Jim bob
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If it’s not power, then why are, the entire EU, and the GCC pushing to keep the Strait of Hormuz open or avoid conflict?
Why hasn’t the regime changed yet? How can two nuclear powers fail to defeat a country that has no real air defense and has been under sanctions for 47 years?
If this isn’t power, then what is it?
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Reporter: "America is a superpower. Why don't you back down or compromise?"
Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei: "We are also a superpower.
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@HewittNewton @Shadow007US @DoesntMatter899 No she was arrested for leaking classified information. You don’t get to decide for yourself what is and isn’t classified. You sign and agreement to follow the law. we live in a democracy we don’t get to pick and choose.
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@Shadow007US @DoesntMatter899 Proven FALSE.
The Mueller Report showed the involvment Trump's campaign had with Russia.
#RealityWinner an airforce translator blew the whistle. Trump jailed and gagged her for YEARS.
Trump should have been indicted znd imprisoned. Just as Nixon should have been imprisoned.
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🚨JUST IN: Twenty CIA and FBI agents have blown the whistle, confirming that Barack Obama and his Chief of Staff, CIA Director John Brennan, created the false Russia hoax, doctored intelligence to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States in 2016.
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@cazy_mo @Shadow007US @dailyglimps24 Notice how it’s “200 times” vaguely like what does that even mean? What does a contact entail? You may wonder gee wasn’t Christopher Steele foreign as well? The difference is the Clinton campaign paid for it. So again, even if the claims were true, it’s a technicality really.
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@Shadow007US @dailyglimps24 LOL. Duh…otay.
You Trumper imbeciles are hilariously ignorant of facts, truth , & evidence. LIES are your only defense, stupidity your only guide.
There was NO “Russia hoax”…
only anti-American fools
who like to pretend such.
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@cazy_mo @Shadow007US @dailyglimps24 Yes this is the evidence we are referring to in the whistleblower report. Ultimately the case hinged in George Papadopoulos running his mouth to a pretty woman with a wire bragging about how he was in the process introducing the Trump campaign To some Russians.
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@anders_aslund Iran nukes aren’t a petty issue. In what world do you live in?
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Trump will go to history as the president who has caused the US the most harm.
Losing any sense of foreign policy strategy.
Alienating everybody but a few dictators.
Wasting US military resources on petty issues.
The big question: Is this treason or stupidity?
Mia 🇺🇸@MiaForTrump
In just over a year, Trump has made the US weaker, poorer, less respected, and dangerously overstretched. It will take decades to rebuild the standing he has completely destroyed. Raise your hand ✋ if you think Donald Trump is a disaster for America.
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BREAKING: This is absolute cinema 🔥
🇺🇸 Trump: We are removing 5,000 USA troops from Europe.
🇵🇱Polish PM Tusk: "NATO breaking apart. Russia sanctions eased. Europe in an energy meltdown. Ukraine aid stopped. All US troops out of Europe. Feels like Putin wrote the script.
Starting to look like Trump is a Moscow’s asset" 🔥
The man literally exposed Trump 🔥👏
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@EmmaVigeland Well about 45% of the military is non white begin with so….
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"Since Trump returned to office in January last year, Pete Hegseth... has fired or forcibly retired 24 generals and senior commanders, with no performance-related reason given. About 60% have been Black or female." theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
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@Scaramucci Remember when you were in the Trump White House then flipped to the democrats? How could you make such an ideological jump? It’s not like you’re going from Clinton to bush or Obama to Biden. You have no ideology or principals. Sifakis did a better job.
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Everybody hates Donald Trump.
-Melania.
-His children.
-The grandkids find him weird.
Honestly, he is weird.
He has orange makeup on, lifts in his shoes, the girdle on some days.
He has to be the king of every single moment.
You cannot tell him something he doesn't know or else he'll flip out.
You can never be perceived as knowing something better than him.
It all fits the same pattern of narcissism, but here's the other side.
He can be charming. He can be gracious.
He is the most powerful man in the world, yet still desperate to be accepted by people with real history behind them.
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@ed_franco @Microinteracti1 Oh thanks for the suggestion. We have known about this for several years now. My first engineering internship in 2017 featured working on a completed and deployed counter uas system. Just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean the dod doesn’t as well.
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@Microinteracti1 Our weapons are too expensive per round. We need to heed the lessons of Ukraine and Iran and start supplyingtroops and allies with cheap, smart offensive and defensive weapons.
I urge Europe to consult with Ukraine to license their weapons until Europe can bring its own online.
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Iran just turned American precision against America. Sixteen bases destroyed across eight countries, using satellite data borrowed from China and Russia and munitions that cost nothing.
Meanwhile the United States had four years watching Ukraine rewrite the rules of modern warfare under live fire. Learned nothing. Sent an invoice. Insulted Zelensky on the way out.
Europe, Canada, and half of Asia signed production agreements with Kyiv instead. Building the new model with the people who actually fought the war.
Washington still thinks it is selling the future. It is selling the past at a premium.
open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…
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@HeinoJenneberg @Microinteracti1 The USA invented drones as well. There’s billions in rfi’s for new counter uas tech. This has been going on for decades. You just didn’t know until cnn told you what drones were in 2022. Any Ukrainian innovations or techniques the USA gets.
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@Microinteracti1 You have to understand that the US has the strongest and most impressive millitary in the history of man. It's full of high tech expensive materials, you know. Really expensive stuff.
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Tariffs are a tax on consumers. The disastrous tariffs that Ashley Moody supports have destroyed jobs and increased prices — it’s hurting families in Florida and it needs to end.
news4jax.com/news/politics/…
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@johnpavlovitz It’s ugly. Why is it racist to have a arch preference? Not to mention this doesn’t match Hyde Park in the slightest.
