Alex Lemas

Alex Krainer: After the Iran War - A New Global Economy youtu.be/pmiG0Gplu9Q?si… via @YouTube Just listen and wake up

In warfare, it is wise to listen to what the enemy tells you they’re going to do. They almost always do it. This transformation has taken the better part of two generations and one Obama to turn America into an Islamo—Marxist nation. Yes, we were warned, we were just too complacent to act.

Your block. Your privacy. Your country.

No joke. I'd actually read all the books and seen several films and TV movies about Watergate by 1997. That was the year I read Silent Coup, by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. It literally blew my mind that Bob Woodward was a high-level Naval intelligence officer, doing briefings for the JCOS and other intel work. All the coverage of Woodward's past glossed over his intelligence official past with a line or two about him 'briefly serving in the Navy'. So a ONI guy doing top level briefings for the Pentagon brass just happens to start a new career as an intrepid cub reporter for the Washington Post, just in time to be fed THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL STORY in US history.

@BabyD1111229 Power cedes nothing, it must be taken

An attorney representing DC Blox said at a Thursday night Metro Planning Commission meeting that “they’re going to build” the data center next to the Nashville Zoo, despite community opposition.    “We already have the permits in hand,” he said. “We just want to work with the community to find a solution.” The attorney is Doug Sloan, former director of Metro Planning. @WSMV - you need to identify him. @MarshaBlackburn did you sell your soul…

@KathleenWinche3 No letters or numbers on the keys. Old manual typewriters, take me back to 1959

I remember but it was an electric typewriter!

🚨President Putin’s Message to the German Government and the German People This is how the coup de grâce is delivered – without weapons, verbally… “We don’t want to attack you! Why would we? Those times are long gone! Anyone who is still in their right mind and can think clearly understands that. First: You already have national debt amounting to 2.5 trillion euros, and no serious economist has any idea how you ever plan to pay that back. And now you want to take on another 1 trillion euros to arm yourselves against us. Do you want the Russian people to foot that bill? Never! Second: Your country is teeming with millions of migrants who cost you 50 billion euros a year. Should the Russian people be held accountable for that? Third: A considerable portion of your population is so deranged that they believe they can influence the climate by cycling and eating insects. Perhaps this massive brain damage could be fixed, but that would cost us something too.” a lot. Fourth: – Your education system was once exemplary. Now, in many classrooms, hardly any teaching takes place anymore because almost no one speaks German. Fifth: – Your infrastructure is crumbling, and you can’t keep up with the repairs. Sixth: – Your railways were once the pride of the entire world. Now your trains run like they do in India. Seventh: – We don’t need your famous engineers. During the sanctions, we learned that we can get by without them. But if we do need them after all, we’ll turn to China. There they’re not only cheaper but also better. Eighth: – You have neither raw materials nor energy sources. So why should we conquer your country? To solve problems we wouldn’t even have otherwise? Realistically speaking: Even if you called us, surrendered, and raised white flags, we still wouldn’t come!

A man in Barnstable MA speaking on illegal immigration: Brings to mind the Quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They do not ask for much. Just to be left alone. But when they are pushed too far, when their families, their homes, their livelihoods, or their way of life is threatened… they become the most dangerous force on earth.”

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 German Media Claims Trump Gave "Secret Order" on AI Drones Hitting Russia is False - It Started Under Biden & Trump Simply Continued it... ▪️The report ignores the fact that for well over 2 years - under the Biden administration - the US already green-lit this program and it has only just now come fully online; ▪️This means US foreign policy continued - 100% uninterrupted - from one admin to the next (continuity of agenda) regardless of the campaign lies told by Trump in 2024 - literally nothing has changed except on the battlefield and across the respective industries of the West and Russia; ▪️This is also evidence that despite political theater, the US is still 100% driving this proxy war of its own deliberate creation; ▪️Here is the timestamp of my warning from 2 years ago regarding precisely this AI drone program: youtu.be/qWC-48Y_gmQ?si…

@GigglingGanon If you don’t know your rights you don’t have any.

Motorcyclist owns police at a DUI checkpoint by saying nothing. The power of exercising your right to remain silent is so powerful. ​A multi-agency DUI checkpoint at the California-Nevada border was not ready for a man that was willing to push the boundaries of control and patience. ​When the officer asks the standard probing questions, the rider doesn't argue, yell, or escalate. He simply uses six powerful words: "I don't wanna answer any questions." ​Why This Approach Works Police officers use casual small talk at checkpoints to look for signs of impairment, slurred speech, or conflicting stories. By politely refusing to answer, you give them zero verbal ammunition to build reasonable suspicion. ​ Notice how the rider asks, "Are you ordering me?" before moving to the staging area or handing over his ID. You are legally required to comply with lawful commands (like showing a driver's license while operating a vehicle), but you are never required to consent to voluntary questioning. ​ Because the rider remained completely silent regarding his activities, and showed no physical signs of impairment, the law enforcement officers had absolutely no probable cause to detain him. Once his identity was verified, they had no choice but to let him go. ​Knowing your Constitutional rights is one thing, but having the calm confidence to execute them under pressure is where the real power lies. Speak less, know the law, and protect your rights. This was done to perfection.

