ThirdOrderThinker

I took one AP wire story about the Iran war and found 6 manipulation techniques inside it. Not opinions. Named, documented techniques. This is how the news is built. Technique 1: Conclusion Laundering. The headline read "Trump Knocked Back on His Political Heels." That is not a fact. That is a verdict dressed up as a news observation. The manipulation started before you read a single word of the article.

@awstar11 Cerno has some of the best and alternatively some of the worst takes I've ever seen. Any given day he spits something laughably untrue.

I almost want them to run so that there can be indisputable proof of what people really think of them

@NizMhani A "court" that neither the US nor Israel are a part of.

🚨BREAKING Germany announces it is withdrawing its defence of Israel at the International Court of Justice genocide trial. In 2024 Germany intervened, claiming the allegations were "baseless & politisised". Today, the pro Israel position has become untenable & indefensible.

@ggreenwald @YinYang18175500 Weak reply.

@YinYang18175500 You support Buchenwald.

If Biden or Kamala had won, and started a serious war with Iran, and asked Congress for $200 billion in the first 3 weeks, every single MAGA influencer would be calling them warmongers and demanding impeachment. Neocons would be happy, but the MAGA influencers would be enraged.

@ggreenwald No they wouldn't. They'd be wondering what happened, that Kamala would actually do the right and sane thing?

@Jamie_TXS @stem87448 @brithume probably both.

@stem87448 @brithume Are you intentionally cruel or just stupid?

"If the United States can hold firm for the next few weeks, it can fully degrade Iran’s war-making apparatus. This would usher in a multiyear interval of calm of the kind that neither sanctions nor diplomacy has been able to produce in..four decades." nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…

Nope. Nothing less than regime change from those homicidal maniacs. Paraphrasing the headline "We can now safely kick this genocidal death cult's apocalyptic threats down the road for another decade or so...before we'll have to do all of this again and after they've murdered another few hundred thousand of their own citizens and people all over the world. Isn't that great?!?

@drbigbeef @txtiger1 @theblaze Quit alerting everyone to your idiotic ideas...we already get that you're a moron!

@txtiger1 @theblaze

Damning study of over a million kids finds myocarditis only in the vaccinated dlvr.it/TRb0dz

No arrests have been made yet, so today another video on cash for Ballots is coming from @anthonyjrubin

@DanBurmawy Excellent example. Never thought about it like that, but it's absolutely a similar description for Islam. The One Ring cannot be lived with or tamed. It must be destroyed.

Islam in the West is the ring of power in The Lord of the Rings. Everyone thinks they can handle it. They think they can use it, moderate it, integrate it, tame it, or negotiate with it. The Ring serves only one master, and it is not the one wearing it. As long as the West thinks it can use Islam, Islam ends up using the West. Just like the Ring amplifies the worst impulses of the one who carries it, Islam reshapes whatever institution allows it inside: Human-rights language becomes a shield for illiberal politics. Free-speech norms become a platform for anti-free-speech doctrines. Religious liberty becomes legal cover for parallel legal systems. Democracy becomes a staircase to end democracy. This is the rule of the Ring: Whoever tries to wield it eventually becomes its servant. Even the well-intentioned fall. Especially the well-intentioned. The West keeps trying different strategies: "Support moderates, integrate communities, counter the extremists, not the ideology, dialogue will soften them, maybe they don’t really mean what they say, economic uplift will change their worldview, second and third generations will modernize." Every one of these is the Council of Elrond arguing that maybe someone, somewhere, might use the Ring differently. But Tolkien’s world and Islam world share the same truth: You can't reform an object built for domination. You can't tame an ideology constructed for supremacy. The Ring can't be debated, reasoned with, or negotiated into moderation. It was forged for one purpose, and it retains that purpose regardless of who wears it. Islam is the same. The only way to destroy the Ring is to take it back to the place where it was forged, the fires of Mount Doom, and burn it in its original source. The same is true for Islam: You can't defeat it with counterterrorism alone. You can't defeat it with border policy alone. You can't defeat it with intelligence operations alone. You can't defeat it through elections, speeches, or interfaith dinners. You must go to its Mordor, its theology, its texts, its jurisprudence, its political creed, its doctrinal foundations, and you must burn it there. Confront the doctrine of jihad. Expose the political blueprint. Discredit the historical narrative. Challenge the legal theory that divides humanity. Break the ideological architecture. Expose it's master. Only then does the Ring lose its power. Everything else is delay. The danger is not in extremism. The danger is in believing you can harness extremism for your benefit. Like the Ring, Islam corrupts even those who oppose it. It drags the center toward its worldview. It forces institutions to accommodate its demands. It shapes the political discourse through intimidation, guilt, or demographic leverage. The Ring does not want to be hidden. It wants to be worn. Islam does not want to coexist. It wants to rule. There is no path to victory that avoids the mountain. There is no shortcut around theology. There is no peace purchased through appeasement. There is no safety in pretending the ideology is harmless. There is no future if you refuse to confront the source of the problem. The West keeps walking in circles around Mount Doom, hoping for an easier route. But there isn’t one. If you want to destroy the Ring, you must go to Mordor. If you want to combat Islam, you must confront its theology. That is the fire in which the ideology was forged. And that is the only fire in which it can be destroyed.

