Craig Donlan

Aviation enthusiast, retired. Please No DMs, No investment advice/offers, No Crypto.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The crazy thing about the response to this post is the number of people telling me I should have let them drive into their own deaths.

Crazy, but not surprising I suppose given the manner in which so-called "journalists" have been gaslighting us for decades.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Mail-in ballots favor Democrats.

OK, fine.

Spencer Pratt was never going to lead in mail-in ballots.

But what is the justification for mail-in ballots received BEFORE the election vastly favoring Karen Bass, and the ones received AFTER the election favoring Nithya Raman?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Who is making them do this?

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I want to state one more thing for the record on this particular creature of the commie hive.

I referred to him as a Marxist so many times today.

He never denied it once.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 🚨 KRISTEN WELKER HAS 3 OPTIONS AFTER TRUMP WALKED OFF HER INTERVIEW. ALL 3 ARE CATASTROPHIC FOR THE MEDIA.

This is the moment nobody wants to talk about.

After nine years of rallies, press conferences, and taped sit-downs → the press is now boxed into THREE choices every time Trump sits across from them. And every single one is a nightmare:

⚠️ OPTION 1: KEEP PRESSING FOR EVIDENCE
– Trump says "All I have to do is look. I listen to people"
– Anchor demands court-level sourcing
– Trump calls them crooked and walks off
– The clip goes viral with Trump as the decisive one and the anchor as the aggressor
– Network spent the travel budget to Wisconsin for a segment that ends in 90 seconds

⚠️ OPTION 2: ACCEPT THE FRAME AND MOVE ON
– Don't challenge the California election claims
– Don't push back on "five days and no winner"
– Let "dirty election" stand without a follow-up
– Audience sees the network validating the narrative
– Every future anchor gets the same treatment because it worked

⚠️ OPTION 3: DON'T TAKE THE INTERVIEW
– Refuse the sit-down entirely
– Trump holds rallies, posts on Truth Social, sets the agenda anyway
– Network loses access, loses the clip, loses the audience
– "We travelled all the way to Wisconsin" becomes impossible to say
– The story becomes "media too afraid to interview the president"

Let that sink in.

There is no Option 4. There is no clean exit. There is no "we ask the right question and he answers it."

The media is showing you a president who got "a little bit angry" in the rain and walked off a barn-roof interview in Chippewa Falls.

They're NOT showing you that every path forward for the press leads to the same outcome — Trump controls the frame, the clip, and the story.

This is the most structurally difficult position any White House press corps has faced since the invention of the televised interview.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

After working for 40 years, the average Social Security recipient gets $1850/month.

After being in America for 40 minutes, the average illegal “refugee” gets $3874/month.

And red or blue, that should PISS EVERYONE OFF.

[Tara Servatius @TaraServatius]

Wondering why we're learning the truth about H1b visa holders from India all the sudden? How up to 90% of the degrees they supposedly hold are fake, including nursing, engineering and medical degrees issued by degree mills?

Ken Paxton, AG of Texas, the guy the UniParty and crooked "Republican" Senate leader John Thune just spent tens of millions trying to destroy in the Republican primary in Texas.

Why? Because the GOP's open-borders Bush-Rove wing runs on political donations in exchange for endless visas and migration, legal and illegal.

Paxton threatened that in Texas with his years-long investigations into how they give away Americans' jobs to H1b visa holders in exchange for campaign donations.

Now we're learning 90% of the degrees held by those visa holders are fake.

This is exactly why the squish GOP "leadership" in the US Senate fought so hard against Paxton and for Cornyn. This corrupt visa money is their political lifeblood, and they're dying from a thousand cuts.

[Farmer Ash @strong_sistas]

A USDA inspector showed up at our beef jerky processor for regular inspection and saw Nourish Food Club on the production schedule.

According to the processor, the inspector said: “I’ve had issues with Ashley before, so I’m going to find problems.”

Our beef was already processed at a USDA facility. We had the required paperwork. Yet the processor was told to put “NOT FOR SALE” on the entire batch.

• We paid our small regenerative farm partners (who spent 2 years raising the cow)
• We paid the USDA processor
• We paid the USDA jerky maker

Now the jerky can’t be sold, and we eat the loss.

This is the kind of regulatory abuse that pushes small food producers out of business.

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

The number of people losing their minds over a reflecting pool is something to behold.

You can clearly see that its color is American-flag blue from this angle from a Live Cam fixed to the top of the Washington Monument. Now compare it with the green water in the pond to the right. That was the same color the reflecting pool was before it was fixed.

