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It wasn’t, exactly, but her post was meant to be deceptive….as if the VA altered loan terms unilaterally, causing foreclosures. That’s crap. The VA ended an unsustainable deferment program and Congress/Trump replaced it with a better one. I was trying to avoid getting into various deferment programs, bc they are convoluted. I failed….had no idea this post would generate interest.

@LibertyRealist @SenDuckworth I'm not exactly sure that's what they were talking about, but I'll allow you to continue to comment

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

Yes, new applicants to VASP were not accepted after May 1, 2025, as VASP was unsustainable, long-term. VASP was replaced by the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act about two months later, as a better option, aligning VA-backed loans much more with FHA-backed loans. This program catches up your missed payments by providing deferred, little-to-no interest second loans. Typically, no payments are due on the second loans, unless you sell, refinance, or pay off your first loan. I’m not sure how your payment jumped $800 per month. It sounds to me as if your lender did not provide you with all available options, though that is just supposition.

@LibertyRealist @SenDuckworth We were caught by this. This isn't a lie - we ended up watching our mortgage jump $800 a mth since Trump killed the program right before we entered into it. Veterans had already been fucked and that was a last ditch effort to reverse it.

I did read it….although Duckworth only posted the headline as rage-bait, without a link. Then I researched further. The VASP program was ended, as unsustainable (it was) and was replaced by the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act (by unanimous vote, in both the House and Senate). As you mention, FHA mortgagors had greater options. The new law makes options available to VA borrowers similar to those available with FHA loans (“partial claim”, chiefly) and has been in place since July of 2025. (I would dispute that conventional mortgagors have more options. The requirements are generally more stringent for those with loans backed by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, and are absolutely lender-discretionary for true lender-only conventional loans). None of this changes the fact that you must pay your loan to retain your home. Duckworth’s post is deceptive, because it implies that Trump and the VA altered terms in mid-loan that has caused 10K foreclosures, and will cause 90k more, when 1, fixed-rate loans cannot be altered mid-term without borrower request, and 2, there is now a better and more-viable option than VASP in place. It is true that there was a gap of programs of about 75 days. However, the shortest foreclosure periods in the U.S. for primary residence loans backed by government agencies are approximately 250 days after first missed payment, at the earliest.

@LibertyRealist @SenDuckworth Read the article. Conventional and FHA mortgages have more options to help folks who fall behind on mortgage payments. VA mortgage holders don’t get this protection. VA mortgage holders are more vulnerable this way, hence the foreclosures.

@BskiMike22802 Thank you, Mike. I’ve long-thought this exact thing would be the perfect solution.