@SamanthaTaghoy She's either evil or a coward

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that legalising DIY abortions up to the point of birth is “legally, morally, and practically complex”. It isn’t ‘complex’. It’s WRONG. Killing a 39 week old baby is morally indefensible. No Christian should find that hard to say.

Asmongold reacts to California daycare expose by Nick Shirley. "How every single American isn't up in arms, and calling to have a ...reckoning with this immediately is outrageous to me." I'm hoping this gets out there more thanks to Asmongold.

@Oilfield_Rando @HistoryBoomer No, they keep going with the logical fallacies...it soothes them.

@HistoryBoomer “Immigrant murdered this person” “Well, they were more likely to be murdered by a US-born citizen” “But they were murdered by an immigrant” “Well if we had more immigrants we’d have a lower murder rate” “But this person is still murdered by an immigrant” Do they not see it?

For the statistically illiterate. A million people in a state with 50 murders every year, your murder rate is 50 per million. Add a million immigrants who do 1 murder a year, total murders goes up to 51, but that's among TWO million people. Your rate is 25.5 per million. The number of murders goes up, but each person in the city is actually safer. More murders does not automatically mean more danger. Population size matters. If we kidnapped the entire population of Japan and brought them to America, our number of murders would go up (Japanese people commit about 250 murders a year), but we'd become a much safer country (the Japanese murder RATE is far lower). Oilfield Rando's argument (more murders automatically means more danger) is bad math.

@HistoryBoomer No, your "math" is wrong. Adding 250 murders in a year, regardless of the total population, would inarguably make it less safe than the lower population with 250 less murders. Per capita isn't a factor in that (your) particular statement.

@TonyLaneNV what a fucking MORON of a driver...low IQ can't even figure out what to do???

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: In England, a man jumps out of an Uber… gets attacked and stabbed… then fights his way back into the car, telling the driver to GO. That’s how fast it turned into a life-or-death situation. Have you ever been to England? Thoughts? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

John Solomon reports U.S. intel covered up China hacking voter rolls. A Chinese state-owned firm still controls U.S. election software. Posts on Weibo show them bragging about controlling systems in Detroit and D.C. @TulsiGabbard @HarmeetKDhillon @dbongino Who do I contact to push for a formal investigation?

x.com/JamesOKeefeIII… 🚨 HOLY CRAP. James O’Keefe went undercover as a Homeless Man and has ON CAMERA the Homeless Population being paid CASH for Ballots - James O’Keefe’s team posed as homeless on LA’s Skid Row and recorded 28 separate instances of paid petitioners handing out cash ($2–$10 per signature), cigarettes, and marijuana in direct exchange for signing voter registration forms and election petitions — a clear state and federal felony. - Petition circulators openly admitted they are paid per signature and can earn $1,000+ in a single day; one bragged, “$7 a signature, $5 a signature, $10 a signature.” - Homeless individuals were repeatedly told to use fake addresses (“You can just put Pinocchio Lane” / “Oh, you can just fake an address”) and many had zero understanding of what they were signing. - Petitions included radical measures funded by Uber, Delta, United Airlines, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association — such as a 5% “one-time tax on billionaires for healthcare” and overturning LA’s $30 minimum wage for hotel/airline workers. - Taxpayer-funded Weingart Center (CEO previously earned $432,000) employees actively directed homeless residents to the bribe-paying petitioners and coached plausible deniability: “See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea.’” - The activity violates 52 U.S. Code §10307 (federal) and California Election Code §18603 (state); identical crimes led to arrests on Skid Row in 2016 and felony charges in 2019 — yet LAPD officers on scene shrugged it off as “a civil lawsuit.” This is documented proof of widespread election fraud in California!

“Ya know, I ain’t dyin’ for Israel so maybe we do need an open border, some DEI, trans kids, and an assault weapons ban after all.”

There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."   This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.   As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.   This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.   Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.   Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage.   The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons.   The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country.   But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal.   President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.   All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury. The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments. And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon. As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period. America First.