America First

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[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Official Poll:

Should America expand the H-1B Program or focus on American workers?

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

“The past 3 days, I’ve been sitting around listening to Charlie Kirk’s message… you guys need to be ashamed of yourself to listen to the lies that this man is pushing some racist rhetoric.”

“I heard him say some of the most uplifting things about black people.”

THIS!! 🔥����🏼

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Oh my God.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

You’re objecting to our decision to begin wielding state power against you?

That’s ok. Let’s have a debate about it. You guys put forward whoever you’d like to argue your point of view, and we’ll put forward Charlie Kirk to argue ours.

Where is Charlie?

Oh, that’s right. Your side killed him and then got up and made a bunch of TikTok videos and Facebook posts celebrating it.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

BREAKING: 🔴

U.S. President Donald Trump has released a statement on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

[America First @VAguy24]

Best with a Bud Light for sure...
https://t.co/RoMHRSjtNF

[Adrianne Curry @AdrianneCurry]

BUD LIGHT'S prophecy of 1998

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Remember this? Those were good times:

[America First @VAguy24]

Everyone getting their places ready

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

A small grocery store threw me out four years ago because I wasn't wearing a mask and would not. I was extremely bitter about this and have not been back.

Finally I went in today. I asked to see the manager. I told her what happened and why I've boycotted for so long.

She deeply apologized and explained that the health department was hounding them hard. Customers were taking pictures in the store and posting to evil Facebook, tagging the mayor. They daily faced shutdowns. They actually worried for a time that anyone WITHOUT a mask might be part of a sting operation.

In other words, they had suspected I was working for the government and testing their compliance.

Can you even believe that we lived through this reality?

In any case, despite all my knowledge, the possibility that the store itself face deep threats that forced the rudeness that led to my having been tossed out actually never occurred to me.

I was touched about the manager's own apologies. I will return, no question.

How long will it take this nation to heal from such ghastliness? How many relationships shattered? How much suffering has ensued? It's awesome to contemplate.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

RIP.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

OMFG…..

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

"They're going to need a war so big it's going to have to be World War 3 without nukes...to justify the spending they need...[&] What's going on in Israel & Palestine...has the potential to drag in the US & Iran & start a global war." — Ed Dowd, November 11, 2023

This clip of former BlackRock fund manager and founder of Phinance Technologies Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) is from an interview with James Delingpole (@JMCDelingpole) posted to Rumble in November of 2023.

---------------Partial transcription of clip----------------

"Well, they need the war to. So a lot of people in finance understand this. For the banking system writ large around the globe. It's called inflate or die. Deflation is the bane of all existence for bankers, but it's actually good for the common man because prices go down, but when prices go down, collateral goes down. When collateral goes down, you go bankrupt.

"So we've had a constant series of inflations and wars usually kick us out of inflation. After the Great Depression, World War II saved the global economy and reinflated. Then we had the Vietnam War and it's a cycle of wars. We had the Afghanistan, Iraqi War, then we had the COVID War. The next war, they're going to need a war so big it's going to have to be World War three without nukes and, or an alien invasion to justify the spending they need. Because without the spending you have deflationary pressures which cause bankers to get very nervous.

"So whether they plan them or they happen because of the system, I don't know. But let's talk about what's going on in Israel and Palestine. That's right on time. Right on time. And right in an area where, it's so controversial, it's going to create a lot of emotion and rage, which it is. I look on Twitter every day and there are people screaming at each other about what's going on. And it has the potential to drag in the US and Iran and start a global war potentially. And it's going to cause oil prices to go up.

"And, there's already suspicion, super early. I've seen some Twitter accounts, I've read some articles, that how do the intelligence agencies of the world not know that Hamas is going to do this? You know, there was reports on the ground in Israel that the borders were wide open. Former people that were in the military said, you know, a cat can't cross the Gaza Strip border without alarm bells going off, that something very suspicious occurred. So was this [the October 7th attacks] Israel's Pearl Harbor where they knew it was coming and they let it happen anyways? We don't know. But there's enough smoke around this to suggest that, they probably, you know, Netanyahu and his folks probably were very happy this happened.

"You gotta ask the question, cui bono? Who benefits? And it's not the Palestinian normal people or the normal Israeli people. It's Hamas and the Israelis government that benefits because they both get money, because people are going to fund each side."

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

A lot of people don’t know this, but if you say “nuclear weapons” into a mirror three times, you can ignore every lesson of history—the corruption and incompetence of the Western intel apparatus, the failure of Middle East military interventionism (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine), the cost in lives and money of failed wars based on lies—and you magically won’t have to deal with any of the consequences.

I mean sure—Western interventionism in Iran in the 1950s, or Vietnam in the 1960s, or Iran again in the 1970s, or Iran again in the 1980s but this time with drug cartels, or Iraq and Bosnia in the 1990s, or Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, or still Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2010s plus Libya and the whole moronic Arab Spring thing, or Ukraine in the 2020s—those were disasters that cost trillions of dollars and countless lives.

And yes, our military-intel-industrial complex lied about Vietnam, and killed Kennedy, and ran a coup against Nixon, and then killed another Kennedy, and tried to get MLK Jr. to kill himself, and ran drugs all throughout the Americas to fund shenanigans in the Middle East, and funded bin Laden and the Taliban, and missed 9/11, and lied about Iraq WMD, and got an ambassador murdered in Benghazi, and turned Libya into slave market run by terrorists, and created ISIS, and ran the Russian collusion hoax, and tried to overthrow Trump with the Ukraine hoax, and weaponized a bat virus that killed millions of people and lied about it, and used the virus they made to steal an election, and arrested Trump, and tried to bankrupt him, and tried to make him die in prison, and when that failed denied him adequate security leading to him being shot in the head. Yes, they said and did all those things.

But you can trust them now. Because if you just say “nuclear weapons,” all of that history goes away and the war they’re demanding will be totally awesome with no downsides.

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

Almost every significant populist MAGA influencer -- @RealAlexJones @TuckerCarlson @scrowder @Stevebannon_sk @Peoples_Pundit @mtgreenee @mattgaetz @Cernovich @JackPosobiec etc. -- agree that @realDonaldTrump should stay out of direct further involvement in the #IsraelIranConflict

[America First @VAguy24]

@ClayTravis Lead they way my friend. Lots of big talk from the radio and internet talking heads.

[America First @VAguy24]

@ClayTravis We have heard this BS before every stupid war since 9/11. Enough

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

I recorded a tribute to Scott Adams a month ago - before his odds thankfully increased - which I think has a lot of power for us all...

@ScottAdamsSays - thanks for everything!

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

Always a great post to repost. The real story about polio that nobody ever hears. The polio vaccine didn’t cure polio.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Are you happy with our @HouseGOP's performance so far...

RP for large sample.