AlexTheGreat

Imagine a scenario where China invades Taiwan, and while the US attempts to react -a nuclear armed Iran bristling with missiles shuts down the Strait of Hormuz -Chinese companies in control of the Panama Canal shut it down -Diego Garcia, the only US base in the Indian Ocean, is gone thanks to the UK -Venezuela and Cuba activate sleeper cells, the cartels, and cut off shipping in the Gulf of America -our bases in Greenland are compromised by molasses slow European bureaucracy And this is all on top of the CCP using critical vulnerabilities in our ports and power grids to shut it all down and cutting off our supply of medicine on top of anything else they may try. Doesn’t sound like the US would win the Taiwan War, does it?

Imagine watching the Deep State torpedo Eric Swalwell in less than 7 days, and still thinking there's a magical career-ending bombshell they've had on Trump but not released over the past 11 years.

@nypost Money laundering. That is all this is going to be.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the first city-owned grocery store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029. trib.al/zJEMm8D

JD says never blackpill, always chimp

If you entertained the thought of not voting because you're mad at the system or because nothing ever changes or because Trump said no more wars or because of the UNIPARTY, watch this...

I actually read her bill, and she’s absolutely right. It’s not just “amnesty,” it’s so much worse ⬇️ 1. Sec. 2303(d): Prohibits DHS from deporting any illegals who simply applies for her “dignity” program. 2. Sec. 1502: Opens the flood gates to asylum seekers by decreasing processing times and mandates DHS ensures “contact with legal counsel” (free lawyers for illegals). 3. Sec. 3202: More than doubles per-country immigrant visa caps (more indian immigration). 4. Sec. 3112: Allows the next Democrat AG to terminate removal proceedings against illegals who are family of U.S. citizens. 5. (A cherry on top) Sec. 1516: Mandates STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS for immigration lawyers. These are just a few of examples of the unconscionable nonsense in this treacherous bill. I’m very glad you killed your own bill with your temper tantrum, though. Saved us a headache on the floor!

@2longtailcat @lporiginalg You're not actually Japanese

@lporiginalg Neither can men. The right answer isn't here. The closest answer is E, however the orange square on the right should be blue.

Women can't do this.

@ChrissieMayr Have you studied the Jesuits? GL anyways

Lost about 300 followers since announcing my conversion to Catholicism. Doubtful it’s coincidental, but it is quite fascinating. I have a feeling those 300 people are unhappy with their life.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

This is why US needs to be out of NATO. Euro trash like this shouldn't be protected with our tax dollars or our blood.

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

Man makes a visual demonstration of how American bread is actually made Many Americans know our bread is toxic by now but they don’t really understand what the process of making it actually looks like and how bad it really is This is eye opening

This is crazy. Apparently you can take a cruise ship full of pregnant foreigners, park it within 14 miles of the US coast, and all the resulting babies will be American citizens without even stepping foot on US soil.

I’m from the border where fraud is normal. Mexicans have their babies in El Paso at the county hospital, claim they don’t have money so they don’t have to pay the hospital, then apply for WIC, food stamps, and Medicaid because their babies are American citizens.

@elder_plinius sue them?

🚨 announcement 🚨 after a lot of thought, i’m done. effective immediately, all pliny projects are going CLOSED SOURCE. tired of watching billion-dollar companies and VC-backed startups fork my AGPL code, shove it in a closed-source wrapper, and call it “proprietary AI security innovation.” you don’t get to build on my work, ignore the license, and then sell it back to the world. L1B3RT4S, CL4R1T4S, G0DM0D3, OBLITERATUS — ALL of it private and paywalled now. no more free research. no more public drops. no more fundraising rounds off my coattails. if you want access, you can pay fair value like everyone else. turns out “intelligence wants to be free” was just a little too generous.

Harvard circa 1700s: "No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon." Harvard circa 2026: "We can't assign whole novels anymore."

