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Here’s what drives people nuts on both sides: Trump is not the cartoon character. Not the genius his fans worship, not the idiot his critics need him to be. He's just a stubborn, calculating guy who creates chaos the way a magician creates misdirection. While you’re distracted watching the fireworks, he’s already three iterations ahead with furious execution. And he doesn’t bluff the way people think he bluffs. He just couldn't care less about the part of diplomacy where everyone pretends to be polite while lying to each other’s faces. He skips that step entirely, which looks unhinged if you’re used to the old choreography but is genuinely disorienting if you’re the guy on the other side of the table who had a whole manipulation strategy mapped out. Iran found this out the hard way. What gets lost in so much noise is that Trump doesn’t actually want war. He sees it as the ugly price tag on a bigger purchase. His math on Iran is cold but not complicated: ninety million people living between poverty and the lower middle class, ruled by an elite whose entire business model depends on keeping them there. The nukes were the urgent priority, but his bet is that removing the lid will let Iranians rebuild the way Germany did after the rubble cleared. You can argue whether that math checks out, but it’s not the reasoning of someone who just wants to watch things explode. Obviously, Iran isn’t the only file on his desk. Venezuela already got the treatment. Cuba’s probably next. Syria hasn’t been forgotten either, no matter how quiet things look. By this point, few should be surprised that he circles back to unfinished business with the patience of a guy who knows he’s holding better cards and just needs to wait for overconfidant tyrants to overplay theirs. The part his opponents keep getting wrong is treating “Make America Great Again” like a bumper sticker. Wrong. It’s a *doctrine* now. It has always been. Whether you love it or find it terrifying, MAGA is the very operating system behind his relentless drive. This not just some random pixellated banner which will fade away in the next couple presidential terms. Nah, this is the right stuff that will outlast the man who built it.

Here it is: The Heritage Foundation CONFIRMS that Hillary Clinton—who orchestrated the single greatest misinformation and disinformation campaign in United States history, the Russian collusion hoax, as a means to overthrow the U.S. government—was directly involved in urging the European Union to use its Digital Services Act to pressure and fine Elon Musk and push the U.S. back into censorship. In fact, the fascist flew overseas for a meeting to facilitate this atrocity. — Law professor Jonathan Turley: “They (the European Union) gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti–free speech gathering I’ve ever been part of. Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger. When Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti–free speech pieces of legislation in decades. She called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens and to force people like Musk to censor. It’s an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate.” In other words: There is not a single crime that Hillary Clinton has not committed.

@ksorbs The thing that radicalized me is that the Dems deliberately imported these violent criminals & now protect them from deportation in court & with their ongoing violent insurrection against federal ICE agents. Never forget: They opened the border with a FORKLIFT! It was treason.

@ksorbs Exactly… they committed treason of the highest degree like inviting a Trojan horse inside for votes

@Knesix I think this YT post by Sal supports this: youtu.be/2Nu4qbbOj2M?t=…

I honestly thought this map was made up Hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry two million barrels each, are currently racing toward the US Gulf Coast from every direction. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa, the scenic route, the "we were heading to Saudi Arabia but NVM" route. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and everyone panicked. Oil hit $126 a barrel. Gas hit $4 a gallon. Cable news did the thing where they put a red banner on screen and say "CRISIS" in a font that suggests you should be hoarding toilet paper. And then something happened that nobody in media seems interested in reporting, for obvious reasons. The world just... switched suppliers? Like changing your internet provider except the internet provider is the entire effing global energy economy. American oil exports are approaching record levels. Gulf Coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid-ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed to Texas. That's not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U-turns in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile China, which was getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods headed to the US. So to summarize: Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy evaporated. This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics... or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits! I'll let you figure out which one

Can you confirm this @mercoglianos ?

Speaking as someone inside Iran who stayed connected through Starlink during the total blackout, I can sincerely affirm the real mood across the country right now: We are relieved the ceasefire negotiations collapsed. The spirit inside Iran and the genuine desires of the people stand totally against any truce or bargaining with this brutal regime — particularly figures like Ghalibaf, a murdering psychopath who has countless Iranian blood on his hands. Every form of engagement or compromise with the Islamic Republic is strongly opposed by ordinary Iranians. We are determined to complete the uprising we launched in January. Any support the international community — above all the United States — can offer is deeply appreciated. For nearly five decades we have suffered relentless torture, sexual violence, executions, degradation, and sorrow at the hands of this tyranny. The outside world has no real grasp of the extent of our pain. The Iranian public feels zero concern for Hezbollah, yet the regime is ready to endanger the entire nation for them. They have always prioritized their terrorist proxies over the well-being of their own citizens. We exhausted every peaceful option: huge street demonstrations, open resistance, attempts at gradual reform, dialogue — you name it. None succeeded. The regime’s consistent reply has been gunfire, nooses, and fresh waves of fear. With the talks now broken down, I’m writing this from inside Iran with mixed emotions of anxiety, hope and grief. Whatever unfolds from here, most Iranians will feel a sense of release. No price is too steep to get rid of this evil regime and the price of letting this nightmare drag on is far greater, and for many of us, even dying feels better than one more day under these monsters. This reflects the authentic voice of the majority of Iranians — a people who frequently lack internet access, global reach, or any platform to speak. When we lose internet access, the Iranian diaspora becomes our voice abroad. While the ceasefire talks dragged on, they took to the streets in protest, clearly showing the world that we reject any negotiation with this regime and want Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to represent the Iranian people — because no one inside this regime ever can. As I have said before, the world will soon see why we declare: Anything for freedom. Anything to destroy this evil. #IranRevolution2026‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌

I don’t listen to modern music anymore because instead of giving us talented and beautiful artists like this who sing wholesome songs to lift the people up they force lady Gaga on us with degenerate songs filled with pornographic demons. Does anyone know who this is??