Oh, and wind causes ripples in water that impact reflection. For those slow on the uptake, this crazy phenomenon applies to all water everywhere. 😁

I'm not sure why that's difficult to understand, but it seems to be.

When it's done filling in a day or so, and the weather isn't impeding the reflection, it will be beautiful. And all the dummies foaming at the mouth over it will look even dumber than they do now.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@JamieBonkiewicz This you?

[Jack @jackunheard]

KAREN BASS DIDN’T MOVE AT ALL IN THE LATE BALLOT DROPS.

Spencer Pratt plummeted.

Nithya Raman skyrocketed.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING about that is organic.

They played all their cards to rig this thing in broad daylight in pure panic.

Let the investigations begin.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Dear black folks,

Okay… have a seat… there’s something we really need to discuss.

*leans in* You know… we really don’t have to stand with Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Like, we can just either keep quiet and let the justice system do its thing, or… even better… we can side with the actual victim.

This whole “even if Karmelo is guilty, I’m gonna support him” attitude is exactly why black folks are given side eye all over the world. We have to stop making martyrs out of people who don’t deserve it.

My heroes are my heroes despite their skin color. I look up to men like Clarence Thomas, Dr. Ben Carson, and Dr Thomas Sowell not because they’re black, but because they’re great men. Let’s find more like them.

Hugs, only because I say this out of love. Well, not hugs for all of you. You know who you are…
Zeek

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I want to tell you a story about a “journalist.”

I’m pretty sure the journalist in question was Scott Pelley, but for reasons I am about to explain I can’t be 100% sure—I just know it was a major US TV reporter.

August, 2003.

I was the G-4 of the 82nd Airborne Division. The IED threat had just become a real thing in Iraq and the 82nd—having just returned from Iraq—was sent back to the fight.

The “Division Support Area” was earmarked for a place called al Taqaddum, or “TQ.” I led the advance party to occupy the site (we drove from Kuwait). TQ was a huge area on a high bluff, west of Fallujah, and had a cratered Iraqi Air Force airfield. Later in the war it was a plush site with a PX and restaurants, but when I occupied it, it was nothing but a bunch of abandoned buildings, hulks of old Iraqi fighting vehicles blocking the runway, nightly rocket and mortar attacks, and constant probing of the huge perimeter by insurgents.

The IED threat was happening because insurgents were pulling artillery rounds out of abandoned Iraqi army ammunition supply points and turning them into roadside bombs.

We had been on TQ about one full day when the front gate called me on the radio: “All American 4, we have some TV reporters here, they want to come in, what should I do, over?”

After telling the gate to check IDs and do a sweep of their vehicle, I said: “Send them to me, over.”

A few minutes later an armored Mercedes pulls up to our TOC. The “talent” is in the very back where I could barely see him, but I’m pretty sure it was Scott Pelley. (Pelley was definitely in Iraq at the time, I checked.)

His producer gets out from the air-conditioned Mercedes plushness and pulls out a map. He arrogantly points to an Iraqi ammo supply point between TQ and Ramadi and demands: “I need you to escort us to this location.”

(They wanted to do a story with reporter speaking against a backdrop of an ammo supply point, because that’s where the IEDs were coming from.)

“NEED? I’m sorry sir, that site is not secured and I am not putting my paratroopers at risk for your story.”

Big disappointment and head shaking. I’m thinking: “The NERVE of this guy. Does he think I work for him?”

He then asks: “Well what will happen if we go by ourselves?”

My response: “You’ll probably die.”

(Important background: TQ also had a giant Iraqi ammo supply point that was inside the wire but we had not cleared it yet—it could have been booby-trapped, we just did not know at the time.)

He points at the map again: “Well how about the ammunition right here? We can just drive over there, right?”

“No sir, you cannot. We have not cleared that site.”

By this time he was visibly angry, he had a chat with the talent in the back, and then they all got back in and left without even saying thank you or good bye.

(Important point: the ammo on TQ he wanted to use as a backdrop for his “story" was SECURED from Iraqis grabbing any of it, yet they wanted to use that as a backdrop for a story on Iraqis grabbing ammo.)

The point of this story is this: those “journalists” were incredibly arrogant, incredibly dismissive of anyone in uniform with dirty boots, and basically oozed a sense of entitlement as if they were on some sort of noble mission, when in reality their mission was to smear the effectiveness of our operations because Bushitler.

When you hear Scott Pelley talk, oozing with arrogance over his “combat” experience, remember that he is of a breed that all think and act alike. To those "journalists," we were not American fighting men and women in combat. No, we were there for their convenience. It sickened me, and still does.

You think you hate journalists enough...

