Jim

Let’s fix this for this took: The civilization that invented The Internet The Personal Computer The Smartphone The Airplane The Light bulb Space Exploration Organ transplants Pacemaker Laser Technology The Telephone And Chocolate Chip Cookies Is fighting a regime that's been holding an amazing people hostage with brutality that includes throwing acid in young women’s faces for showing their hair. There. Fixed it for you.

@dmbkparker Douglas A-1 Skyraider

Two aircraft that should never be retired. 1. A10 2. Chinook What else goes on the list? If you say Blackhawk, I will virtually slap you.

Why Socialism Doesn't Work, Explained for a 10-Year-Old. You're in a class of 30 students. One kid works like crazy and gets an 18 average. Another does nothing and gets a 4. The teacher decides it's unfair and gives everyone the class average: 11. The one who had 18 stops working. Why bother if it changes nothing? The one who had 4 keeps doing nothing. Why work if you're handed 11 for free? The next year the class average is 7. Then 5. Then 3. The teacher doesn't get it. He thinks the problem is that the students aren't supportive enough of each other. So he starts punishing those who don't put in enough effort. He monitors everyone. He decides who studies what. He bans switching classes. That's exactly what happened. Every time. In every country. No exceptions. USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia, East Germany. 40 attempts. Same result. Every time. Socialism punishes those who produce and rewards those who don't. Everyone ends up producing nothing. And when no one's producing anymore, the government uses force to make people work. It's not an accident. It's the design. - @BrivaelFr

@TonySeruga @kierkeg47196 And when you have Jarrett, Jeh Johnson, Brazile, Holder, Lynch et al, writing your presidential findings and legal justifications for you, you don't have to worry about ever facing legal consequences.

Why didn't intelligence or law enforcement agencies object? Because: - the transfer did not break U.S. law once the President invoked settlement authority under the 1980s Iran–U.S. Claims Tribunal accords; - and because policy execution—not threat intelligence—was at issue. CIA’s mandate is to warn of risks, not to veto policy decisions. DOJ’s role was to confirm legality, and its OLC opinions did so. FBI jurisdiction begins only with criminal violations—none were alleged by the executive branch. In simple analytical terms: The money moved through the lawful interstate financial architecture once the White House removed the legal lock. Intelligence and enforcement agencies couldn’t “block” it; they lacked statutory authority to do so. Chain of accountability 1. Strategic decision: President Obama & NSC. 2. Execution: State Dept + Treasury. 3. Compliance verification: IAEA; DoJ for legality. 4. No operational role: CIA, FBI, DIA—outside fiduciary channels.

