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Tucker Carlson: “There are people in the government who really hate Europe and I don’t understand why.” Follow: @AFpost

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

Hasan Minhaj decided to do a segment on the H-1B visa issue, even sharing clips from 60 Minutes’ coverage of the scandal involving Americans being fired and having to train their H-1B replacements to receive severance. Instead of sympathizing and presenting a fair assessment from the perspective that this is a labor issue that needs reform, he chose to mock the American workers for being replaced simply because they were… white. He then tried to conflate immigrant tech founders with H-1B workers, even though most immigrant tech founders never used the H-1B visa program. He also falsely frames H-1B visas as being based on ‘merit,’ when in reality the selection process is a random lottery that has little to do with merit. The segment is poorly researched and rather crass in its presentation. He also appears to still be upset about his Netflix show being canceled, as well as the backlash he faced for allegedly misrepresenting the racism he said he experienced growing up in liberal Davis, CA.

The US, the Anglosphere, and continental Europe spent trillions trying to make intermittent renewables practical at scale and failed. China succeeded (and is exporting that success), in part by using enormous amounts of coal to provide cheap energy for manufacturing.

Pierre Thiriar—a Justice on the Court of Appeal in Antwerp—wants me in handcuffs "When he states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of human nature....the boundaries of Article 21 have been manifestly crossed." "Belgian case law has made it clear that packaging a discourse as 'scientific', 'philosophical', or 'critical' does not prevent it from being punishable when it objectively incites discrimination or propagates ideas of racial superiority."

"There's an academic consensus that all races are exactly the same." "I'm a credentialled academic who works in this area and I don't agree with that." <off to jail> "I said there's a consensus. Anyone else disagree?"

Off Leash update 20 March GAZA •As the U.S. and Israel pounded Iran last week, U.S. mediators shared a demilitarization proposal with Iran's Palestinian proxy, Hamas. •The offer demands a "complete handover" and "full decommissioning" of all Hamas weapons - as well as those of all other armed groups in Gaza - and guarantees support for the territory's large-scale rebuilding in return. •Hamas reportedly has about a week to formally respond, but without a biting ultimatum, its leaders will probably stall for more time to strengthen their control over Gaza so they can negotiate a softer commitment to disarmament than this proposal, which one official criticized as a "take it or leave it" offer. IRAN •The European Union and Japan issued a joint statement expressing their "readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait [of Hormuz]," but several officials involved were careful to emphasize that "appropriate efforts" did not include the military support Pres. Trump is asking allies to send. •The WSJ suggested that Trump may try to prove his claim that U.S. forces alone can reopen the strait by deploying around 2,200 Marines to seize several islands in the area and use them as a base to thwart Iranian attacks on commercial shipping. The Marine force is due to arrive from Japan next week. OIL •The U.S. Treasury Department is reportedly considering relaxing sanctions on around 140 million barrels of Iranian oil that's already loaded and at sea, in a bid to ease surging oil prices amidst wartime supply disruptions. •A similar relaxation of Russian oil sanctions last week added about 130 million barrels to the global marketplace and temporarily lowered crude prices, but prices spiked again after Israel escalated attacks on Iranian energy sites. •Critics blasted the idea of gifting two adversaries with windfall profits they can reinvest in the wars they're actively fighting against the U.S. (Iran) or its interests (Russia). •A regulatory consultant quoted in the Washington Post complained: "Two countries that we’ve spent years sanctioning are now the direct beneficiaries of a conflict the United States chose to start." CUBA •As the Trump administration mulls relaxing sanctions on Russian oil, the Kremlin is stress-testing another of its foreign policy priorities: its energy blockade on Cuba. •At least one state-owned (and U.S.-sanctioned) Russian tanker appears to be headed for Cuba to deliver the fuel-starved island 730,000 barrels of crude oil. [In a coy move, the Anatoly Kolodkin is broadcasting its destination as "Atlantis, USA," which is impossible because a) Atlantis doesn't exist, and b) sanctioned vessels are prohibited from docking in real U.S. ports. Tracking analysts say its course points to Cuba.] •The Treasury Department quickly added Cuba to the list of countries barred from buying newly-unsanctioned Russian oil (the others are North Korea, Iran, and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine). But that's unlikely to stop Russia from testing the U.S. blockade and delivering Cuba's first oil shipment in three months. VENEZUELA •Venezuela's U.S.-backed interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, fired her long-serving defense minister, Gen. Vladimir Padrino López, and other top brass yesterday. •López and the other ousted officials had been loyal to Rodriguez's deposed predecessor, Nicolas Maduro, and likely stood in the way of the reforms the U.S. is pressuring Rodriguez to make. •However, the fact that Rodriguez appointed another long-loyal, U.S.-sanctioned hardliner - military counterintelligence chief Gustavo González - to replace López suggests she's not in a hurry to make meaningful democratic reforms. This reshuffle lets her appear to be taking action while merely consolidating power for herself.