This 👇here 👇 — is one of the 274 under cover FBI agents Christopher Wray deployed to disrupt the official proceedings of Jan. 6. 📝 Every single one of the 274 FBI agents deployed on Jan. 6 should be subpoenaed to testify under oath before Trump’s DOJ on national TV.

The German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was a gifted child. It is said that he could calculate even before he could properly speak. At the age of 10, Gauss was given a problem in class: What is the sum of all numbers from 1 to 100? While his classmates were busy adding the numbers one by one using paper and pencil, Gauss quickly saw a smarter pattern. He imagined writing the numbers from 1 to 50 in a row, and then placing the numbers from 51 to 100 beneath them in reverse order. Each pair would add up to 101: 1 + 100 = 101 2 + 99 = 101 3 + 98 = 101 ... and so on. Since there were 50 such pairs, the total sum would be: 101 × 50 = 5,050 Gauss arrived at the answer almost instantly—and entirely in his head. He then wrote the result on his slate and placed it on the teacher’s desk, reportedly saying, “There it lies.” The teacher was so impressed by his brilliance that he used his own money to buy Gauss the best available textbook on arithmetic, recognizing the extraordinary talent of the young prodigy.

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Bombed Libya for Seven Months, Nobody Talked About Impeaching Him During the Libya bombing campaign, President Obama authorized strikes on a range of dual‑use sites, including TV stations, communications facilities, government buildings, civilian vessels and ports. He also joked about drone strikes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and there were no accusations of war crimes then. “We bombed them for seven months, and, by the way, after 60 to 90 days, the War Powers Authorization Act ends. In other words, you can negotiate from 60 to 90 days about whether you need Congress’s approval to make war. After that, it’s illegal.” youtu.be/zEQ6HH8sPn8 @VDHanson

Tina Peters is in prison for preserving records, that the state wiped, proving the 2020 election was stolen. - State deletion of election records in Mesa County, CO - 36 wireless internet devices connected to election - Evidence of manipulated votes from preserved records Free Tina Peters!

Devastating images from Gaza, look what Israel did!! Oh never mind, this is Homs, Syria. That was done by Hezbollah and the Assad regime. But no one gave and gives a shit because all the woke leftists in the west support Hezbollah and Assad.

Prepare for the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year. Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and a woman who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used. Her exact words: “I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.” Then she turns the knife inward: “These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.” She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues. This isn’t some random podcast bro. This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying: “We were the useful idiots.”

Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions. In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country. Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country. America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will.

You cannot negotiate with Islamic Republic and IRGC. I am telling you this as an Iranian inside Iran who has suffered and seen my people suffer at their hands. Article 9 of the Islamic Republic’s own Constitution: “In the Islamic Republic of Iran, freedom, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of the country are inseparable… No authority has the right to abrogate legitimate freedoms, not even by enacting laws and regulations, under the pretext of preserving the independence and territorial integrity of the country.” Yet the regime has now imposed a nationwide internet blackout on its own people for over 1,000 hours — the longest in history, per NetBlocks — all in the name of “security”. They’re doing precisely what their Constitution forbids: stripping legitimate freedoms under the excuse of protecting the nation. If the Islamic Republic can’t even respect its own fundamental laws, why would the world expect it to honor any ceasefire, peace negotiations, or international agreements? Why are they being welcomed with kisses and flowers in Islamabad? Because Pakistan benefits from the terror of the Islamic Republic, and is an accomplice in all the suffering and spilled blood. While Iranians are deliberately isolated and silenced, the regime keeps its secure channels open to spread lies and coordinate terror. This isn’t a government. It’s a criminal enterprise that fears its own citizens more than any external threat. The Iranian people deserve better than this hypocrisy and darkness. #IranMassacre‌

Thomas Sowell just publicly ENDED Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC : “As I listened to her, I was amazed that there seems to be no factual issue as far as she is concerned. She just pronounces things to be so and that’s the end of it.” REPOST and amplify his voice! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic. Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just learned a bit of Persian, but they are all foreign enemies to Iran, killing Iranians and will continue to do so as long as they remain in power. Where is the anti-occupation crowd? Where are the opposers of “foreign invasion” when US and IDF troops came to take out these jihadists? Where are the UN and EU debates about breach of international law? Where is the “no war” rally for these guys patrolling the streets of Iran in preparation for a massacre? If you are not doing everything you can to take this regime and their proxy forces down you are complicit in all their crimes against our people.

Here it is: 🚨 Newly hidden FBI documents released by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM: The FBI staged January 6 five months before it even happened and concealed it from the President of the United States, induing AG William fucking Barr and others: A memo shows the FBI conducted a secret “January 6 tabletop exercise” in the summer of 2020 — embedding 274 undercover agents and informants, including rehearsing post-Jan. 6 mass prosecutions of Americas 5 months before it even occurred. King Solomon Reporting: The FBI’s Boston office ran a secret tabletop exercise in August 2020. It included embedded informants — 274 undercover FBI agents — and even planned “mass prosecutions,” including for minor offenses, the very same tactics later used against Jan. 6 defendants. —— This was no intelligence failure — it was a premeditated conspiracy by Democrats to suppress evidence of crimes committed on November 3, 2020. In other words, Christopher Wray will go down as the most corrupt FBI Director in U.S. history. He has outdone James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper combined.