💣 The Real Legacy of Obama’s Iran Gamble When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman recently remarked that Iran “didn’t build a single street” with the billions Barack Obama returned to the regime, he wasn’t exaggerating — he was summarizing a decade of Western self-sabotage dressed up as diplomacy. In 2015, under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Obama administration unfroze over $100–150 billion of Iranian assets and sent $1.7 billion in literal cash transfers to Tehran. The official explanation was that this was Iran’s “own money,” part of a decades-old settlement from the Shah’s era. In reality, it became the single greatest funding injection ever received by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a military and intelligence octopus already controlling the nation’s economy through shell corporations and terror-aligned front groups. Within months of the payout, Iran funneled hundreds of millions to Hezbollah and Hamas, expanded its IRGC Quds Force operations across Syria and Iraq, and increased funding for Yemen’s Houthi insurgency (later responsible for targeting civilian ships in the Red Sea). Iranian officials themselves admitted it: everything from “what we eat and drink” to “our rockets” comes from Tehran’s regime coffers. While Iranian cities fell further into poverty, the regime’s war machine boomed — drones, ballistic missiles, and oil-smuggling networks began popping up in violation of international sanctions that Obama himself had dismantled. Western elites congratulated themselves on a “historic peace deal” while Tehran armed militias from Lebanon to Sana’a. And as intelligence later confirmed, Iran served as a covert haven for senior Al Qaeda figures, including Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, who spent years under the protection of the IRGC before being groomed into jihadist leadership. Washington conveniently ignored this. 🔥 Neoliberal Chaos as a Governing Strategy The Obama team — Clinton, Nuland, Power, Rhodes — weren’t naïve idealists. They were intentional engineers of disorder. Their strategy was not to stabilize the Middle East, but to strategically destabilize it — just enough to maintain leverage over both allies and adversaries. By empowering Iran as a “regional counterweight,” they diluted the influence of the Gulf and contained Israeli power under the veneer of “nonproliferation.” But what they actually created was a proliferation of chaos, not of nukes but of dependency: Europe flooded with refugees, North Africa imploded, and militant networks metastasized in the vacuum. The Arab Spring, romanticized as a democratic awakening, devolved almost immediately into a U.S.-managed implosion — a controlled burn that shattered regional economies and sent millions fleeing toward Europe. That migratory tidal wave destabilized EU politics, broke social cohesion, and imposed irreversible demographic and fiscal stress. If that looks like an accident, you haven’t studied Washington’s history of “accidents.” 🧩 The Pattern Repeats: Ukraine and Beyond The same ideological playbook reappeared in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and attempts at color revolutions in Georgia and Central Europe. The toolset shifted from armies to NGOs, from bombs to “development aid.” USAID and its constellation of “civil society” fronts became the soft-gloved hand of the same policy. As independent reports have shown, millions in U.S. taxpayer money have been funneled — often through Western NGOs — into organizations later caught promoting agitation and even associating with militant movements. It’s the same coercive architecture the U.S. used to micromanage the Middle East, now redeployed against Russia’s periphery and Eastern Europe’s populist strongholds. 🕸 The Logic Beneath It All For the permanent Washington bureaucracy — the neoliberal establishment entrenched in intelligence, media, and the diplomatic corps — peace is a liability and chaos is capital. A stable Middle East would mean a self-sufficient Eurasia — and that threatens the unipolar financial and geopolitical order sustained by Washington and Brussels since 1945. Iran was never meant to be “contained.” It was meant to be weaponized as a pressure valve, a permanent destabilizer preventing the region from forming independent energy, trade, and defense alliances. The refugee crises, the proxy wars, the endless “humanitarian interventions” — all are manifestations of a consistent doctrine: weaponize volatility to preserve control. The Obama administration perfected this formula. Biden’s teams only inherited it. And every Western capital paying the price today — from Paris to Warsaw — is now living amid the debris of Obama-era globalism. In short: the Iran Deal wasn’t a mistake. It was a design. A design that traded regional peace for permanent leverage — that armed terrorists under the banner of “diplomacy” and fractured Western civilization under the banner of “human rights.” If chaos is a ladder, Obama built the first few rungs. “They called it peace — but it was an investment in permanent war.” — After-Action memo, CENTCOM analyst (2025) What began as Obama’s diplomatic victory ended as a $150 billion liquidity bomb that armed tyrants, sent millions fleeing, and handed the 21st century’s most dangerous regime the global keys to chaos. History will not remember it as diplomacy. It will remember it as economic warfare against civilization itself. ☠️

You literally abandoned four Americans to die in Benghazi and lied about a video for weeks afterward. You might want to sit this one out, Ben.

'Bout par for the course.

Why the fuck does Jeff Bezos have to give you 7 billion dollars? The American people give the government around 7 TRILLION dollars every year and you fuckin retards haven’t fixed shit with it. You think if the creepy bald Amazon dude adds another 0.1% to that figure you’re finally gonna figure out how to stop blowing our fuckin money? Better idea, how about you give the other 99.9% to the private sector and see if they can figure out how to cure diabetes or make a sandwich for 4th graders. I bet they’ll have change left over.

Exactly. Just follow the money.

If the USA had abandoned or mangled the WSO recovery: - risk of pilots / commanders blinking on mission - Iran propaganda coup - adverse impact on conduct of war & any negotiations - reminder of the Hanoi Hilton Instead, we got this: - fearsome demonstration of strength, we're not just armaments - evidence of fearless courage, same courage expressed in the GWOT - fulfills the promises & expectations of training - demonstrates ferocity of US forces, in excess even of the reputed IDF & ROK when recovering team-members - demonstrates a fusion of forces acting in concert with OpSec - will make people wargame, "what if we had this same Dept of War and C-inC during the GWOT, Libya, Bosnia, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs?" - sends message to every member of the Dept of War: we've got you - lastly, but foremost, brings home our WSO For that, as 🇺🇸 taxpayer, I'm willing to blow up a $1b worth of hardware. This act saves lives. Euros will ring hands, count Carbon & Methane emissions, pray to allah, and not risk any hardware because every military component of theirs is a de facto capital asset - they're morally, militarily, ethically, mentally, functionally, and financially cucked and bankrupt. They're no longer democratic, ruled by regimes they can't vote out nor change. They don't even know it's Easter (and Passover) and your own Defenders of the Faith are now nibbling halal in the vain hope their grandchildren aren't raped or beheaded. You forgot who lies buried in the American cemetaries of Europe.

