Bill French

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@martinamcbride Pathetic and sick

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

These Spencer Pratt videos by @dsonoiki are better than 99.9% of political consultant ads. He does it again.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

I’ve been using Tesla’s self drive tech for over a month now & I’m even more convinced that within ten years driving a car will be like riding a horse, something people just do for fun. It’s transformative on a level I don’t think most understand yet. Absolutely revolutionary.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

BILL MAHER: “Israel has 7 Democratic allies left in the Senate.”

“This is the Democrats saying, we’re not going to sell Israel any more military equipment.”

JAKE SULLIVAN: “40 Democrats who voted for this.”

MAHER: “That’s right. Only 7 allies.”

SULLIVAN: “I talked to a number of them before the vote. I think they did the right thing.”

MAHER: “Who did the right thing?”

SULLIVAN: “Those 40 Democrats.”

MAHER: “The 40?”

SULLIVAN: “Yeah. Because the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel brought the United States into a war that… cost American lives and cost American families at the gas pump… If you are not wanting to support the US and Israel continuing the war in Iran, you shouldn’t be voting to send more weapons to Israel.”

MAHER: “Well, I see why Biden lost…”

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher gets visibly annoyed as his liberal guests hesitate to give Trump credit for “pivoting” on the war with Iran.

MAHER: “I’m gonna take the good news. It’s better that we’re in an economic war than a bombing war at this point. Can we agree on that?”

RAHM EMANUEL: “[long pause] Yes.”

MAHER: “Oh, f*ck. Say yes. What the f*ck?”

EMANUEL: “It’s definitely better. But, in my view, where do we go back and get our reputation? Where do we go back and get to where America was beforehand? This decision doesn’t come cost free.”

MAHER: “At worst, it might come out that what we have done is said to Iran: After 47 years of this nonsense, you just can’t do it with impunity.”

“Okay, maybe we didn’t get rid of the regime. We didn’t. But at least we put you on notice. You just can’t do the shit you’ve been doing.”

Watch Rahm Emanuel’s reaction closely after Maher says this. His face says it all.

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@realStockes @mrddmia Why we LOVE DJT… among many reasons. Retail politicians (99%) are horrible. DJT absolutely the opposite! Retail = we have to make anti-gun laws to stop senseless killings. Reality = what gun law will crazy people and criminals follow. Never, never an answer to this question!

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@WashWizards @Ticketmaster Wow, what a wonderful season and sooo much fun watching an absolutely crappy team and franchise. Keep up the great work!!!

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@mtgreenee @hodgetwins You’re sad and gross mtg, just go away and be quiet, please…

[FanDuel @FanDuel]

Imagine we get a Michigan vs. Michigan State championship next year 😱

@JonRothstein | #GoBlue

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@timkaine tim kaine = absolute idiot… CONGRATS!

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent.

By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Back when SNL was funny! 😂

Imagine the snowflake meltdown if this aired today!

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

🚨 NEW: Stephen A. Smith presses on support for President Trump and the MAGA movement.

Anton Daniels: "The first thing is I felt like the election was stolen in 2020. There's no way that anybody can convince me that Joe Biden got over 81 million votes."

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@cooneycongress You’re gross and sick j. p. Simply screw you. You’re EXACTLY why DJT is President. Only, and I mean only, good thing about you

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@joekent16jan19 Extremely sad for your pathetic resignation. How long does US blood have to be spilled at the hands Iran and its proxies before we decimate that ability? Go back to washington state… thank God for DJT’s determination and guts…

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@NYCMayor You’re gross and sick, zohran. You call out presumptive “white supremacy”, though simply protesting peacefully, but don’t mention radical islamists tossing bombs… you’re putrid

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@AriFleischer Excellent!

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”.

He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way.

Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama.

It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM.

I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last.

But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.

[Bill French @ThefrenchesBill]

@LauraLoomer @SouthwestAir Why was a SWAT team on this flight? Highly unusual??

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The final speech of coach Lou Holtz’s life from this past November. Take the time to watch it and thanks to @A1Policy for sharing this with @outkick. RIP to Coach Holtz, a great man: