Jim Hunter

Proud Christian, conservative, husband & father. Loving life in southern West Virginia- while casting a suspicious eye toward the D.C. power-grabbers!

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@EricLDaugh TDS is bi-partisan.

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@BasedMikeLee We know the Demento-crats will never support the SAVE America Act.
WTH is wrong with the 4 Republican senators who voted against it - and how can you persuade them??
Who owns them???

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

🚨 AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

Most people are still viewing President Trump’s foreign policy through the old post-WW2 lens. That lens is obsolete. What P Trump is attempting is not a minor policy adjustment. It is a complete restructuring of the global economic and geopolitical order.

Read that again.

For 80 years, America operated under a “globalist” framework:
• America paid the bills
• America defended everyone
• America opened its markets
• America carried NATO
• America protected shipping lanes
• America subsidized allies
• America tolerated trade imbalances
• America exported democracy while factories disappeared and debt exploded at home

That system enriched multinational corporations, global institutions, foreign economies, and permanent bureaucracies.

But millions of Americans watched:

- manufacturing collapse
- wages stagnate
- communities hollow out
- endless wars drain trillions
- China rise into a superpower using America's own economic system against itself

President Trump is trying to replace that model with something entirely different:

👉 A transactional, America First economic coalition built around ENERGY, TRADE, SECURITY, MANUFACTURING, and STRATEGIC DEALS.

That Truth Social post about the Abraham Accords wasn’t just another statement. It was a blueprint.

If this succeeds, you are looking at the construction of a massive economic/security network that could include:

- The United States
- Saudi Arabia
- UAE
- Qatar
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Israel
- Pakistan
- Türkiye
- India
- parts of Latin America
- strategic Indo-Pacific partners
- and critically, a normalization framework with BOTH China and Russia where competition still exists, but catastrophic conflict is avoided through economic leverage, negotiated spheres of influence, energy coordination, and transactional diplomacy

This is one of the most misunderstood parts of President Trump’s geopolitical strategy.

Many Americans still think in Cold War terms:
America vs Russia.
America vs China.
Permanent hostility.
Permanent escalation.

But President Trump’s approach is far more transactional and realist.

Instead of trying to ideologically remake the world, the strategy appears focused on:

- preventing direct great-power war
- reducing the chance of nuclear escalation
- using trade leverage instead of permanent military occupation
- creating economic interdependence where possible
- forcing burden-sharing among allies
- and positioning America as the central negotiating power between rival blocs

That does NOT mean “surrendering” to China or Russia.

It means recognizing a reality many in Washington refused to accept for decades:
China is already an economic superpower.
Russia remains a military and energy superpower.

The question is no longer whether they exist as major powers.
The question is whether America can position itself at the center of a new balance of power that benefits Americans instead of endlessly draining American wealth trying to maintain a fading unipolar system.

This is why you are seeing:
• negotiations instead of immediate escalation
• energy diplomacy
• tariff wars instead of troop surges
• pressure campaigns tied to trade access
• selective partnerships instead of blind alliances
• attempts to split rival coalitions apart through deals

President Trump is essentially trying to create overlapping economic zones where America is no longer carrying the world for free - but instead sits at the center of the world’s most powerful deal-making network.

Combined economic power? Potentially $65-75+ TRILLION in GDP. Over HALF the global economy.

Think about what that means.

This is about:
✅ energy dominance
✅ shipping lanes
✅ critical minerals
✅ AI infrastructure
✅ manufacturing chains
✅ food security
✅ military positioning
✅ trade corridors
✅ investment flows
✅ currency leverage
✅ stabilizing relations between major powers where possible
✅ isolating hostile behavior through leverage instead of endless occupation wars

And younger Americans especially need to understand this part:

THIS DIRECTLY IMPACTS YOUR FUTURE.

