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What we know: 1. She's a member of the French left-wing party and an activist, one of the biggest advocates for opening up migration to North African peoples. 2. She owns a small chic boutique in an upscale spot, she stood in her shop trying to save it from looting and theft telling them that she's a famous activist. 3. She told them I'm so-and-so, the activist for asylum, I'm with you, I've defended you and your entry and stay in France, they spat on her, knocked her down, and trampled her with their feet, good thing she's still alive. 4. And they looted the whole shop, losing all the struggle and work of her lifetime in a moment. Standing there stunned, not believing that these thieving, rabble-rousing, criminal, barbaric hordes are the ones she's spent her whole life defending, and advocating for them to invade her country and destroy it
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To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad: Do not blame the French people for this. We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no. Here are the numbers your media won't show you. 70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today. 79% want a tougher immigration policy. 77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration. 83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home. And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years. This is not a fringe. This is the French people. In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again. That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway. So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations. In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders. It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed. What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it. The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did. So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this." The French never chose this. They were forced into it. If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us. If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
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I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream. Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them. The promise was protection. The result is stagnation. The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe. I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has. Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France? Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais été aussi optimiste. Pas malgré le chaos actuel, mais grâce à lui. Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique. Tout commence avec un mouvement né sur X il y a quelques années : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc. Au départ, c'est une idée presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matière s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'énergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forêt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marché, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancées de ce processus. Ce sont des machines à transformer l'énergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexité. La thèse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'énergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'échelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « décels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, réguler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrès comme une menace à contenir plutôt qu'une force à libérer. Mais il y a une dimension de l'accélération dont presque personne ne parle. L'accélération n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre. Pensez à n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santé peut courir. Il accélère, son cœur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygène, et tout fonctionne parce que le système est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artères bouchées, un cœur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santé. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus. L'accélération ne corrige pas les défauts d'un système. Elle les amplifie. Un système sain qui accélère devient plus fort. Un système dysfonctionnel qui accélère meurt plus vite. Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui porté par les démocrates américains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entités supranationales qui n'ont de comptes à rendre à personne, par un réseau d'ONG financées par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent. Regardez ce que ce projet a produit. Des États obèses qui prélèvent plus de la moitié de la richesse produite et qui délivrent des services publics de plus en plus dégradés. Des écoles qui n'apprennent plus à lire mais qui apprennent à culpabiliser. Des hôpitaux à bout de souffle malgré des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, présentée comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les conséquences. Une désindustrialisation organisée au nom d'une écologie punitive qui délocalise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne plus simple de créer une entreprise à Austin qu'à Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquée sous le nom de « lutte contre la désinformation ». Et une jeunesse à qui l'on a expliqué que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation étaient des crimes à expier. Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-même. Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce système comme un moteur. Un bon moteur, c'est de la précision. Des pièces qui s'emboîtent, un minimum de frottements, une énergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marché libre, la propriété, la responsabilité individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnée, chaque bonne idée est récompensée. Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dès le départ. Il ne tourne pas sur la création de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne récompense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. Résultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque pièce use la pièce d'à côté. Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les pièces. En permanence. Une pièce cède, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une. Ces pièces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche à billets. La France a dépassé les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas voté un budget à l'équilibre depuis le milieu des années 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux à zéro pendant des années, imprimé des montants que plus personne ne sait se représenter, et quand l'inflation est arrivée, elles ont fait semblant d'être surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phénomène monétaire. Chaque crise, on rachète du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problème structurel, on l'arrose de liquidités pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours là. Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des pièces de rechange finit par coûter plus cher que le moteur lui-même : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dépense de l'État français. Pendant des décennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner à 3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise à masquer l'absurdité de la conception. Et puis l'IA est arrivée. L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accélération la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idées se déplacent à la vitesse de la lumière vers les endroits où ils sont bien traités. L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 à 20 000 tours par minute. Posez-vous la question qu'un ingénieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter à 20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolé de partout, qui frotte à chaque rotation ? Il explose. Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a saboté. Parce que la physique ne négocie pas. Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux. L'insécurité qui gagne des villes entières qui étaient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importé dans nos rues et instrumentalisé par une gauche qui a troqué l'ouvrier contre le clientélisme communautaire. La misère qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dépense publique les plus élevés au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus à se loger. Une France fracturée, où l'on parle désormais à voix haute de risque de guerre civile. Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les pièces du moteur qui commencent à voler. C'est la conséquence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un système qui a détruit la responsabilité, la frontière, la monnaie, l'école et la fierté, et qui découvre qu'à haute vitesse, tout ce qui a été détruit ne peut plus être compensé par une ligne de dette supplémentaire. Et c'est là que je deviens profondément optimiste. Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un système qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui créent et récompense ceux qui détruisent, qui finance son présent en hypothéquant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indéfiniment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'échéance. Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les conséquences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde à 20 000 tours, les conséquences arrivent immédiatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher. Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement. Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture électrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrêter de rafistoler et repartir de la base. Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivé à la tête d'un pays ravagé par un siècle de péronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. Ministères supprimés, dépenses coupées, inflation écrasée, excédent budgétaire retrouvé. Il a prouvé une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut démonter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir. Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout était déjà là. La monnaie, la liberté de choisir, la responsabilité, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fédéral, il y aurait pénurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confié le sable. On a eu la pénurie. Revenez à une hiérarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idée qu'il existe des choses supérieures à d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la médiocrité. Que le mérite compte. Qu'une cathédrale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a été l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote. Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a été jugé, documenté, enseigné, et il est devenu moralement indéfendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisées et ses peuples réduits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procès. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une université sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procès historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idéologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idéologie aussi infréquentable que celle qu'elle prétendait combattre. Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systèmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vécu du mensonge. Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre génération pour tous ceux qui veulent construire. Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
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A reminder of what Democrats were saying about Iran before Trump decided to do something about it.
