Scott Chambers

COO of Pacific Workplaces virtual & serviced office provider, Husband and Proud @sfgiants and @49ers fan. Dad of a graduate @smu and @auburnU

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

These 6 major Media Outlets have refused to report on DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification that proves Dr. Fauci’s cover-up of the ‘Covid Pandemic’

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

Red pilling the planet via FIFA World Cup🇺🇸

[The Boabie @TheBoabie]

We were told we'd be shot by ICE, we never saw them
We were told the police would be tough, they partied with us
We were told the Americans didn't want us, they embraced us like family

Stop listening to the 'media' trying to divide us! live your lives and make memories! 🧡

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Celebrating Germany’s win with dinner at Denny’s😋

[greg @greg16676935420]

Most powerful people in the United States:

1) Donald Trump
2) Elon Musk
3) Freddy

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

So Tulsi released even more definitive evidence that Dr. Fauci funded gain of function research in Chinese labs with our tax dollars, which helped create covid, & then when covid leaked from a Chinese lab he created a vast conspiracy to cover up what he did & attack anyone who pointed it out.

[Watcher Reports @WatcherReports]

🚨 BREAKING: California is escalating. Absolute chaos unfolding right now as secret DOJ records demands come to light. The whistleblowers have officially stepped forward and the inner circle is compromised.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I'm still chewing on this "deal" and trying to figure out what the strategy is supposed to be, obviously given a shortage of information. I'm starting to think it's similar to Reagan's strategy that choked the Soviet Union, which Aleksandr Dugin describes as an Atlanticist "anaconda."

The rough idea of the "anaconda" strategy is that of a constrictor snake. It doesn't bite except to control small parts at necessity. It squeezes. And it doesn't just crush. It tightens, puts pressure, and when the target squirms, it tightens again. This continues until the target is suffocated.

Dugin accuses the Atlanticist West (first Britain, then the US/NATO) of having done this not only to the USSR but to Russia and continuing it. That's worth discussing at another time. The way he says it happened is by controlling all the regions around the target (then: USSR) and by increasing various demands and sanctions to crush the target. There's no striking (like biting) except in the narrow sense to punish specific transgression. It's just fatally expensive for the target to move.

So this plan might actually be meant to work this way against the Iranian Regime, with a few updated caveats because Trump's geopolitical strategy and Reagan's aren't the same, for good reasons. Trump's is not only likely better overall but learned from the mistakes and shortcomings of Reagan's.

The idea is that by having hit them militarily 13,000+ times and degraded their capabilities, military, and infrastructure to a very bad level, while apparently offering them a "golden bridge" out (Sun Tzu), including some rocketry capabilities, Iran's Regime is desperate, particularly economically.

The "deal" with the economic carrot ($300B in Gulf Coast state investment possibilities, totally contingent on good behavior, plus loosened sanctions and unfrozen assets, all contingent) is meant to get Iran to squirm while releasing the global pressure caused by Hormuz. Iran can't afford not to take it and likely thinks it can outfox the West by taking the money in bad faith. That's "squirming," at which point the snake will either tighten or strike (in narrow fashion) or both.

The IRGC is white-knuckling power, hanging on for dear life in a shattered system that needs relief. The relief is coming from a place that can put massive contingencies on access to the relief, at least in theory. That's like being wrapped in the snake's coils.

Iran's Regime is boxed into needing the relief, but the relief comes at the cost of becoming controlled not just by the U.S. and Israel but by the GCC coalition from which the money is supposed to come. Every time they betray the deal, which is apparently all based on investment money, not state transfers, the U.S. and/or Israel might hit them again to get them back in line while the GCC tightens the financial noose (with U.S. urging).

The "anaconda" holds them tightly, and if they wiggle to breathe (by violating terms), it tightens. If they get too rough, they get bit (another good, hard military strike or ten). They're stuck, slowly suffocating.

The Regime, over time, cannot sustain this pressure and should crack eventually if this is the strategy and it works. It might not even take long because of how shattered they are now. Eventually, a coup from inside can displace the faltering regime, and that's likely the ambition. The question is who it will be, of course. Pahlavi's people should be preparing because other factions, most likely most notably the Leftist MEK, will be positioned to seize the moment if better people aren't.

The update from Reagan's strategy is that Reagan was fighting the USSR in a bipolar world: US and USSR were the two superpowers. Thus, Reagan was a unipolarist. He wanted one pole of power in the world: the United States of America.

(Dugin sees this as a "neo-mondialist" or "neo-Atlanticist" strategy we would call "globalism" today in the common parlance, and he's firmly opposed to it but not in the same way or for the same ends as Trump, MAGA, and real America First.)

What we've learned since then is that a unipolar superpower is not geared correctly to handle a regionalist disruptor like Iran (or Russia, frankly). Its military capabilities are geared otherwise, for one thing, and it can stretch the superpower too thin, for another. That's how you end up with "neo-mondialist" failures in Iraq, which Trump isn't eager to repeat.