If America remains trapped in the old system:

- debt keeps exploding
- jobs continue leaving
- housing becomes less affordable
- wages get crushed by global competition
- endless foreign entanglements continue
- America slowly declines like other aging empires

But if America successfully repositions itself at the center of a new energy/manufacturing/trade coalition:

- industrial jobs return
- energy prices stabilize
- strategic industries reshoring accelerates
- infrastructure investment increases
- supply chains become more secure
- America regains leverage instead of bleeding leverage

This is why you see such aggressive pushes around:
• tariffs
• domestic manufacturing
• energy independence
• critical minerals
• Middle East normalization
• India relations
• securing trade routes
• reducing dependency on hostile supply chains
• stabilizing great-power relations through leverage and economic pressure instead of permanent military escalation

This is not random.

This is an attempt to build a new geopolitical architecture for the next 50 years.

And whether people like President Trump or hate him personally is becoming irrelevant to the scale of what is unfolding.

The Abraham Accords themselves are historic because they shift the Middle East from perpetual religious/geopolitical conflict toward economic interdependence.

Peace through prosperity.
Trade instead of proxy wars.
Economic incentives instead of permanent instability.

That changes everything:

- investment floods in
- shipping stabilizes
- energy markets calm
- regional growth accelerates
- tourism expands
- infrastructure projects explode
- security cooperation increases

And if normalization frameworks eventually extend outward toward Russia and even portions of China’s economic system, you could be looking at the emergence of the largest interconnected economic balancing structure in modern history.

Not a utopia.
Not permanent peace.
Not the end of competition.

But a system where economic incentives and strategic leverage become more powerful than endless military occupations and ideological crusades.

The old order was based on permanent management of conflict.

This new model attempts to monetize stability.

Will it fully work? Nobody knows yet. There are enormous risks, contradictions, and power struggles involved. Traditional allies are nervous. Global institutions hate it. Rival powers are cautious. Some countries will resist. Others will attempt to manipulate it.

But Americans should at least understand the scale of the play being attempted here.

This is not “normal politics.”
This is a potential civilizational realignment.

And if younger Americans do not start paying attention to economics, geopolitics, energy, trade, manufacturing, and global power shifts now - they are going to inherit a world they do not understand.

Read. Research. Think critically.
And SHARE this so more Americans understand what may be unfolding in real time.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Rep. Tim Burchett just angrily STORMED OUT of a committee meeting saying a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do!

"We're going to BLOW IT because we're not acting like we're in the majority! [We] allow the Democrats to tell us what to do. It's just UNBELIEVABLE!"

"At some point we're going to have to give some guts. This town is crooked as a dog's leg and I'm disgusted."

"Had some amendments that were cutting regulation things that we should, as Republicans, do. Because of backroom deals they cut, they won't allow any amendments on the bill because the Democrats didn't agree to it! So here we are in the majority and we're not allowed to do that!"

"And I guarantee you when the Democrats are in the majority, which they very much could be because of this kind of garbage — [they won't do this]."

"I want to FIGHT." 🔥

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Are you tired of Democrats setting the agenda and getting their way even when Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House?

Tired of the “we don’t have 60 votes in the Senate” excuse?

Me too

It’s time to nuke the filibuster

Pass it on if you agree

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@RonDeSantis Any balanced budget amendment must also include severe limitations on legislators' and bureaucrats' power to tax as a means of balancing the budget.
If taxation limitation is not included, we know how this would turn out!

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

In the shattered arena of what used to be public discourse, one spectacle repeats with the grim inevitability of a Greek tragedy:

you present the data, the logic, the raw empirical record…and the contemporary Left responds not with argument, not with counter-evidence, but with a grotesque theater of denial, moral hysteria, and doctrinal venom.

This is not a failure of communication.

It is the engineered outcome of a mind that has been deliberately, systematically, and lethally preconditioned to treat truth itself as the enemy.

The modern progressive project…that fusion of cultural Marxism, postmodern relativism, and therapeutic narcissism…has produced an entire cohort incapable of processing reality when it contradicts the sacred narrative.

Their institutions forged them.

Their echo chambers rewired them.

Their philosophical overlords disarmed them.

And their own psychological architecture now stands as the final, impregnable barrier.
What follows is not another polite lament about “polarization.”

