Tom Phelan

Trump/Rs should immediately implement an amnesty for all illegals here who do not have a criminal record: you can stay for one year if you maintain a job. If not employed, 6 months to find employ and limited financial benefits (SNAP cards). In both cases, zero voting rights. After 1 year, a 2-year probationary period. If they remain employed and have no criminal history, full citizenship.

Any political act with "dignity" in it is a red flag. Dignity is a NGO concept that started with the UN. The Founders saw dignity as an inherent appetite of man that had to be channeled. The modern usage of "diginity" is all about proactively fulfilling the need for recognition through NGOs and supranational law.

The Dignity Act is mass amnesty and would constitute a terrible betrayal of our voters.

Look, I get it, Dems. You think buying Greenland is dumb. You think trash-talking NATO is dumb. You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb. You think bombing Iran is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it. But that’s not the point. Every administration in American history has done dumb things. Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy. LBJ had Vietnam. Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1. W. had “Mission Accomplished.” Obama had…. where do I even begin? Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions. What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for. That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for. A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency. That’s the new threshold, Democrats. That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible. Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland. But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care. Zero F’s given by me.

@GPAIndiana @grok what incident is she speaking about?

The Whole World Needs to Hear This Story!! 🫵

As bad as Tucker has become, Dave Smith is at the top of this slop mountain. Vacuous and smug. Thinks that "because that's my opinion" and "I read it somewhere" are powerful logical arguments, even and especially when confronted with actual facts presented by people with first-hand knowledge and experiences.

What you see almost endlessly from Tucker Carlson, "Comic" Dave Smith, Theo Von, etc., and the rest of the blackpillers amounts to a Critical America Theory. I'm not making this up. I'm explaining. Critical Theory was developed by neo-Marxist Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School in 1937. In an interview in 1969, Horkheimer explained what the Critical Theory is. He said (closely paraphrasing): "I developed the Critical Theory because we [Western neo-Marxists] realized we cannot articulate the good or ideal society on the terms of the existing society. What we can do is criticize those aspects of the existing society that we wish to change." In other words, a Critical Theory believes everything is so captured and corrupted by power and those who benefit from systems of power that it isn't even possible to talk about a better situation in clear terms. All that's available is criticism of why the system/society isn't better than it is. This activity has come to be known as identifying or "making visible" the various "problematics" in the existing system. A Critical Theory OF SOMETHING would focus this general mode of engagement into a particular domain. For example, a Critical Theory of Race in America would believe that racism is so endemic to a society and embedded within its systems to the benefit of whites that we cannot articulate a true "antiracist" vision on the terms available to us. All we could do is identify where "racism" manifests and criticize it for being there. We call that program "Critical Race Theory" because it is a Critical Theory of Race. What it does in practice is (1) identifies "hidden racism" in everything (criticizing those elements of the existing (racial) system they wish to change), called "identifying problematics"; (2) induces more people to think this way; nothing else. What a Critical America Theory would look like is not being able to articulate what a good or ideal America would look like on the terms of the existing America but criticizing those elements of America as it exists that we wish to change. That is, it would look for everything America isn't doing perfectly according to some ideal standard that doesn't exist, probably cannot exist, and cannot even be articulated and "make those problematics visible" in the hopes of changing the system. Leftists, including the whole of Critical Race Theory, do this endlessly. From Derrick Bell's (founder of CRT) 1970 book, Race, Racism, and American Law, forward, it is a relentless racial Critical America Theory. That's why it exported poorly and often hilariously to other countries that don't have the same law or racial history. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980) is another example, a very naked example, of a work of Critical America Theory. Specifically, this book goes through every chapter of American history, from pre-founding (Christopher Columbus) to the present (1980 at the time) and catalogues how America cheated "the people," mainly workers, indigenous, racial minorities, and women (the intersectional coalition). What I'm telling you is that the blackpillers of Podcastistan and X, etc., very notably including Tucker Carlson, are doing a socially conservative variation on Critical America Theory. Whether Carlson or "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) from The Blaze, the undertone of every message is plainly "you don't hate your (real) country enough" as compared against an imaginary ideal that doesn't, can't, and won't ever exist. The Blackpill Comics all do the same thing, relentlessly identifying "problematics" and alleged hidden systems of control that delegitimize the country as it actually is against a standard that isn't even real. The thing is, Critical America Theory is a Critical Theory of America. That is, it is a Critical Theory. That is, when you participate in this slop, you are taking on a critical consciousness about America. Having a critical consciousness is being WOKE, by definition (of Woke). This slop is Woke. When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially Leftist slant, we call it Woke Left (or just Woke). When this Critical America Theory slop takes on a socially conservative or Rightist slant, we call it Woke Right (which is just Woke too). They are both Woke. They are both toxic. They are both false enlightenment into a kind of terrible darkness, entitlement, malice, despair, hatred, and failure. Reject Critical America Theory. Love your country. It's great, and it's worth it.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@elonmusk Considered engineering in college but chose business instead. Would do anything to go back and change that for an opportunity to work for @elonmusk

Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while

This is not just a memory, it is the life I have lived, and the reason I will never stay silent. In 2006, while working for the US-funded Arabic news network Alhurra, I was sent to Iraq. My work took me deep inside prisons, sitting face to face with jihadists and terrorists, hearing,without filters, the ideology that fuels violence and destruction. Then came the response. Al-Qaeda issued a FATWA against me. Fatwa is a religious decree that branded me an enemy and called for my death by any of their followers. We alerted our office in DC. I was moved into the Green Zone, and two armed bodyguards were assigned to protect me. But I refused to leave. I stayed. I finished the work. Because exposing the truth mattered more than fear. For more than 25 years, I have been confronting this ideology, challenging it, exposing it, and warning the West about its consequences. I know how it spreads. I know how it hides behind narratives. And I know exactly what happens when people choose to ignore it. I did not escape it only to watch it take root in the United States 🇺🇸 I will not be silent. I will not step back. And I will not allow the ideology I fought for decades to be imported into the country that gave me a shelter from these jihadists. @mngop @MPLSGOP @RapidResponse47 @LeoTerrellDOJ @SenTedCruz @SenFettermanPA @SenTomCotton @elonmusk @FBIDirectorKash @SecWar

So far, Nayib Bukele is on track to be the Lee Kuan Yew of Latin America. The Simon Bolivar of the new century. He focused on building up his own country. He embraced hard money and cut off hard drugs. He did imprison criminals, but did so with the minimum necessary force. He persuaded first, and compelled only when absolutely necessary. Like Lee Kuan Yew, Bukele turned his country into a bonafide showcase for a global audience. Bukele built a domestic coalition in his native Spanish and an international coalition in fluent English. He balanced El Salvadoran nationalism with diplomacy and capitalism, recruiting Tether, xAI, Bitcoin, and tech to the country. Incredibly, he’s made El Salvador into a model not just for Latin Americans, but for North Americans. And he did it in less than ten years, with absolutely no precedent in the region.

Please share if you agree that the Senate should not recess until it has (1) fully funded DHS, and (2) passed the SAVE America Act