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And you look much worse in the daylight. What's your point, racist?
Vince Langman@LangmanVince
I didn't think it was possible, but Barack Obama's President Center look worse at night! 🤮😂
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America’s “Favor” That Powers Its Empire
U.S. troops in Germany are not there out of charity—and certainly not to “protect” Germans. They are there because without German soil, American global reach doesn’t function.
Ramstein is the largest U.S. air base outside America. Stuttgart hosts EUCOM and AFRICOM—the command centers for operations across Europe and Africa. Landstuhl has been the lifeline for wounded U.S. soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan. Even drone operations in places like Somalia rely on infrastructure routed through Germany.
Remove that, and you don’t weaken Berlin—you blind Washington.
Yet somehow the narrative persists: America is doing Germany a favour. That Europe is the dependent, the beneficiary, the so-called “freeloader.”
It’s a convenient story. It’s also strategically backwards.
Because the reality is simple: those bases are not acts of generosity. They are instruments of power. And they exist in Germany not for Germany’s benefit—but for America’s ability to operate far beyond its own borders.
Take them away, and the question isn’t what Germany loses.
It’s how much the United States does.
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@ilaks @MarioNawfal When people don’t use industry jargon correctly, it’s because they aren’t in the industry. Easiest way to catch a fake.
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You’re joking right? The only term that captures verilog, C++, assembler, GPU shader code, java, python is “coder”. It’s the widest description of tasks for people who write some form of code. I’ve hired people to do all of these. The actual titles are irrelevant. Even if you write scripts for a test bench, you’re still coding.
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🇺🇸 The WHCD shooter doesn’t fit the typical profile for this type of crime. That’s the problem.
Allen is 31, from LA County, a Caltech mechanical engineering grad with a master’s in computer science.
He built a wheelchair brake prototype, made indie games, was a part-time tutor, “Teacher of the Month” just a few months ago, described as smart, stable, even… gentle.
No record, no flags, not on any watchlist, barely any political footprint whatsoever.
This is the opposite of the type of guy on agencies’ radars.
He books a room at the same hotel hosting one of the most secure civilian gatherings in the U.S. (perhaps the world), walks in like any other guest, same lobby, same flow, seemingly normal routine, nothing off.
Blends in perfectly.
Moves inside the perimeter with a room key, gets close to the checkpoint while the entire political and media class is inside, and then just… flips.
Opens fire, hits an officer, gets taken down, later says he was targeting officials, not random, intentional.
And that’s what makes this shooting attempt different.
There’s no trail here, no spiral people can point back to, no obvious signs, no online buildup, nothing that makes you say “yeah, this was coming.”
Everything about him reads ‘normal’ until the moment he reveals himself, like some kind of domestic-raised sleeper cell.
Security didn’t get overwhelmed, it got surprised by someone who looked like he more or less belonged.
This is what a low-signal threat looks like: quiet, normal, invisible, right up until it isn’t.
And yeah, this is the part people won’t like hearing…
If this is the pattern now, the next one is going to look just as normal, too.
Source: CNN, NBC News, CBS News, AP, CBC
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
Here’s a list of all the theories floating around about last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: 1/ The boring one: Cole Allen, 31, registered Democrat from California, traveled by train, studied the hotel layout, found an unmonitored entry point, wanted to target Trump and cabinet members, lone wolf, political hatred, case closed, move along 2/ The reasonable one: How does a man with a shotgun, handgun and knives get anywhere near the most press-covered event in Washington? The Secret Service just took an L on venue security and nobody wants to say it out loud 3/ The IDF one: Allen supposedly posted a photo wearing an IDF sweatshirt before deleting it, Google Trends apparently showed a spike in searches for his name in Israel before the event 4/ The time travel one: A dormant X account posted only his name in 2023 and nothing else ever, SUPER WEIRD. That account had a "TIME MACHINE" header… could it be just a coincidence? 5/ The MKUltra one: Caltech grad, NASA AI intern, a schoolteacher in LA County, someone on X asked "does this trajectory make sense to you?" and thousands of people agreed it does not 6/ The staged one: "Who tries to assassinate a president at an event full of press and Secret Service?" is apparently a compelling argument for a lot of people, Fox News allegedly cut off a reporter mid-sentence on this topic, which was either significant or a technical glitch, the internet has decided which 7/ The time-traveling son of Erika Kirk one: this exists, we will not explain further, X is a free country Investigation is ongoing, Allen is not cooperating, and the rational explanation remains the most likely, but this is 2026 and we live in a batsh*t times, so who the hell knows 😂
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@ilaks @MarioNawfal They’re typically called “software developers”. Go on Google and find me a job posting for a “coder”. A “coder” is a device.
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@RossKneeDeep She offered price controls as well. You know like soviet style economic policy.
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When we look back on why Trump won this election, it won't be because he was a better choice. Kamala was more than qualified. She was one of the most qualified persons to run for office in a very long time.
She offered Americans $25,000 towards their first home. She offered $50,000 to small businesses. She offered intelligence and critical thinking.
Yet, Amerca decided to go with dimwitted criminal with 34 felony counts, a convicted sexual abuser, a fail businessman, accused of being a pedophile who tried to overthrow the government.
As we look at the absolute chaos trump has caused in one year, the is was it worth it? Who's benefiting from Trump being the president?
Why didn't Kamala win?
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@RossKneeDeep Kamala was not more qualified. She only succeeded in failing to prevent Ukraine war from starting then ending in Minsk accords.
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