Steve Powell

@HansMahncke Leftists have turned whining into an art form. It is as predictable as the sun rising in the east. It is also as trite, tiresome, and uninformed as a 2 year old crying for candy. The proper adult response is to simply say no, explain why, and hope they will grow up with time.

Just guessing none of those asking others to line up will be joining them when it comes time. Take a good, long, hard look at the “heroic” Muslim warriors cowering behind women and children. First deride and laugh at them. Then eradicate them from the face and bowels of the earth.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran is now forming HUMAN CHAINS in front of a power plant in Kazerun in a bid to dissuade President Trump’s strikes come 8PM They even invited children to attend. This is evil and disgusting. Iran views their people as meat shields!

@laralogan A total doofus who made Jimmy Carter look decisive.

They also shut down Special Operations missions against Iran - ask the guys who were in at the time. I have spoken to several who described being told to stand down because of the policy shift under Obama.

@mazemoore He has fewer brain cells than a gnat.

2017. During a sham hearing for the Russia Collusion hoax, Eric Swalwell (fresh out of a romance with a Chinese spy) asks Comey if the Russians use romance to compromise people.🤡 Clown world.

A fever dream

Mere technicality. The US knew declaring war on Japan meant war with Germany. If you don’t know the meaning of the common terms you asked about look it up. The PRL was the common usage for the Polska Rzeczpospolita Luwoda or Polish People’s Republic in English. Yes, the Soviet economy was failing but it was failing because the Soviets tried to fund a military equal to the US and went broke in the process. Again think globally. Some Soviet lackey named Wojciech Jaruzelski who held various head of the PZPR, Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence. Not sure why you think I need to know that. He enforced the ‘81 Martial Law. I guess that’s an important fact if your global perception ends at the Polish border. This will be my last conversation with you. It has been interesting but futile since you have such a limited world view based on so few facts. This post contained none but a lot of irrelevant minutiae. Good luck.

@jspowell @johnkonrad You talk "global thinking" but fail basic history. Your Google homework: Who declared war first: US or Germany? What is a "sphere of influence" & Containment? What was PRL, why wasn't it the Soviet economy & who enforced the '81 Martial Law? Good day.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy … a pound of sliced turkey in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store-made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? 🙄😂

BREAKING: USS Abraham Lincoln miraculously still floating despite being sunk by Iran’s AI weapons over 100 times

Hossein Yekta of the islamic regime: "We are getting closer to Khaibar (genocide of Jews). We will enter Jerusalem and carry out a massacre. Mothers and fathers, bring your children to (basiji checkpoints), don't you want your son to be a man?" Insanity.

In 1959, Castro promised to redistribute Cuba's wealth and create equality for all. Sound familiar? Every socialist revolution starts with the same seductive lie about leveling the playing field. What Castro actually delivered: mass exodus of Cuba's most productive citizens, chronic shortages of basic goods, and a ruling elite that hoarded resources while everyone else stood in breadlines. The average Cuban wage today? $25 per month. Redistribution never creates wealth. It destroys the incentive structures that generate prosperity in the first place. You cannot make the poor rich by making the rich poor.

One year ago, I closed the $4 million Biden EPA museum that almost no one ever visited or even knew existed. RIP🪦   In total last year, at the Trump EPA where the annual operating budget is ~$10 billion, our team achieved $30 BILLION in savings by canceling grants and media contracts, consolidating real estate, reducing staff size, and cutting costs in many other key ways.

@GordonGChang Here is their response. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

I’m waiting for those who have been so eager to accuse Prez Trump of “war crimes” to condemn the IRGC for the war crime of calling on Iranians to form human chains around generating stations, which are, after all, legitimate targets.

@CGasparino Exactly!

Did Iran commit war crimes when it financed Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre? Or attacks civilians in Israel? Or when it hung innocent civilians? Thats the question that needs to be asked (but it won’t be) by Dems and their media enablers throwing around this “war crime” nonsense at Trump

Have a think about that. Cheater Demrats.

Democrats are against his war only because Donald Trump is leading it. He’s literally carrying out what Hillary Clinton said America should do. She even says we should “obliterate” their nuclear program!