Thomas Hennessy

Retired attorney. Chicagoan who spends cold months in Florida and Texas.

[Thomas Hennessy @TommyTab]

Many Leftists are evil

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me

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@LeahRay44 It’s because media across the globe are controlled by miserable leftists.

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@DannyGayBoi12 @jasonwhitlock That’s easy for you to say, Daniel, ya knucklehead.

[Thomas Hennessy @TommyTab]

@SkylarSkye3 Trust me, I have homes in Chicago, IL and San Antonio, TX
Go to Chicago for a giant steak burrito at a neighborhood small storefront joint.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Woah 🤯🔥

Egyptian TV host calls out Ottoman Turkey and Muslim contributions:

“Muslims contributed nothing to the world in the 20th century.”

On the Ottomans to Europe:

“Slaughter, massacres, impaling Europeans on spears.”

Modern era? “Bombing capitals, vehicular attacks, shootings, burning people alive in cages… massacres against Christians and others across the globe.”

Fiery take from Egyptian media.

[dale @dale37844138]

@ThePosieParker @LaylaTexas77 History agrees with you; (Raymond Ibrahim, scholar/historian/author)

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@RolandForTexas @elonmusk This Roland guy is a clown.

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@DarrenBaileyIL Why not?

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Someone paid these rogue judges to go against President Trump and the security of the American people.

Newt is right, this was a judicial Coup d'état; and it must be cut off at the head not the foot. Arrest the Soros crime family now!!

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Alejandro Mayorkas facilitated the biggest invasion in world history. He oversaw the importation of 25,000,000 illegal aliens. Facilitating an invasion is treason. Why hasn't he been brought to justice?
@realDonaldTrump @JDVance @DAGToddBlanche

[defijack.eth 🤝 @defijack_eth]

@notthreadguy @alinesavant @biddough / @LiqMercury next

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@themodpun Sad. True.

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@itsJohnRocker My guess is Karmelo’s parents are thrilled they can keep the money as long as they throw $20 into his prison canteen account every month.

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@CENTCOM A disproportionate response may be the only way to convince these medieval savages to completely surrender.

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F’ing animals

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

16 year old Mernda Aussie teen Declan was hunted by a Sudanese youth gang then stabbed 56 times and he received 66 blunt force injuries.

One of Declan's African killers was released because he was deemed too young to take responsibility for murder.

In 2025, the animal took part in an aggravated home invasion in Gladstone Park, Melbourne that saw a 60-year-old man stabbed countless times, shot in the arm & bashed repeatedly with a hammer.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Clay’s Revenge

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s speech at the Reagan National Economic Forum was more than a defense of tariffs or industrial policy. It was the clearest public restoration of Henry Clay’s American System in generations.

Clay understood what the priesthood of globalization spent three decades denying: Economic power is national power. A country that cannot make what it needs, finance its own expansion, or secure the energy that sustains both is not sovereign in any serious sense. Bessent’s formulation, that economic security is national security, is simply Clay’s doctrine translated into the language of the 21st century.

President Trump had already prepared the ground. In April, he proclaimed April 12, 2026, a day of celebration in honor of Henry Clay and ordered Room 208 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building redesignated as the Henry Clay Room. That was not empty nostalgia. Trump has long treated Clay’s creed of “fair, equal, and reciprocal” trade as a precursor to America First economics. Bessent’s speech converted that historical tribute into governing doctrine.

The significance reaches beyond one speech. The United States is rediscovering its native political economy: strategic protection for key industries, public backing for national development, and finance aligned with national strength rather than with the abstractions of borderless efficiency. Kevin Warsh is attempting something parallel at the Federal Reserve. His call for a new Treasury, Fed accord and a smaller Fed balance sheet points toward a more Hamiltonian vision of public credit, and, in a deeper sense, an effort to undo William McChesney Martin’s betrayal of Harry Truman.

Truman called Martin a traitor when the Fed chairman prioritized monetary independence over financing national strategy. What Martin enshrined as central-bank independence, Warsh seems to treat as a historical deviation from the older American tradition in which public credit served national power.

The last time the United States operated on anything like this logic at full scale was during World War II, when Washington treated steel, shipping, energy, logistics, and capital allocation as parts of one integrated national mission. That, not laissez-faire mythology, is the real American precedent for national power in an age of danger.

The world woke up when President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury and Operation Absolute Resolve. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz then made the lesson impossible to miss: resource security is not a seminar topic but the hard foundation of state power. Once one of the world’s critical energy choke points was effectively shut, the entire fantasy that advanced economies could float above geography, production, and force collapsed in real time.

That is why leaders across the West, Mark Carney included, are drifting toward the language of resilience, industrial capacity, and strategic autonomy.

