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You’re referring to the press as if they fulfill the role of the press as it was intended by the First Amendment. At the same time you know very well that they abandoned all civic responsibility years ago. They violate our social contract every day. They destroy the innocent to create a narrative. Get caught. And do it again the next month. They follow no rules, and certainly no moral code. They are overwhelmingly responsible for the toxic division between race, class and politics in our communities. They are the very reason we can’t have a rational conversation with anyone on the left. They show no regret - no sign of stopping. So why should they get special rights while they spend every waking hour pushing propaganda? Haven’t they abused those rights long enough? How long do we play the role of honorable target? What do we do to put them back in their lane, make a strong argument? You have education and expertise and eloquence far beyond any gifts I will ever have. You have the words and skill to make that case. Make it. Show us how us how to get them back to the point where they deserve the First Amendment.

🚨 JUST IN: Florida Southern College has just created an ROTC SCHOLARSHIP in honor of fallen Captain Cody Khork, who was lost to Operation Epic Fury Well-deserved 🙏🏻 SHERIFF GRADY JUDD: "Normally, the pictures I hold up are of bad guys. This is a hero. This man went off to war at the direction of his country." "This is Captain Cody Khork. He's 35. He's from Winter Haven." "He was in the U.S. Army Reserves. He was called up. He died in the early days as a result of an attack." "His family has asked that we escort him past Florida Southern College, where he went to college." "This man is a hero, and he died in order that we can live in a free and democratic society, and he did what was asked of him of his country." "Once he is escorted to the funeral home, which is in Winter Haven, he will remain there until he has services this weekend, and then on Monday we will escort him to Bushnell, which is his final resting place." "From the time he arrives in Polk County on that airplane until the time we take him to Bushnell, Captain Cody will not be by himself." "Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, there will be a deputy standing guard because it's the right thing to do. We're proud of him." "We're proud of all our military personnel that are standing in the gap and doing what this country has asked of them." 🇺🇸

John Cornyn is trying to convince voters that he's a new man, and the next 6 years will be different. I want you to know that I'm going to fight every bit as hard as I always have. Unlike Cornyn, no Democrat president will ever thank me for restricting gun ownership.

Professional Military Education should produce warfighters and leaders—not wokesters. That’s why we are establishing a Task Force to evaluate our Senior Service Colleges and ensure the focus is where it belongs. No distractions. Just warfighting.

UPDATE: This Task Force has been established & is well underway, @SecWar. Our Senior Service Colleges are some of the most valuable @DeptofWar institutions, preparing our officers to think strategically & creatively, pursue peace through strength, and - when necessary - fight & win our nation's wars. This Task Force is going to ensure that these colleges & the graduates they produce remain the best in the world.

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

Melika Azizi is 18 years old. The regime wants her dead because she isn't afraid of them. ​While the world slept, they raided her home. While they beat her in Lakan Prison, she held her head high. When the judge handed down a death sentence, she didn't beg for her life—she demanded justice for the fallen. ​"How can I stay silent?" she asked. ​We cannot be the ones who stay silent while they try to hang a teenager for her bravery. Silence is a death sentence. Noise is a lifeline. ​ACT NOW: Save this post. Share it. Tag three friends who will help spread her name. We have to make the cost of executing her higher than the cost of letting her go. ​#MelikaAzizi #SaveMelika #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights

@JacquiHeinrich Uh huh, vicious.

NEW: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, & Japan issue joint statement expressing “readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts” to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, welcoming nations engaging in prep/planning & coordinating SPR releases and ways to increase output. Calls for Iran to “cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping, and to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817” Read here: gov.uk/government/new…

@EricLDaugh Ummm, could we get another Scott Bessent for fed chair?

🚨 WOW! Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just announced plans to use Iran's own oil AGAINST THEM The strategy: un-sanction 140 million Iranian barrels already on the water, and UNLEASH 10-14 days of supply "We'd be using the Iranian barrels AGAINST the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers!" @RapidResponse47 Trump's all-star team is unmatched.

Rupert, England cannot wait till 2029. Nor the rest of Great Britain. It’s killing us to watch this. It can’t be explained. Where are the Brits we know and love? Why are so many so passive, so comfortably numb? What happened to the men and women who ruled the globe? Take back your country. Do it now. You have friends who still care. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

The people who ‘lead’ Britain are ignorant. They are incompetent. They are dishonest. It is a terrible combination.

