Robert Archer

@CynicalPublius Not a big fan of this war, TBH, but the antiwar contingent - especially the legacy media - is totally unhinged. To suggest that we're even close to being bogged down or in a quagmire is friggin nuts!!!

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.

@dansenor Breaking: 100 percent of self-identified Christians polled support Jesus Christ. MAGA is Trump is MAGA. That poll is meaningless.

I’m amused by the number of smart people — in the media, on Wall Street, in tech, in the Jewish non-profit space, in academia — who constantly tell me about how fractured MAGA is over the war. And when I ask if they’ve ever spoken to an actual Trump voter about this…. crickets.

@SeanTrende If you're grading on the Portland, OR curve, then yes, she's not way out there.

She’s not really looney left, but yeah.

@senatorshoshana I would not mind a robot assisted prostatectomy, but NO WAY I'm going to allow a robot up my butt to look around.

colleagues restraining me from asking questions about new colonoscopy AI tech at a work dinner

@MarcACaputo Some things never change...

In my reporting on the Trump Administration, this is pretty spot on…

@varadmehta Right-wing statists are just as bad as left-wing ones. The proper remedy is to get the government completely out of the education business, but the post-secondary level at least.

In red states at least universities will have to be compelled to hire conservatives using funding as punishment if they don't comply. In general, red states need to be much more willing to use state power to govern public institutions, which is what state universities are.

@RedEaglePatriot Who gravitate toward conmen?

In Trump 1.0, most of the leakers/bad actors were establishment neocon snakes In Trump 2.0, most of the leakers/bad actors are snakes on the retard right All the worst people try to take Trump down, that’s why he has my support

I am not a libertarian, I am a liberal. I don't believe either party is offering real solutions to our country's problems. Libertarians DO vote, but if they were true to their own doctrine, they would vote strategically to thwart government and make it extremely difficult for the political branches of the government to inflict any more damage on the American people.

@arrowoog @MaxNordau @megynkelly @GOP Meanwhile, Dems take power, doing shit from the simply stupid to actively evil while you sit there sniffing your own farts and admiring your purity. Libertarianism is a political philosophy with the maturity of a freshman dorm smoke session

You wanna rip the GOP apart right to its core and prevent a single America First voter from participating in the midterms? Indict Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson. See how that works out.

@AGHamilton29 According to some of these "experts", this war has gone on way too long. Time to declare victory and call it a day (or 21)....

Starting to think that the “experts” who pretend that the regime in Tehran losing most of their leadership, their entire navy, their missile supply chain, and most if their military capabilities isn’t evidence of them losing might be the problem

What the hell is the fetish among the leftist media and anti-war right to pin the the Defense Dept down on a date to end the war? I give no quarter to Hegseth or this war, but this obsession just shows how stupid modern media and and the alt-alt-alt (I'm losing track) right is. Absurdity is a great teacher.

Today's WSJ front page tells the story of the Trump admin. #1: Hegseth Says ‘No Time Set’ on Ending Operations in Iran #2: U.S. Regulators Propose More Lenient Capital Rules for Big Banks #3: Millions of Americans Are Going Uninsured Following Expiration of ACA Subsidies

There is no clearer sign that bad stuff is about to come out about a person than them suddenly launching an anti-Israel podcast career.

@unlimited_ls If I were the hospital, I'd give her prostate and gynecological exams every 15 minutes until she left.

NEW: Patient has been squatting in a Florida hospital for five months and refuses to leave her bed despite being discharged, a lawsuit alleges Charlotte Paynter, 69, has allegedly been occupying Room 373 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital since October Paynter has allegedly refused to leave despite repeated efforts by staff to complete her discharge safely The hospital provided her with a written order to vacate on November 24 Tallahassee Memorial says her continued occupation has diverted resources from other patients The hospital is asking a state judge for an injunction to have Paynter removed and to allow the county sheriff’s office to assist if necessary

Eliminating fraud is only going to solve about 5 or 10 percent of the problem. What the GOP should do, since it's going to lose Congress in the fall, go out with a bang, and pass a reconciliation bill (no filibuster required) to cut virtually every single government program (except Social Security, they can't touch that at all) back to the pre-Covid baseline (plus population and inflation). That means a $1.5B haircut to the the ANNUAL budget. Will the @GOP do that? Of course they won't. Unlike the Democrats, who walked the plank (lost their jobs) in 2010 to get Obamacare passed, the @GOP are sniveling cowards, and even though they're going to lose the House (and maybe the Senate) in November, they're spending all of their time and political capital trying to pass a law to keep a few thousand people from voting in federal elections. That's why I don't vote for either political party's federal office candidates. It's one big joke.

@arrowoog @MaxNordau @megynkelly @GOP They tried with DOGE. If this fraud thing is something Vance is something they’re serious about, that will help as well. The reality is the voting population won’t let anyone touch entitlements and that’s the big issue.

@AaronCSmith1 @MaxNordau @megynkelly How are President Trump and the @GOP addressing the national debt, which will have doubled since Trump first became president (and had a unified Congress (in 2017)....

@arrowoog @MaxNordau @megynkelly Border got closed. Problem solved. Tax cuts preserved and expanded. Problem solved. Iran being (finally) solved.

@PhilWMagness @michaelbd Pro-Tip: When researching presidential candidates, if you're hostile to Israel, you might want to avoid a candidate whose child and grandchildren are Jewish.

@michaelbd It's really sad watching people who have been slobbering all over Trump's foreign policy for a decade now pretending to be shocked to discover that he isn't the isolationist "restrainer" that they imagined him to be.

It’s really funny watching people who have been seething about Trump’s foreign policy for a decade now pretending to be the gatekeepers.

Grown-ups don't vote for two groups of people pretending to fight each other to mollify their supporters, rather than actually solving problems. The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that, by and large, the Democrats don't fight themselves. I'm loving watching the GOP go through phase II of the crack up. Phase I was ceding the party to Trump. What Trump started, his supporters will finish.

@arrowoog @MaxNordau @megynkelly If you’re a grownup, vote Republican.

No, America's wealthy pay similar effective tax rates to Europe - and even 100% tax rates would not fix the budget. The current debt was heavily influenced by the Great Recession & Pandemic (and the federal response) and persistent, structural spending in excess of revenues.🧵

@MarioNawfal That reminds me....why hasn't Trump donated his plane to help deport the illegals? WTF!!!

🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇸 Denmark prepared to sabotage Greenland in case of U.S. attack Denmark reportedly planned to destroy key runways and bridges in Greenland if the U.S. launched an attack. Troops were deployed earlier this year under the cover of a military exercise, equipped with explosives. Source: cphpost

Imagining a bunch of people being compensated for obnoxious, coordinated, political speech!!!! That's a real danger to our democracy....I mean, it could metastasize into a situation in which people could say whatever they want on social media, or in a web-blog, or on a podcast, none (or most) of it is untrue, and they can get compensated for doing so.

“Nick Shirley tells Donald Trump what he’s seen at protests." Same faces—different states. Same signs—different cities. He says he’s watched them show up again and again. Even overseas. That’s not coincidence. That’s coordination.

@MizDonna69 Losing a 12-year-long GOP-held seat in Blue Washington to a Portland, OR hippie who sold drugs in college was a bad omen for Mr. Kent. (Lost to her twice, btw)

If you think Joe Kent is a hero, you will receive a mute or block from me. Fair warning