This is a forensic autopsy…cold, precise, and merciless…of why reason and evidence now shatter so completely against the leftist mind. Drawing on neuropsychology, behavioral science, clinical pathology, and the philosophical toxins of the long Gramscian march, this piece dissects the multi-layered mechanisms at work:

the institutional preconditioning that installs the software of dogma, the neurological subjugation that cripples the prefrontal cortex’s capacity for executive function, the narcissistic citadel that crowns the self as the sole arbiter of truth, and the behavioral loops that make escape almost impossible.

You will see exactly why every honest attempt at dialogue collapses into rage or deflection.

You will understand why facts on biology, crime, economics, or history are not met with curiosity but with accusations of heresy.

You will grasp, at the neurological and philosophical level, why these individuals do not merely disagree…they are structurally incapable of receiving correction without experiencing it as existential annihilation.

And you will emerge with the lethal clarity required for our time:

the recognition that this is not a bug in the system.

It is the system.

The abyss between those who still demand evidence and those who have been captured by this ideological pathogen is not merely wide.
It is unbridgeable by persuasion alone.

Read on, then.

Arm yourself with the precision of this analysis.
Because in the battles ahead…for institutions, for culture, for the very possibility of a shared reality…understanding this pathology is not optional.

It is survival.

https://t.co/ghf2EgMbAO

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 INDICTED COMEY BRAGS: I STILL RUN THE FBI FROM MY COUCH—WHILE HIS FIRED DAUGHTER’S DOJ SPY NETWORK KEEPS FEEDING HIM INTEL. FIRE EVERY LAST TRAITOR IN CONTACT WITH THEM. 💥

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within… the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely… he rots the soul of a nation.’ — Cicero, 1st century B.C.

James Comey—twice indicted for obstruction of Congress and posting a coded threat against President Trump—sits on national television and casually confesses: he still holds regular conversations with current FBI personnel. “They’re under siege,” he sneers.

Under siege? The only siege is the one accountability is laying on the entrenched bureaucracy he once weaponized.

His daughter Maurene—fired from SDNY after leading the Epstein/Maxwell/Diddy cases—wasn’t just shown the door. She sent memos to her “trusted friends” at DOJ, branding lawful reform “the tool of a tyrant” and urging quiet resistance. Even out of office, the Comey clan maintains its private hotline into the very institutions tasked with investigating them.

Why does an indicted former FBI Director still possess any security clearance, any back-channel access, any influence whatsoever? Why is his daughter’s network of loyalists still breathing DOJ air?
This isn’t “former officials staying in touch.”

This is a shadow executive operating inside the Republic’s arteries—coordinating, leaking, obstructing—while the American people foot the bill for their clearances and salaries.

Any FBI or DOJ employee caught communicating with James Comey or Maurene Comey must be terminated immediately.

No hearings. No excuses. National security is not a family business.

The deep state isn’t “under siege.”
It’s being exposed.

The Republic will not be subverted by whispers in the dark.
Clean house. Now.

#ComeyTreason #ShadowGovernmentExposed #RevokeAllClearances #DeepStateCoup #KashPatelCleanHouse #TreasonFromWithin #DrainTheSwampDeeper #RuleOfLawOrRuin #IndictedAndStillPlotting

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@BasedMikeLee Not only should we stop/minimize funding the UN-
the freeloaders should be made to move their headquarters to GAZA. We'll see how terrorist-tolerant those elites are then!

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

CNN and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes are of the opinion that President Donald Trump, who has chosen the sword over the pen, will get a far worse deal out of the mullahs in Iran than his predecessor, Barack Obama.

What did Iran get out of its deal with Obama, you might ask?

