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This is what needs to happen everywhere. Communities must STOP treating looting, rioting, and generally bad behavior as consequence-free.
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Because it’s just a hit piece targeting hegseth.
No one was “show boating”. Patterson was demonstrating a core competency for him and his colleagues, not something crazy or unusual. It was essentially a training rep.
At the same time as getting in a training rep, he was doing a military demonstration for American citizens, which is valuable. It’s important for Americans to be able to see what they are paying for, and military demonstrations like this one, thunder birds/blue angels shows, military working dog demonstrations, color guard presentations, military parades, etc accomplish that goal.
This kind of demonstration accomplishes 3 goals the military has, or should have, all at once. There is nothing wrong with doing these demonstrations. And it’s not new with hegseth. The military has been doing them for as long as I’ve been alive. I’ve participated in a few myself.
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The scary part is, an Islamist nation could obtain a nuke that's not Iran.
All they have to do is take over a WEAK western nuclear power in Europe
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The Radical Left’s Revolution Has a Roadmap: Inside the Alleged Plan to Break Washington and Remake America floppingaces.net/most-wanted…
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There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away.
One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions versus their preservation and renewal.
Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism.
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The judge who signed the warrant to raid Rep. Ilhan Omar's DC home is a Hillary Clinton donor who clerked for an Obama appointee. That fact alone demolishes the left's claim that this is some Trump-orchestrated political hit job.
Mike Davis argues the opposite is true: the evidence against Omar must be so overwhelming that even a judge with deep leftist ties couldn't refuse to sign off. The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause of at least one federal crime inside that home, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh — appointed by a bench dominated by Obama and Biden picks — found it was there.
Omar's allies in Congress, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamie Raskin, and Rashida Tlaib, cried political revenge. But Davis says the simplest explanation is the most damning one for Democrats: a federal indictment may be coming before Christmas, and the evidence trail appears to reach well beyond Omar alone.
Full story here ⬇️ foxnews.com/opinion/mike-dav…
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Another one that you may not have on your radar
Right under Rubio
Might wanna follow him!
As Secretary Rubio warned in July, we are witnessing the resurgence of FAR-LEFT POLITICAL TERRORISM. Secretary Rubio presciently hosted a Ministerial on this because this threat is transnational and organized in networks that cross borders, share resources, and coordinate violence.
Those who excuse, normalize and legitimize it deserve unequivocal condemnation. If you claim to stand for working people, STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THOSE WHO DESTROY EVERYTHING WORKING PEOPLE HAVE BUILT.
Unlike their apologists, we believe destruction and chaos are NOT legitimate forms of political expression. Arson is not argument. Intimidation is not debate. Terror is not justice. And a campaign to destroy Western civilization is NOT a protest against the price of groceries. Every business burned is someone's life's work destroyed. Every neighborhood terrorized is a community robbed of peace.
Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, we will never surrender American communities to organized political terror. We will dismantle terrorist networks that threaten our people, disrupt their financing, and bring their perpetrators to justice.
Our streets belong to our citizens. Our future belongs to our children. And this country belongs to the people who built it—not transnational mobs that seek to burn it down.
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Thank you @realBruceSnyder for putting this warning into words for those that are going to vote for radical leftists because of their hatred of President Trump:
“To all the Free Palestine protesters, the people marching for socialism, and everyone preparing to vote for Democrats this November simply because you hate President Trump and the right, I have a warning for you. Some of you couldn't care less how radical the candidates are or what they actually stand for. As long as they're against Trump, that's good enough for you. And that kind of blind loyalty is dangerous.
Now, I hope you read what I'm about to say. I hope you laugh at me, flood my comments, call me every name in the book, and accuse me of being in some MAGA cult. I really do. But heed my words. Right now, you're useful to the very people you're fighting to put into power. Your protests, your outrage, your votes, and your willingness to take to the streets all serve a purpose. THEIR purpose.
