DougH
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This is literally what Trump just told you. The US flew in, built a secret US base, landed 2 C130s ran 35 miles to a distant mountain, rescued a severely injured pilot from the mountain travelling 35 miles back by foot across open plain, while engaged in massive night time fire fight. Tried to take off in 2 c130s that got stuck in airport. Kept battling until more troops came and took them away, then blew up the C130s in air.
Just Loki@LokiJulianus
“The Americans have actually built an entire military base overnight on this random mountain while looking for a guy (he's fine btw).”
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@traveling_truth @shipwreckedcrew In everyday life people use expletives to indicate something is important or that they are serious. This is not funny is the message.
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I hate Trump's message, to be honest. I would never send it myself.
But the critics who think he sent it simply because he's crazy and lacks all self control have learned nothing, and they will be surprised again.
The ability to surprise repeatedly as the most watched and analyzed man alive is impressive, to say the least.
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I think he actually enjoys tormenting the likes of you and your ilk because he knows that kind of stuff sends you right over the edge.
If you had even a modicum of self-control, trolling you would not be so entertaining.
Steven Beschloss@StevenBeschloss
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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@Absolutely_jenn @cheezedawgb @willchamberlain @RonColeman Quite a difference between damaged and unusable.
What impact have the aircraft losses had on capability? None.
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@cheezedawgb @willchamberlain @RonColeman Little damage? 13 American military bases are rendered damaged or unusable, 2.5 billion in radar systems have been blown to bits
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Imagine being the IRGC
You get completely owned for five straight weeks, and then you FINALLY shoot down one plane, and then the US Military just sends in Delta Force, rescues both pilots, and kills a few hundred more of your men because they can
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@JackMurphyRGR For those of you who seem confused: An f 15 generally carries 2 crew members, the pilot and the weapons systems officer. Murphy is only reporting that the wso has been recovered.
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Good news for once.
F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.
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@FoundAMoron Democrats don't care about the debt ever; their point is to distract from the issue. See Republicans spend too! Ball rooms and lobster sound extravagant, thats all they need
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For the trillionth time, the White House ballroom is privately funded.
No matter how bad you want Trump to light taxpayers money on fire the way Democrats do, it isn’t going to come true.
Funny how Democrats ONLY care about debt when Trump’s in office. You were mute 2020-2024.
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Has any U.S. war cost less? One might compare it to the First Barbary War, but that had 50 killed. 100 other casualties, lost the Frigate Philadelphia, which was 17% of our true naval vessels. And we paid $60,000 dollars to ransom American held as prisoners. So no war has cost less. Now what the gain is still to be determined, but likely the end of Iran as a regional power with ICBMs.
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Has any US military action ever racked up so many costs for so few gains?
My latest column:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@FGClubUSA @HansMahncke It is non functional when you go to Ireland?
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@MSsilverside @HansMahncke This talking ppint of "dual citizen" arose from people not having the balls to call or Jews and thier criminals beghavior, there is no legal standing for a dual citizenship in the USA. US citizenship always supersedes. I have a US and Irish passport its sybolic and not functional
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Justice Thomas was the only one who asked the obvious question: what is the common thread among the recognized exceptions to the 14th Amendment, namely diplomats, enemy forces, and Native Americans?
The respondent’s lawyer offered this word-salad answer:
“So, as I just said, all of the exceptions involve situations where that U.S.-born child is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States because that extraterritoriality, the fiction of extraterritoriality, the interaction of another sovereign between the United States’ jurisdiction and that person applies to the child as well as to the parent.”
What she seems to be getting at is that these categories involve some form of competing sovereign allegiance, even when the person is physically present in the United States. That may make sense for diplomats and enemy combatants, but it becomes far more muddled with respect to Native Americans, over whom the U.S. government did exercise jurisdiction. At best, it was a mixed and evolving situation.
