@PeteHegseth @KidRock @USArmy we just lost 6 aviators from a mid air. The NTSB was less than kind about the DCA crash. And now you're encouraging hot dogging because it involved the president's friend.
Great job.
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Lenny Briscoe
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Lenny Briscoe
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Nixon Conservative | Generally Snarky | Recently Stumbled into Finance | #edsftg | Reluctantly enjoying working in The City |
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Thank you @KidRock.
@USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED.
No punishment. No investigation.
Carry on, patriots. 🇺🇸
KidRock@KidRock
This is a level of respect that shit for brains Governor of California will never know. God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her. 🇺🇸 🙏
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If you pay extra, Uncle Moe should have to wear it on his head while you eat it.
MLB@MLB
The Rangers have revealed a wearable nacho "Rally Sombrero" 😭 The food vessel contains chips, cheese, lettuce, jalapeños, pico de gallo and more (via @delawarenorth)
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The good news is Pam Bondi isn’t married so there won’t be pictures of her spouse with fake boobs soliciting illegal alien sex workers.
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@srodan The Brits are in the air NOW over Gulf shooting down drones. A French soldier was killed in Iraq.
meanwhile the Gulf States who are rich because we decided in the 70's that we should be their security guarantors are privately cheering us on from the sidelines.
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She makes some fair points. I want to engage honestly rather than dismiss the whole thing.
Is Europe a frustrating ally? Yes. Has European caution on Iran been maddening? Absolutely. Iran’s behavior and missile stockpile should in itself be proof that European strategy isn’t working. The Hormuz blockade is choking global energy, missiles are flying, and when Washington asked to use bases and overflight, the hesitation and for some, the refusal was real and damaging.
She’s right that there’s a genuine philosophical gap. Europe defaults to process — and there are moments where process becomes paralysis, and paralysis has costs you can measure in barrel prices and body counts.
“Not our war” is perhaps the dumbest sentence in European foreign policy. The Islamic Republic has been targeting Europe for decades — through terrorism, through destabilization, through hostage-taking, through developing missiles and a nuclear program, through giving Russia the arms that kill Ukrainians. Twenty percent of global oil flows through Hormuz. European economies run on it. European citizens pay at the pump when it’s disrupted. A theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions threatening the world’s energy jugular is everybody’s problem.
And let’s be honest about the pattern we all know is coming. If American strikes degrade Iran’s capability and reopen the Strait, if this mission is a success- European leaders will quietly pocket the stability and claim the “diplomatic track” they urged made it all possible. If it goes badly, they’ll say they warned against recklessness. Cueillir les fruits if it works, wag the finger if it doesn’t. It’s the most comfortable position in geopolitics and the least honorable.
But the picture she paints is incomplete.
Has the US been a frustrating ally? Hell yes. Tariffs on your closest partners. Floating the annexation of Greenland. Threatening to pull out of NATO every other summit. Frustration is not a one-way street.
European nations ARE in the Gulf. France has a permanent base in Abu Dhabi. The UK runs operations out of Bahrain. European navies have been escorting tankers. This isn’t freeloading — it’s just not the blank check the author wants.
And on the money: NATO allies are now hitting the 2% target. Europeans increased spending — and the goalposts moved. Yesterday it was budgets. Today it’s unconditional basing rights with no say in strategy. At some point you have to ask whether the demand is contribution or compliance.
Now here’s where her argument goes wrong, and it matters:
If your conclusion is “the alliance is already dead,” congratulations — you’ve just written Moscow’s talking points for free. Russia’s entire Europe strategy rests on two things: convincing Americans their allies are parasites, and convincing Europeans that Washington is unreliable. This post does the first one beautifully.
Finally, the Iraq comparison is the elephant in the room. “Men of conviction who act” also produced a trillion-dollar catastrophe built on bad intelligence. Iran in 2026 is not Iraq in 2003 — this is a live blockade, not a speculative threat. But the principle holds: how you act matters as much as whether you act.
On the bases: Britain DID allow Fairford. A sovereign nation accepted the risk of its own territory becoming a legitimate target.
The “cancerous rot” line is where she loses the serious audience entirely. You can’t graft a culture-war rant onto a geopolitical argument and expect the people who actually make policy to keep reading.
Here’s the argument she should be making: Europe needs to stop treating operational commitment as something it can outsource to Washington and then second-guess from the sidelines. That’s a real problem and it demands more, not less, alliance. You fix this by holding allies accountable AND strengthening the coalition. You don’t fix it by burning the house down while Putin warms his hands at the fire.
The alliance needs reform, not a eulogy.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen
Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.
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@MsMelChen Millions in Black Lives Matter donations that never made it to black lives mattering.
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Why do they always trash talk going to space as wasting resources that could feed the poor.