THE FLAG THEY BURNED AND THE ONES WHO BLED FOR IT I cried doing the research for this. Only tears that a combat veteran would not be ashamed of. More than once. I am not embarrassed to say that. I am a science teacher and a medically retired Army combat medic with 23 years of service. I have held men together who were coming apart in ways that would make most people close their eyes and look away. I have been in places and made decisions that follow me into rooms where I am supposed to feel safe. I do not cry easily. But I cried writing this. And I think that is exactly as it should be. Because if you do the research — if you really sit inside these stories and not just skim the surface of them — and you feel nothing, one of us is broken. I am fairly confident it is not me. So. Let us talk about a flag. And what it actually costs. — The Decision Nobody Talks About — There is a decision that combat medics make that nobody talks about at the dinner table. You do not read about it in the news. Politicians do not bring it up in speeches. But every combat medic who has ever worked a mass casualty event knows exactly what I am talking about. And most of us spend the rest of our lives carrying it in a place that does not have a name. You are at my CCP. The world is loud and wrong and smells like things that should not have a smell. My hands are already doing the assessment before my brain has fully caught up — fast, mechanical, exactly the way they trained me. I go down the line. One man. Serious wound. Survivable — IF I start right now, right here, and I do not stop. I KNOW I can save him. I have the training. I have the supplies. My hands already know what to do. But there are two more. And they are also dying, but each one not as bad, not as time consuming. If I stay with him, my friend, my Brother, the other two are gone. If I move on, he is gone. The math is the math. Save my friend or save two of my Bothers. It does not care what I feel. It does not care that he has a name, he is my friend, that I know the name of his wife… his kids… that I have talked to his family on the Satellite Phone. It does not care that somewhere there is a woman who said goodbye to him at an airport and is going to get a knock on her door that will divide her life into a before and an after. I move on. He dies. And two more live from his sacrifice… from my sacrifice. And I live with that. Not because I did something wrong. Because I did something RIGHT. I did it by the books! And the books saved two when only one would have lived. Because the math said two lives outweigh one and I had the composure to do the math in the worst moment a human being can be asked to do math. I replay it… again… and again… and again. Every quiet room. Every night that runs too long. I replay it and I come to the same answer every time and it does not help. At all. I am a medic, and that is my job, to save the most I can and let the rest be a sacrifice for the survivors, for if I tried to save them all, all of them would have perished. There are rules of being a combat medic, even if not written, we know them… Rule 1: Good People Will Die Rule 2: Doc Can't Save Everyone Rule 3: Doc Will Go Through Hell to Break Rules 1 & 2 This is the curse of a combat medic. To be the Attorney of the fallen, to plead to God for one more day, one more chance, one more evac to the next level of care… but I can only have so many clients in the same hour. I have made that call. I live with it… some days better than others. I was still in country but imagined I stood at the grave of the man I chose not to save. I have watched the honor guard carry his flag-draped casket with the kind of precision that only exists when it is the last thing you can give someone. I have watched his widow receive that folded triangle. I have stood there knowing — KNOWING — that the flag on that box passed directly over a hole in the ground where a decision I made was to allow him, someone I could have saved on a normal day, to die, because this was no normal day, and instead chose two of his brothers to litigate for their survival. Two for the cost of a friend. Math and emotion know no wars. So when I tell you the flag is not a piece of cloth, understand where that is coming from. — The Funerals — I need you to sit here for a minute. Not scroll. Sit with it. There is a protocol called the transfer of remains. A military casket comes off a plane. The flag is on it — not a crease out of alignment, not a single imperfection anywhere — because this is the last thing the military can give him, and it is going to be given perfectly. It does not matter if you are in a war zone or you are state side. When these service members get transferred, everything stops. Planes are not loaded, buses stop, mission prep stops. Every service member is halted in respect, even for a single casket with a flag draped on top. This is what defense of the flag with one’s live mean on a FOB. We all make a moment of silence in respect for the Brother or Sister who sacrificed their life for the flag and their country. They make it home, and we still carry on the fight for them. The honor guard moves with a precision that does not exist anywhere else in civilian life. Every step deliberate. Every motion exact. Because the ceremony is not for show. It is the nation saying — through the rigid, unwavering discipline of its ritual — WE KNOW WHAT THIS PERSON GAVE. We know. And we will not let them go without being witnessed. Twenty-one guns. Three volleys. The sound goes into the trees and comes back wrong. Every combat veteran in the crowd flinches at the first one and tries not to show it. Some of them do not succeed. That is not weakness. That is the body remembering something the brain is still trying to process. And then Taps. Twenty-four notes. Played at American military gravesides since the Civil War. If you have never stood at one of those funerals and felt those twenty-four notes hit you somewhere behind your sternum — and refuse to leave, days later — then you have not yet felt what I am trying to describe. I do not say that to be unkind. I say it because it is true. Those notes go somewhere in the body of a person who has served, and they do not come out. The flag is folded. Thirteen folds. A tight triangle of blue and stars. A soldier kneels. On behalf of the President of the United States, the United States Armed Forces, and a grateful nation, please accept this flag as a symbol of our appreciation for your loved one's honorable and faithful service. She takes it. She might be nineteen. She might have a child on her hip and another one coming she has not told anyone about yet because she was waiting to tell him first. She might