Guys! I don't know if you knew this - but the Japanese DELIBERATELY attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941!
And now, the US goverment calls Japan an "ally" and offers them aid and military security guarantees?
How can this be?
America must be controlled by the Japanese!
- How USS Liberty tards sound.
There are 15 major US military bases in Japan.
There are approximately 54,500 US soldiers stationed in Japan.
The US government spends approximately $5.25 billion on military defense in Japan annually.
The US government has given Japan $26 billion (inflation adjusted) in non-military aid since 1945.
The Japanese government has spent about $550 million on lobbying the US government between 2015 and 2025.
Japan is the largest US debt holder with $1.19 TRILLION in US Treasury securities.
No media op demonizing the Japanese.
No social media hatred of Japanese people for having their military protection subsidized by US security agreements.
No fearmongering that Japan holds the largest debt over American heads.
No, "Japan controls our politicians" and "Japan controls our economy" nonsense.
No, "Why is it Japan first, not America first?"
You know why?
Because the selective outrage is manufactured hate not rooted in a genuine distaste for foreign aid and foreign bases.
It's called a "wedge issue" where different political bodies align to push a unified hatred toward one group for their respective end goals.
For leftists, it's their anti-colonial, anti-whiteness, anti-Capitalist narrative.
For Muslim-majority countries, it's to divide Americans and Israelis and Christians and Jews to hedge more power and influence over the Middle East and the West.
For Chinese and Russian state media, it's a way to break up US alliances that are counter to their BRICS initiative.
You need to understand how the operations work to get it.
It's okay to be against foreign aid.
It's NOT okay to be rage-baited into selective hypocrisy and to be used by leftists and foreign states to destroy the Western Enlightenment and Western Capitalism.
Learn the signs so you don't get TRICKED.
The difference between the right leaning libertarians and the left leaning libertarians is that the right leaning libertarians would return their shopping cart because it’s the polite and respectful thing to do, while the left leaning libertarians would just leave their shopping cart out in the parking lot because they 𝒄𝒂𝒏 as it’s not like there’s any victims or consequences.
"This terrible idea makes a MOCKERY out of President Trump's famous promise to 'drain the swamp' and it really optically couldn't come at a worse time... they're going to dole out billions in taxpayer dollars to their political allies while the American people are struggling to afford groceries and gas... YIKES!"
My monologue on the Trump administration's so-called "anti-weaponization" fund, from the latest "Brad vs The World."
Many Republicans will privately admit they're fairly libertarian.
They just don't want to be associated with the progressive freak show that is the Libertarian Party.
Most libertarians are right-wing. Libertarian nationalism lets us take our label back.
Hasan Piker is guilty of the same “social murder” that he believes can justify assassination.
He is worth millions of dollars, owns a nearly $3 million home, wears expensive clothing and jewelry, and otherwise lives far beyond what he needs to survive.
Meanwhile, according to GiveWell, it costs roughly $3,000 to $5,500 to save a human life via charitable giving.
This means that Piker is actively choosing to engage in “social murder” and let hundreds, if not thousands, of people die by hoarding his wealth and denying other human beings life-saving resources.
According to his own twisted logic, that would make him a legitimate target for assassination. (I do not agree or want harm to come to him).
I'm sorry, but no.
SS will have a mandatory benefits cut of 23% by 2032
1) life expectancy has climbed from when it was made 65 to 67
2) Income cap has not been adjusted in decades
Fastest growing category in fed budget is interest on debt. We cannot afford populist policies
I’m thrilled the TPUSA halftime show did well. It looked fantastic.
But - (ducks for cover) - the Right should be careful not to overreact to Bad Bunny.
The music is not to my taste. But many Americans hold Latin American heritage, and it’s not wrong to pay homage to it.
The American flag was honoured first in any case.
The performance literally promoted marriage to an audience of 127 million.
It was fine.
Making a mountain out of a molehill makes everything so much worse.
President @realDonaldTrump, @marcorubio, and @PeteHegseth, if you are going to watch any footage of Iran, this mini documentary is it.
Please watch the first 15 minutes and you will bear witness to one of the greatest crimes against humanity in recent decades.
The United States is the most powerful country in the world. The IRGC has been an exporter of terror around the world with nuclear ambitions only recently temporarily thwarted by our incredible military.
Leaving these monsters in control of the second largest oil reserves in the Middle East — which they will continue to use to fund terror around the world, rebuild their nuclear capability, and support our arch enemies — remains an extremely serious persistent and long-term existential threat to the United States and to the world at large.
President Trump, you are a man of your word.
You drew a red line about the regime killing protesters. They have now reportedly killed 43,000 and blinded and maimed hundreds of thousands more.
You have called out to the Iranian people to continue their protests as they have bravely done unarmed and at massive cost in tens of thousands of young lives lost to this genocidal regime.
You have lived up to every commitment that you have made to the American people and to the world.
Your reputation for keeping your word has restored the United States to again being respected as the most powerful nation in the world.
And let’s not forget that they have attempted to assassinate you twice.
President Trump, it is time to finish the job.
We have important strategic, moral, economic, and ethical reasons for doing so.
A world without the IRGC controlling Iran would generate a massive peace dividend forever experienced around the world.
It would set a powerful and important example that the United States does not tolerate the worst form of evil.
It would be one of your most important forever legacies as President of the United States.
The Iranian people are an amazing people who deserve to be free from terror and evil.
The United States has the most powerful military in the world as you so remarkably and masterfully demonstrated against Maduro in Venezuela.
It appears that we are now locked and loaded.
Let’s let them live.
I am horrified. I cannot believe it.