پست فارسی دوستای عزیزم. باهاتون صحبت مهمی دارم. گرد بشینید لطفا. پرزیدنت دلها، عمویم ترامپ، هرگز قرار نبود برای ما رژیم‌چنج کنه. انقلاب شیر و خورشید رو جوونهای ما تو ۱۸ و ۱۹ دی‌‌ماه آغاز کردند و خودشون هم تمامش میکنند. از مذاکرات ترامپ با رژیم نگران نشید. کار هنوز تموم نشده. عمویم ترامپ گفت که «کمک» در راهه. شاهزاده همیشه گفت ما به یک نیرویی احتیاج داریم که تعادل ایجاد کنه، یک طرف مردم با دست خالی نباشند و یک طرف رژیم با تفنگ جنگی. ترامپ روز اول جنگ، وقتی خبر ساقط کردن خامنه‌ای رو داد، گفت که الان تو خونه بمونید، ساعات آزادیتون نزدیکه، وقتی کار من تموم شد، صحنه در اختیار شماست که سرنوشتتون رو در دست بگیرید. بزرگترین کمکی که ترامپ کرد، رسوا کردن رژیم در دنیا و ایزوله کردن پروپاگانداچی‌هاش بود. بزرگترین حامیان آخوند، که دهه‌ها روی خون مردم ایران پا میگذاشتند برای حفظ منافعشون، عربها، الان بزرگترین دشمنانشند. دیگه فقط اسراییل نیست. رژیم برای چین و روسیه، دیگه تبدیل به دردسر شده و نفعی نداره. رژیم الان یک ساختاریه که موریانه خوردتش، تمام زنجیره‌های تصمیم‌گیری و اجرا، سوراخ سوراخ شده. قدرت و توان رژیم برای سرکوب، با حضور برادران موسی در هوا، قابل قیاس با دی‌ماه نیست. از طرفی، شاهزاده همیشه گفته که با تمام مقامات اجرایی داخل رژیم که دستشون در خون نباشه، به شرط فاصله گرفتن از رژیم، مایل به همکاریه. به غیر از این هم نمیشه. سناریویی که تو عراق پیاده شد، بعثی‌زدایی، وقتی که کامل ساختار متلاشی شد، خلا قدرت و هرج و مرجی به بار آورد که شد آغاز مشکلات جدید. نیازی نیست همه چی رو بکوبیم و از نو بسازیم، کافیه که ایدئولوژی زدوده بشه از ساختار، و طبیعتا نهادهایی مثل سپاه که بناشون ایدئولوژی بوده کامل منهدم بشه. پرزیدنت ترامپ برای ما زحمات بسیاری کشید، ولی قدرت بی‌نهایت نداره و تقریبا با تمام دنیا در افتاد برای کمک به ما. کمکش رو انجام میده، اورانیوم غنی‌شده رو از دست رژیم میگیره، احتمالا موقتا جزایر جنوبی رو تحت کنترل میگیره، با یه نفر تو سیستم دیل میکنه و جنگ رو تمام میکنه. با به دست گرفتن کنترل جزیره خارک، رژیم دیگه نمتونه درامد داشته باشه، با گرفتن هرمز و جزیره‌های نزدیک تنگه هم، چاقو رو از جلو دست بچه برمیداره که کار احمقانه نکنه. در منطقه میمونه و چماق رو بالا سر رژیم نگه میداره. عمویم بی‌بی و اسراییلیهای نازنین هم که هرگز برای دقیقه‌ای حمایتشون رو ازمون دریغ نکرده‌اند. عمویم ترامپ، پاس گل رو به ما میده و ما گل میکنیمش. هشیار باشید، آماده باشید، پیام رو درست بخونید و تحلیل کنید، از مسیر خارج نشید، این فرصت رو با ناامیدی و درک اشتباه از دست ندیم. چشمتون به شاهزاده رضا پهلوی باشه، ما همه دیتاها رو نداریم ولی ایشون دارند و به گواه سالیان سال تجربه، بهترین کسی هستند که باید بهشون اعتماد کنیم که ما رو به پیروزی برسونند. ایران رو پس میگیریم، نه فورا ولی قطعا. ناامید نشید، حواستون پرت نشه، ما وارثین خون و خاکیم. چاره‌ای نداریم جز موفق شدن. #جاويدشاه‌ #انقلاب_شیروخورشید پی‌اس: من ایمپرشن فارسیم خیلی کمه، اگر میشه مرامی این پست رو ریتوییت بزنید ممنان میشم ❤️❤️❤️

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@SenFettermanPA @tedcruz Thank you Senator!

As a father, I grieve for Sheridan’s parents for this unspeakable tragedy. This was a failure of not holding criminal migrants accountable and not protecting the public—and another tragic reason why I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley law.

She wasn’t in the “wrong place” at the “wrong time”. She was an American college student taking a walk in public with her friends, which every American should be able to do without the fear of being murdered by criminal illegals. Sheridan Gorman was only 18 years old.

🚨 Meet Christian Maxwell, she won her primary in (IL-01) with (65%) of the vote She ran on cleaning up the voter rolls and getting the Save America Act passed Anti- establishment and represents a seismic shift of blacks joining the (R) party Let's give her a big MAGA welcome

Another Promethean Update with @sjkokinda The Saturday Wrap-Up SLAPPED DOWN: Trump Just Told Israel AND NATO No What Is Driving Trump's Break With Israel, NATO, & London NATO's COWARDICE The Japan Deal — What the New World Looks Like

@CAgovernor @JenSiebelNewsom Will you and the rest of your staff be taking this as well?

This is really damning.

Tucker Carlson Loses On ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ After Guessing ‘Israel' On Every Puzzle buff.ly/5jiSFz1

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