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🔴 You can’t make this up. In January, the Iranian regime killed +40,000 protesters in the streets, including children as young as 8. Just 90 days later, countries like the UK, France, and Spain supported Iran’s appointment to a leadership role on a UN human rights body.

I expected the Democrats to oppose a Republican president. I did not not expect a Republican Senate Majority Leader to help the Democrats oppose a Republican president.

@MarinaMedvin Get the US out of the UN and get the UN out of the US!

The UN just elected the Islamic Republic of Iran to oversee women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. LOL. No, seriously. American taxpayers fund the UN. DEFUND THE UN!

@derrickstheman @noahforkansas He is a Democrat. That is just what they are looking for. He will fit right in with the rest of the Democrat politicians and will appeal to their brainwashed masses.

@noahforkansas You are either a Liar or a Moron. Both are disqualifying for public office.

When my son's lips turned blue, my wife and I had to pause and ask ourselves: can we afford the ambulance? No Kansas family should ever have that conversation.

If Democrats say @ericswalwell is too toxic to run for office, how is he not too toxic to currently occupy his office? Time for @RepSwalwell to resign from the House. Or his colleagues must use his own standard he used for others to expel him.

🚨 Texas Education Board Showdown: The Fight Over the Bible, Truth, and Our Children’s Minds “Where in our founding documents is a national religion identified?” That was the aggressive “gotcha” question a hostile Texas State Board of Education member fired at a witness today. The witness began by citing historical facts about Connecticut’s state church… but the board member cut him off, invoked “freedom of religion,” and smugly told everyone to “read more carefully.” Then Mr. Green stepped up and dropped the hammer: A University of Houston study of 15,000 founding-era documents proved the Bible was quoted 34% of the time - more than Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke combined. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration and Father of America’s public school system, declared the Bible should be the primary textbook in our schools, because “it works” and produces a good society. While CAIR-linked groups and Marxist unions demand Sharia-friendly lessons, transgender ideology, and anti-American revisionism in the TEKS… some board members are desperate to erase the very foundation of Texas and America. This is the fight for our children’s minds. Adopt the strong classical literature list. Include the Bible. Approve fact-based TEKS. Choose education over indoctrination. Texas parents are watching.

@LibertyValkyrie Could we bend that just a little bit and leave Lawrence O’Donnell behind somewhere? We could still make the argument that we have left no MAN behind.

“We leave no man behind.” —Pete Hegseth “That could have been a woman they were trying to rescue, and might be a woman next time.” —Lawrence O'Donnell Stop trying to tear down a well-done mission to pander nonsense. Sincerely, A Female Veteran

@shadihamid @washingtonpost I would submit that you just proved you do NOT belong in America!

