Ken Bridges

@GBNT1952 @ShawnRyan762 @maddow This is Shawn Ryan now: youtube.com/watch?v=isMtxb…

Well, @ShawnRyan762, I know my comparing you to @maddow seems like a joke to some, but I can assure you that it is not. As a former SEAL that has sat in briefing rooms in theater, run ops against jihadist networks, and built a platform interviewing many sharp people in both operations and intelligence, you of all people should understand how strategic warfare actually works. Despite all of that, you are sitting here and pushing posts like a cable news commentator with rimmed glasses on a communist news network, framing decisive pressure against the world's leading state sponsor of militant jihadist terrorism as "chaos" and "loss." Let's cut through this selective timeline you laid out: Trump issued a brutal, unmistakable warning over the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint Iran's regime was weaponizing to strangle global energy and fund its proxies. That wasn't just some bluster for fun, it was quite literally combatant messaging 101 in asymmetric conflict against an enemy that only respects raw and credible power. Jihadist Islamists like the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, and their ilk don't negotiate in good faith or respond to polite diplomacy, and you absolutely know this. They only respond to negotiations from positions of strength. If you do not negotiate that way, they will probe weaknesses, exploit hesitation, and interpret restraint as invitations to push attacks. History from the Beirut barracks to the USS Cole to Benghazi and to decades of proxy attacks has proven that. You've had guests that have spoken about these things, yet you act ignorant of them now? This apocalyptic rhetoric is the only language these people understand, and you know it. Iran blinked because of that rhetoric, floated a ceasefire tied to reopening the strait, and the administration secured a pause to lock in gains. That is not "lighting the world on fire then calling the fire department," you two bit propagandist, that is literally the way war has always worked. It is coercion through strength: downgrade the enemy's capacity, signal willingness to escalate decisively, then offer the off ramp on your terms. It's wild that you are ignorant about this. And then you cry about Israel hitting Beirut like the soft lefty you have turned into... Beirut is in Lebanon, mind you, which is a completely different country than Iran. Perhaps you need a geography lesson as well as a lesson on strategic level warfare? So yeah, that is not Trump chaos, that is Israel finishing the job against an Iranian proxy that has quite literally fired thousands of rockets and embedded itself among civilians in Lebanon for decades. And Lebanon was explicitly carved out of the US and Iran ceasefire for a reason, so even bringing it up here is silly and meant to distract. Also, Iran quickly "closed" the Strait back up because they are purveyors of taqiyya style negotiations, just like jihadists always are. But let's talk about how they "closed" the Strait, because everyone is being dishonest about that as well. They didn't actually close anything, they are just signaling that they will attack ships that cross through it. All it takes is one drone or one missile hitting one tanker and 20% of the world's oil shipping halts until insurance companies feel confident that the crazy Islamic terrorist regime in Iran won't sink any more hundred million dollar tankers. You also conveniently leave out the real reason for this war from the get go, which is curtailing China and China's Belt and Road Initiative and re-establishing the world order firmly behind the United States. I miss the days just months ago when you weren't a fully captured op... seeing what you and guys like Kent have become is truly disheartening. I hope the money is worth it.

@AGHamilton29 LOL. Lebanon knows those Iranians won’t be around much longer and tying their fates is not so good an idea.

It’s incredible to watch as the actual government of Lebanon rejects the idea that Iran speaks for them while so many commentators demand that a deal with the regime in Tehran should include decisions about Lebanon.

@shipwreckedcrew Brother please don't fall into the trap of chasing engagement. That's what ruins accounts on here. Thoughtful content will never beat the rage bait trolling in engagement. It just won't. Stay true. It's getting harder to find knowledge and thought on here amidst the grift.

I can see it but I'm too tech illiterate to know how to fix it.

@pirooooon3 Explain this sauce. It looks like ketchup. Is it sweet?

日本人の作った ピザトーストです 美味しそうですか？

@awstar11 Does anyone care about the QWERTY community?

I can't believe how many letters she left out. She's literally genociding the CDEFHJ3K4N5O6Q7R8U9V0XYZ& community

@OwenGregorian But so do Republicans. Their politicians anyway.

Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Down a Huge Problem for the Democrats: ‘They Despise the Working Class’ | Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit Victor Davis Hanson, the favorite academic of conservatives across the country, recently pointed out that the Democrats absolutely despise the working class and notes that this is going to be a huge problem for them going forward. Hanson used the recent example of Gavin Newsom’s wife claiming that she brought her children to the American south so that they could see what ‘real bigotry’ looks like, and the fact that Jimmy Kimmel mocked Markwayne Mullin for being a plumber before he got into politics. Hanson points out that they do this while claiming to be the champions of the working class. It’s so ridiculous. Hanson expanded on this thesis in a new column at American Greatness: The Left Is Baffled—but Still Repulsed—by the White Working Class After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found. Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet middle-class whites still comprise about 40–50 percent of the population and are perhaps overrepresented in voter turnout. Democrats realize that their fixations on biological males competing in women’s sports, open borders and millions of illegal entries, radical green agendas, DEI-driven racial essentialism, and massive government entitlements rife with fraud have alienated the middle classes in general and white middle- and working-class voters in particular. But since Democrat ideologues cannot shed their ideological straitjackets, they have instead tried to finesse the very problem that cost them the 2024 election. Hanson scoffs at Pete Buttigieg’s new beard and the Maine lobsterman the Democrats are rallying around for Senate. They try to look the part of working class and wear it like a costume but none of it is genuine. It’s one of the reasons they hate Trump. He may be a billionaire but he understands the working class better than all of them put together. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/victor…

