Lefty Paingood

Former car dealer here. 47 years of desking deals. Guiding the negotiatons. Tens of thousands of negotiatons. One at a time. They're all different, and the same, at once. One thing you come to learn is it's never over. If it must be done in phases, it's done in phases. The winning begins when the SIGNING begins, even if it's a ridiculous, unacceptable offer. There is immense, negotiation-defining POWER, of the psychological kind, in getting a SIGNATURE on paper. Get it, and you've simultaneously confirmed, and weakened the opposition's position, and you begin another phase. "Sign 'em up". If there is anyone who will eventually pay us what we need, it's that person that was willing to take the pen, and sign an offer. Trump understands this. Yes, the IRGC retains the ability to close the strait, but has given up all the other chips they swore they never would give up. And THE PEOPLE of Iran will soon smell this weakness too. You think you're disappointed, how do you think the disciples of the IRGC feel? In time, they all will begin to dwell on what the IRGC have given up. And what they've retained isn't worth as much as they once thought. Sure, the IRGC doesn't ever abide by any agreement, but it won't matter, if they are no longer in power. They will be seen as weak by everyone that matters. The final phase is coming. It's next. Patience, people. It had to be done this way if troops were not to be put in danger. And that's so obviously one of Trump's main goals. It's the art of the deal. It's pure negotiating genius. Not really, he's just following the rules. Coldly, confidently. I may be one of the only ones, but I'm not worried.

This.

Who controls USPS? What can he order the USPS to do? Are ballots trackable from the point of mailing to the point of delivery? Would USPS keep a record of when it received a ballot? A verifiable record? Why is this relevant? What is the claim advanced by California officials? "All ballots **mailed/postmarked on or before Election Day can be legally counted!" What happens when you can PROVE most of these ballots were **not mailed** or **not postmarked** by Election Day?

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington found its counter to Iran's $24 billion demand: spend the frozen money on the countries Iran keeps hitting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has ordered officials to tally the damage Gulf partners have suffered from Iranian attacks and price out repair and recovery costs, as the administration weighs using frozen Iranian assets to compensate for past and future damage linked to Tehran. Think through what that does. Iran says the entire deal hinges on getting its $24 billion back. Treasury's answer is to start metering that pot out to Kuwait and Bahrain, so every missile Tehran fires at its neighbors now drains its own recoverable fortune. The airport terminal, the casualties, the repairs, it all gets billed to Iran's account. Source: Reuters

Let me give this a shot. First, @USAttyEssayli I do not believe you. Or anyone else in California politics, law or justice. Because you all know exactly how California voter fraud is done. This is a silly game of pretending. You are pretending not to know. I'll explain it again. All of you know: Former Attorney General Eric Holder was hired by California govt to advise on the election changes created by linking DMV database to Secretary of State database. The tech team that wrote the code to link the DMV and SOS were given specific instructions. The affirmative flag, the checkbox in the DMV system that says the applicant is legally eligible to vote, was neutralized. Meaning, if the checkbox is left blank, the computer system accepts the application from the DMV as affirmative. The DL applicant data is transferred to the SoS office, and the applicant is registered to vote. Illegal Aliens, unlawful migrants, were allowed to get California Driver's Licenses and State IDs. The Motor-Voter process now registers those drivers and ID recipients as legal voters and ballots are created. Those illegal ballots form the core of the voter fraud in California and were first used in the November 2018 midterm election as the beta test for national rollout. Not a single person in Sacramento politics doesn't know this. All of you are aware. All you have to do is go check and you will see. The fraud is impossible to prosecute. The fraud is built into the system. Go look. Everyone knows. Again. I don't believe you.

I was today years old when I found out Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is gay and “married” to another man. That’s the thing about President Trump—he hires gays, but the administration doesn’t shove it in our faces like some glass ceiling is being shattered every five seconds. It’s not the focus, so like more than half the population doesn’t even know someone’s sexuality, and that person is just judged on their merits and performance instead of whom they’re attracted to. Not so with the left.

They keep treating this like a local political fight that can be contained with better messaging and more police. What’s actually happening is bigger than that, and it’s already moving past their ability to manage it. Across Europe, Britain, and Ireland, you’re seeing American flags and MAGA symbols at marches that have nothing to do with American elections. That isn’t coincidence or branding. It’s recognition. People on the other side of the ocean are reaching for the same founding spirit that once broke the grip of corrupt European courts and built something new on this continent. The culture that was deliberately dismantled over the last century by ideological imports is reasserting itself, not as nostalgia, but as the only remaining source of meaning strong enough to push back against managed decline. This isn’t a swing of the pendulum. It’s a civilizational retrenchment. The same moral seriousness that once turned ordinary labor into a calling, turned scholarship into a duty, and treated time as something sacred is waking up again in the generation that was supposed to be the most lost. They’re not asking for reforms inside the current system. They’re remembering there was a different order before this one ... an order built on accountability to something higher than comfort, bureaucracy, or elite consensus. That order left the deepest imprint on the modern world, and it’s surfacing again because nothing else has worked. The next ten to twenty years will not be a continuation of the last fifty. They will be a return to something older and harder, carried by people who have decided they would rather live under that older standard than continue rotting under this one. It’s already in motion. The only question left is how much of the current structure will still be standing when it finishes arriving. (article below)