And that is precisely the point. There are modern analogues that fit this framework at least as well, if not better. For example, Chinese citizens are subject to legal obligations to the Chinese state, including intelligence cooperation, regardless of where they are in China or anywhere else. Other countries such as South Korea, Singapore, Greece, and Iran maintain strict extraterritorial conscription laws, meaning their citizens remain legally bound to serve even if they were born and live in the United States.
If anything, those cases are cleaner examples of ongoing sovereign obligation than the historical status of Native Americans, who were physically present within the United States and still not fully covered at the time. Unfortunately, none of this was seriously explored during oral argument.
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
None of these people can ever explain to you why "Native American" tribes weren't given US citizenship for being born in the US until 1924. None.
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@IsserSteve @SpencerGuard Why take Kharg island? Just denying the use of it to Iran accomplishes the same result. If you capture the island they will turn off the pipeline at the mainland end and all you have done is deny its use.
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@SpencerGuard This is also why it takes time, even with precision weapons. Literally tens of thousands of dispersed targets, some have to be hit multiple times.
Probably need troops to seize Kharg, take out fortified islands, coastal positions. Suffocate financially, then wait.
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@AstorAaron @JewishWarrior13 The U.S. controls the straight, they can more easily deny tankers transit than Iran can.
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@JewishWarrior13 This is literally surrendering control over the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. Other countries will "get the oil" by paying tribute to Iran, which will enrich it and allow it to rebuild its missile capability. Let's hope this is just designed to cajole Europe into joining the US.
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⭕ WOW!!! CRUSHING WORDS FROM
TRUMP!!! Trump is done with Europe. After the war, there will be major geopolitical changes. “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us…”
Raylan Givens@JewishWarrior13
🚨Trump: “All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT”
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@neoavatara @AstorAaron @JewishWarrior13 Pax Americana is a analogy to Pax Romana. Imagine if Roman provinces refused to allow transit of Roman legions through their territory. States can’t be independent and dependent simultaneously.
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@AstorAaron @JewishWarrior13 It also is giving up on Pax Americana.
MAGA is dead.
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@wretchardthecat Why capture what is essentially the output end of a pipeline? All that gains is the denial of use by Iran. We can achieve that without capturing the island. We can control what goes in and out of Iran by sea.
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As Iran fortifies the beaches, who thinks the US is going to make a combat assault on Kharg Island? Who thinks it's all a feint or misdirection?
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/25/pol…
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@HansMahncke "It's genuinely hard to understand why this is so difficult for people to grasp"
The main point was too hard to argue against so they found something easier.
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It’s genuinely hard to understand why this is so difficult for people to grasp, other than sheer Trump derangement. Trump wasn’t invoking NATO’s legal obligations. He was testing whether European countries that the U.S. has protected for over 80 years would do the bare minimum to help secure global sea lanes, which American taxpayers have also been underwriting for decades at no cost to them. In this case, those sea lanes benefit Europe far more than the U.S. and Europe failed the test.
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan
NATO members are obliged to support one another if attacked, not to join wars of choice. That stipulation was made at the demand of the US, which also insisted that the commitment be territorially limited. “The treaty does not cover the entire world,” said Dean Acheson. “It applies only to the North Atlantic area.” He made clear that this had been the key American condition. “We deliberately avoided any implication that we were undertaking a global military commitment.” The Senate, worried about being dragged into European colonial wars, had threatened to refuse ratification unless the limitations were explicit. As John Foster Dulles put it: “If it were made global in scope, it would not be acceptable to the United States.” Despite all this, the only time that NATO has gone to war was indeed out of area, at the request of the US after 9/11.
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@Stumpjumper88 @NolaDubose @SenTuberville They currently get to play up to four games during redshirt year plus games in the playoffs. So it’s not much of a change and simplifies things
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@NolaDubose @SenTuberville Great point. Stick with 4 years of play. Why change?
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It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have 25-year-old “students” who graduated 3 years ago still playing college football.
My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons. After that, you’re done.
No more of this “COVID free year of eligibility” crap.