@infantrydort Cod, get me that chaplain. He stands in good with the Lord, and I want him decorated!

Yea man idk what to tell you but I've definitely prayed to God asking Him to not only help me kill people, but to make sure the boys and I don't get killed either. I'm pretty sure that isn't hubris. There are no atheists in foxholes. But what would you know about that.

@RobLutherLawyer @kulawschool I'm sure his calendar is full with some more complaints about Trump instead.

The Chief Justice should admonish Justice Sotomayor for her obnoxious, class-based, insult of Justice Kavanaugh and his family last night @kulawschool

@oldyzach Taking this game, giving it modern graphics and bundling it with a proper controller would make a fortune.

"Soon, peace and order will be restored throughout the galaxy." - You won't forget that line so easily. I love that intro. TIE Fighter, MSDOS

@SyAcYoU_JAPAN If the engine starts making strange noises, just turn the radio up further until you can no longer hear them. Another problem solved. You’re welcome.

マリブのエンジンチェックライトを治しました。 アメリカ人の兄弟たちの知恵のおかげです！ アメリカ人の技術は日本にはない素晴らしい技術だ！

@BretWeinstein How’s this banger working out for you as of about an hour ago? Shameless engagement bait bro. I once respected you.

The President's threat against Iran is genocidal, even by the strictest definition. It may be bluster, but that does not change our obligation. To work, a threat must be credible, and we must act accordingly. We attacked Iran. Any order to escalate our attack with nuclear weapons would clearly be immoral, and must therefore be rejected by every person in the chain of command. Anyone who carried such an order forward would become immediately complicit. That is the lesson of history, and those who fail it will be judged harshly by it--and by God. We can't have a Commander in Chief who threatens civilians, idly or in earnest. The President must be removed from office, for the good of the Republic, and the world.

@GBNT1952 @BenBankas is the cure to what ails you.

Comedians have ruined comedians for me.

@infantrydort Annnnnddd once again for the 20th time a whole gaggle of online idiots look typically idiotic. War crimes! End of days!

We're out here coordinating cease fires with Field Marshals! Wait, what century is this again?

@tanpukunokami Thanks but … x.com/MLB/status/204…

There's a Japanese food that the rest of the world avoids. This. Jiggly. Pitch black. Almost entirely water. It's called Konjac. Nearly zero calories. The internet's reaction: "Is this rubber?" "It has no taste." "Why would anyone eat this?" Shut up and try it first. It snaps back in your mouth, soaks up the broth, and fills you up completely. Still only 5 calories. While the West was obsessing over protein bars, Japan had this all along. If you're on a diet — this might be worth a shot.

@UpdatingOnRome @wannabejake9 Grok vs. Gronk. It's pretty wild that possibly the greatest intelligence gap in existence hangs on a single letter.

@wannabejake9 It’s so cleary Gronk

It’s kelce but people hate the chiefs so they’ll never admit it

@timburchett May I suggest instead that we attach his legs to a bulldozer and his torso to a big oak and see what happens?

Hang this waste of carbon dirtbag.

Ask Grok to research and analyze whether Trump's campaign statements are more consistent with these two views: 1. No new wars or military interventions 2. No forever wars that are not in the interests of the United States. Too many fools have hallucinated "promises" that were never, ever made. This is the guy that bombed ISIS and Solemani and yet people think he was some kind of John Lennon figure all of a sudden? Please.

The war with Iran started in 1979. He’s not starting a new war he’s ending an old one.

@TRHLofficial This is a fair comment, and probably the most rational take on the internet at the moment.

Can we all at least agree that “a whole civilization will die tonight” was far too broad a choice in words, and maybe “a whole regime” would have fit his intention better, or are we too deep into doublethink.

@ingelramdecoucy We don't need America!!!! LOL

Okay the UK has officially crossed the line from funny into cringy as hell now. I can’t even bring myself to dunk on them, it’s too sad

@UpdatingOnRome @AuronMacintyre Bro that's because Scipio found and purged the Carthaginian spies lurking on your account.

@AuronMacintyre I’m down 500+

Analytics show nothing but follower growth but total number of followers has been going down over the last few days Are we getting purges again?