But here's what I believe many of you are going to learn the hard way. If these radicals achieve their objectives and secure the power they're after, your usefulness will have expired. You think they're going to care about your causes, your marches, or everything you thought you were fighting for? I believe they'll kick you to the curb without a second thought. And if they had their way, I fear they'd line you up against a wall and pull the trigger.
And here's the part that should concern you most. The same people you helped empower will become the very people who crush your freedoms the moment you stand in their way. You think you're fighting for liberation. I believe you're helping build the very system that will eventually turn against you.
Laugh all you want. Call me crazy. But don't ever say nobody warned you. Screenshot this for future reference.”
Bruce Snyder
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The car industry had a century to build an electric car people actually wanted. It didn’t.
The aerospace industry had sixty years to make a rocket reusable. It didn’t.
The telecom industry had decades to connect the billions it couldn’t profit from. It didn’t.
One person looked at all three and started crossing them off.
Reusable rockets that land themselves. Electric cars that outsell their gas-powered rivals. A satellite network that beams internet from orbit to any point on the planet. A platform where speech is no longer filtered through a handful of editors. A chip inside a human brain that lets a paralyzed person control a computer with their thoughts.
And now a car that flies.
Six companies. Six industries. Each one operating at the frontier of its field while feeding engineering, data, and capability back into the others.
The rockets fund the satellites. The satellites fund the rockets. The cars train the robots. The AI runs them. The platform keeps the conversation free. The energy powers all of it.
People keep waiting for him to fail. They have been waiting for twenty years.
The rockets were supposed to explode. They land on boats. The cars were supposed to be toys. They outsell everyone. The satellites were supposed to be impossible. They connect six continents.
The brain chip was supposed to be science fiction. It is inside a human skull right now.
At some point the pattern stops being luck and starts being something the critics are not equipped to recognize.
Not because they lack intelligence. Because the framework they use to judge what is possible was built inside the institutions that couldn’t do what he does.
The conversation about Elon Musk has never been about Elon Musk.
It has been about how uncomfortable it makes people to watch one person accomplish what entire industries organized themselves to attempt and never finished.
History does not produce this combination often. The drive. The technical depth. The pain tolerance. The willingness to let the mission burn through everything else. And the insane ambition to attempt all of it at once.
Every one of these technologies would have arrived eventually. Reusable rockets. Electric vehicles. Global connectivity. Brain interfaces. None of them violated the laws of physics.
But eventually can mean fifty years. And fifty years is the difference between your grandchildren seeing it and you seeing it.
The most overlooked thing Musk has done is not any single invention.
It is how much of the future he pulled into the lifetimes of people who would have died before it arrived.
Earth does not get many of these.
And the people still betting against him are making the same mistake every industry made before he walked in and did the thing they said couldn’t be done.
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Holy fucking shit. Barack Obama has discovered that government power can be abused! Somebody alert the Smithsonian. Apparently, it took a federal investigation involving Ilhan Omar for the former president to experience this miraculous constitutional awakening.
Obama now declares that government cannot selectively target people for their political beliefs. Beautiful sentiment. Where the hell was this passionate devotion to civil liberties during the Russia investigation, the FISA abuses involving Carter Page, the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump's criminal prosecutions, and the taxpayer-funded January 6 television extravaganza?
Trump endured years of investigations, lawsuits, prosecutions, and congressional spectacles. His lawyers faced professional disciplinary proceedings. January 6 defendants faced raids, staggering legal expenses, and prison sentences. The political and personal consequences were enormous.
Through all that, Obama somehow managed to keep his constitutional sermons remarkably restrained.
Then federal agents came knocking at Ilhan Omar's door, and suddenly the fucking republic was in danger.
What an extraordinary coincidence.
And the hypocrisy gets uglier. Senator Elissa Slotkin has openly discussed sending a deterrence message to young Republicans contemplating government service. Imagine the political culture we've created when the prospect of legal and professional consequences becomes part of the calculation for entering public service.
Now Obama wants to lecture the country about protecting political participation from government intimidation.
The sheer, breathtaking fucking audacity.
A constitutional principle means something only when it protects people you despise. It has to survive changes in presidents, congressional majorities, and political fortunes.