The great American cities are destroying themselves. Decades of one-party rule; unsustainable spending on non-essentials (pensions, lawsuits); DEI pandering; public sector union dictates; unchecked immigration. LA burns, NYC run by a pro-terror extremist; Chicago loses the Bears.

I’ll admit it—I had a crush on Cindy Crawford growing up in the ’90s, like just about every other guy. She was the definition of elegance and class. Seeing her use that same grace and platform to stand with the Jewish community and speak out against antisemitism somehow makes you admire her even more. Beauty fades, trends change, but character is what lasts. Classy then. Classy now. Thank you for standing with us. 💙✡️🇺🇸

Sending ballots in the mail to people who moved out of California years ago is corrupt. Sending ballots in the mail to people who didn’t request one is corrupt. Sending ballots in the mail to every address someone has lived in for the past 10 years is corrupt. Letting activists sign up mentally unstable people for a ballot by using phony addresses is corrupt. Not letting third party law enforcement officials check the voter rolls is corrupt. Letting one political party control the entire process for decades leads to corruption.

This is absolutely accurate. Keep in mind, all of this California stuff happened after Eric Holder was hired by CA as legal counsel for the network they were creating that linked the Secretary of State office to the DMV offices [Moter Voter]. All of that was predicated on the change that allows CA to give Drivers Licenses to illegal aliens. Ultimately, put the two issues together and that's the source of the ballots. Here's how it works. Illegal Alien gets Driver License. The flag that represents a checkbox on voter eligibility is nulled during transmission to the Secretary of State [Go check, and you will see]. The SoS office gets the voter data file from the DMV and generates a ballot. Those ballots can be mailed, or isolated for alternate completion and use as needed. That's actually how the process works. The fraud is very easy to understand. Go check the system and you will find the evidence. It's not complicated.

𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓 𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐅𝐅𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out exactly how America is bringing the Iranian regime to its knees, and it has nothing to do with another speech at the United Nations. President Trump ordered the Treasury to unleash what Bessent calls a campaign of 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘺, and it is working faster than almost anyone expected. The centerpiece is a naval blockade of Iran’s ports. Bessent explained that 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 — the single terminal that handles roughly 𝟗𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 — has been shut down, with tankers no longer moving in or out. As the storage tanks fill with oil that cannot be sold, Iran will soon be forced to begin shutting in its own fragile wells, a step that can damage them for good. The regime is bleeding an estimated $𝟏𝟕𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲 in lost revenue. Then there is the money Tehran thought it had safely hidden. Bessent revealed that Iran made 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 when it attacked its Gulf neighbors, because those same neighbors — who had quietly sheltered Iranian cash inside their own banking systems — suddenly became 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵, handing over accounts and helping the United States freeze and block the funds. The damage is showing up inside Iran. Bessent reports the regime’s troops are not being paid, the police are not reporting for work, and the currency is in 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥. This is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — the terror machine that arms proxies across the region and hunts dissidents abroad — finally being starved of the cash it runs on. Bessent says Iranian airlines are next. Sanctions that get announced and never enforced are how this regime survived for forty years. A blockade that actually closes the ports and freezes the accounts is how a terror regime finally runs out of money. 𝐓𝐞𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

This is literally the only way they have been able to keep one-party rule at the state level and all the major cities. They're making it so obvious they're about to destroy themselves.

The ballot counting in California will end, once the GOP candidates have been sufficiently bumped into 3rd place. Not a moment sooner.

@RealSKeshel Agreed. I live in California and used to run political campaigns here. I know about the fraud here. The good news here is that Dems in Hollywood who supported Pratt will open their eyes finally to the ballot harvesting fraud. No one cared when only we Republicans were screwed.

