweet from Elon Musk @elonmusk:
Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”.
That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. 
Just wow.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 04/02/2025
This is like an institutional version of the Martin Niemöller quote. “First they came for the OMB, and I did not speak out…”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 11/01/2025
The Daily Show notices the extremely awkward seating of VIPs at the Carter funeral:
Screen cap showing Donald Trump at the Carter funeral, with red arrows explaining his relationship to people sitting near him: Hillary Clinton - Tried to put in prison, Bill Clinton - Accused of murder, Barack Obama - Secret Terrorist, Kamala Harris - Fake Black, George Bush - Generally Humiliated, Mike Pence - Almost Murdered, Joe Biden - Attempted to coup, Melania Trump - Porn Star NDA
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 06/11/2024
Hi, I am in this picture and I don’t like it.
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 18/09/2024
I'm number 369,346. I try harder! Well, not like a ton harder. But, you know, a little harder than that arrogant SOB who's number 369,345...
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 07/08/2024
Goddammit! We are SO going to have a recession!
Screenshot of a NewsWire tweet with a picture of Jim Cramer reading “Jim Cramer: Tuesday's earnings don't indicate a serious recession in the U.S. - CNBC”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 06/08/2024
Me, today, trying to stay committed to my investment strategy...
Screen shot from Raiders of the Lost Ark showing Indy and Marion tied to a post, squeezing their eyes shut as protection against the holy fire destroying everything around them. Meme-style caption reads "Marion! Don't look at the retirement accounts!"
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 30/07/2024
He’ll be using medical equipment imported from China and assisted by illegal immigrant nurses wearing scrubs with rainbow patterns. Also everyone will have had the Covid vaccine and be wearing masks.
Tweet from Laura Loomer: “I hear that a black, trans doctor will be performing an abortion on a white woman LIVE on stage at the DNC Convention in Chicago this August.”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 21/07/2024
How about asking the women who *used to* be in his life but aren’t anymore? If, that is, you can find some that aren’t covered by an NDA?
Screenshot of a CNN headline tweet reading “Trump has long been criticized for his public treatment of women. The ones in his life argue he's different in private”
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Windypundit @windypundit.com · 17/07/2024
And also Elon Musk! (Too easy, couldn’t resist)
Screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk @elonmusk reading: The smartest people in the world are on X.
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