I have a friend who spent 18 years in naval intelligence, specializing in sanctions enforcement and maritime interdiction. Sent me a message this morning after Trump's remarks. His exact words: "Twenty-two ships in one night running dark. That's not a raid. That's a coordinated fleet operation. Someone has been tracking those vessels for weeks."
22 Iranian oil tankers. Seized overnight. No lights. No radar. Shadow fleet tactics — turned against the shadow fleet itself.
3 carrier strike groups currently positioned in the region.
NSPM-2 signed February 2025 — "maximum pressure 2.0" with an explicit target of zero Iranian oil exports.
Prior interdictions already on record: the Majestic X, the Celestial Sea, multiple IRGC-linked tankers boarded in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman throughout 2026.
First-term precedent: E.O. 13846, JCPOA withdrawal, sanctions that denied Tehran over $10 billion in revenue by 2019 — including the Adrian Darya-1 seizure attempt with 2.1 million barrels aboard.
The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world's oil. Iran built its shadow fleet specifically to route around US pressure. Running dark — no transponders, no lights — was the workaround.
22 ships found and taken in a single night means the workaround no longer works.
He told me: "When a president announces a covert interdiction operation at a press conference the next morning, it means he wants Tehran to know the shadow fleet is compromised. That's a message, not a briefing."
US CPI just hit 4.2%. Trump's response: "I love the inflation."
That is not a gaffe. That is a president publicly telling the world that rising consumer prices are an acceptable cost of dismantling Iran's oil revenue — and that he is willing to own it.
Every barrel seized is funding denied to Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran's nuclear program. That's the calculation being made in the Oval Office right now.
The people calling it reckless and the people calling it brilliant are both watching the same 22 ships.
I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.
🚨 WOW! Secretary Rubio is taking NO BS from Dem Rep. Ted Lieu, he keeps DESTROYING them
LIEU: Trump can't even stay awake during meetings!
RUBIO: He's NOT falling asleep
LIEU: YOU'RE LYING
RUBIO: Is this a JOKE!? This is a Foreign Affairs Committee you're asking about SLEEP [...] Absurd and ridiculous. I can't believe we're in a Foreign Affairs Committee with questions about someone who thinks he's a MEDICAL EXPERT when he's NOT! We HAD a cognitively impaired president for 4 years. THIS president is a guy that literally DOESN'T sleep, works long hours every day. I talk to him day and night, HE WORKS INHUMANE HOURS. I've been on trips where he doesn't sleep the whole flight, he's wandering the hallways to wake people up and talk to! He has an INCREDIBLE amount of energy.
He's so good.
🚨Why did Martina McBride choose this hill to die on?
There is nothing political about celebrating the country’s 250 years of red, white and blue! 🇺🇸
She ignited a boycott on her wine company, Luna & Finn.
Will they ever learn or is the Woke mind truly a disease?
Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.
As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton
Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.
When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?
“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.
Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.
You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?
I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?
The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!
The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!
We remember who actually looted the place. Shut up and color.
For years, Americans have been told, “Nobody wants socialism. Nobody wants communism. Stop overreacting." But the masks are finally off. Mamdani is now OPENLY talking about taking private property from owners and transferring it to the government's preferred groups.
Yes, NYC's socialist government is only targeting "the worst landlords" right now. But that's how it ALWAYS starts.
Read the language carefully here: “When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners" and "to transfer ownership" to "community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Can anybody help me find the Free Market language there?! That’s not Constitutional language. That's not American language. That's the language of every socialist movement in history.
Socialists understand: if the government controls housing, it controls the people. Good luck disobeying mask mandates when the government can "transfer ownership" of your house.
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico couldn't be more wrong! The Bible is not silent on abortion as he claims—that's an absolute lie. God commands us, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13). Abortion is taking a life—it is murder. The Word of God tells us we are created in the image of God and consistently underscores the value of human life. Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart..." In 2021, this same Democratic candidate opposed a bill to ban men from women's sports, saying that "God is non-binary." Don’t be deceived by wicked politicians spouting lies like this. https://t.co/RCYLX5iPPf
There's a 911 in Upstate New York!! Ain't that right @GovKathyHochul ?? Kathy, why do you hate Upstate farmers so much? Let's see what America has to say about this, shall we? If you stand with American Farmers, hit REPOST. Volume UP!👇
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to "transfer ownership" of private property from landlords to "the community."
That's not a housing policy.
That's Marxism.
-The Soviet Union tried it.
-Cuba tried it.
-Venezuela tried it.
Every country that’s tried it ended up with empty shelves, collapsed economies, and citizens fleeing for their lives.
This is not a new idea.
It's a very old, very dangerous one.
New York deserves better. America is watching.
Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments.
He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
THERE I FEEL BETTER NOW!
Islam picks fights with gays, Jews, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, women, non-Muslims, atheists, ex-Muslims, booze, bacon, and dogs.
But the second I criticize Islam? I'm a hateful bigot and a raging Islamophobe.
Does anyone else see how backward and insane this is? Do you?
Understand what these street shows are actually about. They have plenty of mosques to pray in. They are demonstrating their intention to infiltrate and take over our nation. They are so confident of our weakness, they rub our faces in it by doing this.
Gavin Newsom is telling Californians to boycott Chevron because they're "ripping you off."
Today:
- Chevron, L.A. County CA: $6.39
- Chevron, Jackson County MS: $3.99
It's not the oil companies ripping us off in California, it's Gavin Newsom and the Democrats. Vote for change!
CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.
The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted
CNN said there was "little evidence."
Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud
Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.
IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.
I was honored to reenlist my friend, Staff Sergeant @Johnny_Joey, into the United States Marine Corps.
Joey has always been the kind of man who puts his country, his fellow Marines, and something greater than himself first—proud to have him back in uniform.
When I was Muslim, I compared Muhammad’s last words to Jesus’ last words.
Not just the facts, but the spirit behind them.
And bro, the difference is staggering. It shook my devout Muslim faith.
According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad’s final words included: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians. They made the graves of their prophets into places of worship.”
Those are words associated with his final moments.
No forgiveness. No reconciliation. No peace.
Now compare that to Jesus.
Beaten, betrayed, tortured, hanging on a cross with nails through His wrists, Jesus says:
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
And then: “It is finished.”
One dies speaking curses.
The other dies extending forgiveness.
One ends by drawing lines and reinforcing division.
The other tears the veil and reconciles heaven and earth.
And whether people like it or not, final words reveal something deeply personal about the heart.
That contrast shook me.
Because one man’s final moments reinforced separation, while the other’s changed eternity through mercy, sacrifice, and love.
Please sit with that honestly.
Let’s get it clear once and for all. It’s not about race, folks. That’s a Democrat trick. It’s about CULTURE. Am I a racist? Absolutely not. Am I a culturalist? Unequivocally, yes.
If you can’t assimilate to this culture, our values, our laws, and our traditions, get out.