Jay Mann

It really does feel like the UK is being torn apart at the seams from every direction by bad actors.

#BREAKING: Tennessee House passes new congressional map, removing state’s only Democratic black-majority district.

“The Pentagon next year will attempt to track and shoot down a maneuvering hypersonic missile flying up the U.S. East Coast..The test, part of a Missile Defense Agency effort code-named Project Maverick, would mark a significant step in U.S. efforts to counter hypersonic glide vehicles”

BREAKING — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed the new 9-0 congressional map into law. 🔴 +1 GOP 🔵 -1 DEM

People should understand this isn’t new stuff for communists. Mao used these exact tactics. He told various minority groups in China that they were the true heirs to China and they must kill the oppressors to take back what is rightfully theirs. Playbook never changes.

@KaiSchwemmer Agree but this is why I despise Fuentes. And you were (are?) a Fuentes fanboy

I cannot stand “based” ragebait. Calling people slurs, provoking them for content, and acting antisocial in public isn’t cool or based. I want to live in an orderly society actually, and these kind of childish eruptions don’t become less annoying just because you’re right wing.

@contramordor @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry Agree it’s absurd which is why I don’t like the argument that heritage Americans are more American based off their longer lineage. With that rubric, ranking individual Americans becomes possible. So why are you doing it?

@jaymann34 @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry I dont “base it on lineage alone.” America is a people group. You can’t get down into ranking individuals. It’s absurd.

The people trying to discredit the idea of our creedal nation are working to destroy our best and most winning argument for mass deportations and an immigration moratorium.

@contramordor @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry Im not the one invoking who is more American based off lineage alone. Im just testing your thesis and it doesn’t seem to hold up. I just don’t agree that the 10th gen America hating antifa communist is more American than the 2nd gen America loving patriot.

@jaymann34 @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry Idk. Let’s say a Frenchman with longer lineage than another Frenchman is doing espionage for communist China against France…. Is this how we are doing ethnic analysis now? Aren’t they still both French?

@WozzleBaby @JoelWBerry Agreed

@jaymann34 @JoelWBerry No, which is why it's some combination of the two

The creed is the Declaration of Independence. And yes—we should test to see if they believe the creed before letting them in, and we should require proof they’ve already embodied the creed in the way they’ve lived. We should require fluent English, we should favor Christianity and intact families, we should prohibit all welfare, and we should expect the highest level of virtue. We should require them to take the oath, and denaturalize all who break it. This would automatically disqualify most of the 3rd world. Since we don’t necessarily have time to screen millions of people at this level 1 on 1, we should cut off immigration from entire countries if most of the population there has shown unwillingness to assimilate. We should also put a total pause on immigration until we get the mess sorted out. We can do all this without descending into DNA-essentialist, race-essentialist retardation, and we can do all of this without trashing the idea of a creedal nation. In fact, protecting our creed is the best argument for doing all of this.

@contramordor @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry Let’s say hypothetically an American with longer lineage than you is doing espionage for communist China against America. And they’re doing this in the hopes that it will lead to America’s downfall. Is this individual more American than you?

@jaymann34 @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry lol I want to reinstate old America. Not to continue down this path of propositionalism.

@contramordor @JohnLBria @JoelWBerry You’re allowed to do that but I don’t think wanting to destroy America is compatible w/ Americanism. And saying you’re more American due to longer family lineage is meaningless if you want to destroy everything your family helped to build.

@JohnLBria @JoelWBerry I agree more with people like John Randolph and others who weren’t on board with the full formula of the Declaration. I’m allowed to do that. Because I’m an American.

@WozzleBaby @JoelWBerry What if the 10th gen American is an antifa communist who wants to destroy America? Are they still more American than the 2nd gen immigrant who loves America and our founding values?

Also, The Creed™️ = the Declaration? Bruh, this just boils down to libertarianism and the NAP, which isn't even close to make a nation, much less a national identity. Even the libertarians understand this, which is why they're returning to nationalism. Plus...you're telling me Liberians are Americans? Or, the fella fresh off the boat who likes freedom from tyranny is just as American as a 10th generation American?