OutKick@Outkick
Exclusive: @CoachForGov introduces ‘Student Athlete Act Of 2026’ aimed at curtailing transfer portal chaos. It give athletes five years to play five seasons, while also penalizing a player 1 year for transferring a second time, he tells @OutKickHotMic outkick.com/sports/tommy-t…
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@ImpartWisdom @DanLamothe @CENTCOM Stealth is primarily low detectibility by radar. it doesn’t make the planes invisible visually or to infrared sensors. Much ado about nothing.
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@DanLamothe @CENTCOM What happened to its stealth and counter measures? Not good news but at least the pilot is ok
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In statement, @CENTCOM spokesman Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins says:
"We are aware of reports that a U.S. F-35 aircraft conducted an emergency landing at a regional U.S airbase after flying a combat mission over Iran. The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition. This incident is under investigation."
I asked whether CNN's reporting that it's believed the jet was hit with Iranian fire is true.
Centcom officials decline to say either way.
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@wil_da_beast630 @instapundit The reverse discrimination doesn’t end once the whites become underrepresented in institutions. They architected a system which will perpetuate the discrimination unless dismantled.
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The problem with the idea that only whites can be racist, because only they have institutional power, is that - "morality" aside - it's just clearly not true.
The NAACP has FAR more institutional power than the Klan. So does BLM, for that matter.
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@redsteeze @foster_type Propagandists don't read for comprehension; they filter for an angle they can weave into their narrative.
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I broke down yesterday how this started. It was a Substack post that Molly Jong Fast then highlighted on BlueSky, and then Lincoln Project and Bulwark media just decided to run with, and then it spread to outlets like TMZ.
It's literally a fabricated Slack channel narrative by the same usual suspects.
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I'm not easy to surprise on this stuff but I'm genuinely surprised how far the libs went with this one without even making one phone call or reading one additional tweet. Is this stuff because they are all on Bluesky now?
Alex Christy@alexchristy17
Seth Meyers (with the help of a Jen Psaki clip) joins Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert in not knowing about military surf and turf meals, "They spent $15 million on steak in one month. Who are you? Sterling Cooper Draper and Pryce? If you're gonna eat that much steak, you better have come up with a new campaign for lucky strike. No wonder Hegseth always looks miserable. He's 24/7 meat constipated. That's the face of a man war fighting with his colon." (1/2)
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@TheIllegit Progressives identify or at minimum empathise with revolutionaries. Convicting and incarcerating leftist militants requires running a gauntlet of bias in prosecutors, juries, judges and politicians. We have a two tier system of justice.
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In the epilogue of 'Days of Rage' it catalogs how virtually none of the underground radicals who carried out bombings, cop-killings, bank robberies etc. were still in prison. They nearly all got no sentence, short sentences, paroled. Of few who did get long sentences (18 FALN members), Bill Clinton granted 16 of them clemency at urging of Jimmy Carter. One of the only ones still in prison at the writing of the book (Oscar Lopez Rivera) was pardoned by Obama a year after the book came out.
Mass Under-incarceration is a big problem.
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@MarioNawfal Exceeded whose expectations? They had thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of drones. They have underperformed, the only surprise is their targeting neutrals
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While Iran and Hezbollah exceeded expectations in their capabilities to strike targets accross the Gulf, don't mistake this by thinking they are winning militarily
Below is one explosion in Iran earlier today, and those are happening daily, multiple times a day
Iran is being pummeled, and I don't think they can sustain this much longer
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇨🇳🇮🇷 A Chinese cargo ship trying to pass the Strait of Hormuz suddenly turned around after the vessel in front got hit by an Iranian USV. This is the shit you'd expect to see in movies. Welcome to 2026.
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@NekoOjiSama Along with related narratives of retaliation and cycle of violence. Many media war reports accept as a given that later strikes are retaliation for the opponents strikes, as if war is a conversation.
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I've thought a lot about it, looking at the historical facts and personal experience, I think "blow back" is mostly a BS excuse to blame the US or prerationalize the actions of terrorists.
Hoover Institution The “Blowback” Myth : How Bad History Could Make Bad Policy hoover.org/research/blowb…
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