When Chekhov bought his country estate in Melikhovo, he wanted to ensure the local peasants knew when he, as a doctor, was available to help. He set up a simple but effective system: whenever he was home and ready to receive patients or head out on house calls, he would hoist a specific medical flag on a pole outside his house. Local villagers would watch the horizon for the flag, knowing that if it was flying, "the good doctor" would treat their illnesses completely free of charge. For the struggling farmers of the Russian countryside, that simple piece of cloth waving in the wind was the difference between life and death. They did not care that the man pulling the rope was a famous writer whose stories were debated in the grand salons of St. Petersburg. To them, Anton Pavlovich was the tireless soul who would ride his horse carriage through freezing mud in the dead of night just to soothe a child's fever. This deep bond with the poor defined his entire existence. Chekhov lived a short life, dying of tuberculosis at just 44 years old, but he packed more humanity into those years than most do in a century. He managed to balance two demanding worlds simultaneously, famously explaining his double life to a friend with a sharp flash of humor. Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress, Chekhov said. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. This unconventional arrangement worked beautifully. Rather than distracting him, his medical training became the secret lens through which he viewed the human condition. He did not look at people as characters to judge or lecture; he looked at them as a caring physician looks at a patient, observing their flaws, their quiet heartbreaks, and their daily contradictions with complete empathy. His literary mistress brought him worldwide fame, but his lawful wife kept him grounded in the harsh realities of human suffering. When a devastating cholera epidemic struck the surrounding provinces, Chekhov did not use his growing celebrity status to flee to safety. Instead, he took charge of multiple medical districts entirely on his own, treating thousands of destitute peasants without asking for a single ruble in return. Even as his own lungs failed him and he began coughing up blood from the disease that would eventually kill him, his focus remained fixed outward. He used his literary earnings to fund the construction of rural schools, organize relief projects for families facing famine, and build a public library in his impoverished hometown of Taganrog, personally shipping crates of books to fill the shelves. He firmly believed that life had to be measured by concrete actions rather than beautiful theories. He once noted that it is good if each of us leaves behind something good, a trace that will continue to exist and prove our lives did not pass in vain. When he finally closed his eyes for the last time in the summer of 1904, the literary world mourned a genius, but the peasants of Melikhovo mourned a protector. Long after his physical presence faded, the warmth of his extraordinary generosity remained. Chekhov showed the world that true greatness is not found in how high you rise above others, but in how low you are willing to bend to lift them up. His life reminds us that a legacy built on pure kindness is the one thing that never truly fades away.

@DowdEdward The Bottom Feeds The Top.

Nick’s thesis on Private Equity & Private Credit. A read not for the faint of heart.

@tbmcap @shouq_al90149 Subtle is good

@AlexLemas @shouq_al90149 It’s very subtle but this is the most asinine fucking comment on this thread

Can you spot it??

@DerrilHarvey @shouq_al90149 78 rpm on a 1080 Wurlitzer

@AlexLemas @shouq_al90149 Juke box from the 40s doesn’t disappear in the 60s.

@DerrilHarvey @shouq_al90149 But the records do

Pay attention to the gas you put into your gas tank Your engine life depends upon it

🇺🇸/IRAN The US-backed Israeli War on Lebanon is Part of the US War on Iran ▪️The US has, from 2024-2026 waged direct war on Iran either through its own military forces or those of Israel spanning both the Biden & Trump administrations; ▪️The US has also waged regional war on Iran for decades, attacking and toppling the nation of Syria culminating in war spanning 2011-2024, war on Ansar Allah in Yemen, and of course war on Hezbollah in Lebanon spanning the entire 21st century including a major US-sponsored Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in 2006 and now again in 2026; ▪️This is one single war - not separate semi-related conflicts - which is why an "MOU" supposedly ending hostilities against Iran must include ending hostilities against Hezbollah in Lebanon; ▪️ A failure to end attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon & forcing Israel out of Lebanese territory means that despite the "MOU" being signed - the US gets to continue its war on Iran simply via Israel against Iran's asymmetric regional defenses - winning a "breather" for itself while continuing to tighten the encirclement and isolation of Iran; ▪️This further proves the US seeks further war, not peace, and is seeking to manage the war's progress, not end it;

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian Forces Continue Encircling Ukraine's Remaining Donbass Strongholds ▪️Despite claims across Western media Ukraine has "turned the tide," Russian forces continue their incremental advances including toward the most heavily fortified positions within the Donbass; ▪️The city of Konstantinovka (1) is being encircled with sections of the city already admittedly held by Russian forces according to pro-Ukrainian Live UA Map; ▪️The same pro-Ukrainian map admits the presence of Russian forces inside Lyman (2) to the north; ▪️Following the taking of Konstantinovka and Lyman, Russia will enhance its ability to target Slavyansk and Kramatorsk with drones and other precision-guided weapons to complicate logistics, rotating forces, sending reinforcements, weakening the defense of these strongholds as well; ▪️ Slavyansk and Kramatorsk are the two remaining strongholds in the Donbass held by Ukraine - following their fall, Russia will control the entire Donbass region - a key objective of the SMO;

When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation. The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional. He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion. Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room. What looked like confidence was arrogance. What looked like strength was insecurity. What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion. Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle. In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater. A gaudy performance. A caricature masquerading as leadership. A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to. And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart. It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....