Everyone is understandably up in arms about it seeming like the corruption of our elections is never addressed. Let me post in assurance as to why I believe that will change: *Even for the Trump haters out there, no one can make the case that he has abandoned the pledge to end election rigging. This is a cause clearly near and dear to his heart given the outcome of the 2020 quasi election. *I can point to several executive orders since 1/20/25 dealing with this very issue, including some so severe due to lack of action by Congress to fix the issue, that the courts did their activist routine and tossed major portions of them. I wrote about all actions taken by Trump from 1/20/25 through Jan 2026 in my book, and even more has happened since, like March’s EO dealing with the USPS and DHS regarding citizenship verification and mail-in voting. *The California elections are the first major taste of this level of corruption since Trump was reinaugurated. The elections in VA/NJ were trash last year but not many people expected the Dems to lose those race (I thought they would win, but not by 14+ points each). However, Pratt was widely expected to spend the next five months slamming the LA Mayor up and down and drawing major attention, funding, and support. Now that is about to go in the trash and the state of CA has nothing to do but say “WE WILL COUNT EVERY VOTE.” *The public demand to fix this problem and the mockery that will come with it (toward the states that run elections this way) will result in the first major knot jerked in this machine - when the Supreme Court disallows the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots in every state. It is quite clear this will happen given the comments of all six Republican-appointed Justices in hearings for Watson v. Republican National Committee a couple months ago. *Elections are the modern day replacement for putting your opponents to the sword. No one thought it would be easy to undo the system, and in order to get the demand to do it, you have to suffer under it. California is ensuring this practice is laughed out of existence, because right now, none of these lapdogs are getting tractions with their defenses of this practice and the rest of the world is mocking them with furor. *The biggest reason why “nothing is happening” boils down to the above and the fact that states running rigged elections are relying on the Elections Clause of the Constitution to justify their laws, when in fact the Federal Government is going to have to rely on providing a republican form of government that does not allow one state to disenfranchise another with the severity of their laws. Elections are not stolen, but rather rigged - by the laws they have on the books in the various states, which allow for nearly unlimited ballot counting capacities. The registrations are the root of the corruption of our elections and provide the credit line of the cheat. Hold the line. The time for the criminals of California and other states for honoring themselves will soon be at an end.

White people have been fighting for black people since slavery, and they gave their lives to end slavery when they didn’t even start it. The least I can do is fight for them too. We have to End Racism Against White People Too. Love Beyond Color

I have spent the last decade having to go to DC for work. Most of dc was hard to look at— homelessness everywhere, the city felt like Gotham at night. After blm quite a lot of businesses shuttered and never reopened. Most notably, grass was dead, planters were destroyed and trashed, walkways, cement and stone were all poorly managed. They were dirty, overgrown with weeds, water was dirty and grass was brown patchy and terrible. Now you walk around dc and it’s the exact opposite. Truly the entire city has been revived. Planters restored, grass cut back and filled in. You can walk around at almost any hour without fearing for your life. The memorials which I feel are beautiful at night in particular, are the nicest I’ve ever seen them. No broken fixtures or lights. It’s amazing what can happen when you take care of a city. President Trump has done for DC what Rudy Guiliani did for NYC and Americans should never forget it.

They keep predicting civil war, street riots, and fascism because that’s the only version of backlash they know how to market and the only version they know how to crush with force. What’s actually rising is colder, quieter, and far more lethal to their system. Young men under forty are not showing up with emotional meltdowns and burning cars. They’re showing up with a calm, methodical anger that has decided it is willing to die rather than keep living as managed cattle in a culture that treats meaning, discipline, and the sacred as optional. They watched their inheritance get looted by NGOs, bankers, and professional liars. They watched porn get sold as liberation while two-year-olds get trafficked on an industrial scale and the people in charge looked the other way. They watched every institution that was supposed to give life weight turn into a machine for producing comfort addicts and moral cowards. Now they want their time back. They want work that actually matters instead of fake jobs pushing fake problems. They want a culture that doesn’t treat marriage, children, and excellence like prisons. They want God without having to apologize for it. They want ordinary life to feel holy again instead of just another transaction in the global human farm. The left-wing machine is desperate for this to turn into riots and spectacle because riots are easy to police and easier to lie about. What they’re actually facing is restoration ... a slow, brutal reclamation of the moral seriousness that built this civilization in the first place. That doesn’t require burning cities. It requires millions of men who have simply decided they are done being farmed. And that decision is already made. (article below)

What matters is the trend. If the USN blockade strengthens over time while the Islamic Republic's gradually weakens sooner or later Iran's ultimate weapon will be turned against it and it will be in the Ayatollah's interest to demand a return to free international passage of Hormuz, which the media will doubtless remind us, was their demand all along.

"American forces have counted nearly 1,000 commercial vessel transits in and out of the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months, according to an official familiar with US Central Command operations, a figure that’s higher than private sector estimates that rely mostly on ship transponders." My comment: this has been the perfect two track war. Iran has sunk the USN, blocked Hormuz and won a military victory in the newspaper track. But in physical track the Islamic Republic is not doing so well. gcaptain.com/u-s-counts-far…