be holding herself together by something that has no name in any language and no equivalent in any civilian experience. She holds it on the way home. She puts it somewhere she can see it. And on the nights when the house is too quiet and the chair at the dinner table is a wound that does not close and the world has moved on in a way that feels like a personal cruelty — she looks at that folded triangle. THAT flag. The one in her hands right now. THAT is what you are burning. — The Bill — Here is what I am proposing. Read the whole thing before you react. There is a serious constitutional argument underneath it and I have thought about it carefully. The Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990) that burning the American flag is protected symbolic speech under the First Amendment. I agree with this ruling, surprisingly. But not as you may thing. I have fought for your freedom of speech, my brothers and sisters have dies to protect this freedom of speech, from the government! HOWEVER. Every person who has put on the uniform of the United States Armed Forces has taken an oath. Not to a president. Not to a party. Not to any political figure alive or dead. To the CONSTITUTION — and the flag of the United States is that symbol that stands against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is on our shoulder when we go to war. It flies over bases, FOBs, COPs in every foreign land that troops are stationed. That oath does not come with an expiration date. Ask any veteran you know. It lives in the body long after the uniform comes off. So here is the First Amendment tension that nobody in Washington is addressing: If a person has the constitutional right to burn the flag as protected symbolic expression, and a service member has a sworn constitutional oath to defend that symbol of the constitution… our flag — an oath made under legal penalty, governing their entire adult lives, sending them to the places where they watched flags draped over their brothers — then THAT SERVICE MEMBER is also engaged in a constitutionally grounded act when they place themselves between a flame and that flag. Both parties are exercising rights derived from the same founding document. The flag burner invokes the First Amendment. The veteran invokes the oath that made the First Amendment possible in the first place. My proposed bill is this: any person who has taken the military oath of enlistment or commissioning, with documented service in the United States Armed Forces, regardless if they served in a combat zone or personally witnessed the flag draped over the remains of a fellow service member — that person is legally protected from civil and criminal liability for ANY physical action taken to prevent the burning of an American flag in a public setting. As the poem says “Now there's but one shot in this old gun, So now it's time to decide which one, Which one of you will follow our lead, To stand and die for what you believe?” I put my life on the line knowing that I may be in a box draped by that flag. It is time for the people who want to exercise their freedom of speech to have that very same honor, to stand up and die for what they believe in. No arrest. No lawsuit. No criminal record. Because if you want to exercise your First Amendment right to burn the symbol of a country that my brothers died for — the symbol that came off the plane on their caskets, the symbol their widows are holding right now in quiet houses — you are now standing in a crowd where at least one person has sworn, under oath, before God, that they would defend it. You have the right to burn it. I… WE… have the right to stop you, by any means per our oath and to defend what our brothers and sisters would do if they were still alive. By any means! I am not the government as much as you are. The Government is not restricting your freedom of speech, I am fulfilling my oath, as in individual! I am embracing my freedom of speech, No, I am embracing the freedom of speech for all of my brothers who have died in service of this country since 1776, for my fallen brethren by destroying anyone who are willing to burn their casket covering. That is not a contradiction. That is the First Amendment working exactly the way the Founders intended — two competing rights, both rooted in the Constitution, working themselves out in the public square without the government pre-deciding which one wins. — What I Need You to Understand — The reason I cried researching this — and I said it at the beginning and I will say it again because I refuse to be embarrassed by the truth — is the accumulation of it all. The medic's calculation. Two lives for the cost of one. Math that does not care about names. The twenty-four notes that do not leave. The widow who does not let go of the triangle. The flag is not the cloth. The flag is the CHOICE. The choice to stand when everything says run. To hold on when everything says let go. To put your body between what you love and what is trying to destroy it. THAT is what the anthem is about. THAT is what the twenty-four notes are about. THAT is what every flag on every casket is about. You want to burn it, bring your lighter. Put your life on the line to burn that flag. I dare you! With this law, you have the freedom to burn the flag… but I will protect the flag with my life as I have done for the last 23 years, and I do not think you are ready to protect your right to burn it with the same vigor and sacrifice, for I will protect it to MY DEATH… so good luck! But I want the man in that crowd who folded that flag for a widow he never met — who stood at attention for someone else's husband, dry-eyed and straight-backed because she needed him to be — to have the legal right to stand between you and that flame without being handcuffed for it. He already spent years doing exactly that. The least we can do is make sure we do not arrest him for doing it one more time. But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who has made the calculation you can never take back, who has watched a flag-draped casket pass over a hole in the ground where a decision of mine is buried alongside a man I could have saved on any other day, who has placed a folded triangle into hands that shook in a way I still see in the quiet rooms, and who has enough respect for every one of them to refuse to let their symbol go without saying something. Share this if you have ever stood at a graveside while those twenty-four notes told you something words never could. Share if you support our Flag and the ones who died and where covered by it to protect the rights of those who burn it. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @DC_Draino @EndWokeness @catturd2

