Mike Stodghill

The left is the party of violence

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence. Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.” Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll. Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels. He suggested they use excavators instead. Someone pushed back. “But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.” Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?” One sentence. That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government. The teaspoon is not a punchline. It is the actual policy. Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for. Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output. Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes. Teaspoons. The system doesn’t want excavators. Excavators finish the job. And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford. So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years. But this isn’t about laziness. It’s about control. A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better. Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan. Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging. Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions. That’s the point. The economy doesn’t run on productivity. It runs on the appearance of productivity. Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning. They know it. Their managers know it. The people who sign their budgets know it. But the teaspoon stays in their hand. Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon. And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place. That’s the thing the system can’t survive. Not unemployment. Free time. Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan. He described the longest con in modern governance. Keep them digging. Keep them busy. Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start. Friedman told that story sixty years ago. He meant it as a warning. The system heard every word. It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

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HOUTHIS CUT OFF - REFUSING TO COOPERATE WITH TERROR MASTERS IN TEHRAN Senior Iran Analyst Dror Balazada (@DBalazada) reports that the Houthi terrorist organization has not received any money or weapons from Iran for the past six months. Consequently, they are refusing to cooperate with Tehran’s planned "adventures" until their funding is restored. The Houthis are reportedly operating out of "sheer fear" of @realDonaldTrump and American strikes, leading them to stick to a reported agreement with Trump to secure vital "breathing room." Beyond the American threat, the group is also deeply afraid of a potential Saudi military intervention within Yemeni territory.

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On This Day — May 18, 1967 18 days before the Six Day War, Arab leaders openly broadcast their planned extermination of Israel. Egypt’s official Voice of the Arabs declared: “The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence." Two days later, with Syrian troops already massed on Israel’s border, Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad declared: “I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.” Cairo Radio the next day: “This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation, to blot out its entire presence in our holy land.” Extermination. Annihilation. Annihilation again. They said it loudly, proudly, and repeatedly on state radio — a little more than two weeks before the war. Not hidden plans. Not vague threats. Explicit genocidal intent, 22 years after the Holocaust. Yet to this day, people still blame Israel for starting the war. The truth: Israel faced imminent annihilation from a Soviet-backed Arab alliance that had mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, closed the Straits of Tiran, and expelled UN peacekeepers. Under customary international law, a preemptive strike against an imminent existential threat is not only justified — it is legal. Israel struck first only against Egypt, the ringleader. It begged Jordan’s King Hussein to stay out of the fighting. Hussein ignored the plea, joined the war, and lost the "West Bank" and Old City of Jerusalem in the process. Israel didn’t want that war. It simply refused to die in it. While the world did nothing, Israel acted alone — and in six days destroyed the genocidal threat to its existence.

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There are 46 vagrant fires every single day in LA…rubbish and encampment fires that destroy property, vehicles, kill pets, spread to vegetation, and compromise infrastructure. That’s 17,000+ fires per year. Until you clear vagrants from the streets, don’t pretend you’re serious about mitigating fire threats.

The internal Iranian regime narrative has shifted markedly in the past 72 hours. Multiple officials have now openly acknowledged Iran’s structural gasoline deficit, war-damaged energy infrastructure, and the urgent need for consumption management. Fuel shortages and tightened rationing are pushing drivers across the country into a rapidly growing gasoline black market. Citizens are describing hours-long lines at filling stations and sharply inflated under-the-table prices. a clear signal that the official quota system is breaking down on the ground. @IranIntl On the export front, the picture is just as stark: Iranian crude exports have collapsed by more than 80% between mid-March and late April, measured against a March baseline of 23.4 million barrels. @Vortexa. And there is no easy workaround. Iran’s overland export alternatives, via Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan, have a combined capacity of only 250,000–300,000 bpd. The math simply doesn’t work for Tehran. The cumulative picture: a regime now publicly conceding what it long denied, a domestic fuel market under acute stress, and an export channel with no viable replacement.

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BREAKING: The ICC prosecutor has admitted that he has not found a shred of evidence suggesting a genocide in Gaza. Complete vindication.

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For the past two months we've been saying over and over again that this little kerfuffle is going to forever change: 1- How crude is moved to market. 2-Who that market actually is. 3- Who gets to produce and how much... 👇👇👇👇

NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip.