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Here is my best guess what happened since January 2025: 1. Trump gets into office and makes Ukraine peace a top priority 2. Calls Putin and agrees on the basic outlines of a peace deal 3. Zelensky starts to play games with Trump and activates the EU "leaders". 4. Merz, Macron, Starmer and Ursula get excited and think "now we can play Trump". 5. They begin coordinating without Trump to escalate the war, including support for attacks inside Russia. They don't have a real strategy but follow their "petty little dictator" instincts. 6. Trump gets really pissed, but understands this is a serious situation and decides to not talk much about it. He also overextended himself bigly on Greenland, which was a mistake and created hard core resistance, especially with the Scandinavians. 7. Trump tones down the Greenland thing and negotiates behind the scenes with Denmark, which calms down the Scandies. 8. He then decides to play silent hardball against the EU: absolutely squeeze them on oil with Iran and sandwich them between Russia and the US, while also coordinating with Xi. Effectively, the absolutely dumb behavior of EU leaders have made them effectively enemies of Trump. He viewed them as feckless and weak before; now, he added "malicious" to the list. I do think Washington came to the conclusion that the EU leadership cannot be trusted at all, neither as partners nor as managers of Europe. The decision was made to absolutely crush and dismantle them. Let's see what happens next, but the Ukraine war is probably over soon. The AfD is likely going to take over Germany within the next 12-18 months with the help of CDU defectors, or a full-on coalition with the CDU as junior partner after the party cleanses itself from the Merz/Merkel loyalists. This change will be driven by a dramatic and exponential decay of the German (and other European) economies in the next 6 months or so, with winter coming, Russian energy drying up for them and the US squeezing them to death. This happens when you allow the most degenrate impulses in your society to elect a bunch of low IQ Karens to run the world's (formerly) most powerful economic block. "Muh Climate Change and Gender Equality" (in Sweden lol) wont't win you the war for energy and intelligence domination. On an ironic footnote: It's kind of funny Europe is losing the age of intelligence because its leaders are so unintelligent. To end on a positive note: Europe still has (by far) the greatest human potential on earth. But while the rest of the world tries to optimize its "progress per potential", European leaders actively suppress, destroy and dilute their populations. Once this stops and reverses, a European golden age (and in extension, a golden age of the greater West from Sydney to Vancouver) will follow. /Civ /Civilization
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I've seen this headlines more than a few times in the last 24hrs. I've seen cheering that somehow it's an Iranian victory that humbled America. Let's put things in perspective. Because I'm an airman, and I ain't humbled yet. Out of 81 aircraft lost or damaged, 49 are unmanned - 60.5%. 21 aircraft were lost or damaged on the ground - 25.9% Out of manned aircraft, 1x F-15E, 1x A-10, 1x AH-64 destroyed due to enemy fire - 3.7%. Great numbers for headlines, but lies, damned lies, and statistics... the official tally was over 10,200 sorties directly engaging in OEF over 38 days. That would represent an overall campaign attrition rate of: 00.79%. And that's without knowing which tails were only damaged, repaired, and got back into the fight! Additionally, while those are the official numbers, a CENTCOM Air Tasking Order numbers in the hundreds (if not thousands) of lines a day. So it's reasonable to believe that overall campaign attrition rate is lower. Finally, it's an apples-to-oranges comparison, but it must be recalled that FY26 loss of 50 aircraft involved in Class A mishaps. These are aircraft lost or damaged without a shot being fired. Aviation is inherently dangerous, afterall. Now, I have a vested interest in not seeing my Air Force destroyed. And I've lost too many fellow airmen over the years to ever care to see one more loss. But these headlines must be seen with a greater perspective! And less political bias. Otherwise, we do injustice to my aviators and support personnel across the Joint Force who threw iron into the air and completely smashed the IRIAF within a narrow window. #Zeus95