Obama's sudden outrage invites one devastating question: Why did this principle become such an urgent national emergency only when Ilhan Omar needed defending?
After years of political warfare, America's latest constitutional miracle is Barack Obama discovering that the machinery of government has a reverse gear.
And apparently, the son of a bitch only objects when it starts moving toward his friends.
(article below)
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In 1957, a Russian immigrant published a novel of more than a thousand pages built around one question: what happens if the people who make the world run simply stop?
Its title is Atlas Shrugged. In France it's called La Grève, The Strike. It wasn't even translated into French until 2011. That tells you something.
This morning, I think Elon Musk wrote the sequel.
A. Where the book comes from.
Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg in 1905. As a teenager, she watched Bolshevik soldiers walk into her father's pharmacy and seize it in the name of the people. Her family lost everything. Not to a competitor. To a committee.
She fled to America in 1926 and spent the rest of her life writing about one distinction: those who create, and those who seize.
B. The story.
In Atlas Shrugged, America is sliding into decline. Not because of war. Because of rules. Year after year, a growing class of bureaucrats, regulators and planners decides that production must be controlled, shared "fairly," frozen. They never build anything. They issue directives. The worst one freezes every worker in his job and forces every inventor to hand over his patents for the public good.
And one by one, the people who make the country run start disappearing. The best engineers. The industrialists. The inventors. An oil man sets his own wells on fire before vanishing. The whole country keeps repeating a question it doesn't understand: "Who is John Galt?"
John Galt is the man behind the disappearances. He has convinced the creators to go on strike. They withdraw to a hidden valley in the Colorado mountains, where everyone keeps what they make and trades freely. And they let the world find out what it looks like without them.
The lights go out in New York. The grey men are left alone with their directives, and discover that a directive has never produced a single kilowatt.
C. The core idea.
The strike isn't about money. It's about consent.
Rand's insight is that the system that captures the creators runs on their cooperation. It needs them to keep producing so it has something to redistribute. The bureaucrat is a parasite who needs a host. Remove the host, and he's exposed as what he always was: useless.
D. What Musk just did.
This morning, Musk announced that next year he will give one of his own SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "The first of many."
Here's what's fascinating. It's the strike, run in reverse.
Rand's creators withdrew. Musk stays. He keeps building rockets, satellites, AI. But instead of walking away from the system, he walks around it. The value goes straight from the builder to the citizen. No ministry, no agency, no committee in the middle.
Rand had to make the creators disappear to prove the bureaucrats were useless. Musk doesn't need to disappear. He just needs to stop routing value through them. Same result. The grey men are left standing in the middle of a pipe nobody uses anymore.
E. The difference that changes everything.
Rand's strike has a flaw her critics never stopped pointing out: ordinary people are left behind. The creators retreat to their valley. The rest of the country sits in the dark.
Musk's version fixes that. He isn't taking the creators out of the world. He's bringing the world into the valley. Every kid in America becomes a shareholder in the machine. Not a spectator of the strike. A participant.
That's the alliance being formed right now: builders and citizens, directly, with nothing in between. And the only people who lose that deal are the ones who never built anything.
F. Why now, and not in 1957.
In Rand's time, the strike was a fantasy. You couldn't produce at scale without the state's permission, and you couldn't reach every citizen without its pipes.
In 2026, one founder can build rockets, run a global network from orbit, and pledge equity to 73 million children in a single post. AI will soon do in seconds what a ministry does in years. The tools of the strike finally exist. And they don't require anyone to leave.
G. The ending.
For seventy years, "Who is John Galt?" was a shrug. A way of saying nothing can be done.
In the book, the strike ends when the creators decide the road is clear and walk back into the world to rebuild it.
That's the scene we're watching. Not a man leaving. A man coming back, with a gift for every child.
The grey men are about to discover what Rand promised them seventy years ago: a world that no longer needs them.
I don't know if you realize what just happened.
Elon Musk is completely bypassing the State.
