The Rational Man

@_woodworker_ @netblocks The USA did something.

@netblocks After 88 days we can turn on our VPNs now and happily connect to the internet. Yes after TURNING ON THE VPNS. And guess what, the world did NOTHING for Iranians. LITERALLY NOTHING! #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

📈 Confirmed: Live metrics show a partial restoration to internet connectivity in #Iran on day 88, after 2093 hours of near-total isolation from international networks, the longest nationwide internet shutdown in modern history. It is unclear if the restoration will be sustained.

@MorEdge_Insight "...detonate or launch a small sample...". I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way. "Small" and "nuclear" don't go together. I'll be interested to see comments from knowledgeable people about uranium v. plutonium bombs and potential sizing.

What if Iran already has a small number of nuclear weapons but is keeping it quiet for now? Picture this. For years Iranian leaders talked about new missiles and secret weapons that no one believed. They did the same thing with hypersonic technology. Many experts called it just talk. Then Iran used them in real attacks and parts of the missiles proved they had working versions. The same pattern could be happening again only this time with something much bigger. Suppose intelligence agencies know more than they say in public. Remember how assessments from the IC and the UN downplayed how close Pakistan was to building a bomb. They said Pakistan was years away right until the day Pakistan tested its first device and admitted it. Iran could be in a similar spot. They have enough enriched uranium. They received quiet technical help from Russian experts over time. Strikes damaged some sites but not everything. A few hidden teams finished the final steps in deep underground locations. Now the regime under Mojtaba Khamenei sees the moment. They believe current chaos matches old prophecies about the Mahdi returning. They think this is their window before Israel grows stronger or new deals tie their hands. They will not compromise in talks because they feel they hold the ultimate card. Arab countries push hard for ceasefire because they sense the real danger even if they stay silent about it. Here is how it could unfold in the next few weeks or months… Iran launches a strong conventional attack using drones and missiles perhaps against American bases or Israeli targets. They make it look like a response to pressure. The United States answers with targeted strikes but stays conventional at first. Then Iran uses the moment as perfect cover. They detonate or launch a small sample of their new power maybe a single device on a military target in the desert or at sea. Not full war but enough to shock everyone. The world would suddenly face a new reality. Leaders in Tehran hope Russia and North Korea would make any big retaliation risky. They want to force hesitation and turn the situation into a frozen nuclear standoff that gives them more time and respect. Trump knows the real picture. That explains his mix of tough threats about wiping out a whole civilization and his strong push for a deal at the same time. He wants an off ramp before the ladder of escalation goes too far. This is of course a what if. But it fits the pieces we see. The nonstop death to America slogans. The refusal to bend on any major demand. The unusual quiet from Israel despite all the threats. The rush by Arab states to calm things down. If this scenario is real, the jokes about peace partners almost write themselves until the moment they do not. The next few weeks matter more than most people understand. We should hope cooler heads find a way out. But we also need to face what might actually be happening behind the public statements.

@libsoftiktok $ billions will be spent on the .id-terms regardless.

Trump shuts down USAID and suddenly the Democratic Party is broke 🤔

@AuthorityApe @VoteHub Why the "N" word? What clever point am I missing.

@VoteHub it doesn't matter how much you raise if you never reign in fraud/waste/abuse. The dems will always over spend (even when they out fund raise republicans)

National Committee Finance Update 🔴 RNC: Cash on hand: $123.9M Debt: $0 🔵 DNC: Cash on hand: $14.4M Debt: $17.5M

@ImmortanZit @MrAndyNgo Parody?

@MrAndyNgo Like Somalians and Pakistanis, Indians are high-demand immigrants enriching our countries and bringing about change. Did you know that many Indians are Muslim? 🇸🇴🇵🇰🇮🇳

The woke trans migrant who won election as a Scottish member of parliament for the Green Party is revealed to come from an upper-class Indian family. He is in the UK on a student visa and is not a citizen. He claimed to have grown up “starving.” humanevents.com/2026/05/24/wor…

@JonathanTurley Who were the Republicans that voted with the Democratics?