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. President Trump CUTS OFF and WALKS OUT of a Kristen Welker interview

He looks her in the eyes and tells her SHE'S A LIAR, then storms off!

"The elections are like a 3rd world country. YOU'RE CROOKED...let's call it QUITS. I've HAD ENOUGH."

WELKER: Please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin!

TRUMP: "I've sat in the RAIN with you for an HOUR! I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press. You know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press. Let's GO."

WELKER: *Whines*

BEST PRESIDENT EVER 🔥🔥🔥

[Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom]

IRAN WAR UPDATE & WHY THE PRICE OF OIL KEEPS DROPPING

The media has not been covering this.

According to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, approximately 1,000 commercial vessels have crossed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months.

Iran has not been able to do anything about it. And commercial traffic through the Strait is slowly increasing.

Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade on Iran's use Strait of Hormuz is costing the Iran Regime $500 MILLION per day. The Regime's entire annual budget is about $56 BILLION. The Regime can no longer pay its soldiers or security police.

Mass protests against the Regime are now starting up again in cities across Iran, as the people are now sensing the Regime can's do much about this.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced that the $24 BILLION in Iranian assets that we have frozen will be used to reimburse and compensate countries in the region Iran keeps hitting with its missiles and drones.

The damage Iran has done to airports, power grids, buildings, and infrastructure, as well as casualties inflicted by Iran in the region, will be billed to Iran's account.

Iran has been saying any deal Iran strikes with the U.S. hinges on the U.S. unfreezing $24 BILLION in Iran assets.

Welp, so much for that idea. This $24 BILLION will be used to compensate Iran's victims in the region.

There is no reason for the U.S. to negotiate anymore with Iran's Regime.

It's quite cheap for the U.S. Navy to keep patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships in and out. Our Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be there, conducting occasional target practice on whatever is left of Iran's military capabilities.

No one fears the Iran Regime anymore. It's proven itself to be a toothless tiger.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab World has joined with the United States and Israel in an alliance against the Iran Regime, which is now completely isolated.

That's pretty amazing. Thanks to President Trump, the rest of the Arab world is now allied with Israel.

Who would have thought that possible?

We should allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do to the Iran Regime. We should also continue arming the Kurds and pro-freedom groups inside Iran.

When Epic Fury started, the prediction was that oil would rise above $200 per barrel.

This has not happened. Oil is around $90 a barrel and will continue to drop.

The reason we have not seen anything close to $200 a barrel is the United States has ramped up its oil production.

Thanks to President Trump, the United States is a net oil and energy exporter.

With Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States also now has an oil production partnership with the new government of Venezuela, which as the world's largest oil reserves.

Oil production by Venezuela will only continue to increase.

Trump has also chased China out of Panama. China is no longer running the Panama Canal. We are.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are increasing their pipeline capacity to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, further rendering Iran irrelevant.

Only about 20% of Iran's people are practicing Muslims. The strange theocratic ideology that has been imposed on the Iranian people for 47 years is an alien minority force.

We can just continue to watch the Iran Regime implode financially under this economic pressure we've imposed.

Eventually, the IRGC leadership and Mullahs will receive the Gaddafi treatment.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

One thing is for sure. When Democrats are counting votes, crazy, statistically impossible things are possible.

Joe Biden can lose 18 out of 19 bellwether counties. He can lose Iowa, Ohio, and Florida. He can lose massive House seats and still get the most votes in presidential history.

It's MAGIC.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

What you see democrats doing in California right now is exactly why they won’t pass the SAVE ACT.

And the 4 POS Republican Senators who won’t pass it are lowlife traitors.

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

When the Supreme Court bans the counting of late-arriving mail ballots (and they almost certainly will) by the end of this month, the ramifications will be sweeping and instantly felt, especially in states like CA, OR, WA, and NV, which have mastered mail fraud.

For instance, Dems are counting on a 48-4 House split in CA with their new map. They can get it and STILL miss the House majority as the maps stand today.

If they get 46-6 or 44-8, they suffer devastating losses and if the latter perhaps odds below 20% to take the majority. Other seats like NV-3 may become playable, too.

It remains a terrible thing to watch but California’s open treason has created the greatest demand for ripping up election corruption by its roots since the 2022 races in Arizona - if not the 2020 election itself.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

When Section 224 clears in the NDA and Trump signs it, they are just going to use all these bullshit leaks and analysis by Koch/Soros backed operators to undermine Trump and say he’s owned by Israel. That’s the whole point of these leaks.

They are not trying to win elections now. They are trying to change the composition of the Republican Party past 2028.

That’s always been the goal of all of this. They are just ramping it all up now.