Dan Stirling

“When you tear out a man’s tongue you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say”

Because Senate Democrats didn’t end up accepting the Republican offer on DHS funding & negotiations fell apart yesterday, Dems will get *zero* of the ICE reforms they had been demanding, including ones that GOP had already agreed to, like showing ID, increased Congressional oversight, agreements to not hit sensitive locations, etc. These reforms were the reason Dems started the shutdown in the first place, and now instead of getting a few concessions on their demand list, they get none. The only thing they secured was no funding for CBP & ICE, which are largely already funded via the OBBB, and Republicans will seek to fund them even further without Dem votes in reconciliation instead. As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms? “That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”

1) Massive and inexplicable CDC failures - The CDC was caught so flat-footed on monitoring Covid that a journalist (Alex Madrigal) had to start up an independent data-gathering operation so there would be visibility into state-by-state Covid infection data (The Covid Tracking Project) 2) Public health policies that were actively harmful - The only reason we found the first known outbreak of Covid in the US was b/c Dr Helen Chu at the University of Washington independently identified it in the course of her flu surveillance work. The FDA ordered her to stop testing but she defied them. 3) The FDA ordered another public-private testing program to stop testing 3 months later - nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/… 4) Public health institutions like the American Academy of Pediatrics would play politics with their recommendations (advocate for school opening one day, reverse themselves the next day after Trump cited them as an authority) 5) Even when vaccines were available, state health departments issued asinine quarantine rules against other states - x.com/politicalmath/… 6) The people in charge of our public health institutions who were in charge of making and enforcing the rules were not following the rules - bbc.com/news/world-us-… There are a hundred other things that I could point to. They aren't partisan or controversial. It was failure after failure alongside this really gross authoritarianism in which public health was used as a cudgel even though it was clear our public health leaders were flailing at clearly defining their own narrative.

@MarvelWarRoom @MelissaSebree @amuse @chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP It is insane that GOP is caving on another lopsided issue, immigration, after failing to advance the voting bill. They really, really are trying to self-destruct. The only reason GOP will hold in November is that Trump is doing AMAZING things. Iran will be over in 2 months.

@MelissaSebree @danstirling @amuse @chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP Right!!

Why would @SenateGOP throw Democrats a political lifeline now… to fund TSA that doesn’t fund ICE & CBP - and in process likely get off of SAVE America Act to go home for Easter recess…???

@MelissaSebree @MarvelWarRoom @amuse @chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP Not certain but I believe this REMOVES funds for ICE. Not that Trump would sign it, even if House passes it.

@MarvelWarRoom @amuse @chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP That's what I thought, why is everybody saying ICE isn't funded?

@amuse @chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP Not counting the one GOP senator that has to stick around, so none of Trump's nominees can actually get to work.

@chiproytx @RMConservative @SenateGOP Their 14-day paid vacation was very nearly cancelled. By defunding ICE and CBP they cleared the last hurdle preventing them from take their much needed vacation. No on realizes just how close the senators came to having to work…

Notice how extreme poverty drops precipitously when: 1) China introduced market reforms 2) USSR dissolved & 3) India turned against socialism. Socialism destroys wealth creation. It not only breeds poverty, but it is a grossly unequal poverty where only political elites benefit.

If you’re blackpilling about life, just remember something. Western civilization is collectively waking up, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. History tells us this is inevitable. Bask in the despair if you must. But it’s just fuel to open your eyes.

@GrindeOptions "Republicans will win mid terms." In spite of their efforts to lose them. 🙄 Rising tides float all Republican candidates.

Iran will lose war, U.S. will declare victory. Oil will drop to around $60/barrel. The Dow will surpass 50,000. The S&P 500 will surpass 7,500. Interest rates will be cut 3-4 times. The 10 year interest rate will fall. Unemployment will drop below 4%. Republicans will win mid terms.

@lacrosse_al @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers Valid.

@danstirling @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers I thought you were saying "Our" like collectively owned by "the people".

One of the most radicalizing moments of my life was when I learned that they just stop collecting social security taxes on money earned over like $150K. Like you just suddenly keep 3-6% more money on all money over that threshold.

@lacrosse_al @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers Wait. Do you think it belongs to someone else??? I earned it.

@danstirling @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers Ah. I see.

