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‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people who he hath chosen for his own inheritance.’ —Psalm 33:12 May God continue to shed his grace on our great nation.

Almost as if the Gulf of America naming was part of a plan…

Food for thought. The mission was never negotiation. It was documentation. In the language of Sun Tzu, when peace is impossible, you must first appear to seek it, so that when force follows, it is seen not as aggression but inevitability. Sending JD Vance, a man whose reputation is peace, into a hopeless stalemate was not naïveté, but design. The U.S. didn’t go to talk. It went to witness. And when Tehran overturned the table with the camera rolling, the trap was complete: legitimacy secured, perception shaped, and the next move pre‑justified. Have a nice day.

Today was the Cherry Blossom Festival here in Nashville, which is an annual event that celebrates Japanese culture 🇯🇵🌸 After spending 3 months in Tokyo last year, I was curious to see what a Japanese-inspired event would look like in America. The first thing that I noticed, however, was that other attendees were disproportionately overweight white women. And among the people dressed up for the event, they were almost exclusively obese white women with colorful hair. This struck me as strange, because this is not what the average person in Nashville looks like. Despite being in the south, Nashville is a relatively lean city. I definitely think that the Cherry Blossom Festival itself was attracting a specific type of crowd. And I find that so curious, because these overweight, unkempt women were clearly fans of Japanese culture and esthetics, but they simultaneously couldn't have been further from embodying Japanese beauty. Japanese women tend to be lean, feminine, well-groomed, reserved, and modest. The women at the Festival were basically the complete opposite of that. It seemed like they thought they could just put on a costume and emulate Japanese culture, but what they failed to realize is that Japanese culture is considered so beautiful and desirable because it's disciplined. It's precise. It's intentional. From the looks of it, these are not values that any of these women hold dear. The image of a tattooed, 300 pound woman, with unbrushed hair, spilling out of an anime cosplay outfit is... jarring, to say the least, because it goes against so much of what makes Japanese culture Japanese. It seemed like they believed Japanese culture was beautiful, but didn't understand that that beauty took work and a certain character to achieve. Work they weren't willing to do, and a character they weren't interested in aspiring to. And the fact that this type of woman is so interested in Japan is also strange to me, considering that Japan possesses a lot of the same qualities that these women likely complain about when it comes to America. Japan is an ethnonationalist country with strict immigration. They are tough on crime. They are socially conservative. They value social cohesion and personal responsibility. These qualities are all strengths when it comes to Japan, but these women, once more, all but certainly oppose such practices in America, failing to understand that Japanese success isn't an accident. It's specifically thanks to these policies. In any case, I don't share these thoughts to body shame anyone, but rather to note how, despite their apparent interest in Japanese culture, western liberals are essentially its polar opposite. Esthetically, politically, and socially.

Gavin Newsom screwed his best friend’s wife and his “first partner” cheated on him with Harvey Weinstein. Kamala got on her knees for Willie Brown. Eric Swalwell drugs and sexually assaults his interns. Adam Schiff took money from convicted gay prostitute killer Ed Buck. Ted Lieu is into “pup play” and took money from Ed Buck. Scott Weiner is a pedophile. Nancy Pelosi’s husband got hammered by his Grindr hookup. Schwarzenegger knocked up his nanny. Katie Porter threw scalding mashed potatoes on her husband’s head. What is going on in California?

BREAKING: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia fully restores East-West oil pipeline, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz and pumping 7,000,000 barrels per day. Saudi Arabia says it needs no more strait of Hormuz.