I honestly thought I was reading a quoted piece from Hitchins. I had to look you up. Excellent piece. Bookmarked it. Followed you. I’m an American Christian so I’m sure we disagree in some areas. But your logic is irrefutable. They do not want to coexist. It’s past time everyone accepts that. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🍻

Excellent article. Here are a few builds. First, it must be pointed out that Islam - not some extreme variant, but bog-standard orthodox Islam as preached and practised in Britain - rejects any notion of integration or ideological compromise with other religions or cultural norms that contradict its edicts. The doctrine of al-wala' wal-bara' commands loyalty to the faith and disavowal of non-Muslim ways. The Prophet's own hadith warns that "whoever imitates a people is one of them." Muslims are expected to reject man-made structures and "innovation," and to accept the barbarities of the Quran and the Hadith as divinely sanctioned prescriptions for how life must be lived. No radical fringe is required to reach these conclusions. The mainstream canon gets you there on its own. Second, when Muslims form a majority in a territory, they are divinely instructed to impose Islamic rule on everyone. If you belong to the "people of the book" - another Abrahamic faith - you may be permitted to live, provided you pay a poll tax (jizya) to the Muslim rulers in a state of, as the Quran specifies, humiliation. Ibn Kathir's commentary on this verse is unambiguous: the jizya exists to demonstrate the subjugation of non-Muslims to Islamic authority. If you are a Hindu, Islam considers you a pagan, and even under the most lenient schools of jurisprudence, your status under Islamic rule is one of codified subjugation - discriminatory taxation, legal inequality, prohibition on building temples, inability to testify against a Muslim in court, and periodic persecution. The "tolerant" version of Islam is tolerance in the sense of "we will permit you to exist under conditions we dictate," not tolerance in the sense of equal standing before the law. As for leaving Islam, the Prophet's instruction is plain: "whoever changes his religion, kill him." All four Sunni schools of jurisprudence agree. Abu Bakr's wars against apostates were fought within a year of the Prophet's death. The only reason we are not all living under these arrangements is that Muslims are - for now - a minority in Britain. Third, public Islamic prayer is, as Nick says, political - and has been since the Prophet's time. Islam does not recognise a distinction between religious and political life. The Friday sermon was historically the platform from which caliphs proclaimed authority and issued edicts. The call to prayer is prescribed to be heard by the community. The separation of church and state is a uniquely Reformation-driven Western achievement, and Islam explicitly repudiates it. Communal public prayer in a non-Muslim land is therefore an assertion of presence, of dominance, and of rejection of the norms of the host nation - whether every individual participant intends it as such or not. Fourth, we owe precisely zero explanations for why we resent this. Zero. We do not have to be rational about it. We do not have to draw comparisons with other religions. Any explanation we give is the right one, because it is our land, and we govern it as we see fit. But I will give you my reasons. While I am an atheist and regard all religion as a collection of mostly rubbish - and religious belief as a species of derangement - Britain's culture and values have been steeped in Christianity. This includes our laws, which are inseparable from our culture. We may not be as Christian as we were fifty years ago, but anyone born in this country who was not shielded from it (as a great many Muslims are, thanks to their parents) will have absorbed some of Christianity's gifts into their cultural DNA. Islam is the antithesis of all of this. Its canonical texts prescribe the striking of disobedient wives, value a woman's testimony at half a man's, mandate amputation for theft, flogging for fornication, and stoning for adultery. Its most authenticated hadith collections contain explicit antisemitism - including a prophecy that Muslims will hunt and kill Jews at the end of times, with even the stones and trees calling out to betray those in hiding. It is violently hostile to other faiths, to non-belief, and to apostasy. It rejects secular democratic rule as a matter of doctrine. It has resisted reformation for fourteen centuries. And it has produced decades of relentless terrorism - against us and, by an even greater margin, against fellow Muslims. From the Algerian civil war to the sectarian slaughter in Iraq, from Boko Haram to the Taliban, from the Peshawar school massacre to the Manchester Arena bombing, the body count is staggering, and the majority of the dead are Muslim. The violence is structural. It is doctrinal. Western foreign policy did not create it. Islam is foreign to us. It is completely and utterly repulsive as an ideology. And the reason I happen to have Muslim friends, and have got on exceptionally well with Muslim colleagues, is that they were never hugely religious.

@GovBobFerguson What buffoon. Everyone knows state law does not apply to federal agencies. This guy is convinced his audience is the lowest common denominator. Why is it that all Democrats think they can say absurd shit and think anyone is still listening to them?

I just signed a historic bill. In Washington state, law enforcement officers, including ICE, are now prohibited from wearing masks.

