Deep State Stuff & Things

Wow. This new release from Chuck Grassley on the Clinton Foundation is a staggering 91 page treasure trove. I just skimmed it, and it is all there, Uranium One, Russia, Boeing, Haiti, Hillary’s brother, and all the other stuff. And the FBI did not even open a full investigation, whereas with Trump they had one false tip about barroom gossip from three months earlier and they immediately launched a full enterprise investigation. Absolute travesty that Comey, Strzok, Atkinson (who shows up here as well), and others have not been held to account.

@RichardHaass You are a fool. Poster child for 47 years of failed policies of appeasement

We should take Iran up on its proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Both Iran & the US need an open Strait, & to link opening it to resolving the complex, contentious nuclear issue risks plunging the world economy into depression. open.substack.com/pub/richardhaa…

This is 100% true. I was there when it happened. Yassir Arafat was offered 97% of the land and he turned it down. Hamas, the PLO, and Iran didn’t want peace then, and they don’t want it now.

🚨NYC SOCIALIST GRIFTER ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S FAMILY JUST GOT CAUGHT IN A MASSIVE “FREE GROCERY STORE” SCAM RAKING IN MILLIONS WHILE PRETENDING TO HELP THE POOR! Follow @UnmaskTheSys His brother Eli Mohammed Mamdani buys condemned, falling-apart buildings from the city for literal pennies on the dollar… then immediately flips them right back to the city at full market value for the “free grocery” program. Then they hire their cousin Rufus Theodore Mamdani’s construction company to “fix them up” — pocketing as much as $5 MILLION PER STORE for the entire Mamdani crime family. That’s how communism works, folks — the elites preach “equity” while their own bloodline gets filthy rich off taxpayer-funded scams. The watchdog group just blew the whole rotten operation wide open. Share this everywhere before they try to bury it! Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.

🔸وزیر خارجه آمریکا یک بار دیگه نشون داد جوری سیستم شیعه را می‌شناسه که انگار مبانیِ فقه امامیه را سر کلاس شیخ انصاری و صاحب جواهر مطالعه کرده و درسِ خارجِ فقه را در محضر آیت الله صافی گلپایگانی به اتمام رسونده. 🔺مارکو روبیو: در ایران تندرو و میانه‌رو نداریم. همه تندرو هستند. فقط یک گروه از تندروها می‌فهمند مردم نیاز به اقتصاد و غذا دارند و گروه دیگه‌ی تندروها تفکر آخر الزمانی دارد. و متأسفانه آن گروهی که تفکر آخر الزمانی دارد حرف آخر را می‌زند.

In 1999, David Phillips bought 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and turned them into 1.25 million free airline miles. Adam Sandler later made a movie about it. He was a 35-year-old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in. Double the miles if you sent them in by May 31. Three weeks away. Phillips ran the math nobody else did. The cheapest qualifying product was Healthy Choice individual pudding cups at Grocery Outlet. 25 cents each. That meant $2.50 of pudding bought 1,000 airline miles. The airlines themselves valued those miles at $20. He drove a van across California with his mother-in-law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around Sacramento, and stacked 12,150 pudding cups from his garage to his living room. When cashiers got suspicious, he told them he was stocking up for Y2K. There was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone before the deadline. So he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade. He'd donate every cup if their volunteers peeled the labels first. They agreed. Phillips kept the barcodes. The Salvation Army fed people with $3,000 worth of pudding. And he claimed an $815 federal tax deduction on the donation. He mailed the barcodes by May 31 and waited. Two months of silence. His friends told him corporations always renege on these promotions. His own kids asked if he got scammed. Then a giant package arrived. Paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles. Lifetime AAdvantage Gold status at American Airlines. $150,000 worth of flights. The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000. The London Times followed a week later. Paul Thomas Anderson read the coverage and built Punch Drunk Love around him in 2002. Phillips paid for his movie ticket with pudding. Over the next five years he flew his entire family to 43 countries. Net cost after the tax write-off: $2,325. That's $54 per country.

Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem… But the data say something very different. Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger. Not your grocery bag in Colorado. Not your straw in D.C. A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage. The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream. Because if you solve it quickly and directly… there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”

Incredible. Pope Leo marched with the Communist Party against America countering USSR nukes with nuclear weapons of our own stationed in Italy. Just as he wanted to protect the USSR's nukes then, he has no problem with Iran having them now. Or at least, @Pontifex has not specifically demanded Iran give up its nuke program.

Why didn't they arrest Comey when they indicted him? In fact, why didn't they arrest anyone in over a year? For ten years, we have been told justice is coming. When???

