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@USBornNRaised @JenGriffinFNC 👆

@JenGriffinFNC Why would they tell you and not tell the rest of America.

2nd American F15E crew member rescued and safe after complex rescue operation that began Friday morning, two senior US officials confirm to me.

@genesimmons @fjbfatffbi Don’t waste your time with losers.

Timmy, i’ve paid more than $100 million in taxes. I’ve created thousands of jobs, which enabled thousands of people to feed their families. I’ve contributed millions to wounded warriors, pediatric aids and support 1400 African children. And what have you accomplished in life?

@nut_history Angels!

Which team do you associate Nolan Ryan with?

@Liz_Wheeler Every time you spin the arrow it will point at Mayorkas.

How is it possible that we “didn’t know” Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s relatives were living in Los Angeles?! It’s not possible that SOMEONE didn’t know. Because SOMEONE deliberately let them in by approving green cards. I want the NAME of the person who gave Soleimani’s relatives green cards. Imagine if they had gone undetected longer? If not for @LauraLoomer, they might still be. I hate to say to, but how many OTHER terrorists are here that we “don’t know” about?

@MbarkCherguia Not being gay.

Men, what’s preventing you from dressing like this?

@lady_valor_07 “You Know The Thing”…

“Where am I?” 🤣

@BasedMikeLee Oops. 🤣🤣

NATO It’s called the North *Atlantic* Treaty Organization And it’s time for the U.S. to leave it

@RadioGenoa Surprised to see Dindus in China in the first place.

Even in China.

@dcpetterson Yeah, just what we need - more brain dead DEI Justices like kbj. Thanks for the reminder of the two massive bullets we dodged.

Rumor has it Justice Alito will retire at the end of this SCOTUS term (i.e., sometime this summer). So Trump will have appointed 4 of the 9 Justices. If you'd have elected Clinton in '16 and Harris in '24, by this fall there'd be 7 liberal Justices on the Court. Fuck you all.

@DarkTube Oh well.

He was stealing cables and was electrocuted.

@PNWConservative @anonsynonymous6 Why doesn’t someone remove that shit?

I can’t put my finger on it, but I think something is missing.

@BasedMikeLee Of course. Good luck getting the required votes necessary from your worthless, traitorous Congress.

Would you support a constitutional amendment prospectively limiting birthright citizenship to children born to U.S. citizen parents?

@TheRobertPWills @FFT1776 I was thinking the same.

@FFT1776 I've always thought Pole Vaulting should have a spotter that grabs the pole once the vaulter lets go of it so they don't get skewered. I realize this is probably the same probability level as running into a patch of quick sand, but it still bugs me.

The bar kept going up… and he just kept clearing it 😳 At what point does this even become humanly possible? This is insane!👏🏻

@mirandadevine Judicial coup.

Says it all. Despicable people. They didn't deserve Pam Bondi

@BuzzPatterson SOS?

Do you know what this is? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s Heaven at 3 AM in an Air Force dining hall.

@AwakenedOutlaw @stephlrgrs My money is on Roberts.

Aside from the three DEI stooges who we already know how they’ll rule, I believe that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the most likely to screw our Republic over on the matter of birthright citizenship.

@Milajoy Obongo

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s no one saw color. We were all just Americans. Why did that change?

@Gandalf_da_Grey @DrJStrategy Or, he’s thought the whole thing through and your TDS clouds your ability to think clearly

This is very interesting thesis but has one big flaw: Trump is a moron and isn’t thinking about any of that. He is vain, self centered, greedy, thin skinned, and extremely emotional with no discipline or self control. He’s just going off his gut feelings and then reacting to what the Iranians (and to a lesser extent, the Israelis) are doing. He’s not playing 4D chess, he’s putting the pieces in his mouth. And before the MAGA cultists show up ask about Biden, yes, I also thought he was a moron.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@realBrandonGill Ours is a failing nation.

Two Chinese anchor babies just tried to bomb a United States Air Force base.

@abc13houston Well, they should be used to landing in countries they’ve never been to.

Immigrants seeking asylum ordered to countries they've never been to, stuck in limbo abc13.com/post/immigrant…