@norimura440 Awesome car

米国ニキのフォロワーが増えて困惑している。 日本が好きなアメリカンを見ると嬉しいように、彼らもそうなのか？知らんけど。 I love America and American motor cultures. This picture is my car,1969 Plymouth Barracuda.I also owned a H-D 1973 XLCH,two years ago.

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams. The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry. The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing. "Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right. Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist. The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children. Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026: Censorship of political opposition. Democrats. Contempt for democratic process. Democrats. Tolerance of political violence. Democrats. State ideology forced on families. Democrats. Corporate-state fusion. Democrats. Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides. Cult of personality. Both sides. Ultranationalism. Republicans. Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared. You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings. You just didn't know which was which. Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what's at stake.

This wonderful new Japanese-American cultural exchange on X is a learning moment for radical leftists: We're not racist. We just don't like YOU. It was never about skin color.

@MarcoFoster_ Wait until she discovers the actions of Presidents Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson and FDR….Won’t she be surprised.

Jane Fonda: “This is the first time in the history of the US that an authoritarian regime has broken through. Worldwide historians who study these things all agree it has never happened so fast in any industrialized democracy. He is moving to consolidate very very fast which means right now we have to use the tools we have to stop it”

@kangminlee Facts

Western right-wingers' deep admiration for the Japanese proves they're not irrationally xenophobic. They simply dislike dysfunctional people from dysfunctional cultures.

@Logically_JC I agree. At least 3/4ths are just stupid.

I don’t think eight million people were paid to protest today.

@spooked75 - seeks to superiorly “burn” MAGA for lack of education - misunderstands and misdefines “Communism” as per Marx/Engels in the process

The word "communist" has lost all meaning in MAGA world. Let's fix that. What communism actually is: • State ownership of ALL means of production • Abolition of private property • No free markets • Single-party authoritarian rule What US Democrats actually support: • Capitalism with regulations • Private property rights • Free markets with safety nets • Multiple parties, free elections Communist parties in US Congress: 0 Socialist parties in US Congress: 0 Democratic Socialists (Bernie-style): ~5 out of 535 The Democratic Party would be center-right in most of Europe. Biden and Harris are capitalists. Always have been. But you call everything you don't like "communism" because: 1. You can't define it 2. You never learned political science 3. Fox/OAN/Newsmax told you scary words = Democrats 4. You're in a cult that requires an enemy "Do your own research" means YouTube videos. "Communist" means "thing I don't like." "Patriot" means "person in my cult." The states with the worst education rankings vote the most Republican. That's not a coincidence.

@maddenifico I don’t think the left understands what’s gonna happen if they manage to take back control and try this shit. Deep in the recesses of our minds, the right has always known the system did not have our best interests at heart, but now the blinders are off. There’s no going back.