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Dear @TheDemocrats, "The President of the United States is lying to you." Okay. Which lie? Give me a quote. A date. A document. Anything. Nope. Two sentences and a movie clip. A national party with a chairman, a research department, and a budget bigger than most small towns... and the best you could come up with was borrowing Leonardo DiCaprio. Mood rings have more evidence behind them. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT YOU ACTUALLY POSTED That clip is from Don't Look Up (2021). DiCaprio plays a scientist screaming at a FICTIONAL president, played by Meryl Streep, about a FICTIONAL comet. You trimmed the line, slapped it on a real president, and hoped nobody in America had Netflix. Here is the part that makes the science teacher in me giggle. The director said openly that the comet is a stand-in for climate change. So your big "he is lying" ad is a doomsday movie about a doomsday prediction. What's next, a political party using a Hollywood movie to convince you the planet is ending... wait. I was just told Al Gore already did that in 2006. The Arctic ice was supposed to be gone by now too. I keep a list of these. It is long, and I am still alive, which is awkward for the list. Jim Quinn's fourth law says liberalism only succeeds when the public is scared into believing it will not survive without it. Eighteen seconds, and you illustrated it in 4K. THE MONTAGE Then the edit goes full music video. Somebody has to list what you used as "proof," so I will: o A decades-old photo of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein. The same Epstein files your party sat on for four years while Biden's Autopen ran the DOJ. Funny how the outrage always shows up in October. o Elon Musk's "my heart goes out to you" gesture, recycled one more time as a Nazi dog whistle. Even the ADL said at the time it was an awkward gesture. But facts are not exactly your strong suit, so carry on. o A street arrest. A bill signing. A shoving match. No captions, no dates, no names. I have watched all three a few times now and I still cannot find the lie in any of them. o A CNN poll. Polls measure how people feel, and you spent eighteen seconds working very hard on how people feel. o Diesel. Shell sign at $6.89, a pump ticking past three hundred ninety dollars, a CBS chyron about record prices. I will give you this one, because it is real. Diesel is high, and every farmer and trucker in this country knows it. High prices are a problem you could try solving. They still are not the lie you promised me in sentence one. AND THEN THERE IS THE CASKET. You put a flag-draped transfer case in a political attack ad. A dignified transfer. Fallen service members coming home, dropped in as B-roll somewhere between Elon Musk and a gas pump. I am a combat medic. I know what is inside that case, and I know what the family standing on that tarmac is going through. That is somebody's son. Somebody's daughter. Somebody's dad who is never going to walk through the front door again. And your video editor slotted him in at the 13-second mark like a weather shot. You want to honor the troops? Leave their caskets out of your fundraising season. Then go help the ones who came home wounded. The Major Richard Star Act would stop the government from taking retirement pay away from combat-wounded veterans who were medically retired. Plenty of your own members co-sponsored it. Ask them why it still has not seen a vote. If you are confused after watching the video, that is by design. They are muddying the water to make it look deep. Somebody in your video shop has a leak in the think tank, and I would not trust that crew to run a lemonade stand, much less a country. NOW, ABOUT LYING I am a patient man. I teach teenagers. So let me hold up the party's own report card and let the class read it out loud: o "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." PolitiFact named that the Lie of the Year in 2013. PolitiFact! Your own home team. o Fifty-one former intelligence officials signed a letter in 2020 saying the Hunter Biden laptop had the "hallmarks" of Russian disinformation. It was his laptop. o "The border is secure." Said over and over, on camera, while record numbers of people walked across it. o Inflation was "transitory." My grocery receipt would like a word. o Biden's Autopen was "sharp as a tack." Right up until the debate, when the whole country got to see for itself. Jim Quinn's second law: if you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing. The party with THAT report card led with "he is lying," then forgot to name a single lie. An accusation with no exhibit. Honestly impressive, like eating soup with a fork on purpose. AND WHAT IS ON THE BALLOT "Vote his party out of power on November 3." Fair enough... you said "party," so at least somebody over there knows Trump is not on the ballot. Points for that. It is a midterm. You want Congress back. So what would you DO with it? What bill lowers diesel? Which refinery do you approve? Do you repeal the Jones Act, the 106-year-old law that makes it cheaper to ship fuel from overseas than from Texas to New England? More production, or less? You had the House, the Senate, and the White House in 2021 and 2022. Diesel set its old record, roughly $5.81, in June 2022. On your watch. What did you fix? Show me a plan and I will grade it. You can lead a person to Congress, but you cannot make them think. Homework, because I already wrote the answers: o If you were born before 1980, the left has "killed" you with climate change at least 17 times: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… o Environmentalists are destroying the environment, one refinery at a time: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… o The Jones Act is a 