For 10 years, Iran was sanctions-free, making $500 million a day in petrochemical sales. Thanks to figures like Ben Rhodes, it was like a “bonanza for the Houthis, Hamas, the people in Syria and Iraq that are their proxies, and, of course, Hezbollah,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

https://t.co/eH1WwoO5YK

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Everything right now is about the midterms - it is the only way they think they can stop Trump dismantling the deep state & their global system of enslavement. The in-fighting is designed to make you stay home & lose faith so they can steal the midterms. Many who claimed to be allies of Pres Trump are being exposed - don’t fall for the deception operation. Be motivated like never before - get up, stand up, speak up - be as critical as you like but stand firm & donny be a fool - things are far from perfect but Pres Trump is the only thing standing in their way.

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@BasedMikeLee 10!!

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard:

Literally spells it out word by word: Barack Obama created a fake intelligence report that went on to serve as a foundation for everything that came after—the Russian collusion conspiracy hoax, a seditious conspiracy—effectively with the intent to aid and abet the overthrow of the U.S. government.

@DNIGabbard: “They were not happy with the outcome of that election, so Barack Hussein Obama created this politicized, weaponized piece of fake intelligence that then went on to serve as a foundation for everything that came after—the multiple investigations, the years-long Mueller investigation, two congressional impeachment investigations, the raid at Mar-a-Lago, and three assassination attempts. The list goes on and on. Ultimately, the real crime here was against the American people because this action singularly undermined the integrity of our democratic republic. Not to speak of the fact that some of those 37 individuals whose security clearances were revoked, under the direction of President Trump, aided and were embedded in this action—this seditious conspiracy—that undermined our democracy, undermined our republic, and broke the sacred trust that every one of these professionals is supposed to have with the American people.”

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

The Supreme Court will torch its legitimacy if/when it hands out birthright citizenship to Chinese birth tourists.

No question.

And legitimacy is all the Court has.

Let’s hope the Republican justices value our nation’s sovereignty more than their own vanity.

I’m not hopeful.

[Jim Hunter @WVCatfish]

@grey4626
🙌💯🙌
Outstanding analysis!!

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

You Polish fucking idiot...

you absolute mouth-breathing, historically illiterate simpleton who wouldn’t recognize genuine warrior ethos if it curb-stomped your fragile national ego into the dirt where it belongs.

You sit there, sneering at the spectacle of America committing every asset, every operator, every ounce of kinetic fury from the most lethal military machine ever forged...just to yank one downed pilot out of the fire....and you sneer.

That’s doctrine. That’s identity.

And your limp-dicked dismissal proves exactly why your military culture treats its people like disposable serfs while ours forges legends who fight like they have a nation that will burn the world down to get them home.

“Leave no man behind” isn’t some sentimental bumper-sticker slogan for the U.S. military.

It is the sacred, blood-oath covenant that has defined American warfighting since the Revolution, through Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, Vietnam’s endless Combat Search and Rescue missions that diverted entire air wings to extract one airman, Mogadishu where Task Force Ranger bled rivers to recover every last brother, and every black-op Delta, DEVGRU, or Ranger stack has ever run since.

It is codified in the Ranger Creed, the SEAL Ethos, the Marine Corps’ every-man-a-rifleman creed, and the Army’s Warrior Ethos:

“I will never leave a fallen comrade.”

We enforce it with lethal precision because we understand something your culture apparently never grasped:

the individual American fighter is not expendable cannon fodder. He is the irreducible unit of national power.

This policy is pure predatory genius. It weaponizes trust. Every pilot, every operator, every grunt steps into the breach knowing...bone-deep, soul-deep...that if the worst happens, his brothers and his nation will expend whatever it takes, risk whatever it costs, to drag him back alive or bring him home in a box.

That knowledge annihilates the paralyzing fear of abandonment that has broken lesser armies across history.

It transforms hesitation into ferocious, calculated aggression. It creates men who fight like cornered lions because they trust their tribe implicitly.

Betray that covenant and you erode the very foundation of combat effectiveness.

Armies that treat their soldiers as interchangeable meat...look at the meat-grinder doctrines of the Soviets, the Chinese, or certain Eastern European “allies” who’ve spent centuries getting partitioned and occupied...crumble from within.

Morale collapses. Initiative dies.

You end up with conscripts who surrender at the first real contact because they know nobody’s coming for them.