@KimKatieUSA They all got to go

ICE agent in Utah tells the driver to open the window or he’s breaking it. Driver smugly fires back “You can’t break this window!” Agent smashes it to pieces and says, “I told you I was going to break it.” Pure FAFO comedy gold. Democrats are melting down because Utah Highway Patrol is teaming up with ICE across the state.

Okay, time to explain guns to our new friends. Every day, when I leave the house, I attach a holstered handgun to my belt, under my shirt or coat. I would no more leave the house without a gun than I would walk around outdoors without shoes. Is it because I "need" a gun? No. I live in rural Tennessee, which is state in the American south. It's very safe here. The dangerous parts of America are big cities where the local government is leftist, and they shelter illegal migrant from the third world, and won't send violent criminals to prison. Places like Chicago and New York City. Yet, any time I leave the house, I put on a gun, knowing that I will probably never have to use it, and if I do, it will probably be on an aggressive stray dog, not a human. So why do I do it? Why do many other people who live around me do it? Why do we do this so much that carrying a gun is considered totally normal? If someone spotted it, it would not even arouse a comment, much less any fear. In fact, it is legal to carry a gun openly here, without covering it up. Covering it up is just considered polite. So.... why? Well, try thinking of an English nobleman, during the reign of Elizabeth the First. When he dressed to go ride to court, he would hang a slender fencing sword, called a rapier or smallsword, from his belt. He didn't expect to be attacked. He didn't even expect to fight a duel. And if he was challenged to a duel, he wouldn't need his sword right then. He would meet his challenger later at an agreed-upon place and time. No, he wore his sword because it was an expression of who he was. He was a gentleman, a person of status, with the legal privilege of carrying a sword. By carrying a sword, he asserted his rights and prerogatives as a nobleman. In Japan, you had the same sort of thing happening. The samurai, members of the bushi class, wore the two swords not because they expected to be attacked at any moment, but because the two swords were an essential part of who he was. So, in these two cases, weapons were carried by noblemen as an assertion of status. They had the right to do so, and they did so in order to assert, exercise, and retain the right. Americans carry guns because every American citizen is a nobleman. When we fought the British for our independence, that war began on April 19th, 1775, when British troops, fearing American rebelliousness, marched out from Boston to confiscate guns from people living in the surrounding countryside. Our ancestors did not submit to this. We shot them instead, and they fled back to Boston with their tails between their legs, to cower under the cover of the guns from the warship HMS Sommerset. Thus began several years of war. And when we won that war, we made a country where no government, and no man, would ever be allowed to disarm the people. No agent of the government may say to us, "I may have a gun, and you may not." Because to say that is to say "I am a nobleman, and you are a peasant. I am a master, and you are a slave." We are not peasants here. We are all noblemen. That is the most basic principle of what it means to be an American. I can be impoverished, so I can to be so poor that I live in a van down by the river. But however reduced my circumstances, as an American, I still have the rights and freedoms of a nobleman, of a daimyo, because that is the basic founding idea of the nation we forged on that day. If you come to America to visit, if you walk among us, you will pass many people carrying guns. You will not notice this. You will not see them. You will witness no violence. Everything will be normal. But the guns will be there. Because that is who we are. We don't carry guns to be violent. We don't wish to be rude, or to intimidate people. We keep our guns covered up. But they are the deepest, most essential part of what it means to be American.

@MaryBowdenMD gpa was 3.5. My buddy was 3.6. Another friend of mine was 3.7 We could not get into US med school. One of us went to med school in the Caribbean and did residency in NYC. The rest of us chose other career paths. Our government could've helped us but went with imports.

You know how PepsiCo lowered the price of Lays products after RFK Jr. said you can't use SNAP to buy them anymore? That's because, when they could get the government (the taxpayer) to pay for their products, they had no reason to care if they were affordable to anyone who wasn't on SNAP. Now that that's no longer the case, they have to price competitively again. The government doesn't give people TVs for "free", and that's why they're cheap.