Joel Link

@LeaderJohnThune Thank you. Now please step down. Leader is not a proper adjective to describe you.

I want to express my deep gratitude for all of the brave servicemembers involved in rescuing two F-15E crew members in Iran. These operations are incredibly difficult, and the safe return of both crew members is a powerful testament to their training and the expertise of all the U.S. military units involved in this search and recovery. Grateful today and every day for our heroic men and women in uniform.

Here is the photo of the honorable Colonel being rescued yesterday— God bless him— our soldiers are ALL doing God’s work! HAPPY EASTER! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

@0nlyk1tt3n 3 decades seems like plenty enough time to apply for citizenship lawfully

Her husband is being taken by ICE after being in America illegally for over 3 decades. Be Honest Is this really what you voted for?

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

Pro-Tip: If they got 1 shootdown out of 20,000 sorties, America and Israel are the greatest military force in human history.

@TimHannan @jakeshieldsajj

If we impeach and remove Trump right now, maybe just maybe the world will forgive us one day for what he’s done.

Two days ago, Israel passed a law that allows for convicted terrorists to be sentenced to death—they received international condemnation. Since the start of this year, the Islamic Republic has executed 637 innocent Iranians—there has not been a word of condemnation. Weird.

Notice how Hunter Biden doesn’t sell art anymore. He doesn’t sit on any Ukrainian boards. He doesn’t do much of anything. His usefulness only existed when his father had political power.

@nickshirleyy @X @allegrajacchia You should lear how to set a strong password

I have regained access to my account. It was hacked by someone in Queens, NY, who managed to sign in and lock me out of my account from all my devices. Thank you @X and @allegrajacchia team for helping get my account back quickly! All types of fraudsters are coming at me 🤣

@ukraine_map @WarMonitor3 “Have fought for the U.S.” as in formerly fought and thumb their noses at us now…..these aren’t allies, they are worthless leaches

@WarMonitor3 Let’s get this straight, Trump is going into a war to stop the main threat to the Gulf States and Israel, even considering putting US troops in Iran, while Gulf States don’t fight But NATO countries who contribute ~2.8% of their GDP and have fought for the US, he won’t defend 🤡

Pentagon has declined to reaffirm NATOs collective defence commitment saying it would be up to Trump after European allies have not helped the US with its war against Iran. Wow…

@goddek @disclosetv It’s just a negotiating tactic. Put maximum pressure on the regime. The global energy price shock would be too severe.

@disclosetv I never thought I’d find myself favoring the Iranian regime, but at this point it seems like the lesser of two evils.

JUST IN - Trump says if deal is not reached with Iran and Hormuz Strait opened, U.S. "will conclude our lovely 'stay' in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)."

@cturnbull1968 @grok what is the video from?

This is why Republicans are trying so hard to suppress the vote through their pathetic SAVE act. Maybe next time, do a better job running the country so most of the country doesn’t end up hating you.

@KimDotcom And only 1000 of them registered to vote

8 million Americans demonstrated against Trump today. The biggest demonstration in US history.

@allenanalysis And only 1000 of them registered to vote

🚨 Official count confirmed: More than 8 million people participated in No Kings Day today. One of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history. 3,000 cities. Every state. Every coast. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Dallas. St. Paul. DC. San Francisco. San Diego. New York. London. Tel Aviv. Scotland. And counting. To put 8 million in context: The Women’s March in 2017 — the previous record — drew an estimated 3-5 million. Today more than doubled it. 8 million Americans didn’t just protest today. They sent a message that cannot be ignored, cannot be dismissed, and cannot be spun. The founders settled the kings question in 1776. 8 million Americans settled it again today.

Please explain to us, with details, how Donald Trump forced you to have sex with a Chinese honeypot spy in a janitor’s closet on the campus of California State University East Bay, and divulge classified information to her from 2012 through 2015.

@LeaderJohnThune 💯

@BernieSanders living the good life!

Sacramento cartoonist Darrin Bell known for slandering President Trump as a s*xual predator and pedophıle in his cartoons, was CHARGED with possesion of 134 child p*rnographic videos. The 49-year-old, who built his career smearing others, now faces serious charges. You can't make this stuff up

@GovPressOffice Yet only $3/gal here in the Midwest

Yes, Governor Gavin Newsom started a war with Iran and shut down the Strait of Hormuz. King Newscum’s powers are truly endless!