Nuremberg is coming — and they all know it. Trump lawyer confesses 'everybody's afraid' at White House: 'We're going to be indicted.' 😳👇 tinyurl.com/48uwyenh

Yo @GOP, You worthless fucks. We the people, handed you back the White House with President Trump, a Senate majority, a House majority, the popular vote, and all seven swing states in 2024. All you spineless, self-serving bastards had to do was have the guts to deliver. Pass the SAVE America Act. Prosecute those responsible for an intentional invasion of the United States. Go after those involved in Epstein Island crimes, including trafficking and sexual abuse. Hold accountable those tied to Russia collusion. Charge and deport fraudulent foreign actors who have been robbing U.S. taxpayers. Mass arrests, followed by bank accounts frozen for those involved in the DOGE fraud. Seize their personal property, and liquidate stocks to repay the American people they stole from. Take down demonic Fraudci, Gates, and other health officials for the crimes against humanity leading to killing and mangling of millions of Americans from CONVID and the clot shots. Arrest those who allowed fentanyl to pour through our borders, poisoning our youth and destroying our communities. Take down the people who committed treason when orchestrating the stolen election of 2020. This should keep you busy until 2028. Now get to work and do the damn job you were elected to do and are paid by the American people to do. We will primary every last one of you RINO swamp creatures. Sincerely, The Majority 🇺🇸

@ustonymc An important, but forgotten, battle. Thank you. My fifth great-grandfather was there with the volunteers.

Jackson's Revenge Horseshoe Bend March 27 1814 Nothing in the War of 1812--not even the latter capture and burning of Washington--horrified the American people as much as the news of the Fort Mims massacre. Incompetent Major Beasly commanding the fort, had little fear of a Creek attack leaving the front gate wide open, even though two slaves had warned him the Creeks were gathering in the swamp, but instead of believing them, he ordered them flogged. On August 30 as settlers are sitting down to lunch, screeching and whooping wildly, led by Red Eagle, a 1,000 painted and feathered Indians brandishing tomahawks and muskets broke from the swamp. Steadily, mercilessly the Creeks began a battle of extermination with details to horrible to describe. Of the 553 settlers in the fort, 100 of them children, only 17 survived, fleeing, escaping death. News of the atrocities at Fort Mims were brought to Andrew Jackson, still bedridden in the Hermitage from taking a bullet in a duel. Enraged, he called for volunteers, concluding, "The health of your general is restored. He will command in person." By overwhelming a small outpost in Alabama and butchering its occupants, the Creeks, now called Red Sticks, had awakened a sleeping giant, as the Japanese found out at Pearl Harbor. The Creeks weren't a formidable military force, there were never more than 1,000 warriors that could be assembled for a single battle. Opposing them were a force of 10,000 Americans, many of them trained and armed with artillery. Four columns would converge on the Creeks, three of them having difficulty traversing the rugged terrain. But not General Andrew Jackson, with a force of 2,500 Tennessee volunteers, including Davy Crockett, he had no doubt to the outcome of the campaign, after all he was leading, "Hard fighting, hard drinking, straight shooting, ring tailed roarers, half horse and half alligators, who lived on whiskey and bears meat salted in a hailstorm, peppered with buckshot and broiled in a flash flood of lightening." Some very tough dudes. Jackson would destroy the Creek nation by slicing straight through it, shredding it, cutting a highway down to Mobile. He then learned that some 800 Red Sticks had fortified a position at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallpapossa River, where they awaited the all or nothing battle, and Old Hickory marched at the head of 2,500 men to give it to them. The Horseshoe was a peninsula of about 100 acres of brush and small timbered gullies. Across its neck the Indians had built a zig zag row of logs with double gunports. At its rear they had drawn up hundreds of canoes in the event they were forced to flee. Jackson arrayed his main body with artillery opposite the log breastwork and sent Coffee's cavalry across the river to cut off their retreat. Coffee without orders, sent his scouts to swim the river and stole the Creeks canoes. Coffee then used them to attack the Indian rear. To the front, Jackson's artillery slammed harmlessly into the breastworks of soft pine logs. Old Hickory then called for a frontal assault. Major Lemuel Montgomery was the first on the works, and the Red Sticks shot him dead. Next came tall Sam Houston, leaping upon the breastwork waiving his sword and jumping down. A fierce fight followed. Gradually, the Red Sticks were pressed back. They fought bravely. At dusk, one band held out in a fortress at the bottom of the ravine. Jackson called for volunteers to take it. Sam Houston stepped forward and was hit with two musket balls and was carried off the field. After, Jackson set the fort afire with flaming arrows and the battle came to an end. More than 550 Indians had fallen on the field, and perhaps 200 more had perished in the river. Jackson's losses were 49 killed and 157 wounded. With the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the Creek War came to an end. Led by Red Eagle, the Red Sticks made their peace, and 29 million acres were ceded to the United States. The Creeks protested, and Jackson replied, through this territory, "The path that Tecumseh trod. That path must be stopped. Until this is done your nation cannot expect happiness or security." On August 9 1814, the sorrowing Creeks signed the treaty of Fort Jackson. Andrew Jackson wrote his wife Rachael back at the Hermitage that this, "Disagreeable Business" was done and, "I know your humanity would feel for a fallen nation robbed of half its patrimony." Patrimony: Valuable objects, land, inheritance... (I had to look it up...) Image 1. Americans attacking the Creek Breastworks. 2. Battle map. 3. General Andrew Jackson. 4. Aerial view of the battlefield.