The Roman Republic, in its early centuries, was a society of small farmers. The legionary was a citizen who owned a plot of land, kept livestock, and went home to plant his crops between campaigns. The diet of this population, as far as we can reconstruct it from the agricultural manuals of Cato and Varro, included meaningful quantities of cheese, pork, eggs, vegetables grown in the household garden, and the produce of small flocks of sheep and goats. Then Rome conquered Egypt. Egypt produced grain on a scale no other province in the Mediterranean could match. The Nile delta, fertilised every year by the floods, yielded wheat in quantities that were effectively limitless from a Roman administrative perspective. The grain went onto ships at Alexandria, sailed to Ostia, and was distributed in Rome as the cura annonae, the grain dole, which by the late Republic was being given free to a substantial fraction of the city's population. The grain dole solved a political problem. It also created a nutritional one. Within a few generations, the urban Roman diet had reorganised itself around the dole. Bread became the staple in a way it had not previously been. The smallholdings that had supplied the city with milk and meat and eggs were displaced by the latifundia, the great slave-worked estates that produced wine and olive oil for export but were not particularly interested in the perishable, labour-intensive business of feeding a city. Now look at the skeletons. Bioarchaeological studies of Roman urban cemeteries show a measurable decline in average stature over the course of the imperial period. The Romans of the late Empire were, on average, shorter than the Romans of the Republic. Markers of nutritional deficiency become more common in the skeletal record. Teeth show increased decay consistent with a diet higher in refined grain. Infant bones show evidence of weaning onto inadequate foods. The barbarian peoples on the frontier, who were eating substantially more meat and dairy, were taller than the Romans by the time of the late Empire. The Roman writers noted this and treated it as a curiosity. They did not connect it to the dietary shift that had occurred within their own civilisation, possibly because connecting it would have meant questioning the grain dole, and the grain dole was the thing that kept the city quiet. When Rome fell, the conventional explanation focuses on military overstretch, fiscal collapse, and the various political failures of the late Empire. These are all real. They are also downstream of a population that had been getting smaller, weaker, and more disease-prone for generations, and that had organised its food supply around a single staple grain shipped from a single province that was, by the fifth century, no longer reliably under Roman control. The empire that conquered the Mediterranean on the back of small farmers eating mixed diets was eventually defeated by peoples who had never made the transition away from that kind of food. The grain dole is convenient. It is also, over the long run, a way of producing a population that cannot defend itself from the people who are still eating the cow.

Pelosi is a tough old bird, a hypocrite, and complicit in every grift and lie bubbling up from the bowels of The Swamp for decades. She is… …the perfect Democrat.

This is a game changer. Woke judges will now be publicly tracked for how many violent criminals they release who reoffend. These judges all just started to panic.

Remember Liam Ramos, the little boy in the blue hat, whose family of "asylum seekers" became a symbol of Trump's cruelty on immigration? Turns out, their asylum case was fraudulent. They are economic migrants here illegally, and a judge has ordered them deported.

Grok groks

They fled blue California for red Colorado. But they voted blue. And turned Colorado blue. So they will flee blue Colorado and head to red Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. And do it all over again. See: Connecticut. New Hampshire. Georgia.

Reporter: "An illegal alien from Nicaragua grabbed a woman on the north side last week, bashed her head into the sidewalk, knocked her unconscious and raped her..." Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Let's move on."

Imagine being 79 With 5 children AND 11 grandchildren Being loved EVERYWHERE he goes The Left can’t stand this

While people were busy calling her a “gold digger”… she was quietly securing $25 MILLION for foster kids — children with no parents, no safety net, no voice. No press tour. No cameras. No applause. Just action. And it hit me hard… a “gold digger” doesn’t fight for kids who can’t give anything back. That’s not a gold digger. That’s someone stepping up when no one else will. How many times did we let that narrative slide without speaking up? 🤔

Christian kids are being sold as slaves in the Congo. Some are just 4 years old, sold as sex slaves or to cobalt mines by Islamist groups and smugglers. Where is the UN? Where is the Left? Where is Hollywood? “Black Lives Matter” they cry… …except when it’s black Christians

This sentencing of an officer is INSANE - quite frankly, he should never have been charged to begin with. @InnaVernikov Councilwoman Inna Vernikov: "The judge who sentenced a GANG MEMBER to 9 MONTHS in prison after he BEAT A MAN TO DEATH just sentenced an NYPD veteran with no record of misconduct to 3-9 YEARS, as punishment for a split second judgement call made to protect his fellow officers." Her statement is below. REPOST and call out the BS! #thinblueline #lawenforcement

WOW 🚨 Massachusetts Democrats preparing to limit how much you can drive your car Instead of driving your car, a new council will be established to make sure residents use more public transportation “The bill proposed in Massachusetts would limit how far you can drive in your own car. So lawmakers say it would help reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions. Now, while no specific mileage limit was listed, the bill would require MassDOT to set goals to reduce the number of statewide driving miles. It would also establish a new council to find ways to make public transportation more accessible for residents. Now, critics say A cap on personal vehicle miles would directly impact those in rural parts of the state.” It received a favorable vote (4-1) and it has moved to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means Committee

NEW: U.S. Marine Combat Veteran, Mike Egan, races for 27 hours, traveling more than 110 miles in a wheelchair at the G1M Ultra. Egan was seen getting out of his wheelchair at one point due to the mud. The Go One More Ultra is a race in which contestants run a 4.2-mile loop every hour on the hour until only one person remains. Egan placed in the top 28, outlasting 117 people. Absolutely insane. H/t: bpnsupps / ig.

What a POS grifting fraud. Pathetic.