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Rick Scott: The average net worth of a Democrat Senator is over $3 million and they are okay with TSA agents not getting paid.

McClain: Republicans stand with law enforcement. We don’t stand with the criminals.

Trump's special envoy to Belarus John Coale tells some boozy tales of drinking with Alexander Lukashenko and how he had the authoritarian "in my hand" by bashing the EU on his visit to Minsk: "The State Department told me [Lukashenko] likes to yuck it up, so we yucked it up. About a half hour, 45 minutes into it... he starts complaining about the Europeans – Europeans this, Europeans that. So – and this is kind of crude and I'm sorry for the language – but I said to him, 'Yeah, they're a bunch of pussies.' So, I had him in my hand from then on. He loves to cuss, so you cuss back. And we got along fine. He did five hours he talked. Then we had lunch for two hours... He gets up and toasts President Trump... So I get up and toast him..."

Muslims and their useful idiots keep repeating this “Greater Israel” fantasy as if saying it enough times will make it real. It won’t. If Israel were truly driven by a grand expansionist vision, it would be the most incompetent empire in history. Decades of military strength, repeated battlefield victories, and yet no lasting expansion. That’s not how conquest works. In 1947–48 The United Nations proposed a partition plan, two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted. The Arab states rejected it and chose war instead, launching a coordinated attack through the Arab League. Israel’s first war was not a war of expansion, it was a war of survival. From 1948 to 1967, twenty years, Israel did not expand. No “Greater Israel,” no creeping conquest. Just a small country under constant threat. Then came 1967. Gamal Abdel Nasser openly called for Israel’s destruction, massed troops, and closed the Straits of Tiran. Facing annihilation, Israel struck preemptively and took control of the West Bank (then under Jordanian control), Gaza (under Egyptian control), Sinai, and the Golan Heights. That was a security response to an existential threat. And here is where the “Greater Israel” myth completely collapses. 1979: Israel signs peace with Egypt under Anwar Sadat. It returns the entire Sinai Peninsula, territory several times its own size. In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, and Israel returned disputed lands as part of that agreement. A Lebanon: In 1982, Israel entered southern Lebanon not to expand, but because Palestinian militias had effectively taken over parts of the country and were launching constant attacks across the border. Lebanon had become a base of operations against Israel. Israel pushed in to remove that threat. And then in 2000, it withdrew. No annexation. No “Greater Israel.” Just left. Gaza: In 2005, Israel withdrew completely. Every soldier, every settlement removed. That territory was not kept, not annexed, given up. The Golan Heights: Strategic high ground overlooking northern Israel, used repeatedly to shell Israeli communities before 1967. Its control is about preventing that from happening again. Security, not hegemony. Yet still, according to the testimony of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Israel offered Hafez al-Assad a withdrawal in exchange for peace, but he refused. Every territorial move Israel made was driven by security threats, not expansionist ideology. And when those threats were credibly reduced, Sinai, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel withdrew. So where is the “Greater Israel”? Where is this supposed empire? It exists only in propaganda. Israel has repeatedly traded land for peace, withdrawn from territory, and avoided permanent expansion even when it had the power to do so. Meanwhile, the same voices pushing this myth ignore the actual history of conquest and domination in the region, where expansion was not defensive, but ideological. Withdrawing from the West Bank today, under current conditions, would not be peace, it would be suicide. It would mean creating another Gaza overlooking Israel’s core population centers. No serious country does that. No nation hands strategic ground to forces committed to its destruction. So again: where is the “Greater Israel”? It doesn’t exist. It’s a narrative, useful, repeated, and detached from reality.

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.