@sethjlevy Kind of last 2 weeks but historically unique and potentially treacherous

@CapCube I mean that has been the recent way it’s gone. No?

Crash at the open. Midday announcement of a ceasefire extension and scheduled meeting to consummate deal. Markets close in positive territory.

@sethjlevy We cannot prosecute war by stock market. We either win a war or we don't. No way in between.

The Pentagon’s lead official for the “Golden Dome” missile-defense project on the importance of Israel for protecting the American homeland.

.@JMilei: “When you tell a socialist the truth, they cry, claiming it's hate speech. No, it's not hate speech. It's that YOU ARE USELESS PEOPLE who have ruined the planet.”

🚨 MB Ghalibaf, Iran’s Parliament Speaker and head of negotiating delegation: 🔸We are not stronger than the United States in military power, that is basic math; it is clear that they have more money, equipment, and resources, and because they have invaded many countries and committed crimes around the world, they have more experience than us. 🔸The Zionist regime, which is the servant and agent of the U.S. in the region, also possesses great power. 🔸Sometimes we hear our dear people say that we destroyed them! We did not destroy them. 🔸But we are the winners on the battlefield in this war. Certainly, equipment, resources, and money are effective in war and victory, but it is not always the case. We fought an asymmetric war in such a way that, through our own planning and preparedness, we repelled the enemy. 🔸The enemy had money and resources but did not act with proper planning. They make strategic mistakes; they err in understanding our people just as they do in their military planning. 🔸The U.S. government claims that America comes first, but in practice, it has shown that Israel comes first because it makes decisions based on Israel’s misinformation. 🔸Sometimes I hear from our dear citizens and even national media that we have destroyed all their military power, so we should advance and destroy the rest and not negotiate. Here we need to pay attention: we have an advantage on the battlefield, and that is why Trump is requesting a ceasefire. ▫️ @mb_ghalibaf

@neontaster Stupid take. Trump has his victory. He doesnt need a deal to declare victory. The facts on the ground have already done that. Iran refusing to admit defeat doesnt change the reality that they have been defeated.

First observation: there will be no deal. The ceasefire will end & the war will re-commence. Second observation: the US has been flooding the Theater with reinforcements, resupplies & performing maintenance on air assets non-stop, & re-arming warships. The force is ready & its larger than its ever been. Third observation: every key player left in the regime surfaced from their hide holes & safe houses during this ceasefire. The regime ‘negotiation’ team sent to stall America. The IRGC thugs who showed up in Islamabad to stop the Iranian Regime delegation from making any deals. The midlevel staffers going between the IRGC thug leadership & the IRGC cannon fodder still shooting at ships. All of them broke cover & came back up on the grid. From that point on, they were visible to the human intelligence networks watching them, the persistent ISR assets watching 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without pause— spy satellites, stealth & non stealth drones, manned reconnaissance aircraft. From the moment this ceasefire started, everyone who is a key player in Iran’s continued resistance came back on the grid & have been surveilled ever since. The intelligence mosaic is fully fleshed out & these targets are being tracked in real time, and the strike plans created with the help of AI are already set & planned. When the ceasefire ends, the strikes will be begin with such rapid speed, & precision it will be much more savage & fearsome than the first round. Fourth observation: Iran received drones, SAM missile systems & radars & intelligence from China during this ceasefire & this is still ongoing. This is what’s driving the remnants of the IRGC to continue the war. They do not fully comprehend what is set to take place, or how completely unable to counter it or survive it they are. That’s partly due to history, partly due to institutional arrogance of IRGC, & partly & most importantly because China & Russia simply do not understand our full capabilities— in terms of intelligence collection, planning, speed we can act on those things, & how good our situational awareness of the battlefield is. That last one is the key: the disconnect— how clear & complete our granular picture all the way up to the grand strategic picture is, compared to how blinded & how fragmented the situational awareness of the Iranians is. That last part is what really, really scares Russia & China— the vast gap in cognitive capabilities & situational awareness capabilites between the US & them scares them because its a gap they cant bridge, & beyond that the speed we can act on that clear picture is something they cant match. This war is going to restart after the ceasefire ends, & all hell is going to break loose— & the ferocity of what comes next is going to genuinely surprise the IRGC fanatics driving events in this direction.

!!Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor intentionally delayed the landmark Dobbs decision for months by slow-walking their dissent, even as the left engaged in violent protests, assassination attempts, and daily protests against Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett and their families.

@FaceTheNation @sethjlevy Hochstein is a Kapo

Former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer’s Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, because “we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term.” “We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well," he says.