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In this clip, Pompeo the War Criminal, dripping with condescension, can't stop smirking and grinning while he proudly bluffs: "Israel didn't violate Iranian sovereignty.... China is in the process of violating the sovereignty of the Taiwanese people."

Walt points out a vital assumption underlying the insidious and repulsive ideology adopted by Pompeo and crew: "He thinks that he can spot the monsters." Nuland and Pompeo think that they are God, and as such, they ought to be able to act with impunity.

@Heroifrit @NapSavage @Type07Safety play stupid games win stupid prizes

Yea that’s cool and all but sucker punching and someone’s head hitting the ground has killed people before, you want to fight like men sure, but doing something that’s clearly way beyond what it needed to go to that’s a problem, the rubbing his head in the Mat might have hurt his ego but you need to have impulse control in society you can’t just over use force because your feelings are hurt I doubt it hurt him, maybe his pride. I don’t think it is a proportionate response, but you are allowed to think it is that’s the joy of freedom

I know this might not be popular but I'm okay with this. Be ready to take the knockout swing from behind if you shove somebody's head into the mat after the whistle.

****JAPAN VASSALISATION**** LDP, Party in Power, Funded by the CIA in the 1950s-60s: New JFK Files Expose Japan’s Vassal Status Under Persistent US Imperial Control Tokyo — Another layer of the postwar order peels off. Newly declassified JFK assassination files reveal that in 1996, Washington and Tokyo were still working overtime to hide the existence of the CIA’s “Tokyo Station.” Not for national security reasons, but to protect the carefully maintained fiction of Japanese sovereignty. A March 1996 U.S. State Department memo titled “Official Acknowledgement of Tokyo Station” shows then-Ambassador Walter Mondale and Japanese officials in full damage-control mode. They feared public confirmation of the CIA outpost would reignite scandals from the 1994 New York Times report alleging CIA secret funding of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Then-Foreign Minister Yohei Kono personally urged Mondale to keep it buried. Official proof, he warned, would hurt the LDP far more than unconfirmed rumors and threaten the entire U.S.-Japan security framework. In 1995, Kono had publicly claimed Japan had “no knowledge” of any organized CIA presence. Classic diplomatic theater. This wasn’t simple intelligence cooperation. It was — and still is — the architecture of Japan’s vassalization. After WWII defeat, the United States imposed a constitution literally written in Washington, stripping Japan of full military sovereignty while turning the country into a permanent forward base for American power in Asia. The LDP, allegedly groomed and bankrolled by the CIA during the Cold War, became the reliable local manager of this unequal arrangement. Tokyo aligned with U.S. strategic interests first, genuine independence second. Even decades later, in 1996, amid Okinawa base tensions and a U.S. presidential visit, both sides colluded to maintain the cover-up. Japan’s elite were terrified their own public might start asking uncomfortable questions about why a “sovereign” nation cannot officially admit to hosting foreign intelligence operations on its soil. The latest batch of documents, released under President Trump, unredacted key references to Japan, Tokyo, and the LDP. It confirms what many have long suspected: the U.S. maintained control through money, bases, and covert influence, while Japan’s leaders submitted and pretended it was partnership. This pattern is classic U.S. imperialism — installing compliant elites, writing their rules, and keeping them dependent. Japan traded its wartime empire for postwar client status. Its constitution remains a daily reminder of that defeat. The security treaty and U.S. bases continue serving American primacy above all. How long will Japan accept this submissive role? The files don’t just reveal old history — they highlight a structural dependency that still shapes East Asia today. True sovereignty requires breaking these chains, not endlessly polishing them for Washington. Facts over illusions.

The Israel First crowd in Congress has spiraled completely out of control. This is a Democratic congresswoman, former chair of the DNC, ripping Trump for trying to end the war.

The people complaining about losing a war against Iran never seem to consider — except Lindsey Graham in that one moment of upside down lucidity — that their constant calls for war with Iran were part of the problem

On Monday, May 25, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country will host the Iranian national football team during their time in North America for the World Cup, after the U.S. refused to allow the team to stay overnight. Sheinbaum reaffirmed that Iran's games will still be played in the U.S., but the team's headquarters will be in Mexico. #worldcup2026

1) Being a Trump Loyalist Fox News MAGAtard in the big '26 2) Free Syrian™ 3) "Pushing Democrats Left" for the 11th year in a row 4) Being a Lucas Gage, Nick Fuentes, or Hasan Piker fan 5) "🇺🇦🇵🇸" or "🍉" instead of 🔻 6) Being an American over the age of 65 7) Believing Communism killed 100 million 8) Supporting the "Iranian opposition" 9) Believing in "Liberal Democracy" and voting 10) Supporting the US in any war (🇺🇦, 🇮🇱, 🇮🇷)

You can tell how green he is to China econ discourse, because he doesn’t even know how to use the canonical vocabulary to qualify as a China econ doomer. We're watching someone learn how to be wrong for the first time. Calling an oversupply problem a "housing crisis" is really quite funny, because that term everywhere else on earth means a housing shortage, not excess. If you've spent any time in China econ land, you know you're supposed to call it the "real estate crisis", not the "housing crisis". Because this a property sector problem, not a supply problem. And the mechanism is wrong too. You don't say "building too many homes destroyed home values." That's a microecon framing that not even the doomers believe. The "correct" version must lean into macro-level abstractions while treating policy choices as tragic incompetence at best and intentional malice at worst. You can say things like: "credit-fueled speculation collapsed" or "the pre-sale financing chain broke" or "investment expectations reversed amid a weak consumption environment". As long as you don't mention the policy motivation was explicitly aimed at curbing speculation and ostensibly would also improve affordability, then you're doing it right. There are plenty of canonically "right" ways to be wrong about China’s economy. But it's uncommon to find someone who hasn’t even learned how the wrong arguments are usually constructed. But give it a few weeks...I'm sure he'll catch on.

