N. Richard Janis

@foxandfriends I hope the Administration is listening to you…

GEN. JACK KEANE: "We should not extend the ceasefire deadline. That gives us the muscle to get them right now... to admit that they're going to give us everything that we need to do to put this to an end once and for all." "And if they don't do that, then the blockade continues and we rearm and we get back into combat operations." "They want to kick the can down the road, in terms of extending the ceasefire, so they can get better terms later on. That's who they are... and even when they agree to terms... we got to recognize these guys are liars and cheats and we've got to stay on top of them." | @gen_jackkeane

@Osint613 It's not just the IRGC salaries--the entire economy will collapse and will take years to recover. Iran thought using the Strait of Hormuz would give it leverage, but exactly the opposite is the case. Don't let up.

All you need to do is keep the naval blockade on Iran for 4 weeks, and the IRGC can’t pay salaries. Now is not the time to show weakness to the IRGC.

@RedWavePress Vance is a major disappointment and he lacks the integrity or judgment to be President.

Ben Shapiro GOES OFF on JD Vance for Recommending Theo Von’s Podcast at Turning Point USA Event: “Maybe the Vice President thinks he has to kiss Theo Von’s half-r*tarded a$$ in order to keep him in the coalition, and that’s his political calculation. I think it’s a bad political calculation. There is NO politician that is fully capable of just picking up a prior president’s coalition and then just carrying it forward.” “Theo Von is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist… and engages in all the sorts of conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens… and that’s the guy that the Vice President thinks everybody should listen to.”

@thehoffather Well, this unhinged embarrassment has obviously not bothered to READ the 25th Amendment, the implementation of which is not triggered by Congressional action.

Rep Pramila Jayapal (D-GAZA) says Democrats invoke the 25th Amendment to no longer require the Vice President if they gain power. “We need to do whatever we can to get him out." Tell me again, which party is a threat to Democracy?

And this is our NATO ally?! Erdogan is a Muslim Brotherhood extremist, an anti-democratic autocrat, an Armenian genocide apologist, a proud proponent of Kurdish ethnic cleansing, and a virulent antisemite. We should completely distance ourselves from this unhinged and deceitful dictator.

🇹🇷🇮🇱 ÚLTIMA HORA: Erdogan dice que atacaría a Israel. “Si no fuera por la mediación de Pakistán, nos habríamos unido a la guerra”. Pregunta: ¿Si es Irán quien atacó a Turquía, entonces por qué atacaría Israel?

These "negotiations" should be short but sweet: either Iran promptly agrees to complete capitulation to all of our demands, without conditions, or the discussions end and we resume our military operations and finish the job. Anything else is just the Iranians stalling for time and hoping Trump will lose the will to continue.

Another lie from remnants of regime in Iran. From @WSJ: “Top Iranian official Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said negotiations with the U.S. in Pakistan can begin only when Iran has received ‘blocked assets,’ seemingly raising a new condition ahead of talks set for this weekend. ‘Two of the measures mutually agreed upon…have yet to be implemented: a cease-fire in Lebanon and the release of Iran’s blocked assets prior to the commencement of negotiations,’ he said on X. ‘These two matters must be fulfilled before negotiations begin.’” @POTUS has accurately stated the regime’s leverage: Their only “card” is threat of terrorism over Strait. Could be a very short meeting tomorrow. Battle back on by Sunday? Bluster from a defeated regime with a shattered military is to be expected but President Trump has accurately stated the situation. Hard to imagine him taking a big loss after gaining a big win —Iran accepted negotiations and two week ceasefire which they said they would never do. Of course the program will stay focused on this w/ @EllisItems, @EliLake, @charlescwcooke and @bdomenech followed by @tarzanajoe and the @Hillsdale Dialogue with school’s president Dr. Larry Arnn. Tune in or @WatchSalemNews.

@SleeperNFL @JordanRaanan @SleeperGiants Giants would never trade Lawrence to another team in the division.

Consensus around the NFL is that if the Giants traded Dexter Lawrence the return would be in the range of late first-round pick to second-rounder, per @JordanRaanan

@BigSarge_1969 @AlexF645767 @Kingof95n64 @FBGreatMoments That’s just plain factually incorrect. By no measure did Washington have a top 3 defense or a top third defense.

@AlexF645767 @NRichardJanis @Kingof95n64 @FBGreatMoments Not saying his season sucked, if his TEAM didnt have playoff success, he might not be in the discussion. People discount Big Ben for his defense, but Wash had a top 3rd def, not a bottom feeding team JD had to cover for. Plenty of debate to be had, but "without a doubt" is silly

Best rookie seasons in NFL history. (Graphic: GreatestHighlights)

He actually set multiple rookie marks, including: •Most rushing yards by a rookie QB (891) •Most 4th-quarter/OT TD passes by a rookie (12) •Highest completion percentage by a rookie (69%) During the 2024–25 postseason, Daniels set NFL rookie records for a single postseason including: •Most total yards by a rookie QB: 957 •Most passing yards by a rookie QB: 822 •Most completions by a rookie: 75 •Most passing touchdowns by a rookie: 5 •Highest completion percentage (min. volume): 65.8% •Most rushing yards by a rookie QB (playoffs): 135

@Kingof95n64 @NRichardJanis @FBGreatMoments What rookie records did he break? I'll wait. Not passing yds. Not total yds. Not passing TD'S. Not wins. Not rushing TD's...yds per game? No. QBR? No. Single game yds? No. So again...argument falls flat. Smoke that

@onfoenemJD5 @BigSarge_1969 @FBGreatMoments Jayden Daniels won more playoff games in his rookie season (two) than Justin Herbert has won in his career (zero).

@BigSarge_1969 @NRichardJanis @FBGreatMoments You’re so so lost and as a chargers fan I don’t blame you. Worry about if man winning a single playoff game before talking down on my qb

ALL he had was better team success??! That’s enough in itself, and he did it with a far inferior roster too. Plus, his stats were way better than any of the other qbs you mentioned. Ben’s rookie year performance was mediocre at best; he just happened to be on a team with a very good roster and a great defense.

@FBGreatMoments Wide gap between Jayden Daniels (# 1) and everyone else. Best rookie qb season ever and qb is the hardest position to play.

@GordonGChang Precisely.

The loss of one fourth-generation F-15E fighter to enemy fire in 35 days of war is not an “absolute humiliation.”

@DrJStrategy Saw that earlier today. Good analysis, although it may be giving too much credit to Trump as a strategic thinker.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@indyfor45th47th That’s an old clip…

🚨BOMBSHELL: Italian PM Giorgia Meloni slammed European leaders for pushing to distance themselves from the US and President Trump! "What do you mean exactly? Distance ourselves? Leave NATO? Close American bases? Sever trade relations... and then what STORM McDONALDS?"

He actually got less than a year under the federal system. By imposing a sentence of a year and a day, rather than a year, he becomes eligible for good time served credit, so his actual sentence will likely be about ten months. Moreover, he may well be moved to a halfway house for the last few months of his term.

Meet Nancy Brasel, the U.S. district judge who sentenced Feeding Our Future fraudster Abdul Abubakar Ali to ONLY 1 year in prison because he showed "genuine remorse" for his crimes. Steals millions. Gets caught. Says sorry. Only gets 1 year in prison. The “Justice” system

@JayDanielsMVP @john_keim A great person and a Hall of Fame player, but it is time to move on with younger players. He'd be great as a coach but at this point, as a player, he is a liability in pass coverage that can no longer be ignored.

#Commanders “would never shut the door” on LB Bobby Wagner returning to the team, as reported by @john_keim in his latest ESPN article. Would you be in favor of the team bringing back Wagner?

@Doranimated FAFO...

The Houthis say their "fingers are on the trigger." If any of the following three red lines are crossed, they are ready to join in the fight on the side of Iran: 1) If any additional countries join the US-Israel coalition. This is a direct threat aimed at Saudi Arabia and the UAE, urging them to stay out of the conflict. 2) If the US-Israel coalition uses the Red Sea to launch attacks against Iran (or any Muslim country). This means the Houthis will not allow US or Israeli warships, aircraft carriers, or military assets to operate from, transit through, or use the Red Sea/Bab el-Mandeb Strait as a base or route for strikes on Iran. 3) It the war against Iran persists or escalates. In other words, they reserve the right to step in militarily when it suits them. This is their most flexible trigger. It gives them room to decide later according to developments on the ground.

@sidrosenberg19 @KathyHochul @GovPritzker @GavinNewsom I'd like to nominate Governor Spanberger of Virginia...

Just when you thought you couldn’t do worse than @KathyHochul, fat and stupid @GovPritzker and clown @GavinNewsom, New Jersey is making a serious run with Mikey Muhammad Sherrill! This horrible Governor has gone from taking selfies with Imams with alleged HAMAS ties to introducing legislature putting our own law enforcement’s lives in danger. You would think after seeing innocent Americans that include 83 year old vet Richard Williams, 18 year old college student Sheridan Gorman and young Stephanie Minter all murdered by ILLEGALS that our politicians would see the light. Nope! Not @GovSherrillNJ! Not @SpanbergerForVA! These Democrats are all TRAITORS and none care how many innocent Americans die! @realDonaldTrump @MarkwayneMullin

@TimRunsHisMouth You really couldn't make this stuff up...

Cory Booker went to an empty and efficient Newark airport to complain that “Donald Trump has bought chaos to our airports.” His team didn't even edit the video to make it look like something bad was happening. He proved Trump was right to send ICE in.