@BillKristol Bottom line? You’d think Trump was the greatest President in history if you had a seat at the table. You don’t, because he knows what you are…..so you hate him. It doesn’t matter what he does, you will rail against it. Go away, collaborator.

Nice to wake up to good news: the democratic opposition wins on no new funding for ICE and Border Patrol. All credit to Senate Dems who held firm and prevailed. All honor to the people of Minneapolis who showed the way in resisting and defeating the forces of authoritarianism.

@grahamformaine Yeah, yeah, your entire platform is “Get Trump”. We know you have nothing else.

When I get elected, I am not going to vote to confirm a single nominee that comes out of the Trump administration.

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

@Mr_Husky1 Cimmanon

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)

@SeattleIndepen1 “He knows that failure in this endeavor means life in jail”. This all day long…..in addition to likely losing his entire family fortune, members of his cabinet also in jail, and his family being persecuted for the rest of their lives. This is a zero-sum game & he knows it.

Why I have not been particularly concerned over the Iran war? It’s pretty simple, really. Those who are most worked up tend to be: 1) Putting very high levels of trust in media reports. Stop that. You should know better. 2) Assuming that Israel has some incredible leverage or control over Trump, and that this whole thing is “for Israel.” I’m Not at all convinced. 3) convinced that Hegseth and Trump and others just don’t know the stakes, don’t understand basic strategy, and are rushing towards midterm defeat. Dubious at best. 4) Insistent that there is no exit plan, no strategy, etc. dubious. The first principle of warfare is deception. There’s no point, other than soothing domestic political nerves, of laying out exactly what you’re after and when you intend to achieve specific milestones. When you put aside these assumptions, things become far more ambiguous. Trump has proven an astute political operator who intends to create a long-term legacy. He’s shown himself to be shrewd and unbelievably tenacious. He knows that failure in this endeavor means life in jail. When you factor that in, and that’s a huge variable, and you develop reasonable skepticism towards media reports, and realize there’s endless psyops going on by numerous actors desperate for Trump to fail, you calm down. My prediction remains: Trump holds on or gain seats in the midterms. On a deeper level: Iran may be difficult to invade, but that same terrain makes massing their own forces rapidly very challenging. The US has absolute intelligence superiority in terms of overhead sensors and likely the ability to highly degrade Iran’s communications. Besides, it’s not like the US will try to take over the country. But raids to grab some territory and force an Iranian response and then counterattack, leading to Iranian confusion and demoralization? Yes. The other part, that no one is talking about, is what this administration’s end game is. Whatever it is, 1) they aren’t saying, and 2) they presume it will lead to midterm victory. Other than that, 95% of what has been reported and predicted about this war is likely pure nonsense.