mysterious mcmuffin
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@PitTalkPodcast1 Fuck um. I just block the little trolls.
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So I’ve recently discovered a fascinating rule on here:
If I post anything pro-America, pro-military, pro-POTUS, or some motivational Marine content?
You are now officially:
• Pedo enthusiast
• Israel loving Zionist
• Baby-killer
• Rapist bodyguard
• fascist bigot
• Regime Lover
Anyone else?

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@PitTalkPodcast1 I'd rather follow you into hell for God and country rather than pay heed to scary label-throwers💪♥️
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@tony00026 @patriot_savvy I've been saying this for 27 years
my oldest daughter IS STILL trying to reason w/ her 5 year old girl
I raised 3 teenage daughters, & it was important to make them think I was crazier than them
wife hated it. guess what? by and large all 3 girls in their 20s still like me🤪
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@PolitiBunny @Caitservative good experiment
shows that lies of the Democrat party carrying savior complexes really just want the power of fraud to be kings♥️
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For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out.
Here's how it went:
1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14.
2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0.
3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5.
It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops.
Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID.
I know you guys knew that already... lol
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To #FairWeatherMAGA:
GO FUCK YOURSELVES.
I didn’t vote for Tucker.
I didn’t vote for Candace.
I didn’t vote for Fuentes.
I didn’t vote for Rogan.
I didn’t vote for a single influencer.
I voted for Trump.
Fair weather MAGA can go fuck themselves.
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@realBobbyLevy yay Columbus, boo deranged statue topplers
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U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST THE I.C.C.
The French judge Nicolas Guillou, who signed the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against PM Netanyahu, says the U.S. sanctions imposed on him have effectively cut him off from everyday life:
“Almost every payment method — they’re all American. Your card suddenly stops working. I can’t order anything on Amazon anymore. I can’t book an Airbnb. All my transactions have been canceled. It’s like a time machine — you’re thrown back into the pre-digital world. You’re on a blacklist, exactly like terrorists and drug dealers.”
Me: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. 🤬 Thank you, President Trump.
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@BasilTheGreat This virus is infecting deep into the soul of Britain. The King, the government, the police, and now private companies are bowing down to Islam.

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@afshineemrani exactly what I was thinking. brilliant analysis
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At first, I was really put off by Trump’s post celebrating Mueller's death. We don’t celebrate death unless it’s someone truly evil like Sinwar, Khamenei, or Hitler. But I trust Trump so much that I took some time to sit quietly and meditate on it. I’ve since changed my mind and I’m siding with him again. Here’s why.
You see, his words weren’t about cheering someone’s death. They came from years of real pain watching what he called a witch hunt destroy innocent lives, drain families’ savings, and rip our country apart. They tried to put him behind bars. Obama and Hillary made up lies to destroy him. In effect, that was yet another attempt at killing him. Good people like General Flynn got crushed while the whole nation stayed divided. When Trump said he was glad Mueller couldn’t hurt innocent people anymore, it was just raw relief—not cruelty. Taking time to reflect showed me the compassion underneath his blunt honesty. He’s always been the guy who stands up for the wrongly attacked.
And for those who disagree with me: just imagine if Robert Mueller had actually succeeded. Kamala or Hillary might be president right now, Obama could be pulling strings behind the scenes, Israel might be destroyed, the Islamists would be even bolder, and Iran would probably already have nuclear weapons. Trump stopped that nightmare from happening. That’s why his straight-from-the-heart reaction makes total sense to me now. He fought hard for all of us, even when it comes out raw and real. I stand with Trump.
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@risingeagleusa good post, rising eagle, well said, just what I was thinking
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READ THE WHOLE THING BEFORE YOU CRY "DISRESPECT"
Has the priesthood ever stopped some evil priests from raping and destroying the lives of innocent children? Hell no.
So don’t come at me with Robert Mueller being some untouchable hero because he had a Purple Heart, fought in Vietnam, or ran the FBI. Those honors don’t erase betrayal, they demand HIGHER standards, not excuses. This man sold out his country, sold his soul to the Establishment swamp that wanted Trump erased, no matter who got hurt.
The same vicious crowd screaming about Trump saying “Good, I’m glad he’s dead” would be throwing parades and popping bottles if Trump died tomorrow. They’ve said it openly for YEARS. Hypocrites to the core.
Mueller’s Russia hoax branded Trump a traitor, convinced millions he stole the election, fueled two sham impeachments, endless court torture, nonstop harassment of his wife and kids, and yes—multiple assassination attempts. Trump and his family lived in hell because of this guy and his ilk. Innocent people? Try the Trumps. They bled for it.
Trump finally said the quiet part out loud on Truth Social: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.” Raw. Honest. After everything they put him through, he owes that man ZERO tears.
I wouldn’t say it. You probably wouldn’t. But we haven’t had our lives, families, and country ripped apart by the same deep-state machine.
Mueller wanted gone. But Trump is still standing. He’s back in the White House, winning—while Mueller’s the one who’s gone.
That’s not cruelty. That’s justice. That’s survival.
Who else feels this way? I want to know what you all think 🇺🇸🔥