We don’t do that. We never will.

That’s why our warriors are qualitatively superior.

It projects unassailable resolve that deters enemies and cements alliances.

It raises the cost of engaging us exponentially. It tells the world that American lives have infinite value while theirs are negotiable.

That message is worth every asset, every round, every risk...because it sustains the dominance you now resent from the sidelines.

History is littered with the corpses of empires that forgot this lesson.

We studied those failures. We weaponized the opposite.

So when we lose “all this” to rescue one pilot and still call it a triumph, it isn’t delusion...it’s affirmation of the spiritual steel that makes us the superpower and leaves you polishing participation trophies from other people’s wars.

Your sneering exposes a profound cultural weakness:

you don’t value the individual fighter with this ferocious, unrelenting loyalty, so you can’t comprehend why we do.

That’s why your military produces cannon fodder and ours produces predators.

We don’t leave our own to rot in some foreign shithole.

Period.
That isn’t weakness.

That is what makes us lethally, unapologetically superior.

And that, you clueless Polish prick, is why we win.

💀🗡️🦅🇺🇸🪖

[Based Jessica @RealJessica]

Argentina President Javier Milei:

"The left can't applaud me because their hands are in other people's pockets."

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

If a bartender pours one too many for some hammered regular and that drunk asshole gets behind the wheel and splatters an innocent family across the interstate, the law comes down like a fucking guillotine.

Dram shop statutes, case law carved in blood...Oviatt v. Pearce, Kelly v. Gwinnell...hold the server, the owner, the house criminally and civilly liable because they had the duty to foresee the foreseeable:

impaired judgment, vehicular homicide, the whole pathology of disinhibited violence. Mens rea by proxy.

You enabled the monster, you wear the chains.

Society gets it.

The Constitution doesn’t shield you from your own reckless indifference.

Yet a black-robed judge...sworn under Article VI to “support and defend” the supreme law, bound by the Fourteenth Amendment’s explicit command to protect life and liberty...can stare straight at a rap sheet longer than a butcher’s knife:

multiple priors for rape, aggravated assault, child predation, the clinical markers of antisocial personality disorder screaming from every psych eval.

They can ignore the actuarial certainty of recidivism...Bureau of Justice Statistics puts violent reoffense north of 60% for this cohort...override the prosecutor’s recommendation, and cut the predator loose on some progressive fairy-tale about “rehabilitation” or “systemic racism.”

And when that same animal slithers out and rapes again, murders again, carves up another woman or child like it’s Tuesday...nothing.

Absolute judicial immunity, a doctrine the Supreme Court itself admits is extra-constitutional judge-made law...Pierson v. Ray, Stump v. Sparkman.

No felony count.

No disbarment.

No civil suit from the families left shattered.

Just another press release about “compassion” while the blood dries on the carpet.

This is not jurisprudence.

This is complicity in slow-motion slaughter.

The bartender’s sin is negligence born of greed or fatigue.

The judge’s sin is deliberate, ideological pathology...arrogant denial of human nature, weaponized empathy for the predator and contempt for the prey.

One is a service-industry mistake.

The other is a constitutional betrayal dressed in robes.

If the Constitution’s promise of equal protection and due process means anything, it means the people who guard the gate must answer for the wolves they release.

Same standard. Same lethal accountability.

No more.

Judges who play God with repeat violent offenders’ freedom while the rest of us pay in coffins deserve the exact same cage they keep denying their victims.

Prison time. Full stop.

Because if the law is blind, it sure as hell shouldn’t be suicidal.

💀🗡️⚖️

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

Go to Sen. Thune's page @LeaderJohnThune and read the replies. He's getting slaughtered at a clip of roughly 100%.

Additionally, do you think his offices aren't deluged with calls from people berating him?

Of course, they are.

My point is that Thune and his staff are aware of how unpopular he is, given the events, yet he continues.

Now ask yourself why that is?
It d/n make any sense.

He won't even allow Trump to make recess appointments.

All told, are you pissed?
Good. You should be.