For 100 years, we've been told the problem is capital. That it must be captured, taxed, redistributed. With an army of intermediaries standing between those who create wealth and the people: ministries, agencies, commissions, bureaucrats.
Musk is doing the opposite. He's taking his capital and giving it directly to the people. One SpaceX share to every kid in America. Not a handout. Not a subsidy. A piece of the machine that's taking humanity to Mars.
And he says it himself: this is the first of many.
Mises understood this back in 1944: the bureaucrat creates nothing. He administers what others created, following rules that have no connection to the value produced. The day value flows directly from the one who creates it to the one who receives it, the bureaucrat has no function left.
That's what's being born right now. A new liberal world order, where the very concept of the State will make less and less sense.
The world we're entering is a world of abundance. AI, robots, energy, space. And that abundance won't come through the State, for one simple reason: we have a century of proof that it doesn't work.
Redistribution was version 1.0. Direct distribution of capital is 2.0.
While France is still debating how to tax builders even more, America is handing stock to its kids.
Pick your side.
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The Architect of Nothing: Thirty Years of Bernie Sanders Robbing America
Bernie Sanders is in essence the most useless man America has ever seen.
For more than three decades, the American political stage has tolerated the finger-wagging theater of Bernard Sanders, absolute fossil who has perfected the art of converting economic illiteracy into a lucrative personal enterprise.
Watching Sanders lecture the working class on enterprise and economics resembles listening to an alchemist preach modern chemistry. He presents himself as the righteous champion of the laborer, yet his entire career is an unbroken record of legislative inertia, fiscal delusion, and moral abdication dressed in the tattered costume of democratic socialism.
The record of his legislative productivity exposes the myth completely. Sanders arrived on Capitol Hill in 1991. Across thirty-five years of feeding at the public trough, drawing a taxpayer-funded salary while railing against the system that enriched him, the self-proclaimed revolutionary has managed to enact exactly three substantive standalone bills into law. Two of them were designations to name post offices in Vermont. Decades of pompous floor speeches, decades of furious town halls, and the net monument to his legislative skill is brass plaques on two local postal branches. When tasked with real governance, such as chairing the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the result was a catastrophic managerial breakdown. An investigative probe uncovered systemic falsification of appointment schedules and lethal waitlists for vulnerable veterans while Sanders initially brushed off the reports as an ideological conspiracy concocted by political enemies.
Beyond bureaucratic incompetence lies an even deeper rot: total detachment from the basic laws of arithmetic. Sanders routinely touts single-payer healthcare proposals that would cost tens of trillions of dollars over a decade, blithely demanding that taxpayers swallow unprecedented confiscatory rates to fund an unwieldy state apparatus. He lectures free-market enterprises while conveniently ignoring that his flagship socialist models across Latin America systematically collapsed into breadlines, blackouts, and hyperinflation. When pressed on the mechanisms of capital allocation, he retreats into adolescent platitudes about millionaires and billionaires, conveniently updating his rhetoric to omit millionaires the moment book royalties converted him into a multi-property owner who shuttles between lakeside retreats and Capitol Hill suites.
The working class does not need lectures from a lifelong functionary who never built a business, never managed a payroll, and never created a single productive private-sector job. Sanders preaches solidarity while functioning as a sheepdog for the very managerial establishment he claims to oppose, reliably folding his theatrical resistance every election cycle to endorse the corporate machine. The entire socialist enterprise rests on exploiting envy and masking personal inadequacy behind state-mandated confiscation.
Bernard Sanders should retire into silence, because thirty years of empty slogans cannot hide the reality of a political career defined by total legislative bankruptcy.
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Just this once, and then the subject is closed:
Anyone following me regularly -- who isn't a store detective, I mean -- knows that I have more than my fair share of ongoing and (in all likelihood) insoluble problems with what the modern day GOP has become, in Donald Trump's wake. Anti-intellectual yahooism and bluster have, to an appalling extent, taken the place of the reason and rationality reaching its apogee during the Reagan/Thatcher era, and that's nothing to be lightly countenanced, nor airily brushed aside. (It's what makes it possible for Candace Owens, and similarly brackish forms of pond life, to batten and flourish, if nothing else.)
