“When a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas Jefferson
GWOT memorial: A giant, meandering circle with no meaning. Start at one point, and you’ll end up right back where you started.
10/10. No notes.
Perfect satire.
Senator Tom Cotton, as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has advanced a provision in the FY2027 Intelligence Authorization Act that would require the President of the United States to expand and enhance intelligence sharing with the Government of Israel across a broad list of subjects.
The provision would also bar the President from suspending or materially limiting that intelligence sharing except on the basis of a specific and identifiable national security concern determined by the President.
Follow: @AFpost
⚠️ Netanyahu does not want U.S. aid to end. He wants it rebranded as a “partnership” so American taxpayers stay locked in forever. That is not America First. That is foreign entanglement by another name. @RepThomasMassie exposes the trap.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Hold these three facts in your head at the same time, because Washington apparently can't...
Fact one:
The Pentagon reportedly raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest designation that exists.
That's the tier reserved for top adversaries like China and Russia, rating Israel above every American ally and above some of America's actual enemies.
The White House calls the reporting "false" and Israel categorically denies it, but the accounts are sourced to multiple current and former U.S. officials across two major outlets.
Fact two:
Netanyahu sent a personal letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman endorsing a resolution to phase out U.S. military aid over a decade and replace it with what he called, in his own words, "my plan": a shift from aid to joint defense partnership spanning missile defense, AI, drones, and cyber.
Fact three:
A separate but parallel measure, Section 224 of the defense bill, would mandate structural integration: joint weapons production, linked military systems, and shared data between the two countries.
Two distinct legislative tracks, one direction: permanent entanglement with the country the Pentagon just reportedly flagged as a critical espionage threat.
Any functioning political system would treat fact one as disqualifying for facts two and three.
You do not wire your military networks into a government your own intelligence agencies say is running an "unhinged" collection campaign against your officials.
Counterintelligence 101 forbids it.
If China's leader sent a personal letter to a congressman describing his plan for U.S.-China defense integration while the Pentagon caught Chinese spyware on American officials' phones, every name attached to the bill would be under investigation by Friday.
Israel does both in the same month and gets a committee markup.
That gap is the most precise measurement we have of how compromised the system actually is.
Source: NYT, Reuters
Writer: Daniel
This guy is mentally deranged
My brother has been deployed to the straight of Hormuz for months now
They get 500 Mbps worth of data usage a day. He calls me about every other week asking me what’s going on politically because NOBODY on those ships has any idea why they’re there
Even with, essentially, no connection to the outside world, the men on those ships know they’re being put in danger for bullshit political reasons, and that they’re being used as pawns - NOT EVEN for the benefit of the United States, but seemingly, for the benefit of a foreign country
LINDSEY GRAHAM: “I go back to S.C. and I’m asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Middle East. To all the isolationists: I’m not with you, I’m with Israel. God bless Israel. We should move all of our stuff to Israel.”
He actually said this on live television.
The smartest man @JoeBiden knows lies about the important & unimportant. This picture was not taken off I95. Wasn't even on the East Coast. It was a selfie taken with an iPhone X at N36.1137W115.1985 (Vegas, @Palms) on 20180803 at 213017.
This is a perfect example of the psychopathic, pathological self shaming that’s led to the downfall of the most powerful and wealthy countries in written history
Standing in a foreign country, they wail about justice and forgiveness, while their own people suffer
The Israeli government brought Christians on a trip to the Knesset to beg forgiveness from God for their respective nations’ failure to serve Israel as fervently as they should.
Follow: @AFpost
"It was the time sheets that made people look into him...."
I wish people could see what the Army finance office will do when a soldier gets overpaid $20.00. Then I would like to show them the oversight that our Travel System (DTS) has for a soldier to get paid for spending one night in a hotel. Next I would show them the weekly Battalion meeting where every leader can see the names of every soldier in their unit who owes money for travel cards/DTS/paychecks. Finally I will show them the withdrawal and clearing process for the various OPFUNDS that are used during overseas operations.
The army will crush a soldier for owing a single penny and this dude signs for $40 Million in Gold bars and puts them in his house....and the ONLY reason they found them was because he cheated on his time sheets.
We have soldiers and their families living in trailers and we will go through their finances with a fine tooth comb.
We have Illegals, Child care center operators, and senior executive band people bilking the Government for MILLIONS/BILLIONS and people seem to discover it by "chance".
Every last fraudster caught with over a million dollars should be dropped from a space shuttle and allowed to re-enter the earth's atmosphere so we can watch them turn into a ball of flame for our entertainment.
I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.
Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.
This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.
For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”
It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.
Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.
Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.
🚨 ANTI-ICE TERRORISTS are WINNING in Newark
DHS has now ROLLED-OVER, and is allowing EVERY VEHICLE leaving their facility to be SEARCHED by leftists
This should NEVER be allowed to happen.
If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution.
This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability the inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.
Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. I personally am a skeptic of the idea that Iran cannot be denied the ability to terrorize the Strait and the region cannot protect itself against Iranian military capability.
It is important we get this right.