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You’re being gaslighted: Survey: “How many unarmed Black men were killed by police in 2021?” -40% of "Very Liberals": 1,000+ -16% of "Very Conservatives": 1,000+ -Actual number: 11 skeptic.com/research-cente…

Federal agents have captured a Venezuelan brother and sister accused of operating a Tren de Aragua sex trafficking ring in Seattle, a sanctuary city. Jose Luis Hernandez Perez and Andreina Del Carmen Hernandez were taken into custody on sex trafficking conspiracy charges. Authorities say they have been operating on behalf of the "Espartanos," a TdA offshoot active in Seattle and New York City. Andreina's alleged role was to post images of the sex trafficking victims online and secure appointments for them. She would then contact ringleader Barrios Garcia, who has been arrested in New York, to give him the greenlight that they had clients. Barrios Garcia would then send members of the Espartanos to pick up the sex trafficking victims and drive them to their appointments at gunpoint. The victims were forced to work six days per week, perform sex acts on multiple clients daily, and were threatened with death to keep them in line. Jose Luis, one of the drivers, was in charge of collecting the money. He has been accused of shooting another member of the Espartanos at the direction of Barrios Garcia. The pair lived near student housing at the University of Washington in Seattle. They are scheduled to appear in court next week.

First, Democrats let millions of illegal aliens into our country.  Then, they shut down DHS to protest their deportation. Now, Democrats are fighting to let illegal aliens vote in our elections.

@peterschweizer @Lonestar357 Obama set the precedence didn’t he?

The new head of a major Mexican drug cartel is a U.S. citizen--courtesy of birthright citizenship. Being a U.S. citizen makes it more complicated for law enforcement to target him. wsj.com/world/americas…

Here’s the situation: An Austin cop is on trial related to conduct during the 2020 protests. His lawyers just accused DA José Garza's office of hiding evidence and holding secret meetings with the City of Austin - meetings never disclosed to the defense. The lawyers are asking for a court of inquiry, which is a rarely used Texas proceeding to investigate whether Garza's prosecutors committed felony evidence tampering and official oppression. Garza's response is: let's just go to trial. That's the same DA office that decides which charges get filed, which get dropped, and which repeat offenders walk. Now accused of secretly shaping the outcome of a case while telling the court it had nothing to hide. If the court of inquiry finds what the defense alleges, the question isn't just whether this trial was compromised; it's what else was.

@FoxNews PSA: None of your problems are because someone else is rich.

SEN. SANDERS: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.” “Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"

@DavidB12597 @infantrydort @CynicalPublius Social media is a good test for identifying those who lack basic critical thinking skills.

Another of the realities with the advent of social media and near real time proliferation of information. Every jackass with zero capacity for rational thought is screaming into the void about every world event that offends their “sensibilities.” Meanwhile normal people have to sift through the chaff and some folks just can’t seem to ignore the parade of morons.

I don’t know why the world is freaking out. This is our natural state. The one we’ve been in for thousands of years. Chaos and pain is the rule of human existence. Peace is the rarest of exceptions. It’s just not rare to you, because you’ve been sheltered. All of us have.

@Joeinblack They all know it’s sarcasm, they’re just trying to rage bait for clicks. Keep doing you Fr.

The fact that anyone would read my post as anything other than a joke shows how deep into insanity we have all plunged.

@DrunkRepub That last sentence brought a tear to my eye. Poetry. And I plan to steal that phrase and use it at least once today.

I’m serious. Done with these fuckers. Don’t care what show you had on Fox, or what website you ran into the ground. You people are traitorous cockroaches and I cannot wait to piss on your irrelevance.

Me realizing all my heroes are grifting click chasing shitstains

@LeaderJohnThune Dude, WTF? Gaslighting us doesn’t work anymore. Get it passed. You know what you need to do.

It’s safe to say Americans are taking their IDs out regularly and having a pretty easy go of it. Yet when it comes to voting, Democrats talk like requiring a photo ID is some insurmountable burden. If that were true, why would Democrats be requiring a photo ID for their voters to get into their campaign events?

@LeaderJohnThune Words matter. Why did you say “all of the issues included in the…” and not just say “the SAVE America Act”? Call me skeptical.