That being averred, however: if recent events in France, Italy, Ireland, and the rest of the new European caliphate tell us anything, it's that the ongoing dual threat of illegal immigration and Islam is an existential one, and -- from where I sit, at any rate -- the overriding factor to be taken into account, come elections next month.
I won't be voting a straight red ticket because the GOP, as currently constituted, has concretely earned my loyalty, so much as the only other electorally viable party in this country is so far sunken into nihilism and Arkham Asylum-level insanity, it cannot reasonably be allowed even so much a lone seat at the political table, barring a thoroughgoing reformation.
In 2026, I say: Vote Red... even if, in some instances, it rightly requires the heroic suppression of your gag reflex.
Because the alternative is not only untenable, but unthinkable.
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Barack Obama is responsible for the Islamic Invasion of America (Thread 🧵)
Barack Obama is not merely the worst president in American history; he is the deliberate architect of an invasion, a traitor who opened the gates of our civilization to an enemy army disguised as refugees while he stood by with a smirk and watched the demographic weapon detonate.
This is not incompetence; this is calculated sabotage by a man who viewed the United States as a colonial power deserving of punishment and who sought to fundamentally transform our nation by importing a population hostile to our values, our Constitution, and our very existence. He is a viper who wore the flag as a costume while plotting its destruction, a fraud who swore to defend America from all enemies foreign and domestic and then proceeded to roll out the red carpet for those very enemies...
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One county clerk in Michigan did the one thing the Secretary of State's office apparently could not be bothered to do… he took the people who answered their jury summons by saying they are not citizens and checked them against the voter rolls. Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini says in the third quarter of this year alone 236 people self reported as noncitizens, nine of them were registered to vote and one had a voting history, and the county's own list from 2025 and the first half of 2026 already had 40 more, five of them with a voting history.
And when he handed it to Lansing? Here is what he told the Daily Signal… "I have turned the information over to the Secretary of State's office. They just threw their hands up and said it's a county matter."
A county matter. The department that keeps the driver's license file these jury summonses come from, and runs the statewide voter file, says it's somebody else's problem. Back in January when Forlini first flagged 14 noncitizens registered to vote, Jocelyn Benson called him "reckless," and then her own office's review confirmed four of them were in fact noncitizens. Four. So the reckless guy was right, and the woman calling names is now the Democrat candidate for governor asking you to promote her.
And think about where these numbers come from. One county, roughly 20,000 jury summonses over two years, in a county of almost 900,000 people. Forlini says most clerks don't have the resources to do this and he would surmise the problem is bigger in Oakland and Wayne. Who is checking Wayne? Who is checking Oakland? This is weeks before Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed fight over a Senate seat that could decide control of the chamber, Dana Nessel's own office charged five noncitizens in August for voting in 2024, federal prosecutors have charged a Chinese national and a Russian national for voting in Michigan, and yet the official line is still that it's rare and you should calm down.
How many is enough? Nine? Forty? Is one illegal vote canceling out yours acceptable to you because the people in charge say the number is small? I know exactly what it feels like to be called reckless for asking these questions, and I can tell you the people doing the name calling never come back and apologize when they turn out to be wrong. The system does not check itself, and when somebody finally does check, the people at the top shrug and call it a county matter.
Here is the reality. If your kid's school found nine strangers on the pickup list you would not call it a rounding error… you would lock it down and you would want to know who put them there.
Jocelyn Benson, you run the voter file. Cross check every county the way Macomb did, publish the numbers before November 3, and stop calling the people who find the problem reckless.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Jack retweeted
25 years of one-party Democrat control in Oregon is a masterclass in how leftist rule destroys a state’s ability to govern.
This is the same state whose governor leads a system that no longer requires students to prove proficiency in reading, math, or English to graduate high school.