That is Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda, commander of the CARACAL unit near Gaza. On the morning of October 7th, she opened her eyes and saw Hamas in front of her. “I look up at the sky, then lower my head again, glance to the side, and there are maybe five pickup trucks coming toward me, full of motorcycle riders. There are terrorists leaping between the sand dunes and the trees, all of them wearing vests and uniforms, moving in our direction, and I can’t even count them properly with my eyes. It’s hundreds. Hundreds. And farther back, on the distant road, I see columns of Gazan civilians simply walking toward us, some armed, some not. And I say to myself: ‘That’s it. This is where I die. Right here, exactly where I’m standing now. This is where I die.’ Then I said to myself: Fine. If this is the end, then I’ll end it well. I’ll die with honor. I’ll do the best I can. And I’ll fight until my very last drop of blood. So I turn to my soldiers, a group of twelve heroic fighters waiting for me to tell them what to do. I turn to them with half a smile. Later, they told me I smiled; I didn’t remember it. And I tell them: ‘Come on, let’s tear them apart!’ And they all shout back: ‘Yalla!!!’ They come to the embankment with machine guns, with everything they can carry, and we position ourselves there and start firing at everyone approaching the outpost. We’re shooting like mad. At some point, we had a LAU missile with us, so we fired it at one of the Hamas pickup trucks. The truck exploded in a massive blast, something unbelievable. There must have been huge amounts of explosives inside, and the explosion took several of the motorcycle riders with it. And little by little, I suddenly realize many of them are beginning to retreat, turn around, and flee back the way they came. And suddenly I understood: yes, we’re doing something significant here. We were there for about half an hour, and then, in the middle of all the chaos, I suddenly hear the tracks of a tank behind me. It was an unbelievable sigh of relief. I told my deputy company commander: ‘Stay here! I don’t know whose tank this is — I’m going to get it!’ It was already around eleven o’clock. I start moving backward, advancing toward the tank through the concrete barriers, and suddenly I realize a terrorist is jumping at me from point-blank range, and in another second, he would’ve been hugging me. And my luck was that I already had a round in the chamber and my finger on the trigger. It was literally a question of who shoots first, and I shot first. The terrorist collapsed in front of me. And I froze for a moment, like, what was that? What just happened? Then I hear my deputy commander yelling from behind me: ‘Commander! Commander! Are you okay?’ I look at myself, I’m okay. I turn back toward him and signal with my hand: everything’s under control. He runs up after me, looks at me, and says, ‘What… what just happened between you two?’ And I tell him: ‘Exactly what’s going through your head right now.’ But the tank! I remember — I can’t let it leave. We need it. I ran quickly toward it, and because I’m used to working with my tank crews, I started signaling to them in tank hand signals: ‘Terrorists there, behind me, do this, shell over there!’ And he’s with us, he understands immediately. And for the first time, I suddenly have additional force joining me. We make some kind of flanking maneuver, take up a strong position, and simply fire toward wherever the terrorists are coming from. We keep firing and firing, and they start pulling back. And I understand — all of us understand — that if we don’t continue fighting right now, those terrorists will get past us and reach all the communities behind us. At a certain point, my deputy commander and his radio operator are hit by an RPG and collapse to the ground. So we pull them out of there. Then I call friends of mine who are pilots flying Yasur and Yanshuf helicopters, and I ask them to come land at the helipad near the outpost, because I’ve evacuated wounded soldiers there and I need them to clear our casualties out. And it actually happens. They arrive, they land, and they evacuate the wounded for me. Meanwhile, my medical unit is there the entire time treating casualties, loading them up, evacuating them to the helipad. We managed to bring there the wounded from the APC we had seen, the wounded from our battalion, and several civilians we picked up along the way — people who escaped from Kibbutz Sufa, from Pri Gan, and from other places. They all received treatment from my incredible medical team — those angels — and the helicopters I called in evacuated them to Soroka Hospital, where they finally received proper care. There were also many dead in that battle. There were dead. And I remember one moment at the end, when everything was over, just minutes before they came to evacuate the bodies. There was a moment when they were lying there side by side, and I walked between them, gently touching their faces, stroking them softly, telling them I was sorry, and closing their eyes. And I remember telling myself in that moment that those people, who were now making their final journey, were unbelievable heroes. They fought there like lions to save Kibbutz Sufa. They fought until their last drop of blood." From Or's book 'book One Day in October'.

𝐕𝐃𝐇 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐇 — 𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐅 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝟔𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆, 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒 Hanson, on the disparity of effort: ‘𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘜𝘈𝘌, 𝘘𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳, 𝘖𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘚𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘶𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 600 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 — 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 600 𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘎𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.” ‘𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 32 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 40 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 40 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦 — 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘴 — 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘬!𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥. 𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘙𝘎𝘊 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴.” Why the back-channel game explains the apparent stalemate. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝; 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐈𝐑𝐆𝐂 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. Both sides need the U.S. to finish the regime decapitation that the regime’s own internal critics cannot survive recommending. 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐔𝐌 — 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘭 — 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 4 𝘰𝘧 12

🚨 HOLY CRAP. CNN was just FORCED into calling out the NGO fraud operation in California: "Los Angeles...homelessness budget was $950M! Yet homelessness surged 80%!" "Blue cities are out of control! Promise more, spending more, delivering less." BRUTAL!