The vote was notable after the release of the DNC “autopsy” report that flagged how transgender and identity politics contributed to the defeat in the last election. The issue will likely be revisited if the party retakes power in the midterm election... jonathanturley.org/2026/05/22/hou…

@FMiddletown47 @HiddenHistoryYT 6 Marines. The backbone of a 400-mile march through a desert and the storming of a castle.

@HiddenHistoryYT Your history seems to be missing facts 🌍⚓️🦅 mca-marines.org/leatherneck/to…

On this day in 1805, an American commodore parked a fleet outside a North African harbor and ended a war without firing a single shot. Most Americans have never heard his name. He is the reason the United States Navy exists in the form it does today. The First Barbary War had been grinding on for four years. The Pasha of Tripoli, Yusuf Karamanli, had been seizing American merchant ships and enslaving their crews for over a decade, demanding tribute from a young republic that could barely pay its own army. Thomas Jefferson, who hated standing militaries on principle, had finally decided enough was enough. He sent a squadron. It went badly. The USS Philadelphia ran aground off Tripoli in 1803 and her entire crew was captured. Stephen Decatur famously snuck in and burned her at anchor to keep the Pasha from refloating her, which Lord Nelson called "the most bold and daring act of the age." But the war dragged on. By spring 1805, the squadron commander Samuel Barron was sick, exhausted, and ready to quit. On May 22, 1805, he handed command to John Rodgers. Rodgers did not waste time. He had inherited four frigates, three brigs, a sloop-of-war, three schooners, two bomb vessels, and nine gunboats. The largest American fleet ever assembled to that date. Four days after taking command, he sailed the entire force directly into the harbor at Tripoli and dropped anchor in plain view of the Pasha's palace. No bombardment. No threats. He just sat there. The Pasha looked at his harbor, looked at twenty-two American warships pointed at his city, looked at his options, and sued for peace within the week. The treaty was signed June 4, 1805. The American hostages came home. The Barbary states never seriously challenged American shipping again. And the United States Navy, four years old, had just forced a hostile foreign power to surrender by showing up. Every great power moment since traces back to that anchor drop in Tripoli harbor. 221 years ago today. Almost nobody teaches this.

@CrazyVibes_1 No location, date, or any identifying information. Color me skeptical on this story.

Dog remembers officer and saves his life. For more than a week, police had been trying to catch a stray dog that kept sleeping behind restaurants and running through traffic. Most people couldn’t get near him, but one officer kept coming back with food and water, trying to earn his trust. Days later, that same officer chased a suspect into an alley and was suddenly knocked to the ground with a metal pole. As the man raised it again, the stray dog came charging from behind a trash can and jumped between them. The dog distracted the suspect long enough for the officer to get back up and make the arrest, but not before the man swung again and injured the dog. He was rushed to an animal hospital, where vets say he’s hurt but expected to recover. Now photos of the officer visiting him in the hospital are going viral. The dog had no collar, no home, and every reason to keep running from people, but somehow, he remembered the one person who had been kind to him. Police are calling him a hero, and there’s already talk that once he heals, the officer he saved may be the one taking him home.

@feelgoodtale Good boi.