I realize the standard fallback reasoning is because he's a part of the UniParty and RINO contingency, which is (unfortunately for all of us) true. But is he actually running the show at the moment, as has been the case in the past, or is he possibly being directed to act as instructed and play the villain in real time to achieve larger ends by driving this point home?

I would argue that not only is it possible, but more than likely the case, given the gravity of the moment and everything else many of us believe is going on.

Keep in mind, DC is overwhelmingly compromised across party lines. That's why I am considering this as an exposure op big picture.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

These fucking ingrates in the Senate...

whether through willful blindness, staggering incompetence, or outright contempt for the American people...have just exposed the raw mechanics of congressional betrayal.

In the dead of night, they rammed through a so-called "bipartisan" DHS funding bill with all the stealth of careerist cowards, unanimously advancing a continuing resolution that deliberately sets ICE and critical border security operations to zero dollars.

Zero.

Not a rounding error.

Not a negotiated trim.

A surgical excision of enforcement from the very department charged with securing the homeland.

Speaker Mike Johnson, to his credit, didn't flinch.

He stood before the cameras and read the damning clause aloud like a prosecutor laying bare the indictment:

funding for the rest of DHS...TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard...while carving out the muscle that actually removes illegal invaders and guards the frontier.

He openly questioned whether a single Senate Republican had bothered to read the fine print before rubber-stamping this abomination.

The answer, of course, is as obvious as it is infuriating:

either they didn't read it, or they simply didn't give a damn.

Both indictments drip with the same venomous truth...priorities warped by swamp logic, where political theater and donor-pleasing optics trump sovereignty every single time.

This isn't mere oversight; it's a profound dereliction, a "mask-off" moment that lays bare the fracture lines in Republican ranks and the deeper rot of a Congress addicted to half-measures and midnight compromises.

The House, under Johnson's leadership and with President Trump's explicit backing, has rightly rejected this farce.

Instead, they're pushing a clean continuing resolution to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security through mid-May...no selective defunding, no gamesmanship that leaves enforcement officers hamstrung while airports descend into chaos and borders remain porous invitations to chaos.

Understand the congressional chessboard here with cold precision:

the Senate's gambit was a calculated punt, funding 94%+ of DHS operations while starving the enforcement arms...Enforcement and Removal Operations within ICE, key CBP functions.

It sidesteps the filibuster theater Democrats have weaponized for months, yet achieves the same insidious outcome...immigration enforcement left twisting in the wind amid an ongoing partial shutdown that's already hammered TSA agents' paychecks and traveler sanity.

House conservatives see it for what it is:

a Trojan horse that risks normalizing the neutering of border security under the guise of "averting crisis."

Johnson is drawing the line, forcing the Senate to confront the House's fuller package or own the extended pain.

The venom runs deeper still.

These Senate maneuvers...unanimous passage at 3 a.m., language buried in legalese...reek of the same institutional cowardice that has fueled years of open-border drift.

They treat sovereignty as optional, enforcement as negotiable, and the American taxpayer as an endless ATM for everything except the one function that actually deters invasions.

It's existential. A nation that starves its own deportation machinery while funding the administrative state is a nation signaling weakness to cartels, traffickers, and every adversary watching.

Kudos to Speaker Johnson for the lethal clarity...for refusing to let this slide, for wielding the gavel with ferocity against the ingrates who either skimmed the bill or signed it with eyes wide shut.

The House must hold firm.

No more midnight betrayals.

Fund the full DHS, empower ICE without apology, and secure the damn border.

Anything less is surrender dressed in procedural robes.

The American people deserve precision governance, not this venomous circus.

And hope and pray we win the midterms. Because if we don't... Trumps 4 year presidency is over in 2. This is just a prequel to what the democrats will do.

💀

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The GOP Senate is using…

Pro Forma sessions to stop POTUS Trump from making recess appointments.

Blue Slip tradition to stop POTUS Trump from filling judicial positions.

Zombie Filibuster to stop POTUS Trump from securing elections.

Denying their constituents.

Treasonous.