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@NatashaMontreal excellent history reminder, I'm glad you made it
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The Crusades were not random wars of aggression. The Crusades were the Eastern Christian response to centuries of Islamic conquest. They were primarily defensive wars.
In early Christianity there were five centers of high authority: Rome, Alexandria, Constantine, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
Each one had a Bishop and administered a large region, both politically and religiously. The origins were Apostolic and the cities were the core seats of Christian authority.
Islam rose out of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s. Almost immediately after consolidating power in Arabia, the Muslim state launched rapid military expansion against its neighbors from 632 onward.
Islam took 3 out of 5 of the Patriarchal Holy Sees (Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in the 7th century. The Crusades were the Eastern counteroffensive.
The Muslims had conquered the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were in Tours, France by 732.
It took over 700 years for the Spaniards to expel the invaders. The Reconquista was a parallel Western front.
The Ottomans laid seige to central Europe for hundreds of years. They took the Balkans and Constantinople fell in 1453.
Vlad Tepes of Wallachia (reimagined in modern times as the horror character Dracula) fought them off heroically for 6 years and drove them out of his principality.
They laid seige on Vienna in 1529 and were expelled from Vienna 160 years later.
Only Rome remained from the original Holy Sees after 1453 when Constantinople fell.
Things you don't learn in school these days.

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Hi there, Rep. Khanna. Retired Army JAG here & current prof of int'l law. And you are way out of your depth.
You should consider sticking to legislating & leaving #LOAC commentary to actual specialists. Like me.
Allow me to explain.
First off, if a power plant is "dual use," then attacking it is, by definition, NOT an "indiscriminate bombing." Here's why.
As DoD Law of War Manual notes, this term is often "used to describe objects that are used by both the armed forces and the civilian population, such as power stations" (pic 1).
The Manual also correctly points out this term has no legal significance. Either something qualifies as a military objective such that directing an attack against it is permitted, or it's a civilian object such that it may not be made the object of attack.
See the problem yet? That's right! If something is "dual-use," it qualifies as a military objective...and directing an attack against a military objective is, by definition, NOT "indiscriminate" (pic 2).
Back to pic 1, the Manual also notes that when attacking "dual-use" objects, "it will be appropriate to consider in applying the principle of proportionality the harm to the civilian population expected to result from the attack on such a military objective."
You might notice I emphasized "proportionality" & "expected" there, and I did so because it's a preview to your next massive error.
Here's what you claim about proportionality in your 🧵:
"Proportionality forbids attacks where expected incidental civilian harm including effects like loss of hospital power, water pumps failing, food spoilage or extreme heat or cold exposure. This is excessive compared to the concrete military gain per Article 51(5)(b)."
We'll get to your selection of source (AP I) later. For now, let's focus on how badly you botched the proportionality rule. To describe what the actual rule is supposed to look like, let's go back to the Manual.
As it observes, personnel engaged in hostilities "must refrain from attacks in which the expected loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, and damage to civilian objects incidental to the attack would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected to be gained" (pic 3).
Now, I added bold text to the "expected" at the beginning & end because this highlights your next mistake. Yes you correctly note expected incidental harm is part of the equation, but you left out "expected" on the military advantage component.
This is a massive error because you need to be able to tell what the expected incidental harm is & the expected (or anticipated) concrete & direct military advantage is for each attack in order to assess whether the former was "excessive in relation to" the latter.
And, do you have any intel indicating what degree of incidental harm AND concrete & direct military advantage is for each attack you purport to be addressing? No, of course you don't.
As such, you're not conducting a legitimate proportionality assessment. Which, is easy if you don't properly articulate law. Hell, you can make pretty much anything seem illegal if you can come up with any bullshit articulation of the legal standard you feel like fabricating.
But we're not allowed to do that in actual practice. And so, you shouldn't either in public discourse, or else you're creating a false impression that potentially lawful conduct is illegal.
And another thing - I noticed you left off the direct part of "concrete & direct military advantage" in your bullshit version of proportionality. That matters because remote harms need not be factored (pic 4). Some prospective harms you mentioned probably are direct enough, but others...not so much.
Finally, I also noticed you claim AP I binds 🇺🇸 "as customary international law." But not all of AP I is customary, which is why I draw from the Manual instead.
I'll finish off with a simple pro tip: stay in your lane. Leave LOAC analysis to @DeptofWar. And actual experts...like me.




Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
(Thread) Indiscriminate bombing of Iran’s power plants would violate core principles of the laws of war rooted in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I which bind the U.S. as customary international law.
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