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[MarkB @Markmillen5]

@AdamKinzinger Respect.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

My home is paid off.

My wife & I allegedly own it FREE & CLEAR.

But today we got a bill for property taxes.

If we don't pay it, ARMED MEN will come & take it from us & then cage me until I pay them MY MONEY.

So do I own it?
Am I really free?

I already pay 35% income tax + easily another 15% taxes in:
-Sales.
-Gas & fuel.
-Capital gains.
-Plethora of other taxes.

TAXATION IS THEFT.

Property tax shouldn't exist.

[MarkB @Markmillen5]

@miles_commodore Nope

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions.

In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country.

Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country.

America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is why we have never ending protests in America

White House released the names funding protests and violence in America

We pay for our own protests with over $100 million laundered by Democrats

"We found a network of NGOs”

- George Soros, the Open Society Network
- Arabella Funding Network
- The Tides Funding Network
- Neville Roy Singham and his network
- Hansjorg Wyss, a billionaire donor in Switzerland
- Additional Foreign Cash
- Reid Hoffman (Named by Trump)

“It's also big left-wing funders, some of them who are not citizens of this country, Mr. Hansjörg Wyss in Switzerland, they're pouring money into this entire ecosystem."

“We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors.”

“I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than $100 million in US taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks”

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

The people who gave Elon Musk a standing ovation for DOGE only voted for 1 DOGE cut.

These are the same people saying we need secure elections, but who refused to pass the SAVE Act.

Its incredible.
https://t.co/O73NNsT2SG

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

“And if the regime survives, Trump loses any chance to control the Strait of Hormuz”

This framing is wrong. The President cannot “lose” control of the strait.

He can choose not to exercise it. Those are different things.

My naval sources confirm the Navy is stretched thin but has significant assets that could deploy on an emergency basis to reopen the strait. The question is not capability. It is risk.

Deploying assets currently in reserve or stationed in other theaters removes them from the board if a second crisis erupts elsewhere. That is one risk.

Another: ships like the LCS minesweepers carry far fewer defensive systems than a destroyer. How many American sailors are we willing to put in harm’s way to accelerate the timeline by weeks?

There are other operational risks as well, and I am convinced the Navy could reopen the strait in a reasonable timeframe by accepting more of them.

But there is a more important point that the current debate is missing entirely.
The U.S. does not need to sweep the strait to “control” it.

What is undeniable is that the U.S. Navy could far more easily and effectively prevent Iranian ships from leaving. This is not hypothetical. There is direct historical precedent.

In World War I, Britain faced exactly this problem. Close blockade of German ports had become suicidal. Mines, submarines, torpedoes, and coastal guns made stationing warships near shore too dangerous.

So the Admiralty adopted what historians call a “distant blockade”: rather than hovering off enemy harbors, the Royal Navy sealed the English Channel and the northern approaches to the North Sea, intercepting and inspecting merchant ships far from German shores.

Britain was careful never to call it a “blockade” officially, precisely to sidestep the legal requirements of the 1856 Paris Declaration. It worked. By war’s end, Germany’s imports had collapsed and hundreds of thousands of civilians starved.

The parallel to Hormuz is direct.

The U.S. Navy does not need to push minesweepers through a 21-mile contested strait to deny Iran the benefits of maritime commerce.

It can stand off at distance in the Gulf of Oman or the Arabian Sea and interdict Iranian-flagged vessels under the belligerent right of visit and search, which is well established under the San Remo Manual and customary international law.

Ships carrying Iranian cargo could be hailed, boarded, and diverted. Those that resist inspection can be captured. Enemy merchant vessels can be seized outright.

If they attempt to fight back our submarines could sink them. No serious navalist doubts the ability of nuclear subs to sink supertankers.

This does not require a declared blockade with all its legal formalities and the danger of occupying the strait.

Iran does not “control” the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is selectively permitting Chinese, Turkish, Indian, and Pakistani ships to pass while threatening Western vessels.

That is not control. It is a negotiating posture enforced by mines and bluster.

The U.S. Navy could shut down every Iranian-flagged vessel on the open ocean tomorrow. Iran cannot do the same to us.

Could the United States also force merchant ships to sail through the strait? Operationally, yes. No merchant captain will refuse transit when a SEAL team boards his ship. But this would be legally problematic: the master has an independent duty to his crew and owners under maritime law, and the flag state’s consent matters.

I am not saying we should do this. I am saying we could.

The bottom line: in no scenario does the United States “lose control” of the strait. The President can surrender the initiative to Iran for political, diplomatic, or legal reasons. But he cannot lose it.

