Hal Furman

Thomas Massie said... and I quote: "If I lose on May 19th, I am not doing any more government ever." If that is the case, why is he filing to run for Federal Office in 2028? Because Thomas Massie is a liar, and Thomas Massie is a grifter.

I think, paradoxically, there has to be a modicum of respect for West Coast homeless people where they are treated as adults who have agency, and if you ask them, ‘Have you made the adult life choice to live in a tent and gobble meth and howl at the moon, is that what you want?’ and they say, ‘yes,’ you just have to accept that, and then all of the paternalistic homelessness industry stuff can be treated as the charade that it is, and you’re left with the naked political decision of whether or not you let a small number of adults engage in extremely selfish and unsafe and disruptive and antisocial behavior that has broad negative externalities for everyone else. I think that’s what Pratt is actually doing here - he’s providing these people with a degree of respect they don’t often get by acknowledging their adult choices and agency and then following through on the logical consequences those choices entail.

@MaxAbrahms Trump went wobbly. A recurring theme.

It was a bad decision. Don’t forget there was loads of pressure by Groypers for Israel to stop destroying Iran’s nuclear program last June. This was before Iran controlled the Hormuz, was attacking the region, and the international economy got wobbly.

Nickel to a donut that Iran's enriched uranium supply, which is highly traceable via nuclear forensic isotopic ratio analysis, was sourced from the United States & specifically during Obama's presidency when Clinton was Secretary of State [U1/JCPOA].

Why was the Iranian regime laying more mines in the strait while negotiating with the U.S. to reopen it? 🤔

🚨🇯🇵 Xi Went After Japan's PM Takaichi to Trump's Face. It Did Not Go the Way Beijing Planned. Here's what the most explosive moment of the Trump-Xi Beijing summit actually looked like — and why it matters for every U.S. ally in the Indo-Pacific. The meeting wasn't supposed to be about Japan. When Donald Trump landed in Beijing on May 13 for his two-day summit with Xi Jinping, the agenda was trade, Iran, Taiwan, rare earths. American officials had run every pre-summit prep session with their Chinese counterparts. Japan never came up. Not once. Then Xi made it about Japan. According to reporting from Yomiuri Shimbun, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Japan Times — sourced to people inside the room — Xi Jinping became visibly agitated, raised his voice, and launched into what multiple sources called the single most heated moment of the entire two-day summit. He invoked the post-WWII legal order. He framed Japan's defense buildup as illegitimate. And then he went personal: he told Trump directly that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi — along with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te — was a threat to regional peace. He asked Trump not to support her. Trump said no. Per Yomiuri, Trump told Xi that Takaichi is not the kind of leader who deserves that criticism. The FT goes further: Trump defended Japan's right to build up its defenses, citing the threat from North Korea — a response that surgically dismantled Beijing's entire "remilitarization" framing. Xi raised his voice. Trump didn't blink. And then — before Air Force One had even leveled off — Trump was already on the phone to Tokyo, reaffirming what Takaichi would later publicly describe as an "ironclad" bilateral alliance. This matters beyond the drama of the moment. For months, a narrative has been calcifying across Asia: that Trump will eventually sell out his allies for a trade deal. That Washington under this president cannot be trusted. That Tokyo and Taipei are, ultimately, on their own. That narrative just collided with a very inconvenient set of facts. When the political incentives to throw an ally under the bus were at their absolute strongest — inside a bilateral summit, with Beijing's full trade leverage on the table, in Xi Jinping's own house — Trump defended her anyway. Then he picked up the phone. Beijing's response to the leaks has been equally telling. Spokeswoman Mao Ning issued a non-denial dressed as a denial. But in the same press conference, she confirmed China's months-long freeze on rare-earth exports to Japan — and justified it by accusing Tokyo of pursuing nuclear weapons. A claim supported by zero IAEA findings, zero allied intelligence assessments, and zero public evidence. When a government has to fabricate the charge before it can justify the punishment, it is not negotiating from strength. There is also a second-order story here that most headlines have missed entirely: who leaked this, why they leaked it now, and what it signals to every capital from Seoul to Canberra that has been quietly wondering whether the alliance architecture of the Indo-Pacific still holds. The short answer, based on everything that has now emerged: it held. In the one place that actually counts. Whether it holds the next time — that is a different question. One that remains genuinely open. For the full analysis — including the complete breakdown of what was said in the room, Tokyo's response, Beijing's self-incrimination at the Mao Ning press conference, and what this means for the broader Indo-Pacific security picture: Full story below. ⬇️

URGENT: Large fires reported on Iran's Kharg Island are the result of unprecedented gas flaring due to a severe crude oil storage crisis, energy analysts report. With over 66 million barrels of oil trapped by the U.S. naval blockade, Iran cannot safely shut down its producing wells, forcing facilities to burn off massive quantities of associated natural gas.

I was supposed to be upset when a couple of these retards got permanently removed from society.

All right, I’m just gonna come out and say it… Some of the dumbest human beings to ever walk the face of the earth are currently representing us in Congress. How on earth did this happen?

Never Forget the 13 soldiers that Joe Biden got killed during his botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Then he did this…

*George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl six years ago today, and America underwent a Cultural Revolution and billions of dollars in riot damages as a result of a career criminal known for heinous crimes overdosing on camera

In a sane society, the death of a career criminal would be greeted with something between apathy and jubilation. One less bit of human pondscum to worry about But because our system exists to punish the capable, industrious, and law abiding for the benefit of the worst among us, it was instead as if we had lost our greatest citizen. Which to a society that rejects everything good and noble in the name of equity, I suppose we had: in only ever inflicting costs of every sort upon society, Floyd was the perfect face for what the decolonization of America has looked like, and what the civil rights act was all about

🚨 JUST NOW: Leftist rioters dig up CINDERBLOCKS outside ICE Newark and use them to reinforce their barricade, BLOCKING the facility’s exit How is this being allowed??! Trapping ICE agents in their facility is alright??! Unreal. PUT AN END TO IT.

Three days ago, the Taliban made it legal to sell 9 year old girls off as sex slaves. Zohran Mamdani? Silent. The NYT? Silent. AOC? Silent. Mehdi Hasan? Silent. Cenk Uygur? Silent.

Every Single Month

On This Day — May 25, 1948 They put a bullet in the back of his head. The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz. In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859. For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews. While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day. He saw it all. He documented it all. He risked everything so the world would know. In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland. For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948. One of the great heroes of the 20th century. Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.

We’re totally on the verge of a great deal, just ironing out the final details, and also having to carry out military strikes to stop the Iranians from killing our troops during a ceasefire

@davereaboi We've gone from "we will get the material out" to "it'd be preferable if it stayed in Iran and the worthless, compromised IAEA oversees it." I mean, come on.

If we're striking Iranian missiles sites and sinking mine-laying boats, that doesn't exactly like sound like a deal has been nearly reached. Just saying...