Clint W McNear

TMPA / President-Texas FOP / co-host Blue Grit Podcast

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

If Iran laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be no Israel.
That's the difference.

[Álvaro J @jota_snchez]

Larry Ellison acaba de hacer la única pregunta que ningún periodista en la Tierra puede responder.

Un periodista del Wall Street Journal le dijo a la cara a Larry Ellison que Elon Musk no sabe lo que hace.

Ellison solo le hizo una pregunta.

Ellison:

“Este tipo aterriza cohetes sobre plataformas robóticas en medio del océano… ¿y tú dices que no sabe lo que hace? ¿Alguna vez has aterrizado un cohete?”

“¿Quién eres tú? ¿Por qué debería creerte a ti antes que a mi amigo Elon?”

Esta es la pregunta que toda la clase mediática lleva una década esquivando:

¿Quién eres tú para juzgar?
¿Qué has construido?
¿Qué has lanzado?
¿Qué problema has resuelto que no implique un teclado y una fecha límite?

Ellison:
“Ahí estás tú, delante de tu Apple Macintosh, escribiendo un artículo diciendo que Elon es un idiota.”

Se sientan detrás de un portátil que no diseñaron.
Usan una red que no construyeron.
Funcionando sobre chips de silicio que ni siquiera pueden explicar.
Para decirle al mundo que el hombre que envía humanos al espacio no sabe lo que hace.

Nunca han construido nada más pesado que un documento de Word.

Y aun así lo publican con absoluta certeza.

Eso es lo que debería inquietarte.
No la crítica.
Sino la confianza con la que la hacen.
La ausencia total de autoconciencia necesaria para juzgar disciplinas en las que no durarían ni un semestre.

Musk no opera en opiniones.
Opera en la capa física del universo, donde las matemáticas funcionan… o el cohete no regresa.

Sus críticos operan en un editor de texto.

Construyó el vehículo que transporta astronautas de la NASA a la Estación Espacial Internacional.
La constelación de satélites que lleva internet a zonas de guerra activas.
El coche eléctrico que obligó a todos los fabricantes del planeta a abandonar sus planes basados en motores de combustión.

Sus críticos más ruidosos construyeron una firma al final de un artículo.

Entonces… ¿por qué tanto odio coordinado?

Porque perdieron la correa.

Los ataques no aumentaron porque Musk empeorara como ingeniero.
Aumentaron porque compró X.
Abrió el algoritmo.
Le devolvió la plaza pública a la gente.
Y destruyó su capacidad de controlar lo que puedes pensar.

No odian al ingeniero.

Odian que el ingeniero les quitó el monopolio.

No puedes cancelar un cohete.
No puedes publicar un artículo contra la gravedad.
No puedes editar las leyes de la física.

Ellos controlan la narrativa.

Él controla la física.

Y uno de los dos va camino a Marte.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Trump Tells Iran This Is Last Warning Before He Sends Bruce Springsteen To Perform There

[Clint W McNear @ClintMcNear]

@USMC My uncle, Lt Gen Richard Carey, flew those in the early days. Semper Fidelis

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

@BongsMahlangu_ Speaking as someone with multiple honorary doctorate degrees, you’d be surprised what happens when you walk into an operating room and try to use them.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

Greg Burgess writes....
So apparently Jill and I are on a plane to China with Trump, Elon Musk, half the Cabinet, and a collection of CEOs whose combined net worth could probably refinance the moon.

Totally normal day for Gen X.

And I just can’t stop laughing at how the media spent YEARS telling us:

- China hated Elon
- Trump was “finished”
- America was collapsing
- capitalism was dead
- and everybody important was abandoning the U.S.

Meanwhile, here we are somewhere over the Pacific looking like the cast of Succession meets Top Gun: Retirement Plan Edition.

Remember when China sanctioned Marco Rubio back in 2020 and everybody acted like the geopolitical chessboard had permanently shifted?

Now suddenly everybody’s still showing up to the table because — shocking development — nations tend to like:

- money
- technology
- manufacturing
- trade
- AI
- energy
- semiconductors
- and not being economically irrelevant

Who knew.

The best part is the internet meltdown cycle never changes.

Trump:
“America needs stronger trade relationships.”

Media:
“HITLER.”

Elon:
“I make electric cars, rockets, satellites, AI, and robots.”

Internet activists:
“Yeah but we posted an angry hashtag.”

Cool.
I’m sure Beijing is trembling before your TikTok resistance movement.

And flying with this group is exactly what you think it would be.

Trump walks around the cabin narrating reality like it’s an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Geopolitical:
“Great flight. Powerful people. Very high IQ. The Chinese are saying they’ve never seen anything like it.”

Elon looks like he hasn’t slept since 2019 and is simultaneously calculating orbital trajectories and wondering if the beverage cart could be automated.

Meanwhile Jill and I are sitting there like two exhausted Gen Xers who survived dial-up internet, chain-smoking restaurants, lawn darts, and drinking from garden hoses… wondering how in the hell we became side characters in the weirdest timeline imaginable.