Shell CEO Wael Sawan: "While 20% of the world's LNG is impacted [by US-Iran war], that equals to only 3% of the world's natural gas." (An important point that's often overlooked)

The US Department of Defense is funding a gallium refinery at Alcoa's Wagerup plant in Western Australia, through a trilateral effort with Australia and Japan. Capacity: 100 tonnes per year. The US consumed 21 tonnes of gallium in 2024. They're building 5x current demand because gallium nitride is the semiconductor material for power electronics — EV inverters, grid converters, data center power supplies. The gallium was always in the bauxite. It was just discarded during alumina refining. frontiermap.substack.com/publish/post/1…

As Operation Epic Fury progressed, President Trump made a series of increasingly vivid threats to (in effect) destroy the Iranian economy if Iran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran did not open the strait, and the campaign against economic targets never happened. 1/9

Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business. This is a FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT in our Arsenal of Freedom—ensuring our military remains the most lethal fighting force in the world.

The US Air Force is deploying a quantum safe comms platform. This should terrify anybody who believes their tech infrastructure is safe. They're doing it because it's a real threat. I'm more worried about quantum than I am "AGI" (whatever that is). reuters.com/technology/swi…

Peace through strength. U.S. EMBASSY IN CARACAS 🇺🇸 🤝 🇻🇪

Having spoken to a senior Saudi official about the NBC article regarding Project Freedom, I honestly think the article completely misunderstood what actually happened because it was written almost entirely from a US perspective rather than from a GCC perspective. First of all, contrary to the impression being created, the GCC were NOT blindsided by Project Freedom. They knew about it beforehand. Roughly half a day before. The airspace was opened. The facilities were available. Nobody objected. There was broad support for the idea because, at least publicly, Project Freedom was supposed to be a limited humanitarian-security operation aimed at relieving the 22,000 sailors trapped around Hormuz and allowing shipping lanes to breathe again. Nobody in the GCC had a problem with that. But here is the issue .. and this is the part the NBC article completely misses. If you are asking GCC countries to participate in such an operation, then you need to be upfront about the rules of engagement from day one! You cannot say:
“Please open your skies and bases, expose your energy infrastructure” …only for everyone to discover afterwards that the actual American policy was apparently: “Oh by the way, if Iran attacks you with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones in several waves, we still won’t retaliate because Donald Trump is busy chasing The Deal.” And this is exactly what shocked the Saudis. Not the Iranian attack itself. The UAE/GCC expected retaliation.. This is Iran. Nobody in the Gulf is naïve about that anymore. The shock came from the American reaction afterwards. You had attacks against Emirati infrastructure. Fujairah was targeted. Multiple waves involving drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles. And Washington’s response was basically:
“Meh. Minor incident. Let’s not escalate.” Minor incident?! For the GCC that was madness. Because what Riyadh, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi suddenly realized was that Trump’s obsession with preserving “The Deal” had apparently reached the point where Gulf energy infrastructure was now considered acceptable collateral damage in the pursuit of his precious negotiations. Everything became:
The deal.
The deal.
The beautiful deal.
The greatest deal.
The mother of all deals. The ultimate “Art of the deal” Or perhaps, more accurately:
The ultimate fart of the deal. Because from the Gulf perspective, this stopped looking like strategy and started looking like desperate political vanity mixed with deadly wishful thinking. Had the GCC been told beforehand:
“Listen, whatever Iran does to you during Project Freedom, America will not retaliate because we do not want to endanger negotiations…” …they would have almost certainly refused participation from the start. The problem was not Project Freedom itself. The problem was discovering midway through the operation that the GCC countries were apparently expected to sit there quietly as punching bags while Washington played negotiation theatrics with Tehran. So the Saudis and Kuwaitis pulled plug! Because the GCC know something US usually forgets: Iran plays the long game. You can freeze enrichment.
Pause enrichment.
Delay enrichment.
Sign ten agreements.
Twenty agreements.
Forty agreements. But if the infrastructure remains…
If the centrifuges remain…
If the IRGC remains…
If the proxy network remains… then eventually the game resumes. There will be another distraction.
Another pandemic.
Another financial crisis.
Another war somewhere else.
Another paralysis in Washington. And while the world is distracted, enrichment quietly resumes again. Ironically, much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile expanded during the pandemic years precisely because global attention was elsewhere. Judging by the reaction to the UAE attacks, the Saudis and Kuwaitis concluded that Trump’s version of deterrence had become: “Please absorb the missiles quietly because I’m trying to write the sequel to “The Fart of the Deal.”