@lacrosse_al @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 . . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@danstirling @charlescwcooke @conorjrogers How did it become your money?

@bonchieredstate @nikitabier Here is her post: x.com/hiitsmemooneh/…

False. She said the IRGC killed him. It’s time to demonetize these accounts, @nikitabier.

@LeadingReport The Associated Press should take note on how to write such clear and succinct headlines

🧵Rumblings from the 7th Circuit over a tense oral argument in USA v. Rishi Shah which should be of concern to anyone paying attention to Democrat lawfare.

@awstar11 When Abdul Hassan, the IRGC leader of the street corner of Xerxes Ave. and Khomeini Way, is the ranking Irani... well, then it's all over for USA/Israel, we lost. 🤔😏

You can tell how badly we’re losing by how many Iranian leaders we’ve taken out

@charlescwcooke @conorjrogers Because it's OUR money. The cap used to be much, much lower, probably something like $60k in today's dollars.

@conorjrogers Why?

Six weeks after September 11, 2001, twelve American soldiers were quietly loaded onto a helicopter in Uzbekistan and flown over the Hindu Kush mountains in the dead of night. No tanks. No armored vehicles. No air support waiting on the ground. Just twelve Green Berets, over a hundred pounds of gear each, and a mission that their own commanders privately doubted any of them would survive. They landed in a remote Afghan village called Dehi, in the pitch black, surrounded by a country they barely had maps for. And then someone handed them horses. Not metaphorically. Actual horses — Afghan stallions, tough as nails and famously difficult to control. Wooden saddles covered in carpet scraps. Stirrups so short their knees rode up around their ears. Captain Mark Nutsch, who'd grown up on a cattle ranch in Kansas and competed in collegiate rodeos, became trail boss on the spot. For the other ten men on his team — Operational Detachment Alpha 595 of the 5th Special Forces Group — the learning curve was immediate and unforgiving. The first words one of his sergeants learned in Dari were: "How do you make him stop?" They had linked up with General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a Northern Alliance warlord who controlled thousands of fighters and knew this territory like the back of his hand. The deal was simple: the Americans would call in precision airstrikes from horseback. Dostum's cavalry would do the charging. Together, they would take Mazar-i-Sharif — a Taliban stronghold of 250,000 people — and crack open northern Afghanistan. Military planners had estimated it would take two years. Task Force Dagger gave ODA 595 three weeks. For 23 days of nearly continuous combat, the Horse Soldiers lived like men from a different century. They ate what the Afghans ate. They slept on the ground in freezing mountain passes. They rode trails so narrow and sheer that one wrong step meant a thousand-foot drop. Staff Sergeant Will Summers started the mission at 185 pounds. He left Afghanistan five weeks later weighing 143. The Taliban had tanks. Soviet-era armor, antiaircraft guns, fortified positions dug into the mountains. Against this, twelve Americans on horseback radioed coordinates to aircraft circling invisibly above, and watched the positions erupt. On November 9, 2001, they rode into the kind of moment that people are not supposed to experience in the modern world. Nutsch and his team joined hundreds of Dostum's horsemen in a thundering cavalry charge across an open plain — directly into entrenched Taliban lines. Under fire. At a gallop. Calling in close air support between strides. It was the first cavalry charge of the 21st century. It was also the last. The next day, Mazar-i-Sharif fell. The Taliban's northern stronghold collapsed. Within weeks, the regime itself began to unravel — a domino effect that started with twelve men and borrowed horses in the mountains. All twelve of them came home. Zero American fatalities. Against a fortified enemy that outnumbered and outgunned them at every turn. Today, across from Ground Zero in New York City, there is a bronze statue — sixteen feet tall — of a Special Forces soldier on horseback, rifle across his lap, looking west. It honors ODA 595 and the teams who rode with them. Most Americans walk past it every day without knowing the story. Now you do.

This was always the problem with the Iranian Regime’s strategy of closing the strait: the rest of the world simply cannot do without oil and would fight back. The moment President Trump said “ maybe we won’t reopen the strait it’s up to everybody else” is the exact moment the Regime strategy failed. India’s seven ships & ships from 28 more countries on the way are the proof.

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@aelfred_D I don't think it's a cash grab -- I think it's they just have to make something to keep the rights.