Keith Bessette

These united states are no longer operating as a republic. They are not united, not one nation, not under god, not indivisible, and don’t provide liberty and justice for all. I’m supposed to pledge allegiance to a flag that stands for this disaster? #FLexit #NHExit #Texit

“Imagine a world where the President takes credit for selecting the Pope, and issues an announcement from the White House ‘Praise be to Allah’ on Easter.” - Rod Sterling

@TheLaurenChen Requiring blacks and Asians to have the same minimum test scores for college admissions

I still can't wrap my head around how the term "racist" is now used to describe: >Not wanting open borders >Being able to understand statistics >Wanting to stop crime >Believing fraud is bad >Supporting voter ID Am I missing anything else?

@KillmerCj Where’s another USS Liberty when Israel and the President need one?

Odds of either a deliberately-provoked or false-flag naval incident are currently escalating. Remember 2 things: Most major American overseas wars have been precipitated by questionable naval incidents, & the Office of Naval Intelligence is America’s oldest intelligence agency.

South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!

Evidently evolution will take care of the US White Liberal problem if we are simply patient.

@EricLDaugh Apparently Iran told JD Vance to fuck off, so he had a hissy fit and stomped out. America needed someone who could accept the situation and negotiate, not a Trump sycophant party line yes-man.

🚨 JD Vance just WALKED OUT of the room with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at his side Vance is now headed home to America from Islamabad, Pakistan Iran is totally defeated. America has all the cards, and JD did NOT cave to their demands. 🇺🇸

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries. So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it. Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening. Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room. But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days. What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are. Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it. That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds. And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes. What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees. I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

@vm01070725 @MonwabisiKete @elonmusk Please see my comment above to explain @vm01070725.

@BessetteKeith @MonwabisiKete @elonmusk He employs a lot of people, that's true, but he also earn from this. That's no philanthropy. It's business. If those people don't perform or he doesn't earn from their work, he fires them and that's how businesses works. If you don't get the difference you sure have some problem

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Unfortunately for the "nuclear threat" argument Iran was NOT any threat to the US, had no active nuclear weapons program and had not for decades, and everyone in the US intelligence community knows this. Trump (and Hegseth) either lied or foolishly believed Netanyahu rather than Trump's cabinet and US intelligence, and ignored reality. But now the former Ayatollah is dead. He was the top person stopping the hardliners in Iran from developing nuclear weapons. His more radical son who dislikes the US for everything his dad did, who will now be more open to nuclear weapons development and has less strong religious credentials and beliefs stopping him, is now at the top of the Iran government. His father, mother, sister, and wife were just bombed to death. So he didn't like the US or Israel before and now they killed his family too. And a lot of innocent Iranian civilians are dead, who have nothing to do with this any more than the folks still reading my rant do. What should we expect to happen with that newly created situation? I wonder what Trump would think today if Iran murdered Melania, Trump Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron. And for extra credit killed Jared, Ivana, and Marla with bombs dropped on DC. Then imagine if Trump was top leader of both the government and the national church and could order just about anything and veto just about anything if he wanted to. That's the situation Trump and Netanyahu created in Iran. There was no regime change, just some name changes. The same regime is in power. Stupid. Trump is ludicrously ignorant on the Middle East situation and Iran, and has now created a situation that could easily lead to Iran and perhaps other Middle Eastern nations developing nukes. Expect it now, whereas it would not have happened if Trump was minding his own business and concerned with America first. Trump's legacy will go down in history of starting a foolish and stupid war of choice with no US benefit, which resulted in exposing the lie that the US military bases in the Persian Gulf nations can protect them against anything, that the US Navy rules everywhere all the time, and that Iran is a pushover. Not everyone recognizes this yet, but I expect most or all of you will eventually see what is happening or later will understand what was done.

@mosekhu @MonwabisiKete @elonmusk See my previous comment to explain Daring Peach.

@BessetteKeith @MonwabisiKete @elonmusk Spoken like a true idiot, do you think he employed them to make their lives better? Psshhh

@DeTocqueville14 The decay of a muon.

@MonwabisiKete @elonmusk Tesla has 125,336 employees. SpaceX and Starlink have 13,000+ employees. Only an economic moron believes providing jobs for 137,000 people benefits no one.

@elonmusk 🧐

Starlink is the second largest ISP in Nigeria. It is active in Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone. However, in racist South Africa, Starlink is not allowed to operate - because Elon Musk is not black. Apartheid didn't end - it switched colors.

@JasonBassler1 @glangley NOTICE: Flock cameras have 2 lbs of copper inside. Pass it around.

Someone from Flock needs to explain why Flock’s VP Bob Carter and manger Randy Gluck were spying on children in a gymnastic room, pool, fitness center and the preschool daycare on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. That's a violation of your own policies. Care to comment @glangley?

TRUST THE PLAN: Trump Gives Netanyahu His First First Born Son

@NH_Ancap Windmills marginally work in the Tradewinds, sort of. Utility scale solar panels work in my area of South Florida, sort of, but the nearby nuclear plant is cheaper and more reliable. It isn't hard to figure out that NH has less sun than Florida and is not in the trade wind belt.

NH needs to leave ISO-NE. Why are we tying ourselves to a bunch of retarded windmill cultists?

@StefanMolyneux Zero minutes. It would not have started.

Without looking it up, how long do you think World War I would have lasted it governments were not allowed to print or borrow money? It killed 22 million people, what would the death count have been without borrowing and printing?

I’m crying

@EricBrakey @TuckerCarlson Tim Young asks "Can someone explain this to me?" Sure. Some people are curious if Tucker Carlson would have a higher rating as President today than Trump has. I'd say "Yes" for several reasons, including that Tucker is intelligent enough to have not started a war with Iran.

Hold on — Doesn’t +7% favorability among Republicans still mean a MAJORITY of Republicans support @TuckerCarlson while he is challenging recent decisions by the Republican President? It seems like that is the real story.