Honestly, at this point if Trump walked into Beijing blasting “Danger Zone” while Elon live-streamed it from orbit, I wouldn’t even blink.

Because the people who told us America was over are still tweeting from iPhones, driving Teslas, using Starlink during hurricanes, and cashing checks tied to the same capitalist machine they claim to hate.

Gen X translation:
The world’s still running.
The adults are still making deals.

And the internet is still confusing hashtags for accomplishments.

Carry on.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

89 million Iranians are breathing a sigh of relief.

The remaining million (regime loyalists) are all sweating profusely.

You will never understand the level of oppression it takes to welcome foreign bombs. And I hope it never happens to you.

[Clint W McNear @ClintMcNear]

This! 🇺🇸💪���🇸

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

Trump ran on "no new wars."

The war with Iran is 47 years old. Trump just decided to WIN it.

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

🚨 Nothing shows the huge difference between Obama and Trump more clearly than this:

Under Obama: IRGC seized U.S. sailors at gunpoint, humiliated them on camera - then got $1.7B in cash days later.

Under Trump: U.S. forces seized Iranian ships, disabled them, boarded by force - and refuses to release assets without full surrender.

One projects weakness and full capitulation, while the other projects strength and supremacy.

[Mayes Middleton @mayes_middleton]

With Chip Roy, Texas has learned that his talk is cheap.  But when it mattered, Chip Roy refused to support law enforcement.  Humbled to earn this endorsement from the Texas Fraternal Order of Police, representing over 18,000 members.  They know I will have their back.  

“In the race for Texas Attorney General, Mayes Middleton is the only candidate who can be trusted to back law enforcement.  Instead of standing with us, Chip Roy worked to gut the Protect and Serve Act, a priority bill to hold criminals accountable who knowingly assault a law enforcement officer.  This bill was crafted to address abuses by ‘woke’ rogue prosecutors who fail to enforce the law, yet Chip Roy blocked this legislation.  On behalf of the more than 18,000 members of the Texas Fraternal Order of Police, we strongly endorse Mayes Middleton, a proven champion and defender of those who put their lives on the line every day.”
Clint McNear
President 
Texas Fraternal Order of Police

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Border Czar Tom Homan just gave the PERFECT response to Pope Leo

"I'm a lifelong Catholic. I wish they'd STAY OUT of immigration, they don't know what they're talking about."

"Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got r*ped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy that baked to death, if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change!"

"And I welcome discussion with any of them, because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime."

"Where President Trump had the most secure border in the lifetime of this nation, right now, lives are being saved. He's saving thousands of lives a year because he has a secure border!"

"Human traffickers are out of business, right? The cartels are going bankrupt because of that secure border. I wish they'd understand that."

"Because if they did, I think they'd have a different opinion."

Mic drop.

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

Dear Catholic Bishops:

You’ve been more publicly outraged about Trump’s Truth posts than Iran-backed Islamists slaughtering Christians.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Cuba is in crisis—and instead of blaming a failed communist system, the left wants to point a finger at the United States.

65 years of centralized control, repression, and economic oppression did this—nothing else.

The Cuban people deserve freedom and a future.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

It’s amazing how many people on this platform have clearly never watched a real negotiation with a terrorist regime or any terrorist entity for that matter. This isn’t sunshine and rainbows. It’s pressure, consequences, and making it unmistakably clear that if the Iranian regime won’t change their ways, they highly risk being ended.

Let’s get something straight, because this keeps getting butchered, the civilization he is talking about ending is the Islamist regime, the assholes that took over 47 years ago and literally ruined the original Persian civilization in Iran that no one in the west seems to ever show empathy for. That distinction shouldn’t be this hard. And no, they shouldn’t be forced to be subservient to terrorists for another 50 years because you with 50,000 followers on some social media echo chamber said so.

While some rush to defend a failed terrorist state, that same regime has been hanging teenagers this whole past week. I’ve seen zero concern over that, they’ve also been sending 12 year olds to be cannon fodder. Spare me the outrage.

And to those immediately spiraling into “this means nuclear war,” please chill and relax a little. All this literally is ending a future nuclear threat. Not every hard-line equals global catastrophe. That’s not how this works. You’ve grown so used to watching terrorist pandering that you don’t even recognize what resolve looks like. The regime are paper tigers let them fold or make a choice that will lead to their ultimate demise.

As Winston Churchill put it, “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This is the best thing I’ve seen today 🤣💀🤣💀🤣💀🤣

Thank you @TheBabylonBee @SethDillon 🤣🤣

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Former CENTCOM commander Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie just said it PERFECTLY

“It takes a year to build an aircraft — and it takes 200 YEARS to build a military tradition where you don't leave anybody behind!”

👏🏻🇺🇸

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Left is crying about Trump losing equipment saving an American…

Here is a video of the Taliban having a military parade with BILLIONS in US military equipment left behind from Biden’s horrific Afghanistan withdraw.

They didn’t care.

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

- (1) Colonel rescued in Iran
- (3) Planes lost ($120M-$200M)
The left loses their mind over the cost

- ($90B) dollars of equipment left behind in Afghanistan by Biden... no concerns from the left

These people are sick

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.