2001–03 budget: $34 billion
• 32% education
• 25% social programs
• 12% infrastructure
• 12% administration
• 6% public safety
• 13% everything else
2025–27 budget: $140 billion (over 4× higher)
• 18% education
• 45% social programs
• 7.5% infrastructure
• 14% administration
• 5% public safety
• 10.5% everything else
Social programs went from $8.5 billion (25%) to $62.7 billion (45%) — 7 times more, nearly half the entire budget on handouts.
“Healthier Oregon” spends $1.3 billion giving free medical care to illegal migrants.
$724 million went to “homeless services” in 2024 — $60,412 per homeless person — while the homeless population rose. Walk Portland’s streets and see where that money actually went.
Oregon schools sank to the bottom of the country in reading and math. Democrats’ solution? Pass a law eliminating proficiency requirements to graduate, extend it again, then brag about higher graduation rates.
They’re not lifting people out of poverty or fixing education.
They’re building a permanent dependency empire with themselves in charge. Their ads say it plainly: “Vote for us or Republicans will take away your benefits!”
Governor Kotek can’t blame Trump. Democrats have controlled Oregon the entire time — even as the federal government flipped party control five times.
This is what one-party Democrat rule delivers.
#Oregon #DemocratFailure #Accountability
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You know that suffocating air at an airport
when everything goes to hell?
That was Chicago O’Hare.
Flight 412, delayed over three hours.
Everyone at the gate was ready to snap.
Guys in expensive suits screaming
in the face of a terrified gate agent.
Exhausted toddlers face down
on the carpet, sobbing.
Nobody looking anyone in the eye.
Just two thousand strangers
trapped in pure, ugly misery.
Then the intercom crackles to life.
"Ladies and gentlemen...
please welcome home the veterans
of today's Honor Flight."
And the entire terminal just froze.
Down the center of the concourse
came ten wheelchairs.
Ten old men in faded navy caps.
Eighty years ago, they were boys
walking straight into gunfire
so the world would not burn.
Right up front was a ninety eight year old man.
His hands were shaking hard,
clutching a tiny framed photo on his lap.
A black and white picture of a girl
with curled hair from 1944.
Smiling up at him.
Dead silence fell over that gate.
Then, a construction worker sitting on a bag,
dusty boots, neon orange vest,
he drops his phone.
He stands up.
And he starts clapping. Hard.
Next to him, a businessman slams his laptop shut
and stands.
Then five people behind them.
Then fifty.
Then the entire concourse.
In ten seconds flat,
two thousand miserable, furious strangers
lined both sides of that hallway
like a wall of living stone.
Teenagers ripped out their earbuds.
Dads hoisted their little boys
onto their shoulders.
Big, tough men pulled off their hats,
pressed them against their chests,
and did not even bother wiping away
the tears running down their faces.
The roar that bounced off the glass ceiling
was not just applause.
It was thunder.
It hit you right in the ribs.
And then, God, this is the part that wrecks you.
The ninety eight year old man
slides that photograph into his coat pocket.
And he tries to stand.
He wants to return the salute.
His hands grip the armrests,
his knuckles turning white,
but his knees are shaking so violently
they just buckle under him.
He cannot make it up alone.
Before his feet can slip,
a young Marine in uniform bolts forward.
At the exact same second,
another traveler lunges in from the crowd.
They do not say a word.
They just lock their hands under his elbows
and heave him straight up onto his feet.
Solid as an oak tree.
And that old warrior raises a trembling hand to his brow,
locking in the sharpest, proudest salute
you have ever seen.
Standing tall on the strength of two strangers,
while thousands of people cheered
until their voices gave out.
You want to know what the soul of a people looks like?
Do not watch the news.
Just watch how a room full of angry strangers
treats an old soldier
whose sword was laid down eighty years ago.
Jack retweeted
Rubio is once again showing he is the only adult in the room. He understands foreign affairs better than anyone in DC.
If Rubio is able to keep his distance from all the mistakes Trump and Vance are making in the Middle East, he will be the best candidate for President in 2028. And in the same way Reagan needed to restore America to its former prominence after the debacle of Carter, it will be Rubio's responsibility to clean up after Trump.