@bunnyb0y_Live @WeldrSkeltr the phone call wasn’t a negotiation. the negotiation already happened pretty sure the idiot is the one with a damaged company because he can’t negotiate competence from his employees

How do you know it wasn't a negotiation? He accepted a raise. Would he have been happier with none? Was his fragile ego hurt because when the company gave him an 'unasked for' raise it wasn't enough? Why didn't he talk to his boss, say thanks for the raise but I deserve more. Then lay out the reasons he deserved it. The reason is he was an idiot.

When your boss hits you with an 80 CENT raise and thinks you’re still gonna go above and beyond 😂💀 Watch this man cook his supervisor in real time.” This is epic 😂

@bunnyb0y_Live @WeldrSkeltr he didn’t cause the damage. it’s not his company. it was not a negotiation. he provided the level of commitment that his wage afforded. the company failed to negotiate a wage that would save their assess in an emergency on his time off better luck next time boss

Sorry but he's an idiot. Period. You don't damage your company or your clients because YOU didn't negotiate a fair wage. YOU accepted an $.80 'raise' which was about an additional 2k a year. If you thought you were worth more you should have said so then, not gone all beta-whinny.

A completely unfair fight. It would be praising Pompeo and Nuland’s arguments too much to even call them talking points, they’re just rote professions of faith of the foreign policy priestly class.

@supplysidemacro @JudgementofEnma @AriZonanHODL who’s hiring these H1Bs? a bunch of communists?

@JudgementofEnma @AriZonanHODL We give up 30-40% of our paychecks and have our currency debased every minute so the people you're describing can have cheap housing and free food and healthcare, and you think communism lost😂😂

My dad: yeah I’m gonna sell my F150, it’s a good truck but I want a different color. Me: you mentioned that the transmission was going out? Were you gonna get that fixed before you sell it? Dad: *visibly frustrated and annoyed now* Did I tell you about that? Boomers

This is what I have been saying for years now about boiling the US vs. China tech/mfg/industrial competition down to a STEM-oriented human capital development and resource allocation issue. Seems like this concept is finally piercing the West Coast tech bubble.

US-Iran "Negotiations" I warned that the US objective is not necessarily toppling Iran immediately, and certainly not stopping "nuclear weapons" that don't even exist - but to cut China and the rest of Asia off from not just Iranian oil, but all energy exports from the Middle East. To maintain the slow but sure strangulation of energy exports from the entire region, the US has triggered a war damaging energy production and export infrastructure across the whole region, then placed its own blockade on Iranian ports and any other shipping it decides to interdict, as well as carrying out sporadic attacks even while "negotiating" with Iran. The goal is to maintain this strangle hold, increase it when necessary, perform political circus when it needs to cool markets - all while creating the economic crisis it requires to isolate China and force Asian states under a greater degree of US energy dependence. This is exactly what the US just spent the last 12 years doing with Russia regarding Ukraine - pretending to "negotiate" while constantly escalating. This is exactly what the US has spent the last 47 years doing with China regarding Taiwan - pretending to "negotiate" while constantly escalating.

@fredsoda guess they should start including wealth creation in cpi huh

oh that's great advice let me just take my disposable W2 income over here by the side and purchase rapidly inflating assets that grow faster than my wage

If any of my students wrote a paper with the argument that country X, or leader Y is a monster, I would not just flunk them, I would write a comment at the end of the paper that would traumatize them for the rest of their lives. This level of sophomoric nonsense is unbearable, especially when you remember the very high positions these cretins have held in teh US government. And one more thing. The ugliness of Nuland's "oh my goodness" response deserves a particular attention. I think she should be viciously ridiculed for it not because she is ignorant and biased, but because she feels entitled and powerful in her ignorance and bias.

If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧

NGL I am fuming right now. Candace Owens gave Norm Finkelstein a platform in November 2023 when she was still at the Daily Wire, when no other mainstream outlet would touch him. Tucker Carlson took his camera into a Qatari hospital for Gaza’s war victims. Where no other mainstream media outlet would have dreamed to go. MTG was retweeting Gaza Notifications from her *main* account as a sitting member of Congress. When so-called pro-Pal Democrats were posting bullshit platitudes from their secondary accounts like the cowards they are. None of these people have ever asked for recognition or rewards for this advocacy. They simply did it because it was the right thing to do. And unlike Democrat activists whose profiles are mostly boosted by this advocacy, all of the people on the Right have faced mountains of criticism from the left, right and center for their advocacy. So how fking dare Finkelstein, or ANYONE ELSE, accuse them of “sinister plots” now. How dare he. This is disgusting.

US Regime has no plan to prevent collapse. It’s just on a death spiral and even its supporters now openly embrace a suicidal type of nihilism. The USA has become the geopolitical equivalent of a mass shooter. It will end ingloriously, and a new dark ages will sweep North America.