106-year-old boondoggle, and Republicans should be lining up to kill it: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… o Dems' glass house: how Democrats in the Epstein files pointed fingers at everyone but themselves: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… o 218 signatures are only the start of ending the Wounded Veteran Tax: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… o Who NOT to vote for, the complete list: xitter.cf/BskiMike22802/status/2… Final grade: no lie identified, a fictional president standing in for a real one, a poll, a gas pump, and fallen soldiers used as filler. I have graded group projects where nobody did the reading. This is the one where the only kid who showed up brought a DVD. But what do I know, I am only a combat medic and science teacher who thinks a flag-draped case deserves more respect than a campaign ad. @TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Trump #Veterans
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Pete Hegseth turned down a West Point offer to play basketball at Princeton. He rode the bench for four years. 42 games, almost all garbage time. He ended up running the Pentagon anyway. The best story is his senior day. March 8, 2003, against Columbia. Four years of practice reps and spot minutes, and John Thompson III finally calls his number with Princeton stuck in a five minute scoring drought. Hegseth checks in and drains two threes, then assists on the game winner. Princeton wins 44-40 in front of 5,205 at Jadwin. His quote after the game aged well. "I wasn't going to hesitate to take the shot. I feel that's my strength." People read "played 1 minute in March Madness" as a diss. Run the funnel instead. Around 540,000 kids play high school basketball every year, roughly 1% of them ever make a Division I roster, only 68 teams reach the tournament, and most guys at the end of those benches never check in at all. One minute of floor time against 2-seed North Carolina puts you in a club of a few thousand people alive. The order of operations is the part worth sitting with. He skipped West Point for basketball, joined ROTC a few months before 9/11, deployed to Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and in 2025 took over the Pentagon. He turned down the academy and ended up in charge of everyone who went. And judging by the clip, the stroke never left.
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What would America look like if 55 million Visas were cancelled? If 55 million visas were cancelled overnight, America would change in ways few could imagine. At first it would look chaotic. Hospitals short on nurses. Tech firms unable to staff support teams. Crops left to rot because migrant labor vanished. For a few months, the headlines would scream collapse. But then something else would happen. Wages would climb. Trades and apprenticeships would surge. Colleges that depended on foreign tuition would close, but community colleges would thrive again as Americans re-trained. Housing prices in major cities would fall for the first time in decades. Renters would finally have leverage. Families that were priced out could buy homes again. The GDP might dip at first, but the money would start circulating locally. People who thought they’d never matter in the economy would suddenly be needed again. The country would remember how to build, grow, fix, and teach without importing labor. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would be ours. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2023; Borjas, G. “Labor Market Effects of Immigration,” NBER 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS; Institute of International Education, 2024 Open Doors Report.)
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Nice of France to put on a live demonstration of what will happen in America if Democrats ever take power back again.
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What we are witnessing in Brazil is the biggest political backfire in modern political history. Communist tyrants came after Brazil’s Trump, Jair Bolsonaro. He survived an assassination attempt. They banned him from running for office. Then they threw him in jail. They accused him of attempting a coup after his election was stolen, just like they did here to Trump. He’s currently serving a 27 year prison sentence. The response: His wife won a Senate seat. His son Carlos won a Senate seat. His son Renan won a seat in Congress. His son Flávio is ahead of Lula for president of Brazil. His son could unseat the very tyrant who threw him in jail. The persecution of Bolsonaro has backfired into a political retribution against those who weaponized Government against the people's will. You might be able to try to silence a man but you cannot silence a movement.
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Why is Trump being blamed for a grocery inflation spike that happened under Biden? Under Biden, grocery prices rose 23%. Grocery inflation hit 13.6% in 2022, the worst since 1979. Under Trump, it was 2.1% in Aug. 2026, about half the average since 1971.
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