@KeenanPeachy Punitive expeditions used to be normal in history. We are just making it cool again. The Middle East is like a garden you have to trim now and again. Otherwise the vipers take refuge in the shade.
There is no “victory” there. Just the distribution of pain.
@GBNT1952 I'm curious to see if the Abraham Accords are actually expanded. If that happens, and the Arab states actually stick to it, that would be fricking yuge and a win even if it's not the big win of mullahs and IRGC out of power.
@redsteeze A genuine American success story! Where else can you be a total failure as a tryhard faux-MAGA comedian/influencer then pivot to Marxist midwit and get flown to exotic locales like China and Cuba?
@Legal_Fil Doing a paralegal program for my mid-life crisis and we're being pushed to use AI with only the flimsiest of either practical or ethical considerations. And here I thought my low opinion of the legal profession couldn't get any lower.
@shipwreckedcrew@SteveDeaceShow made this same point to their faces post-2016 election and was greeted with vacant stares. Since then they've only become more insular and hateful of average Americans.
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@realBrandonGill Stood in line for this election so saw/heard first hand who exactly voted.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of Indian immigrants were holding signs for the "anti-Islam candidate" perhaps bc they know first hand what happens when Islamists take hold in their communities.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@KIR_bigg50 The median income in the county is 120k, the median house price 475k, the evil white pop barely over 50%...how the heck do you buy into this sick ideology when all the evidence of your eyes tells you its nonsense?
@TheOfficerTatum He wanted to be "hard" then he ran and hid and cried when he saw what he had done. It's the only sliver of silver lining I can take from this whole horrific affair.
@KurtSchlichter@townhallcom Well everyone who served with/under Col Dad loved him, and Uncle Chief would routinely come over and ask "bro how do I tell an officer he's a dumbass w/o getting busted back to seaman?" and get chased out of the room by his big sister...so yeah, I guess so.
Hey @nikitabier,
Myself and @sippicup2 worked tirelessly to provide boots-on-the-ground coverage of this trial. I spent every day inside the courtroom while Sippi remained outside the courthouse from 2am until 6pm documenting everything happening beyond the courtroom doors.
When the trial concluded and the gag order was lifted, I was given the exclusive opportunity to conduct Jeff Metcalf’s first interview. Jeff chose to give that interview to me.
This account then clipped a portion of that interview from the JinxSip podcast where I did the interview, removed their watermark, and stripped Jeff’s comments of the context that explained why he said them. That edited clip has now generated more than 2 million views.
Independent reporting requires an enormous investment of time, effort, and resources. It’s frustrating to see original work repackaged without credit, especially when it alters the meaning of what was actually said.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wasn’t going to say anything … but I’m pretty fed up with this.