WARNING: You may want a dog after reading this🥹❤️ They threw him from the back of a truck like he was nothing. It was evening when the skinny, diseased little dog staggered into my driveway. His fur was falling out from severe mange, his skin was bleeding, and the smell of infection clung to him like death itself. Ear mites. Worms. Open sores. He looked like a creature the world had already given up on. I had two tiny Yorkies at home and I was terrified he would infect them, so I kept him outside the fence. But somehow, despite being weak and starving, he slipped under the gate and crawled beneath my shop building. I asked my partner to get rid of him while I went to dance class that night. But when I came home, everything had changed. My partner looked at me and quietly said, “I fed him. He’s actually a really nice dog.” From that moment on, the dog followed me everywhere. Not because he was trained. Not because he had to. But because somewhere deep inside, he had already decided I was his person. A few days later, I was moving my horses back into the pasture when one bolted toward the wrong gate. Before I could react, that broken little stray sprang into action. He circled around me, cut the horse off perfectly, and herded every horse through the correct gates like he had been doing ranch work his entire life. When he finished, he stopped, sat down near the last gate, and looked at me with those quiet eyes as if asking, “Did I do good?” That was the moment my heart gave in. I walked back to the house and told my partner, “We’re saving this dog.” I named him Solo. For four long months, we treated his mange, healed his bleeding skin, cleared the worms from his stomach, and cleaned the mites from his ears. Underneath all the pain was a beautiful Australian cattle dog and shepherd mix who had probably never known kindness before. The vet guessed he was only five or six months old. Just a baby. Yet somehow, despite everything humans had done to him, he still trusted us completely. And then one day, Solo repaid that love with his life. My neighbor owned aggressive pit bulls. One broke into my fenced yard and attacked me. I still remember the terror of feeling teeth sink into my body. But before it could do worse, Solo launched himself at the dog and fought it off. Later, animal control put that dog down. My partner bought me an ax handle afterward and told me to keep it nearby in case the dogs returned. A month later, they did. Two pit bulls charged me in my own pasture. I screamed, and from somewhere across the property, Solo came running like a bullet. He threw himself into a fight he had no chance of winning — not because he was fearless, but because I was in danger. While he battled them, I grabbed the ax handle and fought beside him until the dogs finally fled. They nearly killed him that day. The vet bills for both of us were enormous, but the sheriff looked me in the eyes afterward and said, “If that dog hadn’t been here, you probably wouldn’t be alive.” Solo was only fifty-five pounds. He didn’t bark much. He wasn’t intimidating. But heaven help anything that tried to hurt the people he loved. We had him for seventeen years. Seventeen years of loyalty. Seventeen years of silent companionship. Seventeen years of a dog who never forgot that someone once chose to save him instead of turning away. In 2019, Solo crossed the rainbow bridge, and even now, years later, not a single day passes without me missing him. People say dogs don’t understand rescue. But I believe they do. Because every time Solo looked at me, every time he walked beside me on mountain trails, every time he put himself between me and danger, it felt like he was saying the same thing over and over again: “You saved me… so I’ll spend my whole life saving you too.”

@flecha493784 @fistmasters_ Wig

@fistmasters_ Porque el pelo primero era negro y después era rubio?

Girl trashed her opps after they showed up at her workplace to fight her

@SinaRajabz21881 @fistmasters_ I believe it.

@fistmasters_ Just a fun fact, the girl that was smacking their shit is also a part time MMA fighter

@libsoftiktok Unbearably sad.

Amos Ferrier is a veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan. He was just murdered in Minneapolis while trying to thwart a carjacking Riniyah Allen and Janaya Frost are now facing murder charges

Excellent summary.

@ConnieEB @RightScopee You are correct. And that was the choice offered to them. Also, for clarification, no one has the right to “protest”. We have the right of assembly and speech, with respect to the equal rights of others. Some think that “protest” is a magic word to trample that balance.

@RightScopee While he should suspend them his statement about rights are incorrect. Nothing supercedes rights. They have the right to protest and can also choose to be suspended.

🚨 Principal Daniel Weber just showed what REAL leadership looks like at Wilson High School in PA. Students tried pulling an unauthorized anti-ICE walkout in the middle of class. He walked right out, looked them dead in the eye and said: Go back inside or you're suspended. Your "rights" don't override school rules. Schools are for LEARNING — not leftist protest theater on taxpayer time. This is the backbone America needs. No more chaos in the classroom. What do you think? A. YES — More principals like this! B. NO — Let kids skip for protests Repost if you want stronger schools! 🇺🇸

Funny, and sad.