Actions have consequences. Well stated.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

Please, continue.

@KingZahyd Suck it, racists, she lost.

Dawn Staley is not here to play nice or keep things close. The Gamecocks are turning the National Championship into a defensive masterclass. History shows that when South Carolina decides to dictate the tempo they rarely lose. UCLA is finding out exactly why this dynasty is built on disruption and grit. Betting against a focused Dawn Staley is a fast way to lose money in Phoenix.

@web3_prince2 @espn Thanks, slave of allah, Staley's girls got the shit kicked out of them. Way to go, UCLA.

@espn South Carolina by 40. UCLA shouldn't even be here This is a coronation not a final

THIS IS IT. ONLY ONE CAN TAKE HOME THE TITLE. 🏆 The national championship begins at 3:30 PM ET on ABC and the ESPN App 🍿

A-fucking-men.

The Left was praying for the pilots to be captured. You could just feel it. Sorry. FU. We win. You lose

@genesimmons Well, Gene, he is a Vikings fan. So he's got that.

Timmy, i’ve paid more than $100 million in taxes. I’ve created thousands of jobs, which enabled thousands of people to feed their families. I’ve contributed millions to wounded warriors, pediatric aids and support 1400 African children. And what have you accomplished in life?

I’m up in the middle of the night and am about to go back to sleep. But seeing the news of this pilot being rescued after one of the most daring rescue operations in history has me motivated beyond belief. To the media and the haters who’ve been obsessed with palace intrigue stories. Trying to sow division and calling for the heads of our leaders. I hope this news hurts. I hope it hurts a lot. I have my finger on the pulse of the information machine these days. And what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours is the weaponization of said machine. Bots, grifters, and partisan hacks all working in unison literally rooting for our failure. Rabid. Drooling. Damn near praying to satan for our own pilot to be killed or captured. Hyenas, the lot of them. All cheering against America. While they’ve all been groaning like demons for the heads of our leaders and warriors, people like @PeteHegseth, @SeanParnellASW and others have just been busily…. doing the job to get our guy back. Nothing I type here will matter at 0300. But when the world wakes up in a few hours, it’ll see the fruits of merit based leadership at echelon. All the way down the chain. An Airman safely home after evading capture for over a day. An epic rescue that will be remembered for generations. Millions inspired by the shear power and conviction of the United States military. And millions more disappointed by it, because they were praying for our national embarrassment. I’m not sorry you’re witnessing a competent war machine in action. I’m not sorry that our leadership will never leave anyone behind. I’m not sorry for any hurt feelings caused by this. Because you were never on our team anyway. God Bless America.🇺🇸

Imagine being Iran's leadership right now You once were the feared boogie man of the Middle East. Instead, you get the complete shit kicked out of you for 5 weeks straight, your entire navy sunk, your supreme leader killed, and you FINALLY shoot down 1 plane This is finally your moment. You can parade the pilot on TV and use him as negotiating leverage But instead, Air Force Pararescue puts boots on the ground on your home turf, we basically build a whole patrol base including a Forward Air Refueling Point, kill hundreds of your dudes, something goes wrong with one of the C-130s at the FARP on our way out, we're not even cortisol spiked so we simply just fly in another plane and blow up the old one instead of even bothering to do any maintenance just because of how much money we have that we can simply buy a new plane Good grief. I haven't seen a beatdown this bad since Will Stancil got molested by Grok. This is honestly embarrassing for the IRGC at this point. That was LITERALLY your home territory where you know all the terrain and have home field advantage, we have never done real boots on the ground operations in Iran before, and you still lost. Everyone throw up the set right now

There is no cowardice. I openly want ~all illegal aliens deported, women given protection in vagina-only spaces, crime BROKEN in cities, phonics and post-Sumerian math back in the schools, masculine fatherhood promoted, wars involving the USA quickly and ruthlessly won, fentanyl and even coke boats burning in the water, child molesters burning alive on land, Israel extant and the Jews safe as a people, the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah dead, gun rights intact, voter fraud made largely impossible, large-boost affirmative action done with, etc. These are all majority positions, btw.