Starting today, we are going to have an important fight on the Senate floor. Polling shows broad support for all of the issues included in the SAVE America Act. But never underestimate Democrats’ ability to get on the wrong side of what the American people want.

TOMORROW: Volume 1 of 6 A $100M entrepreneur confessed to visa fraud on this platform five years ago. His post is still live. He's never been charged. He's part of a $40 billion ecosystem operating in every major U.S. city. 22,878 cases across 39 states. 237 shell companies. Federal agencies infiltrated. Zero prosecutions. The full nationwide investigation starts tomorrow morning.

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP. We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

@Neo19631 @CynicalPublius He knows too much…

@CynicalPublius I do like your stuff, but I wanna ask a few silly questions, zombie virus outbreak? Space alien attack?

The Department of War is populated by literally tens of thousands of mid-grade officers whose singular job in life is to write and continuously update a plethora of operations orders that cover every imaginable contingency involving the US military, down to the tiniest detail. If you can imagine it, there is an OPORD for it. Never tell me a US military mission lacked adequate planning. It's a lie.

Quite a few people are replying to my post below to state "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." I 100% agree with that sentiment. There is a bigger point, however, that needs to be stated. It's part of what makes the U.S. military special. It's the PLANNING PROCESS ITSELF that makes us lethal. I'll explain. As the U.S. military goes through planning, it devotes significant time to "wargaming," i.e., a deliberate process where we have a red team that planners go against to determine what the enemy might do in response to our actions. This can result in an analysis of what is known as "branches and sequels," i.e. ways we may deviate from the base plan based on circumstances. All that wargaming and analysis might not make it into the actual, original operations plan, but the fact that we DID DO that PROCESS and analysis ahead of time means that when the initial plan does not survive first contact, we have already thought through what might happen and are able to adjust the plan as necessary, in the blink of an eye. It's one of our greatest strengths.

@CynicalPublius Yes! You are great at explaining these type of things CP. The beauty isn’t in the PLAN itself, it’s in the PLANNING.

Dems were able to get a SCOTUS Justice confirmed who could not give the definition of a woman with 50 Dems in the Senate thanks to: Mitt Romney Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski But the GOP with 53 Senators can’t get election integrity passed. What a scam.

@CynicalPublius Giving me an eye twitch thinking of that. Arguing over chalks. Pros and cons of who/what gets there in what time sync. It is enormously complex and intricate. Don’t miss that.

...and if you want a taste of just how painful this process is, please go on your search engine of choice and look up "TPFDD conference."

@CynicalPublius @LegioInvictus24 I was one of them for several years. To say there is no plan for Straits of Hormuz is ludicrous. There are plans for almost any contingency you can think of.

BREAKING — new details about Friday's Austin bus stabbing. Two passengers were sitting in the back of the #3 bus on South Lamar, having a Bible discussion. Rogerio Martinez, sitting across from them, apparently found this annoying. "I'm tired of hearing your voice,” Martinez said. Then he stood up with a kitchen knife. One was mid-conversation, turned away, when the first blade went into his back. He spun around and threw up his bare hands -- Martinez kept stabbing. Four times total. A stranger named jumped in, pushed Martinez off, and wrestled him into a bus seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway. Bleeding, the man held him pinned to the seat until police arrived. Officers found Martinez still on the bus, blood on his hands and shirt, surrounded by people he'd just put on the ground. He refused to talk. One victim was transported to Dell Seton in critical condition. The other to South Austin Hospital. Surveillance footage captured all of it. Martinez -- who was named as the suspect yesterday on this account before local news reported it today -- has spent decades cycling through Texas courtrooms: robbing people, strangling a family member, and most recently beating an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight. Four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, a felony assault knocked to a misdemeanor -- and every time, a system that found a reason to put him back on the street. Two people are in the hospital now because prosecutors apparently never attempted to take him to court and face punishment for his crimes.

@SenSchumer Democrats want illegals to vote. That’s the message America gets from this.

Not a single Senate Democrat will support the SAVE Act. Not this week. Not next week. Not ever. We will oppose it on the floor as long as it takes.