The base supports Mass Deportation.

@Bubblebathgirl What’s wrong with nïggërs?

Mayor Mamdani’s homophobic, racist terrorist-sympathizing wife, who recently got exposed called black people ni***rs and gay people f**s, has shut down her 𝕏 account.

This is a good example of talking about things you don't remotely understand as if you did. 2022: Establishment throws ~$15M at Joe to try to defeat him in the primary (he has ~$4M) and he wins but comes out with crazy high negatives and broke - facing a Democrat with $3M. General Election voting starts 6 weeks. DC Republicans - armed with three consecutive polls showing Joe up 5 points - offer no help and spend $8M on the district to the north that we lost by 8 points. Joe loses by less than 1%, ultimately outspent 6 to 1. 2024: Joe and DC allies ultimately raise and spend about $8M, but the now incumbent Democrat is the #5 fundraiser in the country and spends an eye-watering $23M plus dark money (c)3. The Republican who held the seat previously never would have withstood that spending disparity, and in the previous election, DC GOP had to bail her out with many more millions than they ever gave Joe. But don't let the truth get in the way of your engagement farming. Please carry on.

@ATJackson47 @captive_dreamer So, no mass deportations?

Nobody is changing this Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda. If you’re in the country illegally, you’re subject to deportation — and President Trump’s highest enforcement priority remains the deportation of illegal alien criminals who endanger American communities.

Joe Kent: “The 🇺🇸 people didn’t have the full story. Our country didn’t have a vital national interest in this current fight. I will not send our men and women off to die on foreign battlefields.”

Reports of the USCIS blocking H-1B holders who lose their employment from getting a B-1 or B-2 visa. This is a departure from how the USCIS would handle H-1Bs who lose employment. The USCIS claims that searching for a job is not a B-2 visa approved activity. B-2s and B-1s being denied means those who lose their employment on H-1Bs will have to leave the nation, and thus when they apply for another H-1B, boom $100k fee.

This is the real election fraud.

That ticket would totally decimate the Republican Party. It's just hilarious to watch Israel First, currently responsible for the coming midterm disaster, argue with Mike on this. It almost certainly outperforms Ross Perot in 1992. Only real question is, "By how much?"

Joe Kent says he refused to be a part of the Trump administration because his conscience would not allow him to lie to the American people about another war. He says the United States has absolutely no vital interest in a war against Iran. "I will not, in good conscience, send young men and women off to die on foreign battlefields."

Trump's donors, whom he insisted he didn't cater to, are the ones who actually said this. They used fake push polling to get Trump to agree with them that exploiting illegals for cheap labor is the more popular American position. Trump’s Art of the Deal is capitulation.

This is yet another example of punishing someone via the “process”. Kent will spend millions, need a legal defense fund, and have his reputation destroyed. As in many of the cases from the Russiagate era. I thought we were done with this banana republic type of bullshit.

Wait till he finds out what polls show voters think about bombing Iran and tariffs

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on the Pentagon’s $200 billion supplemental for the Iran war: “I will not vote for a war supplemental. I am so tired of spending money elsewhere.”