My new @washingtonpost column: Why do Muslims need to be like everyone else? A case against assimilation. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. In August 2022, HMS Prince of Wales sailed out of Portsmouth to cross the Atlantic for joint exercises with the US Navy. She was the pride of the modern Royal Navy. A four-billion-pound aircraft carrier. The flagship of Global Britain. She made it about 20 miles. Then the propeller shaft coupling sheared & one of only two carriers in the entire British fleet limped back to port and spent the better part of a year in dry dock while American carriers did the work Britain had promised to do. That’s the Royal Navy in 2026. It’s a museum with a TickTock account. I’ve called the Canadian Navy a glorified Coast Guard but the UK can’t even keep migrant boats off its shores. Nelson had over 100 ships of the line at Trafalgar. The fleet that fought WW2 had over 900 warships. Horatio Nelson John Fisher Andrew Cunningham David Beatty Bertram Ramsay Edward Hawke George Rodney Richard Howe John Jellico And First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are all spinning in their graves. If they were resurrected today they would each give British PMs the lash. Today the Royal Navy has roughly 70 commissioned vessels. Maybe 15 of them are meaningful surface combatants. It sounds marginally ok but any given day, a significant percentage are in dry dock, undermanned, or waiting for spare parts. And China launches more tonnage in a quarter than the Royal Navy possesses in total. You do not rule the waves. You do not rule the Channel. You rule a Wikipedia. And it gets worse. You don’t even rule the world’s imagination anymore. Master and Commander came out a quarter century ago and nobody’s planning a sequel. Scooby Doo got a sequel, Jack Aubrey does not. It’s sad. It’s pathetic. But even more sad is the fact you don’t stand up and demand one. Neither does the former Navy commanding officer you call King. You have decided to roll over instead. All six Type 45 destroyers, the backbone of Britain’s air defense fleet, had to be pulled back for emergency refits because their engines lose power in warm water. Read that again. They were practically useless in the Red Sea because they don’t have enough missiles and you didn’t buy the anti-air computers for their deck guns. Your last few nuclear submarine launches went plop and instead of trying again or calling the American missile manufacturer to court… you shrugged. This is the nuclear deterrent that is supposed to be the foundation of British sovereignty, the reason Britain sits at the UN Security Council, the last credible claim to great power status. It fell in the water next to the boat. Your ancestors circumnavigated the globe in wooden ships powered by rope and canvas. You built a billion-pound destroyer that overheats off Bahrain. Your frigates are too few to cover your own approaches. When Russian submarines transit the English Channel, the French Navy often shadows them because the Royal Navy cannot respond in time. The French. In your Channel. Protecting you. Nelson ain’t spinning in his tomb. He’s in the Atlantic laughing at you. Americans patrol the Gulf you depend on for energy. Americans keep Taiwan’s chips flowing to your factories. Americans are the reason the Houthis have not fully closed the Red Sea to British-flagged shipping. We are happy to help until now. Until Starmer tried selling off our only base in the Indian Oceans then refused to let us land planes. OUR OWN BASE Yes he relented but only under pressure. We will help protect your interests but on one condition: DO NOTHING No selling bases No overflight refusals No more dock denials in Gibraltar No crazy ROE debates No politicians demeaning us in debates No threating Elon Musk And no more 134 Royal Navy Admirals in cosplaying aboard your 15 broken warships. Tell them to hang up their uniforms and go home. OR STAND UP, make the king overthrow parliament & fund a proper navy Fight for your birthright or F*ck off. Your choice.

@timburchett @antje_gebhardt As long as Chuckie get his cut, everything is good. No kickback, no support. Yes Chuck, there is a moron, but it isn’t Trump.

How much of our money did you gladly give to Ukraine? $188 Billion of which they probably stole half of it. But that’s ok?

If you rob a bank and get to keep the loot, that's amnesty. If you cheat on an exam and you get to keep the A+ you didn't earn, that's amnesty. If you use performance enhancing drugs and get to keep the sports records, that's amnesty. If you're an illegal alien and you get to keep the job and American residency you weren't legally invited for, that's amnesty. Don't let Mike Lawler's #DIGNIDAD Act fool you. It's amnesty.

Iran, lining their infrastructure with women and children is, in fact, a war crime. A real one.

The illegal immigration issue is not difficult or complex or nuanced. If they came here illegally, they need to leave. That's it. End of story. "But what if they've been here for 10 years???" They need to leave. "But what if they haven't committed any other crimes???" Leave. "But what if they have a family???" Leave. This isn't hard at all. We have laws in this country. You broke the law. You don't belong here. Nothing personal. But get the hell out. It should not be hard for elected Republicans to articulate this point. If they do have trouble articulating it -- if they take any position on illegal immigration except for this -- they can also go. That's not complicated either.