@mattvanswol @NiceDeb A little harsh. The spotlight was important even tho DOGE couldn’t cut stuff that was in the Biden budget. Still, USAID was erased, examples were shown, and the Medicaid database was released, allowing Nick Shirley to expose the fraud for Oz and Vance to follow.

Remember when the GOP gave Elon Musk a standing ovation in front of the American people... ...and then only voted on 1 DOGE cut, didn't defund the Taliban, gave $315 MILLION to a far Left group that DOGE defunded, and never passed the SAVE ACT? I don't understand the GOP...

@AllieJade1 Very carefully drive around her and go on with your life.

And in today’s episode of Parking Garage Karen, we have a particularly ornery one, who is completely losing her mind because the guy driving the right way down a one-way traffic flow refuses to back up or go around her and give her the right of way. Unlike these Karen types, most normal people would realize they went the wrong way, say “Sorry buddy, I need to do a three-point turn,” and handle it. Instead, she expects this guy to reverse or go around her so she can keep driving down the one-way the wrong way. The fella going the right way at one point even asks the bystanders, to confirm he's in the right. Maybe I’ve got a bit of a militant streak, but at that point I’d just kill the engine, and casually sit on the hood of my car, and scroll on my phone until she either backed up or turned around. Would that be mean?🤨 Or would that be out Karen'ing a Karen?😂

@feelgoodtale Good dog.

My heart melted here🥹😭 An dog adoption event was happening in Ohio where many people came to see the dogs. There was an old man, 71-year-old Gerald, who also attended the event, but he was sitting far away in a chair. His wife had passed away some time ago; a few days later, his dog also died. Gerald, with a heavy heart, told a volunteer, "I don’t know why I came here; I just know that I can't bear the loneliness at home." He just sat on a bench and was watching the people and the dogs with them. After a while, a 3-year-old Blue Heeler dog named "Hank" was brought into the room, who was looking good and often didn’t go near anyone. Hank ignored everyone who was standing near him in the room and walked over to Gerald, who was sitting on the bench. He stopped next to him and sat down by his feet, as if he had found his person. When Gerald saw him doing this, he became sad and started crying, and Hank was right there with him. A little while before the event ended, Gerald adopted Hank. The next morning, we received a message from Gerald, stating that Hank slept with him all night. He mentioned that it was the first time in the last four months that he slept peacefully at night.

@Real_RobN I didn't understand the point of Trump holding the rally. I was appalled by the behavior of the people at the Capitol. I wanted consequences for every rioter that forced their way in. But the FBI/DOJ over reach, spies in the crowd, and insane jail punishment is so much worse.

Here it is: Let me tell you something about the $1.776 billion fund that the Department of Justice created and what is it for This is: Capitol CCTV shows Sen. Kamala Harris exiting the Capitol at 11:21 a.m. on January 6. The unelected, illegitimate government filed indictments against Americans in January 6 cases for almost a year, falsely claiming that the bitch was still in the Capitol building — while also knowing exactly who the f*ck the Jan. 6 pipe bomber was: Brian Cole. For almost a year the government of lawfare illegally charged hundreds of Americans with a 20-year felony, including charges of seditious conspiracy. Kamala Harris: “I was at the Capitol on January 6th. I was the Vice President-Elect. I was also an acting senator. I was there. And on that day, the president of the United States incited a violent mob to attack our nation’s Capitol, to desecrate our nation’s Capitol. On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured. And some died. And understand, the former president has been indicted and impeached for exactly that reason.” — Harris left the Capitol at 11:21 for the DNC. — Harris was evacuated from the DNC at 1:17 p.m. after the “discovery” of the “pipe bomb.” — The first breach inside the Capitol was at 2:12 p.m. President Trump: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard!” 📝 In other words: “for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress,” including restitution for leaking an American’s tax return. By the way: Jan. 6 was staged to conceal the actual crime: a seditious conspiracy—the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020.

@crazy_vaccine @GunloverClub1 Some people don't get satire.

@GunloverClub1 Didn't see any point where shooting was an option.

This is why you need to carry at all times. 😂