Instead, what you need are regional consortiums that act as decentralized regional powers that are broadly in alignment with a U.S.-led world order (thus rejecting Dugin's wretched multipolarism and Russian/Eurasian neo-imperialism). The GCC plus Israel are meant to accomplish this in the Middle Eastern "Great Space" (Grossraum). It may be that this "deal" is geared toward attempting to build such a thing to constrain and eventually choke out Iran regionally, backed by U.S. (and Israeli) might, if needed.

Meanwhile, there's a special situation going on in this case, which is that the Iranian Regime is full of proper lunatic factions. It's literally kufr (apostasy) in the lunatic Islamist view to make a deal with a jahili (Ignorant) society like the "Great Satan" of the United States, which can carry a death sentence. Thus, the internal fragmentation and fighting inside the Regime will be intense, and we allegedly already see this happening.

Parts of the Regime, hoping to white-knuckle power (in the anaconda's coils), has to make the deal. Other more lunatic parts refuse it as rank treason and want to kill the people who make the deals or agree to them. This is not a stable situation for someone trapped in the coils of a snake that's slowly choking them out.

So, maybe this is the real deep purpose of the plan. I don't know for sure. That plus possibly getting Americans inside in order to do nuclear inspections and such (very tight coiling of snake plus potential for agitation on a whole different level), clearing the nuclear material, keeping the passage of Hormuz open for all the reasons (until workarounds are made), etc.

I cannot imagine, actually, that anyone serious really believes that this "deal" will hold, though. Of course, when it doesn't, the "anaconda" gets to bite (military strikes, heavy sanctions, etc.) to weaken them further and enable tighter coiling in the next round.

In the meantime, perhaps we watch the Regime suffocate. It would be smart to get the right people geared up and positioned to fill the vacuum, if that's right.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

New York City is hell on earth

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Since I have the attention of people like @tedlieu:

We don't trust you. At all. We don't trust anyone in your government. Your election processes should be so unimpeachable that even if you were all corrupt knaves (which we think you are), that we could have no possible complaint about how you are conducting elections.

Instead you go the opposite direction. You rub our noses in your rejection of election integrity rules that are standard throughout the civilized world, and then you DARE insult us for questioning what we see.

Yeah, screw you. Keep it up, and one day the Republican House will refuse to seat California's so-called representatives.

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

California Sheriff says their elections are being RIGGED!

Your vote in California is being STOLEN by illegals, and they're not even hiding it anymore.

Sheriff's investigators uncovered that people from PAKISTAN were voting in California elections. Multiple people living OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY were registered and casting ballots.

California's online voter registration system operates on an "honor system" where literally anyone in the world can register to vote by simply clicking a box saying they're not lying. No verification, no citizenship checks. Just click and you're registered.

Once you're in the system, you automatically get mailed a ballot for EVERY election!

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Just a psa: "Democrats told us nobody was above the law."

Then they all pardoned themselves.

Isn't that some shit?! 😑😑😑

[Jeff Young @BaseballJeff1]

Holy shit.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Here's what they've normalized and are trying to reinforce with the Jaxson Dart situation:

Black people can be offended by what white people believe. But white people can't be offended by what black people believe.

It's legal to love and worship Barack Obama. It's illegal to love and worship Donald Trump.

Unsustainable.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.

[Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley]

Wheeeeeee!

[Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl]

Ive been privileged to spend nearly two decades coaching in the SEC. Our student athletes are beloved, supported and challenged to be great!
Im disappointed you are using your platform to perpetuate hate and conspiracy rather than improving education 4 all https://t.co/byKTnBMlN4

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

A decade ago, Hollywood decided it would no longer honor films based purely on merit but also on the diversity of the cast and production team. In 2020, they formally tied Best Picture to diversity.

The Academy expanded its membership by roughly 40% in a decade through an explicit push to diversify its ranks.

The Oscars will proudly tell you that last year’s invitees were:
>41% women
>45% people of color
>55% from overseas

For 88 years, the Academy selected members and honored achievement based on merit. For the last 10 years, invitees went from 112 per year to over 900 to meet diversity targets.

This devalues and dishonors great American films and creates perverse incentives that lead studios to inflate diversity numbers in hopes of recognition by their woke peers.

Meritocracy must be restored to film.

[Dru Koester @DruKoester]

The highest paying jobs for working class men in Montana used to be
-logging
-mining
-oil

All of which have been virtually driven out of the state.
& Modern day Montana’s top industry is healthcare.

We went from having industries that actually built toward a future, to industries profiting on life support…
We went from harvesting resources to harvesting sick people… & it’s as dystopian as it sounds.

Not every male was meant to be an IT guy.
Not every boy is supposed to be a philosopher.
Not every man believes his masculinity is somehow “toxic.”

Bureaucrats will never understand what we’ve lost as a culture, by driving out blue collar industries & shutting the door firmly on the men who are willing to get their hands dirty to build for tomorrow.