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A sitting United States senator just admitted she wants to use prosecutions to scare young people away from working for President Trump. Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said it out loud at the University of Chicago on Tuesday, during a live taping of a Vox podcast. "I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him," she said. "I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration?... I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want... I want that deterrence message."
This isn't a one-time slip. In a September 30 speech, Slotkin said Democrats should go after Trump officials if they retake Congress, and she compared it to Poland's "Iron Broom" plan for cleaning house after authoritarian rule. She named Kristi Noem, Doug Burgum and Jeanine Pirro, and warned that misusing taxpayer money "can land you a sentence of up to 20 years in prison."
Think about what she's saying. She isn't talking about a specific crime someone committed. She's talking about making an example of people so the next generation is too afraid to serve their country under a president they voted for.
As a mother, I'd be proud to see my kids serve in government, and nobody should be threatened with prison for taking that job. This is exactly why the midterms matter. Imagine what they'd do with the gavel.
See the link to the article in the comments.
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Chers Français,
On vous le dit depuis longtemps : ce que vous observez n’est pas une crise – c’est un résultat.
Inutile de chercher des causes de court terme – c’est le résultat d’au moins 45 ans de mauvaises décisions.
Évidemment, l’immigration. Mais l’immigration peut être gérée de diverses manières – et vous avez choisi le socialisme. Le socialisme et le mensonge : vous vous mentez depuis au moins 45 ans. Maintenant, vous en récoltez les résultats. On ne peut pas mentir à la réalité – on finit toujours par payer. Et c’est maintenant.
Les images que nous regardons en ce moment sont celles d’une guerre civile. Celles d’un pays où tout le monde en a marre, où personne n’en peut plus. C’est le résultat de vos choix : du socialisme bureaucratique et mensonger que vous avez choisi.
Voyons les mécanismes.
Dans les années 70, vous aviez un pays qui marchait très bien, géré par des ingénieurs, des bâtisseurs – un pays où même les immigrés pouvaient trouver leur place et leur avancement social.
Puis le pouvoir a changé de mains. Les bâtisseurs l’ont perdu au profit des bureaucrates d’un État démesuré. Ces gens-là ne produisent rien : ils distribuent, ils réglementent, ils commentent. Dans un tel système, on ne monte plus en construisant. On monte en parlant, en se plaçant, en obtenant sa part. Ceux qui construisent deviennent des suspects – ceux qui distribuent deviennent les maîtres.
Et dans le socialisme, personne ne trouve d’avancement. Quand il ne s’agit plus que de partager un gâteau qui ne grossit pas, tout le monde en veut à tout le monde – souvent à raison, d’ailleurs. Un pays qui ne crée plus de richesse n’intègre plus personne – il ne fait que répartir la rancœur.
Et tout cela avant même la crise de la dette, qui est devant vous et qui rendra la situation dix fois plus difficile. Tout cela est un résultat.
Alors ce qu’il faut faire est assez simple : il faut cesser. Cesser de faire tout ce qui produit ces résultats. Tout ce que vous faites depuis 45 ans.
Et redonner le pouvoir aux bâtisseurs – pas aux bureaucrates et aux beaux parleurs sortis de l’ENA. Que ceux qui construisent décident. Et que ceux qui ne font que parler se taisent.
Voilà, tout simplement. Alors vous aurez une chance de vous en sortir dans quelques années – sinon vous sombrerez de plus en plus profondément. Et sachez que les choses peuvent – et vont – aller beaucoup plus mal. Je le sais, je viens de Pologne. Nous savons ce que ça veut dire, des choses qui vont mal.
Nous savons aussi comment on en sort. Pas en un jour. D’abord cesser de se mentir. Puis avoir le courage de dire la vérité. Puis commencer à construire – et ne plus s’arrêter, et ne plus jamais rendre le pouvoir à ceux qui ne construisent rien.
⚠️🔴 À REGARDER JUSQU'À LA FIN
JE NE PEUX PAS DÉCRIRE CE QUE JE VIENS DE VIVRE À MARSEILLE.
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