Pounce de León

I want you to understand just how dangerous this rant by Tucker is for the Trump administration According to Tucker's worldview Trump is not only a menace to Christianity, but also to the world. And we've become so used to Tucker's rhetoric that we might skip over this...it's the classic boiling frog analogy of how ideological creep normalizes the insane Because that's what he has become: increasingly unhinged and conspiratorial for a while now. He's posting 9/11 truther documentaries...talking about demons and witchcraft...promoting people like Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Aleksandr Dugin So here is where I sound the alarm because this is a 5-alarm fire: Tucker Carlson has far too much influence within the current administration. Whatever he is saying now, you can be sure he has been saying privately for years This means that the vice president, who has refused to come out and distance himself from Tucker, actually shares some of these views. I mean, it wasn't that long ago that JD Vance was praising Douglas Macgregor (Tucker's favorite Kremlin geopolitical stooge) on X for his "consistent, insightful contrarian voice on the war in Ukraine" This means that Tucker's son, who works as Deputy Press Secretary for Vance, is possibly siphoning everything within the administration to his father And we don't even know how much further this goes because if Tucker was able to push his Manchurian candidate into position to be VP, there are definitely such people all over the administration. Joe Kent was just one example of these useful idiots...but there are clearly more This is a compromised administration (just like 45 was but from a different angle) and Trump needs to take note of this and clean house immediately. These people are out there leaking and trying to undermine his wartime objectives and agenda...so what I'm saying is that this has now become a serious issue We're going to look back on this and wonder why we did nothing while the frog was boiling And maybe, just maybe, a real reporter out there would go so far as to confront JD Vance about this troubling association/history with Tucker!? Does he share his mentor's worldview? And why on earth has he not distanced himself from this unhinged lunatic?

The weaponization of international “law” against Western self defense continues apace.

She’s so close to getting it. And I suspect that she does get it, but it’s her job to lie.

@sunnyright It’s also not a war crime if we’re better at killing your troops than you are at killing ours.

It’s not a war crime just because we’re more successful at breaking your shit than you are at breaking our shit

If you were cheering when the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Bridge but jeering when USAF hit an Iranian bridge, you may want to ask yourself why that is.

Funny circumcision joke.

Can I say something without everyone getting mad?

America First bros when they heard the pilot was rescued

@thatjenmonroe This also presumes that most Americans have been presented with a Sinema or Fetterman, counterbalancing a Kent or MTG. Many people on the right (including myself) would vote for the former over the latter.

We cannot fail We can only be failed - DemSocs

@SumisuBii @JKim_Tran @Noahpinion Nah vpn

@ScipioPersicus @JKim_Tran @Noahpinion Are you not Canadian?

If you elected this, you fucked up big time.

@JKim_Tran @Noahpinion I know an awful lot of people, including myself, who voted for this war and Trump.

@Noahpinion 99 percent of America: 1. We did not. 2. We voted for Trump but didn’t vote for this war and how it is being handled.

At the time of this post from DropSite (the Soros-funded pro-terror propaganda outlet) promoting a regime lie that we had abandoned our pilot and were trying to kill him, we were in the middle of a successful recovery operation. I hope this wakes people up to the fact that this is all an information war and certain people are actively an daily promoting lies from a terrorist regime and an alternative reality because it better fits the narrative they want people to believe.

Thank G-d.

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

Bomb the factory.

@JonahDispatch Largely agree but you’re wrong on “reliance interests” being weighty here. Like in abortion case, unlikely to have concrete reliance interests over the span of a pregnancy.

My warm take on birthright citizenship: Wholly defensible to be against it as policy and wholly reasonable to want to reform it in some way. Also intellectually defensible to say that the 14th amendment is being misinterpreted. Doesn't mean I agree, but I don't think it's crazy either. But even if you win that argument, you still need to deal with century+ of precedent and statutory language that codifies it and has created massive reliance interests. I consider it an open question whether Congress can repeal or modify birthright citizenship. I think it is absolutely nuts and dangerous to think a president can repeal it through executive order, and defending the E.O. because you agree with the underlying policy is itself indefensible. That's it. That's my take.

The case will be 8-1 or 7-2. Barrett will not be the deciding vote. And you’ll still be gutter trash.

This is Africa’s smallest cat and the world’s deadliest. It barely misses and can catch up to a dozen animals in one night

Yep. I have my anxieties about where this is going but they are about what happens *after* the military phase of this war. Anyone who tries to tell you we’re losing this phase is selling something, perhaps himself.

“If you had a time machine,” I ask the senior Israeli minister, “and you knew a month ago that this is what would happen, would you still vote in favor of war?” “First of all, yes,” he replies. “You have to understand, this was a cold and calculated gamble. The Iranians were planning to move their entire nuclear and missile industry underground, in a way that would have made it nearly impenetrable. In any case, we would have attacked this year—but with the Americans by our side, there was no dilemma.” “The main achievements of the war are the severe damage to ballistic missiles and their production. This time, after hitting the entire production chain, it will be much harder for them to recover.” “It’s also worth remembering,” the official added, “that for years, the nightmare scenario in Israel was a multi-front war with hundreds of casualties on the home front. Last year, in ‘Rising Lion,’ in 12 days of war against Iran alone, there were 30 fatalities. Now, in a war with three times as many fronts and three times as many enemies, there are 20. What is that if not proof that ‘Rising Lion’ was not in vain—and neither was ‘Roaring Lion’?” The mission to destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles was a game changer, but not in the way Israel expected. Last Friday afternoon, Israel struck a critical part of Iran’s ballistic missile industry—its two largest steel production plants—but to their surprise, found the strike affected far more than their military. Steel facilities sit in a gray area, somewhere between military targets—like missile factories or nuclear sites—and civilian targets, such as water desalination facilities. The Iranian industry is even grayer; there is no part of the economy that the regime has not penetrated. One of the factories was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018, described as a critical source of funding for the Basij militia. Yet its targeting by Israel was to stop it from producing the metals used in ballistic missiles, not its cashflow. Iran is the largest steel producer in the Middle East and ranks among the top 10 globally. Those two factories alone account for billions of dollars in revenue and about three percent of Iranian GDP. The impact on the economy was a side effect Israel accepted. It now seems that the side effect may have been more powerful than the primary one. According to IDF intelligence, the regime’s political leadership now believes there is no way to repair the war damage; Iran simply lacks sufficient funds. It reportedly has broken the spirit of many in the regime. The assessment is that, given a prolonged economic recovery after the war that will inevitably consume the vast majority of state budgets, massive protests will erupt. It appears that Trump is reading the same intelligence, which may explain why the threats in his ultimatums have shifted from military targets to the gray area of civilian/military infrastructure, specifically Iran’s energy and oil facilities. Still, as the minister told me regarding regime change at the outset of the war, “there were more optimistic and less optimistic assessments, but no one could guarantee that while bombs were falling on Tehran, the masses would take to the streets. There is no doubt that the war has brought the regime closer to its end—but I cannot tell you whether that will happen before Trump finishes his term, or before Netanyahu finishes his.” To read the rest of today's newsletter click the link below. open.substack.com/pub/amitsegal/…