Hello Representative Salazar, You probably don't even know this... but he word "dignity" in your bill's title carries decades of political science literature behind it. Dignity shifted from something that originates within the individual to something engineered from above by institutions. When the UN, NGOs, and multilateral bodies invoke dignity, they mean the replacement of organic, inherited civic bonds with managed, contractual ones administered by a professional class. That is the tradition your bill's language is drawing from, whether you intend it or not. On the substance: the DIGNITY Act is amnesty. Symbolic barriers to permanent residency do not change that the bill provides a path to legal status for tens of millions of people who entered the country unlawfully. Others have dissected the policy details thoroughly, so I won't repeat their work here. But I want to press a different question. Why the insistence that this isn't amnesty? The most straightforward explanation is that you know your constituents oppose it. They voted for enforcement, in the most demographically diverse Republican coalition in modern history. That coalition didn't ask for managed integration. It asked for sovereignty. The Founding Fathers built a republic from the bottom up, starting with human nature as it actually is: rooted in specific communities. The rules-based international order builds from the top down, starting with an abstract ideal and engineering populations to match it. Your bill, whatever its intentions, belongs to the second tradition, the one that is non-American. It assumes that cohesion can be manufactured through NGO programs... public schools, civic integration, managed assimilation... rather than protected through enforcement of the boundaries that a self-governing people chose to establish. That is not a conservative position. It is not a republican position in any meaningful sense. And your constituents can see it. We see you. You are a fraud, Representative Salazar.

Well said, Zeek. During my time in the military I had tours in both Asia and Europe. I often thought “we have our faults and there are things we need to change or improve, but there is NO PLACE like the USA.” Today, as an old man, that opinion remains. Ditto on the government personnel, primarily politicians and bureaucrats.

I’m proud to be American. I’m proud of my American ancestry. I wouldn’t want to live anyplace else in the world. I wouldn’t want to be anything else. Even if I go on vacation to another country, there’s a pride I have in being an American there. Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely despise some of the people in our government. Almost all of them. However, being American is the best thing in the world. Literally. God bless America.

I am the 3rd in this post to repost: I am Iranian and also have LOTS of family spread out inside Iran that say: NOTHING , I repeat NOTHING is scarier than the regime surviving..

I am bleeding my pockets dry paying astronomical prices for a half broken internet connection just to read what the outside world is saying. And let me be honest, it is absolutely infuriating to see how completely disconnected so many of you are from the actual mood of the people inside Iran. Do not lose your nerve. Do not be afraid. The narrative you are seeing right now is a complete illusion. The voices currently being amplified online are fake, manipulated, and engineered by the cyber army of this cannibalistic regime. They have locked us in a digital prison and severed our connection to the world specifically so they can control the narrative and project a false sense of fear and submission. We are not cowering in the dark. We are watching a dying terrorist syndicate thrash in its final days. Do not judge the resolve of the Iranian people based on the fabricated noise of our captors. Wait until these walls come down. Wait until this internet blackout is broken and you can finally hear the unfiltered, undeniable roar of a nation that has been stripped to the bone. You will see exactly what an unstoppable force looks like. Hold the line. Level the playing field and we will finish the job.

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit? What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe? What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel? What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language? What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks? What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big? What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week? What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way? What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize? What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy? What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this? What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it? What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages? What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended? What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead. I’m not saying I believe all of it. I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.

As an Iranian, let me tell you what @POTUS is talking about here: In Iran, if you protest, you die. Not metaphorically. Snipers on rooftops shoot people in the head and chest. In January, the regime massacred thousands in the streets, many of them young people whose only crime was demanding a normal life. When he says Iranians are telling the U.S. “please keep bombing” he’s describing a population so desperate to be free from a regime that murders them for protesting, that they’re willing to endure war if it means the system that has terrorized them for 47 years finally falls. You may not understand that. Most Westerners can’t. You’ve never lived in a country where your daughter can be shot in the face for not covering her hair. Where your son disappears into Evin Prison and you get a call to come pick up the body. Where the internet goes dark so the world can’t see the killing. That’s what “they have lived in a world that you know nothing about” means. Before the media turns this into “Trump wants to bomb civilians,” understand: the Iranian people have been begging the world to see them for years. This is the first U.S. president to say it out loud.

There are more Democrats running as Republicans than there are Republicans running as Republicans in 2026. Folks, do your research on these candidates and their political past. Do not take them at their word because they make a nice campaign ad. It's time to burn the fields while the snakes are still in them. Be an educated voter, not a familiar name voter.