Yet America retains the decisive advantage. Coupled with Canada and Venezuela, the Americas are becoming the center of resource security. The United States sits at the heart of that system as an energy superpower, with the oil, gas, capital, and industrial base to turn strategy into production. Europe lacks that foundation. China cannot trust its access to it.

Bessent did not merely defend a policy mix. He announced a return to an older American statecraft: Clay at Treasury, Hamilton at the Fed, and the American System back at the center of national strategy.

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Most prominent terrorist attacks since 1970 and their religion:

1. Munich Olympics massacre (1972) - Islam
2. Beirut barracks bombing (1983) - Islam
3. TWA Flight 847 (1985) - Islam
4. Rome & Vienna airport attacks (1985) - Islam
5. Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) - Islam
6. World Trade Center bombing (1993) - Islam
7. Paris Metro bombings (1998) - Islam
8. US Embassy bombings Kenya & Tanzania (1998) - Islam
9. USS Cole bombing (2000) - Islam
10. 9/11 attacks (2001) - Islam
11. Bali bombings (2002) - Islam
12. Istanbul bombings (2003) - Islam
13. Madrid train bombings (2004) - Islam
14. London 7/7 bombings (2005) - Islam
15. Fort Hood shooting (2009) - Islam
16. Toulouse/Montauban shootings (2012) - Islam
17. Boston Marathon bombing (2013) - Islam
18. Brussels Jewish Museum shooting (2014) - Islam
19. Ottawa Parliament attack (2014) - Islam
20. Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher attacks (2015) - Islam
21. Paris November attacks (2015) - Islam
22. San Bernardino shooting (2015) - Islam
23. Brussels airport/metro bombings (2016) - Islam
24. Nice truck attack (2016) - Islam
25. Berlin Christmas Market attack (2016) - Islam
26. Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (2016) - Islam
27. Westminster Bridge attack (2017) - Islam
28. Manchester Arena bombing (2017) - Islam
29. London Bridge/Borough Market attack (2017) - Islam
30. Barcelona/Cambrils attacks (2017) - Islam
31. Strasbourg Christmas market attack (2018) - Islam
32. London Bridge stabbing (2019) - Islam
33. Samuel apart beheading (2020) - Islam
34. Vienna shooting (2020) - Islam
35. October 7 Hamas-led attacks (2023) - Islam
36. Arras school stabbing (2023) - Islam
37. Solingen knife attack (2024) - Islam
38. New Orleans Bourbon Street attack (2025) - Islam
39. Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack (2025) - Islam
40. Winterthur train-station stabbing (2026) - Islam

I couldn’t list them all, obviously, but let’s put it into perspective.

Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979:

1979–April 2024: 66,872 attacks

By period:

1979–2000: 2,194 attacks
2001–2012: 8,265 attacks
2013–April 2024: 56,413 attacks

Total Deaths: at least 249,941

Now, who is the biggest threat to the world, again?

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

After spending this week reviewing the Iranian war I am now convinced President Trump is on the edge of an historic victory. The real breakthrough for me came as I reviewed President Trump’s decisions and maneuvers not from the standpoint of American unilateralism but from the standpoint of the leader of a remarkable historic coalition, the largest coalition ever put together in the modern Middle East. Everyone understands that Israel is an important ally. What is little discussed is the depth of support from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region. It has to be sobering for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade. Slowly, gradually, timidly, our European allies are lining up to help with the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A great deal of President Trump’s maneuvers against Iran make sense once he is seen as a coalition leader and not just as a unilateral American President. I spent a lot of the last couple weeks reviewing kinetic options including wining the battle of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and if necessary using the shocking and shattering level of force President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger used against Hanoi and Haiphong in Christmas 1972 (which both leaders believed convinced the North Vietnamese to agree to a truce and the freeing of American POWs). If this were a unilateral American campaign I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However it is also clear it would shatter the coalition because our Arab allies are convinced Iran could still do enormous damage to their oil fields and infrastructure. Coalitions are inherently slower than unilateral campaigns. However coalitions ultimately bring vastly more power to the fight. I am as frustrated as everyone else by the pace of talking with the dictatorship but having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options available to the coalition on one side and the Iranian religiously motivated dictatorship on the other I am prepared to assert that President Trump’s coalition leadership (something almost none of his critics want to acknowledge) is within reach of an enormous historic victory. And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position there will be plenty of time for a kinetic campaign of enormous power and effectiveness. Either way we are on the edge of an astonishing victory for our values and for a safer Middle East.

[Thomas Hennessy @TommyTab]

What would you pay to have a beer with James Talerico, Graham Platner and Elizabeth Warren in her kitchen? They’re so normal and relatable.