I’ve been called racist and islamophobic hundreds of times today for outlining Restore Britain’s policy on banning halal slaughter, the burqa, sharia law, cousin marriage and plenty more. I want to be really clear about our party’s official response. We do not give a shit.

@DataRepublican @kagsundaram No one believes the ‘sincere’ part. And with many good reasons.

Ok, I'm apparently not good at writing parables, because nearly everyone interpreted it wrong. I used a parable because I want to respect others' service records, especially when not all the facts are out yet. So let's pivot to a much more direct analogy. In 2016, career intelligence professionals, people who had genuinely spent their lives fighting America's enemies, became convinced that a foreign power had compromised the incoming president. They had data points. Real ones. Trump had business dealings in Moscow. He said nice things about Putin on camera. People in his orbit had meetings with Russian nationals. A dossier appeared with salacious claims. Each data point individually was... a data point. But they were looking for Russia. So they found Russia. Everywhere. They were so certain they were right that they leaked to the press. They used classification authority to spy on American citizens. They presented unverified opposition research to a FISA court as intelligence. Peter Strzok texted about "insurance policies." Andrew McCabe authorized leaks. They were experienced professionals who genuinely believed the republic was in danger. Their service records were real. Their concern was sincere. And they were wrong.

In this post analyst Phillip Davis @mad_liberals provides evidence showing that there wasn't only 3,930 double scanned ballots added in the machine recount to force a match with the original machine count- there was actually close to 6,000 fake votes added. Because they also added new ballots and even test ballots to force the match. Now recall that in the original Joe Rossi Case (SEB 2021-181, not to be confused with the later Moncla-Rossi SEB 2023-025) Rossi identified over 6,000 erroneous votes added to the hand count. These included duplicate (double reported) batches and misidentified batches, which collectively gave Biden a fake net gain of around 4,000 according to Rossi's case transcripts. Now consider that Rossi's findings were completed unrelated to Phillip Davis' later work with double scanned ballots, yet they both show a roughly similar amount of manipulation to force the match. In historical research we call this Independent Attestation. It's a very powerful piece of evidence. I conducted research on the duplicate hand count entries in 2021 and I believed then, and still do, that the duplicate entries show evidence of intent. I filed a formal complaint with the office of @Georgia_AG and his office refused to investigate. The holistic evidence from both the hand count and machine recount show evidence of intent with a roughly consistent amount of manipulation. The case is now in the hands of the @FBI.

Hope not hate have today labelled me as one of Britain's "most extreme MPs". This is unacceptable. I want top spot.

We will not lie to the British people. Restoring Britain will require decisions that are controversial and unpleasant. We are going to strip millions of healthy Brits who refuse to work of benefits. If that causes outrage from those who think the taxpayer owes them a living, so be it. We are going to deport all illegal and burdensome migrants. If that means millions go, so be it. We are going to outlaw incompatible cultural and religious practices. If that means those who refuse to integrate no longer feel welcome, so be it. We are going to execute pedophiles, rapists, and murderers if that is what the British people want. If that means we are condemned by subversive "human rights" groups, so be it. We take no pleasure in these measures. It is a damning indictment of our political class that they are necessary in the first place. But necessary they are.

@Ofer_binshtok No, not this Christian genocide. But many others.

Question, did you know? That between the years 2000-2026, Muslims from Syria and Iraq carried out massacres that led to the ethnic cleansing of approximately 2.8 million Christians who lived in the region. Some were murdered and some managed to flee. This is a decrease of about 85% of the Christian population that lived in the area. I would appreciate it if you could answer in the comments whether you knew about this.

@EmmanuelMacron We’ll pick up the phone and call Iran and tell them that. We don’t need to hear your impotent prattle.

I have just spoken with the Emir of Qatar and President Trump following the strikes that hit gas production facilities in Iran and Qatar today. It is in our common interest to implement, without delay, a moratorium on strikes targeting civilian infrastructure, particularly energy and water supply facilities. Civilian populations and their essential needs, as well as the security of energy supplies, must be protected from military escalation.

@CynicalPublius Is there any aspect of their mentality that is understandable? I quit listening to Democrats 20 years ago. I recommend it.

Why do Democrats always want America’s military to fail in its assigned missions if a Republican is POTUS? I honestly do not understand this mentality.

@amjadt25 🙏 You have friends. 🇺🇸

The New Middle East starts NOW. FIRM. Unshakable. No Islamist force. No Islamic regime. Will stand. GAME OVER. The UAE leads and the future follows.