Not once do I ever hear “imagine all the poor people who could've been fed with the money spent on the No Kings protests or welfare fraud”
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@HeathMayo Just gotta give us enough time to get through infrastructure week.
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Totally unclear what we are supposed to accomplish in “two to three more weeks.” The President claims we destroyed their missiles, we destroyed their navy, we destroyed their nukes, we aren’t taking the Strait, we aren’t changing the regime…
…so what in the hell are we doing?
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so uh did something just happen like 20 minutes ago or what
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“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.” - Roberts, CJ.
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@elonmusk wow. They should start a government department solely focused on routing out fraud an improving Government Efficiency
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@podiatristdon Trump’s anger is totally misdirected here.. it’s the gulf states he needs to be hammering to get off their asses and actually do something
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@seanspicer maybe we shouldn't spend six months denigrating their dead and threatening to annex their territory?
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the next time someone talks about out NATO allies consider how our "allies" are acting now regarding Iran:
✅Spain refuses to allow use of their airspace
✅ditto for France
✅Italy declined to let U.S. war planes land at a base
✅ Britain initially refused to allow the US of their bases
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I heard he gave everyone a Christmas card that year that read "a donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund"
A Good Samaritan@dear_god_helpus
Why did @j_fishback block me? I just wanted to know why he took a picture of a $20,000 check with his pants unzipped. And why his old employer would ever write his company a check when he didn't disclose it was his own organization? From the trial: “Greenlight has an annual gift-matching program in which it matcheseligible contributions made by its employees to charitable organizations, up to $10,000. On, November 28, 2022, Fishback requested that Greenlight match a $10,000 donation he made to anorganization that he created and ran called the Macrovoyant Foundation (“Macrovoyant”).” “Greenlight became suspicious whenFishback was unable to provide proof of his own donation or other information verifying thatGreenlight’s donation would be received and handled legitimately by Macrovoyant.” “When Fishback made his initial request on November 28, the only “proof” that heprovided for his donation was a picture of an uncashed personal check made out to “Macrovoyant Foundation.” He also requested that Greenlight provide the matching donation in the form of a check as opposed to a wire transfer, but did not explain why that was necessary” that is until he was pushed a month later for tax receipt and instead delivered a letter with Macrovoyant letterhead and top them to kindly write a check because “the foundation is in the process of moving bank accounts so wire won’t work” another month later he requested a check again, “Fishback sent Greenlight an email with:(i) a screenshot purporting to show a wire transfer, and (ii) a screenshot purporting to show a Bankof America account, with each screenshot showing a $10,000 transfer to “Macrovoyant Foundation” on November 29, 2022.” He was told that was not acceptable proof. When the company followed up 2 months later “Fishback responded by saying that he was not authorized to share the organization’s bank statements without approval from the Board, but sent another screenshot, purporting to be from the website Givebutter, which showed a donation in his name to“Macrovoyant Foundation Corporation” on January 30, 2023.” “The request for a check on November 28 was ever more curious, because Fishbacklater purported to show Greenlight a wire from himself to Macrovoyant of $10,000 on November 29, just one day after he had requested the payment from Greenlight to Macrovoyant be in checkform.”
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I'm Chestertonmaxxing again, I'm straight up Chestertonpilled rn fr
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Once again, I request that all old men (especially you, @RobSchneider) that never raised their right hand personally or sent their kids to war cease and desist from all demands for institution of the draft.
Rob Schneider 🇺🇸@RobSchneider
For the people who did NOT READ MY ENTIRE POST AND ARE JUST RESPONDING to the HEADLINES… You are MISSING THE POINT. A military with EVERY SEGMENT OF SOCIETY REPRESENTED would make the DEPLOYMENT of TROOPS and foreign wars LESS likely as there would be MORE accountability at the highest levels of power. Right now, the all-volunteer force means the sons and daughters of politicians, billionaires, Hollywood elites, and the ruling class are almost never the ones in uniform. That makes it far too easy for elected officials to vote for endless foreign adventures — they suffer no personal cost. When every family — rich or poor, red or blue, from every race, creed, and zip code — has skin in the game, things change dramatically. Congress would think long and hard before sending American troops into another faraway war that isn’t vital to our national survival. No more cavalier decisions. No more “other people’s kids” dying while their own kids stay safe at Ivy League schools or in Beverly Hills. That’s not pro-war. That’s anti-reckless-war. It’s the same reason universal service in places like Israel and Switzerland hasn’t turned them into warmongers — it forces leaders to feel the real human cost before they pull the trigger. Read the whole post. The goal is unity, strength, and responsibility — not endless conflict. We want a military that truly reflects America… so America stops treating its military like disposable chess pieces. God bless the United States of America. Love, Rob Schneider
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