I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year.
Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America.
This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED.
A violent confrontation in these 9 counties was 590 TIMES more likely than any of these other 3,134 counties.
590 times.
I plotted these 9 counties, and I found that all 9 counties are sanctuary jurisdictions run by Democrat politicians that resist immigration law enforcement.
These violent confrontations are RARE in states and cities where local officials cooperate with law enforcement.
Here's what Virginia Democrats have introduced so far. This list is truly insane:
>Bans future attempts to clean up voter rolls (HB111)
>Makes it illegal for state agencies distributing federal dollars to NGOs to investigate whether they're engaged in fraud (HB1369)
>Makes it illegal to hand-count ballots (HB968)
>Allows mail-in ballots to be counted one week after election day (HB773)
>Allows for absentee ballots to be received and counted for three days after election day (HB82)
>Gerrymanders the state with a 10-1 or 9-2 Democrat Congressional map (HJ4)
>Creates a state-level equivalent of the VRA (HB967)
>Eliminates the requirement that large last-minute campaign contributions have to be publicly reported at least 24 hours before election day (HB1348)
>Removes the State Board of Elections' ability to dispatch law enforcement officers to collect vote tallies from a locality that refuses to publish them (HB1321)
>Joins the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact for allocating Virginia's electoral college votes in presidential elections (HB965)
>Automatic restoration of voting rights for felons after they're released from prison and the mentally handicapped (HB964, HB963, & HB1014)
>Allows for votes to be cast "electronically through the internet" (HB493)
>Public funding of political campaigns at the local level (HB162)
>Abolishes all mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies (HB863)
>Makes it harder for judges to deny bail, even in the case of things like aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking (HB357)
>Gives convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists a chance to get out of prison early (HB853)
>Drastically reduces the criminal penalty for robbery (HB244)
>Bars prosecutors from mentioning a criminal's prior convictions during the guilt phase of a trial, even if it's for the same crime (HB1070)
>Transfers the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety's purview to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (SB21)
>Reduces the amount of time that the Commonwealth can compel a convicted criminal to pay court fees from 60 years to 10 (SB180)
>Taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries (HB1245)
>Bans most discretionary state contracting under $100K from going to businesses owned by White men and allows state agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man (HB61)
>Punishes VMI for adopting an anti-DEI stance (HB1374 & HB22)
>Abolishes all Confederate-themed license plates (HB1344)
>Eliminates the tax-exempt status for all Confederate history groups (HB167)
>Renames Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples Day." (HB858)
>Makes it illegal to approach within 8ft of somebody within 40 feet of an abortion clinic (SB137)
>Enshrines a Leftist narrative about January 6 and teaches it in public schools (HB333)
>Allows localities to adopt rent control measures (HB1177)
>Increases the sales tax in Northern Virginia, adds an additional sales tax for home deliveries, raises the car tax for electric vehicles, and imposes new sales taxes for streaming services, concerts, gym memberships, nail salons, barber shops, tanning beds, tatoo parlors, dry cleaners, shoe repairs, carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, and housekeeping work for homes, swimming pool maintenance, travel agencies, and shipping services (SB730, HB1179, HB900 & HB978)
>Creates a new tourism tax on event entrance fees (HB550)
>Raises the hotel tax in Arlington (HB524)
>Imposes a new 7.75% tax on incomes over $1 Million (HB1074)
>Creates two new tax brackets, one over $600K at 8% and another over $1 Million at 10% (HB979)
>Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378)
>Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66)
>Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000)
>Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954)
>Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881)
>Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment (HB557)
>Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124)
>Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras (HB1330 & HB994)
>Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220)
>Requiring a license to buy a firearm (HB1359)
>"Assault weapons" ban (HB217)
>Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime" (HB1015)
>Making it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926)
>Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626)
>Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24)
>Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27)
>Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094)
>Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207)
>Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store (HB907)
>Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916)
>Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda "center" for the sole purpose of promoting gun control (HB969)
>Ends qualified immunity for police (HB 1314)
>Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers (HB7)
>Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314)
>Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal migrants outside of courthouses (HB1265)
>Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264)
>Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260)
>Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights (HB1263)
>Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164)
>Preferential hiring in State government for Federal employees laid off by DOGE (HB494)
>Defers property taxes for Federal employees during shutdowns (HB915)
>Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1)
>Eliminates the minimum wage exemption for farm workers (HB20)
>Mandates the hiring of a new bureaucratic position ("Career Coach") in every single public school (HB138)
>Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th and 12th grade (HB355)
>Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the Virginia Department of Education (HB359)
>Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382)
>Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912)
>Allows out-of-state Indian tribe members to receive in-state tuition (HB287)
>Lets students graduate high school despite failing grades (SB147)
>Eliminates nearly all academic benchmarks for college students to continue receiving financial aid (SB167)
>Somali daycare fraud pilot program (HB259)
>Expands the eminent domain powers of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (HB446)
>Reclassifies Solar farms as an "agricultural operation", thus granting it protections under the Right to Farm law (HB1091)
>More than triples financial penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality to comply with environmental regulations (HB1350)
>Mandates all localities adopt an "environmental justice plan" (HB256)
>Allocates $100 million in taxpayer funding for the production of "sustainable aviation fuel" (HB1230)
>Eliminates the ability of a health insurance provider to charge a premium for smokers (HB220)
>Adds a new insurance mandate to cover over-the-counter condoms (HB1182)
>Mandates "unconscious racial bias" trainings for nurses to retain their license (SB22)
@Codie_Sanchez I can't say I disagree with your take. But to play devil's advocate, wouldn't it be in the best interest of single men to become more leftist?