The Navy’s ability to impose a distant interdiction on Iranian commerce is not in question. The only question is whether the Commander in Chief orders it.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is being absolutely ratioed after flipping on his stance on meat, once claiming ending meat consumption is “existential,” to now wearing the Texas state flag like a skin suit while devouring a massive rib.

Creep.

[The Middle East @A_M_R_M1]

🚨 The balance of power in the Strait of Hormuz is shifting dramatically. Iran, which once believed it controlled this vital waterway with its fast boats, now faces a shocking reality.

The arrival of the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli at the head of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, including the 31st Reconnaissance Battalion, represents an unprecedented nightmare for the Iranian regime. This elite force of approximately 2,500 troops is moving at maximum speed toward the region, signaling Washington’s shift from airstrikes to a potential “boots on the ground” option.

Known as “Force 911,” these units are not ordinary reinforcements—they are self-contained, integrated forces combining ground combat elements with artillery, amphibious vehicles, fighter jets like F-35s, and attack helicopters, effectively turning the ship into a miniature aircraft carrier operating in the heart of the Strait.

Primary objective: regain control over the Strait of Hormuz from the Revolutionary Guard, which has disrupted global shipping. The number of transiting ships dropped to just 77 in early March, compared to over 1,000 in the previous year.

With this deployment, all military options are on the table: from rapid raids on islands used by the Guard as missile and drone launch points, to full control of strategic sites like Kharg Island, Iran’s economic lifeline and source of roughly 90% of its oil exports.

Missions may also include highly sensitive tasks, such as securing enriched uranium stocks to prevent any “dirty bomb” scenario, or collaborating with the CIA and Mossad to engage opposition groups and build an internal resistance movement to overthrow the regime.

This marks a new phase that goes beyond traditional deterrence, putting Tehran’s influence and the regime’s existence at stake. These special forces could fundamentally shift the balance of power internally and potentially end the regime’s dominance forever.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

The weird thing is that everybody hates Congress but then we reelect 97% of our congressmen.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Time spent in Federal Government roles…

George Washington: 8 years
Thomas Jefferson: 10 years
John Adams: 12 years

Nancy Pelosi: 39 years
Mitch McConnell: 41 years
Chuck Schumer: 45 years

This explains everything.

Founders vs Grifters

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

We're not just fighting terrorism. We're fighting people who can't fathom what makes us great.

It’s the instinct that made young cadets band together to take down a Virginia shooter with just a knife.

It’s what made 30 police officers end up at the hospital for smoke inhalation for storming a synagogue inferno to make sure the danger was neutralized.

It’s what made Lt. Col. Brandon Shah deploy to defend his country—again and again and again—even as that country was importing and naturalizing the enemy who killed him, in an ultimate, unforgivable betrayal.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

Yesterday, I did what needed to be done.

I successfully subpoenaed the congressional sexual harassment slush fund records through the House Oversight Committee. I successfully subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi for a deposition on the Epstein files.

The House responded by voting - overwhelmingly - to hide their own misconduct from the American people. Both parties, united in one cause: protecting themselves.

This is the two-tiered system of justice in plain sight. One standard for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected - and another for everyone else.

Congress demands accountability from every institution in America except the one it sees in the mirror.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Please send this tax stealing, miserable traitor back to Somalia where she belongs.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

One of these dudes lost teeth fighting to win for America.

The other dude wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections and signs checks to fund the Taliban with taxpayer money.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

My America!

[Daniel Baldwin @baldwin_daniel_]

On days like today, I like calling back to this headline from June 2024:

"Trump would make America’s inflation crisis worse, 16 Nobel economists warn"

CPI is at 2.4% YoY in January as gasoline declined 7.5%.

The "Nobel economists" were dead wrong.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Republicans have the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the House and the Senate. And yet…

We don’t have a Voter ID law.

Not a single crooked Democrat has been jailed, censured, impeached, or expelled.

Taxpayers are being defrauded by the billions.

And Republicans do NOTHING.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Congress doesn’t seem to realize that reopening the government after 43 days isn’t some kind of win. It never should have been closed in the first place. You turned air travel into chaos and forced Americans into food donation lines. We don’t applaud either party for this—you both failed. There are no victors here, just a bunch of useless politicians who can’t handle the most basic responsibilities of their jobs yet still expected and got a paycheck. We deserve a rebate!

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

She says the country feels “leaderless.” The reality is this… there’s never been a greater time for Black Americans to wake up and lead themselves. To reject the lies of dependency… to rebuild the nuclear family… to seize back education, work, and faith from a government that thrives on keeping them broken.

True leadership doesn’t come from Washington speeches or White House soundbites. It comes from fathers raising sons… mothers raising daughters… communities choosing accountability over excuses.

That’s where America’s revival begins.